Staff of Pokémon X and Y

This is a list of staff members who worked on the sixth generation games Pokémon X and Y for the Nintendo 3DS, per the game's credits. It was published by Nintendo and developed by Game Freak.

List of staff

Director

• Junichi Masuda

Character Art Director

• Ken Sugimori

3-D Art Director

• Takao Unno

Program Director

• Katsumi Ohno

Planning Director

• Shigeru Ohmori

Sound Director

• Shota Kageyama

Scenario

• Toshinobu Matsumiya

Pokémon Concept and Pokédex Text

• Kenji Matsushima

Field System Programming

• Lead: Tomoya Takahashi
• Nozomu Saito
• Masayuki Onoue
• Masaeru Ishiguro
• Keisuke Takada
• Koji Kawada
• Masanori Funakoshi

Field Event Camera Programming

• Teppei Ikeda

Battle System Programming and Pokémon Data Programming

• Lead: Sosuke Tamada
• Nobuhiko Ariizumi
• Masao Taya
• Toshihiro Obata
• Junya Ikuta

Network Programming

• Lead: Hisanao Suzuki
• Katsumi Ohno
• Akito Mori
• Katsuhiko Ichiraku
• Shin Kosaka

Special Elements Programming

• Hisashi Sogabe
• Shin Kimura
• Isao Ito

UI System Programming

• Lead: Hiroyuki Nakamura
• Toru Nagihashi

Script Programming

• Lead: Sosuke Tamada
• Miyuki Iwasawa
• Genya Hosaka
• Masanori Funakoshi

Pokémon Draw Programming

• Nobuhiko Arrizumi
• Masteru Ishiguro
• Shin Kimura

Support Programming

• Tetsuya Watanabe

Pokémon Characters Design

• Director: Ken Sugimori
• Yusuke Ohmura
• Takao Unno
• Hironobu Yoshida
• Reiko Tanoue
• Saya Tsuruta
• Kenkichi Toyama
• Mana Ibe
• Hyunjung Lee
• Motofumi Fujiwara
• Hiroki Fuchino
• Megumi Mizutani
• James Turner
• Yuki Kawamoto
• Tomohiro Kitakaze
• Mayo Otani
• Hitoshi Ariga
• Atsuko Nishida
• Kanako Eo

Pokémon Design Coordination

• Kenji Matsushima
• Ken Sugimori
• Takao Unno
• Hironobu Yoshida
• Yusuke Ohmura
• Shigeru Ohmori

Trainer Graphics Design

• Yusuke Ohmura
• Megumi Mizutani
• Reiko Tanoue
• Rafal Gosieniecki
• Kanako Eo

3-D Map Graphics

• Lead: Maiko Fujiwara
• Mana Ibe
• Tsubasa Matsuzaki
• Yuki Kawamoto
• Teruki Suganuma
• Yukiko Shiiyama
• Natsumi Sakamoto
• Hiroyoshi Ohsawa
• Ritsuko Adachi
• Shino Hiranabe
• Koji Aoyama
• Takashi Abe
• Jinyoung Sung
• Ai Komakazi
• Takaaki Sano
• Rindo Adachi
• Yoshinori Numoto
• Satsuki Kawana
• Taku Okada
• Yasunari Akiyama

Character Modeling

• Lead: Tomohiko Ohkubo
• Hyunjung Lee
• Kensaku Nabana
• Atsushi Watanabe
• Tomoko Watanabe
• Youko Miyaguchi
• Makoto Arai
• Chiharu Sugawara
• Rina Okamoto

Character Motion Design

• Lead: Futoshi Kajita
• Natsumi Inoue
• Suguru Fukaya
• Mariko Yoshida
• Takeshi Otaki

UI Graphic Design

• Lead: Hironobu Yoshida
• Kenkichi Toyama
• Motofumi Fujiwara
• Saya Tsuruta
• Noriko Hotta
• Masahiko Kitaguchi

