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Production credits

• SONIC TEAM

Sonic Superstars Development Team

• Sonic Series Producer: Takashi Iizuka
• Producer: Yasuyuki Tsuzuki
• Director: Shunsuke Kawaraduka
• Game Designers: Saki Ishiguro, Daiki Nakajima
• Technical Directors: Yoshitaka Kawabata, Yoshinori Ohgane
• Sound Director: Jun Senoue
• Assistant Sound Director: Teruhiko Nakagawa
• Composers: Tee Lopes, Fumio Itoh, Satoshi Oike, Takahiro Kai, Hideaki Kobayashi, Hidenori Shoji, Rintaro Soma, Iona Takashima, Yasuyuki Nagata, Ryo Fukuda, Mitsuharu Fukuyama, Tae Fujimoto, Tatsuyuki Maeda, Kenji Mizuno, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, TORIENA, Yuzuru Jinma
• Sound Editor in Chief: Kenichi Tokoi
• Sound Editors: Keisuke Tsukahara, Hideaki Abe
• Sound Racer Inc.
  • Movie Sound Editors: Eiji Nakamura, Chiharu Minekawa
• Wave Master Inc.
  • Coordinator: Fumitaka Shibata
• Sonic Characters Supervisors: Kazuyuki Hoshino, Yuji Uekawa, Eitaro Toyoda, Tomoko Kanemoto, Yui Karasuno
• Official Website Production: Yuichi Kikuchi
• Development Support: Shun Nakamura, Sachiko Kawamura, Koji Yoshida, Daisuke Shimizu, Akihito Fujiwara, Yoshitaka Miura, Hiroyuki Abe, Hiroyasu Tamura, Ryohei Yanase, Kotaro Tanimoto, Rie Sakurai, Hiroki Tokunaga, Kohei Moriya, Masatoshi Iso, Keiichi Noda, Katsunori Uchibori, Ryuichi Taki, Nobuya Ohashi, Masaru Kohayakawa, Hitoshi Furukubo, Kazuhiro Matsuta, Shinji Motayama, Takaharu Terada, Yoshitaka Maeyama, Kohei Yamashita, Shinpei Ito, Toshifumi Hara, Kazuo Komuro, Yoshihiko Nakagawa, Takayuki Iwasaki, Asuka Yamamoto, Yuji Yamaga, Takeshi Higuchi, Keiichi Kizu, Takeshi Numazawa, Mitsuru Takahashi, Keisuke Nakagawa, Takashi Yamada, Tetsu Katano, Yasuhiro Takagi, Haruyoshi Tomita, Naofumi Hataya, Fumiyoshi Shimohara, Teruhiko Nakagawa, Fumio Itoh, Haruyoshi Tomita, Kagasei Shimomura, Shigefumi Tanzawa, Masami Inoue, Satoru Okano, Tomohiro Kashiwada, Makoto Sugawara, Takayuki Kasai, Masatoshi Nakamura

Game Development

• Development Producer: Naoto Ohshima
• Development Director: Koichi Watanabe
• Lead Game Designer: Gen Shiomi
• Game Designers: Mitsunori Yamazaki, Yukihiro Obayashi, Tomohide Hayashi, Shiho Tsuzuki, Jun Imanishi, Makoto Hara, Kazuaki Futamura, Yuichi Shimizu, Haruyuki Nishida, Yukito Hamada, Yasunari Hiroyama, Naoto Ohshima
• Lead Level Designer: Ryo Sato
• Level Designers: Tadaaki Nakado, Daisuke Toda, Yodai Hata, Ryotaro Wada
• Story: Takashi Iizuka
• Character Designer for Trip: Takashi Iizuka, Naoto Ohshima
• Art Director: Daisuke Kojima
• Character Designer: Io Sato
• Concept Artists: Manabu Kusunoki, Naoki Ito, Yuno Endoh
• Lead 3D Designer: Hirishi Arai
• 3D Designers: Tatsuro Matsunaga, Tsukasa Ueyama, Aoi Kumeta, Takahiro Miyaji, Takashi Mizuno, Miho Muraishi, Mao Higashi
• Cinematic Animation Designers: Yuichi Nakamura, Yoshihide Sasagawa
• Lead Background Designer: Mikiko Igo, Jeon Seoyoon, Daiki Kageyama, Kirara Ose, Jun Hosoi, Shigehiro Kanazawa
• Lead Effects Designer: Yasutoshi Amemiya
• Effects Designers: Amu Hayakawa, Kaede Aoki
• Interface Designers: Satoshi Imaeda, Masahiro Sanpei

