Staff of Pokémon Black and White

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This list of staff members worked on the fifth Generation Pokémon games, Pokémon Black and White Versions. The game was published by Nintendo and developed by Game Freak and Creatures, Inc. All names are given in Western order.

List of staff

Director

2-D art director

3-D art director

  • Takao Unno

Programming lead

  • Tetsuya Watanabe

Planning lead

  • Takeshi Kawachimaru

Scenario

  • Toshinobu Matsumiya

Communication programming

  • Katsumi Ōno (Lead)
  • Yoshinori Matsuda
  • Tōru Nagihashi
  • Nobuhiko Ariizumi

Battle programming

  • Hisashi Sogabe (Lead)
  • Masao Taya

Field programming

  • Sōsuke Tamada (Lead)
  • Keita Kagaya
  • Miyuki Iwasawa
  • Nozomu Saitō
  • Tomoya Takahashi
  • Toshihiro Obata

User interface programming

  • Akito Mori (Lead)
  • Hiroyuki Nakamura
  • Kōji Kawada
  • Gen'ya Hosaka

Battle system programming

  • Masao Taya

Pokémon Gym main programming

  • Nozomu Saitō

Rail system programming

  • Tomoya Takahashi

3-D graphics support programming

  • Miyuki Iwasawa

System programming

  • Tetsuya Watanabe
  • Hisashi Sogabe
  • Sōsuke Tamada
  • Katsumi Ōno
  • Masao Taya

Pokémon character director

  • Ken Sugimori

Pokémon design

2-D graphic design

3-D graphic design

  • Hiroki Fuchino (Lead)
  • Lee HyunJung
  • Mana Ibe
  • Reiko Tanoue
  • Maiko Fujiwara
  • Tomohiko Ōkubo
  • James Turner

3-D graphics system design

  • Takao Unno

Trainer main design

  • Yūsuke Ōmura

Battle graphic design

  • Hironobu Yoshida

Battle effect design

  • Motofumi Fujiwara

UI graphics main design

  • Kenkichi Toyama

Demo movie design

  • James Turner

Concept illustrator

  • Keiko Moritsugu

Pokémon settings & Pokédex text

  • Kenji Matsushima

Music

Pokémon voices

  • Gō Ichinose

Sound effects

  • Minako Adachi

Interactive sound system

  • Shōta Kageyama
  • Gō Ichinose

Arrangement & Composition (Entralink, Route 10, Ending, etc.)

  • Shōta Kageyama

Arrangement & Composition (Opelucid City, Anville Town, Village Bridge, etc.)

  • Gō Ichinose

Arrangement & Composition (Bicycle, Lacunosa Town, Poké Transfer Lab, etc.)

  • Hitomi Satō

Arrangement & Composition (Battle music)

  • Jun'ichi Masuda

User interface system design

  • Tetsuji Ōta (Lead)
  • Teruyuki Shimoyamada
  • Kazumasa Yamao
  • Hiro Nakamura

Scenario

  • Toshinobu Matsumiya (Lead)
  • Suguru Nakatsui
  • Katsunori Suginaka
  • Yukiko Hozumi

Script

  • Masafumi Saitō (Lead)
  • Mai Mizuguchi
  • Katsunori Suginaka
  • Naoto Murakami

Battle design

Special system design

  • Shigeru Ōmori (Lead)
  • Yukiko Hozumi
  • Akira Nakamura

Map design

  • Suguru Nakatsui (Lead)
  • Tadashi Takahashi
  • Kazumasa Iwao
  • Katsunori Suginaka
  • Shigeru Ōmori
  • Yukiko Hozumi
  • Naoto Murakami

Control main settings

  • Tetsuji Ōta

Map management & Main settings

  • Suguru Nakatsui

Survey Radar & すれちがい settings

  • Shigeru Ōmori

Wi-Fi battle system settings

  • Teruyuki Shimoyamada

Pokémon & Trainer parameter design

  • Kōji Nishino
  • Shigeki Morimoto
  • Kazumasa Iwao
  • Teruyuki Shimoyamada

Battle Subway parameter design

  • Shigeki Morimoto
  • Tetsuji Ōta
  • Kazumasa Iwao

Wi-Fi server development

  • Takahiro Yamaguchi
  • Ryō Yamaguchi
  • Kazutomo Niwa
  • Takaaki Takeuchi
  • Mikihiro Ishikawa

Linked website director

  • Takeshi Kawachimaru

Linked website settings

  • Mai Mizuguchi
  • Makiko Takahashi
  • Takashi Orikata
  • Mitsuyo Matsunaga
  • Tomoko Nakayama
  • Basement Factory Production

Debug management

  • Yūki Tanikawa
  • Shūhei Furukawa
  • Yoshikazu Tanaka
  • Hitoshi Nishizawa
  • Keisuke Fukushima
  • Motoki Nakajima

Debug

  • Super Mario Club

B & W conception

  • Jun'ichi Masuda

Graphics special thanks

  • Daisuke Nagata
  • Rika Kunishita
  • Natsumi Nishihata
  • Chihiro Takahashi
  • Shin'ichi Ōnishi

Special thanks

  • Kenji Tominaga
  • Yūichirō Mori
  • Yoshio Tajiri
  • Teiko Sasaki
  • Emi Endō
  • Asami Satō
  • Shiho Haraguchi
  • Nagaaki Fukase
  • Hiroto Itō
  • Masayuki Onoue
  • Katsuhiko Ichiraku
  • Mayo Ōtani
  • Yuki Kawamoto
  • Sachiko Hamano
  • Haruka Sunaga
  • Kenjirō Itō
  • Tomotaka Komura
  • Susumu Fukunaga
  • Toshio Miyahara
  • Jirō Koga
  • Osamu Suzuki
  • Gakuji Nomoto
  • Misuzu Kanayama
  • Michiko Takizawa
  • Ayako Kajiwara
  • Yūichirō Tsumita
  • Osamu Fujita
  • Masayuki Soga
  • Fumie Yokota
  • Teruki Murakawa
  • Kimiko Nakamichi
  • Sōichi Yamamoto
  • Tōru Inage
  • Hiroshi Akune
  • Daisuke Komai
  • Toshio Mukai
  • Chiaki Takahara

Artwork

  • Kiyomi Itani
  • Yasuko Sugiyama
  • Ryūichi Suzuki
  • Sachiko Nakamichi

Globalization

  • Akira Kinashi
  • Noriko Nakao
  • Hironori Ichibayashi

Information management

  • Yūri Sakurai
  • Tōya Yoneda

Coordinators

  • Shunsuke Kohori
  • Kazuki Yoshihara
  • Kaori Andō
  • Hideaki Araki

Producers

  • Jun'ichi Masuda
  • Hitoshi Yamagami
  • Shūsaku Egami
  • Hiroaki Tsuru

Executive producers

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