| I have been listening to Sawano's music almost exclusively for the past few days mainly due to the epicness of his work on AOT Season 2. Anyways I am just wondering what the communities opinion of him is and whether he is well known as a composer. (kinda new to the community) |
| I think he's overrated. He's good, but no where near as good as Yuki Kajiura and Taku Iwasaki. His OST lacks versatility or should I say variety imo and is too much vocalized recently. |
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| One of the best if not the best composer of all the time |
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| Sawano is indeed a great composer but I like Yuki Kajiura better. Pretty much because of a reason said above, more variety in his OSTs would be better. |
| He's done some decent stuff but he's mainly a hack whose music is all about that BIG AND BOMBASTIC SHIT. Sorry, but copying Hans Zimmer doesn't make you a genius. Also, he looks like a criminal and I would not want to meet him on an empty street on a dark night |
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| He's a GOD! And I earnestly love his works. He's literally the HANS ZIMMER of THE EAST. Yeah, he is that good. :) |
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| He's pretty good, but a lot of his stuff sounds the same... and he usually does OSTs for shows I don't like. He's still nothing compared to Shoji Meguro, who does the Persona music |
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| He's alright, used to like and listen to his works a lot but his works sound pretty repetitive nowadays. |
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Crosswastaken said: DragonSlayer_19 said: His OST lacks versatility or should I say variety imo and is too much vocalized recently. *Cough*Gundam Unicorn*Cough* Haven't watched that tbh. However, to make myself clearer, Sawano is recycling more ost recently and he's become predictable with not much versatility to surprise you, again speaking recently. His older works might be better. You can always expect to throw some highly vocalized bombastic song in the middle of action. See Re:creators and kabaneri as prime example. It lost impact by now for me. SnK S2 has like 2 notable tracks for me. Unlike him, Taku Iwasaki possess finesse, elegance, and quirkiness in his OST. Here are some of them . This one is unfortunately altered in the middle a bit. Try min 20:00 (one of my favs:p) |
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| honestly never paid attention to anime soundtracks but he did a great job with aldnoah zero and aot that made me check him out. i like his music a lot, but some of them are repetitive. I like Ryo (supercell) who composes music for EGOIST slightly better. |
| I personally think Sawano is great, almost every vocalist that collaborated with his music fit into each other, and for his music that used in games,movie, or anime soundtrack I feel a great vibe and synchonization between it |
| i do not like him as much as most people in the community seems to, like his soundtracks are kind of repetitive overall |
| The only ever songs I've liked from him we're ironically from a series that I dropped (Aldnoah Zero), I think his best work is aLiez and Breathless from that same anime. |
| Quality exercise music. Just energetic and formulaic enough to help keep focus. I feel like I can run 26 marathons when I jog to his stuff. |
| I don't think a lack of range is necessarily bad; he's one of the BEST composers out there for bombastic, orchestral scores, and I love him for that. |
| He's a great composer, in my opinion better than Yuki Kajura or other anime composers (that are also great, but not as good as hiroyuki). |
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| Fucking amazing. |
Accept everyone's opinions. Unless they are badly constructed or something the lines of "Uhh duuh da girls were sexy" That's not an opinion, that's Something called "A lack of brain cells". Specifically the latter. Everyone who likes Eromanga-Sensei is a pedophile. |
| MAL community loves him and praise him. And he deserves all the love! |
| God tier composer. He's anime Hans Zimmer. |
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| Eh, only "Sawano" I care about is Dan Swanö (get it cause their names are kinda the same- bah, I don't really care about the dude's compositions tbh too samey, surprisingly I heard he's primarily a pianist so knowing that majority of what he does is electronic add in female vocal songs kinda makes me want to hear more of this dude's piano compositions) anyway here's a Swanö song just because |
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| What marks a good soundtrack composer isn't their ability to write hype songs. Any semi-competent one can do that. What really shows you if someone is good at it is their ability to write calm songs for quiet introspection and mundane days between the action. Sawano has only showed his ability to write hype songs, with very little variation between them. He is very overrated. |
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| Seems like an old thread, but I'm gonna say my piece I guess. Hiroyuki Sawano is an extremely versatile composer. He just hasn't had the opportunity to display that in the past 5 years. All the anime he's been hired for recently have been hype/action shows which don't necessarily lend to much variety when he's most popular for his hype tracks. You can't judge a composer by 10% of their work. Granted his recent work has been less interesting to me due to the lack of versatility, but that's mainly because Sawano has showed that he CAN be versatile in the past. Pre-2010 Sawano is drastically different to what you'd hear from him currently. Though it's not exactly fair to ask for that, he has shown that he's capable of so much more in recent years, if you listen to the J-Drama Mare OST, while he still retains his style, it's quite different to his typical hype tracks. Since it's, well, a slice of life show about making cakes. I'm waiting for the day Sawano is hired for a slice of life anime and isn't just asked to do the same thing for every show. At least Re:CREATORS had disc 2 of the OST which was fairly experimental