Kentarou Haneda

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Kentarou Haneda was a Japanese pianist, composer and arranger of popular anime and movies and video game music.

After graduating from the Toho Gakuen School of Music, he taught as a professor at the Tokyo College of Music. He was best known as composer of Wizardry music which was ported to NES and SNES console by Ascii at early 1990, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross series, Barefoot Gen, Ys Symphony, Symphony Sorcerian and Genso Suikoden Ongaku-shu.

Haneda passed away from liver cancer on June 2, 2007.

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