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Shinya Kumazaki
is a Japanese video game director, game designer, HAL Laboratory employee, and painter who is the current general director of the ''Kirby'' series and voice of King Dedede. Biography Early life Born in the Gifu Prefecture in 1979, Kumazaki studied at the Kanazawa College of Art and the Suidobata Fine Arts Academy. Early work at HAL Laboratory Kumazaki first joined HAL Laboratory in 2002, where some of his early roles included debugging the game '' Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land'' and designer for ''Kirby Air Ride'' (for the levels) and ''Kirby Canvas Curse'' (for the battle with the final boss Drawcia). His first game as director came in 2008 as the Nintendo DS remake ''Kirby Super Star Ultra'' where the original game was further expanded to include four additional sub-games. As director In 2010, he was working on the built-in software for the then-new Nintendo 3DS system when he was roped in to the development team the then unfinished ''Kirby Wii'' game; under his supervisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gifu Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,991,390 () and has a geographic area of . Gifu Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to the north; Ishikawa Prefecture to the northwest, Fukui Prefecture and Shiga Prefecture to the west, Mie Prefecture to the southwest, Aichi Prefecture to the south, and Nagano Prefecture to the east. Gifu is the capital and largest city of Gifu Prefecture, with other major cities including Ōgaki, Kakamigahara, and Tajimi. Gifu Prefecture is located in the center of Japan, one of only eight landlocked prefectures, and features the country's center of population. Gifu Prefecture has served as the historic crossroads of Japan with routes connecting the east to the west, including the Nakasendō, one of the Five Routes of the Edo period. Gifu Prefecture was a long-term residence of Oda Nobunaga and Saitō Dōsan, two influential figures of Japanese history in the Sengoku period, spawning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
