Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope
 · tri-Ace Unit
 · External Experts & Specialists Unit
 · Development Partners
 · CG Cinematics Unit
 · Square Enix

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Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope

opening staff credits (incomplete)

tri-Ace Unit

• Original Concept and Supervisor
  • Masaki Norimoto (則本 真樹)

• Lead Planner
  • Shinya Ukawa (卯川 真也)

• Planner
  • Hiroyuki Shiraishi

• Lead Programmer
  • Shigeru Ueki (植木 茂)

• Programmers
  • Takafumi Ohshima, Asuka Katayama, Yoshihiro Kanazawa, Young Hwan Kim, Atsushi Satoyoshi

• Scripter
  • Masato Takai (高井 雅人)

• Art Director
  • Eiko Sawamura (澤村 栄公)

• Environment Design and Modeling Artists
  • Kazushige Nagai
  • Yasuhisa Fukuma (福間 康久), Keiichi Kouno, Mami Matsushita, Kouji Minagawa, Hiroko Miyazaki, Hiroto Ohnishi, Asami Tsushima

• Character Design and Modeling Artists
  • Kunihiro Kanada (金田 邦広), Makoto Yui
  • Chiemi Mita, Johnny Pham, Shotaro Tokuno, Mari Yamada, Tokuhiro Yumoto

• 3D Visual Effects Artists
  • Takumi Sawajiri
  • Shohei Sato, Azusa Terashima

• 3D Animation Artists
  • Yasuhiko Shibuya, Kaori Shibuya
  • Naoko Ishizu, Rie Izumi, Yukiko Matsuse (松瀬 由起子), Yui Nishio, Kouji Shikada, Saki Takada, Yasuko Yamauchi

• Original Story
  • tri-Ace Inc.

• Cinematic Director
  • Futoshi Kitamura

• Cutscene Designers
  • Takuya Saito, Kouichi Ogino

• Sound Director
  • Michihiko Shichi (志知 道彦)

• Sound Designers
  • Yoshinori Aoki, Mana Tanahashi, Hitoshi Okamoto

• Lead R&D Programmer
  • Yoshiharu Gotanda (五反田 羨治)

• R&D Programmers
  • Tatsuya Shoji, Satoshi Ishii, Daisuke Sugiura, Bart Sekura, Marc Heng, Paul Adrian Caristino

• Production Assistant
  • Takuro Sato

• System Administrators
  • Chikaaki Tokuhiro (徳弘 親昭), Takeshi Kitamura (北村 健), Koji Fukushima, Takashi Tahara

• Special Thanks
  • Seiko Asano (浅野 靖子), Kyoko Kiyama, Yukinori Masuda, Kumiko Okamura (岡村 久美子)

• Producer
  • Hiroyuki Tamura

• Director
  • Mitsuo Iwao

External Experts & Specialists Unit

• Music Composer
  • Motoi Sakuraba (桜庭 統)

• Planners
  • Kouhei Sato (DIGITALSCAPE Co. Ltd.), Takashi Nakaya (Kettle Package Limited)

• Battle Programmers
  • Shuhei Matsuki (JAM Co. Ltd.), Masayasu Tamaki (JAM Co. Ltd.)

• Tool Programmers
  • Hikaru Hada (JAM Co. Ltd.), Makoto Yamamoto (Jam Co. Ltd.)

• UI Programmer
  • Kayoko Adachi (PAICAL Co. Ltd.)

• Scripters
  • Kazumasa Niitsuma (EXTREME Co. Ltd.), Yutaka Saito (DIGITAL Hearts Co. Ltd.), Gi Jin Jang (Hybrid forme Inc.)

• Environment Design and Modeling Artist
  • Takuya Nakajima (CREEK & RIVER Co. Ltd.)

• 3D Animation Artists
  • Masahiro Ohmomo (DIGITALSCAPE Co. Ltd.), Isao Takeuchi (DIGITALSCAPE Co. Ltd.)

• Concept Art and Modeling
  • Kazuhiro Taneda

• UI Artist
  • Daiki Sato

• Monster Concept Artist
  • M Ganzy

• NPC and Environment Concept Artist
  • Sayu Ikeda

• Cinematic Sub-Director and Storyboard Artist
  • Kazuki Hayashitani

• Storyboard Artist
  • Yo★Nakano

• Cutscene Visual Artists
  • Kazuhide Hiura, Hiroko Ihara (DIGITALSCAPE Co. Ltd.), Masayuki Fukushima (DIGITALSCAPE Co. Ltd.)

• Scenario
  • Takashi Aoshima (SATZ Inc.)

• Scenario Coordinator
  • Hiroaki Takaoka (SATZ Inc.)

• Sound Designers
  • Ryo Kasai, Masamichi Seki (DIGITALSCAPE Co. Ltd.), Tatsuyoshi Kitada, Yasuaki Matsumoto

Development Partners

• Environment Modeling, Character Modeling, Animation and Visual Effects
  • feelplus inc. (16 persons)

• Cutscene Visual Effects
  • IVY-ARTS Corporation (1 person)

• Monster Visual Effects
  • G-STYLE Co. Ltd. (2 persons)

• Item Graphics and Modeling
  • ATOLIER-BITOL (9 persons)
  • TOYTEC D-T-C

• Motion Capture Studio
  • STUDIO IBUKI Inc. (13 persons)

• Motion Actors
  • Sunny Side Inc. (1 person)
  • stardas-21 (5 persons)
  • ATMS PRODUCTION (2 persons)
  • GURRE (2 persons)
  • α-selection (1 person)

• Motion Actor Casting
  • Japanese Creative Management Co. Ltd. (2 persons)

• Japanese Voice Recording
  • Broadmedia Studio Corporation (9 persons)

• Voice Channel Editing
  • Kajiya Music Co. Ltd. (1 person)

• Music and Recording Management
  • TEAM Entertainment Inc.

• Musicians

• Bass
  • Atsushi Hasegawa

• Drums
  • Toshihiko Nakamura

• Electric Guitar
  • Tohru Iwao

• Strings
  • Koike Strings

• Flute
  • Hideyo Takakuwa

• Oboe
  • Hiroshi Shibayama

• Recording Engineer & Studio

• Recording Director
  • Mitsugu Nakamura (TEAM Entertainment Inc.)

• Score
  • Chiaki Kato, Masami Murata

• Recording Engineer
  • Atsushi Kobayashi

• Assistant Engineer
  • Kei Aizawa (SOUND INN)

• Recording Studio
  • SOUND INN

• Mastering Engineer
  • Kazuya Sato (Memory Tech)

• Mastering Studio
  • Memory Tech

• Special Thanks
  • CREEK & RIVER Co. Ltd., DIGITAL Hearts Co. Ltd., DIGITALSCAPE Co. Ltd., EXTREME Co. Ltd., Fontworks Japan Inc., JAM Co. Ltd., K2FACTORY Inc., PAICAL Co. Ltd.

CG Cinematics Unit

• Visual Works, CGCG Studio Inc., Studio Bokan, image corporation, ATOLIER-BITOL, EnumaElisch LLP

• Movie Director
  • Kazuyuki Ikumori (Square Enix Co. Ltd.)

Square Enix

(I don't care)