Staff of Detective Pikachu Returns
This is a list of staff members who worked on the game Detective Pikachu Returns for the Nintendo Switch, per the game credits. It was published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company and developed by Creatures, Inc. All names are given in Western order.
List of staff
Creatures Inc.
General Producer
- Hiroyuki Jinnai
Producer
- Masamichi Anazawa
Director
- Katsuyoshi Irie
Creative Director
- Yasunori Yanagisawa
Game Design
- Akihito Joguchi
- Tomoyoshi Sugao
- Hidekazu Masaki
- Nobuhiro Seya
- Youta Hirano
- Yuki Yamada
- Hiroki Shiraishi
- Hiromi Murao
- Kenichi Higeta
- Miki Obata
- Hisasto Matsumoto
- Hiroshi Igarashi
- Hajime Kuroyanagi
- Akira Kurasawa
- Takahiro Ogino
Scenario Direction
- Hiroyuki Jinnai
Scenario
- Yasunori Yanagisawa
- Ayako Arai
- Keijiro Chonan
- Keisuke Mizuno
- Eiichi Nakamura
- Kentaro Suzuki
- Misato Nariai
Programming Direction
- Kenichi Kato
Programming
- Hisashi Sugiyama
- Keisuke Kondo
- Tomofusa Shimamura
- Wataru Furukawa
- Jonathan Murphy
- Shohei Fukami
- Takuto Yoshimoto
Programming Support
- Katsunori Orimoto
CG Engineer
- Takashi Koga
Art Direction
- Atsushi Watanabe
Art Support
- Hiroyasu Hosoya
- Koichiro Wakamatsu
Character Modeling
- Hidenori Fujita
- Hitomi Suzuki
- Tatsuki Sato
- Haruka Hirono
- Keisuke Kanto
- Ayumi Mitsuhashi
- Shoji Sejima
- Black Beard Design Studio Inc.
- STUDIO SLEDGEHAMMER Inc.
- ModelingCafe Inc.
Field Modeling
- Norimasa Kawane
- Keigo Matsuhashi
- Takeshi Tsuzaki
- Masayasu Yokose
- Motoko Toyama
- Rieko Kano
- Yuri Iwama
- Black Beard Design Studio Inc.
Prop Modeling
- Hisashi Sugimoto
- Shimpei Ohata
Animation
- Moe Fujii
- Orie Watanabe
- Sae Matsumoto
- Takatoshi Ozeki
- Keiko Kato
- SPARK CREATIVE Inc.
Movie
- Tatsuhiko Murai
- Masanari Yogo
- Takayuki Hirano
- Yuya Hirota
- Hayato Kato
- Tadashi Ohashi
- Hayate Wada
- Yasumasa Sekine
- Mao Yue
- Chie Nakaizumi
- Yoshihiro Oba
- Shinsuke Mukai
- Tomoya Nishiguchi
- Hiroshi Watanuki
- Hiroki Izui
- Kunihito Ihara
- Polygon Pictures Inc.
- Polygon Pictures Malaysia Sdn Bhd
- MIX, Inc.
- AnimationCafe Inc.
Visual Effects
- Junichi Baba
- Shin Naka
- Hiroki Kubo
UI/UX Design
- Tomohiro Sonoda
- Jun Nakata
Pokémon 3D Modeling Art Direction
Pokémon 3D Modeling Support
- Kengo Nakahiro
Sound Direction
- Ayumu Ito
Music
Sound Effects
- Wataru Ishiyama
- Kazutaka Yamaguchi
Motion-Capture Acting
- Akira Sugihara
- Tony Hosokawa
- Keiichi Wada
- Yutaka Kambe
- Masashi Nitta
- Machiko Ajisaka
Action Coordinator
- Hidetaka Ichiyama
Utility Stunts
- Jyunya Matsukami
- Kazuki Hamatani
- Nobuhiro Inohara
Motion-Capture Studio Assistance
- Junichi Higuchi
- Kenya Miki
- Takahide Shinohara
- Kouta Isomura
- Rina Sawada
- Yuuka Tomita
- Daiki Yonezawa
- Ryo Hasebe
- Kazuma Horigome
- Shiori Tagawa
- Riku Okada
- Kaori Fujino
- Mika Matsuo
- Akari Ito
- Masatsugu Kusunoki
- Masashi Imanaka
Character Design
- Mari Shimazaki
- Yuriko Matsuda
- Megumi Mizutani
- Chifumi Suzuki
- STUDIO SLEDGEHAMMER Inc.
