Staff of Pokémon Champions
This is a list of staff members who worked on the game Pokémon Champions, per the game's credits. It was published by Nintendo and developed by The Pokémon Works. All names are given in Western order.
Staff list (2026)
Developed by
Development Director
Development Manager
Game Planners
- Norichika Mizuno
- Jun Taniguchi
- Mizuki Kato
- William Désert
- Yukina Hoshi
- Toshiki Ishii
- Miya Watanabe
Game Programmers
- Sei Nakatani
- Ryoma Tachimoto
- Satoru Hiraoka
- Yoshitaka Ono
- Shohei Sasaki
- Keisuke Matsumura
- Hiroyuki Ito
- Yoshiaki Shirata
- Natsuki Hashino
- Mao Tokito
- Kai Sato
Art Section Manager
- Atsushi Numata
Concept Artists
- Eriko Fujiwara
- Kouichi Fukazawa
UI Artists
- Kyouhei Ishida
- Jin Nuruki
- Ami Fujii
3D Modeler
- Miyuki Hirono
3D Character Modelers
- Yuko Nakano
- Emi Takeyama
- Saeko Mizumachi
- Shinya Iguchi
3D Environment Modelers
- Ayumi Kano
- Ryosuke Chiba
Animators
- Aruku Koshiishi
- Kaito Hayamizu
- Ryuhei Ohshima
- Yuya Yamamoto
- Shunsuke Gomi
VFX Artists
- Natsuki Hayashi
- Fumiya Sugawara
- Kana Yoshizawa
Cinematic Artists
- Fumikazu Tanaka
- Reina Ohshima
- Yuki Yamamoto
- Kazuki Kato
- Yuki Sekine
Sound Designers
- Shioto Hamasaki
- Ryo Kurata
- Masahiro Niinomi
Special Thanks
- Ryoichi Kuwahara
- Daisuke Tamura
- Hyungjong Takehara
- Ayaka Torii
- Ken Visudharomn
- Tetsuya Ooi
ILCA,Inc.
Game Planners
- Masanori Okitsu
- Hyoga Omura
- Yuya Watanabe
- Rintaro Hiraoka
Game Programmers
- Tatsuya Ando
- Hidetaka Takeda
- Shintaro Hiraiwa
- Makoto Takei
- Masahito Shimizu
- Yu Jimbo
- Ryoma Yoda
- Yuta Hasegawa
- Kyouhei Mochizuki
- Shuhei Otake
- Yuki Okamura
- Yuta Takaya
- Naoya Hashimoto
- Ryu Maeda
- Shinya Suda
- Kenji Fukasawa
- Takumi Oya
UI Artists
- Momoka Maeda
- Yuichiro Nakayama
3D Character Modelers
- Kaede Shu
- Shun Ohta
Animators
- Ryoki Okuzaki
- Haruno Saito
VFX Artists
- Hitomi Asai
- Kaito Deguchi
- Lisa Furuya
- Rintaro Hirose
Special Thanks
- Masafumi Nukita
- Shiin Ka
- Michiko Hidaka
- Isana Kurokawa
- Reina Inano
- Aki Kobayashi
- Miu Ishizuka
- Eriko Tominaga
- Danqing Huang
- Masahiro Kitajima
- Marina Abe
- Shoei Takamine
- Akihiro Ochi
- Shintaro Yoshida
- Hiroshi Mitsuzuka
- Masaya Suzuki
- Mika Takahashi
- Tomohiro Shiiya
- Masashi Yamada
- Masaru Nakamura
- Suyako Nakatani
- Ryuta Fukushima
- AGNI-FLARE CO., LTD.
- ANIMA Inc.
- Appirits Inc.
- AVANT.inc
- CHRONOGATE Inc.
- CREEK & RIVER Co., Ltd.
- FELLOWS Inc.
- G-angle Co., Ltd.
- Garage,Inc.
- I-rori Entertainment Co., Ltd.
- IMAGICA GEEQ Inc.
- Levtech Co., Ltd.
- mosphy Inc.
- MotionActor, Inc.
- nabi EFFECT CO.,LTD.
- NAC Inc.
- RAYLINE STUDIO INC.
- Silicon Studio Corporation
- SmartPoint Co,.Ltd
- STAND Inc.
- Sun terras inc.
- Takahiro Sato
- THREE RINGS
- TORO KIKAKU Inc.
- VERRY Inc.