• Technical Artist: Sho Kumagai
• Design Superviser: Masamichi Harada
• Lead Player Programmer: Tomoya Tateishi
• Lead System Programmer: Kenji Miyakawa
• Lead Programmer: Shinji Iseki
• Programmers: Mikio Kume, Manabu Kobayashi, Satoshi Kimura, Yuki Hatekeyama, Kazumitsu Ohta, Shirou Takeuchi, Satoshi Mamuro, Takuto Nakamura
• Gimmick Programmer: Atsushi Gotoh
• Enemy Programmers: Toshinori Suzuki, Kenichi Yamaguchi
• Minigame Programmer: Seiya Ogawa
• Network Programmers: Kenshiro Ichiyama, Noboru Yano

Animation Production

Telecom Animation Film Co., Ltd.

• Director: Toshihiko Masuda
• Storyboard: Masuda Toshihiko, Daisuke Sako
• Episode Direction: Daisuke Sako
• Animation Director: Hiroaki Noguchi
• Key Animation: Toshihiko Masuda, Shimpei Sawa, Daisuke Sako, Hiroaki Noguchi, Kanako Maru
• 2nd Key Animation: Liang Chen, Shiori Yamashita, Mai Ogawa, Hiroaki Noguchi, Yui Okano, Ayumi Ono, Ayaka Nishide, Kazuya Sakamoto
• In-Between Inspection: Keiko Yozawa

• In-Between Animation: Keiko Yozawa
• OLM Asia: Athira, Bernardo, Chukean, Haifa, Hakim.R, Joul, Najwa, Shaoxuan, Yapfei
• Color Design:Narumi Konno
• Color Direction/Inspection: Narumi Konno
• Painting: OLM Asia
• Art Director: Shohei Hachiya
• BG Art Board: Shohei Hachiya
• BG Art: Shohei Hachiya, Hiroshi Nitta
• Director of Photography: Miwa Yanagida
• Photography: Miwa Yanagida
• Video Edit: Yoshihiro Kasahara
• Producer: Hitoshi Kikuchi
• Production Coordinators: Issei Iba

Localization Team

• Localization: Mao Mitani, Shusaku Itaya, Kim Hyekyoung, Chen Ying, Chen Xiaoyun, Mo Jincheon, An Da, Thanakorn Ungpiyakun
• OCB Project Management Team: Shuma Saitoh, Yuichiro Kano

