Staff of Pokémon Legends: Arceus

This is a list of staff members who worked on the eighth generation game Pokémon Legends: Arceus for the Nintendo Switch, per the game's credits. It was published by Nintendo and developed by Game Freak.

List of staff

Director

• Kazumasa Iwao

CG Director

• Haruka Tochigi

Programming Section Director

• Masayuki Onoue

3D Graphics Section Director

• Takao Unno

Planning Section Director

• Yuichi Murase

Programming Section

Event Programming & Game AI Team

• Lead: Kazuki Saita
• Shun Yamashita
• Ryota Ohyama
• Hiroki Nakayama
• Yu Muto
• Noboru Akaza
• Takuya Iguchi
• Takumi Harada

Applications Team

• Lead: Hiroki Shintani
• Takuto Takabe
• Hiroyuki Nakamura
• Yuya Fukushima
• Masahiro Hikino
• Koji Kawada

Field Programming Team

• Lead: Masayuki Onoue
• Nozomu Saito
• Junya Ikuta
• Takuya Kawakami
• Naoki Sugawara
• Motoaki Isobe

Battle System Programming Team

• Lead: Hiroki Shintani
• Alfredo Spadafina
• Toshihiro Obata
• Tsuyoshi Watanabe

Environment Team

• Lead: Haruki Tachihara
• Miyuki Iwasawa
• Katsuya Ohgami
• Katsumi Ohno
• Takashi Arai

Programming Partners

• Creek & River Co. Ltd.
• E-Smile Engineering Co. Ltd.
• Extreme Co., Ltd.
• Flame Hearts Co., Ltd.

Research ＆ Development

Director

• Tomoya Takahashi

System Programming Section

Section Director

• Tomoya Takahashi

Framework Team

• Raichi Ihara
• Shinichi Kawazoe
• Yuya Ikeuchi

Function Development Team

• Lead: Toru Nagihashi
• Makoto Takebe
• Henrik Stone
• Yuusaku Kouda

Pokémon Battle System Team

• Lead: Kai Munakata

CG Technology Section

Section Director

• Keiichi Maezawa
• Jun Ito

Core Library Team

• Lead: Ota Sano
• Morihiko Kiryu
• Satoshi Murata

Project Support Team

• Makoto Takebe
• Haijian Liu
• Ryunosuke Honda
• Takuro Kayumi

Research Team

• Lead: Shinya Goto
• Tamaki Satoshi
• Nicholas Dahms
• Yuta Kuriya

DCC Support Team

• Lead: Tomoya Kanehira
• Shun Ozawa
• Shinichi Yoshikawa
• Ikuya Furuta

Environment Section

Section Director

• Tomoya Takahashi
• Syo Araki

Environment Development Team

• Lead: Masanori Kanamaru
• Katsuya Ohgami

Operations Team

• Lead: Haruki Tachihara
• Miyuki Iwasawa
• Reona Takayama

Research & Development Partners

• Atdawn Lab Co., Ltd.
• Ryota Takeuchi (Digital Support Ltd.)

Graphics Section

Character Modeling Team

• Lead: Hideki Iwata
• Yutan Cheng
• Ai Yuda
• Hiroaki Izutsu
• Atsushi Ito
• Shihomi Yamamoto
• Shiho Matsuzaki
• Mai Hasegawa
• Daisuke Inoue
• Hitomi Imaizumi
• Yoshiko Segawa

Pokémon Production Team

• Lead: Takao Unno
• Naomi Hara
• Arisa Kaneko
• Reina Hayashi
• Fumika Matsuo
• Mao Yue
• Shinsuke Mukai
• Daisuke Kubota
• Hiroki Izui
• Ryo Edamura

Motion Design Team

• Lead: Hiroshi Nakagomi
• Nobuyuki Maruyama
• Bonsoo Koo
• Yoshiaki Sano
• Takamasa Hayashida
• Haruka Umemura
• Keiichiro Homma
• Saki Yoshinaga

Effects Team

• Lead: Hitomi Ogawa
• Toshimitsu Arai
• Kojiro Matsuyama
• Izumi Shimokawa
• Ryo Katsura
• Shiori Sano
• Yoshimi Yamakoshi
• Shiori Muro
• Ho Szu-Yuan
• Hitomi Fujita
• Masatsugu Tateishi
• Yosuke Uematsu

Application Design Team

• Mitsuhiro Ariga
• Masayuki Jimpo
• Haruka Oshima
• Takuya Enomoto
• Tomizawa Kanako
• Erika Kuga
• Takahiro Fujii

