Composer · 作曲家

Yasuhiro Maeda

In the silence between notes, emotion finds its home. I write music that lives alongside the image — close to the character, never ahead of them.

FilmAnimationTelevisionOrchestral · Electronic
Yasuhiro Maeda
Portrait
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Selected Works近作

2025 — 2026
ALL YOU NEED IS KILL key visual
Trailer
ALL YOU NEED IS KILL Trailer
Anime FilmOriginal Score
2026
2026 · Limited theatrical release

All You Need Is KillAnimated Film — Original Score

The animated adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel — the source behind the worldwide Hollywood hit. Maeda scored the emotional turbulence of a protagonist trapped in a looping battlefield with a deliberately open score, resisting easy definition and leaving space for each viewer's own reading.

Original Hiroshi Sakurazaka, 'All You Need Is Kill'
Role Original Score — Composer

The opening. Maeda deliberately withheld any emotional verdict — the score leaves the protagonist's inner state unresolved, inviting each viewer to bring their own reading.

The mid-film battle sequence. At the production's request: no acoustic instruments. A stark, purely electronic sound world — mechanical, stripped, without warmth.

Late in the film: the two leads, alone in a car. Maeda scored the silence between them — the protagonist's thoughts that can find no words.

The final battle. Behind the action, Maeda wrote toward a hidden truth: the profound grief of someone who does not want to fight at all.

The aftermath. Moving forward, yet carrying something bittersweet. A quiet, steady push — the kind of feeling that stays with you after the credits roll.

Chikyu no Namida — Music Video
Theme SongNHK
2025
2025 · NHK Minna no Uta

Tears of the EarthNHK Minna no Uta — Theme Song

Written as the theme song for the short anime Future Kid Takara, with lyrics by award-winning tanka poet Machi Tawara. The song was also broadcast on NHK's Minna no Uta — Japan's beloved long-running children's music programme.

Lyrics Machi Tawara (tanka poet)
Vocal Yuki Kaji / Honoka Yoshida
Role Composition

Maeda refined the melody line by line, checking each phrase against Tawara's poetry until the music felt worthy of the words.

FUTURE KID TAKARA
Short Anime SeriesOriginal Score
2025
2025 · Expo 2025 Osaka premiere / NHK E-tele

Future Kid TakaraShort Anime Series — Original Score

An eleven-episode short anime series (five minutes each) by STUDIO4℃ and NHK Enterprises. A child named Takara travels from the year 2100 to explore a climate-changed Earth alongside children of the present. Premiered at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai.

Studio STUDIO4℃ × NHK Enterprises
Premiere Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai
Role Original Score (Composer)

The score reflects today's environmental reality while refusing to collapse into darkness — Maeda kept a thread of quiet light running through the music, always pointing toward what might still be possible.

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Profile経歴

Yasuhiro Maeda

Began his career as a manipulator under composer Joe Hisaishi. He has since collaborated extensively with Hisaishi as both manipulator and music director across film, television drama, and commercial music — building the foundations of his craft alongside one of Japan's most celebrated composers.

Now composing independently, Maeda creates music rooted in orchestra and electronics, with a focus on what he calls "emotional design" — the deliberate, intuitive shaping of feeling within a visual work.

From still, atmospheric textures to high-tension dramatic scores — his speciality is underscore that stays in close, conscious dialogue with the direction. Present without imposing.

Origin
Yubari, Hokkaido
Roles
Composer / Music Director
Fields
Film · TV · Commercial · Animation
Palette
Orchestral · Electronic
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Credits主な実績

Selected
2026 ALL YOU NEED IS KILLAnimated Film Original Score
2025 FUTURE KID TAKARAShort Anime Series Original Score
2025 Tears of the EarthNHK Minna no Uta Composition
2025 Shinigamitsukai no Jikencho — FinalFilm Additional Music
2024 The Eight Samurai (Hakkenden)Film Additional Music
2023 Fullmetal Alchemist: The Final AlchemyFilm Additional Music
2023 Fullmetal Alchemist: Revenge of ScarFilm Additional Music
2022 Shinigamitsukai no JikenchoFilm Additional Music

Let's make something that lingers.ご一緒に。