Staff of Pokémon Pokopia

This is a list of staff members who worked on the spin-off game Pokémon Pokopia for the Nintendo Switch 2, per the game credits. It was published by Nintendo and developed by Koei Tecmo and Game Freak. All names are given in Western order.

Staff list

Concept & Senior Director

Chief Director

  • Takuto Edagawa (KOEI TECMO GAMES Co., Ltd.)

Director

  • Tatsuto Tsuchishita (KOEI TECMO GAMES Co., Ltd.)
  • Teruyuki Shimoyamada (GAME FREAK Inc.)

Narrative Director

  • Masao Taya (GAME FREAK Inc.)

Art Director

  • Marina Ayano (KOEI TECMO GAMES Co., Ltd.)

2D Graphic Director

3D Graphic Director

  • Noriko Uono (GAME FREAK Inc.)

Sound Director & Composer

  • Hiromu Akaba (KOEI TECMO GAMES Co., Ltd.)

Producers

  • Hisashi Koinuma (KOEI TECMO GAMES Co., Ltd.)
  • Takanori Sowa (The Pokémon Company)

KOEI TECMO GAMES Co., Ltd. OMEGA FORCE

Project Managers

  • Takashi Morinaka
  • Nagisa Ikegami

Lead Game Designer

  • Megumi Sawada

Lead Engineers

  • Yu Ito
  • Kengo Ida

Lead World Building Designer

  • Yuhei Nakagiri

Lead Life Activities Designer

  • Hirokazu Iwase

Lead Community Designer

  • Yoshiko Ono

Art Design Lead Artist

  • Aya Shioki

Lead Artists

Character Modeling
  • Misaki Akagi
Object Modeling
  • Eri Ikeda
  • Tatsuya Uchida
Environment Art
  • Hokuto Kurihara
Building Blocks Material
  • Asami Kushida
Character Animation
  • Yasukazu Ono
Interface Design
  • Wataru Ishida
VFX Design
  • Ryo Minamitani
Technical Art
  • Ayaka Naito

Senior Game Designers

Level Design
  • Yunosuke Nagafusa
  • Satoshi Kokubo
Game Cycle
  • Daichi Kobayashi
Building Blocks
  • Kento Maeda
Action
  • Masaya Kuzu
NPC Behavior Design
  • Shogo Kanda
Dialogue Design
  • Ayano Matsuo
User Interface
  • Sayuri Hayashi
Network Gameplay
  • Tsubasa Takenaga
Text & Localization
  • Kaori Yano

Senior Engineers

Level Design
  • Fuma Tsujiguchi
  • Yuki Ito
Game Cycle
  • Fuma Tsujiguchi
Building Blocks
  • Fuma Tsujiguchi
Action
  • Hideaki Kagami
NPC Behavior Design
  • Kaori Tada
Dialogue Design
  • Kosuke Kono
User Interface
  • Yasuo Yoshida

Engineers Lead

Network Gameplay
  • Kojiro Hashimoto
  • Shogo Moriya
Text & Localization
  • Juinzuo Lin
Graphics
  • Ryohei Watanabe
DevOps
  • Juinzuo Lin

Level Designers

  • Yuta Nishigaichi
  • Daiki Funaiwa
  • Kyohei Kumano
  • Miu Tanioka
  • Chikara Ozawa
  • Chikara Shirahama
  • Koki Kaneda
  • Akihiro Kuretani

Building Blocks Designers

  • Yuto Yamada
  • Takumi Higaki

Building Blocks Engineers

  • Kazuhito Ozawa
  • Yukihiro Sato
  • Koki Tsuboji
  • Chunhao Ding
  • Keito Yamaguchi

Game Cycle Designer

  • Daichi Kunimatsu

Game Cycle Engineer

  • Michiru Kanaya

NPC Behavior Designers

  • Hiroyuki Suzuki
  • Minori Kato

NPC Behavior Engineers

  • Koki Okazaki
  • Kento Matsuba
  • Yuta Naganawa

Action Designers

  • Kosuke Takagi
  • Naoyuki Ito
  • Ryo Koyama

Action Engineers

  • Shinya Okada
  • Koichi Okada
  • Ryoya Hanashima
  • Jianming Yin

Dialogue Designers

  • Nami Nishimoto(SUB LEAD)
  • Hinako Takeda
  • Ryusei Kowaka
  • Kohei Noro
  • Shintaro Kakuda
  • Yuto Kawabeta

