/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

How come Japanese contemporary composers aren't that well known? I mean you have Nobuo and all those video game composers doing great music but noone will put them on the same category as modern composers like Gershwin, John Williams, Bernstein, those guys that wrote Butterfly Lover's concerto etc.

[Anonymous No.]

Linkin Park is pretty good too.

[Anonymous No.]

They don't have any good contemporary composers.......Toru is the only one that can be mentioned and hes shit.

[Anonymous No.]

Nobody takes video games seriously unless they grew up with them. Same with anime. You have that guy that did the Giant Robo soundtrack churn out something that was like the Wagnerian Grand Opera version of anime music but nobody but Giant Robo fans will know who he is. At most people will just know the main theme from Super Robot Wars.

[Anonymous No.]

Well, there's Yoko Kanno and Joe Hisaishi.

[Anonymous No.]

Japanese contemporary composers don't really have their own style. They just kinda copy and paste shit from other people which sounds good...but not really their own thing.

[Anonymous No.]

Every night before i fall into a blissful state of unconsciousness I don a touhou mask (marisa, usually), insert a buzzing vibrator into my rectal cavity, and proceed to imagine myself being roughly violated from behind by Zun as marisa.

[Anonymous No.]

I would put the guy that composes Takarazuka music up with Bernstein but I don't think the world will appreciate a guy that wrote music for lesbian shows.

[Anonymous No.]

Nobuo sucks, i mean, the style he got is just keep repeating every single game his music comes to. Yatsunori Mitsuda is hella better, where the hell is he?

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>>3197523

This. Westerners just don't take this stuff seriously.

Unless if they grew up with it, of course.

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>>3197535
>>Yoko Kanno

is a plagiarist

[Anonymous No.]

Artist must be deaedth to be truly appreciat

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>>3197523

Haha I remember just randomly burning a couple tracks off the Dragon Quest Symphonic, Final Fantasy Orchestral Soundtracks and giving it to my cousin that is as professional conductor. He loved it and he guessed that they came from a movie or a tv show with a high budget and I told him it was from video games. Surprised the fuck outta him.

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>>3197560
Fuck yeah, Mitsuda.

Also Michiko Naruke.

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>>3197514
>modern composers like Gershwin, John Williams, Bernstein

Those composers are not modern/modernist composers, nor are they contemporary. I don't think anyone worth their salt would even consider them serious composers.

>>3197536
>Japanese contemporary composers don't really have their own style. They just kinda copy and paste shit from other people which sounds good...but not really their own thing.

Welcome to post-modernism. It exists everywhere.

The truth is, contemporary composers are not particularly well known anywhere, at least not beyond a very small circle of people.

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>>3197621
>>Michiko Naruke

My video game composer waifu. Along with Michiru Yamane and Miki Higashino, of course.

[Anonymous No.]

Composers only really get famous after they are dead for a while.

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>>3197631
I'd consider Gershwin a serious composer.

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>>3197631

How is John Williams, Gershwin and Bernstein not serious composers?

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>>3197535
Too bad half of her music is stolen from other artists