This article is about a musician in the Super Sentai series. |
Kenji Yamamoto is a composer and arranger for the Super Sentai franchise. He arranged several songs for the franchise of note, including:
- Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman - Fiveman opening
- Kokoro wa Tamago - Jetman ending
- Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger - Zyuranger opening
- Bouken Shite Rappapi-ya! - Zyuranger ending
- Gosei Sentai Dairanger - Dairanger opening
- Oretachi Muteki sa!! Dairanger - Dairanger ending
- Secret Kakuranger - Kakuranger opening
- Ninja! Matenrou Kids - Kakuranger ending
He was also part of the group known as Healthy Wings writing the soundtrack for Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger.
Aside from Sentai, he is notable for other anime and J-pop works, including writing the main theme of Dragonball Z, Cha-La Head Cha-La and working on the soundtrack for Dragon Ball Z Kai for the first 95 episodes.
Kenji Yamamoto was fired by Toei Animation after the first 95 episodes of Dragon Ball Z Kai when Toei Animation publicly acknowledged that many of his compositions were infringed upon unidentified third-party copyrights which led to the show replacing his compositions with the compositions by Shunsuke Kikuchi throughout the entire series' run and even the first 95 episodes of Dragon Ball Z Kai.
Following the revelation of his BGM plagiarism situation, Kenji Yamamoto's activity is unknown as of today.