Yoko Kanno is an amazing person. I'm blown away by her creative works.

But personally, I found Ed (in the anime) to be super annoying. I wish her character was written differently.

Quite a lot of plagiarism though?

https://yokokanno-ojaru-jp.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sch=http&_x...

I've also seen this mentioned on Reddit and unfortunately it seems to be accurate (the site you link to looks a bit sketchy though).

The music of hers that I like is great music and if she was influenced by other songs then that's mostly alright I think.

The couple of songs that are more copies/ripoffs than just "influenced by" do irk me, but from what I saw last time I looked into this none of my favourites were straight ripoffs.

Cowboy Bebop had a really good soundtrack, but on a quick google I couldn't find anything that noteworthy that she's done besides that. What are you referring to?

She's done a bunch of work on the Ghost in the Shell anime series (S.A.C.), along with a whole lot of other stuff.

https://myanimelist.net/people/508/Yoko_Kanno

Yes.

Interesting. I dont know much about her but i love her scores. GITS (Inner Universe; Rise) and Noir (canta per me; salva nos) are still in my playlists after 20ish years.

I got the cowboy bebop soundtrack CD signed by her, she is a nice and normal person