Staff of Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket

This is a list of staff members who worked on the mobile game Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, per the game's credits. It was published by The Pokémon Company and developed by DeNA Co., Ltd. All names are given in Western order.

Staff list (2025)

Developed by

• DeNA Co., Ltd.

Producers

Producer

• Tetsuya Iguchi

Assistant Producer

• Yusuke Nogami

Directors

General Director

• Katsuyuki Shiga

Development Director

• Hotaka Suzuki

Operations Director

• Yuki Mantani
• Seiji Oshima

Project Managers

• Sakiko Kano
• Rie Ito
• Masaaki Inoguchi
• Masato Tsukagoshi
• Yoshito Kuwahara
• Ami Kwak
• Shingo Inoue
• Takuma Sekine

Game Design Manager

• Ai Takeuchi

Engineering Managers

• Ryo Watanabe
• Yu Shiraiwa
• Shinya Kasahara
• Takuya Katsurada

Client Engineers

Lead Engineer

• Shimpei Masaki

Engineering Project Managers

• Dennis Sachio Imabeppu
• Takuya Katsurada

Lead Battle Engineers

• Kensaku Kusuhara
• Hiroki Harada

Battle Engineers

• Yuki Nakashima
• Noriyuki Suwa
• Satoru Konishi
• Shuzo Miura
• Naoki Take
• Kohei Nogami
• Hiroto Kuge
• Iteki Tou
• Ryota Suzuki

Lead Outgame Engineers

• Yuhei Inoue
• Shingo Tanaka
• Takuma Seimiya

Outgame Engineers

• Ryouta Suzuki
• Shinya Kasahara
• Satoshi Kasuga
• Tomohiko Horigome
• Maiko Akutsu
• Yuki Imai
• Keiji Ohara
• Kaoru Yamabe
• Takafumi Naito
• Shinju Okubo
• Kensaku Kusuhara
• Seiji Oshiyama
• Long Yutao
• Mio Kutani
• Kazutomo Sasaki
• Hidemichi Jo
• Shohei U
• Nanako Matsumoto
• Masashi Adachi

Lead Graphics Engineer

• Masafumi Yamamoto

Graphics Engineers

• Yuma Handa
• Masaki Iwasaki
• Yuma Kasahara

Visual Engineer

• Yuma Handa

Lead Release Engineer

• Genta Mizumoto

Release Engineers

• Kaoru Yamabe
• Kazuteru Nagasawa
• Jiha Kim

AI Systems

AI Engineering Managers

• Ikki Tanaka
• Yoshikazu Kamoshida

Lead Engineer

• Yu Kono

AI Engineers

• Dennis Sachio Imabeppu
• Taira Takahashi
• Shinnosuke Motegi
• Kosuke Sakami
• Shintaro Takemura
• Naoki Murakami
• Kenichi Matsui

Server Engineers

Engineering Manager

• Yasunori Yanai

Lead Engineer

• Keisuke Shibata

Engineers

• Yoichiro Kataoka
• Mai Omoto
• Song Yin
• Tatsuya Abe
• Kazuma Fujimaki
• Yusuke Yoshida
• Hiroki Awata
• Shogo Sakata
• Terunori Togo
• Ryota Chihara
• Yuta Ono
• Daiki Ito
• Satoshi Sato

Server Acceleration Engineers

Engineering Manager

• Tomohiro Katsukura

Engineers

• Tatsuya Abe
• Terunori Togo

Battle Server Engineers

Engineering Manager

• Shintaro Seki

Engineers

• Shintaro Seki
• Yusuke Yoshida
• Hiroki Awata
• Shogo Sakata
• Tetsu Kinomura

Platform Service

Front End Engineers

• Akihiro Tokoro
• Masami Matsuda
• Satoshi Sato

Game Platform Developers

Technical Leads

• Takuma Komatsu
• Haruto Otake

Engineers

• Hiroki Sakai
• Xu Zhao
• Suguru Yamashita
• Shinnosuke Motegi
• Hayato Sato
• Yutao Long
• Takeru Wada
• Yakumo Otagaki
• Mitsuhiko Ota
• Masashi Fujimoto
• Junichi Kikuchi
• Ayumi Otomo
• Akiko Kawai

Graphics Platform Developers

Engineers

• Ryuya Matsuda
• Masafumi Yamamoto
• Yo Furukawa
• Masaki Iwasaki
• Takahiro Katagiri
• Takahiro Kosaka
• Akira Matsuo
• Junko Muroyama
• Haruyuki Imai

Master Data Developers

Engineering Manager

• Yuji Narita

Engineers

• Ryo Takamatsu
• Noriyoshi Samata
• Timothy du Heaume
• Sicheng Jiang

Site Reliability Engineers

Engineering Manager

• Takazumi Shirayanagi

Engineers

• Kazuhiro Masuda
• Ro Kinjo

Infrastructure Engineers

Engineering Manager

• Tomoki Amano

Lead Engineer

• Noriaki Hangyo

Engineers

• Jun Matsuura
• Tomoyuki Okino
• Youngjoon Lee
• Tomonori Hirata
• Hayato Hagari
• Hiroki Inoue
• Hayato Fujita
• Kosei Izawa
• Hiroyuki Nishizaki
• Lyu Yuan
• Tatsuki Mutsuro
• Masaki Hasegawa

