{"id":23085,"date":"2023-11-17T15:24:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T06:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=23085"},"modified":"2023-11-17T15:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T06:25:23","slug":"20231117-23085","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/","title":{"rendered":"One Piece Composer Kohei Tanaka Reveals That He Was Thought of as \u201cVery Stupid\u201d for Specializing in Anime\/Game Music\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kenokun\/status\/1724947906850172976?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">series of tweets<\/a>, popular Japanese anime and video game composer Kohei Tanaka gave insight into his career and how he was perceived when starting out around 35 years ago. Known for his work on One Piece, the prolific composer has also worked on such diverse titles as the Sakura Wars series and games including Alundra and Gravity Rush.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to his X\/Twitter posts from November 16, Kohei Tanaka refused all offers to score live action dramas and films at the beginning of his career, choosing to specialize in anime and game soundtracks instead. At the time, people told him that he was very stupid to do this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3042\u308b\u304d\u3063\u304b\u3051\u304c\u3042\u3063\u3066\uff0835\u5e74\u307b\u3069\u524d\uff09<br>\u305d\u308c\u4ee5\u6765\u300e\u5b9f\u5199\u300f\u306e\u4f5c\u54c1\u306e\u97f3\u697d\u3092<br>\u62c5\u5f53\u3057\u306a\u3044\u3088\u3046\u306b\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<br>\u300e\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u3000\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u300f\u5c02\u9580\u306e\u4f5c\u66f2\u5bb6\u3068\u3057\u3066\u306e\u65d7\u3092\u63b2\u3052\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<br><br>\u300e\u5b9f\u5199\u300f\u306e\u304a\u4ed5\u4e8b\u3092\u5931\u793c\u306a\u304c\u3089\u5168\u90e8\u304a\u65ad\u308a\u3057\u3066\u3044\u308b\u3046\u3061\u306b<br>\u5168\u304f\u30aa\u30d5\u30a1\u30fc\u304c\u6765\u306a\u304f\u306a\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<br><br>\u5f53\u6642\u306f\u3001\u51c4\u304f\u30d0\u30ab\u306a\u884c\u70ba\u3060\u3068\u8a00\u308f\u308c\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<\/p>&mdash; \u7530\u4e2d\u516c\u5e73@2025\u5e74\u3082\u300e\u65ec\u300f\u306e\u4f5c\u66f2\u5bb6\u3000X\u306e\u6d3b\u52d5\u518d\u958b (@kenokun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kenokun\/status\/1724947906850172976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking back on his big decision, Tanaka concluded that he was completely right to focus on composing for anime and game titles, and comments how satisfying it was to turn the tables on those who had criticized him. He backs this up by saying that nowadays the easiest way for a Japanese musician to receive recognition worldwide is to be an anime or game composer or singer. As an example, he mentions how YOASOBI became the first Japanese musicians to top the US Billboard charts with \u2018Idol\u2019, the opening theme from anime series Oshi no Ko.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally, he states that the experience of performing the \u2018One Piece Concert\u2019 and \u2018Kohei Tanaka Live\u2019 in over 20 countries showed him how Japanese anime and games are extremely popular worldwide. He says that his concerts have been packed regardless of the venue or the scale of the event. Tanaka details the aspects of these events that make him feel happy and honored, such as when everyone sings along to all the songs in Japanese, the standing ovations and the times when people have cried with happiness at signings. He joked that the air pressure from 3000 fans singing and clapping in Los Angeles\u2019 Dolby Theater earlier this year nearly knocked him over!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A word from Composer Kohei Tanaka and Singer Hiroshi Kitadani - ONE PIECE Music Symphony US Premiere\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jxyMKsfPum4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><font size=\"2\"><em>Kohei Tanaka and singer Hiroshi Kitadani&#8217;s message to fans ahead of their July 2023 concerts in the US.<\/em> <\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A fan of Tanaka responded that they would like for him to score a live action production. In Tanaka\u2019s reply, he mentioned that he did accept the offer to compose the soundtrack for the live action NHK drama \u2018Gold\u2019 about 4 years ago after much hesitation. However, he said that he has refused all other offers to score live-action dramas and films and hardly ever receives such requests as a result. Kohei Tanaka seems determined to continue specializing in anime and games.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kohei Tanaka gives insight into the criticism he received for his decision to specialize in anime and game music, and discusses the international impact of his concerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":23088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[73,17],"class_list":["post-23085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anime","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One Piece Composer Kohei Tanaka Reveals That He Was Thought of as \u201cVery Stupid\u201d for Specializing in Anime\/Game Music\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kohei Tanaka gives insight into the criticism he received for his decision to specialize in anime and game music, and discusses the international impact of his concerts.