
Later, on April 23, the live was streamed to overseas audiences. The event featured the guest vocals Akihito Okano, Jean-Ken Johnny, ReoNa, mizuki, mpi, Benjamin, Laco, and SennaRin. On March 13, 2022, Sawano held the solo live "Hiroyuki Sawano LIVE 007", at Tokyo International Forum. In February 2021, he made a "Project【emU】" concert event, "Sawano Hiroyuki LIVE【emU】2021", in which he performed many of the main tracks from the anime scores he was in charge. The suites are recorded and filmed in a studio, with guest musicians and vocalists, and uploaded on Sawano's YouTube channel, having already been released the ones for Attack on Titan, Guilty Crown, The Seven Deadly Sins, and Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn.
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In 2020, Sawano started a soundtrack revival project called "Project【emU】", where he arranges a suite for the soundtrack of anime series he has been involved with.

On July 2, 2017, Sawano's contract with Legendoor was terminated after approximately 12 years. Sawano's vocal song project was moved to the Sacra Music record label under Sony Music Entertainment Japan in April 2017. Since then his songs under this vocal song project have also been used as the opening and ending themes for various anime, including Aldnoah.Zero, Seraph of the End, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096, The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Kaikō, and Re:Creators. In 2014, he launched a vocal song project under the name "SawanoHiroyuki", producing the first album UnChild with Aimer as the vocalist under the name SawanoHiroyuki:Aimer. In this year, for his work on the series, he won the Newtype Anime Awards in the Soundtrack category. It was in 2013, with his role as the composer for the anime adaptation of Hajime Isayama's manga series Attack on Titan, that pushed him into acknowledgement. In both series, he also managed to build up a relationship with some vocalists, who would collaborate with him in future works. In 2011, with his involvement in two popular anime series- Blue Exorcist and Guilty Crown-, he became more notable in the industry. In 2010, with Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, he had his first involvement in a major work, which he mentioned having worked on it with the hope that this series would trigger an offer for many further projects. He was in charge of his first soundtrack works in 2006. Sawano's musician career started in 2004, with him initially writing songs for other artists. Around this period, he used to listen to the soundtrack of Studio Ghibli's movies, which led him to be influenced by the film score composer Joe Hisaishi. In this same school, he made his first public music performance. When he was in his final years of high school, he had a desire to work on soundtrack music, so he went to a vocational school focused in composition.

įrom the age of 17, Sawano studied composition, arrangement, and orchestration under the music teacher Nobuchika Tsuboi. In junior high school, he joined a band and began learning keyboard to take charge of it in the group. By this time, he was influenced by the Japanese singer-songwriter Aska, from the duo Chage and Aska, whose songs led him to vaguely dream about working in music.

He began playing piano in elementary school. In 2022, he formed a new group called " NAQT VANE" with Japanese singer Harukaze and design group Classic 6, focusing on creating music for overseas audiences. Sawano has two additional music projects: In 2014, he started a vocal project under the name " SawanoHiroyuki" with a focus on collaborating with other artists. He has also won the Tokyo Anime Award three times, as well as two prizes at the 2022 Anime Trending Awards. Sawano was nominated for the Newtype Anime Awards 11 times, winning 4 of the nominations. Overall, he has already provided the music for over 100 visual media works. In addition to his role on the soundtrack, Sawano also composes many opening and ending theme songs. His works include the musical scores for Attack on Titan, The Seven Deadly Sins, Blue Exorcist, Guilty Crown, Kill la Kill, Seraph of the End, and Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. Hiroyuki Sawano ( 澤野 弘之, Sawano Hiroyuki, born September 12, 1980) is a Japanese composer, arranger, lyricist, pianist, and music producer best known for his work on many anime series, video games, television dramas, and movies.