Sonic Superstars Management Team

• Product Management: Shoko Kozuki, Genta Toyokawa
• Promotion: Kensaku Nishimura, Tsuguharu Ishihara
• Community Management: Keita Fujiki, Edmundo Prado, Toru Muramoto, Shiori Ichinose, Ayame Tsutsumi, Miyuki Mase, Fon Ian Ian
• Digital Marketing: Mari Yamamoto
• PR Managers: Nana Yamaguchi
• PR-Publicity: Teruyuki Kaida, Ai Ogata, Keiko Yoshie, Anudari Ganbold, Tetsuhiro Kohira, Yinuo Huang, Yasushi Nagumo, Ai Yamada, Ryoko Masuda, Nozomi Yamada, Masako Funakoshi, Tomomi Oda
• Local Promotion: Luodan Liang, Sachiko Ide, Huizu Jin, Kensuke Okuda
• Sales Manager: Katsutoshi Memezawa
• Sales: Tomohiko Hayashi, Keigo Kimura, Shuto Kobayashi, Hiroshi Matsubara, Junichiro Suzuki, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Kota Aso, Masahiro Tanaka, Shinya Oosaki, FIELD CREW SERVICE Co., Ltd.
• Sales Planning: Takuro Mishina, Toshiaki Tamesue, Ai Shiraishi
• Merchandise Planning: Aiko Matsuda, Kazuya Sato
• Sales Management: Takashi Kabasawa, Youko Oda, Nobuaki Sone
• Public Relations: Tetsuo Sasaki, Natsuki Sato, Daisuke Matsunaga, Hiroshi Yamazaki
• Global Marketing Support: Makoto Senoo, Erika Nagata, Courtney Fitzgerald, Natsune Kitaoka
• Asia Product Management: Ruiko Miyamoto, Hiroko Karube
• Asia Sales: Yoshinori Akiyama, Takeyuki Iso, Yuichiro Shimada, Rey Irie, Yuta Tamagami, Yaoxuan Bai
• SEGA Publishing Korea Ltd.: Hyunju Kim, Seokmoon Jang, Haechang Song, Chiwoo Nam, Kyusang Kim, Nahyun Sim, Changkyun Choi, Cheong Lee, Jihyeon Mun, Doyoung Kim, Minjee Kim, Yunji Lee
• SEGA Taiwan Ltd.: Shintaro Tanioka, Nick Tseng, Nina Lin, Ike Chen, Mickey Choiu, Yuta Matoba, Max Hsu, Wayne Li, Bill Huang, Wang Kung Yu, Chihyu Chang, Yihui Chien, Lili Lee, Jianchih Liou, Mike Wang, Chiawen Tsai, Jessie Huang, Yangyu Ou
• SEGA Singapore Pte. Ltd.: Lance Teo, Sawami Inoue
• Marketing Supervision: Yusuke Suai, Junji Sudo, Satoshi Imai, Yohei Tanioku, Seiichi Kato, Koichi Hanatate, Daichi Mukai, Syou Nanmoku, Sugimoto Seiichiro, Go Saito, Takayoshi Ohuchi, Kousuke Honma
• Licensing: Tatsuya Kususe, Ayaka Hanyuda, Go Iwasaki, Satomi Furukawa
• Software Quality Control: Akira Nishikawa, Isao Akiyama, Akihiko Morita, Takashi Masuda, Keita Kuronuma, Yusuke Tokiwa, Ikue Sugai, Mayumi Iizuka, Takumi Nakamura
• Software Quality Support: Teruo Yabumoto, Kenzo Kadowaki
• Director of Project Support Department: Takashi Shoji
• Deputy Director of Project Support Department: Masanori Ohe
• Operation Team: Makoto Ito, Susumu Ookoshi, Ryuka Sakamoto, Satoshi Kuwano, Yoshiaki Yamazaki, Kohei Sumida, Yuki Sumida, Yoko Fukada, Shimpei Omae, Chiaki Fukai, Ami Oomori
• Release Support Team: Miho Moriya, Makoto Takano, Atsushi Hirano, Junichi Miyaki
• Solution Support Team: Kazuhiko Yoshida, Masateru Numasawa
• Quality Assurance: Tomoki Kaji, Yasuyuki Hattori, Yuji Nakamura, Shunya Shimizu, Yasuhisa Kawase, Atsushi Nakaza
• Voice of Customer: Atsuyoshi Okada, Mariko Okada, Minori Hattori, Nobuyuki Inoue
• Package & Manual Production: Yoshihiro Sakuta, Kazuki Ishizu, Iljun Kang, Yoichi Takahashi, Minako Toda, Hiroki Osawa, Colin Restall, Makoto Nishino, Yoshitake Ohta, Takenori Terauchi, Sunao Murayama
• Content Lab: Yusuke Takiguchi, Naoko Maekawa, Sho Harada, Tadashi Harao, Satoshi Itagaki, Shinnosuke Noritake
• Creative Producers: Eigo Kasahara, Toru Ohara, Yuichiro Kano

Sega (Shanghai) Software Co., Ltd.

• Supervisor: Makoto Uchida
• Technical Support: Katsunori Kosuge
• Coordinator: Yin Yin
• Designers: Hou Ran, Li MuZhang, Jiang HuiXian, Liao Shan Fan, Liu Yan, Fan Wei, He Lian, Wang Siyuan, Sun Chen Xi

Sega of America, Inc.

