Shiro Maekawa

Shiro Maekawa

Place of birth: Hōfu, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan^[1]
Date of birth: 1970-12-08 (age 54)
Employment history: Sega Enterprises (1994-04-01^[2] – ) Divisions: Sega CS1 Sega CS Sega CS1 Sonic Team USA^[3] Sega Divisions: Global Entertainment R&D Dept. 1
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 Zwei (Saturn; 1996) — Special thanks to^[9] (as 前川司郎)
Panzer Dragoon Zwei (Saturn; 1996) — Special Thanks^[10]
Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn; 1998) — 原案/設定^[11] (as 前川司郎)
Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn; 1998) — 企画^[11] (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 (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
Shadow the Hedgehog (Xbox; 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
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Nintendo 3DS; 2012) — Game Designers

Music

Sona Mi Areru Ec Sancitu (Vinyl; 1999) — Words by^[12]
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^[13] [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]

Photographs

Main article: Photos of Shiro Maekawa

References

[https:.2F.2Fwww.facebook.com.2Fshiro.maekawa.2Fabout-1] ttps://www.facebook.com/shiro.maekawa/about

[:File:Harmony_JP_127.pdf_p20-2] Harmony, "1994 4" (JP; 1994-04-01), page 20

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20091219123904.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fsega.jp.2Fsegamoba.2Fabout.2Fcolumn.html-3] ttp://sega.jp/segamoba/about/column.html (Wayback Machine: 2009-12-19 12:39)

[http:.2F.2Fsonic.sega.jp.2FSonicChannelOld.2Fcreators.2F006.2Findex.html-4] ttp://sonic.sega.jp/SonicChannelOld/creators/006/index.html

[https:.2F.2Fjp.linkedin.com.2Fin.2F.25E5.2589.258D.25E5.25B7.259D-.25E5.258F.25B8.25E9.2583.258E-657a4961-5] ttps://jp.linkedin.com/in/%E5%89%8D%E5%B7%9D-%E5%8F%B8%E9%83%8E-657a4961

[https:.2F.2Ftwitter.com.2Fmizuhano.2Fstatus.2F1010679646692577281-6] @mizuhano on Twitter

[:File:Panzer_Dragoon_JP_Saturn_credits.pdf_p-7] File:Panzer Dragoon JP Saturn credits.pdf

[:File:Panzer_Dragoon_US_Saturn_credits.pdf_p-8] File:Panzer Dragoon US Saturn credits.pdf

[:File:Panzer_Dragoon_Zwei_JP_Saturn_credits.pdf_p-9] File:Panzer Dragoon Zwei JP Saturn credits.pdf

[:File:Panzer_Dragoon_Zwei_US_Saturn_credits.pdf_p-10] File:Panzer Dragoon Zwei US Saturn credits.pdf

[:File:Azel_Panzer_Dragoon_RPG_Saturn_credits.pdf_p-11] 11.0 ^11.1 File:Azel Panzer Dragoon RPG Saturn credits.pdf

[:File:SonaMiAreruEcSancitu_vinyl_US_discB.jpg_p-12] File:SonaMiAreruEcSancitu vinyl US discB.jpg

[http:.2F.2Fsonic.sega.jp.2FSonicChannelOld.2Fcreators.2F028.2Findex.html-13] ttp://sonic.sega.jp/SonicChannelOld/creators/028/index.html

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