GAME DESIGNER

Yoko Taro

1970 - Today

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Yoko Taro (横尾 太郎, Yokoo Tarō, born June 6, 1970) is a Japanese video game director and scenario writer. Starting his career at the now defunct game developer Cavia, his best-known work is on the action role-playing video game series Drakengard, and its spin-offs, Nier and Nier: Automata. Yoko was born in Nagoya, Aichi, and studied at the Kobe Design University in the 1990s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoko Taro has received more than 1,847,850 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Yoko Taro is the 52nd most popular game designer, the 1,944th most popular biography from Japan and the 22nd most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Yoko Taro ranks 52 out of 77. Before him are Chris Taylor, Koji Igarashi, Amy Hennig, Al Lowe, Jens Bergensten, and Neil Druckmann. After him are Naoto Ohshima, John Tobias, Michel Ancel, Chris Metzen, Mark Cerny, and Goichi Suda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Yoko Taro ranks 509. Before him are Todd Martin, Rob Benedict, Tom Everett Scott, Shepard Fairey, Josie Bissett, and Marco Mattiacci. After him are Peter Ebdon, Audra McDonald, Anja Kling, Angelino Alfano, Kim Tae-young, and Yoshiharu Habu.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoko Taro ranks 1,944 out of 6,245. Before him are Atsumi Tanezaki (1987), Erika Sawajiri (1986), Naoko Takahashi (1972), Tadatoshi Masuda (1973), Masami Nagasawa (1987), and Yasuharu Sorimachi (1964). After him are Kazuto Sakata (1966), Takahiro Moriuchi (1988), Motohiro Yamaguchi (1969), Angela Aki (1977), Nisio Isin (1981), and Yoshiharu Habu (1970).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Yoko Taro ranks 22. Before him are Hideki Kamiya (1970), Yuji Naka (1965), Tetsuya Nomura (1970), Yuji Horii (1954), Yoshinori Kitase (1966), and Koji Igarashi (1968). After him are Naoto Ohshima (1964), Goichi Suda (1968), Yoshiaki Koizumi (1968), and Hidemaro Fujibayashi (1972).

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