Toshio Masuda (composer)

Toshio Masuda (増田 俊郎, Masuda Toshio, born October 28, 1959) is a Japanese composer. He has composed and synthesized scores for several Japanese television shows and animated series.

Toshio Masuda
Born	October 28, 1959 Tokyo, Japan
Genres	Soundtrack, ambient, contemporary classical
Occupation(s)	Composer

Masuda is perhaps best known as the composer of the 2002 hit anime series Naruto where he combined traditional instruments like the shamisen and shakuhachi together with guitar, drums, bass, piano and other keyboard instruments along with chanting.

Works

Animation

• Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf (1992)
• Flint the Time Detective (1998)
• Excel Saga (1999)
• Jubei-chan (1999)
• Hand Maid May (2000)
• Daa! Daa! Daa! (2000)
• Mahoromatic (2001)
• Puni Puni Poemy (2001)
• Naruto (2002)
• Ai Yori Aoshi (2002)
• Nanaka 6/17 (2003)
• Jubei-chan 2 (2004)
• Mushishi (2005)
• Ghost Hunt (2006)
• Otogi-Jūshi Akazukin (2006)
• Higepiyo (2009)
• Kamisama Kiss (2013)
• Mushishi -Next Passage- (2014)[1]
• Kamisama Kiss◎ (2015)
• Nobunaga no Shinobi (2016)
• Nobunaga no Shinobi: Anegawa Ishiyama-hen (2018)[2]

OVA

• Animation Runner Kuromi (2001)
• Puni Puni Poemy (2001)
• Animation Runner Kuromi2 (2003)

Specials

• Mushi-Shi Special: The Shadow That Devours the Sun (2014)
• Mushi-Shi -Next Passage- Special: Path of Thorns (2014)

Film

• Mushi-Shi -Next Passage- Special: Bell Droplets (2015)

References

1. "Mushishi Anime Gets 2nd Season in April". Anime News Network.
2. "Ninja Girl & Samurai Master Anime Gets 3rd Season in April". Anime News Network. Retrieved 18 January 2018.

External links

• Toshio Masuda at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• last.fm page
• Toshio Masuda anime at Media Arts Database (in Japanese)