Security Engineers

• Takahiko Funakubo
• Shingo Mori
• Akira Kuroiwa
• Ryo Ishizuka
• Toshiharu Sugiyama

Art and Design

Art Managers

• Toshiyuki Takeyasu
• Yota Sugiyama
• Wataru Sakomura
• Risa Goto
• Mizuki Uekusa
• Atsuko Sakamoto

Visuals Support

• Akio Oyama

Creative Project Managers

• Nozomi Tsutsumi
• Mizuki Uekusa
• Shigeki Yoshida

Lead UI Artist

• Haruka Sato

UI Artists

• Daisuke Toya
• Atsuko Sakamoto
• Yu Sugiyama

2D Asset Production

• Wakana Kudo
• Tomomi Arizono

Lead UI Developer

• Tsuyoshi Watanabe

UI Developers

• Yota Sugiyama
• Kiyoko Tsuchikura
• Tomomi Arizono
• Ikumi Kaneda
• Daisuke Toya

Lead 3D Card Developer

• Risa Goto

3D Card Developers

• Seira Morimitsu
• Moeka Uo
• Masako Aoyagi
• Taro Yamamoto
• Ryunosuke Tsuboi
• Chiyomi Oikawa
• Ikumi Kaneda
• Mayu Sato
• Natsumi Tsuji

Card UI Developers

• Yota Sugiyama
• Tomomi Arizono

Lead 3D Animation Artist

• Chiyomi Oikawa

3D Animation Artist

• Seira Yorimitsu

Lead VFX Artist

• Ikumi Kaneda

VFX Artist

• Mayu Sato

Lead 2D Artist

• Mayu Sato

2D Artist

• Maki Harada

Technical Artists

• Takaya Hirota
• Yuma Handa

Game Design

Game Design Managers

• Goki Miura
• Katsuyuki Shiga
• Komei Kadonaga
• Noriko Kato

Lead Battle Game Designer

• Ryosuke Horita

Battle Game Designers

• Seiji Shimoda
• Atsushi Matsuno
• Yuki Kawanishi

Lead Outgame Designers

• Akihito Mimoto
• Komei Kadonaga

Outgame Designers

• Satoru Nakano
• Wataru Hasegawa
• Hiroki Ami
• Minami Yamaguchi
• Akira Yamamura
• Tomomi Hamamura
• Kazuhito Kondo
• Shugo Kageyama

Lead Event Game Designer

• Noriko Kato

Event Game Designers

• Goki Miura
• Shogo Minamoto
• Tomomi Hamamura
• Asami Morishita
• Kazuhito Kondo
• Sibei He
• Toru Shinohara

Game Designers

• Kazuki Nakatani
• Kaori Nomura
• Yoshiki Kumagai

Level Designer

• Minami Yamaguchi

Localization

Localization Project Managers

• Goki Miura
• Rachel Funatsu
• Hiroshi Horai
• Nobushige Ide

Engineers

• Yo Furukawa
• Genta Mizumoto
• Kazuteru Nagasawa
• Takuma Seimiya

Localization Architects

• Kazuki Nakatani
• Kaori Nomura
• Yoshiki Kumagai

Sound

Sound Director

• Harumi Yamaguchi

Outsource Management

Outsourcing Coordinators

• Yasuto Osari
• Motoki Ikeda

Development Support

Software Engineers in Test

• Yuki Kokubun
• Kazuma Inagaki
• Keigo Imai
• Satoshi Iijima
• Junya Shijubo
• Tomomi Hatano

Legal

Legal Project Managers

• Toshiaki Hosono
• Xiaosen Lu

Intellectual Property Manager

• Hiroyuki Umeki

Legal Staff

• Koji Hiraoka
• Masashi Okumura
• David Masuda
• Haruka Okui
• Mizue Kofunato

Intellectual Property Staff

• Yoshihiro Takazawa

Security Staff

• Takayuki Okamura
• Noriko Yamada
• Kana Miyoshi

Analysts

Analytics Director

• Yuki Nakagawa

Lead Analyst

• Tomoya Matsuzaki

Analysts

• Ryo Sasaki
• Yuki Banno
• Rie Onishi

Data Engineers

• Yoshikazu Kamoshida
• Shiki Hamada
• Bruno Watanabe
• Taku Takenaga
• Tetsu Kasanishi
• Tadashi Nishio
• Ryuji Tamaki
• Yusuke Nakashima
• Sota Oizumi
• Eigo Hara

User Experience Researchers

• Masayuki Takai
• Saori Iino
• Yuya Oshima

Marketing

Marketing Communications

• Satoshi Tsuruda
• Teruyuki Magara
• Yuichi Fukada
• Sayuri Nakamura
• Masafumi Suzuki
• Teru Fujita

