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Anime/Game Music Composer Hidekazu Tanaka Admits to Obscenity Charges in Court
At a Tokyo District Court on Wednesday, 35-year-old game and anime composer Hidekazu Tanaka admitted to using obscene language to a 15-year-old woman in an attempt to commit acts of obscenity towards her. Tanaka allegedly said “I’ll give you money so won’t you do it?” to a teenage girl and forcibly took her hand at a train station’s bicycle parking area in Tokyo’s Meguro ward last August. In court, Tanaka stated that he “liked her face and presence,” so he followed her from the train, then tried to commit an obscene act.
Tanaka also admitted to voyeurism at least dozens of times in the past 10 years. He has also been indicted for taking voyeuristic pictures of women’s skirts at Ebisu Station and other train stations from September-October, and for exposing his lower body on a train from Yūrakuchō Station. He added that he wanted to feel the “thrill” of wondering whether he would be caught, and committed these actions to “relieve anger and work stress.”
Police arrested Tanaka in Tokyo on October 24 on a separate charge of attempted forcible indecency — a Japanese legal term which includes sexual assault. According to police, the girl reported the incident at a nearby neighborhood police outpost. Police then reportedly found footage from the station’s security camera of a person following the girl.
Tanaka has composed numerous songs and soundtracks for anime and videogames during his career, most of it spent at the music production company monaca. During his 10 years at monaca, Tanaka composed music and songs for such anime as Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!, Aikatsu!, Servant × Service, THE [email protected] MOVIE: Kagayaki no Mukōgawa e!, The [email protected] Cinderella Girls, Sword Oratoria: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side, Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu, and Idoly Pride. He left monaca at end of July 2021.
He is perhaps best known for composing the first opening song “Star!!” for The [email protected] Cinderella Girls anime, as well as composing the anime’s soundtrack. He also composed and arranged many of the songs in the larger The [email protected] Cinderella Girls franchise. More recently, he is credited as the composer for the second and fourth versions of the opening song “1・2・3” for the Pokémon Journeys: The Series anime, and composed the opening song “Ichigo Ichie Celebration” for the second season of the Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! anime. He composed the ending song “Calendar Girl” for the Aikatsu! anime.
The release of the opening theme song “Ichigo Ichie Celebration” (Once-in-a-Lifetime Celebration)” for the second season of the Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! television anime was canceled due to “various reasons.” Tanaka composed and arranged the theme song. The original song by Kano and Uzaki-chan (as voiced by her voice actress Naomi Ōzora) and a version performed by virtual YouTuber singing unit MKLNtic were scheduled to debut on November 30.
The Pokémon Journeys: The Series anime’s opening sequence for the theme song “1・2・3” has removed Tanaka’s music arrangement credit in recent episodes. In addition, voice actress and performer Momo Asakura‘s live “Piacere!” tour has removed her song “Day and night dream” (“Shiroku Jichūmu”), which Tanaka composed, from the concert setlists.
Source: TBS News Dig via Hachima Kikо̄
The Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown anime arc based on Ken Wakui‘s Tokyo Revengers manga ended on Sunday with the announcement of the Tenjiku Arc in anime.
The announcement also revealed that Nobunaga Shimazaki plays Izana Kurokawa, the head of the Yokohama-based Tenjiku team. Tetsu Inada plays Kanji Mochizuki, one of Tenjiku’s Four Heavenly Kings.
Wakui launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in March 2017. Kodansha published the manga’s 30th compiled book volume on November 17. The manga ended on November 16, although Weekly Shōnen Magazine is serializing the Tokyo Revengers Extra spinoff manga about the founders of the Tokyo Manji Gang.
Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga in English, and it describes the story:
Watching the news, Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his girlfriend from way back in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, has died. The only girlfriend he ever had was just killed by a villainous group known as the Tokyo Manji Gang. He lives in a crappy apartment with thin walls, and his six-years-younger boss treats him like an idiot. Plus, he’s a complete and total virgin … At the height of his rock-bottom life, he suddenly time-leaps twelve years back to his middle school days!! To save Hinata, and change the life he spent running away, hopeless part-timer Takemichi must aim for the top of Kanto’s most sinister delinquent gang!!
The manga’s television anime adaptation premiered in April 2021. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. The anime’s Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown arc premiered on January 7.
The first live-action film based on the manga opened in Japan in July 2021 and was the #1 live-action film in Japan in 2021. Crunchyroll is streaming the film.
The first of the two sequel live-action films Chi no Halloween -Unmei- (Bloody Halloween -Fate-) will open in Japan on April 21, while the second film Chi no Halloween -Kessen- (Bloody Halloween -Decisive Battle-) will open on June 30.
Source: Comic Natalie
The Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown anime arc based on Ken Wakui‘s Tokyo Revengers manga ended on Sunday with the announcement of the Tenjiku Arc in anime.
The announcement also revealed that Nobunaga Shimazaki plays Izana Kurokawa, the head of the Yokohama-based Tenjiku team. Tetsu Inada plays Kanji Mochizuki, one of Tenjiku’s Four Heavenly Kings.
Wakui launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in March 2017. Kodansha published the manga’s 30th compiled book volume on November 17. The manga ended on November 16, although Weekly Shōnen Magazine is serializing the Tokyo Revengers Extra spinoff manga about the founders of the Tokyo Manji Gang.
Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga in English, and it describes the story:
Watching the news, Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his girlfriend from way back in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, has died. The only girlfriend he ever had was just killed by a villainous group known as the Tokyo Manji Gang. He lives in a crappy apartment with thin walls, and his six-years-younger boss treats him like an idiot. Plus, he’s a complete and total virgin … At the height of his rock-bottom life, he suddenly time-leaps twelve years back to his middle school days!! To save Hinata, and change the life he spent running away, hopeless part-timer Takemichi must aim for the top of Kanto’s most sinister delinquent gang!!
The manga’s television anime adaptation premiered in April 2021. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. The anime’s Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown arc premiered on January 7.
The first live-action film based on the manga opened in Japan in July 2021 and was the #1 live-action film in Japan in 2021. Crunchyroll is streaming the film.
The first of the two sequel live-action films Chi no Halloween -Unmei- (Bloody Halloween -Fate-) will open in Japan on April 21, while the second film Chi no Halloween -Kessen- (Bloody Halloween -Decisive Battle-) will open on June 30.
Source: Comic Natalie
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