Field Design Team

• Lead: Haruka Tochigi
• Noriko Uono
• Haruka Nakamura
• Natsumi Tashiro
• Sayo Mikami
• Haruka Sugawara
• Narumi Sugaya
• Naotaka Ohmori
• Izumi Watanabe
• Naoki Watanabe
• Yuto Inouchi
• Yuya Watanabe
• Rina Okamoto

Cinematic Design Team

• Mayuka Yoshikawa
• Ryosuke Ohshiro
• Natsuki Fujisawa
• Ayaka Yamazaki
• Tomoyo Hasegawa
• Sakiko Watanabe
• Romanov Higa
• Tatuya Makino

Lighting Team

• Lead: Haruka Tochigi
• Henrique Dan Fuzitani
• Junsei Kuninobu

Management Support

• Futaba Mori

3D Graphic Design Partners

• Atdawn Lab Co., Ltd.
• Confidence Inc.
• Creek & River Co. Ltd.
• Digital Media Lab., Inc.
• Extreme Co., Ltd.
• Flame Hearts Co., Ltd.
• Kojiro VFX Design
• Lotus.Inc.
• Orbitallink Inc.
• Pittcompany Inc.
• Planeta Co., Ltd.
• Rayline Studio Inc.
• Silicon Studio Corporation
• Studio-RF Inc.
• Winds Co., Ltd.

Planning Section

Main Scenario

• Toshinobu Matsumiya

Story Team

• Lead: Yuichi Murase
• Yuya Watanabe
• Tatsuya Yamashita
• Aoi Tagawa
• Kota Yamashita
• Yuta Hayashi

Application Team

• Lead: Teruyuki Shimoyamada
• Tetsuji Ohta
• Yuki Asada
• Takafumi Uechi
• Kaoru Omichi

Battle Team

• Lead: Hiroto Ito
• Koji Nishino
• Kei Setoguchi
• Hirotaro Kariya

Field Team

• Lead: Hiroaki Ishige
• Miku Yoshida
• Yuto Tateishi
• Daisuke Banzui
• Planning Partners
• Confidence Inc.

Sound Team

• Lead: Go Ichinose

Sound Effects Coordination

• Kazuki Kitamura

Music Coordination

• Hiromitsu Maeba

Sound Programming

• Sho Iwamoto

Composers

• Go Ichinose
• Hitomi Sato
• Hiromitsu Maeba

Sound Effects

• Hiroki Mogami
• Teruo Taniguchi
• Hitoshi Okamoto
• Shinji Nagayama

Mixing & Mastering

• Hiromitsu Maeba

Voicework

• Tamaki Fujii
• Tatsuya Katono

Sound Management

• Kota Furushima

Sound Partners

• Connect+Echo Co., Ltd.
• Supersweep Co., Ltd.
• Omfactory Inc.

Pokémon Creation Section

Group Manager

• Shigeru Ohmori

Concept & Design Section

Pokémon 3D Modeling & Motion Design

Supervisor

• Tetsuya Watanabe

• Lead: Takao Unno
• Lead: Yuki Yamamoto
• Isao Kakuuchi
• Mai Takano
• Toshiaki Haruna
• Mari Hamada
• Mayu Suzuki
• Yasuki Shinohara
• Masashi Koseki
• Yuri Yoshizumi

World Concept & Design

• Lead: Suguru Nakatsui

World, Pokémon & Human Planning

• Kenji Matsushima
• Chihiro Hayashi

Concept Art, Pokémon & Human Designs

• Hironobu Yoshida
• Takao Unno
• Emi Ando
• Kyoko Abe
• Tomomi Kaneko
• Fumie Kittaka
• Misaki Hashimoto
• Tzuen Huang
• Akira Katsuta
• Seimi Ohshiro
• Daiki Sato (Urasatos)
• Nanae Tabata

Supervisor

• Ken Sugimori

Pokémon Character Design

• Hiroto Ito
• Yuki Yamamoto
• Junsei Kuninobu
• Sakiko Maeda
• Atsuko Nishida
• Hitoshi Ariga
• Megumi Mizutani

Human Character Design

• take

Field Design

• Jun Kotouno
• Hiromu Kawaji
• Megumi Matsumoto
• Takuya Yamamoto
• Kazunoko
• Tsuzuki Hiroaki
• Rie Ota
• Yuuri
• Katana Canata
• Tohara Tetsuya
• Yuki Sakurai
• Keisuke Asaba
• Motohiro Sasaki
• Seven Dreams, Inc.

