Staff of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2

This is a list of staff members who worked on the fifth generation games Pokémon Black and White Versions 2 for the Nintendo DS, per the game's credits. It was published by Nintendo and developed by Game Freak and Creatures, Inc. All names are given in Western order.

Director

Planning Director

  • Masafumi Saito

Program Director

  • Sosuke Tamada

Art Director

  • Takao Unno

Scenario

Programming

  • Akito Mori (Lead)
  • Miyuki Iwasawa
  • Toru Nagihashi
  • Katsuhiko Ichiraku
  • Masayuki Onoue
  • Ryouta Tanaka

Pokémon Black and White Version Programming

  • Tetsuya Watanabe
  • Hisashi Sogabe
  • Katsumi Ohno
  • Masao Taya
  • Hiroyuki Nakamura
  • Nozomu Saito
  • Tomoya Takahashi
  • Genya Hosaka
  • Nobuhiko Ariizumi
  • Toshihiro Obata
  • Koji Kawada
  • Yoshinori Matsuda
  • Keita Kagaya

Director of Pokémon Characters

Pokémon Character Design

2-D Dot Graphics

  • Hironobu Yoshida (Lead)
  • Kenkichi Toyama
  • Saya Tsuruta
  • Megumi Mizutani
  • Yusuke Ohmura

3-D Map Graphics

  • Tomohiko Ohkubo (Lead)
  • Hiroki Fuchino
  • Mana Ibe
  • Mayo Ohtani
  • Yuki Kawamuto
  • Motofumi Fujiwara
  • Tsubasa Matsuzaki
  • Yukiko Shiiyama
  • Yuichiro Takao
  • Atsushi Watanabe

Trainer Graphics--Main Design

  • Yusuke Ohmura

Trainer Graphics Design

  • Mana Ibe
  • Megumi Mizutani

Battle Graphics Design

  • Hironobu Yoshida

Battle Effect Design

  • Motofumi Fujiwara

User Interface Graphics--Main Design

  • Kenkichi Toyama

Digital Movie--Main Design

  • Takao Unno

Pokémon Black and White Version Graphics Design

  • Lee HyunJung
  • Reiko Tanoue
  • Maiko Fujiwara
  • James Turner
  • Keiko Moritsugu
  • Tomohiro Kitakaze

Pokémon Concept & Pokédex Text

  • Toshinobu Matsumiya

Music

Pokémon Voice Design

  • Gō Ichinose

Sound Effects

  • Hitomi Satō
  • Teruo Taniguchi

Music--Humilau City, Route 23 and more music

  • Gō Ichinose

Music--Route 19, Join Avenue and more music

  • Hitomi Satō

Pokémon Black and White Version Music

Game Design

  • Teruyuki Shimoyamada (Lead)
  • Suguru Nakatsui (Lead)
  • Toshinobu Matsumiya (Lead)
  • Kōji Nishino
  • Mai Mizuguchi
  • Katsunori Suginaka
  • Akira Nakamura
  • Hiroto Itō
  • Naoto Murakami

Text

  • Toshinobu Matsumiya
  • Suguru Nakatsui
  • Hiroto Ito
  • Hikaru Yoshikawa

Action Script

  • Mai Mizuguchi
  • Katsunori Suginaka
  • Soichiro Fujimura

Map Design

  • Suguru Nakatsui
  • Katsunori Suginaka
  • Akira Nakamura
  • Kōji Nishino
  • Yohei Asaoka
  • Kazuki Muroi

Parameter Setting

  • Kōji Nishino
  • Hiroto Itō

Pokéstar Studios Design

  • Suguru Nakatsui

Pokémon World Tournament Design

  • Katsunori Suginaka
  • Toshinobu Matsumiya

Funfest Mission Design

  • Masafumi Saito

Join Avenue Design

  • Teruyuki Shimoyamada

Pokémon Black and White Version Game Design

  • Shigeki Morimoto
  • Kenji Matsushima
  • Tetsuji Ohta
  • Shigeru Ohmori
  • Hiro Nakamura
  • Kazumasa Iwao
  • Yukiko Hozumi
  • Takeshi Kawachimaru
  • Tadashi Takahashi

