Takafumi Wada

Takafumi Wada (和田 貴史, Wada Takafumi; born February 8, 1979) is a Japanese composer, arranger, and music producer. He has provided the music for several anime series, television dramas, films, and video games.^[1][2] He is best known for his role on the soundtrack of The Seven Deadly Sins, Seraph of the End and Highschool of the Dead.^[3]

Takafumi Wada
和田 貴史
Born	(1979-02-08) February 8, 1979 (age 46) Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Education	Department of Composition, Tokyo College of Music
Occupations	Composer arranger music producer
Years active	2002–present
Agents	Dimension Cruise Beagle Kick
Musical career
Genres	Soundtrack electronic classical orchestral J-pop anison
Instruments	Piano keyboard
Labels	Dimension Cruise Records As Vox Records
Website	takafumi-wada.com

Wada is the founder and current CEO of the music production company Dimension Cruise, established in 2006.^[4] He is also the founder of the music agency Beagle Kick.^[5]

Biography

Wada was born in Chiba Prefecture, in 1979.^[6] After he finished highschool, he went to Tokyo and later graduated from the Department of Composition at Tokyo College of Music. After that, he studied composition under the music teacher Kazuki Kuriyama, whom Wada would work with as an assistant on future projects.^[7]

Wada's musician career started in 2002, with him primarily involved in video game soundtracks.^[8]

In 2006, he founded Dimension Cruise, a music agency with the labels Dimension Cruise Records and As Vox Records.^[4]

He began composing for anime series in 2009.^[8] A year later, he became more popular on the industry for his role as the composer for the series Highschool of the Dead.^[9][10]

Since then, he has been involved in many visual media works, mostly in projects alongside composer Hiroyuki Sawano.^[8]

Works

Anime

Year	Title	Note(s)
2009	Rideback	[11]
2010	Highschool of the Dead	[9][10]
2011	Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead
2014	The Seven Deadly Sins	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano[12]
2015	Seraph of the End	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano, Asami Tachibana and Megumi Shiraishi[13][14][15]
	The Seven Deadly Sins OVA	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano
	Seraph of the End: Battle in Nagoya	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano, Asami Tachibana and Megumi Shiraishi[16]
2016	Terra Formars: Revenge	[17]
	The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano[18]
2018	The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of the Commandments	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto[19]
	The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano[20]
2019	The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath of the Gods	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto[21]
2021	The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon's Judgement	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto[22][23]
2025	Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four!	[24]

Television dramas

Year	Title	Note(s)
2009	RESCUE ~ Special Altitude Rescue Team	[25]
	BOSS	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Yuki Hayashi[26]
	Hi no Sakana
	My Girl	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano[27]
2010	Massugu na Otoko	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano[28]
	Tumbling
2011	BOSS 2nd Season	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Yuki Hayashi
2012	Presumed Guilty	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Kengo Tokusashi[29]
2013	Someday at a Place in the Sun	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Kengo Tokusashi
	Hard Nuts!
2015	Gattan Gattan Soredemo Go
2018	Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 2	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano[30]
2020	Utsubyō Kudan	Other tracks by Junka Horiguchi[31]
2021	Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 3	Other tracks by Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto[32]

Movies

Year	Title
2006	Beruna no Shippo[33]
	Mizutama Mizuchi[34]
2008	Yesterdays[35]

Video games

Year	Title	Note(s)
2002	Genmukan ~Aiyoku to Ryoujoku no Inzai~	[36]
	Initial D: Another Stage
2003	Bakuso Dekotra Densetsu Otoko Hanamichi Yume Roman
	The Wild Rings
	Fire Pro Wrestling Z
	After...	Other tracks by Keishi Yanao and Daisuke Ban[37]
	Tomorrow's Joe Masshiro ni Moe Tsukiro!
	Tomorrow's Joe Makkani Moeagare!
	Zatch Bell! Electric Arena
2004	Shinshou Genmukan	[38]
2005	Kenka Banchou	[39]
	Fire Pro Wrestling Returns	Other tracks by Yoko Wada and Mituhiro Uehara
2007	Fighting Chief 2 ~ Full Throttle ~	Other tracks by Hirokazu Koshio, Kemmei Adachi, Mitsugu Suzuki, Ryu and OGR
	Arkanoid DS	Other tracks by Hirokazu Koshio, Kemmei Adachi, Mitsugu Suzuki, Ryu and OGR[40]
2008	Jawa: Mammoth and the Secret Stone
	Space Invaders Get Even	Other tracks by Atsuhiro Motoyama and Hirotaka Kikuchi[41]
2009	Fault!!	[42]
2015	Monster Hunter Generations	[43]