Kuniaki Haishima (蓜島邦明 Haishima Kuniaki) is a lyricist, composer and arranger from Saitama Prefecture. He has scored several animated works, including Spriggan, BLUE GENDER, Gasaraki, Masked Rider Amazons The Movie: The Last Prize and most notably, Macross Zero. For some reason, the latter borrows samples from Basil Poledouris' score for Starship Troopers.
He always wanted to be a sculptor, but instead experimented with the sound of various materials and surfaces and in the process, became a composer. He is a music director for television, commercials, films, theaters and ballets. He said that when recording a soundtrack, he became very good at directing and adjusting the timing of the score in seconds to the sequence. For horror works, he makes extensive use of "scattered" sounds with dissonant and noise-like sounds.