Producer & Director

Lead Programmer

Lead Planner

Lead Designer

Cinematics Supervisor

Original Story Writer

Scriptwriter

Music Composers

Sound Director

Image Illustrator

Programmers

Background & Level Editor
Toshinori Shimono

Concept Work
Yoshiyuki Miyagawa

Effects
Nao Kasahara

Characters
Shinji Takeda

Menu System
Masahiro Katsumata

Effects & Cinematics
Daiki Hoshina

Characters AI & Navigation
Satoshi Kitade

Boss Enemies
Souichi Tateishi
Hidetaka Saneshige
Takeshi Aramaki

Script Engine & System
Masaaki Kimura

Objects & Mechanisms
Masashi Hanyu
Yasuharu Ishibashi

Menu & Tools
Keita Kimura

Programming Advisor
Takaaki Tonooka

Planners

System
Yuuichi Tsuchiya
Toshinori Mizumachi

Motion
Hidetomo Saito
Sho Numakura

AI
Kazuyuki Miyamoto

Chapter Design
Ryouji Uchimichi
Hiroyuki Ando
Hijiri Muta
Tatsumaro Tedsuka
Yuichi Ninagawa
Wataru Ueda
Kazuyuki Shindo

Boss Enemies
Hiroshi Satori
Junichi Shinomiya

Challenge Arena
Yasuyuki Hayasaka

Realtime Events
Yuuichi Nakagawa
Hideo Iwasaki
Miyuki Harada

Cinematics
Shinya Yoshino

Planning Advisor
Toshiro Tsuchida

Designers

Character Design
Nao Ikeda

Monster Design
Airi Yoshioka

Facial Setting
Yoshinori Kanada

Character Model Lead
Takeshi Miyazawa

Character Models
Minako Tsuchiya
Tatsuya Awata
Kazutaka Kurosaka
Takeshi Maruyama
Tasuku Tsuchiya
Rika Ojima
Sawako Kobayashi
Yasushi Suzuki
Miwa Hashimoto

Character Texture Lead
Hirofumi Sakoi

Character Textures
Eiichi Amano
Maiko Araki
Kaname Shindo
Tohru Nakazawa

Character Motion Lead
Shigenobu Komuro

Character Motion
Kazuhiko Takahashi
Kazuhiro Takagi
Tadashi Soeda
Takemasa Kawahara
Yoshiyuki Tanaka
Yoshi Inagaki
Takahiro Nishigaki

Main Background Design
Kazuhiko Takahashi

Background Design
Takehiko Yamamoto
Ryo Hirao
Yuko Abiru
Misako Tsutsui
Mizushi Sugawara
Nobuya Aoki
Tony W. Koo

Background Graphics Lead
Mikiharu Ooiwa
Hiroyuki Sano
Kouki Ishinuma
Motoi Nakamura
Masaki Yasuda
Yoshiko Hiyama

Cinematic Background Graphics
Yuchiro Takao

Background Graphics
Daisuke Komatsu
Yasuyuki Kawamata
Hirotaka Nakayama
Eiko Hasegawa
Shinpei Sakata
Mayako Sugimoto
Shin Ienaka
Kunio Ikeda
Emi Noto
Manabu Daishima
Motohiro Murakami
Yasunori Yanagawa
Shinichiro Tsukada
Mayumi Furusawa

Effects Lead
Makoto Ohta

Effects
Shizuo Kusano
Takuji Yasuda
Ryota Nozoe
Hikaru Suzuki
Masaki Kawai
Gakushi Kobayashi

Menu Design
Yuka Miyamoto
Ryoko Arimura

Pre-Production Support

Sound Section

Composer & Arranger
Masayoshi Soken

Arranger
Junya Nakano

Synthesizer Operator
Hirosato Noda

Sound & Dialogue Editors
Yuji Isogawa
Kazuhiro Hosoe
Hideki Uchimura

Sound Editors
Reiko Shimura
Ai Yamashita
Atsushi Suganuma

Movie Sound Editor
Shojiro Nakaoka

Sound Programmer
Tatsuya Shoji

Support Keyboard Player
Kenichiro Fukui

Project Manager
Masayuki Tanaka

Project Coordinator
Masashi Kitagawa

Project Assistant
Kazuki Hamamoto
Saeko Kanazawa

Music

Opening & Ending Theme Music written by

Dawn of Mana Opening Theme performed by

Dawn of Mana Ending Theme performed by

Mr. Miyamoto appears by the courtesy of
Sony Music Japan International Inc.
Ryuchi Sakamoto (Piano)

Produced by

Recorded by

Assistant Engineer

Mixed by

Associate Producer

Production Management

Piano Tuner

Equipment Coordination

Contractor

Music Copiest

Legal Coordination

Development Cooperation

Cast

Dialogue Director

Recording Engineer

Assistant Engineer

Booking Agent

Voice Recording Studio

Production Management Companies

Studio Coordination

Orchestra

Composer & Orchestrator
Kenji Ito

Conductor
Koji Haishima

Strings
Masatsugu Shinozaki's Group

Flute
Takashi Asahi

Oboe
Tomoka Hirota

Horns
Masato Yoshinaga
Masato Abe
Hitoshi Imai
Yasushi Higa

Trumpets
Shigeo Okura
Hiruko Shibata
David Herzog

Trombones
Kenji Nishiyama
Koichi Akiyama
Ko Okumura

Tuba
Isao Watanabe

Percussion
Tamao Fuji
Ikuo Kakehashi
Tomoko Kusakari
Mari Kotake

Harp
Satomi Kobayashi
Tomoyuki Asakawa

Piano
Kenji Ito

Guitar
Hiroshi Imaizumi
Masahiro Itami

Bass
Hitoshi Watanabe

Bandoneda
Satoshi Kitamura

Sitar
Kazuko Kawashima

Tenor Soki
Kazushige Shimura

Chorus
Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus

Recording & Mixing Engineer
Kazuhiko Misumi
Toru Kamekawa

Recording Studio
Avaco Creative Studio Inc.
Sound Inn

Mixing Studio
Studio TonMeister
Sound Inn

Recording Coordinator
Fumio Takano

Mixing Studio
408 THX Suite (THX PM3 Certified) at Sony PC. Inc.

Mixing Engineer
Kazutaka Someya

Assistant Engineer
Moon Yeonhwa

Post Production Manager
Chiaki Ikejima

Cinematics & CG Movies

Line Producer
Yoshimi Fujii

Quality Assurance

QA Coordinator
Tomokazu Nagamori

QA Assistant Coordinator
Kouki Takahashi
Maki Nakajima

QA Technical Engineer
Kazuya Okamoto
Hisato Iwatsuki

QA Technical Assistants
Toshimitsu Umezawa
Tomohito Konho

QA Senior Testers
Taku Kato
Yuji Hatori

QA Testers
Akira Minagawa
Toshiaki Ohnari
Hironori Sato
Yutaka Ogihara
Takanori Ohnishi
Kenichi Ishikawa
Keisuke Iizuka
Yusuke Yamakura
Minoru Saitou
Akinari Fukuda
Tsukasa Torigata
Hiroshi Ohkubo
Yuta Nishimura
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Akira Kitamura
Youichi Numata
Takahiro Nasu
Osamu Miyamoto
...and all other QA Staff

QA Technical Director
Hideyuki Kato

QA Manager
Yukihiro Shibuya

Localization Staff

Ratings Advisors

PR Director

PR Staff

Project Manager

Project Assistant

Coordinators

The World of Mana Project

World of Mana Promotional Movie Production

Special Thanks

Supervisor

Executive Producer

and a Big Thanks to All Square Enix Staff!