User:Apopheniac/TCG staff
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This page contains information on TCG staff. The information here may be mainspaced later.
Akihiko Miura
- Main article: Akihiko Miura
- Sources
- https://shmuplations.com/imadethat/
- https://shmuplations.com/20questions1985/
- https://www.mobygames.com/person/99884/akihiko-miura/
- https://fm-7.com/museum/products/fjaj3wqv/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070823024019/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0311/soft/interv.html
Yuichi Konno
credited as "Manual Editor" for early TCG. believed to have sold rare cards under the name "Pkonno2002"
worked with Milky Isobe at Atelier Peyotl ("Peyotl Koubou") later Studio Parabolica, published Yaso magazine
- Sources
- https://www.elitefourum.com/t/fascinating-insight-into-some-tcg-history-related-to-pkonno/34349
- https://www.elitefourum.com/t/pokemon-snap-cards/14489/263
- https://zenmarket.jp/en/blog/post/9652/top-7-eerie-artworks-from-parabolica-bis
- http://www.yaso-peyotl.com
- http://www.2minus.com
- https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ペヨトル工房
- https://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~silencium/peyotl/
- https://twitter.com/pkonno/status/1223979409205420032
Takumi Akabane
- Main article: Takumi Akabane
赤羽卓美
- Sources
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonTCG/comments/t574gg/original_pok%C3%A9mon_prototype_cards_recently_posted/
- https://www.instagram.com/banet1965/?hl=en
- https://blogzaodorpg.blogspot.com/2014/05/sidequest-48-entrevista-com-brian.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070914140316/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0111/01/page02.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150911225201/https://www.cinra.net/interview/2013/10/09/000000
- https://henzine.jp/henjin/akabanetakumi/
- https://note.com/tohrufuku/n/nc837b12423a0
- https://www.weblio.jp/wkpja/content/赤羽卓美_赤羽卓美の概要
- https://www.4gamer.net/games/136/G013687/20180911084/
- http://nimonote.blog105.fc2.com/blog-entry-604.html
Kohei Kobayashi
referred to as "game director" by IGN and MeriStation, just "tester" in The Guardian. Nagashima is listed as "Executive Creative Director" in PTCGIC2024, Kobayashi may be succeeding him as director. will have to check rulebooks of upcoming sets.
- Sources
- https://www.ign.com/articles/pokmon-cards-are-designed-with-an-unexpected-philosophy
- https://en.as.com/meristation/news/visiting-creatures-whats-behind-the-pokemon-trading-card-game-r/
- https://www.millenium.org/news/405980.html
- https://recruit.creatures.co.jp/cr_people/kk/
- https://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2023/08/12/news/come_nasce_una_carta_pokemon-410591386/
- https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/nov/01/how-pokemon-cards-are-made-creatures-inc
Kota Okamoto
TCG Senior Project Manager
Deputy General Manager, Pokémon Card Development Division
- Sources
- https://www.siliconera.com/pokemon-card-managers-on-origins-of-the-card-game-and-the-varied-illustrations/
- https://new-graduate.creatures.co.jp/cr_people/pokemon_tcg_cross_talk/
- https://www.famitsu.com/news/201903/14173198.html
- https://www.inside-games.jp/article/2019/04/25/121986.html
- https://www.4gamer.net/games/256/G025620/20190318026/
Keita Tsukamoto
TCG Senior Project Manager
Information Management Team Manager
Satoru Inoue
I have no clue what this guy's job title is
- Sources
- https://www.ign.com/articles/i-found-pokmon-tcg-heaven-and-its-at-creatures-hq-in-japan - 2023 - "Manager of the Game Design Team"
- https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/nov/01/how-pokemon-cards-are-made-creatures-inc - 2023 - "tester"
- https://www.millenium.org/news/405980.html - 2023 - "Manager and Game Designer"
- https://recruit.creatures.co.jp/cr_people/is/ - 2022 - TCG quality control team manager + game designer
- https://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-pokemon-cards-are-made/1100-6459450/ - 2021 - "test room lead"
- https://www.gameinformer.com/2018/09/09/trade-secrets-the-making-of-a-pokemon-card - 2018 - "head tester"
- https://www.eurogamer.net/inside-creatures-inc - 2018 - "Quality Management Leader"
- https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/08/24/how-pokemon-cards-are-made-in-8-steps - 2018 - "lead of the Pokemon Card Game Laboratory"
Kenichi Koga
Kenichi Koga is the Senior Art Director for the TCG. Prior to this, he was the Art Director from the XY Series through the Sword and Shield Series, succeeding Milky Isobe in the role. Koga was succeeded in his prior role as Art Director by Satoru Nagaya.
