Shiro Maekawa
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Shiro Maekawa |
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Place of birth: Hōfu, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan[1] |
Date of birth: 1970-12-08 (age 53) |
Employment history: Sega Enterprises (1994-04-01[2] – )
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Role(s): Designer, Script Writer |
Education: Yamaguchi University (1989-1993) |
Twitter: @mizuhano |
Shiro Maekawa (前川 司郎) is a game planner. He joined Sega in April 1993 and left in March 2008, currently working at Marvelous.[5] Originally wanting to become an animator, he gave up on that profession as he felt he lacked the required drawing skills, but upon learning that unit direction (storyboards) and storytelling does not require great drawing ability, he took the opportunity of being in charge of Sonic Adventure 2's story. Prior to working on Sonic, he wrote some event dialogue for Panzer Dragoon. Upon returning to Japan from Sega Studio USA in 2004, he had more involvement in the production of second season (third season outside of Japan) of Sonic X, having weekly scenario meetings.[6]
Production history
Games
- Panzer Dragoon (Saturn; 1995) — 声[7] (as 前川 司郎)
- Panzer Dragoon (Saturn; 1995) — Voices[8]
- Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn; 1998) — 原案/設定[9] (as 前川 司郎)
- Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn; 1998) — 企画[9] (as 前川 司郎)
- Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast; 1998) — Field designers
- Sonic Adventure 2 (Dreamcast; 2001) — Scenario Writer
- Sonic Adventure 2 (Dreamcast; 2001) — Story Event Designer
- Sonic Adventure 2 (Dreamcast; 2001) — Visual Memory Game Support
- Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (GameCube; 2001) — Scenario Writer
- Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (GameCube; 2001) — Story Event Designer
- Sonic Heroes (PlayStation 2; 2003) — Main Game Designer
- Sonic Heroes (GameCube; 2003) — Main Game Designer
- Sonic Heroes (Xbox; 2003) — Main Game Designer
- Sonic Heroes (PlayStation 2; 2003) — Enemy Game Designer
- Sonic Heroes (GameCube; 2003) — Enemy Game Designer
- Sonic Heroes (Xbox; 2003) — Enemy Game Designer
- Sonic Heroes (PlayStation 2; 2003) — Scenario Writer
- Sonic Heroes (GameCube; 2003) — Scenario Writer
- Sonic Heroes (Xbox; 2003) — Scenario Writer
- Sonic Heroes (PlayStation 2; 2003) — Story Board Designers
- Sonic Heroes (GameCube; 2003) — Story Board Designers
- Sonic Heroes (Xbox; 2003) — Story Board Designers
- Sonic Heroes (Windows PC; 2004) — Director
- Sonic Mega Collection Plus (PlayStation 2; 2004) — Special Thanks
- Sonic Mega Collection Plus (Xbox; 2004) — Special Thanks
- Shadow the Hedgehog (PlayStation 2; 2005) — Development Support
- Shadow the Hedgehog (GameCube; 2005) — Development Support
- Sonic the Hedgehog (PlayStation 3; 2006) — Game Script
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Xbox 360; 2006) — Game Script
- Sonic Mega Collection Plus (Windows PC; 2006) — Special Thanks
- Sonic and the Secret Rings (Wii; 2007) — Game Designers
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo DS; 2008) — Special Thanks
Music
- Sona Mi Areru Ec Sancitu (Vinyl; 1999) — Words by[10]
- Azel: Panzer Dragoon RPG Memorial Album (CD; 2001) — Lyrics (as Shirou Maekawa)
- Sonic X (2003) — Supervisor
- Sonic Riders (2006) — Story Plotter [NOTE: Uncredited]
- Sonic and the Secret Rings (2007) — Story Plotter [NOTE: Uncredited], Game Designer
- Sonic and the Black Knight (2009) — In charge of Story[11] [NOTE: Uncredited]
Interviews
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Photographs
- Main article: Photos of Shiro Maekawa
References
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/shiro.maekawa/about
- ↑ Harmony, "1994 4" (JP; 1994-04-01), page 20
- ↑ http://sega.jp/segamoba/about/column.html (Wayback Machine: 2009-12-19 12:39)
- ↑ http://sonic.sega.jp/SonicChannelOld/creators/006/index.html
- ↑ https://jp.linkedin.com/in/%E5%89%8D%E5%B7%9D-%E5%8F%B8%E9%83%8E-657a4961
- ↑ @mizuhano on Twitter
- ↑ File:Panzer Dragoon JP Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Panzer Dragoon US Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 File:Azel Panzer Dragoon RPG Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:SonaMiAreruEcSancitu vinyl US discB.jpg
- ↑ http://sonic.sega.jp/SonicChannelOld/creators/028/index.html
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