GAME DESIGNER

Yoshinori Kitase

1966 - Today

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Yoshinori Kitase (北瀬 佳範, Kitase Yoshinori, born September 23, 1966) is a Japanese game director and producer working for Square Enix. He is known as the director of Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy X, and the producer of the Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XIII series. He is currently the head of Square Enix's Creative Business Unit I and the Final Fantasy series Brand Manager, and vice president, a member of the board of directors and an executive officer at Square Enix Co, Ltd and Square Enix Holdings.He was the head of Square Enix's Business Division 1 during its entire existence as well as a Corporate Executive. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoshinori Kitase has received more than 591,964 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Yoshinori Kitase is the 45th most popular game designer, the 1,749th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,664th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 590k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Yoshinori Kitases by language

Over the past year Yoshinori Kitase has had the most page views in the with 92,944 views, followed by Japanese (28,229), and Spanish (6,250). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Cornish (129.08%), Egyptian Arabic (120.99%), and Finnish (75.95%)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Yoshinori Kitase ranks 45 out of 77. Before him are Tetsuya Nomura, Roberta Williams, Yuji Horii, Todd Howard, Jordan Mechner, and Tim Schafer. After him are Chris Taylor, Koji Igarashi, Amy Hennig, Al Lowe, Jens Bergensten, and Neil Druckmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Yoshinori Kitase ranks 430. Before him are Sarita Choudhury, Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse, Yevgeny Mironov, Marcelo Gonçalves Costa Lopes, Edwig Van Hooydonck, and Cláudia Raia. After him are Alessio Boni, Dimitri Konyshev, Roman Kosecki, Jing Haipeng, Gretchen Carlson, and Tigran Keosayan.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshinori Kitase ranks 1,749 out of 6,245. Before him are Toshiya Miura (1963), Sugao Kambe (1961), Yuya Osako (1990), Naoki Matsuda (1977), Takanohana Kōji (1972), and Nobutoshi Canna (1968). After him are Sakura Miyawaki (1998), Byron Howard (1968), Sabu (1964), Sakon Yamamoto (1982), Yui Hatano (1988), and Genki Haraguchi (1991).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Yoshinori Kitase ranks 20. Before him are Eiji Aonuma (1963), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Hideki Kamiya (1970), Yuji Naka (1965), Tetsuya Nomura (1970), and Yuji Horii (1954). After him are Koji Igarashi (1968), Yoko Taro (1970), Naoto Ohshima (1964), Goichi Suda (1968), Yoshiaki Koizumi (1968), and Hidemaro Fujibayashi (1972).

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