- Sources
- https://www.mobygames.com/person/246640/kenichi-koga/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190331103106/https://www.creatures.co.jp/igp/about/pokemon-illustration/
Satoru Nagaya
TCG Art Director
- Sources
- https://www.ptcgic-cr.com/2024/en/column/article-1/
- https://www.gameinformer.com/2018/09/09/trade-secrets-the-making-of-a-pokemon-card
- https://web.archive.org/web/20231207171342/https://garage.creatures.co.jp/blog/971/
- https://www.mobygames.com/person/877880/satoru-nagaya/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210123050903/https://www.creatures.co.jp/igp2/about/pokemon-illustration/article-4.php
- https://jobs.japandesign.ne.jp/article/interview/creatures/
Haru Saito
TCG Illustration Director
- Sources
- https://www.ptcgic-cr.com/2024/en/column/article-1/
- https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/nov/01/how-pokemon-cards-are-made-creatures-inc
- https://www.millenium.org/news/405980.html
- https://recruit.creatures.co.jp/cr_people/sh/
- https://www.mobygames.com/person/1547461/haru-saito/
Natsuki Suwabe
was listed as associate manager of illustration team, now illustration director on new project
Other known staff
- Ryo Tsujikawa
- https://www.pokemon.co.jp/ex/pokemonryuoh3/special.html - game designer
- Nomoto Seiya
- Kei Maeno
- Ikumi Fujishiro
- Hitoshi Okahashi
- Hiroshi Takano
- https://web.archive.org/web/20240112071210/https://garage.creatures.co.jp/blog/1525/ - formerly in charge of game design
- "Hanawa"
- N.S.
- https://new-graduate.creatures.co.jp/cr_people/pokemon_tcg_cross_talk/ - Manager, Pokémon Card Development Division
- S.Y.
- https://recruit.creatures.co.jp/cr_people/sy/ - TCG product planner
- K.S.
- https://recruit.creatures.co.jp/cr_people/ks/ - TCG graphic designer
- S.Y.
- K.R.
- S.Y.
- T.M.
- N.U.
Art Design Team members: Eiji Ide
Illustration Team, Associate Managers: Natsuki Suwabe, Ayaka Hagiwara
Illustration Team members: Yuuki Amano, Tsukasa Tamura, Naoki Kuroshima
Credited for Pokémon Card Development in E-Reader credits (staff of Pokémon Art Academy#Pokémon Trading Card Development are all listed elsewhere)
- Masamichi Anazawa
- Daisaku Nishida
- Yoshiharu Tsukuda
- Yukinori Torii
- Miu Tsutsumi
- Tomo Suzuki
- Chiaki Shinkai
SM Era staff
[machine translated]
| Role \ Version | Ver. 01 (2016) | Ver. 02 (2017) | Ver. 03 (2018) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developed by | Creatures Inc. | Creatures Inc. | Creatures Inc. |
| Produced by | Pokemon Co. | Pokemon Co. | Pokemon Co. |
| Game Director | Atsushi Nagashima | Atsushi Nagashima | Atsushi Nagashima |
| Art Director | Kenichi Koga | Kenichi Koga | Kenichi Koga |
| Game Design | Ryo Tsujikawa | Ryo Tsujikawa | Ryo Tsujikawa |
| Kohei Kobayashi | Kohei Kobayashi | Kohei Kobayashi | |
| Daisaku Nishida | Hiroshi Takano | Hiroshi Takano | |
| Koga Oda | Koga Oda | ||
| Chihiro Matsuda | Daisaku Nishida | ||
| Daisaku Nishida | |||
| Art Design | Ikumi Fujishiro | Satoru Nagaya | Satoru Nagaya |
| Satoru Nagaya | Ikumi Fujishiro | Ikumi Fujishiro | |
| Ayano Shinpo | Hidefumi Ide | Hidefumi Ide | |
| Hitoshi Okahashi | Ayano Shinpo | Hitoshi Okahashi | |
| Yukako Miyazaki | Hitoshi Okahashi | Kyoko Yoshida | |
| Rina Hanakawa | Natsuki Suwabe | ||
| Illustration Direction | Hidefumi Ide | ||
| Furomoto Kanako | |||
| Rina Hanakawa | |||
| Kyoko Yoshida | |||
| Planning | Tomoaki Imakuni | Tomoaki Imakuni | Tomoaki Imakuni |
| Keita Tsukamoto | Keita Tsukamoto | Keita Tsukamoto | |
| Kei Maeno | Kei Maeno | Kei Maeno | |
| Editor | Chiaki Shinkai | Chiaki Shinkai | Chiaki Shinkai |
| Yuki Ohtsuka | Koji Yoshida | Koji Yoshida | |
| Debugging | Satoru Inoue | Satoru Inoue | Satoru Inoue |
| Daijiro Todaka | Shunsuke Sasaki | Shunsuke Sasaki | |
| Shunsuke Sasaki | Shota Ishige | Shota Ishige | |
| Hiroshi Takano | Takashi Matsuzawa | Takashi Matsuzawa | |
| Shota Ishige | Yusuke Ebisawa | Yusuke Ebisawa | |
| Maara Kubota | Mikiya Shinma | Mikiya Shinma | |
| Ayumu Sato | Aya Fujiwara | Aya Fujiwara | |
| Takashi Matsuzawa | Furusawa Yuusuke | Furusawa Yuusuke | |
| Akio Yamada | Akio Yamada | ||
| Production Management | Yukiko Hori | Yukiko Hori | Yukiko Hori |
