Development Team |
| Producer |
Akihiko Matsui |
| Director |
Mizuki Ito |
| Associate Director |
Yoji Fujito |
Game Design |
| Lead Event Planner |
Yoshitsugu Saito |
| Event Planners |
Yaeko Sato, Yoko Kyoya, Takashi Hisagi, Shingo Noguchi |
| Lead Battle Planner |
Mizuki Ito |
| Battle Planners |
Yuichiro Kawanishi, Kenzo Takeda, Masaru Taniguchi, Yoshiaki Kasa, Iori Watanabe, Satoshi Oku, Hikaru Nihei, Seiichiro Nakahara, Yasushi Yamazaki, Takashi Ono, Ryota Iwagami |
| Lead Programmer |
Yasuhiro Yamamoto |
| Programmers |
Shinichi Tanaka, Shinji Yamaguchi |
Graphic Designers |
| Lead BG Designer |
Kiyoshi Tsuchiya |
| BG Designers |
Tomoki Chiba, Jun Yamanaka, Toshiyuki Tensaka |
| Art Designers |
Yoshikazu Takenouchi, Yohei Kikuchi, Mei Takahashi |
| Lead Character Model Designer |
Tatsuya Mizogui |
| Character Model Designers |
Mitsumi Kakitani, Tomoyuki Hirahara, Koji Ida |
| Lead Character Texture Designer |
Satoru Nishikawa |
| Character Texture Designers |
Yutaka Maekawa, Yasuka Suzuki, Satomi Kaeriyama, Nao Yoshikawa |
| Lead Character Animators |
Hitoshi Oguchi, Ryūichi Ōnuma |
| Character Animators |
Yoichiro Hori, Kunihiro Sakai, Yoichi Muraki, Kazuyo Yoshida, Yasutomo Kayou, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Rina Okumoto, Junji Suzuki, Kazuhiko Yokoyama |
| Lead Visual Effects Designer |
Yuko Hatae |
| Visual Effects Designers |
Yuko Tashiro, Koji Tsutsui, Ai Yamamoto, Naoto Endo, Hitomi Shimaoka, Taiki Yamanaka |
| Production Managers |
Kazuhiro Hasegawa, Asako Uenishi |
| Marketing & Publicity |
Koji Shirasugi, Rieko Katayama, Miho Shirai, Daisuke Yamamoto |
Localization |
| Localization Director |
Tobias Stahl |
| Localization Coordinator |
Wataru Ikarashi |
| Lead Translator |
Neil Broadley |
| English Translators |
Nathan Schneider, Timothy L. Horst |
| Editor |
Roger Duke |
| Localization Support |
Michael-Christopher Koji Fox, Mei Koshimizu, Ben Sabin, James S. Felper, Clément Depagne, Aleksandar Stefanovic, Patrick Fuchs, Joe Shanel, Tomoko Asano |
| Coordination Manager |
Shingo Hosokawa |
| General Manager |
Kazuhisa Ichigaya |
Sound |
| Composer |
Naoshi Mizuta |
| Sound Designers |
Ritsu Mizutani, Yusuke Saito, Tomohiro Yajima, Masayuki Sato, Kenichi Mikoshiba, Masami Abe |
| Audio Programmers |
Yoshinori Tsuchida, Nao Kasahara, Hikaru Taniyama |
| Synthesizer Operators |
Hidenori Iwasaki, Ryo Yamazaki, Hirosato Noda, Keiji Kawamori |
| Studio Support |
Yuji Isogawa |
| Project Manager |
Kazuki Hamamoto |
| Project Assistants |
Yuko Sakae, Shihoko Karube, Ayako Tsuchiya |
PlayOnline Viewer |
| Producer |
Kenji Ishiwata |
| Director |
Kenji Ishiwata |
| Planner |
Toyohiko Ohira |
| Designers |
Kazuhiro Oikawa, Tatsuo Fujii |
| Programmers |
Nobuaki Ōsawa, Hideaki Sasaki, Tadamichi Obinata |
| Production Coordinator |
Asako Uenishi |
Community & Service Division |
| Lead Community Planner |
Kazuyoshi Mochizuki |
| Community Planners |
Kenichi Hashimoto, Kenji Sasaki, Shunichiro Sano |
| Lead CRM Engineer |
Tatsuhiko Inagaki |
| CRM Engineers |
Hiroyuki Edamoto, Kazuya Miyashita, Kenichi Miyazaki, Tomoki Taniyama |
| Lead Special Task Force |
Satoshi Yasukawa |
| Special Task Force |
Harutaro Morimae, Makoto Okabe |
| Account Administrators |
Kozue Miyatake, Aki Takeda |
| Operation Group Leader |
Ryuji Kudō |
| Operation Group |
