Earlier as we speak, Hidekazu Tanaka, a composer whose work contains contributions to Pokémon Journeys: The Sequence and The Idolm@ster, admitted in courtroom to stalking and soliciting intercourse from a 15-year-old woman, in addition to a dozen different obscene public acts from the previous 10 years.
Throughout a trial with the Tokyo District Courtroom, the 35-year-old composer admitted to propositioning a minor for intercourse in trade for cash in Tokyo’s Meguro ward final August, an incident wherein he allegedly additionally forcibly grabbed her hand, in accordance with Anime Information Community. Tanaka was later arrested by Tokyo Police in October of that 12 months on fees of forcible indecency, which in Japanese prison regulation refers to acts of assault or intimidation which have a sexual aspect.
Tanaka pled responsible to all fees throughout his preliminary trial, in accordance with Siliconera. He additionally confessed to taking upskirt images of women’ underwear at a practice station, in addition to exposing his genitals whereas driving the practice dozens of occasions over the previous decade, in accordance with Japanese outlet TBS.
“I needed to really feel the fun of being discovered or not,” Tanaka said in courtroom. “I did it to alleviate my day by day frustration and work stress.”
Tanaka is credited with writing the theme songs to the slice-of-life anime Aikatsu!, the supernatural anime Highschool of the Lifeless, Oreimo 2, Monogatari Sequence: Second Season, and the fantasy anime Sword Oratoria: Is It Fallacious to Attempt to Decide Up Ladies in a Dungeon? On the Aspect. He has additionally contributed music to some video games, together with Tekken Tag Event 2.
Along with having his work pulled from different anime, Tanaka has had his composer credit for Pokémon Journeys: The Sequence’ opening theme music faraway from new episodes. Moreover, Japanese voice actress and singer Momo Asakura has eliminated the music “Day and Evening Dream ‘Shiroku Jichūmu,’” which Tanaka composed, from her “Piacere!” live performance tour setlists, in accordance with ANN.