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Yusuke Amano (JP) (born 1981) is a director at Nintendo. He worked on directorial roles on various titles of the New Super Mario Bros. and Splatoon franchises, among other games.
History
Amano Initially started as a debugger on Super Mario Club, and tested games like Super Mario Advance 4, where he made some of the Super Skill movies that appeared with the e-Reader. Afterwards, he joined EAD as a planner, and worked on projects like New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
As a part of Nintendo's garage initiative to get younger developers to direct games, he was appointed as the director of New Super Mario Bros. 2, and the main director of Splatoon and Splatoon 2.
Game Works
- Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! (2005) - NCL Product Testing
- Polarium Advance (2005) - Debug
- Animal Crossing: Wild World (2005) - Debug
- English Training (2006) - Debug
- Tabi no Yubisashi Kaiwachou DS (2006) - Debug Support
- Touch de Tanoshimu Hyakunin-Isshu: DS Shigureden (2006) - Assistant Director
- Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (2007) - Assistant Director
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009) - Planning
- Star Fox 64 3D (2011) - Coordinator
- New Super Mario Bros. 2 (2012) - Director
- Splatoon (2015) - Director
- Splatoon 2 (2017) - Director
- Octo Expansion (2018) - Director
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020) - Planning Supervisor
Special Thanks
- Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (2004) (European version)
- The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (2004)
- WarioWare: Touched! (2004) (European version)
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018) - Original Game Supervisor
Gallery
Amano in 2010.
Amano, center, with Hisashi Nogami and Tsubasa Sakaguchi in a Famitsu interview published on February 17, 2015.
Amano, second from left, with Nogami, Sakaguchi, and Shintaro Sato in a Famitsu interview published on September 8, 2015.
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Same as above.
Amano, left, with Sakaguchi and Sato in the same interview as above.
Amano, right, with Sakaguchi in the same interview as above.
Amano alone in the same interview as above.
Amano, second from right, with Toru Minegishi, Sato, Seita Inoue, and Nogami in a Famitsu interview published on March 1, 2018.
Amano alone in the same interview as above.
Amano, second from right, with Inoue, Minegishi, Nogami, and Sato.
Interviews
- Iwata Asks: Super Mario 25th Anniversary
- Iwata Asks: Star Fox 64 3D
- Iwata Asks: New Super Mario Bros. 2
- Iwata Asks: Splatoon
- Nintendo Planning Recruit Interview