Eitaro Toyoda

Eitaro Toyoda
Place of birth: Funabashi, Chiba prefecture, Japan
Date of birth: 1974-12-23 (age 49)
Company(ies): Sega of Japan
Role(s): Designer

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Eitaro Toyoda (豊田 栄太郎) is a Sonic Team employee mainly involved with the main releases for the Sonic the Hedgehog series. He originally dealt with in-game event scenes for Sonic Adventure but expanded to level design, working regularly with game director Takashi Iizuka as part of Sonic Team USA. Following the release of Shadow the Hedgehog, he moved back to Japan to work on Sonic and the Secret Rings. The last time he did game design, as of this writing, was Sonic Unleashed for the Xbox 360 and PS3 as a Boss Game Designer.

Toyoda now mainly serves as a supervisor for Sonic family characters and world alongside Iizuka and Yuji Uekawa, overlooking game titles and writing Japanese scripts. In addition to games, he has been supervising and rewriting Japanese scripts for Sonic comics, shows, and movies for the past 10 years. On the other hand, he was in charge of story and art for the 25th anniversary Sonic comics and Wallpaper Cover Stories for the 2021 wallpapers on Sonic Channel, a Japanese Sonic website.

Production history

Games

• Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast; 1998) — Event scene editors
• Sonic Adventure 2 (Dreamcast; 2001) — Field Designers (Level Designers)
• Sonic Adventure 2 (Dreamcast; 2001) — Enemy Game Designers
• Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (GameCube; 2001) — Field Designers (Level Designers)
• Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (GameCube; 2001) — Enemy Game Designers
• Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut (GameCube; 2003) — Mission Mode Game Designers
• Shadow the Hedgehog (PlayStation 2; 2005) — Level Designers
• Shadow the Hedgehog (GameCube; 2005) — Level Designers
• Shadow the Hedgehog (Xbox; 2005) — Level Designers
• Sonic the Hedgehog (PlayStation 3; 2006) — Special Thanks
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Xbox 360; 2006) — Special Thanks
• Sonic and the Secret Rings (Wii; 2007) — Game Designers
• Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (Xbox 360; 2010) — CS2 R&D
• Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (Wii; 2010) — CS2 R&D
• Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (Nintendo DS; 2010) — CS2 R&D
• Sonic Colours (Wii; 2010) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Generations (Steam; 2011) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Generations (Windows PC; 2011) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Generations (Xbox 360; 2011) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Generations (PlayStation 3; 2011) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Generations (Nintendo 3DS; 2011) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Wii; 2011) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic the Hedgehog CD (PlayStation 3; 2011) — Special Thanks
• Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Nintendo 3DS; 2012) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II (Xbox 360; 2012) — Special Thanks
• 3D Sonic the Hedgehog (Nintendo 3DS; 2013) — Special Thanks
• Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games (Wii U; 2013) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Runners (iOS; 2015) — Special Thanks
• Sonic Runners (Android; 2015) — Special Thanks
• 3D Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Nintendo 3DS; 2015) — Special Thanks
• Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Nintendo 3DS; 2016) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sega Ages Sonic the Hedgehog (Nintendo Switch; 2018) — Special Thanks
• Sega Ages Thunder Force IV (Nintendo Switch; 2018) — Special Thanks
• Sega Ages Phantasy Star (Nintendo Switch; 2018) — Special Thanks
• Sega Heroes (Android; 2018) — Sonic the Hedgehog
• Shin Sakura Taisen (PlayStation 4; 2019) — Scriptwriters
• Sega Ages Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Nintendo Switch; 2020) — Special Thanks
• Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (Nintendo Switch; 2020) — Special Thanks
• Sonic Colours: Ultimate (Xbox One; 2021) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Colours: Ultimate (PlayStation 4; 2021) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Colours: Ultimate (Nintendo Switch; 2021) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Colours: Ultimate (Epic Games Store; 2021) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Origins (PlayStation 4; 2022) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Origins (PlayStation 5; 2022) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Origins (Xbox One; 2022) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Origins (Nintendo Switch; 2022) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Frontiers (PlayStation 4; 2022) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Frontiers (PlayStation 5; 2022) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Frontiers (Nintendo Switch; 2022) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• Sonic Colours: Ultimate (Steam; 2023) — Sonic Character Supervisors
• The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (Steam; 2023) — Special Thanks
• The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (Steam OS X; 2023) — Special Thanks
• Sonic Superstars (PlayStation 4; 2023) — Sonic Characters Supervisors
• Sonic Superstars (PlayStation 5; 2023) — Sonic Characters Supervisors
• Sonic Superstars (Nintendo Switch; 2023) — Sonic Characters Supervisors
• Sonic Superstars (Epic Games Store; 2023) — Sonic Characters Supervisors
• Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop (Apple TV; 2024) — Sonic Character Supervisors

Music

• Sonic Forces Vocal Traxx - On the Edge (CD; 2017) — Special Thanks
• Sonic Colors: Ultimate Original Soundtrack "Re-Colors" (CD; 2021) — Special Thanks

• Sonic Unleashed (Xbox 360 and PS3 versions) (2008) — Boss Game Designer
• Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (2010) — CS2 R&D (Sega Japan)
• Sonic Free Riders (2010) — Scenario Supervisor, Sonic Character Supervisor
• Sonic Colors (2010) — Sonic Character Supervisor (Sega)
• Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (2011/2012) — Sonic Character Supervisor
• Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games (2013) — Sonic Character Supervisor (Sega Development Team)
• Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (2016) — Sonic Character Supervisor (Sega Games Development Team)
• Sonic Forces (2017) — Writers, Japanese Story and Script
• Shin Sakura Taisen (2019) — Scenario Writers

External Links

• Eitaro Toyoda on Twitter
• Osakana's Fishbowl (Toyoda's blog site for the fantasy manga "Chibisemi" and information on digital content production)