Evan Call

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Evan Call
Born (1988-06-29) June 29, 1988 (age 37)
California, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
  • Composer
  • arranger
InstrumentGuitar
Years active2012–present
Member of Miracle Bus  [ ja ] (2017–present)
Formerly of Elements Garden (2012–2016)

Evan Call (born June 29, 1988) is an American composer and arranger working in Japan. He has composed music for multiple anime series, such as Violet Evergarden , Muv-Luv Alternative and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End . Call is affiliated with the Japanese agency Miracle Bus and was previously a member of the musical group Elements Garden.

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Biography

Call was born in California, U.S., on June 29, 1988. [1] As a teenager, Call was diagnosed with occipital neuralgia and had to take a break from going to school. During that time, he learned to play bluegrass guitar from a local teacher. Call later made a friend in his hometown who taught him about Japanese anime and video games, which prompted him to start composing orchestral music. [2] He joined the choir club when he entered high school. [3] After graduating, Call enrolled at the Berklee College of Music, where he majored in film scoring. [3] [4] [5]

After graduating from college, he debated if he should pursue a career in film music in Hollywood. [6] In the end, he decided to move to Japan on a tourist visa to work in the anime and game industry. [6] Three months after his arrival, he was introduced to Junpei Fujita, a music creator working at Elements Garden. [3] After an interview with Fujita and a review of his music portfolio, Call joined Elements Garden. He began composing music in Japan in 2012, where he gained attention for his grand arrangements and impressive symphonic music. [6] After his employment, Call was introduced to Yōta Tsuruoka, a sound director at Kyoto Animation. [3] Alongside Tsuruoka, Call began composing the soundtracks for the anime series Tokyo ESP and Violet Evergarden . [7] [8] Call would continue to compose soundtracks for other anime series and films such as Josee, the Tiger and the Fish . [9] In 2025, Call won a Tokyo Anime Award in the Sound/Performance category, [10] and was nominated for Best Score at the 9th Crunchyroll Anime Awards for his work on Frieren: Beyond Journey's End . [11]

Call left Elements Garden on June 30, 2016, due to his contract expiring. [12] Since 2017, he has been a member of the Japanese agency Miracle Bus  [ ja ]. [4]

Works

Anime

YearTitleNotesRef.
2013 Symphogear G With Junpei Fujita, Noriyasu Agematsu, and Hitoshi Fujima [13]
2014 When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace With Junpei Fujita and Haruki Mori [4]
Kamigami no Asobi With Junpei Fujita and Hitoshi Fujima [14]
Tokyo ESP [7]
2015 Tantei Kageki Milky Holmes TD With Daisuke Kikuta, Haruki Mori, and Tomohiro Kita [15]
Symphogear GX With Junpei Fujita and Hitoshi Fujima [16] [17]
Dance with Devils With Junpei Fujita [18]
2016 Schwarzesmarken [19]
Big Order [20]
Aokana: Four Rhythm Across the Blue With Junpei Fujita and Seima Iwahashi [21]
2017 Chronos Ruler [22]
2018 Hakumei and Mikochi [23]
Violet Evergarden [8]
2019 YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World With Keishi Yonao, Ryū Takami, and Ryū Kawamura [24]
Midnight Occult Civil Servants [25]
2020 Appare-Ranman! [26]
2021 Muv-Luv Alternative [27]
The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window [28]
2022Muv-Luv Alternative (season 2) [29]
2023 My Happy Marriage [30]
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End #77 in the German Album Charts [31] [32]
2024 Sengoku Youko [33]
2025My Happy Marriage (season 2) [34]
Dragonite and the Special Delivery [35]
Gundam: Next Universal Century [36]
Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube [37]
Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show [38]

Anime films

YearTitleNotesRef.
2014 Bodacious Space Pirates: Abyss of Hyperspace With Noriyasu Agematsu, Junpei Fujita, and Hitoshi Fujima [39]
2016 Tantei Opera Milky Holmes the Movie: Milky Holmes' Counterattack With Seima Iwahashi [4]
2019 Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll [40]
2020 Violet Evergarden: The Movie [41]
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish [9]
2023 Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom [42]

Video games

YearTitleNotesRef.
2014 Chaos Rings III Arrangement with Junpei Fujita and Hitoshi Fujima [43]
Shining Resonance With Junpei Fujita, Hitoshi Fujima, and Tomohiro Kita [44]
2015Chronos RingWith Yoko Shimomura and Kenji Ito [45]

