SEGA of America |
President and COO |
Hideaki Irie |
Localization Producer |
Kevin Frane |
Associate Localization Producer |
Martin Hunter Caplan |
Supervising Producer |
Jason Kuo |
Director of Product Development |
Osamu Shibamiya |
QA Project Lead |
Demetrius Griffin |
Testers |
Lee Frohman, Sandra Lew, Ken Robinson, Matthew Trudell |
Product Marketing Manager |
Heather Guzenda, Ami Matsumura-Blaire |
Senior Media Specialist |
Teri A. Higgins |
VP of Entertainment Marketing |
Scott A. Steinberg |
Director, Web Development |
Chris Olson |
Public Relations |
Bret Blount, Ethan Einhorn |
Credits |
Original World Concept Coordinating Producer |
Tsuyoshi Sawada |
Main Character Design |
Tony Taka |
Enemy Character Design (SALAMANDER FACTORY) |
Yoshitaka Tamaki, Kiyofumi Hino |
Game Development |
NEXTECH |
Game Producer |
Katsuji Aoyama, Yoshitaka Maki |
Director |
Daisuke Tajima |
Game Design |
Fumio Shimoyama |
Story |
Tokuji Komine |
Main Programmer |
Yasunori Gotoh |
Programmers |
Daisuke Haga, Hayato Ikeda, Shin Ishida, Hiroyuki Horita |
Design |
Ken Sasaki, Yoshikazu Yamaki |
Script |
Masayuki Ishikawa, Teppei Suzuki, Tetsuo Nakagawa, Kotoe Miyake |
Sound |
Kaoru Okada, Takuya Yokota |
Art Director |
Yoshiki Ito |
Associate Art Director |
Yukari Miki |
Art Creation |
Chie Ohta |
Artists |
Yusuke Tsubouchi, Kazuhiro Nagata, Susumu Higashitsuji, Takafumi Nakata, Sayaka Yamada, Akira Okamoto, Masaru Minokawa |
Effects |
Kenji Demura, Tomohiro Ohnuki |
2D Graphics |
Nozomi Ohtawa, Makiko Takahashi, Takahide Saitoh |
Animators |
Masato Sekiguchi, Kohei Takahashi, Shigeru Komatsuzaki, Jiro Yagi, Yoshiki Hanawa, Yurika Ōhashi, Takeo Niikura, Toshiyuki Kuroiwa, Miho Obara, Koichi Tsumori, Hiroki Morikawa, Nobuyoshi Satō, Hiromi Tabuchi, Katsuo Sano, Takeshi Kuromori, Manabu Takahashi, Kazue Tsukamoto, Naho Shimoyama |
Character Producer |
Shusaku Chamoto |
Character Directors |
Shimmei Kawahara, Shōji Okada |
Character Production Assistant |
Kenichi Yamada |
Background Scenery Producer |
Kōji Takeuchi |
Background Production Manager |
Osamu Taniguchi |
Background Scenery Directors |
Yukihiro Yokoyama, Mari Tanaka |
Backgrounds |
Miwako Hashimoto, Iring Sha, Yasuhiro Yamane, Hiroshi Nitta, Ayumi Shimazu, Hanae Baba, Hiromi Kawashima, Seiji Sugawara |
Character Portraits |
Hiroshi Nagahama, Takao Maki |
Character Portrait Cleanup |
Yutaka Sakamoto |
Animation (PALM STUDIO) |
Storyboard Direction |
Akitoshi Yokoyama |
Character Design Art Director |
Masashi Okumura |
Original Artwork |
Gousei Oda, Takao Maki, Shigeru Kimishima, Hirofumi Masuda (桝田 浩史 [as Hiroshi Masuda]), Kōichi Arai, Hiroshi Shimizu, Masahiro Andoh, Mariko Aoki, Satoru Minoshima, Kazuya Saitō |
Additional Artwork |
Kumiko Ohtani, Reina Igawa, Kiyoshi Nouchi, Mitsunori Murata, Tomoko Fukui |
Video |
Kumiko Ohtani, Ritsuko Shiina, ANIME TOROTORO, STUDIO TAKURANKE |
Art |
Mutsuo Koseki, Kazuo Oga, Katsu Nozaki, Masanori Kikuchi |
Finishing |
VENET |
Photography |
ASAHI PRODUCTION |
Director of Photography |
Eiji Tsuchida |
Ending Animation |
Ending Art Continuity |
Akitoshi Yokoyama |
Ending Direction |
Toshiyasu Kokawa |
Ending Artwork |
Kōichi Arai, Takao Maki |
Photography |
BUYU |
Animation Producer |
Katsumi Yamaguchi |
Project Management |
Masahiro Kameya |
Production Manager |
Jun Hirata, Kayoko Taguchi |
Credits |
Marketing Director |
Toyohisa Hiwatari |
Publicity |
Tomomi Kiyono |
Promotion |
Ken Ohsaki |
Sales Promotion |
Youko Fukazawa, Toru Yasuda, Takehiro Yoshida |
Advertising Scene Director |
Ikuo Ishizaka |
Marketing Research |
Naofumi Shioya, Noriko Hashimoto, Yoriaki Toraiwa |
Packaging and Manual Direction |
Yoshihiro Sakuta, Hisakazu Nakagawa, Satoru Ishigami, Colin Restall |
QA Testing |
Junichi Shimizu, Akira Nishikawa, Akira Terasawa, Akinobu Koechi, Satoshi Yamagata, Sou Ishida, Shinya Nagaoka, Daisuke Suzuki |
Gameplay Balancing (SARUGAKUCHOU) |
Tohru Hashimoto, Naoya Kojima, Atsuhito Watanabe, Eiko Kawakubo, Makoto Kohatsu, Daisuke Toda |
Supervisor |
Kazuhiko Yoshida |
Production Cooperation |
Youichi Shimosato |
Special Thanks |
Yukio Sugino, Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Junichiro Takahashi, Masaya Konya, Masaaki Yamada, Akihiko Etori, Fumitaka Shibata, Hiroshi Murasaki, Kazuhiko Yamada, Hideaki Ohta, Yuichiro Kubo, Shinichi Kobori (GEN), Miho Sugawara (GEN), Hirotsugu Kawasaki, Ipponbaba Nanzan |
Shining Series Executive Producer |
Tadashi Takezaki |
Executive Producer |
Hisao Oguchi |
Sega of Japan |
International Business and Product Development |
Yukiko Kato, Shinobu Shindo |