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Shiro Maekawa (前川 司郎 Maekawa Shirō?) is a former writer at Sega as 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. He was a writer for some of the most well-known Sonic games in the early 2000's. He also supervised the writing on Sonic X, mainly during season three.
Credits[]
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, Uncredited Story Writer)
- 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, PC version)
- Sonic X (Supervisor)
Special thanks[]
Miscellaneous[]
- Shadow the Hedgehog (Development Support)
Trivia[]
- The story Maekawa felt the happiest about writing was Sonic and the Black Knight.[1]
- Maekawa's overall favorite story remains to be Sonic Adventure 2, as he has an emotional attachment to it, being the game he first wrote for. He has stated if he had a chance to change something about it if he had to, he would only add the scenes he had to cut.[1]
- Maekawa's favorite characters are Team Chaotix, Charmy Bee in particular. He enjoyed writing their lines in Sonic Heroes, and has stated he would write a new story related to them if he had the chance.[1] He has also stated that Shadow the Hedgehog is his favorite character and has expressed how he feels that he has a stronger bond with him than his actual family members.[2]
- Maekawa has not written much besides Sonic, before or after.[1]
- Maekawa was mostly inspired by Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru Oshii's films, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer and Ghost in the Shell in particular.[1]
- Maekawa has imagined that if he continued to write for Sonic the Hedgehog, he would give Shadow a story where after granting Maria's wish, he would rest in a capsule once again for a long time until he is woken up hundreds of years later by someone seeking help.[3][4]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 The Supreme Topic of 'Other' Knowledge. Sonic Retro (23 June 2018). Retrieved on 23 June 2018.
- ↑ Creators Interview 006: Maekawa Shirou. WordPress.com (11 July 2022).
- ↑ Media:MaekawaIntENG.png
- ↑ Media:MaekawaIntJP.png
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| Producers | Akinori Nishiyama · Takashi Iizuka · Yuji Naka · Yoji Ishii |
|---|---|
| Programmers | Takahiro Hamano · Takeshi Sakakibara · Tetsu Katano · Yuji Naka · Yoshihisa Hashimoto |
| Designers | Eitaro Toyoda · Hirokazu Yasuhara · Kazuyuki Hoshino · Makoto Yonezu · Manabu Kusunoki · Naoto Ohshima · Nobuhiko Honda · Hiroshi Miyamoto · Sachiko Kawamura · Shinichi Higashi · Shiro Maekawa · Shun Nakamura · Takashi Yuda · Yasushi Yamaguchi · Yoshitaka Miura · Yuji Uekawa |
| Directors | Hiroshi Nishiyama · Kenjiro Morimoto · Morio Kishimoto · Takashi Iizuka |
| Sound engineers | Hideaki Kobayashi · Jun Senoue · Kenichi Tokoi · Mariko Nanba · Masaru Setsumaru · Naofumi Hataya · Takahito Eguchi · Tatsuyuki Maeda · Teruhiko Nakagawa · Tomoya Ohtani |
| Other | Yui Karasuno |