Manabu Tsukamoto

Manabu Tsukamoto is a former Sega employee who originally served as a planner for the Virtua Fighter series and a manager for the Virtua Striker series. He later became involved with the former series' motion design aspect.

Following the release of Shenmue, Tsukamoto was reassigned to Amusement Vision, where he retained his motion design duties as director of the corresponding department for sister games F-Zero AX and F-Zero GX.

He later joined Koei.

Production History

• Virtua Fighter (Arcade Version) (1993) — Planning Support
• Virtua Fighter 2 (Arcade Version) (1994) — Planning support
• Virtua Fighter (32X Version) (1995) — Special Thanks
• Virtua Fighter 3 (1996) — Assistant Motion Design (Motion Designers) (Designers), Planning Support (Planner)
• Virtua Fighter 3tb (1997/1998) — Assistant Motion Design (Motion Designers) (Designers), Planning Support (Planner)
• Virtua Striker 2 Ver. 2000 (1999) — management staff
• Virtua Striker 2 Ver. 2000.1 (1999) — management staff
• Shenmue (1999) — Special Thanks (Planner)
• F-Zero AX (2003) — Motion Design Director
• F-Zero GX (2003) — Motion Design Director
• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (2006) — Motion Designer
• Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage (2010) — Character Animation Designer