Person: Kanno Youko

Kanno Youko is a composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks for many games, anime films, TV series, live-action movies, and advertisements. She has written scores for famous animated works, including Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, Tenkuu no Escaflowne (Vision of Escaflowne), Koukaku Kidoutai Stand Alone Complex (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex), Wolf's Rain, and is the most trusted composer by veteran and new-wave directors such as Yoshiyuki Tomino, Watanabe Shin'ichirou and Kawamori Shouji. Kanno has also composed music for J-pop artists, the most notable being Sakamoto Maaya and Koizumi Kyouko. She is also a skilled keyboardist, and is the frontwoman for Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno's compositions on the various original soundtracks for which she is responsible.