[Old News] Composer Michiaki Watanabe died at the age of 96 due to heart failure, providing music for many anime and special effects such as Mazinger Z and Super Sentai.



Watanabe, a composer who provided theme songs and BGM for numerous anime and special effects programs such as the anime 'Mazinger Z', 'Great Mazinger', 'Steel Jeeg', and the Super Sentai series starting with 'Himitsu Sentai Gorenger' and 'Jacker Dengekitai'. It was discovered that Michiaki Watanabe (pen name: Chumei / real name: Michiaki) died on June 23, 2022 due to heart failure due to aging. I was 96 years old.

Composer Michiaki Watanabe died 96 years old Working on 'Mazinger Z' etc. | NHK | Obituary
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20220627/k10013691491000.html

Mr. Watanabe is from Aichi prefecture. I became interested in music when I was a junior high school student, and while attending the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo, I was taught by the composer Ikuma Dan. After graduating from university, he learned from Saburo Moroi while enrolling in graduate school.

Just after the first year of graduate school, my father had surgery for cancer and was treated at home, and although he returned to Nagoya for nursing, his father soon disappeared and Mr. Watanabe who asked for a job was a CBC radio drama. I got a job of 'Atom Boy'. After working in Nagoya for a while and returning to Tokyo again, a lot of film music work will be started from the movie 'Nakagawa Nobuo: Bewitching Six Dead Beauty' released in 1956.

The movie series 'Super Giants' released from 1957 and 'Ninja Squad Moonlight' broadcast from 1964 to 1966 are special effects, but Mr. Watanabe says that ' music as a system ' is full-scale. We will start working on works for children from 'Android Kikaider' broadcast from 1972 to 1973.

'Android Kikaider' is being broadcast on Toei Channel from 18:00 every Wednesday! --YouTube


Since 'Kikaider' was popular, he was also in charge of the animation 'Mazinger Z' (1972-1974) with strong support.

[Official] Mazinger Z Episode 1 'The Birth of a Wonderful Robot' [1970s Anime] --YouTube


In the Super Sentai series, I worked on the first 'Himitsu Sentai Gorenger' to the sixth 'Dai Sentai Goggle Five' in a row.

'Himitsu Sentai Gorenger' Blu-ray BOX 15 seconds CM --YouTube


He has often participated in the Super Sentai series in recent years, and in particular, 'Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger,' which was broadcast from 2021 to 2022, was in charge of the drama accompaniment with Kenichiro Oishi.

In addition, he is also the composer of 'Spring Lady Bird,' which is used as the theme song for sports broadcasts on Sun TV, such as ' Sun TV Box Seat .'



Mr. Watanabe appeared as an active composer on CLASSIC TV broadcast on NHK in May 2022.

'Music that inspires heroes-composer Michiaki Watanabe-' --Classic TV --NHK
https://www.nhk.jp/p/classictv/ts/14LJN694JR/episode/te/1KL73M47KZ/

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