Sonic Production

• Senior Director of Game Production: Austin Keys
• Producers: Shotaro Kobayashi, Hannah Motegi, Hiroya Watanabe, Miki Takahashi, Joel Youkhanna

Product Marketing

• Senior Director of Product Marketing: Matthew Allen
• Associate Director of Product Marketing: Jason Taylor
• Product Marketing Managers: Alex Lopez, Reid Taguchi, Vincent Kwong

Brand Marketing

• Director of Marketing: John Choon
• Associate PR Director: Evan Bader
• Social Media Manager: Katie Chrzanowski, Justin Thormann, Kenneth Washington
• Associate Brand Manager: Ayumi Tanioka
• PR Managers: Alexa Bowers, Thalia Piedra

Lore Team

• Director of Lore & Creative Strategy: Ryan Hamlyn
• Associate Manager: Chris Hernandez

Creative Services

• Director of Creative Services: Hiroshi Nishiyama
• Senior Manager: Jimmy Lenoir
• Graphic Designers: Petia Koutzarova, Abe Urias

Business & Strategic Planning

• Associate Director: Kohei Kondo

Licensing

• Sr. Director of Licensing: Alex Gomez
• Director of Product Development: Sandra Jo
• Manager of Product Development: Mai Kiyotaki
• Associate Manager of Product Development: Scott Murata
• Associate Licensing Director: Michael Cisneros
• Licensing Manager: Angela Hoyer
• Associate Manager, LATAM: Maria Romo
• Licensing Coordinator: Cheyenne Bosworth
• Licensing Coordinator, LATAM: Erendira Espinoza
• Licensing Specialist: Maida Chan
• Licensing Translator: Yusuke Sato

Animation

• Sr. Director of Animation: Yukio Kusumoto
• Sr. Manager of Development: Ian Drazen
• Production Manager: Jasmin Hernandez

Sonic Team USA

• SVP, Chief Business & Brand Officer: Ivo Gerscovich
• EVP: Hitoshi Okuno

Sega of America Publishing

• SVP of Product Development: Hiroshi Kadowaki
• Development Services: Bryant Green, Lance Nguyen, Johnny Huynh

QA & Dev Services

• QA Manager: Dan Fehskens
• QA Leads: John Nieroski, Darryl Le, Hy Ngo, Jae Hoon Yang
• QA Testers: Nandi Best, Lillian Chen, Paco Erskine, Matthew Estrada, Joseph Frizzle, Steven Garads, Andrew Le, Millad Moaddab, Joe Nguyen, Ian Schwarz, Christopher Sugo, Katielee Swanson, Billy Vail, Marco Valiao, Luigi Ventura
• QA Managers: Scott Williams, Scott Borakove
• QA & PD Ops Coordinator: Steven Kawafuchi
• Submissions Coordinator: Shelley Chen, Alvin Lo
• Sr. Manager, QA & Dev Support: Carl Chen
• Release Director: Stuart Massie

Sales & Operations, The Americas

• VP of Sales and Digital Strategy: Alaine de Leon
• Director, Commercial Operations: Nate Harris
• Digital Operations Manager: Rain Gregorio
• Digital Operations Coordinator: Kurumi Ando, Carlos Vega
• Digital Operations Administrator: Megan Pham
• Sales Operations Manager: Tina Noda
• Sr. Sales & Ops Administrator: Bryce Dunbar
• Sales Administrator: Madison Carlos
• Associate Director of Sales: Danny Miscevich
• Associate Sales Support Manager: Kirk Whang
• Digital Promotions Manager: Albert Jung
• Digital Promotions Planner: Kerry Madden-Potts
• EVP of Publishing: Ryan Okum

Corporate Planning

• VP of Corporate Planning: Kenya Numata
• Sr. Finance Manager: Jeremy Swain
• Business Planning: Alex Pham, Karin Miyata, Makiko Suda, Yuko Shimura, Akiko Takahashi
• Forecasting & Research: Daniil Loza, Jiyang Xie, Christopher Perez

Business Strategy

• SVP of Business Strategy: Noboru Nagashima
• Product Coordination: Kanako Makino, Minoru Iwasaki

Finance and HR

• Director of Finance: Daisuke Miyawaki
• Accounting: Junko Fukaya, Naoko Kogawa, Samantha Nasab, Akiko Takahashi, Noriko Watanabe, Keisuke Gomi, Alice Amano, Vivian Nguyen
• Human Resources & Payroll: Akiko Okihara, Jessica Frausto, Nicole Hall, Alex Lee
• Sr. Director of HR: Will Meek
• SVP of HR: Clarence Foster
• Recruiters: Daniel Collins, Ben Kimler
• Recruiting Coordinator: Jennifer Hwang
• VP, Finance & HR: Misaki Gertz
• VP of Business Development: Dai Kudo

Legal & Business Affairs

• EVP, Legal & Business Affairs: Jeffrey Shieh
• Sr. Counsel, Legal & Business Affairs: Katherine Zhang
• Paralegal & Manager of Legal Operations: Samantha Munoz

• SVP of Publishing: Mitsuhiro Tanaka
• President & COO: Ian Curran
• Special Thanks: Evening Star, Marcella Churchill

SEGA Europe Ltd.

