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Hiromichi Tanaka
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| Full name | Hiromichi Tanaka |
| Born | January 7, 1962 |
| Mana-related role(s) | Game director, producer, & designer |
Hiromichi Tanaka (田中 弘道), was a former Squaresoft and Square Enix game director, producer, designer, and head of the company's Product Development Division-3.
In 1983, Tanaka dropped out of Yokohama National University along with Hironobu Sakaguchi to join Square Co., Ltd., a newly formed software branch of Denyuusha Software. He has been involved with programming many of their early games, and designing the first three Final Fantasy games, and directing and producing many other games after that.
He has risen through the ranks at Square very quickly and was responsible for Product Development at Square. He kept this role in the company even after the merger of Square and Enix.
He is best known as the Lead Developer of Final Fantasy XI Online, Square Enix's first massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG).
Work in the Mana series[edit]
| Game Title | Release Date (Japan) | Role(s) |
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| Seiken Densetsu: The Emergence of Excalibur | Cancelled Planned April 1987 |
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| Secret of Mana | August 6, 1993 | Producer, Concept / System Design, Scenario Message Data |
| Trials of Mana | September 30, 1995 | Director |
| Sword of Mana | August 29, 2003 | Executive Producer |
| Dawn of Mana | December 21, 2006 | Special Thanks |
| Heroes of Mana | March 8, 2007 | Special Thanks |
| Seiken Densetsu 2 | 2009/2010/2014 | Executive Producer |
| Secret of Mana HD | February 15, 2018 | Original Producer |
| Trials of Mana HD | April 24, 2020 | Original Director |
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[Edit] People
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| Executives | Koichi Ishii • Mikiharu Oiwa • Masaru Oyamada • Hiromichi Tanaka | |
| Graphic Design | Nao Ikeda • Hiroo Isono • Hiromi Ito • Shinichi Kameoka • Goro Ohashi • Masaki Ohtani • Noriko Sasaki • Kazuko Shibuya • Kazuhiko Takahashi (animator) • Kazuhiko Takahashi (background designer) • Koji Tsuda • Airi Yoshioka | |
| Sound Design | Takayuki Aihara • Takayuki Hattori • Kenji Ito • Masaharu Iwata • Hiroki Kikuta • Chiharu Minekawa • Tsuyoshi Sekito • Ryuichi Sakamoto • Yoko Shimomura • Masayoshi Soken • Nobuo Uematsu | |
| Scriptwriting | Ryo Akagi • Nobuyuki Inoue • Masato Kato • Yoshinori Kitase • Masato Yagi | |
| Programming | Nasir Gebelli • Shun Moriya • Masaaki Saito | |
| Voice Acting | Adrienne Arno • Jacob Barrens • Tom Bauer • Alana Marie Cheuvront • Brittany Cox • Dino Andrade • Lizzie Freeman • Sarah Miller-Crews • Stephanie Panisello • Jay Preston • TJ Rhoads • Alejandro Saab • Brad Venable | |
| Translation | Kaoru Moriyama • Ted Woolsey | |
| Other | Annika Ljungberg | |