for modern Sawano, but the Attack on Titan S2 OST was more of the same (although it only had 11 new songs, which were all fairly good so I'm not necessarily complaining). His stuff from his personal albums, musica (2009) and o1 (2015) do show a bit of Sawano's potential, though it's not the best indication of his versatility. Sawano seems to not mind making similar tracks though, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I don't think Sawano as a whole is overrated, rather I'd say his best works are kinda underrated, though there are a few that are fairly popular. It's more that the songs that are popular are all the super hype tracks, which generates a stigma surrounding Sawano that places him as the "Japanese bombastic/hype composer". Still waiting for a director to hire Sawano and bring out his full potential. Though I don't necessarily mind what we've been getting recently. I feel he needs a break though, he's been doing so much in the past year it's kind of overwhelming. |
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| He's pretty good, I didn't even know he was the composer of "Call Your Name", which is one of Attack On Titan's best ost. |
| I LOVE HIM, HE'S AMAZING!! The font is large to show my appreciation for him. Lol. I will definitely watch every anime he composed for, no matter what people say about it. XD |
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| He's still very shallow compared to many other Japanese composers, Susumu Hirasawa, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yoko Kanno, Keiichi Okabe, and probably many other Japanese composers can ride him home. |
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| He´s one of the best composers out there Can´t understand how people put Hirasawa above this impeccable composer. Everything he does (or almos t everything) is so well done. |
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| He's alright, still not as good as people like Hirasawa Susumu, Kanno Yoko and even Kajiura Yuki |
| He's great. Not a hack or overrated at all. |
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| My favourite composer of all time across all genres of entertainment! Repetitive, lacking variety and whatnot, I completely agree with that but even then his music is just glorious! Many people compare him to Hans Zimmer, and I think he deserves all the credit he gets! |
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| Hirasawa is on another level, another genre and another "all", i do no Think they are comparable, for background and style - and i like more hirasawa with his own work than when working on ost. I like very much sawano! Yes he is not very versatile and he sounds repetitive after a while, many of you are right, but I like the style of his songs and many are one of my favs. But in truth some i find them not so great (in example i don't like before my body is dried: lyrics are awful and kills all the music) I Think He could do better right Now but i still like him and his style, for snk in example He was perfect, i hope He can improve outside his comfort zone in near future |
| Lacks diversity, if you listened to one of his OSTs, you basically heard all of them. Kabaneri soundtrack is the best and most versatile thing he's done |
SerhaTR0483-2 said: So true, he's decent but so repetitive, hope he gets back on track.His best times were 2012-2016. After that he begin lost his magic touch... |
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fakeredshoes said: Lacks diversity, if you listened to one of his OSTs, you basically heard all of them. Kabaneri soundtrack is the best and most versatile thing he's done Not all of his music is repetitive. He has a few 3-part songs that put any other anime composer to shame, then he has a few -dozen- oversimplified ambience pieces that would fit better in a melancholy JRPG. |
| love his musics on Aldnoah.Zero and Re:Creators |
| You always have to remember that when it comes to this type of thing it is ALWAYS going to be opinionated. People prefer different things and it always going to be hard to try to please the majority. Now saying that, I'm going to provide my own personal opinion. Sawano manages to please a good majority with a lot of his works. His compositions are simple and he does have distinctive sound but I like to think of that as sort of like his signature. FOR ME there has never been a composer in where I listened to an insert song in one of their works and had it stuck in my head for days on end. His stuff can leave a lasting impact if you're into it, but he also has songs that he's composed that are haunting and also build atmosphere, and simply beautiful in where they are short and sweet. Some of my favorite OSTs he's done have been his work on Ao no Exorcist and Aldnoah.Zero. Again, this is just my personal taste but I can listen to his works anytime and not get tired no matter how repetitive people say his works sound. I feel like Sawano has work that can hype me up, put me in a good mood, and something slower and more meaningful If I'm in the mood for that. Somebody else mentioned on this post that Sawano has older, less known work. At the end of the day if you want a specific sound just look for it. |
| Before 2019, I would've been inclined to agree with everyone here saying that Sawano's music has grown stale and repetitive. But after watching the second part of AoT S3, I can safely say that all of my initial reservations have been blown completely out of the water. The soundtrack he made for the season nailed everything I could've possibly asked for. The hype, the desperation, the melancholy, the nostalgia, the foreboding. His tracks delivered on all fronts and more. By the end of it all, I can honestly say that very few other osts have evoked the same levels of raw I emotion I felt while listening to it play during the show. |
| He makes beautiful music, Kevin Penkin would be proud |
| He is the hype composer and I do enjoy his music but people are on point about his lack of variety. If you have heard one of his soundtracks you have heard them all. Interested to see what he is going to do on 86 PV sounded nice even if again it is more typical Sawano. |
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