Quality Assurance

• Yosuke Takeuchi
• Kyota Suzuki
• Shota Sasagawa
• Ren Ioka
• Shono Kiyohara
• Mai Sorakubo
• Nozomi Tachi
• Natsuki Shimazaki
• Tomo Koike
• Takayuki Hishiyama
• Kenta Umeda
• Daichi Ito
• Takayuki Yamazaki
• Atsuhisa Ogawa
• Koki Owatari

Special Thanks

Business Support

• Anna Li

Business Development

• Keigo Watanabe

Coordination

• Ken Kitamura

Executive Producer

• Shingo Okamura

CONNECT+ECHO co.,ltd.

Composer/Sound Designer

• dattxua

Pokémon Produced by

• The Pokémon Company

Producers

Executive Producer

• Tsunekazu Ishihara

General Producer

• Takato Utsunomiya

Producer

• Keita Hirobe

Coordination

Lead Coordinator

• Ryosuke Hanawa

Marketing Coordinator

• Sho Yoshimoto

Supervision Coordinator

• Satomi Kanayama

Coordinators

• Chenmeng Zhao
• Lida Bi
• Li Er
• Mayumi Aoyama
• Mikihiro Yano
• Misa Hikita
• Mishima Takeshi
• Satoki Nakamura
• Shunsuke Takagi
• Takuya Hashimoto
• Yuji Ota
• Yuichi Arita
• Yuta Nakamura
• Yurie Nakamaru

Support Staff

• Ayumi Tanaka
• Yasuhiro Sato
• Yugo Hashimoto

Brand Operations

Art Director

• Etsuya Hattori

Designer

• Keiko Okawa
• Li Jiaqi
• Natsuki Shinohara

Chinese Localization

• Jingyi Yu
• Kei CHEN
• Shuyang Jia
• Yoshiko AOTA
• Mitsuyo Matsunaga

Chinese Translation & Editing

• Chungte Huang
• Yencheng Lin
• Hanru Yang

DIGITAL HEARTS Co., Ltd.

Customer Service

• Yui Kayashi
• Kazunori Sugiura
• Masato Kitamura
• Shu Amagiri
• Yohei Yamamoto
• Yosuke Senoo
• Yuta Yukimura

Development Support

• Nobuyuki Ohta
• Tatsuya Ichijo
• Chitose Kawakami
• Ohchi Yuhma
• Kayo Nakata

Legal

• Yuta Hara
• Kotaro Ariyoshi
• Nao Tajima
• Shangteng Li

Marketing

• Keiya Nakahara
• Nobue Ito
• Shungo Asano
• Nozomi Yasuda

TCG Business Development

• Masayuki Miura

Special Thanks

• Takanori Sowa
• Shoichi Obora
• Chie Shinno
• Kenji Masaki
• Tomoe Naganuma

Localization

• The Pokémon Company International

English and Brazilian Portuguese Localization

• Mikiko Ryu
• Chie Stutzman
• Mika Ishikawa
• Miho Lyon
• Reiko de Sorbier de Pougnadoresse
• Jeff Hines
• Stu Alexander
• Anja Weinbach
• Hisato Yamamori
• Kellyn Ballard
• Esther Sánchez Giráldez

English Translation

• Lars Henriksen
• Alex Small
• Bryson Clark
• David Csiszar
• Satoko Deas
• Daniel Lizarraga

English Editing

• Eric Haddock
• Stephen Meyerink
• Amy Morris
• Lu Pellazar

Brazilian Portuguese Translation

• Patricia Cardim
• Lucas Peterson
• Eliane Prado
• Natalye Ogusuko
• Fabiana Otake
• Tarso Soares

Brazilian Portuguese Editing

• Rafael Pimpinato
• Camila Duque
• Thais Nucci
• Rachel Dutra
• Agatha Camargo

European Localisation

• Kaori Aoki
• Daniel Anscomb
• Rhys Giles
• Hirotaka Nishino
• Chika Tanigaki
• Emily Hitchmough
• Owen Preece
• Hideko Russell
• Kendra Evans
• Ritsuko Oshu
• Nami Kusumoto
• Mark Bunting
• Marvin Andrews
• Peter Bagley
• Elena Nardo
• Michael Ecke
• Pierre Gauthier
• Franck Couée
• Guillaume Didier
• Fabio Giusti
• Diego Figaredo

French Translation

• Alexane Bailleul
• Lytta Khrissate

French Editing

• Elodie Verpoort
• Matthieu Béthencourt
• Diana Ahmed
• Jena Gattegno

German Translation

• Caroline Fest
• Lina Emmerich
• Sophie Jüterbock

German Editing

• Jochen Künzel
• Sina Moelleken
• Sira Vaterhaus
• Caroline Büsch
• Paul Seidenstecher

