Shiro Maekawa

Shiro Maekawa
Place of birth: Hōfu, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan
Date of birth: 1970-12-08 (age 52)
Employment history: Sega of Japan Divisions: Sega CS3 Sega Software R&D Dept. 8 Sonic Team (company)
Role(s): Designer, Script Writer
Education: Yamaguchi University (1989-1993)

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. 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.

Production history

Games

• Panzer Dragoon (Saturn; 1995) — 声 (as 前川 司郎)
• Panzer Dragoon (Saturn; 1995) — Voices
• Panzer Dragoon Zwei (Saturn; 1996) — Special thanks to (as 前川 司郎)
• Panzer Dragoon Zwei (Saturn; 1996) — Special Thanks
• Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn; 1998) — 原案/設定 (as 前川 司郎)
• Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn; 1998) — 企画 (as 前川 司郎)
• Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast; 1998) — Field designers
• Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast; 1998) — A-LIFE system designers
• Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast; 1998) — Visual memory game designer
• 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 (Windows PC; No results?) — Director
• 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

• 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 [NOTE: Uncredited]

Interviews

Some or all of the following content should be mirrored on Sega Retro (or Retro CDN).

• Shiro Maekawa interview by Sonic Channel (August 21, 2006) [Translated]

External Links

• Shiro Maekawa on Twitter