Dialogue Engineers

  • Hiroki Takenaka
  • Taisei Kamada

User Interface Designer

  • Yuri Nagatsuka

User Interface Engineers

  • Kotaro Yamaguchi
  • Ryoichi Kusunaga
  • Kento Iizumi
  • Ryota Ishikawa
  • Satoru Kaji
  • Narumi Watanabe

Network Gameplay Designer

  • Koshiro Okano

Network Gameplay Engineers

  • Moena Koshikiya
  • Zhilin Yang

Text & Localization Designers

  • Zhiwei Ma
  • Koki Abe
  • Tomohito Omura

Graphics Engineer

  • Kazuki Kanegami

DevOps Engineer

  • Chunhao Ding

System Engineers

  • Masayoshi Yamada
  • Yusuke Kudo
  • Manami Kondo
  • Yusuke Ohara

Scenario

  • Etsuko Maeno
  • Yuki Ikeno
  • Sachi Higashimoto
  • Yukiko Nojima
  • Sakura Ono

Art Designers

  • Asami Yamamoto
  • Yuka Hondo
  • Rinka Nagumo
  • Mahiro Kubota
  • Sayaka Takahashi
  • Yasuko Nagata
  • Moegi Komuro
  • Tran Phuong Thao
  • Kaoru Kikugawa
  • Soma Yokoi
  • Hana Okamura
  • Arisa Takagaki
  • Xueer Diao
  • Fangyao Wang
  • Haoyu Wang
  • Bach Van Duy
  • Nguyen Phuong Quynh Trang
  • Nguyen Ngoc Thao Trang
  • Kieu Thi Thuy Nhung

Character Modeling Designers

  • Rieko Kadoi
  • Shunya Fukao
  • Naoki Takahashi
  • Masanori Okada
  • Kosuke Nakajima
  • Wakana Mori
  • Tianyu Yang
  • Mitsuaki Uchida
  • Tetsuya Ietsune
  • Rinako Hiraoka
  • Riko Oshima
  • Chen Qiying
  • Tan Jun
  • Zhang Yajing
  • Liang Jinjin
  • Wang Jinxian
  • Liu Xu
  • Zhao Yu
  • Li Chao
  • Ma Pei
  • Zhang Yan
  • Jin Huixian
  • Liu Wei
  • Jing Ya
  • Han Tingxue
  • Zhang Yanyan
  • Zhang Xue
  • Hao Yu
  • Ling Weiqi
  • Liu Yutong
  • Gao Yiming
  • Xu Zhen

Environment Artists

  • Misaki Takada
  • Shiori Murata
  • Kakeru Konishi
  • Zhang Cong
  • Cui Shuyang
  • Liu Peng
  • Cai Chunqi
  • Si Luyun

Character Animators

  • Rui Sato(SUB LEAD)
  • Sae Ito
  • Han Chunyuan
  • Guo Zhaoxia
  • Wang Baojia
  • Wang Mengyao
  • Zuo Yesen
  • Wang Ji
  • Ji Tianqi
  • Tan Fei
  • Ng Jun Wei
  • Phelia Cheng Wei Xin
  • Chong Li Qing
  • Karen Mei Jia Qi
  • Valarie Lim Zheng Ni
  • Chen Juntao

Interface Designers

  • Yura Nishizaki(SUB LEAD)
  • Yuka Tsukida
  • Yuki Kokonoe
  • Toma Osawa
  • Kai Semmyo

Movie Designer

  • Moe Ishida

Cinematics

  • Yilan Lu

Technical Artists

  • Naoya Okamoto
  • Tsuyoshi Fukuyama
  • Masaru Ueda
  • Hironori Ono
  • Hitoshi Shikata
  • Hiroyuki Koyama
  • Yuko Hara
  • Eri Takahashi
  • Kazuna Sakama

Look Development Artist

  • Yu Oboshi

Art Direction Support

  • Yasuaki Suzuki
  • Satoshi Iwase

CG Supervisor

  • Kentarou Yamamoto

CG Production Managers

  • Toshio Otake
  • Kaito Yasuda
  • Rena Kobayashi

Sound Design & Composer

  • Jieun Kim

Musicians

Guitar
  • Hiromu Akaba
Guitar, Mandolin
  • Yugen Umemura
Key Harmonica
  • Jieun Kim
Flute, Recorder
  • Saki Shimura

