Pokemon Anime Orchestra Performers | Bulbagarden

I've always wondered who actually performed the music in the Pokemon anime in the Japanese version.... It's been unusually shrouded in mystery. So, I decided to go searching a couple of days ago. Well, it appears I have found my answer, thanks to Yumiko Yamamoto's website and blog. She works as a studio musician and has TONS of info/pictures for different anime recording sessions. It turns out, she has info about Pokemon recording sessions dating all the way back to 2004 (the Deoxys movie)! (Near the bottom of each entry, you can see who plays what instrument). I thought people might be interested in this, so here are some small excerpts from her website. I put some pictures in, but you can find more pictures of Shinji Miyazaki and the orchestra members in the links given at the top of each section.

Edit: Names/information for Movies 9-14, DP TV series and Best Wishes TV series is now put up! I've also organized this first post.

Names and instrument info have been gotten from posts on Yumiko Yamamoto's website. Clicking on their names takes you to each person's VGMdb page. Keep in mind that there may be more people/instruments not mentioned... They probably could have not been in the recording session reported about, or just not mentioned. Note the "and one other", "and two others".

Before you go on though, something real quick that you should know: おっちゃん is 旭 孝 (あさひ たかし) - Takashi Asahi. He's in many pictures on the website. Some with Shinji Miyazaki! ...Okay, had to get that out of the way.

Click on the spoiler tabs to see the info for that movie/TV series. Sources are listed at the bottom of the credits. Please let me know if there are any errors or wrong links! If you want me to add images of people/the recording studio/the actual recordings let me know. Also, if anybody has any tips/recommendations for a better organization of this post, please feel free to say so.

Sorry that this took me a little bit longer than expected. I hope you enjoy, or find this useful! I'm most likely going to add images later, along with the information for the Deoxys movie. (I have not seen recording information for the Lucario movie)

Movie 14 (Victini) 1st recording session

BW TV Series
DP TV Series
Movie 13 (Zoroark) 2nd recording session
Movie 13 (Zoroark) 1st recording session
Movie 12 (Arceus)
Movie 11 (Shaymin) 2nd recording session
Movie 11 (Shaymin) 1st recording session
Movie 10 (Darkrai)
Movie 9 (Manaphy)
Movie 7 (Deoxys)
"Operator" refers to the Synthesizer Operator. I'm also pretty sure that the Engineer is also known as the Mixer. The Q&A/Dictionary section of the website is a great help...

Once again, giant thanks to VGMdb and Yumiko Yamamoto's website.