Shiro Maekawa

Shiro Maekawa
Place of birth: Hōfu, Yamaguchi prefecture
Company(ies): Sega of Japan
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 (known to be the third season in English) (53-78) 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 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 Mega Collection Plus (PlayStation 2; 2004) — Special Thanks
• Sonic Mega Collection Plus (Xbox; 2004) — Special Thanks
• Sonic Heroes (Windows PC; 2004) — Director
• Shadow the Hedgehog (PlayStation 2; 2005) — Development Support
• Shadow the Hedgehog (GameCube; 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

Music

• Sona Mi Areru Ec Sancitu (Vinyl; 1999) — Words by

• Sonic Adventure (1998) — Field Designer, A-LIFE System Designer, Visual Memory Game Designer
• Sonic Adventure 2 (2001) — Scenario Writer, Story Event Designer, Visual Memory Game Support
• Sonic X (2003) — Supervisor
• Sonic Heroes (2003) — Scenario Writer, Main Game Designer, Enemy Game Designer, Story Board Designer
• Sonic Heroes (PC Version) (2004) — Director
• Sonic Mega Collection Plus (2004) — Special Thanks
• Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) — Development Support
• Sonic Riders (2006) — Story Plotter [NOTE: Uncredited]
• Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) — Game Script
• Sonic and the Secret Rings (2007) — Story Plotter [NOTE: Uncredited], Game Designer
• Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (2008) — Game Mode Designer, Story Plotter, Story Board Designer
• Sonic and the Black Knight (2009) — In charge of Story [NOTE: Uncredited]

Interviews

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