Game Engine Lead

  • Taku Sugawara

Game Engine Chief

  • Hirofumi Tsuru

Game Engine Programming

  • Yuki Tomizawa
  • Ryohei Tanaka
  • Koki Sugiyama
  • Takuto Endo
  • Yuki Kimura
  • Feiyang Wang
  • Shoki Tsuyama
  • Future Tech Base
  • Katana Engine

QA

QA Director
  • Tomoya Imai
QA Lead
  • Yusuke Takei
QA Coordinator
  • Rie Kumabe
QA Executive Producer
  • Kazumi Fujita

In Cooperation with

  • KOEI TECMO TIANJIN SOFTWARE
  • KOEI TECMO BEIJING SOFTWARE
  • KOEI TECMO SINGAPORE
  • KOEI TECMO SOFTWARE VIETNAM
  • DIGITAL HEARTS Co., Ltd.

Public Relations

  • Tomonori Sakaguchi
  • Tomonori Kose
  • Endo Misuzu

Legal

  • Fumie Ina
  • Yuki Onda
  • Kazutaka Nakamura

GAME FREAK Inc.

Scenario Planner

UI Designer

  • Seika Nakatsuji
Partner
  • TECHBIZ Inc.

World & Pokémon Settings

Sound Supervision

Ditto Character Designer

  • Kyoko Abe

Ditto Model Designers

  • Yuki Yamamoto
  • Shinichi Yoshikawa
  • Naomi Hara
  • Jin Sugihara
  • Mari Hamada
  • Mai Takano
  • Hideki Iwata
Partner
  • Flame Hearts Co., Ltd.

Pokémon Icon Designers

Title Logo Designer

  • Rin Nishizawa

Proto Development

Game Programmer
  • Genya Hosaka
Game Designers
  • Akinori Asaba
  • Masayuki Kawabata
Partner
  • Rebuild Games LLC.

Concept Movie Production

Director
  • Daiki Inaba
CG Designer
  • Chihiro Sawamura
3D Modelers
  • Masashi Miyaoka
  • Ryosuke Oka
Technical Artist
  • Natsuki Tateishi
Producer
  • Takako Kanda
Partner
  • entity

Media Team Lead

  • Shota Moriguchi

Media Team

  • Toichi Hayashibara
  • Ayane Morita

The Pokémon Company

Special Thanks

  • Kenjiro Ito
  • Mikiko Ohashi
  • Masami Tanaka
  • Atsushi Sugimoto
  • Yoriomi Uego
  • Chie Shinno
  • Ryosuke Hanawa
  • Susumu Fukunaga
  • Keita Hirobe
  • Shoichi Obora
  • Junichi Masuda
  • Masao Iuchi
  • Eisuke Kasejima
  • Yasunori Suenaga
  • Hirotaka Hayakawa
  • Toshio Miyahara
  • Rui Kawaguchi
  • Sakura Tomono
  • Takaki Matoba
  • Chihiro Ito
  • Min Xu
  • Keiko Mochida
  • Nobuto Araki
  • Retsuji Nomoto
  • Junpei Matsuzaki
  • Kaisei Okuyama
  • Hiroki Togashi
  • Shin-ichi Watanabe
  • Takahiro Onishi
  • Kenji Endo
  • Kurumi Tameto
  • Yasuko Takahashi
  • Nobuyuki Ota
  • Yuji Minohoshi
  • Takuya Ishizuki
  • Sho Furutani
  • Nana Harada
  • Keito Kojima
  • Ma Kezi
  • Kensuke Arai
  • Junko Tamura
  • Nao Tajima
  • Zhanghong Yu
  • Yohei Matori
  • Ai Mizukoshi
  • Mingjie Sun
  • Melisse Anderson
  • Zoe Serrano
  • Minyu Hsu
  • Jiaxin Zhao
  • Katsuhiro Aochi
  • Junpei Yokoyama
  • Shuya Minami