Studio Operations

• SVP Studio Operations: Marta Lois Gonzalez
• Head of Technical Services: Julie Metior
• Senior Software Engineer: Gordon McKendrick
• Software Engineer: Ajay Modasiya
• Assistant Database Administrato: Ella Johnston
• QA Data Analyst: Antoine Gaigier
• Dev Ops and Automation Engineer: Shaun Young
• Finance Business Partner: Ricky Dhaliwal
• Submissions Manager: Mike Veness
• Submission Engineer: Tony Langan
• Head of Customer Support: John White
• Head of Localisation: Vanessa Shallcross
• Senior Localisation Project Manager: Miguel Lerma Garcia
• Localisation Project Manager: Firas Al Sekran
• FIGS Localisation by PxlHrt: Luis J. Paredes, Chiara Di Modica, Geoffrey Ruaux, Alexia Trensch, Fabio Bortolotti
• Brazilian Portuguese Localisation by Locsmiths: Bruno Dias, Amanda Do Prado, Barbara Paranhos Coelho
• Polish and Russian Localisation by The Collective Ace: Ekaterina Dyakonenko, Wojciech Brudzinski, Elisa Sarana, Karolina Todorska, Nadezhda Martynova, Tomasz Kaliszewski, Veronika Konoplina, Piotr Helak, Karolina Barszcz
• Senior Manager Localisation QA: Alessandro Irranca
• Localisation QA Project Manager: Felix Neuperth
• Localisation QA Language Specialists: Carlos Lopez"Vlaisnut", Lucile Minard, Chiara Cavaliere, Melanie Fuchs, Krzysztof Piotrowicz, Rebeca . Acco
• Localisation QA Support by Keywords Dublin:
  • QA Manager: Riccardo Fumagalli
  • LQA Project Managers: Alex Karpouski, Massimiliano Pelle
  • LQA Team Leads: Domenico Marsico, Samuel Da Rocha
  • LQA Testing Team: Achim Unland, Marco Fiorucci, Brenda Catossi Vicentini, Ramona Losado, Cristian Grillanda, Ruben Abadia Santillana, Dawid Jurek, Sabrina Chen Chin Han, Francisca Sánchez, Svetlana Platonova, Julien Martinez, Thiago Figueiredo Tacconi

Commercial Sales EMEA

• Commercial Director, EMEA: Simon Inch
• Commercial Manager Digital, EMEA: James McNerney
• Commercial Manager Physical, EMEA: Ben Chitty
• Commercial Administrator, EMEA: Greg Cardy

Marketing EMEA

• Marketing Manager, EMEA: Thach Quach
• Product Marketing Manager, EMEA: Jim Dyer
• PR Manager, EMEA: Danielle Mounsey
• Community Management Support, EMEA: Marilia Campos

Operations EMEA

• Director of Operations, EMEA: Natalie Cooke
• Head of Operations, EMEA: Linda Kershaw
• Operations Manager (Physical), EMEA: Peter Mattinson
• Operations Manager (Digital), EMEA: Jake Nixon
• Operations Executive, EMEA: Linda Chiao-Hsien Smith
• Operations Administrator, EMEA: Ben Dixon
• Operations Manager (PC Digital), EMEA: Clinton Allman
• Operations Executive (PC Digital), EMEA: Craig Cox
• Operations Co-ordinator (PC Digital), EMEA: Daniel Clarke

• COO / President: Gary Dale
• Special Thanks: Shunta Motoyama, Taiki Aoyama, Norika Sakai, Madoka Ishii, Tomoko Matsumoto, Hana Nozawa, Itsuki Tanioka, Akito Sunami, Daigo Todo, Makoto Sakemi, Tomoki Takayama, Kazuma I, Ayami Fukase, Aya Iizuka, Ryosuke Kotera, Saki Anzai, Ren Nishiyama, Koshi Usami, Kenta Murakami, Evening Star

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• Executive Producers: Haruki Satomi, Yukio Sugino, Shuji Utsumi, Osamu Ohashi

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