Career
He first became a developer when he took a job with Square as a debugger on the Game Boy game Final Fantasy Legend World War II He first did work as a scenario designer in the Super Famicom game Live a Live. He was also involved in games in the Mana series, including Legend of Mana. He left Square to start up Brownie Brown along with other employees of the company as a subsidiary of Nintendo.
He continued making games in the Mana series, starting with a remake of Final Fantasy Adventure titled Sword of Mana for the Game Boy Advance.
He went on to direct a new franchise called Magical Vacation for the Game Boy Advance, which was followed by Magical Starsign for the Nintendo Doctor of Science. He later directed Mother 3, the long-awaited sequel to EarthBound.
