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This page contains information on the executive team of Creatures, Inc. The directors and officers listed here are taken from:

President & CEO

Yuji Kitano

Main article: Yuji Kitano

Executive Vice President & COO

Tomotaka Komura

Sources
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=92960

Executive Director, Executive Corporate Officer & CFO

Noriyuki Kita

Sources

Executive Directors and Senior Corporate Officers

Hiroyuki Jinnai

Hiroyuki Jinnai

Anime planning from AG until DP004

Sources
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201803/30154405.html
https://www.mobygames.com/person/80841/hiroyuki-jinnai/credits/
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=27984

Atsuko Ujiie

Main article: Atsuko Ujiie

appointed 4/26

Sources
https://cgworld.jp/interview/creatures-201707.html
https://new-graduate.creatures.co.jp/director/

Atsushi Nagashima

Main article: Atsushi Nagashima

appointed 4/26

Sources
https://www.ptcgic-cr.com/2024/en/column/article-4/ - interview, includes narrative/parallel worlds info
https://garage.creatures.co.jp/blog/731/ - Nagashima on mosaic
https://new-graduate.creatures.co.jp/cr_people/pokemon_tcg_cross_talk/

Corporate Officers

Masamichi Anazawa

CG Studio Product Manager
formerly Project Coordination for TCG, credited Neo series through Platinum

Sources
https://www.mobygames.com/person/199610/masamichi-anazawa/credits/
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=181930

Muneaki Ozawa

former Ambrella president

Sources
https://www.mobygames.com/person/236338/muneaki-ozawa/

Kengo Nakahiro

CG Studio Project Director

Sources
https://cgworld.jp/interview/creatures-201707.html
https://www.mobygames.com/person/544927/kengo-nakahiro/
https://new-graduate.creatures.co.jp/cr_people/digital_cross_talk/

Kota Okamoto

appointed 4/24
TCG Senior Project Manager
Deputy General Manager, Pokémon Card Development Division

Sources
https://www.siliconera.com/pokemon-card-managers-on-origins-of-the-card-game-and-the-varied-illustrations/
https://new-graduate.creatures.co.jp/cr_people/pokemon_tcg_cross_talk/
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201903/14173198.html
https://www.inside-games.jp/article/2019/04/25/121986.html
https://www.4gamer.net/games/256/G025620/20190318026/
https://web.archive.org/web/20210423073136/https://ss-agent.jp/pr/creatures-1611/

Ryo Tsujikawa

appointed 4/26

Sources
https://www.pokemon.co.jp/ex/pokemonryuoh3/special.html - game designer
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/19/24248306/pokemon-tcg-pocket-hands-on - Creatures creative director
https://web.archive.org/web/20250130114620/https://play.google.com/store/apps/editorial?id=mc_games_editorialmd_pokemontcgpocket_interview_ryotsujikawa_and_satorunagaya_fcp - card game director for SM, only credited in JP manuals as game designer

Haruki Suzaki

same guy? Pokken + New Snap director, former Bamco
appointed 4/26

Sources
https://www.mobygames.com/person/274725/haruki-suzaki/

Outside Directors

Kento Suga

appointed 4/26
TPC Corporate Officer, formerly Niantic marketing

Sources
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kento-suga-97239614/
https://x.com/kentosuga
https://soranews24.com/2019/09/09/we-asked-a-niantic-insider-30-questions-about-pokemon-go-learned-a-lot-of-useful-information/

Masami Hatanaka

Editor of Shogakukan’s shoujo magazine Sho-Comi (formerly?)

Sources
https://www.callangreen.com/portfolio/ed-sheeran-celestial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23g5HBOg3Ic
https://jinji.shogakukan.co.jp/2021_teiki/staff/11/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoZ0Zwab6Oc

Former directors

Executive Directors

resigned 4/23

Tsunekazu Ishihara

Main article: Tsunekazu Ishihara

Hirokazu Tanaka

Main article: Hirokazu Tanaka

Outside Director

before 4/26

Eisuke Kasejima

Sources
https://www.mobygames.com/person/631170/eisuke-kasejima/credits/
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=208299/