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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 alongside Hideo Minaba for Final Fantasy IX. he currently serves as the main character designer for the both the Crystal Chronicles and Chocobo spin-off series.

Itahana has directed two games at Square Enix. The first is Code Age Commanders, an Action RPG for the PlayStation 2 that was released in 2005. His second game as director was Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers, an Action RPG released for the Wii in 2009.

Works within the SeriesEdit

Game Name	Itahana's Role(s)
Final Fantasy IX	Character Designer: Freya, Eiko, Quina
Final Fantasy XI	Art Designer
Final Fantasy XIII-2	DLC Costume Designer
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII	Character Designer: Lumina Costume Designer: Lightning^[1]
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	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

Outside Final FantasyEdit

Toshiyuki's 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.