Concept Art
- Yusuke Kan
- Toshiharu Yuda
Development Producer
- Akiko Kuroda
Product Management
- Yoshihiro Hatta
Localization Support
- Takayuki Ito
Testing
- Norihide Okamura
- Ayaka Takamura
Special Thanks
- Tomotaka Komura
- Muneaki Ozawa
- Hirokazu Tanaka
- Aya Murashima
- Gaku Asakura
- Haru Saito
- Hisashi Mori
- Keita Tsukamoto
- Kenta Tomoike
- Masashi Kikuchi
- MINAMINAMI Take
- Miyu Yoshioka
- Mizuki Okita
- Naoki Kuroshima
- Seiya Nomoto
- Tsukasa Tamura
- Yumeko Kawano
- Yurino Yamanaka
- Naoki Miyashita
- Maiko Shindo
- Miky Majima
- Daisaku Nishida
- Midori Morita
- Tsuyoshi Takahisa
- Shinichiro Kameoka
- Kaiyu Fujimoto
- RIDDLER, Inc.
Executive Producer
The Pokémon Company
General Producer
Development Producer
- Kunimi Kawamura
Development Support
- Tatsuya Ono
- Makoto Higashi
- Yuma Ochi
Debug
- Koji Takiguchi
Artwork
- Keisuke Kawashima
- Yasuko Takahashi
- Kotoko Machida
Chinese Localization
- Minyu Hsu
- Izumi Watanabe
- Mitsuyo Matsunaga
Chinese Translation & Editing
- Yuwen Wang
- Endai Liao
- Huiying Tsai
- Yuting Tu
- Yufeng Fan
- Qing Yun
- Weihang Jiang
- Digital Hearts Co., Ltd.
Special Thanks
- Kenjiro Ito
- Takanori Sowa
- Eisuke Kasejima
- Keiko Mochida
- Yuya Iwamoto
- Retsuji Nomoto
- Gen Fujii
- Kaisei Okuyama
- Shoichi Obora
- Rikiya Watanabe
- Kazuki Konishi
- Mizuki Watanabe
- Mari Tomioka
- Daisuke Kobayashi
- Akiko Tsuda
- Shinsuke Kato
- Takahiro Shimoyama
- Kensuke Arai
- Akifumi Shiobara
- Yuta Hara
- Kenichi Arai
- Misuzu Kanayama
- Mikiko Negishi
- Chie Shinno
- Shinya Saito
- Rui Itohara
- Yui Amano
- Yumiko Onuma
- Junichiro Matsumoto
- Kazunori Sugiura
- Yosuke Senoo
- Yohei Yamamoto
- Takayuki Shindo
Japanese Voice Recording
Producer & Director
- Masafumi Mima
Sound Recording
- Sayaka Ninomiya
- Wakaba Kuriyama
- Yuji Tagami
- Hideyuki Hachisuka
- Fuji Yamada
Recording Assistants
- Masashi Shimada
- Kana Kubota
Sound Production
- Tomoko Nakashima
- Yuuka Taira
Japanese Voice Cast
- Kōichi Yamadera (Pikachu / Harry Goodman)
- Yuto Uemura (Tim Goodman)
- Atsumi Tanezaki (Rachel Myers)
- Wakana Minami (Sophia Goodman)
- Yuko Nagashima (Irene Goodman)
- Kunpei Sakamoto (Pablo Millan)
- Katsuhisa Houki (Frank Holiday)
- Kenji Hamada (Brad McMaster)
- Risa Shimizu (Emilia Christie)
- Masaki Terasoma (Howard Myers)
- Haruka Shamoto (Jessica Miller)
- Tsuguo Mogami (Sanjeev Denis)
- Kensuke Sato (Brandon Barnes)
- Yasuhiro Mamiya (Will Butler / Larry Turner)
- Eriko Kadokura (Claudia Denis)
- Rikiya Koyama (Trevor Gordon)
- Shinnojo Yamada (Chris Honor)
- Toru Sakurai (Keith Norman)
- Kenjiro Tsuda (Charles Merloch)
- Toru Furuya (Mewtwo)
- Ikue Otani (Pikachu)
- Mami Fujita
- Yukiko Motoyoshi
- Shogo Sakata
- Yuuki Hoshi
- Mariko Nagai
- Kikaru Nagai
- Hikaru Tanaka
- Kohsuke Tanabe
- Arisa Sekine
- Shuhei Matsuda
- Tatsuki Kobe
- Naomi Maruyama
The Pokémon Company International
English Localization
- Mikiko Ryu
- Mayu Todo
- Yuriko Iwasaki
- Mika Holzhausen
- Yosuke Osakabe
- Mitsumasa Kawano
English Translation
- Hisato Yamamori
- Sayuri Munday
- Laura Bartholomew
- Alex Small
- Shawn Williams-Brown
- Chelsea Inaba
- Amy Nakao
- Jonah Mayahara-Miller (AltaSource Group LLC.)