Italian Translation

• Guido Scarabello
• Altan Couvert
• Francesca Serci

Italian Editing

• Sergio Bianchi
• Silvia De Bellis
• Valerio Amato
• Claudio Calzolari

Spanish Translation

• Servando Doval Díaz
• Jorge Diez Lasheras

Spanish Editing

• Rubén Lado Riomao
• Virginia Paradés Gurrea
• Eva Rodríguez Graña
• Diana Vázquez Saiz
• Javier Ortiz Carrillo
• Mai Castro Arellano
• Sebastián Erasmy Vergara
• Débora Yésica Terceros Vargas
• Daniela Castillo

Localization Support

• Eoin Sanders
• Hollie Beg
• Katie Dunlop
• Alexia Campagne-Descré
• Dorian Mouëzy
• Myriam Bresko
• Isabelle Zanchetta
• Élodie Legay
• Oussama Bel Aïba
• Filippo Rizzi
• Marina Gagliardi
• Marica Gusella
• Elio Sottoscritti
• Daniela Bertinetti
• Sherif Mahdy Farrag
• Monika Tracy
• Ralph Lunt
• Caroline Müller
• Michaela Lee
• Robert Chambers
• Hendrik Hercht
• Teresa Cueto Álvarez de Sotomayor
• Jose Gallego
• Paz López Lorente-Sorolla
• Jesús Miguel Díaz Muriel
• Sonia de Acuna
• Alberto Kunz
• Marco Borrelli

Localisation Quality Assurance

• Maxim Mizin (Side International UK Ltd)
• Stéphane Ponceau (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Sergejs Adamovs (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Pablo Vinal Rivera (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Gil Hoyle (Side International UK Ltd.)
• João Gomes (Side International UK Ltd)
• Ana Bettencourt Rocha (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Bruno Pierantoni (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Catarina Rodrigues (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Duca Silveira (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Anna Epifanova (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Lara Turna (Side International UK L tcf)
• Mariana Oliveira (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Sarah Rabelo (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Alexandre Caudin (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Emeline Daliguet (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Enzo Benedetti (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Stella Bellanca (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Fátima Iglesias Ares (Side International UK Ltd)
• Francesco Fiorini (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Ilaria Boccella (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Lara Turna (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Muhammad Ansir Arshad (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Angela Salazar (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Celia Reyes Lamoneda (Side International UK Ltd)
• Fátima Iglesias Ares (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Inês Vaz (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Filipe de Almeida Oscar (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Flávia Souza (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Mariana Oliveira (Side International UK Ltd)
• Pedro Ribeiro (Side International UK Ltd.)
• Sarah Rabelo (Side International UK Ltd.)

Customer Support

• Yuka Sanada
• Israel Pechstein
• Eddie Gutierrez

Special Thanks

• Kenji Okubo
• Gaku Susai
• Taito Okiura
• Amy Ganster
• Andy Gose
• Andy Hartpence
• Barry Sams
• Charlie Spinner
• Courtney Kim
• Daniel Benkwitt
• David Cheung
• David Numrich
• Heather Dalgleish
• Kaoru Otawara
• Peter Murphy
• Phaedra Long
• Richie Enticknap
• Stewart Pagan
• Winston Lung
• Yasuhiro Usui
• Alison Chyan
• Steve Lee
• Reina Nagai

Localization

• Pokémon Korea, Inc.

Korean Translation & Editing

• Mihwa Choi
• Jieun Byun
• Youngjun Park
• Dongun Pak
• Jooyeon Han
• Byunghun Bae
• Yoojin Kwon

Special Thanks

• Jaiboem Lim
• Jihye Lee
• Janghee Woo

Pokémon Trading Card Game Development / Apps Planning

• Creatures Inc.

Producer

• Yuji Kitano

Senior Project Manager

• Kota Okamoto

Senior Creative Directors

• Atsushi Nagashima
• Hirofumi Matsuoka

Creative Director

• Ryo Tsujikawa

Senior Art Director

• Satoru Nagaya

Senior Illustration Director

• Haru Saito

Planning Director

• Yukinori Torii

Sound Direction

• Ayumu Ito

Product Directors

• Anna Umeda
• Kana Nagamitsu
• Shusei Natsumoto
• Seiya Nomoto
• Yukiko Hori

Operations Planning

Operations Planning Manager

• Masaya Muramatsu

Operations Planner

• Yuki Yamada

Game Design

Game Design Manager

• Hiroshi Takano

Game Design Asst. Managers

• Shunsuke Sasaki
• Yuta Fujishima

Game Design

• Takahiro Kobori
• Shinya Takahashi
• Kei Maeno
• Akio Yamada
• Yurino Yamanaka

Art Design

Art Design Manager

• Hitoshi Okahashi

Art Design

• Hidefumi Ide
• Masaaki Sumiya
• Ikumi Hayasaka
• Hinano Mashiko

Illustration Direction

Illustration Direction Manager

• Naoki Kuroshima

Illustration Direction Asst. Managers

• Teppei Obuchi
• Yu Shibata
• Ayaka Hagiwara

Illustration Direction

• Gaku Asakura
• Yuki Amano
• Megumi Ishioka
• Hikari Ishikawa
• Hiroaki Ito
• Mariko Umeda
• Takuya Endo
• Rei Kitahara
• Reina Koshino
• Hiroyasu Nishino
• Takuto Yamaoka
• Kyoko Yoshida

