Takanori Arisawa (有泽孝纪) - 4 April 1951 - 26 November 2005. Japanese composer and arranger from Tokyo. He wrote music for hundreds of anime, including the award-winning soundtrack for Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon. He died of bladder cancer at 54 years of age. Arisawa was self-taught, interested in music since childhood. He began learning the piano when he was 20 years old, recorded by the insistence of his mother to Senzoku Gakuen Music Academy, at the age of 22 years finally graduated from school with a higher degree of composing orchestral music.

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