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Active since 1993
Yoko Kanno
菅野よう子
Voice actor
1
Director · Staff
62
Director and staff · 62 anime credits across four decades. Best known for Theme Song Composition on Cowboy Bebop.
Derived from credit data — not curated copy
1993 – 2025
33 years active
1
Characters voiced
62
Staff credits
Best known for · Direction
Theme Song Composition
1998
Cowboy Bebop
Theme Song Composition
Background
Birth place: Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan Birth name: Yoko Kanno (菅野 洋子) Yoko Kanno is a composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks for many games, seminal anime films, TV series, live-action movies, and advertisements. Some of Yoko Kanno's most famous soundtrack themes include "Kiseki no umi" (Lodoss War), "Voices" (Macross Plus), "Tank!" (Cowboy Bebop), "Yakusoku wa Iranai" (Escaflowne), "Gravity" (Wolf's Rain), "Inner Universe" (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) and Stand Alone Complex O.S.T. She speaks very little English and some French. Married to Hajime Mizoguchi.
Voice role split
1
main
0
supporting
Top staff positions
Music
46
Theme Song Composition
26
Theme Song Arrangement
20
Inserted Song Performance
1
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