Question for all fellow composers

[lex]

Does any of you guys have expirience in working on japan anime industry?

[Tokyo Joe]

Although I have no experience of working in the Anime industry I would imagine that it’s pretty hard for a Westerner to break into Japanese Anime. You\'ll not only have to be a versatile composer but also a fluent Japanese speaker and preferably living in Japan.

Good luck.

[lex]

that\'s true for most of the jobs in anime, but sometimes they do contract \"outsider\" composers. But the language barier is definetly a problem....

[KingIdiot]

I\'m no so sure about the comosing side, but I do know they do alot of Audio post when \"localizing\" an anime. Usually they just reuse the japanese soundtrack..but maybe....jsut maybe.....they might want to rescore the pic.

then again, I don\'t know if Id ever want to rescorea pic by say Yoko Kanno or Kenji Kawai...that would be anime sacrilidge...

I do believe taht alot of them could benefit from better scores.....unless of course you like taht guitar pop, wank fest stuff that gets thrown in lot of the time

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Really...I am an Idiot

[lex]

...no I\'m not a huge fan of that pop guitar thing...
It\'s just strange that there are zillions of anime movies/series out there, ranging from unwatchable to few brilliant ones, and all of them have scores, yet, it\'s really hard to find someone who actually worked on the score...