User:Minedor/Yoshikazu Iwanami

Yoshikazu Iwanami (岩浪美和) is a Japanese and musician known for his work on various anime, TV series, and movies. He has directed the sound design for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation, from Phantom Blood to Stone Ocean.

Iwanami also sound directed several series, such as Sword Art Online, Psycho-Pass, Konosuba, Kill La Kill, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Baccano!, Ah! My Goddess and more.

Biography
Iwanami was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1962. He became interested in film and theater through making independent films when he was a college student. After graduating from the college's sound art department, Iwanami worked as a mixing engineer for 6 years, and after working as a video director, he started his career as a sound director under Etsushi Yamada.

Anime

 * (2012) - Composer
 * (2014) - Composer
 * (2014) - Composer
 * (2016) - Composer
 * (2019) - Composer
 * (2019) - Composer
 * (2020) - Composer
 * (2021) - Composer
 * (2021) - Composer

Film

 * (2017) - Composer
 * (2017) - Composer
 * (2018) - Composer
 * (2019) - Composer
 * (2021) - Composer

Video Games

 * (2017) - Composer
 * (2020) - Composer (alongside Akihiro Manabe)

Trivia

 * Kanno had read JoJo as a kid during Part 4's publication in Weekly Shonen Jump, however, he notes that he didn't really notice how much depth the series had until he reread it as an adult.
 * While working on the Part 4 soundtrack, Kanno had the hardest time figuring out the character themes for Shigekiyo Yangu and Ken Oyanagi.
 * Yugo Kanno's favorite ending theme is Last Train Home.