Koichi Ishii

Japanese video game designer (born 1964)

Koichi Ishii

Summary

Koichi Ishii is a Japanese video game designer best known for creating the Mana series and founding Grezzo. He joined Square in 1986, where he has directed or produced every game released in the Mana series. He has also contributed to several games in Square Enix's Final Fantasy and SaGa series, and created the well-known chocobo and moogle characters.

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Heroes of Mana in 2007.

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Koichi Ishii did the character designs for FFI-V and designed some of the party members for VI. Yoshitaka Amano was instead the monster designer. Source: https://shmuplations.com/kazukoshibuya/

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