Software Production Environment Management

Environment Graphics Team

• Lead: Tomoya Kanehira
• Syoya Tachikawa

Environment Programming Team

• Lead: Tomoya Takahashi
• Hirofumi Suzuki

Delivery Review Team

• Lead: Takao Unno
• Yutan Cheng
• Miyuki Ebizuka
• Kiyoe Hayashi
• Keitaro Akahori
• Daiki Takano

Pokémon Modeling Partners

• Fellowship Co., Ltd.
• Mox Co., Ltd.
• Rayline Studio Inc.
• Shift Inc.
• Silicon Studio Corporation

Pokémon 3D Modeling

Art Director

• Atsuko Ujiie

Project Director

• Kengo Nakahiro

Product Manager

• Masamichi Anazawa

Pokémon Modeling Quality Assurance

• Mayu Okutani
• Masaki Degawa
• Yoshiyuki Oku
• Satomi Shimomura
• Takafumi Misawa
• Tetsuya Nakajima
• Takashi Sakuma
• Rie Tatsuno
• Takaya Okamoto
• Kazuki Matsumoto
• Daichi Uetake

Pokémon Character Modeling

• Lead: Shun Onodera
• Marie Okada
• Hitomi Suzuki
• Takuya Endo
• Aoi Harada
• Nozomi Toda
• Hiroki Fujiwara
• Akiko Soma
• Isamu Ikeda
• Toshiya Shinohara
• Masaya Ishizuka
• Yohei Fujikawa
• Hideki Sato
• Masafumi Sugiyama
• Kanako Ishibashi
• Takeshi Sakamoto
• Chiharu Minowa
• Chisato Fujita
• Haruna Suga
• Mayuko Nishihara
• Aya Nishimura
• Asami Nogi
• Kotono Kunishima
• Yuna Ohashi
• Mizuho Takei
• Ayane Sato
• Haruna Mukasa
• Sayaka Kutsuma
• Tomoka Tsukayama
• Mai Takeda
• Nana Wakabayashi
• Saori Hasegawa
• Keika Ishiyama
• Takumi Tamaru
• Yi Yang
• Tsumugi Hazeki
• Ruka Takayama
• Naoaki Terayama
• Asumi Hirao
• Kanako Tanabe
• Shigeto Akashi
• Rikiya Yoshino
• Naoaki Abe
• Masaya Eto
• Jung Hyunsuk
• Takashi Kitano
• Yu Moriguchi
• Subaru Eguchi
• Yuki Kawakami
• Takamasa Morimoto
• Kohei Sakurai
• Ryosuke Tsuji
• Kayato Yoneda
• Yusuke Kawakami
• Yuri Natsuno
• Kazuho Takano
• Morimasa Yamada
• Syo Yamato
• Katsumi Kawagoe
• Yoshiaki Aono
• Ayaka Tsutsumi
• Keizo Fujita
• Asami Hamamori
• Yu Jun
• Wu Hanyun
• Shuhei Fujinaga
• Yang Derui
• Mikayo Suenaga
• Katsuhiro Noguchi
• Takashi Ishibashi
• Mafuyu Nemoto
• Jyouta Tsurukawa
• Kanae Maruyama

Pokémon Character Motion

• Lead: Masataka Hata
• Yuki Yoneya
• Tomomi Sakuma
• Yoshihisa Ogino
• Takahiro Koizumi
• Tomokazu Yoshida
• Megumi Miyagawa
• Yosuke Takahashi
• Akira Takayama
• Hiromichi Hidaka
• Mayu Kobayashi
• Kuni Furukubo
• Syoko Hattori
• Ryuya Yokoyama
• Tomoko Araki
• Yuki Takahashi
• Miki Nagao
• Fumio Fujii
• Asuka Yamato
• Maria Yoda
• Ai Matsumura
• Miho Kaneko
• Shigehisa Yamashina
• Kim Won
• Bruna Thais de Paula
• Tomotaka Tabata
• Shoya Kanematsu
• Shugo Yamamoto
• Kenji Nishi
• Tetsuya Okuda
• Haruki Nagura
• Ryo Migita
• Fumihiko Komatsu
• Mamoru Toyozumi
• Yoshiki Yamamoto
• Shigehiro Shoda
• Hiroki Kambe
• Masaki Kikawada
• Yasuo Hisai
• Kaede Watanabe
• Hideyuki Kato
• Tatsuya Tsunefuji
• Tatsuya Inomata
• Gan Rufeng
• Masao Mihara
• Yuji Kajiyama
• Hiro Kato
• Hiromu Ito
• Kento Nishimatsu
• Yoshiaki Ide
• Elizabeth Anastasia Sudarman
• David Urresti Chiu
• Chan Yung Kin

