Your Top 10 Anime Composers

[zzeroparticle]

Mami Kawada isn't a composer, is she? Last I checked, all the work was done by the I've Sound crowd whose names I don't remember at the moment.

[janfive]

Mami Kawada isn't a composer. The music for her single "Prophecy" was composed and arranged by Tomoyuki Nakazawa and Takeshi Ozaki though the lyrics was composed by her.
C.G mix, Kazuya Takase, Maiko Iuchi/Miu Uetsu, Tomoyuki Nakazawa, Atsuhiko Nakatsubo/FISH TONE and wata/NueroSocietia are the composers of I've Sound. If you have to choose one definitive figure of I've Sound, Kazuya Takase is your guy.

[PositronCannon]

1. Sano Hiroaki (Nanoha)
2. Toshihiko Sahashi (Zipang, Full Metal Panic)
3. Takanori Arisawa (Digimon 1999-2002)
4. Akira Senju (FMA Brotherhood)
5. Nakagawa Koutarou (Code Geass, Hayate no Gotoku)
6. Iwasaki Taku (TTGL)
7. Yoshihisa Hirano & Hideki Tani (Death Note)
8. KEY sound team (Maeda Jun, Orito Shinji & Togoshi Mamome) - (Clannad)
9. Shiro Sagisu (Evangelion)

[tokgogogo]

all of anime which i watched . lol

[Kamijou Touma IB]

hiroshi miyagawa - space battleship yamato
akira miyagawa - yamato 2199

[Afternoon Tea]

1.Tom-H@ck ( aka Tomohiro Oshima)
2.Hajime Hyakkoku

[MisaoFan]

Mine :
1. Tatsuya Katou (Qwaser of Stigmata)
2. Kaoru Wada (Inu Yasha, Saint Seiya : The Lost Canvas)
3. Yasuharu Takanashi (Naruto Shippuden, Fairy Tail)
4. Yuki Kajiura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
5. Shunsuke Kikuchi (Dragon Ball Z)
6. Kenji Yamamoto (Dragon Ball Z Kai)
7. Tomoki Kikuya (Sengoku Collection)
8. Elements Garden (Senki Zesshou Symphogear)

[Kirito]

I can't think of many but for me, Yuki Kajiura hands downs. She produced amazing music for Puella Magica Madoka Magica, Sora no Woto, Sword Art Online, and Fate/Zero etc. She's truly an amazing gifted composer!

[Kotohono]

Originally Posted by Konakaga

My top 10 in order:
1. Maeda Jun
2. Yuki Kajiura
3. Kousaki Satoru (Bakemonogatari, Kannagi, Lucky Star, Ore no Imouto, Star Driver, Haruhi Suzumiya)
4. Koutarou Nakagawa
5. Yoshino Yuuji (Spice and Wolf, .hack//Legend of the Twilight)
6. Iuchi Maiko (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, Toaru Majutsu no Index)
7. Shiro Sagisu
8. Yoshihisa Hirano
9. Kubota Mina
10. Iizuka Masaaki (Needless)

Order would shift some since then, now I'd say it's
1. Yuki Kajiura
2. Kousaki Satoru(adding A-Channel, Hourou Musuko, Nisemonogatari since then)
3. Maeda Jun
4. Katou Tatsuya(Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon, Medaka Box, Needless)
5. Hashimoto Yukari (Mawaru Penguindrum, Toradora)
6. Iwasaki Taku(Katanagatari, Jormungand, Ben-to)
7. Watanabe Takeshi(Saki, Saki: Achiga-hen)
8. Yoshino Yuuji
9. Iuchi Maiko
10. Koutarou Nakagawa

[creb]

Despite decades of watching anime, Yoko Kanno is the only anime music composer who's name I both remember and revere. She's also the only anime music composer who's name being attached to a project pretty much means it's an instant watch for me; something I generally only do with a very, very, very small handful of directors/producers/screenwriters. Which seems crazy, considering the composer has nothing to do with the actual plot of a show, but somehow she's managed to almost always be attached to shows I really enjoyed (sure, a few misses, but almost overwhelmingly hits as far as I'm concerned).

I've often wondered if that means she doesn't just shell herself out to whoever pays her money and only takes on shows she personally enjoys story/theme/character wise. Even my favorite voice actors have done plenty of shows I wouldn't touch with a 30 ft pole.

[Flame-X]

1. Yoko Kanno
2. Hiroyuki Sawano
3. Kenji Kawai
4. Saito Tsuneyoshi
5. Toshihiko Sahashi
6. I've Sound
7. Joe Hisaishi
8. Yuki Kajiura
9. Taku Iwasaki
10. Nobuo Uematsu

Not in any order.

[zarqu]

Whoever composed the music for Texhnolyze.

Oh wait, found out: Keishi Urata and Tsuneo Imahori.