Staff of Pokémon XD

This is a list of staff members who worked on the game Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness for the Nintendo GameCube, per the game's credits. It was published by Nintendo and developed by Genius Sonority.

Staff

Director

• Manabu Yamana

Director of Development

• Yoshiaki Iwasawa

Art Director

• Hiromoto-SIN-ichi

Scenario Written By

• Kazunori Orio

Music Director

• Tsukasa Tawada

Game Design

• Sui Hotate
• Ryota Aomi
• Kouji Oono
• Koichi Iwata
• Kuniko Kobashi
• Chiharu Sugaya

Scenario Writing Assistants

• Tetsuya Kawaskai
• Naomi Fukuoka

Scenario Edited By

• Sayaka Yamazaki

Scenes Edited By

• Retsuji Nomoto

System Design

• Masayuki Kawamoto

Programming Chiefs

• Teruhito Yamaki
• Akihiro Yoshida

System Programming

• Michael Tedder
• Dimitrios Chamouratidis
• Mitsunobu Koyama

Application Programming

• Mariko Akagi
• Tomoharu Nishi
• Yasuhiro Shimura
• Yasushi Okita
• Yasunobu Ihara
• Yoshikazu Kita
• Junichi Matsushita

Development Support Programming

• Akira Fukushima
• Yutaka Okoshi
• Ryo Shimizu

Script Programming

• Ryohei Endo
• Masayoshi Tahara
• Yatsuya Nanaumi
• Satoshi Ogata
• Yuichi Hujioka
• Koji Kariya
• Takashi Taneshima
• Kazuya Azuma

Art Chiefs

• Jamie Turner
• Motokazu Sakai
• Hiroyuki Ikeda
• Takanori Wada

Character Modeling

• Chika Hotani
• Kazuhiro Saito

Character Motion Design

• Rinko Yagihashi
• Rui Guerreriro

3-D Map Design

• Jyu Ikeda
• Kenji Kawashima
• Nobuhito Yamamoto
• Yasumi Tamura

Additional 3-D Map Design

• Koji Eto
• Eiji Senke
• Ryuzou Kishi
• Yoshio Kamikubo
• Hideaki Shibayama

Special Effects Art

• Akira Fukumoto
• Maiko Susuki

2-D CG Art

• Maki Wada

Pokémon 3-D Modeling Direction

• Kei Hoshiba

Lead Pokémon 3-D Modeling

• Kazuo Yazawa

Pokémon 3-D Modeling

• Takeshi Iizuka
• Ken Ikuji
• Atsuko Ujiie
• Satomi Kokubo
• Keita Komatsu
• Hiromichi Sugiyama
• Jungo Suzuki
• Katsura Tabata
• Shinichi Yoshikawa
• Kiyoshi Utsunomiya
• Misaki Nakaoka
• Yosuke Yamashita
• Masahiro Abeki
• Yuji Kawarada
• Yuichi Sawayama
• Nachi Sugiyama
• Yoshiyuki Tagawa
• Mikio Mejo
• Masaya Akiyama
• Kumiko Oka
• Toshiyuki Honda
• Kiyotaka Hirata
• So Yoshimura
• Kyoko Koizumi

Pokémon 3-D Modeling Managers

• Yasunori Yanagisawa
• Masamichi Anazawa

Sound Effects

• Masataka Saito

Sound Manager

• Natsuko Kobayashi

Battle Data Design

• Masahiro Okuda
• Masato Kise
• Tsuyoshi Koumura
• Kouji Kobayashi
• Takeshi Saigou
• Katsuhiro Nii
• Etsuko Fukushima
• Osamu Fujita
• Shunsuke Kohori
• Norihide Okamura
• Takahiro Ohnishi

European Localization

• Hiroyuki Uesugi*
• Noriko Netley*

English Localization

• Seth McMahill*
• Keisuke Tominaga*

English Text Translated By

• Nob Ogasawara*

English Text Edited By

• Teresa Lillygren*

French Text Translated By

• Sabrina Bretant*
• Emmanuel Brouband*

German Text Translated By

• Andrea Jähn*
• Helge Friedrich*

Italian Text Translated By

• Giovanna Prati*
• Elena Nardo*

Spanish Text Translated By

• Sofía Marín Aguilar-Galindo*
• Jesús Ángel Rodríguez Gago*

NOA Product Testing

• Thomas Hetzog*
• Melvin Forrest*
• Mika Kurosawa*
• Tomoko Mikami*

NOE Product Testing

• Alessio Danieli*
• NOE Testing Team*

Additional Testing

• NCL SUPER MARIO CLUB*
• NOA Product Testing*

Pokémon Games Designed By

• Satoshi Tajiri
• Junichi Masuda

Pokémon Characters Designed By

• Ken Sugimori
• Motofumi Fujiwara
• Hironobu Yoshida
• Satoshi Ohta
• Takao Unno
• Kanako Eo
• Asuka Iwashita
• Aimi Tomita
• Atsuko Nishida
• Muneo Saito
• Rena Yoshikawa
• Jun Okutani

Pokémon Advisors

• Shigeki Morimoto
• Kouji Nishino
• Tetsuya Watanabe
• Hisashi Sogabe

Pokémon Supervisors

• Yuuri Sakurai
• Kazuyuki Terada
• Hiroki Enomoto
• Akihito Tamura

Pokémon Coordinators

• Hitoshi Yamagami
• Tatsuya Hishida
• Kazuyuki Gofuku
• Takao Nakano
• Shusaku Egami

Game Testing

• SUPER MARIO CLUB*

Based on a Concept By

• Akihiko Miura

Technical Support

• Toru Inage
• Satoshi Mitsuhara

Special Thanks To

• Mari Shirakawa
• Hiro Nakamura*
• Kenjiro Ito
• Michiko Takizawa
• Makiko Takada
• Osamu Suzuki
• Takanao Kondo
• Kenichi Arai
• Atsushi Sugimoto*
• Tomoko Yoshimura*
• Tomotaka Komura*
• Maya Nakamura*
• Anthony Cornish*
• Tatsumi Kimishima*
• Mike Fukuda*
• Yoshinobu Mantani*
• Gail Tilden*
• Melinda Porter*
• Nicola Wright*
• Randy Shoemake*
• Motoyasu Tojima*
• Toshifumi Sayama*
• Stefan Romberg*
• Chihiro Kobayashi
• Minako Higashi
• Kazuko Goushi
• Sachiko Kubokawa
• Yuki Otsuka
• Shiori Hirashima
• Tsuyoshi Tokunaga

Very Special Thanks To

• Creatures Inc.
• MANGA★FORCE
• e-plus digital works

Producers

• Gakuji Nomoto
• Hiroyuki Jinnai
• Hiroaki Tsuru

Executive Producer

• Satoru Iwata

Executive Producer

• Tsunekaz Ishihara

Staff of the Pokémon games and animated series

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