Shirō Sagisu

Shirō Sagisu composed the musical score for Neon Genesis Evangelion, working closely with creator Hideaki Anno across the original television series and its later film continuations. That partnership became one of Studio Gainax's defining creative pairings and remains his best-known anime scoring credit.

Sagisu's Evangelion work brought him wide recognition in 2010, when Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance earned him the Tokyo Anime Award in the Best Music category. His arranging skills also reached a global audience in 2020, when his version of the Japanese national anthem was performed by Misia at the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony.

Sagisu started out in 1977 as a member of the jazz fusion group T-Square, recording three albums before moving into composing and arranging full time in 1979. Within two decades he had a hand in more than two thousand songs, commercial jingles, and screen scores.

Beyond scoring, Sagisu produced records for artists such as Misia, Ken Hirai, and Satoshi Tomiie, work that ran parallel to his composing career. That production side rounds out a four-decade career built on both film scoring and pop music.

Shirō Sagisu is a Japanese composer, arranger, and record producer born in 1957, active in the industry since 1978. He is best known for scoring Hideaki Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion, one of his signature collaborations with Studio Gainax.