Shiro Maekawa

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Shiro Maekawa
前川 司郎; Shiro Maekawa
Overview
Gender	Male
Birthday	8 December 1970
Nationality	Japanese
Company(s)	Sonic Team
Job	Writer, game designer

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 2000s. He also supervised the writing on Sonic X, mainly during Season 3.

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 (with Kiyoko Yoshimura))
• Sonic and the Secret Rings (Game Designer, Uncredited Story Writer)
• Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (Game Mode Designer, Story Board Designer, Story Plotter (with Hiroshi Miyamoto))
• Sonic and the Black Knight (Uncredited Story Writer)

Direction and supervision

• Sonic Heroes (Director, PC version)
• Sonic X (Supervisor)

Special thanks

• Sonic Mega Collection
• Sonic Mega Collection Plus

Miscellaneous

• Shadow the Hedgehog (Development Support)

Trivia

• The story Maekawa felt the happiest about writing was Sonic and the Black Knight.
• 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.
• 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. 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.
• Maekawa has not written much besides Sonic, before or after.
• Maekawa's writing style 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.
• 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.
• Maekawa was unable to provide writing or assistance for Shadow the Hedgehog as a result of him being in Japan at the time of the game's development.

External links

• Shiro Maekawa on Twitter
• Shiro Maekawa at the Internet Movie Database

Sonic Team members

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