Masaki Endo, Jun Ito, Masahiro Ito, Isao Kajiwara, Yoshikazu Kawahama, Shino Kayutsuka, Kaori Kudou, Teruyoshi Kudo, Tōru Maki, Takahiro Masui, Yoshio Murakami, Junichi Murayama, Tomonori Obata, Mie Osaki, Ayako Oshima, Shinya Seino, Kentaro Suzuki, Naoto Tada, Kimihiko Tokunaga, Kenta Watanabe |
| Managers |
Tatsuhiko Nozaki, Shosaku Takabayashi |
| Global Community Producer |
Toshio Murouchi |
Quality Assurance |
| Coordinators |
Akira Hasegawa, Shingo Endo, Ryuichiro Umino, Daisuke Ikeda |
| Technical Engineers |
Kosuke Kawakami, Hisato Iwatsuki |
| Game Testers |
Tomoyoshi Tsushida, Rei Sakata, Fukio Hirose, Masaaki Kojima, Fumihiro Ihara, Takashi Hasegawa, Yukiko Yoshimura, Seiji Itō, Tomohiro Aso, Yukiyo Take, Kenichi Asazuma, Yuji Shimazaki, Shinya Kawashima, Keisuke Shimizu |
| Chief Coordinator |
Hiromichi Takahashi |
| Ratings Advisor |
Reiko Kondo |
| Manager |
Hideyuki Kato |
| Senior Manager |
Yukihiro Shibuya |
| General Manager |
Koji Yamashita |
Information Systems Division |
| Executive Officer |
Hirokazu Nishikado |
| General Manager |
Motoharu Mitamura |
| Senior Managers |
Naoko Tadaura, Tatsuya Mori, Nobuaki Ōsawa |
| Manager |
Naoto Shimada |
| Engineers |
Kazuhiro Kasai, Nobufumi Yamada, Takashi Sato, Kazuyuki Horii, Takashi Watanabe, Hironobu Murakami, Zhengyu Xie, Hideki Matsushita, Yasutaka Nakata, Daisuke Koike, Yang Wang, Masao Nozaki, Taro Shimada, Kousei Shimoda, Takaaki Yamamoto, Daisuke Horiguchi, Muneto Watanabe, Ikumi Susa, Shinichiro Eto, Sota Onji, Taka Iwasaki, Satoru Hiraide, Rike Schmalz, Toshiaki Takahashi, Kousuke Kato, Tadamichi Obinata, Hideaki Sasaki, Masato Ide, Morio Nakaya, Ken Kizaki, Hiromi Okamoto, Go Matsumoto, Hajime Miyahira, Kei Kyo |
| Coordinators |
Kazuya Okayasu, Satoshi Yoshida, Misato Kurita, Takako Naganuma, Ayano Yamaguchi |
Marketing Division - Japan |
| Executive Officer |
Tomoyoshi Osaki |
| Managers |
Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Tsutomu Yamada |
| Staff |
Yoshiki Yamada, Wataru Ninomiya, Mana Asai, Shunichi Hashimoto, Toshiyuki Inoue, Takashi Kamimura, Kazuo Kusakawa, Masahiro Matsumoto, Toshihide Nomura, Hiroshi Ogane, Mizuki Sakuma, Yu Sugimoto, Ayako Watanabe, Masaki Yano, Rumi Yoshikawa, Nana Iba, Kana Miyata, Shinya Okayama, Maiko Shimizu, Miyuki Mase, Asuka Nara, Miwa Tanaka |
Copyright Licensing Division |
| General Manager |
Izumi Tsukushi |
| Licensing Specialist |
Hitomi Urajiri |
Legal and Intellectual Property Division |
| Senior Manager |
Satoshi Shinohara |
| Manager |
Yuko Mizoguchi |
Square Enix, Inc. |
| North American Online Producer |
Yasu Kurosawa |
| Online Production Manager |
Yuki Ushiba |
| Online Community Assistant Director |
Matt Hilton |
| Online Community Manager |
Devin Casadey |
| Community Relations Reps. |
Colby Casaccia, Anthony Caraway |
| Operations Support Manager |
Steve Nguyen |
| Operations Support Supervisor |
Kumiko Yamaguchi |
| Senior Operations Support Agents |
Chris Ichikawa, Gregory Toyosaka |
| Operations Support Agents |
Jose Osio, Joshua Hochner, Sachiko Sato, Shun Fukuda |
| Senior Operations Support Analyst |
Michael Somerville |
| Senior Manager of Operations |
Brendan Hee |
| Information Center & Fraud Prevention Supervisor |
Kenny Yoshinaga |
| Information Center Supervisors |
Stephen Harding, Chris Farmer |
| Customer Service Specialist |
Josue Munoz |
| Fraud Analyst |
Iryna Miller |
| Information Center Rep. |
Justin Chan |
