Anime Music Career, Hasshin!
This is the second part of the biography, where this will focus on his anison career before finding himself into the popular music side. Masayuki Yamamoto found some moderate success with credits as a songwriter and composer for various kayokyoku and comic song artists, as well as his take on contemporary folk music with the release of his Sayonara La-la-la single. However, there was something missing from his path that he still has yet to take part in: creating theme songs for the entertainment. In 1975, the then-president of Warner-Pioneer sought for a new theme song for a then-upcoming Tatsunoko Production anime work. At that time, Tatsunoko struggled hard to keep its profits going as some recent works were underperforming with TV ratings, like Shinzou Ningen Casshan , Uchuu no Kishi Tekkaman and Hurricane Polymar (Tentoumushi no Uta went well and lasted over 100 episodes). Yamamoto was very interested in making theme songs for an anime, as it was on his bucke...