English Editing
- Kellyn Ballard
- Rachel Payne
- Robert Schiotis
- Dermot Creegan
- Derk Bramer
- Robert Ward
- Akira Vivienne
European Localisation
- Kaori Aoki
- Makiko Wakai
- Suirei Okata
- Maya Yoshida
- Ryosuke Kurosaki
- Yukihiro Takahashi
- Miki Hosaka-Green
- Nami Kusumoto
- Mark Bunting
- Owen Preece
- Hideko Russell
- Ritsuko Oshu
- Kendra Evans
- Daniel Heucher
- Mariona Pera i de Miguel
- Michael Ecke
- Diego Figaredo
- Pierre Gauthier
- Rei Haberberg
- Elena Nardo
- Cyril Schultz
French Language Support
- Elodie Verpport
- Matthieu Béthencourt
- Aymeric Forgit
German Language Support
- Barbara Schweinzer
- Carlin Maibach
Italian Language Support
- Marco Locatelli
- Silvia De Bellis
- Marco Sartori
- Francesca Serci
Spanish Language Support
- Juan José Leiva Jiménez
- Enrique Joga Elivra
English & European Localization Support
- Jeff Hines
- Robert Colling
- Marvin Andrews
- Peter Bagley
English & European Graphic Design
- Mark Pedini
- Chris Franc
- Dan Stephens
- Emily Uslab
Special Thanks - Localization
- Kenji Okubo
- Gaku Susai
- Taito Okiura
- Torrie Dorrell
- Amy Ganster
- Andy Gose
- Andy Hartpence
- Ben Drillat-Wilson
- Kaoru Otawara
- Peter Murphy
- Phaedra Long
- Randy Le
- Richie Enticknap
- Yasuhiro Usui
- Alison Chyan
- Reina Nagai
English Voice Recording
Producer
- Toshifumi Yoshida
Supervising Producer
- Andy Gose
Production Support
- Chris Hewitt
Bang Zoom! Entertainment Inc.
Producers
- Eric P. Sherman
- Mami Okada
- Mio Moroe
Production Executive
- Jonathan Sherman
Casting Supervisor
- Mami Okada, CSA
Casting Director
- AJ Gam
English Voice Director
- Kathy Pilon
ADR Script Writer
- Kathy Pilon
Project Manager
- Deidra Angelucci
Production Coordinators
- Yna Vergara
- Robert G. Mah
Sound Supervisor
- Patrick Rodman, CAS
Recording Engineers
- John Shieh
- Heidi Hoffman
- Krystal Holmes
Dialogue Editors
- John Shieh
- Isaac Caldas
Audio Operations Supervisor
- Ismael Yanez
Assistant Audio Engineers
- Isaac Caldas
- Samuel Carrillo
Audio Technical Engineers
- Louis Robles
- Matt Garcia
- Marcos Tony Toala
Video Technician
- Jerald DeVictoria
Data Management
- Jason Firoe
- Catherine Nguyen
Spotting
- Breaugh Olson
English Voice Cast
- Kaiji Tang (Pikachu / Harry Goodman)
- Khoi Dao (Tim Goodman)
- Laura Stahl (Rachel Myers)
- Michelle Marie (Sophia Goodman)
- Dorah Fine (Irene Goodman)
- Doug Erholtz (Pablo Millan)
- Rich Brown (Frank Holiday)
- Bill Rogers (Brad McMaster)
- Kira Buckland (Emilia Christie)
- Alain Mesa (Howard Myers)
- Anaris Quiñones (Jessica Miller)
- Maaz Ali (Sanjeev Denis)
- Michael Sorich (Brandon Barnes)
- SungWon Cho (Will Butler)
- Y. Chang (Larry Turner)
- Rebeka Thomas (Claudia Denis)
- Imari Williams (Trevor Gordon)
- AJ Beckles (Chris Honor)
- Chris Hackney (Keith Norman)
- Yong Yea (Charles Merloch)
- Christopher Corey Smith (Mewtwo)
Additional Voices
- Wendee Lee
- Joe Hernandez
- Edward Bosco
- Patrick Seitz
- Brent Mukai
- Kayli Mills
- Emi Lo
Pokémon Korea, Inc.