| Supervisors and Senior Game Masters |
Thomas Schell, Larry DuPreez |
| Game Masters |
Michael Wagner, Joseph Wood, Candace Lun, Chenin Matthews, Sierra Little |
| Director, Localization & QA |
Yutaka Sano |
| Assistant Director of QA |
David Carrillo (Ribs) |
| Senior QA Manager |
Aaron J. Adams |
| QA Administrator |
Keith P. Christensen-Martz |
| Associate QA Administrator |
Louis Sedeno III |
| Senior QA Coordinator |
Bryan D. Chen |
| QA Coordinator |
Eric Lea |
| QA Testers |
Tim Blake, Ashley Bonilla, Christopher Upton, Christopher C. Arnett |
| TQA Manager |
Mark Okamoto |
| Senior TQA Analyst |
Juvé Quiroz |
| Director of Marketing, MMO |
Morten Thor Haugaard |
| Associate Product Marketing Manager - MMO |
Kay Irao |
| Asset / Traffic Manager |
Andrew Froilan |
| Creative Services Designer |
James Cunningham |
| Manager of Creative Services |
Brett Wooldridge |
| Director of Creative Service |
Michael Bannon |
| Senior Manager, Loyalty & CRM |
Eric So |
| e-Commerce Manager |
Shinri Matsuoka |
| Senior Web Producer |
Richard Cerow |
| Director of Public Relations |
David Yang |
| Public Relations Manager |
Emily Shoji |
| Assistant Public Relations Manager |
Stephanie Chang |
| Channel Marketing Manager |
Marc Terada |
| Director of Channel Marketing |
Michael Silbowitz |
| Sales Operations Manager |
Jennifer Park |
| Senior Manager |
Eric Rosenberger |
| Senior Director and National Sales Manager |
Ronald Kurtz |
| Senior Director of Sales Planning, Project Communications and Merchandise |
Kanji Tashiro |
| Manager |
Ami Funaki |
| Assistant Manager |
Aimi Tokutake |
| Assistant Events Manager |
Alfred Holz |
| Assistant Director of Events |
Wilbur Lin |
| Coordinator |
Kelsey Britt |
| Director, Head of Legal |
Adam Sullivan |
| Senior Counsel |
Brian Finkelstein |
| Counsel |
Noi Sasaki |
| Associate Counsel |
Patrick Soon |
| Senior Paralegal, Manager |
Desiree Rosales |
| Legal Assistant |
Stephanie Pimentel |
| President and CEO |
Phil Rogers |
| COO |
Michael Sherlock |
| Executive Director |
Larry Sparks |
Square Enix Ltd. Europe - Operations |
| Operations Director |
Sebastian Ohsan Berthelsen |
| Assistant Production Manager |
Yuko Tomizawa |
| Senior Localisation Producer |
Martin Walter |
| QA Manager |
André Woitczyk |
| Assistant QA Manager |
Sébastien Dulabour |
| German QA Lead |
Silke Oehler |
| Senior Tester German |
Matthias Winter |
| QA Testers German |
Jessica Janorschke, Dieter Imme, Simon Thum |
| QA Coordinator French |
Alex Santos |
| Senior Tester French |
Adrien Meyer |
| QA Testers French |
Jennifer Beylemans, Clémence Amoric |
| Localisation Specialist Italian |
Giulia Isnenghi |
| Localisation Specialist German |
Katharina Klamt |
| Localisation Specialist French |
Louise Macqueron |
| Localisation Specialist Spanish |
Raquel Uzal-Gómez |
| Japanese Business Translators |
Sumiko Okada, Gavin J. Poffley, Kazuya Andii Yamanaka |
| Senior Creative Services Manager |
Stéphanie Journau |
| Designer |
Emma Featherstone |
| Production Manager |
Linda Kershaw |
| Production Executive |
Raffaella Rossato |
Square Enix Ltd. Europe - Marketing |
| Senior MMO Manager |
Simon Wells |
| Brand Co-ordinator |
Anita-Lynne Beale |
| Senior Product Manager, Germany |
Nils Kröger |
| Project Manager, Nordic |
Zoher Toutanji |
| Marketing Director, France |
Florent Moreau |
Square Enix Ltd. Europe - PR |