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One Piece Composer Kohei Tanaka Reveals That He Was Thought of as \u201cVery Stupid\u201d for Specializing in Anime\/Game Music\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kohei Tanaka gives insight into the criticism he received for his decision to specialize in anime and game music, and discusses the international impact of his concerts.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-17T06:24:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-17T06:25:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231117-23085-header.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Verity Townsend\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Verity Townsend\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"One Piece Composer Kohei Tanaka Reveals That He Was Thought of as \u201cVery Stupid\u201d for Specializing in Anime\/Game Music\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","description":"Kohei Tanaka gives insight into the criticism he received for his decision to specialize in anime and game music, and discusses the international impact of his concerts.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"One Piece Composer Kohei Tanaka Reveals That He Was Thought of as \u201cVery Stupid\u201d for Specializing in Anime\/Game Music\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","og_description":"Kohei Tanaka gives insight into the criticism he received for his decision to specialize in anime and game music, and discusses the international impact of his concerts.","og_url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/","og_site_name":"AUTOMATON WEST","article_published_time":"2023-11-17T06:24:51+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-11-17T06:25:23+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1400,"height":700,"url":"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231117-23085-header.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Verity Townsend","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_site":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Verity Townsend","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/"},"author":{"name":"Verity Townsend","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/d093b34094aa444f3b5cf8d2af3a6bad"},"headline":"One Piece Composer Kohei Tanaka Reveals That He Was Thought of as \u201cVery Stupid\u201d for Specializing in Anime\/Game Music\u00a0","datePublished":"2023-11-17T06:24:51+00:00","dateModified":"2023-11-17T06:25:23+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/"},"wordCount":452,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231117-23085-header.jpg","keywords":["Anime","News (Japan-related)"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/","name":"One Piece Composer Kohei Tanaka Reveals That He Was Thought of as \u201cVery Stupid\u201d for Specializing in Anime\/Game Music\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231117-23085-header.jpg","datePublished":"2023-11-17T06:24:51+00:00","dateModified":"2023-11-17T06:25:23+00:00","description":"Kohei Tanaka gives insight into the criticism he received for his decision to specialize in anime and game music, and discusses the international impact of his concerts.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231117-23085-header.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231117-23085-header.jpg","width":1400,"height":700,"caption":"Gravity Daze 2 and One Piece: Wano Country are just 2 of the many soundtracks composed by Kohei Tanaka."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231117-23085\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"\u30db\u30fc\u30e0","item":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"One Piece Composer Kohei Tanaka Reveals That He Was Thought of as \u201cVery Stupid\u201d for Specializing in Anime\/Game Music\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","name":"AUTOMATON WEST","description":"AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization","name":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","width":374,"height":190,"caption":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/AUTOMATON_ENG","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCabvYnvuUUbbGUrxkaFRgSA"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/d093b34094aa444f3b5cf8d2af3a6bad","name":"Verity Townsend","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pz-WVnDc_400x400-100x100.jpg","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pz-WVnDc_400x400-100x100.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pz-WVnDc_400x400-100x100.jpg","caption":"Verity Townsend"},"description":"Automaton West Editor and translator. She has a soft spot for old-school Sierra adventure games and Final Fantasy VIII (yes, 8!). Can often be found hunting down weird forgotten games and finding out everything about them. Frequently muses about characters and lines from Metal Gear Solid and Disco Elysium. Aims to keep Automaton fresh and interesting with a wide variety of articles.","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/author\/verity-townsend\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23085"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23095,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23085\/revisions\/23095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}