(occasionally credited as Hiroyuki Nanba) is a Japanese musician. He has composed for and arranged songs from Japanese anime, OVA and video games. Notably, Hiroyuki Namba composed for Dallos, the first anime Original video animation. However, in the United States, he is known for composing the soundtrack to the Armitage III film. Namba plays keyboards in Sense of Wonder, a Japanese progressive rock band.

Works

1983 - Dallos (OVA) 1987 - Ladius (OVA) 1987 - Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (OVA) 1988 - Starship Troopers (OVA) 1989 - Baoh (OVA) 1989 - Wrestler Gundan Seisenshi Robin Jr. (TV series) 1991 - Sohryuden: Legend of the Dragon Kings (OVA) 1995 - Armitage III (OVA) 1996 - Burn Up W (OVA) 1997 - Armitage III: Poly-Matrix (Movie) 1998 - DT Eightron (TV series) 2000 - Transformers: Car Robot (TV series) 2014 - Space Dandy (TV series)

Hiroyuki Namba

Associated acts

Sense of Wonder (1987 -) Tatsuro Yamashita (1978 -) Horii Katsumi Project Nuovo Immigrato (1997 -) Yajuh Ohkoku (1997-) Acoustic Progressive Jazz (2000 -) ExhiVision (2003?)

Hiroyuki Namba

Discography

Hiroyuki Namba solo

Sense of Wonder

Image albums (Hiroyuki Namba and Sense of Wonder)

Hiroyuki Namba

Hiroyuki Namba and Sense of Wonder

Arrangements

1988 - Music from Ys II (tracks 26~29) 1988 - Sorcerian Super Arrange Version 1988 - Sorcerian Super Arrange Version II Plus Sorcerian System Vol. 1 (tracks 1~7) 1989 - Sorcerian Super Arrange Version III Sengoku Sorcerian vs. Pyramid Sorcerian (tracks 1~3) 1989 - Falcom Sound Catalog Special Digest Disc (tracks 1, 5~11) 1989 - Ys III: Wanderers from Ys -Super Arrange Version- (tracks 1, 2, 4~9) 1992 - Falcom "NAMBA" Collection 1998 - Very Best of Ys (track 11) 2001 - Genso Suikoden Music Collection Produced by Hiroyuki Namba 2003 - Ys Special Collection -All About Falcom- Memorial Sounds (tracks 1, 4) 2005 - Heavy Metal Thunder -The Recordings- (composed and arranged track 9)

Soundtracks

1997 - Armitage III - Poly-Matrix

External links

Hiroyuki Namba portal

難波弘之 公式サイト

1953 births

Anime composers

Japanese composers

Japanese male composers

Living people

Progressive rock musicians