Staff of Pokémon X and Y

This is a list of staff members who worked on the sixth generation games Pokémon X and Y for the Nintendo 3DS, per the game's credits. It was published by Nintendo and developed by Game Freak.

List of staff

Director

Character Art Director

3-D Art Director

Program Director

  • Katsumi Ohno

Planning Director

Sound Director

Scenario

Pokémon Concept and Pokédex Text

  • Kenji Matsushima

Field System Programming

  • Lead: Tomoya Takahashi
  • Nozomu Saito
  • Masayuki Onoue
  • Masaeru Ishiguro
  • Keisuke Takada
  • Koji Kawada
  • Masanori Funakoshi

Field Event Camera Programming

  • Teppei Ikeda

Battle System Programming and Pokémon Data Programming

  • Lead: Sosuke Tamada
  • Nobuhiko Ariizumi
  • Masao Taya
  • Toshihiro Obata
  • Junya Ikuta

Network Programming

  • Lead: Hisanao Suzuki
  • Katsumi Ohno
  • Akito Mori
  • Katsuhiko Ichiraku
  • Shin Kosaka

Special Elements Programming

  • Hisashi Sogabe
  • Shin Kimura
  • Isao Ito

UI System Programming

  • Lead: Hiroyuki Nakamura
  • Toru Nagihashi

Script Programming

  • Lead: Sosuke Tamada
  • Miyuki Iwasawa
  • Genya Hosaka
  • Masanori Funakoshi

Pokémon Draw Programming

  • Nobuhiko Arrizumi
  • Masteru Ishiguro
  • Shin Kimura

Support Programming

  • Tetsuya Watanabe

Pokémon Characters Design

Pokémon Design Coordination

  • Kenji Matsushima
  • Ken Sugimori
  • Takao Unno
  • Hironobu Yoshida
  • Yusuke Ohmura
  • Shigeru Ohmori

Trainer Graphics Design

  • Yusuke Ohmura
  • Megumi Mizutani
  • Reiko Tanoue
  • Rafal Gosieniecki
  • Kanako Eo

3-D Map Graphics

  • Lead: Maiko Fujiwara
  • Mana Ibe
  • Tsubasa Matsuzaki
  • Yuki Kawamoto
  • Teruki Suganuma
  • Yukiko Shiiyama
  • Natsumi Sakamoto
  • Hiroyoshi Ohsawa
  • Ritsuko Adachi
  • Shino Hiranabe
  • Koji Aoyama
  • Takashi Abe
  • Jinyoung Sung
  • Ai Komakazi
  • Takaaki Sano
  • Rindo Adachi
  • Yoshinori Numoto
  • Satsuki Kawana
  • Taku Okada
  • Yasunari Akiyama

Character Modeling

Character Motion Design

  • Lead: Futoshi Kajita
  • Natsumi Inoue
  • Suguru Fukaya
  • Mariko Yoshida
  • Takeshi Otaki

UI Graphic Design

  • Lead: Hironobu Yoshida
  • Kenkichi Toyama
  • Motofumi Fujiwara
  • Saya Tsuruta
  • Noriko Hotta
  • Masahiko Kitaguchi

Digital Movie Design

  • Lead: James Turner
  • Mayuka Yoshikawa
  • Ryuichi Ohkubo

Effect Design

  • Muneyuki Tejima
  • Koichi Fujikawa

Battlefield Graphic Design

  • Hiroki Fuchino
  • Satoshi Katsube

Pokémon 3-D Model Management

  • Ayumi Kikuta
  • Kazushige Komagata
  • Takahiro Hosoya

Concept Illustration

  • Rafal Gosieniecki
  • Tomohiro Kitakaze

Music

  • Shota Kageyama
  • Minako Adachi
  • Hitomi Sato
  • Junichi Masuda

Pokémon Voice Design

  • Hideaki Kuroda

Sound Effects

  • Hideaki Kuroda

Game Battle System Design

Game UI System Design

  • Tetsuji Ohta
  • Mai Mizuguchi

All-Round Game Design

  • Lead: Masafumi Saito
  • Suguru Nakatsui
  • Hiroto Ito
  • Hitomi Sato

Game Design of Special Elements

  • Yukiko Hozumi
  • Chihiro Hayashi
  • Hiro Nakamura
  • Mitsuyo Matsunaga

Network System Game Design

  • Lead: Teruyuki Shimoyamada
  • Takeshi Kawachimuru

Game Dialogue Design

  • Lead: Toshinobu Matsumiya
  • Masafumi Nukita
  • Suguru Nakatsui

Game Action Script Design

  • Lead: Masafumi Saito
  • Katsunori Suginaka
  • Atsushi Terachi
  • Masafumi Nukita
  • Kento Kurihara