Digital Movie Design

• Lead: James Turner
• Mayuka Yoshikawa
• Ryuichi Ohkubo

Effect Design

• Muneyuki Tejima
• Koichi Fujikawa

Battlefield Graphic Design

• Hiroki Fuchino
• Satoshi Katsube

Pokémon 3-D Model Management

• Ayumi Kikuta
• Kazushige Komagata
• Takahiro Hosoya

Concept Illustration

• Rafal Gosieniecki
• Tomohiro Kitakaze

Music

• Shota Kageyama
• Minako Adachi
• Hitomi Sato
• Junichi Masuda

Pokémon Voice Design

• Hideaki Kuroda

Sound Effects

• Hideaki Kuroda

Game Battle System Design

• Lead: Shigeki Morimoto
• Koji Nishino
• Tetsuji Ohta
• Teruyuki Shimoyamada

Game UI System Design

• Tetsuji Ohta
• Mai Mizuguchi

All-Round Game Design

• Lead: Masafumi Saito
• Suguru Nakatsui
• Hiroto Ito
• Hitomi Sato

Game Design of Special Elements

• Yukiko Hozumi
• Chihiro Hayashi
• Hiro Nakamura
• Mitsuyo Matsunaga

Network System Game Design

• Lead: Teruyuki Shimoyamada
• Takeshi Kawachimuru

Game Dialogue Design

• Lead: Toshinobu Matsumiya
• Masafumi Nukita
• Suguru Nakatsui

Game Action Script Design

• Lead: Masafumi Saito
• Katsunori Suginaka
• Atsushi Terachi
• Masafumi Nukita
• Kento Kurihara

Game Map Design

• Lead: Kazumasa Iwao
• Atsushi Terachi
• Chihiro Hayashi
• Akira Nakamura
• Kazuki Muroi
• Yohei Asaoka

Pokémon 3-D Modeling

• Art Director: Atsuko Ujiie
• Product Manager: Masamichi Anazawa
• Miku Majima
• Maiko Shindo
• Hiroaki Ito
• Takashi Sakuma
• Takafumi Misawa
• Joe Naha
• Yuma Kato
• Masaya Ishizuka
• Kazuhisa Nishimura

Pokémon Character Modeling

• Lead: Shunsuke Uematsu
• Hiroki Fujiwara
• Hiroyuki Takahashi
• Hidenori Fujita
• Tadashi Abe
• Kengo Nakahiro
• Nozomi Ishii
• Akiyo Suzuki
• Takeshi Mayumi
• Toru Hashimoto
• Yasuhisa Sakamoto
• Masafumi Sugiyama
• Koichi Arisaka
• Shouji Ando
• Yuta Ishikawa
• Ryo Inomata
• Yoshihiro Iwata
• Takeshi Ochiai
• Kotaro Kitada
• Kouichiro Wakamatsu
• Yuichi Komagata
• Yu Kasahara
• Minoru Koga
• Kenichi Tanaka
• Kazuma Yamagishi
• Aya Ishimori
• Tomoka Ogura
• Yuri Suga
• Mai Takai
• Tomosato Taniguchi
• Takeshi Tsuzaki
• Akane Haraki
• Chisato Fujita
• Nana Wakabayashi
• Kosuke Wakamori
• Ayaka Kaneko
• Shoutarou Sakamoto
• Takeshi Sakamoto
• Masaya Tamano
• Tatsuya Yoshioka
• Masaki Aso
• Sunao Kashiwano
• Noriaki Kitamura
• Kim DongHyun
• Mihori Kondo
• Takahiro Hosoya
• Raizou Muraoka

Pokémon Character Motion

• Lead: Masataka Hata
• Sosuke Honda
• Masahiro Ueda
• Tomoko Kanesaku
• Masashi Nakata
• Tomomi Sakuma
• Tomokazu Yoshida
• Yosuke Takahashi
• Kazuki Kobayashi
• Masayuki Kawakita
• Mitsuo Iida
• Kazuhiro Suganuma
• Akira Sakawa
• Nobuyuki Takahashi
• Yasuko Motoki
• Mikako Araumi
• Masakazu Tagawa
• Takahiro Koizumi
• Hidefumi Takeda
• Nobuyuki Miyai
• Hirofumi Horii
• Nami Oosaku
• Megumi Miyagawa
• Masato Mori
• Mika Anzai
• Yusuke Morino
• Keiichi Nagao
• Yutaka Ishida
• Hiromichi Hidaka
• Yuichi Ishizaki
• Kazuaki Toya
• Genki Kaneko
• Kazuyuki Matsumoto
• Yoshiakira Nakano
• Katsuki Hisanaga
• Kunihito Ihara
• Kuni Furukobo
• Yoshihiro Maruyama
• Kosuke Hayashi
• Shogo Fujihara
• Shigeru Takenaka
• Hirotatsu Ishida
• Satoshi Arai
• Jun Takada
• Yosuke Tanahashi
• Yuya Kimura
• Tatsuo Kuwabara
• Reiko Kodama
• Satsuki Nakamura
• Koji Sato
• Sayo Mikami
• Yasunori Tatsuki
• Keito Miura