Quality Control

Quality Control Manager

• Hyuma Mihara

Quality Control

• Masatsugu Fujikura
• Koji Yoshida

Playtesting

• Rintaro Kodaira
• Yuta Hakozaki
• Jun Hayashi
• Kosuke Hiwatashi
• Nao Yamamoto

Music

• Takuto Kitsuta
• Haruna Moriya

Development Facilitation

Development Facilitation Asst. Managers

• Yuki Otsuka
• Yasuhiro Hayashi

Development Facilitators

• Yoshiyuki Oku
• Yukihiro Tamaru
• Shinya Narita
• Nonoka Yamada
• Mariko Watanabe

Pokémon Card Production Partners

• Hideyo Isayama
• Miki Obata
• Takashi Koga
• Keisuke Saito
• Tomohiro Sonoda
• Yasunori Yanagisawa

Special Thanks

• Hirokazu Tanaka
• Tomotaka Komura

Staff list (2024)

Developed by

• DeNA Co., Ltd.

Producers

Producer

• Tetsuya Iguchi

Assistant Producer

• Yusuke Nogami

Directors

General Director

• Ai Takeuchi

Development Directors

• Seitaro Mizuno
• Hotaka Suzuki

Operations Director

• Yuki Mantani
• Katsuyuki Shiga

Project Managers

• Sakiko Kano
• Rie Ito
• Masaaki Inoguchi
• Masato Tsukagoshi
• Dennis Sachio Imabeppu
• Yoshito Kuwahara
• Ami Kwak

Engineering Managers

• Ryo Watanabe
• Yu Shiraiwa

Client Engineers

Lead Engineer

• Shimpei Masaki

Lead Battle Engineer

• Hajime Nakajima

Battle Engineers

• Hiroki Harada
• Kensaku Kusuhara
• Yuki Nakashima
• Noriyuki Suwa
• Masaki Honaga
• Satoru Konishi
• Shuzo Miura
• Shun Otsuka
• Naoki Take

Lead Outgame Engineers

• Dennis Sachio Imabeppu
• Ryota Suzuki
• Shinya Kasahara

Outgame Engineers

• Satoshi Kasuga
• Tomohiko Horigome
• Shingo Tanaka
• Maiko Akutsu
• Yuki Imai
• Yuhei Inoue
• Takuma Seimiya
• Keiji Ohara
• Kaoru Yamabe
• Takafumi Naito
• Takuya Katsurada
• Shinju Okubo

Lead Graphics Engineer

• Ryuya Matsuda

Graphics Engineers

• Yuma Handa
• Masafumi Yamamoto

Lead Release Engineer

• Genta Mizumoto

Release Engineers

• Kaoru Yamabe
• Kazuteru Nagasawa
• Jiha Kim

AI Systems

AI Engineering Managers

• Ikki Tanaka
• Yutaka Imoto

AI Engineers

• Dennis Sachio Imabeppu
• Yu Kono
• Taira Takahashi
• Kosuke Sakami
• Shintaro Takemura
• Katsuki Ohto
• Katsuhiko Sato

Server Engineers

Engineering Manager

• Yasunori Yanai

Lead Engineer

• Tomohiro Tatsukura

Engineers

• Yoichiro Kataoka
• Yoshiro Kitazawa
• Keisuke Shibata
• Yuuki Ikuta
• Mai Omoto
• Song Yin
• Tatsuya Abe
• Kazuma Fujimaki
• Tetsuro Tamura
• Yusuke Yoshida
• Hiroki Awata
• Shogo Sakata
• Takuya Katsurada
• Terunori Togo
• Ryota Chihara
• Yuta Ono

Battle Server Engineers

Engineering Manager

• Shintaro Seki

Engineers

• Shintaro Seki
• Yusuke Yoshida
• Hiroki Awata
• Shogo Sakata
• Tetsu Kinomura

Platform Service

Project Manager

• Ha Le

Front End Engineer

• Akihiro Tokoro

Game Platform Developers

Technical Leads

• Takuma Komatsu
• Haruto Otake

Engineers

• Hiroki Sakai
• Xu Zhao
• Suguru Yamashita
• Shinnosuke Motegi
• Hayato Sato
• Yutao Long
• Mitsuhiko Ota
• Morimoto Kosuke
• Yota Hiraishi
• Masashi Fujimoto
• Junichi Kikuchi
• Ayumi Otomo
• Yuki Inagawa
• Akiko Kawai

