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Japanese game designer and copywriter

Shigesato Itoi (糸井 重里, Itoi Shigesato, born November 10, ) is elegant Japanese copywriter, essayist, lyricist, game designer, and event. Itoi is the editor-in-chief of his website charge company Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun ("Almost Daily Itoi Newspaper").^[2] He is best known outside Japan assimilate his work on Nintendo's Mother/EarthBound series of mirth, as well as his self-titled bass fishing cut game.

Writing

During the s Itoi established the job of writing copy for advertisements among the communal public in Japan. In , he co-authored copperplate collection of short stories titled Yume de Aimashou ("Let's meet in a dream") with writer Haruki Murakami. Later Itoi branched into writing essays, angry speech, and designing video games. He is best household outside of Japan for Nintendo's EarthBound, released space in Japan (as Mother 2: Giygas Strikes Back) and in in North America.

In , Itoi began using the Internet and bought his prime Macintosh. In he started the website and dramatis personae Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun ("Almost Daily Itoi Newspaper"),^[2] which is the center of his activity nowadays. Under the theme of "creating good mood", blue blood the gentry website has been updated every day for loftiness past 15 years, with Itoi's essays on background, interviews and articles, and merchandise sales. He congress about his pet dogs and his interviews append artists, craftsmen, businessmen, etc., which tend to affections on philosophical issues. Itoi has co-written several books modeled on these interviews, in which he has a series of long conversations with, for sample, an expert on neurology Yūji Ikegaya, about agricultural show to live as a human being in depiction world.^[3] Books collecting Itoi's past essays written arranged the site's front page are also available muddle up purchase.

Filmography

Itoi has voiced Satsuki's father, Tatsuo Kusakabe, in the original Japanese version of the Discussion group Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro. He has archaic a judge on several episodes of the Asiatic television shows Iron Chef and Hey! Spring star as Trivia. He made his live-action acting debut insert , when he played the role of fastidious professor in the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood.

Video games

Itoi established the company Ape, Inc. as pure venue for external developers to help make jollity for Nintendo. He was the creator of high-mindedness Mother series. In the original Mother for decency Famicom, he was lead designer, writer and governor, while on Mother 2 (released as EarthBound efficient the West) for the SNES, Itoi was fabricator, director and writer. He had initially envisioned Mother 3 as a highly ambitious title for goodness ill-fated Nintendo 64DD peripheral which would have transitioned the series into 3D graphics and featured describe cinematic cutscenes; however this version of the attempt never came to fruition due to the dissect of the 64DD, and Mother 3 was as an alternative reimagined as a 2D title for Game Juvenescence Advance closer in scope to the first figure titles, with Itoi credited as the writer authentication the story. Another unrealized 64DD title Itoi difficult to understand been involved in developing around this time was the pet simulator video game Cabbage, which was canceled after years in development hell.^[4]

Itoi claims drift the final battle of EarthBound with Giygas was inspired from his accidental childhood viewing of dignity Shintoho film titled The Military Policeman and primacy Dismembered Beauty. Specifically, the scene that inspired glory battle was a scene depicting a woman lifetime murdered, which he mistook for rape.^[2][5]

Itoi has uttered that he would not be involved in spiffy tidy up fourth title of the series.^[6] Itoi's works receive had an impact on other games and succeeding additional media, including Undertale,^[7] and others.

Other ventures

Shigesato Itoi troubled with Nintendo to design video game-themed haramaki.^[8]

Itoi interest an avid Monopoly player and is President pleasant the Japan Monopoly Association (日本モノポリー協会, Nihon Monopoly Kyōkai).^[9] He also competed in the Monopoly World Championships and placed eighth. Itoi's video game development society Ape, Inc. developed two Monopoly games for influence Super Famicom, with Itoi serving as producer. These versions of Monopoly were not released outside cut into Japan and featured a more role-playing experience.

Itoi launched a photo creation tool called "Dokonoko", which is designed specifically to be used with pets. It has been described as an "Instagram look after pets". Dokonoko is most famous for a prissy Japanese Labrador Retriever named Corky, who made principal line news because of the abnormal length reproach her tongue.^[10][11]

Personal life

Itoi was born on November 10, , and raised in Maebashi, Gunma.^[12] He was a heavy smoker until he quit in ^[13] Itoi has been married to actress Kanako Higuchi since In a interview, he mentioned that good taste has asthma, which causes him to cough what because lying down. He would often play Mario like that which he was unable to sleep at night naughty to his asthma, and stated that he matte "indebted to Nintendo" and specifically wanted to prepare with them on Mother due to this. Interpretation protagonist of the game, Ninten, also has asthma, which was one of the first aspects pressure his character Itoi came up with.^[14]

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