Game Map Design

  • Lead: Kazumasa Iwao
  • Atsushi Terachi
  • Chihiro Hayashi
  • Akira Nakamura
  • Kazuki Muroi
  • Yohei Asaoka

Pokémon 3-D Modeling

  • Art Director: Atsuko Ujiie
  • Product Manager: Masamichi Anazawa
  • Miku Majima
  • Maiko Shindo
  • Hiroaki Ito
  • Takashi Sakuma
  • Takafumi Misawa
  • Joe Naha
  • Yuma Kato
  • Masaya Ishizuka
  • Kazuhisa Nishimura

Pokémon Character Modeling

  • Lead: Shunsuke Uematsu
  • Hiroki Fujiwara
  • Hiroyuki Takahashi
  • Hidenori Fujita
  • Tadashi Abe
  • Kengo Nakahiro
  • Nozomi Ishii
  • Akiyo Suzuki
  • Takeshi Mayumi
  • Toru Hashimoto
  • Yasuhisa Sakamoto
  • Masafumi Sugiyama
  • Koichi Arisaka
  • Shouji Ando
  • Yuta Ishikawa
  • Ryo Inomata
  • Yoshihiro Iwata
  • Takeshi Ochiai
  • Kotaro Kitada
  • Kouichiro Wakamatsu
  • Yuichi Komagata
  • Yu Kasahara
  • Minoru Koga
  • Kenichi Tanaka
  • Kazuma Yamagishi
  • Aya Ishimori
  • Tomoka Ogura
  • Yuri Suga
  • Mai Takai
  • Tomosato Taniguchi
  • Takeshi Tsuzaki
  • Akane Haraki
  • Chisato Fujita
  • Nana Wakabayashi
  • Kosuke Wakamori
  • Ayaka Kaneko
  • Shoutarou Sakamoto
  • Takeshi Sakamoto
  • Masaya Tamano
  • Tatsuya Yoshioka
  • Masaki Aso
  • Sunao Kashiwano
  • Noriaki Kitamura
  • Kim DongHyun
  • Mihori Kondo
  • Takahiro Hosoya
  • Raizou Muraoka

Pokémon Character Motion

  • Lead: Masataka Hata
  • Sosuke Honda
  • Masahiro Ueda
  • Tomoko Kanesaku
  • Masashi Nakata
  • Tomomi Sakuma
  • Tomokazu Yoshida
  • Yosuke Takahashi
  • Kazuki Kobayashi
  • Masayuki Kawakita
  • Mitsuo Iida
  • Kazuhiro Suganuma
  • Akira Sakawa
  • Nobuyuki Takahashi
  • Yasuko Motoki
  • Mikako Araumi
  • Masakazu Tagawa
  • Takahiro Koizumi
  • Hidefumi Takeda
  • Nobuyuki Miyai
  • Hirofumi Horii
  • Nami Oosaku
  • Megumi Miyagawa
  • Masato Mori
  • Mika Anzai
  • Yusuke Morino
  • Keiichi Nagao
  • Yutaka Ishida
  • Hiromichi Hidaka
  • Yuichi Ishizaki
  • Kazuaki Toya
  • Genki Kaneko
  • Kazuyuki Matsumoto
  • Yoshiakira Nakano
  • Katsuki Hisanaga
  • Kunihito Ihara
  • Kuni Furukobo
  • Yoshihiro Maruyama
  • Kosuke Hayashi
  • Shogo Fujihara
  • Shigeru Takenaka
  • Hirotatsu Ishida
  • Satoshi Arai
  • Jun Takada
  • Yosuke Tanahashi
  • Yuya Kimura
  • Tatsuo Kuwabara
  • Reiko Kodama
  • Satsuki Nakamura
  • Koji Sato
  • Sayo Mikami
  • Yasunori Tatsuki
  • Keito Miura

Pikachu Voice

Voice Recording Director

  • Masafumi Mima

Voice Recording Coordinator

  • Takemoto Mori

Localization Engineering

  • Hironori Ichibayashi
  • Kei Ninomiya

English Localization

  • Yasuhiro Usui
  • Mikiko Ryu
  • Satomi Honda
  • Mayu Todo

English Translation

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

English Editing

  • Blaise Selby
  • Wolfgang Baur
  • Kellyn Ballard
  • Eric Haddock
  • Hollie Beg
  • Rachel Payne