Pikachu Voice

• Ikue Otani

Voice Recording Director

• Masafumi Mima

Voice Recording Coordinator

• Takemoto Mori

Localization Engineering

• Hironori Ichibayashi
• Kei Ninomiya

English Localization

• Yasuhiro Usui
• Mikiko Ryu
• Satomi Honda
• Mayu Todo

English Translation

• Hisato Yamamori
• Tim Hove
• Sayuri Munday
• Jillian Nonaka
• David Numrich

English Editing

• Blaise Selby
• Wolfgang Baur
• Kellyn Ballard
• Eric Haddock
• Hollie Beg
• Rachel Payne

European Localization

• Noriko Netley
• Makiko Cottrell
• Nami Kusumoto
• Chika Tanigaki
• Maya Yoshida
• Suirei Okata
• Hideko Russell
• Bertrand Lecocq

French Translation

• Guillaume Didier
• Cyril Schultz
• Pascal Ehret
• Géraldine Oudin
• Sarah Provost

French Editing

• Pierre Gauthier
• Franck Couée

German Translation

• Michael Ecke
• Daniel Heucher
• Kathleen Kalms
• Josef Shanel
• Matthias Wissnet

German Editing

• Sina Moelleken
• Claudia Thon

Italian Translation

• Marco Sartori
• Manuela Suriano
• Guido Scarabello
• Anna Rita Spera Yamada
• Giovanni Ballarin

Italian Editing

• Fabio Giusti
• Silvia De Bellis

Spanish Translation

• Alberto Gracia Castellano
• Alejandro Martínez Monge
• Enrique Joga Elvira
• Pablo Gismero Calvo
• Servando Doval Díaz

Spanish Editing

• Mariona Pera i de Miguel
• Virginia Paradés Gurrea

Korean Translation & Editing

• Chanho Sohn
• Yongho So
• Mihwa Choi
• Jeonghwa Jeong
• Goeun Ryou
• Jaein Shim
• Taehyung Lee
• Aejoo Kim

English & European Graphic Design

• Eric Medalle
• Bridget O'Neill
• Tina Sourinephoumy
• Hiromi Kimura

English & European Localization Support

• Antoin Johnson
• Jeff Hines
• Aaron Campion
• Marvin Andrews
• Simon Bell

NOA Localization Support

• Seth McMahill
• Joel Simon
• Rie Fujiwara
• Terry Chan
• Dan Oswen
• Michael Barry

NOE Localization Management

• Andy Fey
• Michael Hugot

NOE Localization Producers

• Jamie Grant
• Silvio Schmelz

Korean Localization Support

• Kimiko Nakamichi
• Ilho Kim
• Jonghoon Park

NOK Localization Support

• Yu Fukaya
• Hyokjin Jung
• Jihyun Choi
• Bomi Yun
• Siyoung An
• Jiyoung Shin

Localization Special Thanks

• Kenji Okubo
• Gaku Susai
• Atsushi Sugimoto
• Jihye Lee
• Christopher Parent
• Thomas Candland
• Demetrius Boggs
• Mary Rayes
• Lubov Blaesing
• Ryoko Sawabe

Technical Support

• Kotaro Hiromatsu
• Toru Inage
• Shuhei Furukawa
• Hirotake Matsushita

Server Development

• Hirokazu Shimaoka
• Ryo Yamaguchi
• Kojiro Taguchi
• Yu Nishikawa
• Tetsu Okubo
• Hajime Nakao
• Takeshi Kawasaki
• Masayuki Kimura

Pokémon Global Link

• Shin Uwai
• Makiko Takahashi
• Keiichi Yoshikawa
• Kazuma Suzuki
• Tetsuya Yamamoto
• Hitomi Abe
• Hideyoshi Uehara
• Shusuke Ichikawa
• Yumiko Takagi
• Masafumi Yamakawa
• Kazuhiro Homan
• Yang Rong
• Yuki Yano
• Shu Ko
• Nguyen Ngoc Tram Anh
• Atsuko Okazaki
• Yukiko Hamasaki
• Takayuki Ando
• Yuki Nakahara
• Chun Un Sook
• Takako Kido
• Akio Kato
• Takayuki Ohara
• Li Yunjing
• Tomohiro Matsumoto
• Hikaru Ozono
• Keiichi Miyata
• Linh Thuy Lai
• Thanh Hong Dang
• Yoshiko Ito
• Akihiro Tsuneda
• Dai Okuyama
• Shingo Nakanishi
• Kazuya Iwamoto
• Shohei Saito

Debug Management

• Yuki Tanikawa
• Yasuharu Ohta
• Takahiro Kumasaka
• Motoki Nakajima
• Takeshi Tamura
• Takuya Inoue
• Keisuke Fukushima
• Akiko Ohashi