Pokémon Modeling Technical Support

• Lead: Koichiro Wakamatsu
• Tatsuto Konno
• Sho Sato

English Localization

• Mikiko Ryu
• Mayu Todo
• Bryan Olsson
• Terry Mihashi
• Yuriko Iwasaki

English Localization Support

• Akiko Kasugayama
• Yoriko Marusich
• Kris Copeland
• Lauren Ammerman
• Emily Minakata

English Translation

• Hisato Yamamori
• Jillian Nonaka
• Jackson Pietsch
• Shawn Williams-Brown
• Hannah Vassallo

English Editing

• Kellyn Ballard
• Rachel Payne
• Julia Ryer
• Rei Nakazawa
• Robert Schiotis
• Robert Ward
• Derk Bramer

European Localisation

• Kaori Aoki
• Makiko Wakai
• Nami Kusumoto
• Suirei Okata
• Maya Yoshida
• Ryosuke Kurosaki
• Yukihiro Takahashi
• Owen Preece
• Hideko Russell
• Ritsuko Oshu
• Kendra Evans
• Manuela Suriano
• Fabio Giusti
• Michael Ecke
• Diego Figaredo
• Pierre Gauthier
• Rei Haberberg
• Elena Nardo
• Cyril Schultz

European Localisation Support

• Patrick Thorenz
• Sarah Kelly

French Translation

• Aymeric Forgit
• Noémie Pradier
• Olivia Bonnal
• Guillaume Didier
• Lylia Khrissate
• Nicolas Sindres
• Christophe Sigaud
• French Editing
• Elodie Verpoort
• Marine Vallée
• Aurélie Kryvinskyj
• Matthieu Béthencourt
• Franck Couée
• Leslie Gambini
• Thomas Garel
• Violette Giang

German Translation

• Kathleen Kalms
• Sophie Jüterbock
• Manuel Chillagano
• Christopher Derbort
• Lina Emmerich
• Caroline Fest
• Daniel Heucher
• Jan-Lukas Kuhn
• Carolin Maibach

German Editing

• Alina Linnenweber
• Ireneusz Radko
• Kristin Biwer
• Sina Moelleken
• Barbara Schweinzer
• Claudia Thon
• Sira Vaterhaus

Italian Translation

• Francesca Serci
• Jacopo Vanin
• Altan Couvert
• Marco Sartori
• Guido Scarabello
• Annarita Spera
• Manuela Suriano

Italian Editing

• Guendalina Pirruccio
• Silvia de Bellis
• Sergio Bianchi
• Fabio Giusti
• Marco Locatelli
• Valentina Menale
• Alice Troiani

Spanish Translation

• Diego Luque de la Campa
• Alicia Iribarren Mendoza
• Edith Belarra López
• Servando Doval Díaz
• Pablo Gismero Calvo
• Alberto Gracia Castellano
• Enrique Joga Elvira

Spanish Editing

• Píndaro Vargas-Farías
• Eva Rodríguez Graña
• Rubén Lado Riomao
• Juan José Leiva Jiménez
• Irene Mascaró Genestar
• Virginia Paradés Gurrea
• Mariona Pera I de Miguel

Korean Translation & Editing

• Mihwa Choi
• Jieun Byun
• Youngjun Park
• Dongun Pak
• Jooyeon Han
• Eunbi Jo

Korean Localization Support

• Hyokjin Jung
• Dongyeon Kim
• Soonil Kim
• Suzy Do

Chinese Localization

• Huiying Tsai

Chinese Translation & Editing

• Yue Wang
• Chungte Huang
• Yuwen Wang
• Yencheng Lin
• Yuting Tu
• Endai Liao
• Kenny Kong

Traditional Chinese Localization Support

• Zhong Long Wang

Simplified Chinese Localization Support

• Keisuke Fukushima
• Misa Matsumoto
• Ming Xu

English & European Localization Support

• Jeff Hines
• Robert Colling
• Tadasu Hasegawa
• Marvin Andrews
• Peter Bagley

Special Thanks—Localization

• Michael Bales
• Thomas Candland
• NOE Communication Coordinator Group

Server Development

• Shinnosuke Miki
• Noritaka Otsuka
• Kazuto Shimizu
• Kojiro Taguchi

Technical Support

• Shuhei Furukawa
• Kyohei Minato
• Hiroaki Gohara
• Shotaro Iwanaga
• Yuta Ogawa
• Kei Ninomiya

Debug Management

• Motoki Nakajima
• Takuma Sawada
• Makiko Kida
• Masatoshi Nakamura
• Taiki Ise
• Yoshiro Kato
• Kohki Tsutsumi

Debug

• Mario Club Co., Ltd.
• Digital Hearts Co.,Ltd.