European Localization

  • Noriko Netley
  • Makiko Cottrell
  • Nami Kusumoto
  • Chika Tanigaki
  • Maya Yoshida
  • Suirei Okata
  • Hideko Russell
  • Bertrand Lecocq

French Translation

  • Guillaume Didier
  • Cyril Schultz
  • Pascal Ehret
  • Géraldine Oudin
  • Sarah Provost

French Editing

  • Pierre Gauthier
  • Franck Couée

German Translation

  • Michael Ecke
  • Daniel Heucher
  • Kathleen Kalms
  • Josef Shanel
  • Matthias Wissnet

German Editing

  • Sina Moelleken
  • Claudia Thon

Italian Translation

  • Marco Sartori
  • Manuela Suriano
  • Guido Scarabello
  • Anna Rita Spera Yamada
  • Giovanni Ballarin

Italian Editing

  • Fabio Giusti
  • Silvia De Bellis

Spanish Translation

  • Alberto Gracia Castellano
  • Alejandro Martínez Monge
  • Enrique Joga Elvira
  • Pablo Gismero Calvo
  • Servando Doval Díaz

Spanish Editing

  • Mariona Pera i de Miguel
  • Virginia Paradés Gurrea

Korean Translation & Editing

  • Chanho Sohn
  • Yongho So
  • Mihwa Choi
  • Jeonghwa Jeong
  • Goeun Ryou
  • Jaein Shim
  • Taehyung Lee
  • Aejoo Kim

English & European Graphic Design

  • Eric Medalle
  • Bridget O'Neill
  • Tina Sourinephoumy
  • Hiromi Kimura

English & European Localization Support

  • Antoin Johnson
  • Jeff Hines
  • Aaron Campion
  • Marvin Andrews
  • Simon Bell

NOA Localization Support

  • Seth McMahill
  • Joel Simon
  • Rie Fujiwara
  • Terry Chan
  • Dan Oswen
  • Michael Barry

NOE Localization Management

  • Andy Fey
  • Michael Hugot

NOE Localization Producers

  • Jamie Grant
  • Silvio Schmelz

Korean Localization Support

  • Kimiko Nakamichi
  • Ilho Kim
  • Jonghoon Park

NOK Localization Support

  • Yu Fukaya
  • Hyokjin Jung
  • Jihyun Choi
  • Bomi Yun
  • Siyoung An
  • Jiyoung Shin

Localization Special Thanks

  • Kenji Okubo
  • Gaku Susai
  • Atsushi Sugimoto
  • Jihye Lee
  • Christopher Parent
  • Thomas Candland
  • Demetrius Boggs
  • Mary Rayes
  • Lubov Blaesing
  • Ryoko Sawabe

Technical Support

  • Kotaro Hiromatsu
  • Toru Inage
  • Shuhei Furukawa
  • Hirotake Matsushita

Server Development

  • Hirokazu Shimaoka
  • Ryo Yamaguchi
  • Kojiro Taguchi
  • Yu Nishikawa
  • Tetsu Okubo
  • Hajime Nakao
  • Takeshi Kawasaki
  • Masayuki Kimura

Pokémon Global Link

  • Shin Uwai
  • Makiko Takahashi
  • Keiichi Yoshikawa
  • Kazuma Suzuki
  • Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Hitomi Abe
  • Hideyoshi Uehara
  • Shusuke Ichikawa
  • Yumiko Takagi
  • Masafumi Yamakawa
  • Kazuhiro Homan
  • Yang Rong
  • Yuki Yano
  • Shu Ko
  • Nguyen Ngoc Tram Anh
  • Atsuko Okazaki
  • Yukiko Hamasaki
  • Takayuki Ando
  • Yuki Nakahara
  • Chun Un Sook
  • Takako Kido
  • Akio Kato
  • Takayuki Ohara
  • Li Yunjing
  • Tomohiro Matsumoto
  • Hikaru Ozono
  • Keiichi Miyata
  • Linh Thuy Lai
  • Thanh Hong Dang
  • Yoshiko Ito
  • Akihiro Tsuneda
  • Dai Okuyama
  • Shingo Nakanishi
  • Kazuya Iwamoto
  • Shohei Saito

Debug Management

  • Yuki Tanikawa
  • Yasuharu Ohta
  • Takahiro Kumasaka
  • Motoki Nakajima
  • Takeshi Tamura
  • Takuya Inoue
  • Keisuke Fukushima
  • Akiko Ohashi

