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Anime/Game Music Composer Hidekazu Tanaka Arrested for Alleged Attempted Sexual Assault (Updated)
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Police arrested 35-year-old game and anime composer NHK reported that Tanaka had allegedly uttered obscene words at a teenage girl and forcibly took her hand at a train station's bicycle parking area in Tokyo's Meguro ward in August.
According to police, the girl reported the incident at a nearby neighborhood police outpost. Police then reportedly found footage from the station's security camera of a person following the girl.
Tanaka has composed numerous songs and soundtracks for anime and videogames during his career, most of it spent at the music production company left MONACA at end of July 2021.
He is perhaps best known for composing the first opening song "Star!!" for The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls anime, as well as composing the anime's soundtrack. He also composed and arranged many of the songs in the larger The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! anime. He composed the ending song "Calendar Girl" for the Aikatsu! anime.
Update: Removed four credits attributed to a different person in the industry of the same name. Thanks, Takkun4343.
Source: NHK via Hachima Kikō
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