English Localization

  • Mikiko Ryu
  • Yuriko Iwasaki
  • Yuko Ito
  • Hisato Yamamori
  • Mayu Todo
  • Mika Holzhausen
  • Ayako Teranishi
  • Kellyn Ballard

English Translation

  • Laura Bartholomew
  • Ben DeTora
  • Sayuri Munday
  • Orson Purves
  • Arden Williams
  • David Dunlap
  • Rhiona George Dey
  • Jillian Nonaka
  • Alex Small
  • Shawn Williams-Brown

English Editing

  • Robert Schiotis
  • Stephen Meyerink
  • Isaac Nickerson
  • Lu Pellazar
  • Akira Vivienne
  • Amy Morris
  • Rachel Payne
  • Elin Rummel

English & European Localization Support

  • Reiko de Sorbier de Pougnadoresse
  • Stu Alexander
  • Nami Kusumoto
  • Peter Bagley
  • Serena Yajima
  • Jeff Hines
  • Joan Cheung
  • Marvin Andrews
  • Mark Bunting

European Localisation

  • Kaori Aoki
  • Suirei Okata
  • Ryosuke Kurosaki
  • Saho Shiota
  • Hideko Russell
  • Kendra Evans
  • Mark Bunting
  • Daniel Heucher
  • Manuela Suriano
  • Michael Ecke
  • Elena Nardo
  • Makiko Cottrell
  • Maya Yoshida
  • Miki Hosaka-Green
  • Owen Preece
  • Ritsuko Oshu
  • Nami Kusumoto
  • Serena Yajima
  • Ireneusz Radko
  • Marine Vallée
  • Pierre Gauthier

French Translation

  • Noémie Pradier
  • Lylia Khrissate
  • Guillaume Didier
  • Nicolas Sindres
  • Marlène Dubois
  • Alexane Bailleul
  • Arthur Blondel
  • Aymeric Forgit
  • Vanessa Saccardo
  • Laly Dufossé

French Editing

  • Aurélie Kryvinskyj
  • Claire Sosa
  • Elodie Verpoort
  • Leslie Gambini
  • Marine Vallée
  • Violette Giang
  • Clothide Bonnal
  • Mattieu Béthencourt
  • Thomas Garel

German Translation

  • Carolin Maibach
  • Kathleen Kalms
  • Christopher Derbort
  • Caroline Fest
  • Yuriko Nagata
  • Sophie Jüterbock
  • Manuel Chillagano
  • Lina Emmerich
  • Daniel Heucher

German Editing

  • Barbara Schweinzer
  • Alina Linnenweber
  • Jochen Künzel
  • Ireneusz Radko
  • Sina Moelleken
  • Dominik Reichelt
  • Juliana Niederwanger
  • Sira Vaterhaus

Italian Translation

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

Italian Editing

  • Valentina Menale
  • Chiara Antinori
  • Stefano Borghesi
  • Fabio Giusti
  • Alice Troiani
  • Guendalina Pirruccio
  • Sergio Bianchi
  • Silvia De Bellis
  • Marco Locatelli

European Spanish Translation

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

European Spanish Editing

  • Rubén Lado Riomao
  • Diana Vázquez-Saiz
  • Eva Rodríguez Graña
  • Irene Mascaró Genestar
  • Daniela Castillo
  • Sebastián Erasmy Vergara
  • Virginia Paradés Gurrea
  • Alex Fortes
  • Juan José Leiva Jiménez
  • Mariona Pera i de Miguel
  • Julieta Ortiz
  • Débora Yésica Terceros Vargas

Special Thanks

  • Kenji Okubo
  • Taito Okiura
  • Reina Nagai
  • Andy Gose
  • Ben Drillat-Wilson
  • Heather Dalgleish
  • Narbeh Minasians
  • Phaedra Long
  • Randy Le
  • Yasuhiro Usui
  • Gaku Susai
  • Alison Chyan
  • Amy Ganster
  • Andy Hartpence
  • Daniel Benkwitt
  • Kaoru Otawara
  • Peter Murphy
  • Phil Rynda
  • Richie Enticknap

English & European Graphic Design

  • Chris Franc
  • Lauren Hill
  • Andrew Goodsell
  • Justin Gonyea
  • Emily Uslan
  • Dan Stephens
  • Ian Wortham