Planning & Supervision
Game Director
Battle Director
Art Director
- Tatsuya Makita
Lead Game Designer
Sound Designer
Sound Supervision
Character & Costume Design
- Fumie Kittaka
- Ken Sugimori
- Yusuke Kozaki
- Misaki Hashimoto
- Rin Nishizawa
Costume Design Supervision
Pokémon Icon Design
- Hironobu Yoshida
- Kyoko Abe
- Motofumi Fujiwara
- Tomomi Kaneko
Ui Concept Design
- Seimi Ohshiro
Item Icon Design
- Emi Ando
- Seimi Ohshiro
Title Logo Design
Pokémon Model Supervision
- Yuki Yamamoto
Battle Program Supervision
- Tomoya Takahashi
- Toshihiro Obata
- Kai Munakata
Environment Development Support
- Keiichi Maezawa
- Shinya Goto
- Nobuyuki Miura
- Tomoya Kanehira
- SPARK CREATIVE
- Wizcorp Inc.
Development Support
- Takumi Fukuzawa
- Nanae Tabata
Nintendo Co. Ltd.
Coordinators
- Yuta Ogawa
- Yuki Okada
Technical Support
- Noriko Nakagawa
- Kei Ninomiya
- Yasuhiro Iwamoto
- Shotaro Iwanaga
- Yu Yoshida
Debug Management
- Toshihiko Shomura
- Emika Yamamoto
- Megumi Sumida
- Shota Taniguchi
- Kazehiko Furuta
- Shintaro Nishiguchi
Debug
- Mario Club Co., Ltd.
- DIGITAL HEARTS Co., Ltd.
Localization Support (The Americas)
- Lauren Ammerman
- Peter Bohan
- Rich Comegys
- Owen Cooney
- Nicole Davis
- Jordon Galloway
- Kendra Joseph
- Zaher Khan
- Jorge Luis Muñoz Melchor
- Yoriko Marusich
- Jennifer Rose
- Karen Yuen
Language QA (The Americas)
- Side
Testing (The Americas)
- Tori Arvisais
- Corey Beedle
- Brian Blue
- Ryan Bristol
- Matthew Ortega
- Sean Roberts
- Dylan Rondeau
- Makiko Szolas
- Emi Yuhl
Localisation Producers (Europe)
- Héðinn Haraldsson
- Daniel Idoine
- Jan-Marek Schneider
QA Coordinators (Europe)
- Ángel Moreno Colmena
- Stefania Montagnese
QA Testing (Europe)
- Testronic
Localization Support (Asia)
- Yijun Chen
- Yoshiki Sugai
Localization Support (Korea)
- Dongyeon Kim
- Kyoungim Na
- Jihyuen Yoo
- Daeho Jeong
Localization Support (Traditional Chinese)
- Takaaki Ueno
- Chihhsien Chien
Localization Support (Simplified Chinese)
- Misa Matsumoto
- Ming Xu
Testing & Quality Assurance (Korea)
- Eodo Lee
- DIGITAL HEARTS Seoul Co., Ltd.
Product Testing (Chinese)
- Huiming Hu
- Tinghui Xia
- DIGITAL HEARTS (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
- Digital Hearts Linguitronics Taiwan Co., Ltd.
Special Thanks
- Tomoki Fukushima
- Mike Bales
- Thomas Candland
- Mary Rayes
- Cloud Chien
The Pokémon Company
Game Producer
Associate Producers
- Yuya Iwamoto
- Shunsuke Kohori
- Akihiro Kanno
- Yuji Igarashi
- Mayu Narahara
- Masato Kitamura
- Takashi Koyama
Artwork
- Yasuko Takahashi
Marketing
- Shoichi Obora
- Kazuki Hayakawa
- Yuma Hon
- Keiya Nakahara
- Yuki Takashima
Customer Service
- Yui Hayashi
- Kazunori Sugiura
- Yosuke Senoo
- Yohei Yamamoto
- Yushi Otake
- Shu Amagiri
- Miki Kinnamon
- Masato Kitamura
Legal
- Kensuke Arai
- Kotaro Ariyoshi
- Nao Tajima
Coordinators
- Hiroki Togashi
- Takehito Hosoda
- Shinichi Watanabe
- Jingyi Yu
- Izumi Watanabe
- Qixiang Chen
- Yoshiko Aota
- Mitsuyo Matsunaga
Chinese Localization
- Yencheng Lin
Chinese Translation & Editing
- Yuying Feng
- Huiying Tsai
- Hanru Yang
- Endai Liao
- Waihong Kong
Technical Supports
- Tatsuya Ichijo
- Nobuyuki Ohta
- Yu Nagao
- Yohei Miyamoto
- Yuji Minohoshi
- Chitose Kawakami
- Yuhma Ohchi
- Kayo Nakata
- Tetsuma Okano
Special Thanks
- Junko Tamura
- Yuta Hara
- SHIROGUMI INC.
