Toshio Masuda (composer)

Toshio Masuda
Born	(1959-10-28) October 28, 1959 Tokyo, Japan
Genres	Soundtrack, ambient, contemporary classical
Occupation	Composer

Toshio Masuda (増田 俊郎, Masuda Toshio, born October 28, 1959) is a Japanese composer. He has composed and synthesized scores for several Japanese television shows and animated series.

Masuda is perhaps best known as the composer of the 2002 hit anime series Naruto where he combined traditional instruments like the shamisen and shakuhachi together with guitar, drums, bass, piano and other keyboard instruments along with chanting. The soundtrack to Naruto Shippuden, the sequel to Naruto, was not composed by Masuda, but instead by Yasuharu Takanashi.

Works

Animation

• Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf (1992)
• Flint the Time Detective (1998)
• Excel Saga (1999)
• Jubei-chan (1999)
• Now and Then, Here and There (1999)
• Hand Maid May (2000)
• Daa! Daa! Daa! (2000)
• Mahoromatic (2001)
• Puni Puni Poemy (2001)
• Naruto (2002)
• Ai Yori Aoshi (2002)
• Nanaka 6/17 (2003)
• Jubei-chan 2 (2004)
• Mushishi (2005)
• Ghost Hunt (2006)
• Otogi-Jūshi Akazukin (2006)
• Higepiyo (2009)
• Kamisama Hajimemashita (2013)

OVA

• Animation Runner Kuromi (2001)
• Puni Puni Poemy (2001)
• Animation Runner Kuromi2 (2003)

External links

• Toshio Masuda at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• last.fm page