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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yoshinori Kitase has received more than 605,642 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Yoshinori Kitase is the 45th most popular game designer (down from 29th in 2019), the 1,668th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,332nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Yoshinori Kitase ranks 45 out of 56. Before him are Al Lowe, Naoto Ohshima, Chris Taylor, Carol Shaw, David Cage, and Jens Bergensten. After him are Tim Schafer, Koji Igarashi, Todd Howard, Michel Ancel, Michael Morhaime, and Jordan Mechner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Yoshinori Kitase ranks 441. Before him are Andy Richter, Liu Boming, Wang Xiaoshuai, Sarita Choudhury, Artis Pabriks, and Pamela Adlon. After him are Ibrahim Hassan, Mário Centeno, Stéphane Brizé, Cas Anvar, Patrick Volkerding, and Emiko Kubo.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshinori Kitase ranks 1,668 out of 6,048. Before him are Makoto Yukimura (1976), Toshinobu Katsuya (1961), Koji Murofushi (1974), Tōru Hashimoto (1969), Pata (1965), and Ryoichi Kawakatsu (1958). After him are Ryōta Murata (1986), Tadahiro Nomura (1974), Shinichi Morishita (1960), Shoya Tomizawa (1990), Tetsuya Harada (1970), and Yasuharu Kurata (1963).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Yoshinori Kitase ranks 21. Before him are Tetsuya Nomura (1970), Yuji Horii (1954), Yuji Naka (1965), Hideki Kamiya (1970), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), and Naoto Ohshima (1964). After him are Koji Igarashi (1968).

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