Shiro Maekawa

Yuji Uekawa is a writer at Sega and a member of Sonic Team. The first Sonic game he worked on was Sonic Adventure as the Visual Memory Game Designer, Field Designer and A-Life System Designer.

Scenario and design

 * Sonic Adventure (Visual Memory Game Designer, Field Designer, A-Life System Designer)
 * Sonic Adventure 2 (Scenario Writer, Story Event Designer, Visual Memory Game Support)
 * Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (Scenario Writer, Story Event Designer)
 * Sonic Heroes (Scenario Writer, Main Game Designer, Enemy Game Designer, Story Board Designer)
 * Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) (Game Script)
 * Sonic and the Secret Rings (Game Designer)
 * Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (Game Mode Designer, Story Board Designer, Story Plotter)
 * Sonic and the Black Knight (uncredited Story writer)

Direction and supervision

 * ''Sonic Heroes (Director)
 * Sonic X (Supervisor)

Special thanks

 * Sonic Mega Collection
 * Sonic Mega Collection Plus

Miscellaneous

 * Shadow the Hedgehog(Development Support)
 * Sonic and the Secret Rings (promotional visuals)
 * Sonic Unleashed (publicity artwork)
 * Sonic and the Black Knight (promotional visuals)
 * Various Sonic Channel 2D artwork

Trivia

 * The story he felt the happiest about writing was Sonic and the Black Knight.
 * His favorite characters are Team Chaotix, Charmy in particular. He enjoyed writing their lines in Sonic Heroes, and he would write a new story related to them if he had the chance.
 * He hasn't written much besides Sonic, before or after.
 * He was mostly inspired by Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru Oshii's films, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Ghost in the Shell in particular.