Toshiyuki Itahana (板鼻 利幸, Itahana Toshiyuki?) is a game director and character designer for Square Enix. He was responsible for introducing the "little child", 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 Series
Game Name | Itahana's Role(s) |
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Final Fantasy IX | Character Designer |
Final Fantasy XI | Art Designer |
Final Fantasy XIII-2 | DLC Costume Designer |
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII | Character Designer: Lumina Costume Designer: Lightning |
Final Fantasy Explorers | Character supervisor, key art designer[1] |
Mobius Final Fantasy | Character Designer |
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 Fantasy
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.
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