The Pokémon Company International
English Localization
- Mikiko Ryu
- Chie Stutzman
- Mayu Todo
- Yuriko Iwasaki
- Terry Mihashi
- Ami Shuman
- Yuko Ito
- Mitsumasa Kawano
- Azusa Kimura
- Hisato Yamamori
- Kellyn Ballard
English Translation
- Hannah Vassallo
- Daniel Lizarraga
- Rhiona George Dey
- Jillian Nonaka
- Jackson Pietsch
- Shawn Williams-Brown
English Editing
- Rei Nakazawa
- Amy Page
- Derk Bramer
- Rachel Payne
- Julia Ryer
European Localisation
- Kaori Aoki
- Nami Kusumoto
- Mark Bunting
- Serena Yajima
- Makiko Wakai
- Saho Shiota
- Dan Anscomb
- Chika Tanigaki
- Owen Preece
- Hideko Russell
- Ritsuko Oshu
- Kendra Evans
- Alberto Gracia Castellano
- Marine Vallée
- Michael Ecke
- Diego Figaredo
- Pierre Gauthier
- Rei Haberberg
- Elena Nardo
- Cyril Schultz
French Translation
- Nicolas Sindres
- Guillaume Didier
- Marlène Dubois
- Aymeric Forgit
- Lylia Khrissate
French Editing
- Elodie Verpoort
- Claire Sosa
- Matthieu Béthencourt
- Leslie Gambini
- Violette Giang
- Thomas Garel
- Marine Vallée
- Aurélie Kryvinskyj
- Clothilde Bonnal
German Translation
- Christopher Derbort
- Kathleen Kalms
- Lina Emmerich
- Caroline Fest
- Daniel Heucher
- Sophie Jüterbock
- Carolin Maibach
German Editing
- Alina Linnenweber
- Jochen Künzel
- Sina Moelleken
- Juliana Niederwanger
- Ireneusz Radko
- Barbara Schweinzer
- Sira Vaterhaus
Italian Translation
- Altan Couvert
- Francesca Serci
- Marco Sartori
- Guido Scarabello
- Annarita Spera
- Manuela Suriano
- Jacopo Vanin
- Valentina Vignola
Italian Editing
- Valentina Menale
- Stefano Borghesi
- Alice Troiani
- Chiara Antinori
- Sergio Bianchi
- Silvia De Bellis
- Fabio Giusti
- Marco Locatelli
- Guendalina Pirruccio
European Spanish Translation
- Diego Luque de la Campa
- Alberto Gracia Castellano
- Edith Belarra López
- Jorge Diez Lasheras
- Servando Doval Díaz
- Alicia Iribarren Mendoza
- Enrique Joga Elvira
- Pablo Gismero Calvo
European Spanish Editing
- Alex Fortes
- Irene Mascaró Genestar
- Virginia Paradés Gurrea
- Rubén Lado Riomao
- Juan José Leiva Jiménez
- Mariona Pera i de Miguel
- Diana Vázquez Saiz
Latin American Spanish Editing
- Daniela Castillo
- Sebastián Erasmy Vergara
- José Luis Estrada
- Julieta Ortiz
- Débora Yésica Terceros Vargas
English & European Localization Support
- Reiko de Sorbier de Pougnadoresse
- Jeff Hines
- Stu Alexander
- Joan Cheung
- Nami Kusumoto
- Marvin Andrews
- Peter Bagley
- Mark Bunting
- Serena Yajima
Special Thanks
- Kenji Okubo
- Gaku Susai
- Taito Okiura
- Alison Chyan
- Amy Ganster
- Andy Gose
- Andy Hartpence
- Ben Drillat-Wilson
- David Numrich
- Dewei Huang
- Heather Dalgleish
- Irene Eri Kobayashi
- Kaoru Otawara
- Narbeh Minasians
- Peter Murphy
- Phaedra Long
- Phil Rynda
- Richie Enticknap
- Winston Lung
- Yasuhiro Usui
- Steve Lee
- Reina Nagai
Korean Translation
- Pokémon Korea, Inc.
- Mihwa Choi
- Jieun Byun
- Youngjun Park
- Dongun Pak
- Jooyeon Han
- Byunghun Bae
- Yoojin Kwon
Very Special Thanks
Supervisors
- Tetsuya Watanabe
- Ken Sugimori
- Tomoya Takahashi
Producers
- Katsuhiko Ichiraku
- Akira Kinashi
- Shinya Saito
- Toyokazu Nonaka
- Takanori Sowa
- Kenji Endo
General Producers
- Shigeru Ohmori
- Shinya Takahashi
- Takato Utsunomiya
Executive Producers
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