Nintendo 3DS Link Design

  • Takao Unno
  • Masafumi Saito

Nintendo 3DS Link Programming

  • Yasunori Isari

Pokémon Black and White Version Wi-Fi Server Development

  • Takahiro Yamaguchi
  • Ryo Yamaguchi
  • Kazutomo Niwa
  • Takaaki Takeuchi
  • Mikihiro Ishikawa

Pokémon Global Link Design

  • Makiko Takahashi
  • Keiichi Yoshikawa
  • Shin Uwai
  • Basement Factory Productions

English Localization

  • Yasuhiro Usui
  • Mikiko Ryu
  • Satomi Honda

English Translation

  • Hisato Yamamori
  • Tim Hove
  • Sayuri Munday
  • David Numrich

English Editing

  • Kellyn Ballard
  • Blaise Selby
  • Hollie Beg

English Localization Support

  • Rey Perez
  • Antoin Johnson

NOA Localization Coordinators

  • Rie Fujiwara
  • Seth McMahill
  • Joel Simon

NOA Product Testing

  • Masayasu Nakata
  • Kyle Hudson
  • Eric M. Bush
  • Sean Egan
  • Ed Ridgeway
  • Teresa Lillygren
  • Leland Jones
  • Miyuki Matsunaga
  • Steven Kim
  • Allen Perez
  • Joshua Newman
  • Kindra Timmerwilke

NOE Localisation Management

  • Andy Fey
  • Michaël Hugot

NOE Localisation Producer

  • Jamie Grant

NOE QA Coordination

  • Luis Golbano
  • Jesús Gutiérrez Cuadra
  • Patrick Thorenz

NOE Quality Assurance

  • Ben Howard-Hale
  • Chris Stewart
  • Ben Southam
  • Aatish Pattni

Localization

  • Teruki Murakawa
  • Akira Kinashi
  • Noriko Nakao
  • Hironori Ichibayashi
  • Shuhei Furukawa
  • Yuki Okada
  • Kei Ninomiya

Debug Management

  • Yuuki Tanikawa
  • Takahiro Kumasaka
  • Takuya Inoue
  • Motoki Nakajima
  • Akiko Ōhashi
  • Takeshi Tamura

Debug

  • Mario Club

World and Plot

  • Junichi Masuda

Special Thanks

  • Kenji Tominaga
  • Yuichiro Mori
  • Yoshio Tajiri
  • Teiko Sasaki
  • Emi Endo
  • Asami Sato
  • Nagaaki Fukase
  • Sachiko Hamano
  • Haruka Sunaga
  • Keisuke Takada
  • Hiroaki Tsuru
  • Kenjiro Itō
  • Mikiko Ōhashi
  • Tomotaka Komura
  • Atsushi Sugimoto
  • Susumu Fukunaga
  • Takato Utsunomiya
  • Oshito Miyahara
  • Taku Kawamoto
  • Gakuji Nomoto
  • Kanako Murata
  • Kochimi Takizawa
  • Mitsuyo Matsunaga
  • Shō Furutani
  • Takahiro Ohnishi
  • Yuichiro Tsumita
  • Osamu Fujita
  • Masayuki Soga
  • Yōko Nakayama
  • Kayo Nakata
  • Teruki Murakawa
  • Kaori Andō
  • Kōtarō Hiromatsu
  • Shirohi Akune
  • Daisuke Komai
  • Toshio Mukai
  • Chiaki Takahara

English Version Artwork

Artwork

  • Kyomi Itani
  • Sachiko Nakamichi

Globalization Coordinators

  • Noriko Nakao
  • Hironori Ichibayashi
  • Shuhei Furukawa
  • Kei Ninomiya
  • Kenji Matsushima

Information Management

  • Toya Yoneda
  • Shiho Haraguchi
  • Yuuta Nakai
  • Yuri Sakurai

Coordinators

  • Shunsuke Kohori
  • Ayako Kajiwara
  • Akira Kinashi
  • Hideaki Araki
  • Yuki Okada

Producers

  • Junichi Masuda
  • Hitoshi Yamagami
  • Shusaku Egami

Executive Producers


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