Education
He studied jazz and popular arrangement with arranger Norio Maeda.
有澤 孝紀
He studied jazz and popular arrangement with arranger Norio Maeda.
He wrote music for the series, including its video games. Born in Tokyo, Arisawa began to learn piano at the age of 20. After graduating from Senzoku Gakuen College, Arisawa started his career in 1980 by composing "Shinjuku Transfer".
He worked for the Tokyo Broadcasting System and wrote several television dramas.
From the 1990s until his death, Arisawa began composing for anime series exclusively. His work on Sailor Moon was initially based on popular music, but gradually began to change to those found in classical music
After Sailor Moon, Arisawa composed music for several shows, including the Digimon series, until his death from bladder cancer in 2005. Arisawa was mostly self-taught, having been interested in music from childhood.
He started to learn piano when he was 20 years old, and entered Senzoku Gakuen College when he was 22, eventually graduating with degrees in Composing and Orchestral Music.
In 1980, Arisawa"s song "Shinjuku Transfer" was recorded by the chorus group SOAP for Epic/Sony Records. The group broke up in 1982, but "Hamot Pier" was re-released in 1993. During the 1980s Arisawa worked as a composer and arranger for Tokyo Broadcasting System and wrote music for television commercials, including Coca-Cola advertisements.
He also composed for various television dramas, and released a single, "Takeoff of Love", for Japan Airlines" 30th anniversary celebration.
He later served as Music Director for the Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai series Let"s Learn English!. As the Music Director for Sailor Moon, Arisawa"s first award was the 1993 Golden Disk Grand Prize from Columbia Records.
He continued to compose for the entire anime series, plus several video games and some of the stage musicals. Arisawa expressed an admiration of Hollywood-style music, drawing his initial inspiration for the tone of the Sailor Moon soundtrack from the Charlie"s Angels television series.
He frequently made use of symbolism when writing themes for specific characters or groups, borrowing thematic elements from diverse genres and from other countries.
As the series progressed, his music gravitated from a popular feeling toward more classical arrangements to represent the protagonist having passed through painful experiences and grown as a person. In 2005, his score piece for Sailor Moon was used in Steven Spielberg"s War of the Worlds, before his death on November 26 after the movie was released on June 29.