Debug

  • Mario Club
  • DIGITAL Hearts

NOA Product Testing

  • Masayasu Nakata
  • Randy Shoemake
  • Seth Hanser
  • Eric Bush
  • Sean Egan
  • Q Dequina
  • Vincent Ngo
  • Kathy Huguenard
  • Scott Callahan
  • Teresa Lillygren
  • Kindra Timmerwilke
  • Nicko Gonzalez De Santiago
  • Stephane Arlot
  • Sara Hoad
  • Sophie Wallway
  • Dutch Hixenbaugh
  • Tomoko Mikami
  • Makiko Szolas
  • Nahoko Hiyoshi

NOE QA Coordination

  • Julio Manzaneda
  • Luis Golbano
  • Marco Gruden
  • Patrick Thorenz

NOE Quality Assurance

  • Aatish Pattni
  • Ben Howard-Hale
  • Ben Southam
  • Christopher Stewart
  • Ahmed Bounouar
  • Angélique Tesar
  • Florian Richert
  • François Decaux
  • Fred Gouard
  • Kaveh Moussavian
  • Laurence Uhlen
  • Marie Pinault
  • Marie-Cécile Dussol
  • Alessandro Calemme
  • Alice Troiani
  • Daniele Albrito
  • Edoardo Toniolatti
  • Fabio Brignoli
  • Fabrizio Giuseppe Negretti
  • Marco Maspero
  • Sergio Fragomeli
  • Siel Garrone
  • Alexander Tenge
  • Benedikt Grosser
  • Chris Schepella
  • Christian Keller
  • Christina Stoffel
  • Hannah Siebert
  • Matthias Noll
  • Sascha Michalke
  • Sebastian Jende
  • Carlos Muñoz Díaz
  • Carolina Pacheco Cribero
  • Cristina Gestoso Suárez
  • David Gutiérrez Varona
  • David Higueras Nafría
  • Jesús Gutiérrez
  • Laura Fernández Caballero
  • Verónica García
  • Localsoft, S.L.

NOK Product Testing

  • Junbong Lee
  • Sungmin Park
  • Juyoung Choi
  • Sora Ko
  • Eodo Lee
  • NOK Debug Team

Special Thanks

  • Kenji Tominaga
  • Yuichiro Mori
  • Yoshio Tajiri
  • Teiko Sasaki
  • Emi Endo
  • Asami Sato
  • Haruka Sunaga
  • Yu Narisada
  • Kasumi Sasaki
  • Yuko Nakayama
  • Nagaaki Fukase
  • Chihiro Shiraishi
  • Emi Ando
  • Kazuki Saita
  • Megumi Mashiko
  • Hiroki Ando
  • Hirokazu Tanaka
  • Hiroyuki Jinnai
  • Kenjiro Ito
  • Mikiko Ohashi
  • Tomotaka Komura
  • Atsushi Sugimoto
  • Susumu Fukunaga
  • Masami Tanaka
  • Toshio Miyahara
  • Taku Kawamoto
  • Rui Kawaguchi
  • Ryosuke Hanawa
  • Chiharu Unno
  • Gakuji Nomoto
  • Kanako Murata
  • Yamato Chikamochi
  • Nobue Ito
  • Nobuhiro Sawabe
  • Eisuke Kasejima
  • Takeshi Masuda
  • Michiko Takizawa
  • Jiro Koga
  • Yukari Fukushima
  • Yukiko Kanagawa
  • Nobue Kamikawabata
  • Ryohei Itakura
  • Sho Furutani
  • Yuji Yamaguchi
  • Takihiro Onishi
  • Osamu Fujita
  • Chitose Kawakami
  • Mitsunori Matsunaga
  • Masayuki Soga
  • Youko Nakayama
  • Kayo Nakata
  • Ayako Kajiwara
  • Teruki Murakawa
  • Soichi Yamamoto
  • Daisuke Komai
  • Tomotaka Izuhiro
  • Toshio Mukai

World & Plot

  • Junichi Masuda

Artwork

  • Kenichi Koga
  • Hidefumi Ide
  • Ikumi Fujishiro
  • Sakae Kimura

Artwork Support

  • Keisuke Okubo
  • Sachiko Nakamichi

Manual Editing

  • Kiyomi Itani

NOE Electronic Manual Support

  • Stefan Dickhardt
  • Zuber Anzaghe

Information Coordinators

  • Yuta Nakai
  • Shiho Haraguchi
  • Toya Yoneda

Coordinators

  • Shunsuke Kohori
  • Mitsuyo Matsunaga
  • Akira Kinashi
  • Noriko Nakagawa
  • Yuki Okada

Produced By

Executive Producers

Developed By

  • Game Freak, inc.


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