Any Mamoru Samuragochi fans? I hope not!
 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/06/world/...chi-beethoven/

It's amazing to me that someone could think he could get away with pretending to be deaf. He'd have to stay incognito in public when any sudden noise could expose him.

Well, I guess that just means whomever was a fan of him is now a fan of Takashi Niigaki.

Pretty great, this is golden movie potential. Sono Sion style.

I own a copy of an Onimusha soundtrack, but I never believed that it was produced solely by an entirely deaf person. It's not that I don't believe people like Beethoven ever existed, and really did produce some of their best work while they were deaf. The material just didn't strike me as coming from the type of genius who doesn't need to hear what they're doing. There's too many non-formulaic nuances. At the very least, I figured Mamoru Samuragochi had help, like maybe someone else was the arranger. But I never went so far as to speculate that he was being given entire songs.