Korean Translation & Editing

  • Mihwa Choi
  • Youngjun Park
  • Jooyeon Han
  • Yoojin Kwon
  • Jieun Byun
  • Dongun Pak
  • Byunghun Bae

Special Thanks

  • Jaiboem Lim
  • Jihye Lee

Localization Support

  • Ryotaro Ukai
  • Qixiang Chen
  • Yoshiko Aota
  • Adrian Wildandyawan
  • Mitsuyo Matsunaga

Chinese Translation & Editing

  • Waihong Kong
  • Huiying Tsai
  • Qing Yun
  • Endai Liao
  • Chungte Huang
  • Hanru Yang
  • Yuwen Wang
  • Yuying Feng

Chinese Translation & Editing

  • DIGITAL HEARTS Co., Ltd.

Coordinators

  • Tomohiro Utsumi
  • Yuki Tabuchi
  • Yumi Okazaki
  • Ririka Funaki
  • Junya Nakagawa
  • Yoshifumi Isono
  • Yuichi Arita

Nintendo

Technical Support

  • Hidefumi Iwashita
  • Hiroaki Gohara
  • Shuhei Furukawa
  • Toru Inage
  • Kei Ninomiya
  • Kyohei Minato
  • Yasuhiro Iwamoto
  • Shotaro Iwanaga
  • Yoshito Yasuda

Localization Support (The Americas)

  • Lauren Ammerman
  • Owen Cooney
  • Jordon Galloway
  • Zaher Khan
  • Joe Talbot
  • Peter Bohan
  • Nicole Davis
  • Kendra Joseph
  • Jennifer Rose
  • Karen Yuen

Localisation Support (Europe)

  • Dario De Leo
  • Saskia Doorschodt
  • Julia Bambach

Localization Support (Asia)

  • Kiung Seoung
  • Chen Yijun

Localization Support (Korea)

  • Dongyeon Kim
  • Yunjin Park
  • Kyoungim Na

Localization Support (Traditional Chinese)

  • Takaaki Ueno

Localization Support (Simplified Chinese)

  • Misa Matsumoto
  • Ming Xu

Special Thanks—Localization

  • Mike Bales
  • Fahreen Merali
  • Mary Rayes
  • Nick Mahan
  • Thomas Candland

Language QA (The Americas)

  • Side

Testing (The Americas)

  • Tori Arvisais
  • Brian Blue
  • Q Dequina
  • Tomo Ishiyama
  • Chris Kuehnberger
  • Motoki Nakajima
  • Dylan Rondeau
  • Pat Wells
  • Takashi Baker
  • Daniel Bracy
  • Daijiro Imoto
  • Young Kim
  • Tomoko Mikami
  • Sean Roberts
  • Michael Sahlin

QA Coordination (Europe)

  • Daniele Albrito
  • Steffen Lotz

Quality Assurance (Europe)

  • Olivier Jacquemin-Guillaume
  • Laura Villers
  • Rita Di Lascio
  • Peter Eiselt
  • Michaela Koch
  • Polina Shenoeva
  • Manuel Tants
  • Jorge Heras García
  • Adriana Villamisar Naveira
  • Jérôme Petit
  • Damiana Ballarin
  • Ludovica Saldarini
  • Edwin Kirschenmann
  • Georg Schmalhofer
  • Hannah Siebert
  • Eduardo Fernández Muñoz
  • Jessica Sánchez Herrera
  • Andrew Hall
  • Side

Testing & Quality Assurance (Korea)

  • Eodo Lee

Product Testing (Chinese)

  • Chen Weiming
  • Tinghui Xia
  • Jiong Zhang

Language QA (Asian)

  • Side

Debug Management

  • Kanade Matsui
  • Nobuya Sasaki
  • Tomohiro Arai
  • Masahiro Adachi
  • Emi Kashiuda
  • Kaoru Ishiyama
  • Keishi Hashimoto

Debug

Coordinators

  • Tomoki Fukushima
  • Ryuichi Nakada
  • Noriko Nakagawa
  • Masahiro Shiotani
  • Yuta Ogawa
  • Yuki Okada

Supervisors

Producers

  • Akira Kinashi
  • Shinya Saito
  • Toyokazu Nonaka
  • Tomohiko Sho
  • Kanako Murata

General Producers

Executive Producers

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