Staff of Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

This is a list of staff members who worked on the seventh generation games Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon for the Nintendo 3DS, per the game's credits. It was published by Nintendo and developed by Game Freak.

List of staff

Director

• Kazumasa Iwao

Programming Section Director

• Tomoya Takahashi

Graphics Section Director

• Maiko Fujiwara

Story Planning Section Director

• Katsunori Suginaka

System Planning Section Director

• Shigeki Morimoto

Field Programming

• Lead: Nozomu Saito
• Takashi Arai
• Shinichi Kawazoe
• Yicheng Fang

Event Programming

• Lead: Nozomu Saito
• Junya Ikuta

Battle System Programming

• Nobuhiko Ariizumi
• Takumi Harada
• Kai Munakata

Communication Features UI Programming

• Lead: Katsuhiko Ichiraku
• Hiroyuki Nakamura
• Yu Muto
• Yuya Fukushima

3D Map Graphics

• Lead: Mana Ibe
• Kensaku Nabana
• Ryotaro Ohto
• Sayaka Ohto
• Hayato Endo
• Jinyoung Sung
• Naoto Yoshinari
• Mayumi Shigeno
• Rin Nakayama
• Eri Shirato
• Sawako Okada
• Saki Yoshinaga
• Toshiyuki Hashimoto
• Digital Works Entertainment

Character Modeling

• Lead: Junsei Kuninobu
• Sakiko Maeda
• Yutan Cheng
• Hideki Iwata
• Daisuke Nakano
• Hidenori Tanaka
• Yukari Hoshi
• Chihiro Fujii
• Yusaku Ando
• Lai Chuan-Ming

Character Motion Design

• Lead: Junsei Kuninobu
• Aoi Inaba
• Isao Kakuuchi
• Hiroshi Nakagomi
• Yoshihito Misono
• Eri Yamamoto
• Erika Yokoe
• Satoshi Nakagawara
• Norimitsu Takahashi
• Yoshinori Ito
• Sachiko Matsui
• Jiro Hanzawa

Movies / Special Effects

• Lead: Yosuke Uematsu
• Toshimitsu Arai
• Hitomi Ogawa
• Kaito Udagawa
• Takaya Iwamoto
• Mizuki Hasegawa

UI Graphic Design

• Lead: Erika Kuga
• Mitsuhiro Ariga
• Marie Honda

Pokémon Concepts & Pokédex Text

• Suguru Nakatsui
• Chihiro Hayashi

Scenario

• Toshinobu Matsumiya

Sub Scenario

• Ryota Muranaka
• Toshinobu Matsumiya
• Hitomi Satō
• Mutsuki

Event Planning

• Yuya Watanabe
• Yoshikazu Kojima
• Rena Koda
• Rebuild Games LLC.

Movie Design

• Katsunori Suginaka
• Ryota Muranaka
• Toshinobu Matsumiya

Storyboard Design

• Romanov Higa

Scenario Movie Graphics

• Romanov Higa
• Tatsuya Makino
• Tomohiro Miyaguchi
• Kentaro Tanaka

Game Text Localization Support

• Katsunori Suginaka
• Toshinobu Matsumiya

Field System Design

• Lead: Hiroyuki Tani
• Keita Okamoto
• Richard William VanDeventer

Field Map Design

• Kazuki Muroi
• Kensaku Iwata

Field Data Design

• Hiroyuki Tani
• Keita Okamoto
• Kazuki Muroi
• Richard William VanDeventer
• Kensaku Iwata

Battle Planning

• Shigeki Morimoto
• Kōji Nishino
• Kota Furushima
• Kei Setoguchi

Battle Data Design

• Kōji Nishino
• Kei Setoguchi

Game UI System Design / Communication Features Planning

• Hidenaga Endo
• Kota Furushima

Sound

• Minako Adachi
• Gō Ichinose
• Junichi Masuda
• Tomoaki Oga

Sound Effects / Pokémon Voice Design

• Hitoshi Okamoto

Sound Manager

• Katsunori Suginaka

Design Art

• Ken Sugimori
• Emi Ando
• Kyoko Abe
• Fumie Kittaka
• TABOT,inc

Pokémon Characters Design & Concept

• Lead: Suguru Nakatsui
• Ken Sugimori
• Hironobu Yoshida
• James Turner
• Hiroki Fuchino
• Emi Ando

Pokémon Characters Design

• Haruko Ichikawa
• Hitoshi Ariga

Pokémon Model Creation Coordinators

• Lead: Takao Unno
• Hyunjung Lee
• Yuki Yamamoto
• Kenta Kawano
• Hitomi Imaizumi
• Hideki Iwata

