Koichi Ishii

Koichi Ishii
Full name	Koichi Ishii
Born	July 9, 1964
Mana-related role(s)	Creator of the Mana series

Koichi Ishii (石井 浩一), born July 9, 1964, sometimes credited as Kouichi Ishii, is a video game designer, director, and former employee of Squaresoft and Square Enix, where he served as head of the company's Product Development Division-8.

Though best known as the creator of the Mana series, Ishii was involved with the company's earlier Final Fantasy titles since the very first game, where he served as planner and provided battle graphics. He would later go on to serve as director and character designer on the first game of his own brainchild series, Seiken Densetsu (originally released in North America as Final Fantasy Adventure), which would be followed up by such games as Secret of Mana and Legend of Mana. Between 2002 and 2003, he would act as director of Final Fantasy XI.

Ishii left Square Enix in April 2007 to start his own game development company, Grezzo Games, Inc.

Work in the Mana series

Game Title	Release Date (Japan)	Role(s)
Seiken Densetsu: The Emergence of Excalibur	Cancelled Planned April 1987	Designer
Final Fantasy Adventure	June 28, 1991	Director
Secret of Mana	August 6, 1993	Director, Chief Game Design, Animation / Monster Design
Trials of Mana	September 30, 1995	Director of Game Design / Character Design
Legend of Mana	July 15, 1999	Director
Sword of Mana	August 29, 2003	Producer / Game Design / Original Story / Monster Design
Children of Mana	March 11, 2006	Game Design / Executive Producer
Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden (Cell phone)	August 16, 2006	?
Friends of Mana	October 18, 2006	?
Dawn of Mana	December 21, 2006	Producer & Director
Heroes of Mana	March 8, 2007	Producer
Seiken Densetsu 2	2009/2010/2014	?
Circle of Mana	March 5, 2013	?
Rise of Mana	2014/2015	?
Adventures of Mana	February 4, 2016	Director / Story / Character Design
Collection of Mana	June 1, 2017	?
Secret of Mana HD	February 15, 2018	Original Director
Trials of Mana HD	April 24, 2020	Original Game Design
Legend of Mana Remastered	June 24, 2021	Director
Echoes of Mana	April 27, 2022	?
Visions of Mana	August 2024	Design Supervisor

References

• Final Fantasy Fandom
• Moby Games

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