Hironobu Sakaguchi

Hironobu Sakaguchi is a Japanese video game designer and producer who created the Final Fantasy series and founded the studio Mistwalker.

Final Fantasy: A role-playing video game series created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and developed by Square and its successors. The series that made Sakaguchi internationally known and became his defining creative legacy.
Square (video game company): A Japanese video game company founded in 1986 and later merged with Enix to form Square Enix. Sakaguchi joined Square in its early years and developed the projects that made it a leading publisher.
Nobuo Uematsu: A Japanese composer known for music in the Final Fantasy series and other video games. Uematsu’s music became a defining element of the early Final Fantasy games Sakaguchi led.
Japanese role-playing game: A role-playing video game tradition associated with Japanese developers, conventions, and design histories. Final Fantasy became one of the genre’s most influential series and helped define its global image.
Final Fantasy VII: A 1997 role-playing video game developed by Square for the original PlayStation. Its global success helped establish the series as a major force beyond Japan.
Final Fantasy (1987 video game): A role-playing video game released by Square for the Famicom in 1987. Sakaguchi conceived and directed this game during a period when Square faced financial uncertainty.
Akira Toriyama: A Japanese manga artist and character designer known for Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump. Toriyama designed characters for Blue Dragon, one of Sakaguchi’s first Mistwalker projects.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within: A 2001 computer-animated science-fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi and Motonori Sakakibara. The film extended his ambitions into cinema, but its commercial failure preceded his departure from Square.
Final Fantasy IX: A 2000 role-playing video game developed by Square for the PlayStation. Sakaguchi described this return to fantasy tradition as especially close to his ideal Final Fantasy.
Dragon Quest: A Japanese role-playing game series created by Yuji Horii and developed by Chunsoft and Enix. Its success preceded Final Fantasy and helped define the genre Sakaguchi’s series entered.

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