English Product Testing

• Kentaro Nishimura
• Kirk Buchanan
• Sean Egan
• Tomoko Mikami
• Pat Wells
• Makiko Szolas
• Madison Levitan
• James Dillon
• Karyn Doran
• Product Testing Technicians

European QA Coordination

• Marco Gruden
• Jesús Gutiérrez Cuadra
• Stefania Montagnese

European Quality Assurance

• NOE Quality Assurance Team
• PTW International UK Ltd.

Korean Testing & Quality Assurance

• Eodo Lee
• Orgosoft Co., Ltd.

Chinese Product Testing

• Eiju Umemura
• Yijun Chen
• Digital Hearts Linguitronics Taiwan Co., Ltd.
• Digital Hearts (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Artwork

• Yasuko Takahashi

English & European Graphic Design

• Kevin Lalli
• Dan Stephens
• Mark Pedini

Chinese Graphic Design

• Yi Peng

Special Thanks

• Tomohiro Kuroiwa
• Sosuke Tamada
• Yoshimi Yugawa
• Daisuke Tsurumi
• Kazuto Kamuki
• Fumiya Takahashi
• Atsushi Shindo
• Wakana Kajimoto
• Tatsuya Imanari
• Narumi Yamagata
• Hiroka Hamamoto
• Kaori Tsujimura
• Shiho Haraguchi
• Atsushi Terachi
• Kenji Tominaga
• Yuichiro Mori
• Yoshio Tajiri
• Teiko Sasaki
• Unite and Grow Inc.
• Kenjiro Ito
• Mikiko Ohashi
• Atsushi Sugimoto
• Keita Hirobe
• Toshio Miyahara
• Yoriomi Uego
• Shoichi Obora
• Eisuke Kasejima
• Taku Kawamoto
• Yasunori Suenaga
• Masami Tanaka
• Susumu Fukunaga
• Tomonori Iizuka
• Sho Yoshimoto
• Yutaka Kiyama
• Miki Sakurai
• Manami Tate
• Junpei Matsuzaki
• Yui Amano
• Ren Eguchi
• Rei Kagami
• Momoyo Kojima
• Jiayue Chen
• Daiki Nagao
• Yuma Hon
• Kazuyoshi Kojima
• Keiko Mochida
• Yuya Iwamoto
• Retsuji Nomoto
• Shohei Furuta
• Tomonari Matsumoto
• Midori Shinkai
• Kosuke Sugai
• Michiko Takizawa
• Junko Tamura
• Akifumi Shiobara
• Kenichi Arai
• Misuzu Kanayama
• Sakika Kikuchi
• Yuki Nakagawa
• Aya Sasagawa
• Junichiro Matsumoto
• Nobuyuki Ohta
• Shunsuke Kohori
• Masao Takakusa
• Hiroki Togashi
• Takahiro Ohnishi
• Rieko Kuji
• Mitsuyo Matsunaga
• Minyu Hsu
• Kenji Okubo
• Gaku Susai
• Kaoru Otawara
• Alison Chyan
• Jaiboem Lim
• Jihye Lee

Information Coordinators

• Lead: Yuta Nakai
• Tsuyoshi Ichikawa
• Ayane Morita
• Sumire Aoki

Coordinators

• Yuki Okada
• Noriko Nakagawa
• Yoshiharu Negishi
• Keita Imamura
• Yoshinari Yonehara
• Karen Yu
• Izumi Watanabe
• Yoshiko Aota

Supervisor

• Junichi Masuda

Producers

• Shigeru Ohmori
• Akira Kinashi
• Toyokazu Nonaka
• Takanori Sowa
• Kenji Endo

General Producers

• Tetsuya Watanabe
• Shinya Takahashi
• Takato Utsunomiya

Executive Producers

• Satoshi Tajiri
• Shuntaro Furukawa
• Tsunekazu Ishihara

Developed By

• Game Freak Inc.

Notes

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