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Takafumi Wada
和田 貴史
Born (1979-02-08) February 8, 1979 (age 45)
Chiba Prefecture, Japan
EducationDepartment of Composition, Tokyo College of Music
Occupations
Years active2002–present
Agents
  • Dimension Cruise
  • Beagle Kick
Musical career
Genres
Instruments
Labels
  • Dimension Cruise Records
  • As Vox Records
Websitetakafumi-wada.com

Takafumi Wada (和田 貴史, Wada Takafumi, born February 8, 1979) is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer. He has provided the music for several anime series, television dramas, movies and video games.[1][2] He is best known for his role on the soundtrack of The Seven Deadly Sins, Seraph of the End and Highschool of the Dead.[3]

Wada is the founder and current CEO of the music production company Dimension Cruise, established in 2006.[4] He is also the founder of the music agency Beagle Kick.[5]

Biography

Wada was born in Chiba Prefecture, in 1979.[6] After he finished highschool, he went to Tokyo and later graduated from the Department of Composition at Tokyo College of Music. After that, he studied composition under the music teacher Kazuki Kuriyama, whom Wada would work with as an assistant on future projects.[7]

Wada's musician career started in 2002, with him primarily involved in video game soundtracks.[8]

In 2006, he founded Dimension Cruise, a music agency with the labels Dimension Cruise Records and As Vox Records.[4]

He began composing for anime series in 2009.[8] A year later, he became more popular on the industry for his role as the composer for the series Highschool of the Dead.[9][10]

Since then, he has been involved in many visual media works, mostly in projects alongside composer Hiroyuki Sawano.[8]

Works

Anime

Year Title Note(s) Ref(s)
2009 Rideback [11]
2010 Highschool of the Dead [9][10]
2011 Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead
2014 The Seven Deadly Sins Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano [12]
2015 Seraph of the End Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano, Asami Tachibana and Megumi Shiraishi [13][14][15]
The Seven Deadly Sins OVA Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano
Seraph of the End: Battle in Nagoya Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano, Asami Tachibana and Megumi Shiraishi [16]
2016 Terra Formars: Revenge [17]
The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano [18]
2018 The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of the Commandments Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto [19]
The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano [20]
2019 The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto [21]
2021 The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon's Judgement Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto [22][23]

Television dramas

Year Title Note(s) Ref(s)
2009 RESCUE ~ Special Altitude Rescue Team [24]
BOSS Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Yuki Hayashi [25]
Hi no Sakana
My Girl Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano [26]
2010 Massugu na Otoko Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano [27]
Tumbling
2011 BOSS 2nd Season Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Yuki Hayashi
2012 Presumed Guilty Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Kengo Tokusashi [28]
2013 Someday at a Place in the Sun Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Kengo Tokusashi
Hard Nuts!
2015 Gattan Gattan Soredemo Go
2018 Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 2 Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano [29]
2020 Utsubyō Kudan Other tracks by Junka Horiguchi [30]
2021 Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 3 Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto [31]

Movies

Year Title Ref(s)
2006 Beruna no Shippo [32]
Mizutama Mizuchi [33]
2008 Yesterdays [34]

Video games

Year Title Note(s) Ref(s)
2002 Genmukan ~Aiyoku to Ryoujoku no Inzai~ [35]
Initial D: Another Stage
2003 Bakuso Dekotra Densetsu Otoko Hanamichi Yume Roman
The Wild Rings
Fire Pro Wrestling Z
After... Other tracks by Keishi Yanao and Daisuke Ban [36]
Tomorrow's Joe Masshiro ni Moe Tsukiro!
Tomorrow's Joe Makkani Moeagare!
Zatch Bell! Electric Arena
2004 Shinshou Genmukan [37]
2005 Kenka Banchou [38]
2007 Fighting Chief 2 ~ Full Throttle ~
Arkanoid DS Other tracks by Hirokazu Koshio, Kemmei Adachi, Mitsugu Suzuki, Ryu and OGR [39]
2008 Jawa: Mammoth and the Secret Stone
Space Invaders Get Even Other tracks by Atsuhiro Motoyama and Hirotaka Kikuchi [40]
2009 Fault!! [41]
2015 Monster Hunter Generations [42]

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Category:1979 births Category:21st-century Japanese composers Category:Anime composers Category:Japanese film score composers Category:Japanese male musicians Category:Japanese music arrangers Category:Japanese television composers Category:Living people Category:Video game composers

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