Television dramas

YearTitleNotesRef.
2017Star Concerto: Ore to Kimi no Idol Dō [4]
Sayonara, Enari-kun [4]
Keishichō Ikimono GakariWith Audio Highs [4]
2018 Holiday Love With Masaru Yokoyama [4]
Daisy LuckWith Moe Hyuga [4]
Harassment Game [4]
Iyo! Benkei [4]
2019Keiji ZeroWith Masaru Yokoyama [4]
Hotarugusa: Nana no Ken [4]
2022 The 13 Lords of the Shogun Taiga drama [5]
2024Swallows [46]

Live-action films

YearTitleRef.
2019Until I Meet September's Love [4]

Television programs

YearTitleRef.
2018Weekend Kansai [4]
2019NHK Special Dinosaur Superworld [4]
2020NHK Sunday/Saturday Sports [4]

Other involvements

YearTitleArtistRole(s)AlbumRef.
2012"Avalon no Ōkan" Nana Mizuki Arrangements Rockbound Neighbors [6]
2013"Neverending Dream" Minori Chihara Composition & arrangements Neo Fantasia [47]
2014"Ai no Hi" Ayahi Takagaki Non-album single [4]
"Aurora" Tomoaki Maeno (as Camus)Non-album single ( Uta no Prince-sama ) [48]
"Tenka Muteki no Shinobi Michi"
Arrangements [49]
"Yasashisa no Tsubomi" Faylan Zero Hearts [50]
"Meisō Solitude"Kato*FukuArrangements, with Seima IwahashiWith [51]
2015"Arigatō, Daisuki"Minori ChiharaArrangementsInnocent Age [6]
"Pirates of the Frontier"
  • Tatsuhisa Suzuki (as Ranmaru Kurosaki)
  • Tomoaki Maeno (as Camus)
  • Takuma Terashima (as Otoya Ittoki)
Non-album single (Uta no Prince-sama) [52]
"Saintly Territory"Tomoaki Maeno (as Camus) [53]
"Seien Brave Heart"Kenichi Suzumura (as Masato Hijirikawa)Composition & arrangements [53]
"Tenshi no Inori" Shouta Aoi Unlimited [54]
"Alice to Toki no Yurikago"Kato*FukuWonder Tale: Smile to Happiness to Fushigi na Hon [55]
"Tsunagareta Asa ni" [55]
2016"Lovely Eyes"
ArrangementsNon-album single (Uta no Prince-sama) [56]
"Give Me Your Heart: Mayoeru Kohitsuji"
Composition & arrangementsNon-album single (Kamigami no Asobi InFinite) [57]
2017"Akane-iro ni Kakushite" Ayane Sakura (as Hikari Tsuneki)Non-album single ( Seiren ) [4]
"Muteki no Megami" Shino Shimoji (as Tōru Miyamae) [4]
"Koi no Theory" Juri Kimura (as Kyōko Tōno)Arrangements [4]
2018"Union!!"765 Million AllstarsNon-album single ( The Idolmaster Million Live! ) [58]
"Sincerely" True Arrangements, with Shōta HorieViolet Evergarden: Automemories
Violet Evergarden Vocal Album: Song Letters		 [59]
"The Songstress Aria"Composition, arrangements & lyrics [59]
"Letter"Arrangements [59]
"Believe in..." Aira Yūki Composition & arrangements [59]
2020"Will (Movie Version)"TrueViolet Evergarden: Echo Through Eternity [60]
"Mirai no Hito e (Movie Version)"Arrangements [60]
"Michishirube (Movie Version)"Minori Chihara [60]
"Dear Violet" Yui Ishikawa Composition & arrangementsLetters and Doll: Looking Back on the Memories of Violet Evergarden [4]
"Jōjō"Nino Synapusyu Songs [4]
2021"Makka Akka Aki" Kyogo Kawaguchi Synapusyu Songs 2 [4]
"Breakers" Wataru Hatano Non-album single (The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window) [61]
2023"Anytime Anywhere" Milet ArrangementsNon-album single (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End) [62]
"Bliss"Composition & arrangements"Anytime Anywhere" (single) [63]
2025"Paper Airplane" Suis  [ ja ]Composition & lyricsNon-album single (Dragonite and the Special Delivery) [35] [4]
"Sora to Yakusoku" Mao Itō  [ ja ] (as China Kuramoto)Composition & arrangementNon-album single ( Gakuen Idolmaster ) [64]

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