Debug

• Mario Club
• DIGITAL Hearts

NOA Product Testing

• Masayasu Nakata
• Randy Shoemake
• Seth Hanser
• Eric Bush
• Sean Egan
• Q Dequina
• Vincent Ngo
• Kathy Huguenard
• Scott Callahan
• Teresa Lillygren
• Kindra Timmerwilke
• Nicko Gonzalez De Santiago
• Stephane Arlot
• Sara Hoad
• Sophie Wallway
• Dutch Hixenbaugh
• Tomoko Mikami
• Makiko Szolas
• Nahoko Hiyoshi

NOE QA Coordination

• Julio Manzaneda
• Luis Golbano
• Marco Gruden
• Patrick Thorenz

NOE Quality Assurance

• Aatish Pattni
• Ben Howard-Hale
• Ben Southam
• Christopher Stewart
• Ahmed Bounouar
• Angélique Tesar
• Florian Richert
• François Decaux
• Fred Gouard
• Kaveh Moussavian
• Laurence Uhlen
• Marie Pinault
• Marie-Cécile Dussol
• Alessandro Calemme
• Alice Troiani
• Daniele Albrito
• Edoardo Toniolatti
• Fabio Brignoli
• Fabrizio Giuseppe Negretti
• Marco Maspero
• Sergio Fragomeli
• Siel Garrone
• Alexander Tenge
• Benedikt Grosser
• Chris Schepella
• Christian Keller
• Christina Stoffel
• Hannah Siebert
• Matthias Noll
• Sascha Michalke
• Sebastian Jende
• Carlos Muñoz Díaz
• Carolina Pacheco Cribero
• Cristina Gestoso Suárez
• David Gutiérrez Varona
• David Higueras Nafría
• Jesús Gutiérrez
• Laura Fernández Caballero
• Verónica García
• Localsoft, S.L.

NOK Product Testing

• Junbong Lee
• Sungmin Park
• Juyoung Choi
• Sora Ko
• Eodo Lee
• NOK Debug Team

Special Thanks

• Kenji Tominaga
• Yuichiro Mori
• Yoshio Tajiri
• Teiko Sasaki
• Emi Endo
• Asami Sato
• Haruka Sunaga
• Yu Narisada
• Kasumi Sasaki
• Yuko Nakayama
• Nagaaki Fukase
• Chihiro Shiraishi
• Emi Ando
• Kazuki Saita
• Megumi Mashiko
• Hiroki Ando
• Hirokazu Tanaka
• Hiroyuki Jinnai
• Kenjiro Ito
• Mikiko Ohashi
• Tomotaka Komura
• Atsushi Sugimoto
• Susumu Fukunaga
• Masami Tanaka
• Toshio Miyahara
• Taku Kawamoto
• Rui Kawaguchi
• Ryosuke Hanawa
• Chiharu Unno
• Gakuji Nomoto
• Kanako Murata
• Yamato Chikamochi
• Nobue Ito
• Nobuhiro Sawabe
• Eisuke Kasejima
• Takeshi Masuda
• Michiko Takizawa
• Jiro Koga
• Yukari Fukushima
• Yukiko Kanagawa
• Nobue Kamikawabata
• Ryohei Itakura
• Sho Furutani
• Yuji Yamaguchi
• Takihiro Onishi
• Osamu Fujita
• Chitose Kawakami
• Mitsunori Matsunaga
• Masayuki Soga
• Youko Nakayama
• Kayo Nakata
• Ayako Kajiwara
• Teruki Murakawa
• Soichi Yamamoto
• Daisuke Komai
• Tomotaka Izuhiro
• Toshio Mukai

World & Plot

• Junichi Masuda

Artwork

• Kenichi Koga
• Hidefumi Ide
• Ikumi Fujishiro
• Sakae Kimura

Artwork Support

• Keisuke Okubo
• Sachiko Nakamichi

Manual Editing

• Kiyomi Itani

NOE Electronic Manual Support

• Stefan Dickhardt
• Zuber Anzaghe

Information Coordinators

• Yuta Nakai
• Shiho Haraguchi
• Toya Yoneda

Coordinators

• Shunsuke Kohori
• Mitsuyo Matsunaga
• Akira Kinashi
• Noriko Nakagawa
• Yuki Okada

Produced By

• Hitoshi Yamagami
• Shusaku Egami
• Takato Utsunomiya
• Junichi Masuda

Executive Producers

• Satoshi Tajiri
• Satoru Iwata
• Tsunekazu Ishihara

Developed By

• Game Freak, inc.

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