Graphics Platform Developers

Engineers

• Ryuya Matsuda
• Masafumi Yamamoto
• Yo Furukawa
• Masaki Iwasaki
• Takahiro Katagiri
• Takahiro Kosaka
• Akira Matsuo
• Junko Muroyama
• Haruyuki Imai

Master Data Developers

Engineering Manager

• Yuji Narita

Engineers

• Ryo Takamatsu
• Noriyoshi Samata
• Timothy du Heaume

Site Reliability Engineers

Engineering Manager

• Takazumi Shirayanagi

Engineer

• Yuki Sakai

Infrastructure Engineers

Engineering Manager

• Tomoki Amano

Lead Engineer

• Noriaki Hangyo

Engineers

• Jun Matsuura
• Youngjoon Lee
• Tomonori Hirata
• Hayato Hagari
• Hayato Fujita
• Kosei Izawa
• Hiroyuki Nishizaki
• Lyu Yuan
• Tatsuki Mutsuro

Security Engineers

• Takahiko Funakubo
• Shingo Mori
• Akira Kuroiwa
• Ryo Ishizuka

Art and Design

Art Managers

• Akio Oyama
• Toshiyuki Takeyasu
• Yota Sugiyama
• Wataru Sakomura

Visual Owner

• Akio Oyama

Visual Owner Assistants

• Rena Hattori
• Yugo Honda

Creative Project Managers

• Nozomi Tsutsumi
• Mizuki Uekusa

Lead UI Artist

• Haruka Sato

UI Artists

• Daisuke Toya
• Atsuko Sakamoto
• Asuka Fukuzawa

Lead UI Developer

• Tsuyoshi Watanabe

UI Developers

• Yota Sugiyama
• Akane Mori
• Kiyoko Tsuchikura
• Tomomi Arizono

Lead 3D Card Developer

• Wataru Sakomura

3D Card Developers

• Yugo Honda
• Risa Goto
• Seira Morimitsu
• Moeka Uo
• Masako Aoyagi

Card UI Developer

• Yota Sugiyama

Lead Animation Artist

• Chiyomi Oikawa

Animation Artist

• Kaori Ishiyama

Lead VFX Artist

• Ikumi Kaneda

VFX Artists

• Rena Hattori
• Mayu Sato

2D Artists

• Asuka Fukuzawa
• Moeka Uo

Technical Artists

• Takaya Hirota
• Yuma Handa

Game Design

Game Design Managers

• Goki Miura
• Katsuyuki Shiga

Lead Battle Game Designers

• Ryosuke Horita
• Yuki Mantani

Battle Game Designers

• Atsushi Matsuno
• Komei Kadonaga
• Seiji Shimoda
• Yuki Kawanishi

Lead Outgame Designer

• Hotaka Suzuki

Outgame Designers

• Akihito Mimoto
• Satoru Nakano
• Wataru Hasegawa
• Komei Kadonaga
• Hiroki Ami

Lead Event Game Designers

• Goki Miura
• Seiji Oshima

Event Game Designers

• Akihito Mimoto
• Tomomi Hamamura
• Asami Morishita
• Yuki Babazono

Game Designers

• Kazuki Nakatani
• Kaori Nomura
• Noriko Kato
• Shogo Minamoto

Level Designer

• Minami Yamaguchi

Localization

Localization Project Managers

• Goki Miura
• Rachel Funatsu
• Ayumi Okuyama
• Mariko Goto

Engineers

• Yo Furukawa
• Taku Nonomura

Localization Architects

• Kazuki Nakatani
• Kaori Nomura

Sound

Sound Director

• Harumi Yamaguchi

Outsource Management

Outsourcing Coordinators

• Yasuto Osari
• Motoki Ikeda

Development Support

Software Engineers in Test

• Yuki Kokubun
• Kazuma Inagaki
• Yoshitaka Seki
• Keigo Imai
• Satoshi Iijima
• Junya Shijubo

Legal

Legal Project Managers

• Toshiaki Hosono
• Xiaosen Lu

Intellectual Property Manager

• Hiroyuki Umeki

Legal Staff

• Koji Hiraoka
• Masashi Okumura
• David Masuda
• Haruka Okui
• Mizue Kofunato

Intellectual Property Staff

• Yoshihiro Takazawa

Security Staff

• Takayuki Okamura
• Noriko Yamada
• Kana Miyoshi

Analysts

Analytics Director

• Yuki Nakagawa

Lead Analyst

• Naotaka Sato

Analysts

• Yuki Banno
• Rie Onishi

Data Engineers

• Yoshikazu Kamoshida
• Shiki Hamada
• Bruno Watanabe
• Taku Takenaga
• Tetsu Kasanishi

User Experience Researchers

• Masayuki Takai
• Saori Iino
• Jumpei Kuwayama
• Yuka Abe

Marketing

Marketing Communications

• Satoshi Tsuruda
• Teruyuki Magara
• Yuichi Fukada
• Sayuri Nakamura
• Masafumi Suzuki

Quality Assurance

• Yosuke Takeuchi
• Kyota Suzuki
• Shota Sasagawa

Special Thanks

Business Support

• Hiroko Tanaka

Coordination

• Keigo Watanabe
• Ken Kitamura

Executive Producer

• Shingo Okamura

CONNECT+ECHO co.,ltd.

