Sawano Hiroyuki
Hiroyuki Sawano (澤野 弘之, Sawano Hiroyuki; born September 12, 1980 Tokyo, Japan), stylized as Hiroyuki SAWANO, is a Japanese composer, arranger, lyricist, pianist, and music producer best known for his work on many anime series, video games, television dramas, and films. His works include the musical scores for Attack On Titan, Soul Link, Gigantic Formula, Zombie-Loan, Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na, The Seven Deadly Sins, Sengoku Basara, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative, Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway, Blue Exorcist, Aldnoah.Zero, Seraph of the End, Guilty Crown, Kill la Kill, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Re:Creators, Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, Fanfare of Adolescence, 86 and Solo Leveling. In Live Action Drama series, his work includes Ns' Blue, Iryu Team Medical Dragon, Prisoners, My Girl, Bombee Men, In addition to his role on the soundtrack, Sawano also composes many opening and ending theme songs. Overall, he has already provided the music for over 100 visual media works.
Sawano was nominated for the Newtype Anime Awards 11 times, winning four of the nominations. He has also won the Tokyo Anime Award three times, as well as two prizes at the Anime Trending Awards. Sawano has two additional music projects. In 2014, he started a vocal project under the name "SawanoHiroyuki[nZk]", with a focus on collaborating with other artists. In 2022, he formed a new group called "NAQT VANE" with Japanese singer Harukaze and design group Classic 6, focusing on creating music for overseas audiences.
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