| Senior PR Manager |
Alex Huhtala |
| PR Manager, Germany |
Dominik Heineccius |
| PR Executive |
Amy Louise Hughes, Daniel Seto |
Square Enix Ltd. Europe - Community and Services |
| Head of Community and Services Department |
Saori Spencer-Hill |
| Online Business Senior Manager |
Ian Abrol |
| Online Business Development Manager |
Thomas Pernot |
| Online Community Manager |
Mizuho Kondo |
| Community Managers |
Eileen Hattab, Flavie Bidault |
| Online Project Coordinator |
Benjamin Wilford |
| Community Project Manager |
Hergen Thaens |
| European Customer Service Senior Manager |
Damian Bennett |
| European Information Centre Manager |
Camille Ledauphin |
| European Game Master Manager |
Reinaldo Santodomingo |
| European Operations Support Group Manager |
Bastian Spiegel |
| European Operations Support Group Assistant Manager |
Nobuko Sugahara |
| European Operations Support Group Coordinators |
James Avins, Yann Depierre |
| Senior Information Centre Operators |
Djagmit Nagpal, Christin Nolte, Andreas Remy, Franck Rousselot |
| Lead Game Master |
Nicolas Mariette |
| Senior Game Masters |
David Böse, Florent Adolphe, Clément Ruggeri |
| Game Masters |
Antoine Bernadet, Florian Berto, Max Horn, Max Klaut, Marion Mangion, Artur Moor, Xavier-Alexandre Riancho, Raphael Rostaing, Alexander Syska, Michael Wörz-Maurus |
| Information Technology Service Desk Manager |
Chirag Patel |
| IT Support Analyst |
Gareth Girling |
| Infrastructure Design Manager |
Matt Westby |
| Web Systems Administrator |
Péter Horváth |
| Global IT Director |
Haitham Rowley |
| Executive Director |
Larry Sparks |
| Co-Lead Operating Officer |
Michael Sherlock |
| Lead Executive Officer |
Phil Rogers |
| Information Centre |
Pole To Win Europe |
| Account Manager |
James Diack |
| Assistant Account Manager |
Michael Joyce |
| Information Centre Representatives |
Pierre Bovry, Anabela Casqueira, Chris Edgar, Victoria McCullough, Marvin Mrzyglod, Paul Neil, Sabrina Obreiter, Mark Paterson, Tony Paterson, Francesca Penney, Eric Pupunat, Cato Rodriguez, Alan Salaun, Euan Scarlett |
Contributors |
| Image Illustration |
Yoshitaka Amano |
| Topics Outsourcers |
Miyabi Hasegawa, Mitsuhiro Arita, Fumio Minagawa, Tomokichi (as Tomokichi) |
| Special Guest Illustrator |
Kazushi Hagiwara |
| Icon Outsourcers |
Be-DASH Inc. |
| Director |
Mitsutoshi Tajima |
| Designer |
Hitomi Kawahara |
| - Wail of the Void - |
Koichiro Muroya (Violin) |
| - Rhapsodies of Vana'diel - |
RiRiKA (Vocals; Phantasmagoric), MARiE (Vocals; Phantasmagoric) |
| Lyrics |
Yaeko Sato |
| Composer |
Naoshi Mizuta |
| Arrangers |
Naoshi Mizuta, Takuro Iga |
| Chorus |
Vana'diel's Finest |
| Recording Engineers |
Shigeo Sakurai, Onkio Haus, Yutaka Une |
| Mixing Engineer |
Naoki Yamada, I to I communications Co. |
| Collaborating Firms |
Toho Entertainment, Shangri-la Inc. |
| Special Thanks |
Hiromichi Tanaka, Koichi Ishii, Sage Sundi, Koichi Ogawa, Masato Kato, Kenichi Iwao, Ryosuke Aiba, Nobuo Uematsu, Nobuaki Komoto, Ken Narita, Yusuke Naora, Tetsuya Nomura, Ryoma Itoh, Kumi Tanioka, Ayako Kawamoto, Sho Fujita, Aurélie Kryvinskyj, The entire QA staff, Everyone at Square Enix, ...and all fans |
| Business Division V Division Executive |
Naoki Yoshida |
| Production Executive |
Yosuke Matsuda |
| Produced by |
Square Enix Co. Ltd. |
| © 2002-2015 |
Square Enix Co. Ltd. |