Cast & creator
Yoko Kanno
Best known for SPY x FAMILY, Aquarion, Aquarion
Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子, Kanno Yōko, born March 18, 1963) is a Japanese composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks of anime films, television series, live-action films, video games, and advertisements. She was born in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop and its live-action adaptation, Darker than Black, Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Kids on the Slope, Genesis of Aquarion and Terror in Resonance, and has worked with the directors Hirokazu Kore-eda, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichirō Watanabe and Shōji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for pop artists Maaya Sakamoto and Kyōko Koizumi. She is also a keyboardist, and is the frontwoman for the Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno's compositions and soundtracks.
Also known as: Gabriella Robin, Yôko Kanno, Yōko Kanno, Youko Kanno, Yohko Kanno
45
film credits
30
television credits
7
1993–2023 · acting roles
7.1
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (75)
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SPY x FAMILY
Theme Song Performance
2022
Aquarion
Music
2005Aquarion
Theme Song Performance
2005Aquarion
Lyricist
2005
Cowboy Bebop
Original Music Composer
1998
Macross Frontier
Original Music Composer
2008
Darker than Black
Original Music Composer
2007
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Original Music Composer
2002
Macross 7
Additional Music
1994
Space Dandy
Original Music Composer
2014
Turn A Gundam
Music
1999Turn A Gundam
Original Music Composer
1999
The Vision of Escaflowne
Musician
1996The Vision of Escaflowne
Original Music Composer
1996
Wolf's Rain
Original Music Composer
2003
Naotora: The Lady Warlord
Original Music Composer
2017
Cowboy Bebop
Original Music Composer
2021
Kids on the Slope
Music
2012
Gochisousan
Music
2013
Terror in Resonance
Original Music Composer
2014
Earth Maiden Arjuna
Music
2001
Yamato Takeru
Music
1994
Brain Powerd
Original Music Composer
1998
Ōban Star-Racers
Theme Song Performance
2006
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
Original Music Composer
2023
Our Little Sister
Original Music Composer
2015
Macross Zero
Additional Music
2002
Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage
Music
2008
Please Save My Earth
Music
1993
Memories
Original Music Composer
1995
Macross Plus: The Movie
Original Music Composer
1995
Macross Plus
Original Music Composer
1994
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Theme Song Performance
1999Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Musician
1999
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Original Music Composer
2001
Kamikaze Girls
Original Music Composer
2004
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man
Original Music Composer
2005
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
Original Music Composer
2007
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven
Music
2006
The World of Kanako
Original Music Composer
2014
Mind Game
Musician
2004
Genius Party
Original Music Composer
2007
Escaflowne: The Movie
Original Music Composer
2000
Ashura
Original Music Composer
2005
Say Hello for Me
Music
2007
Macross Frontier: The Wings of Farewell
Original Music Composer
2011
Macross Frontier: The False Songstress
Original Music Composer
2009
Honey and Clover
Music
2006
Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly
Music
2002
Petal Dance
Music
2013
Noiseman Sound Insect
Original Music Composer
1997
Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist
Self
2009
Su-ki-da
Music
2006
Future Blues
Self
2001Future Blues
Music
2001
Tachikoma na hibi
2002
The Show Must Go On
Original Music Composer
2007
Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light
Music
2002
Genesis of Aquarion: Wings of Genesis
Original Music Composer
2007
Maaya Sakamoto 15th Anniversary Live "Gift" at Nippon Budokan
2010
Surely Someday
Music
2010
tokyo.sora
Music
2002
Happy-Go-Lucky
Music
1997Happy-Go-Lucky
Original Music Composer
1997
Ring of Gundam
Original Music Composer
2009
Sangokushi 30th Anniversary Concert
Original Music Composer
2017
Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None
Original Music Composer
2012
Woman of Water
Original Music Composer
2002
Beautiful Sunday
Music
1998
Memories of Memories
Self (archive)
2004
Macross Frontier Galaxy Tour Final in Budokan
2009
Ein's Summer Vacation
Music
2012
A Melody for My Father
Music
2005
I Can’t Study
Music
1996