| Seiya Nomoto | Kota Okamoto | Kota Okamoto | |
| Kota Okamoto | Keita Mori | Keita Mori | |
| Yuki Ohtsuka | Yuki Ohtsuka | ||
| Special Thanks | Game Freak Inc. | Game Freak Inc. | Game Freak Inc. |
| Satoshi Tajiri | Satoshi Tajiri | Satoshi Tajiri | |
| Ken Sugimori | Ken Sugimori | Ken Sugimori | |
| Junichi Masuda | Junichi Masuda | Junichi Masuda | |
| Takao Unno | Takao Unno | Shigeru Ohmori | |
| Milky Isobe | Milky Isobe | Milky Isobe | |
| Producer | Yuji Kitano | Yuji Kitano | Yuji Kitano |
| Executive Producer | Hirokazu Tanaka | Hirokazu Tanaka | Hirokazu Tanaka |
| Executive Producer | Tsunekazu Ishihara | Tsunekazu Ishihara | Tsunekazu Ishihara |
Other sources
PTCGIC credits
- 2023
- https://www.ptcgic-cr.com/2024/en/ - most recent credits
- https://www.ptcgic-cr.com/2024/en/agreement/ - most recent credits
- 2021
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220412041347/https://www.ptcgic-cr.com/2022/ - credits
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220512173434/https://www.ptcgic-cr.com/2022/agreement/ - credits
- https://www.pokewiki.de/Pok%C3%A9mon_Trading_Card_Game_Illustration_Contest_2022
- 2020
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210617200324/https://www.creatures.co.jp/igp2/ - credits
- https://www.pocketmonsters.net/news/3925
- 2019
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190330065544/https://www.creatures.co.jp/igp/ - credits
TCG rulebooks
- https://www.judgeball.com/archives/tcg-rulebooks/ - archived from various eras
- https://web.archive.org/web/20000229135623/http://www.wizards.com/pokemon/article.asp?cat=Rules%26file=page23 - archived WotC website Jungle credits
- https://assets.pokemon.com/assets/cms2/pdf/trading-card-game/rulebook/xy8-rulebook-en.pdf - swap xy8 in url to other sets
- https://assets.pokemon.com/assets/cms2/pdf/trading-card-game/rulebook/sm7_rulebook_en.pdf - swap sm7 in url to other sets
- https://assets.pokemon.com/assets/cms2/pdf/trading-card-game/rulebook/swsh10_rulebook_en.pdf - swap swsh10 in url to other sets
- https://assets.pokemon.com/assets/cms2/pdf/trading-card-game/rulebook/svi_rulebook_en.pdf - swap svi in url to other set abbreviation
- https://archive.org/details/pokemoncard-rulebook-4/ - rulebook covering through 5th JP expansion. contains English credits at the end for JP expansions.
- https://archive.org/details/pokemoncard-officialbook2000/ - Pokémon Card Official Book 2000 - has JP credits at the end, also deck lists from Game Freak/Creatures staff interspersed.
- https://imgur.com/ggXzWuq - partial TL
- JP SM Era rulebooks
- https://www.pokemon-card.com/assets/document/manual.pdf - v1, 2016
- https://www.pokemon-card.com/assets/document/SM_SME_manual.pdf - v2, 2017
- https://www.pokemon-card.com/assets/document/PCG_manual.pdf - v3, 2018
Miscellaneous
https://pokumon.com/pokemon-card-game-25th-anniversary-creatures-corporate-history-deck/ - 25th Anniversary Creatures Inc. Corporate History Deck
https://www.elitefourum.com/t/list-of-pokemon-tcg-artist-ig-social-media-accounts/35876 - List of Pokemon TCG artist IG/social media accounts
https://www.elitefourum.com/t/guide-to-early-pokemon-tcg-history-1995-test-card-versions/31779 - Guide to Early Pokemon TCG History - 1995 Test Card Versions
https://www.elitefourum.com/t/japanese-document-archives-trainer-mags-silver-bible-pdfs/33002 - Japanese Document Archives, Trainer Mags, Silver Bible PDF’s
- https://pokumon.com/pokemon-card-fan-club-magazine/ - Pokémon Card Fan Club Magazine summaries
- https://pkmncards.com/card/brocks-ninetales-gym-challenge-g2-3/ - pp.58-59 of Vol.6 of Pokémon Trainer Card Magazine is dedicated to a 2 page errata and sincere apology for changing the effect of Brock's Ninetales, and a briefly contextualizing the need for the errata to balance the game. The apology is signed by Takumi Akabane.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231207161251/https://garage.creatures.co.jp/blog/1152/ + https://web.archive.org/web/20231207161537/https://garage.creatures.co.jp/blog/1181/ - Creatures LINE icons, worked on by TCG staff
https://recruit.creatures.co.jp/about/creatures_data/ - employee stats, run this through Wayback Machine