Pokémon Ultra Sun & Pokémon Ultra Moon Concept

• Kazumasa Iwao

Produced By

• Junichi Masuda
• Shigeru Ohmori

Pokémon 3D Modeling

• Art Director: Atsuko Ujiie
• Product Manager: Masamichi Anazawa
• Miku Majima
• Takashi Sakuma
• Takafumi Misawa
• Rie Tatsuno
• Shunsuke Uematsu

Pokémon Character Modeling

• Lead: Kengo Nakahiro
• Hiroki Fujiwara
• Mai Ueda
• Akiko Soma
• Marie Okada
• Kouichiro Wakamatsu
• Hitomi Suzuki

Pokémon Character Motion

• Lead: Masataka Hata
• Ron Kaneko
• Sae Matsumoto
• Kazutsugu Kosugi
• Hidenori Kobayashi

Recording Coordination

• Kenji Saito

Recording Engineer

• Tohru Kumade

Orchestration

• Hironori "Guts" Anazawa

Horn

• Naomi Morimoto
• Taichi Momose

Trumpet

• Aiko Ikeda
• Takeshi Sato
• Hiroyuki Nagashima

Trombone

• Takuya Handa
• Yuka Hirano

Bass Trombone

• Keitaro Ichitani

Tuba

• Kyohei Kojyo

Chorus

• Kunie Ito
• Anna Takeshima
• Katsuhiro Kobayashi
• Kimihiko Fujimaki

String Section

• Yui
• Momoko Arai

Conductor

• Hironori "Guts" Anazawa

Guitar

• Tomoaki Oga

Pikachu Voice

• Ikue Otani

Voice Recording Director

• Masafumi Mima

English Localization

• Yasuhiro Usui
• Mikiko Ryu
• Mayu Todo
• Bryan Olsson

English Translation

• Hisato Yamamori
• Sayuri Munday
• Jillian Nonaka
• Ben Regal
• Bryson Clark
• Shawn Williams-Brown

English Editing

• Blaise Selby
• Kellyn Ballard
• Eric Haddock
• Rachel Payne

European Localisation

• Makiko Cottrell
• Nami Kusumoto
• Suirei Okata
• Maya Yoshida
• Hideko Russell
• Owen Preece
• Bertrand Lecocq
• Elena Nardo
• Cyril Schultz
• Emanuel Turchetta

French Translation

• Aymeric Forgit
• Lylia Khrissate
• Olivia Bonnal
• Guillaume Didier
• Sarah Provost

French Editing

• Clémence Amoric
• Franck Couée
• Pierre Gauthier

German Translation

• Daniel Heucher
• Kathleen Kalms
• Brigitte Deisenhammer
• Christopher Derbort
• Michael Ecke

German Editing

• Ireneusz Radko
• Claudia Thon
• Sina Moelleken

Italian Translation

• Manuela Suriano
• Guido Scarabello
• Altan Couvert
• Marco Sartori
• Francesca Serci

Italian Editing

• Alice Troiani
• Silvia De Bellis
• Fabio Giusti

Spanish Translation

• Alberto Gracia Castellano
• Enrique Joga Elvira
• Servando Doval Díaz
• Pablo Gismero Calvo
• Sonia Pulido Maroto

Spanish Editing

• Eva Rodríguez Graña
• Mariona Pera i de Miguel
• Virginia Paradés Gurrea

Korean Translation & Editing

• Mihwa Choi
• Jieun Byun
• Youngjun Park
• Eunbi Jo
• Yesun Jung

Chinese Localization

• Shin'ichi Sasamoto
• Keisuke Fukushima
• Chungte Huang

Chinese Translation & Editing

• Xiaochun Qiu
• Jun Yuan
• Xi Zhang
• Claudia Chan
• Kirsty Goto
• Minyu Hsu
• Chingyun Sung

Chinese Artwork

• Yi Peng
• Aubrey Chan

English & European Graphic Design

• Chris Franc
• Dan Stephens

English & European Localization Support

• Jeff Hines
• Robert Colling
• Tadasu Hasegawa
• Marvin Andrews
• Diego Luque de la Campa

NOA Localization Support

• Terry Chan
• Yuki Hirata
• Akiko Kasugayama
• Joel Simon
• Ryo Uchida

NOE Localisation Support

• Ryoko Sawabe
• Canela Rodal
• Patrick Thorenz

NOK Localization Support

• Hyokjin Jung
• Dongyeon Kim
• Soonil Kim
• Siyoung An
• Inseon Song

Special Thanks—Localization

• Thomas Candland
• Katia Percca Ragas
• Mary Rayes
• NOE Communication Coordinator Group