Korean Translation & Editing
- Mihwa Choi
- Jieun Byun
- Youngjun Park
- Dongun Pak
- Jooyeon Han
- Byunghun Bae
- Yoojin Kwon
Korean Artwork
- Eunbi Jo
Special Thanks
- Jaiboem Lim
- Jinye Lee
Nintendo of Europe GmbH
Localisation Producers
- Dario De Leo
- Patrick Thorenz
- Saskia Doorschodt
- Julia Bambach
European Translation
- Roby Liebetruth
- Grace Yon
- David Caussèque
- Clara Duvert--Chenebert
- Laurent Godinot
- Gurvan Le Guen
- Mirko Capocelli
- Valeria Castellino
- Marco Morbin
- Alessandro Pagano
- Sven Pötzl
- Benedikt Grosser
- Sebastian Brück
- Martina Deimel
- José Manuel Malagón León
- Alfonso Díaz Jiménez
- Blanca Hueso Taulés
- Enrique Sánchez Rosa
- Jónatan Marcos Millán
European Quality Assurance
- Jesús Gutiérrez Cuadra
- J. Ignacio León López
- Andrew Hall
- Olivier Jacquemin-Guillaume
- Stéphane Zussy
- Mathieu Springinsfeld
- Laurence Uhlen
- Ahmed Bounouar
- Alessandro Crosa
- Veronica Casi
- Matteo Marras
- Daniele Albrito
- Christina Stoffel
- Peter Eiselt
- Zoran Tasevski
- Edwin Kirschenmann
- Sascha Michalke
- Ibon Díez Maeztu
- Jorge Heras García
- David Martín Navarro
- Raúl Guerrero Plaza
- Jesús Gordo Martín
Nintendo of America Inc.
North American Localization Support
- Lauren Ammerman
- Kris Copeland
- Raymond Elliget
- Nicko Gonzalez
- Sara Hoad
- Yoriko Marusich
- Emily Minakata
- Kendra Nastalski
- Carolina Quesada
- Ludovic Tientcheu Ponkin
Special Thanks - Localization
- Michael Bales
- Mary Rayes
- Thomas Candland
Product Testing
- Tomo Ishiyama
- Daijiro Imoto
- Tomoko Mikami
- Andy Kolden
- Pat Wells
- Makiko Szolas
- Tom Hertzog
- Kathy Huguenard
- Frances Eckrich
- Christopher Gordon
- Product Testing Technicians
Nintendo of Korea Co., Ltd.
Korean Localization Support
- Hyokjin Jung
- Dongyeon Kim
- Jihyuen Yoo
- Suzy Do
Korean Testing & Quality Assurance
- Eodo Lee
- DIGITAL HEARTS Seoul Co., Ltd.
Nintendo (Hong Kong) Limited Taiwan Branch
Traditional Chinese Localization Support
- Zhonglong Wang
- Wei-Ming Chen
- Eiju Umemura
iQue (China) Ltd.
Simplified Chinese Localization Support
- Misa Matsumoto
- Ming Xu
Chinese Product Testing
- Yijun Chen
- DIGITAL HEARTS (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
- Digital Hearts Linguitronics Taiwan Co., Ltd.
Mario Club Co., Ltd.
Testing
- Ikuri Matsuo
- Emi Kashiuda
- Takuya Inoue
- Shinya Sasaki
- Motoki Nakajima
Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Coordinators
- Masahiro Shiotani
- Noriko Nakagawa
- Toru Osawa
Technical Support
- Koichiro Hirano
Special Thanks
- Tomoko Nakayama
Project Manager
- Toyokazu Nonaka
Producers
- Akira Kinashi
- Shinya Saito
Very Special Thanks
Pokémon Original Director
General Producer
- Shinya Takahashi
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
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