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Sunday, February 05, 2012 Posted by OminousCloud on October 19, 2009 @ 05:11:17 AM in News Articles Kazuhiko Katoh, the co-founder of two musical bands and the composer of the main theme songs for The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? and Windaria, was found hanged in his hotel room in Nagano Prefecture on Saturday. He was 62. The local authorities believe he had committed suicide, due to two copies of a last will that he reportedly had left in his room. The NHK public broadcaster broke the news of Katoh's passing on Saturday afternoon, just hours before the first of two Macross Crossover Live concerts with Iijima and four other Macross singers.
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Katoh made his musical debut with his college band The Folk Crusaders, which performed the hit songs "Kaette Kita Yopparai" and "Imujingawa." After The Folk Crusaders disbanded, he co-established The Sadistic Mika Band, a group that would break up and reunite several times over the years. The band became the first Japanese group to tour Great Britain when it opened for Roxy Music in 1975. On his own, he composed music for several projects, including Mari Iijima's "Do You Remember Love?" ("Ai , Oboeteimasu ka?") theme song for The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? and Akino Arai's "Yakusoku" for Windaria. "Do
Posted by LadyPSerenity on July 02, 2009 @ 05:50:50 PM in News Articles
Crunchyroll media distribution company has revealed on their company website that it is beginning to stream Kunio Kato's Oscar-winning short, La Maison en Petits Cubes (Tsumiki no le or House of Blocks) today at 6:00am EDT. The anime won the Best Animated Short Film at the 81st Annual Academy Awards. The 12-minute work uses paper drawings and 2D computer graphics to tell the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the flooding waters. It was the second Japanese animated work to win a major Oscar, after Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. ~ Anime News Network Along with Kato's Petits Cubes is the streaming of Kato's The Diary of Tortov Roddle Short which will took place at 6:00 am EDT as well.
Crunchyroll has already begun to stream Studio Fantasia's Glass Maiden television anime series (pictured above). Streaming of the series began on Wednesday. Other recently added anime titles include; the Dark Side Cat Flash anime series, the Greathunt Flash anime series and the Japan Tourism Anime Channel shorts. Source: Anime News Network
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