Hayato Matsuo

Hayato Matsuo (松尾 早人,) is a Japanese music composer known for his works on Hellsing: Ultimate, the Shenmue Series, ect. He was born on August of 1965 and is 57 years old.

Style
Hayato's style for his works on Hellsing Ultimate are mainly orchestras among others, which fits the tone of the bloody-war atmosphere that Ultimate has. However, he did create some that's primarily leaning towards Rock and notable, Iscariot's theme is noticeably Jazz; much like Yasushi Ishii's work on the original TV series, specifically, When You Start the War, Fight With Arrows, Spears and Swords! (ironically, this specific song later gets used as Hellsing: Ultimate VIII ending theme).

Hayato expressed his likes for dark and emotional music, stating; "In terms of orchestra music, I originally liked dark and emotional music very much." and later, in the same interview, Hayato said that Hellsing was the perfect series for him because of the tone and atmosphere of the series that it was going for. He later stated that it was a pleasure working with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, which was Hellsing Ultimate's music performance. In addition to the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra team, he also complimented them; "The Warsaw Philharmonic can perform all sorts of music, but they are very much suited to the dark sound for this music (Hellsing Ultimate's Music)".

Works
For a complete and accurate list of the games, anime and TV series that Matsuo has worked on, go here.

List

 * Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai (arrangements with Motoaki Takenouchi)
 * Magic Knight Rayearth
 * Saint Tail
 * The Brave of Gold Goldran
 * Magic Knight Rayearth 2
 * Landlock
 * Haunted Junction
 * Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation
 * Spirit of Wonder Scientific Boys Club
 * Transformers: Armada
 * Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor
 * Hellsing: Ultimate
 * Yomigaeru Sora - Rescue Wings
 * Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette
 * The World God Only Knows
 * The World God Only Knows II
 * Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called!: Me and the Space Princess (with Keiji Inai, Toshiyuki Arakawa and Akifumi Tada)
 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Phantom Blood)
 * The World God Only Knows: Goddesses
 * A Certain Magical Index: The Miracle of Endymion (arrangements with Kenji Inai and Yasunori Iwasaki)
 * Shirobako
 * Endride (with Kohei Tanaka and Hiroshi Nakamura)
 * Drifters (with Yasushi Ishii)
 * Keijo!!!!!!!!
 * Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take on Me
 * Captain Tsubasa
 * Hi Score Girl
 * Heaven's Design Team