Composer/Sound Designer

• dattxua

Pokémon Trading Card Game Development / Apps Planning

• Creatures Inc.

Producer

• Yuji Kitano

Senior Project Managers

• Kota Okamoto
• Seiya Nomoto

Senior Creative Directors

• Hirofumi Matsuoka
• Atsushi Nagashima

Creative Director

• Ryo Tsujikawa

Senior Art Directors

• Kenichi Koga
• Satoru Nagaya

Planning Directors

• Norio Matsumura
• Yukinori Torii

Illustration Director

• Haru Saito

Sound Direction

• Ayumu Ito

Game Design

Game Design Managers

• Hyuma Mihara
• Hiroshi Takano

Game Design

• Yuta Fujishima
• Tomoaki Imakuni
• Akihito Joguchi
• Takahiro Kobori
• Koga Oda
• Shunsuke Sasaki
• Shinya Takahashi
• Akio Yamada
• Yuki Yamada

Art Design

Art Design Managers

• Hitoshi Okahashi
• Shizuka Yokoyama

Art Design

• Ikumi Fujishiro
• Hidefumi Ide
• Masaaki Sumiya
• Nanami Takeuchi

Illustration Direction

Illustration Managers

• Gaku Asakura
• Ayaka Hagiwara
• Yuko Kokubun
• Natsumi Suwabe

Illustration Direction

• Yuki Amano
• Takuya Endo
• Hikari Ishikawa
• Hiroaki Ito
• Yoshiyasu Ito
• Rei Kitahara
• Reina Koshino
• Naoki Kuroshima
• Tomohiro Mori
• Hiroyasu Nishino
• Risako Sakai
• Yuki Shikama
• Tsukasa Tamura
• Mariko Umeda
• Takuto Yamaoka
• Kyoko Yoshida

Quality Control

Quality Control Managers

• Shuhei Tadano
• Yasuhiro Ito

Quality Control

• Masatsugu Fujikura
• Koji Yoshida
• Rika Arai

Music

• Takuto Kitsuta

Project Managers

• Gonzalo Vázquez Cañedo
• Yuki Otsuka
• Masaki Imaizumi
• Shinya Narita

Playtesters

• Keita Fujimaki
• Kosuke Hiwatashi
• Yuta Ishikawa
• Kosuke Nishimura
• Haruki Sawa

Pokémon Trading Card Game Development Support

• Shohei Fukami
• Jun Kanda
• Takashi Koga
• Jun Nakata
• Miki Obata
• Tomohiro Sonoda
• Masaya Takano
• Keita Tsukamoto
• Yasunori Yanagisawa

Special Thanks

• Hirokazu Tanaka
• Tomotaka Komura

Pokémon Produced by

• The Pokémon Company

Producers

Executive Producer

• Tsunekazu Ishihara

General Producer

• Takato Utsunomiya

Producer

• Keita Hirobe

Coordination

Lead Coordinator

• Ryosuke Hanawa

Marketing Coordinator

• Sho Yoshimoto

Coordinators

• Aiko Namikawa
• LI ER
• Mayumi Aoyama
• Misa Hikita
• Satoki Nakamura
• Shunsuke Takagi
• Takuya Hashimoto
• Yuji Ota
• Yuta Nakamura

Brand Operations

Art Director

• Etsuya Hattori

Designer

• Keiko Okawa
• Li Jiaqi
• Natsuki Shinohara

Chinese Localization

• Izumi Watanabe
• Shuyang Jia
• Mitsuyo Matsunaga
• Jingyi Yu

Chinese Translation & Editing

• Chungte Huang
• Yencheng Lin
• Hanru Yang

Customer Service

• Kazunori Sugiura
• Masato Kitamura
• Shu Amagiri
• Yohei Yamamoto
• Yosuke Senoo

Development Support

• Nobuyuki Ohta
• Tatsuya Ichijo
• Chitose Kawakami
• Ohchi Yuhma
• Kayo Nakata

Legal

• Hirotaka Hayakawa
• Maiko Usami
• Daigorotoyohide Suga
• Kensuke Arai
• Yuta Hara
• Junko Tamura
• Nao Tajima

Marketing

• Keiya Nakahara
• Liu Ishiguro
• Nobue Ito
• Shungo Asano
• Yuma Hon
• Yurie Nakamaru

TCG Business Development

• Masayuki Miura

Special Thanks

• Takanori Sowa
• Shoichi Obora
• Chie Shinno
• Taku Kawamoto
• Kenji Masaki
• Tomoe Naganuma

Localization

• The Pokémon Company International

English and Brazilian Portuguese Localization

• Mikiko Ryu
• Chie Stutzman
• Mika Ishikawa
• Miho Lyon
• Reiko de Sorbier de Pougnadoresse
• Jeff Hines
• Kellyn Ballard
• Hisato Yamamori

