Toshiyuki Itahana
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Toshiyuki Itahana (板鼻 利幸, Itahana Toshiyuki) is a game director and character designer for Square Enix. He was responsible for introducing the "super-deformed", or chibi style, to the Final Fantasy series. He worked as a character designer under Yoshitaka Amano for Final Fantasy IX, and is the chief character designer for the both the Crystal Chronicles and Chocobo spin-off series. He is also the director of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers.
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[edit] List of Works
| Game Name | Itahana's Role(s) |
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| Final Fantasy IX | Character Designer |
| Final Fantasy XI | Character Designer |
| Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles | Art Director, Character Designer |
| Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates | Character Designer |
| Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King | Art Supervisor |
| Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord | Art Supervisor |
| Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers | Game Director, Character Designer |
| Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon | Character Designer |
| Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 2 | Character Designer |
| Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales | Character Designer |
| Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon | Character Designer |
| Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon: Majo to Shoujo to Go-nin no Yuusha | Character Designer |
[edit] Outside Final Fantasy
Toshiyuki non-Final Fantasy related work includes doing character illustration for Makaitoshi SaGa (The Final Fantasy Legend in North America). His first game as a director was Code Age Commanders, an action RPG for the PlayStation 2 that he also contributed artwork for.
[edit] Gallery
 Artwork of the playable characters in Final Fantasy IX. |
 Artwork of Beatrix from Final Fantasy IX. |
 Artwork of Verena from Final Fantasy XI. |
 Promotional image for Final Fantasy XI: A Crystalline Prophecy: Ode to Life Bestowing. |
 Artwork of the four tribes in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. |
 Artwork of the protagonist of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates. |
 Artwork of Shirma, a recurring White Mage in the Chocobo series. |
[edit] See Also
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| Directors and Producers |
| Hiroyuki Itō - Yoshinori Kitase - Yasumi Matsuno - Shinji Hashimoto - Hironobu Sakaguchi - Shintaro Takai - Takayoshi Nakazato - Motomu Toriyama - Toshirō Tsuchida - Kazuhiko Aoki - Akitoshi Kawazu |
| Artists and Art Directors |
| Yoshitaka Amano - Toshiyuki Itahana - Ryōma Itō - Hideo Minaba - Hiroshi Minagawa - Yusuke Naora - Tetsuya Nomura - Akira Oguro - Akihiko Yoshida - Airi Yoshioka |
| Sound and Music |
| The Black Mages - Nobuo Uematsu - Hitoshi Sakimoto -Eiji Nakamura - Masashi Hamauzu - Junya Nakano - Kenichiro Fukui - Kumi Tanioka - Masaharu Iwata - Máire Breatnach - Minoru Akao - Shiro Sagisu - Shirō Hamaguchi - Tsuyoshi Sekito - Takeharu Ishimoto - Yoko Shimomura |
| Translators |
| Alexander O. Smith - Ted Woolsey |
| Miscellaneous |
| Daisuke Watanabe - Takashi Katano - Takashi Tokita - Teruaki Sugawara - Hiroshi Kuwabara - Kazushige Nojima - Ken Narita - Koji Sugimoto |