Technical Support

• Shotaro Iwanaga
• Yuta Ogawa
• Shuhei Furukawa

Server Development

• Shinnosuke Miki
• Noritaka Otsuka
• Kazuto Shimizu
• Kenkichi Miura

Pokémon Global Link

• Shin Uwai
• Osamu Fujita
• Takahiro Onishi
• Takehito Hosoda
• Youko Nakayama
• Takeshi Seki
• Hideyoshi Uehara
• Tomohiro Matsumoto
• Yang Rong
• Hikaru Ozono
• Nguyen Ngoc Tram Anh
• Yukiko Hamasaki
• Ryosuke Nakamura
• Akiko Horio
• Yoshiyuki Hirota
• Takashi Saito
• Takuya Hogawa
• Shingo Maekawa
• Dai Okuyama
• Hirotaka Nakamura
• Kazuya Iwamoto

Debug Management

• Motoki Nakajima
• Takahiro Kumasaka
• Takuya Inoue
• Nobuya Sasaki
• Masao Yamabe

Debug

• Mario Club
• DIGITAL Hearts

NOA Product Testing

• Kentaro Nishimura
• Seth Hanser
• Q Dequina
• Tomoko Mikami
• Kaylee Lewis
• Gordon Brown
• Yumi Shannon
• Nami Jamesson
• Tom Hertzog
• Evan Wright
• Michael Sahlin
• Pablo Reyes
• Sebastian Galloway
• Jake Grenier
• Product Testing Technicians

NOE QA Coordination

• Jesús Gutiérrez Cuadra
• Marco Gruden

NOE Quality Assurance

• Ben Howard-Hale
• Mathieu Springinsfeld
• Ahmed Bounouar
• Laurence Uhlen
• Marzia Faustinelli
• Zoran Tasevski
• Jorge Heras García
• Pole To Win UK Ltd. (London Studio)

NOK Testing & Quality Assurance

• Hyokjin Jung
• Kyoungim Na
• Eodo Lee
• Pole To Win Korea Co., Ltd.

Chinese Product Testing

• Ming Xu
• Gang Yan
• Jiong Zhang
• Deguang Yan
• Huiming Hu
• Yayun Ling
• ShihWei Yang

Artwork

• Kenichi Koga
• Satoru Nagaya
• Ikumi Fujishiro
• Chiaki Shinkai

Artwork Support

• Yasuko Sugiyama
• Hirokazu Matsui

Manual Editing

• Aki Sakurai
• Mark Ilias Kourtoglou
• Stefan Dickhardt
• Yi Peng

Z-Power Ring / Rotom Dex Planning

• Tatsuro Takahashi
• Gen Nagashima
• Masahiko Yamazaki
• Satoko Iwakoshi
• Motoki Fuma

Special Thanks

• Tsubasa Matsuzaki
• Kojiro Matsuyama
• Sosuke Tamada
• Masateru Ishiguro
• Makoto Takebe
• Teruyuki Shimoyamada
• Kenji Matsushima
• Tetsuya Watanabe
• Kenji Tominaga
• Yuichiro Mori
• Yoshio Tajiri
• Teiko Sasaki
• Yu Narisada
• Yoshimi Kawaguchi
• Haruka Furukawa
• Miho Murata
• Kaori Kobayashi
• Noriko Nishida
• Yuichiro Yamamoto
• Nagaaki Fukase
• Misako Ito
• Fumiya Takahashi
• Hirokazu Tanaka
• Hiroyuki Jinnai
• Kenjiro Ito
• Mikiko Ohashi
• Tomotaka Komura
• Atsushi Sugimoto
• Toshio Miyahara
• Eisuke Kasejima
• Taku Kawamoto
• Masami Tanaka
• Susumu Fukunaga
• Keita Hirobe
• Ryosuke Hanawa
• Shinsuke Kato
• Sho Furutani
• Sho Yoshimoto
• Nobue Ito
• Nobuhiro Sawabe
• Takeshi Masuda
• Norimasa Nakazato
• Retsuji Nomoto
• Hidenaga Katakami
• Chiharu Unno
• Shun Ohinata
• Takashi Orikata
• Jiro Koga
• Yoriomi Uego
• Kenji Yanagisawa
• Kenichi Arai
• Misuzu Kanayama
• Akie Fujimoto
• Jushiro Kitamura
• Masayuki Wada
• Shohei Furuta
• Hayato Yoshimura
• Kenji Okubo
• Gaku Susai
• Jaiboem Lim
• Jihye Lee
• Toshio Mukai
• Tomotaka Izuhiro
• Kenshiro Ueda
• Takuro Muratsubaki

Information Coordinators

• Yuta Nakai
• Tsuyoshi Ichikawa
• Ayane Morita
• Shiho Haraguchi

Coordinators

• Shunsuke Kohori
• Arata Sato
• Takashi Koyama
• Akira Kinashi
• Yuki Okada
• Kei Ninomiya

Produced By

• Shin Uwai
• Takanori Sowa
• Takato Utsunomiya
• Hitoshi Yamagami

General Producer

• Shinya Takahashi

Executive Producers

• Satoshi Tajiri
• Tatsumi Kimishima
• Tsunekazu Ishihara

Developed By

• GAME FREAK inc.

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