English Translation

• Alex Small
• Ryan Sugo
• Bryson Clark
• Satoko Deas
• Lars Henriksen
• Stephan Kim

English Editing

• Eric Haddock
• Stephen Meyerink
• Amy Morris
• Dermot Creegan
• Isaac Nickerson

Brazilian Portuguese Translation and Editing

• Lucas Peterson
• Rafael Pimpinato
• Thais Nucci
• Camila Duque
• Michael Pantaleão

European Localization

• Kaori Aoki
• Daniel Anscomb
• Emily Hitchmough
• Rhys Giles
• Hirotaka Nishino
• Chika Tanigaki
• Owen Preece
• Hideko Russell
• Kendra Evans
• Ritsuko Oshu
• Nami Kusumoto
• Mark Bunting
• Marvin Andrews
• Peter Bagley
• Elena Nardo
• Michael Ecke
• Pierre Gauthier
• Guillaume Didier
• Fabio Giusti
• Diego Figaredo

French Translation

• Alexane Bailleul
• Lytta Khrissate
• Nicolas Sindres
• Arthur Blondel

French Editing

• Matthieu Béthencourt
• Aurelie Kryvinskyj
• Violette Giang
• Leslie Gambini
• Elodie Verpoort
• Diana Ahmed
• Jena Gattegno

German Translation

• Caroline Fest
• Lina Emmerich
• Christopher Derbort
• Daniel Heucher
• Sophie Jüterbock
• Kathleen Kalms
• Carolin Maibach

German Editing

• Sira Vaterhaus
• Jochen Künzel
• Sina Moelleken
• Caroline Büsch
• Paul Seidenstecher
• Alina Linnenweber
• Juliana Niederwanger
• Ireneusz Radko
• Barbara Schweinzer

Italian Translation

• Guido Scarabello
• Altan Couvert
• Marco Sartori
• Francesca Serci
• Annarita Spera
• Manuela Suriano
• Jacopo Vanin

Italian Editing

• Sergio Bianchi
• Silvia De Bellis
• Valerio Amato
• Claudio Calzolari
• Valentina Menale
• Marco Locatelli
• Guendalina Pirruccio
• Alice Troiani

Spanish Translation

• Servando Doval Díaz
• Jorge Diez Lasheras
• Alicia Iribarren Mendoza

Spanish Editing

• Rubén Lado Riomao
• Virginia Paradés Gurrea
• Juan José Leiva Jiménez
• Diana Vázquez Saiz
• Daniela Castillo
• Mai Castro Arellano
• Sebastián Erasmy Vergara
• Alex Fortes
• Irene Mascaró Genestar
• Javier Ortiz Carrillo
• Julieta Ortiz
• Mariona Pera i de Miguel
• Pindaro Vargas-Farías

Localization Support

• Eoin Sanders
• Hollie Beg
• Alexia Campagne-Descré
• Dorian Mouëzy
• Filippo Rizzi
• Marina Gagliardi
• Marica Gusella
• Elio Sottoscritti
• Monika Tracy
• Teresa Cueto Álvarez de Sotomayor
• Jose Gallego
• Paz López Lorente-Sorolla
• Jesús Miguel Díaz Muriel
• Marco Borrelli
• Esther Sánchez Giráldez

Localisation Quality Assurance

• Maxim Mizin (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• David McMeekin (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• Terri Desborough (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• Dmytro Nazarov (PTW International UK Ltd)
• Henar Garcia Pérez (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• Julia Asmus (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• Nils Kruger (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• Pauline Berron (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• Sergejs Adamovs (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• Tania Duvernay (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• Ian Walters (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• Gil Hoyle (PTW International UK Ltd)
• João Gomes (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• Enzo Benedetti (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• Ilaria Boccella (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• Lara Turna (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• Celia Reyes Lamoneda (PTW International UK Ltd.)
• Filipe de Almeida Oscar (PTW International UK Ltd.)

Special Thanks

• Kenji Okubo
• Gaku Susai
• Taito Okiura
• Torrie Dorrell
• Amy Ganster
• Andy Gose
• Andy Hartpence
• Barry Sams
• Charlie Spinner
• Courtney Kim
• Daniel Benkwitt
• David Cheung
• David Numrich
• Kaoru Otawara
• Peter Murphy
• Phaedra Long
• Richie Enticknap
• Stewart Pagan
• Winston Lung
• Yasuhiro Usui
• Alison Chyan
• Steve Lee
• Reina Nagai

Localization

• Pokémon Korea, Inc.

Korean Translation & Editing

• Mihwa Choi
• Jieun Byun
• Youngjun Park
• Dongun Pak
• Jooyeon Han
• Byunghun Bae
• Yoojin Kwon

Special Thanks

• Jaiboem Lim
• Jihye Lee
• Kyung Wook Noh
• Anjin Choi

Very Special Thanks

• GAME FREAK inc.

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