Eitaro Toyoda

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Eitaro Toyoda (豊田栄太郎, Toyoda Eitarō^?) is a Sonic Team game designer and level designer. He first joined Sonic Team during the development of Sonic Adventure as an Event Scene Editor. Since then he has worked with Sonic Team USA on Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, and Shadow the Hedgehog. He then moved back to Tokyo to work on Sonic and the Secret Rings as a game designer.

While Takashi Iizuka is more experienced and responsible for most of the level design in Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, and Shadow the Hedgehog, Toyoda learned and worked alongside him. He currently serves the role of a Sonic Character Supervisor, overlooking the characters, the world setting and scripts of of the series,^[1] in addition to writing the scenario for the Episode Shadow DLC of Sonic Forces^[2] and short stories for the official Japanese Sonic website Sonic Channel.

Credits

Games

Sonic Adventure (1998) — Event Scene Editor
Sonic Adventure 2/Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (2001/2002) — Game Designer/Enemy Game Designer/Level Designer
Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut (2003) — Mission Mode Designer
Sonic Heroes (2003/2004) — Level Designer
Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) — Level Designer
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) — Special Thanks
Sonic and the Secret Rings (2007) — Game Designer
Sonic Unleashed (2008) — Boss Game Designer
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (2010) — CS2 R&D (Sega Japan)
Sonic Free Riders (2010) — Scenario Supervisor, Sonic Character Supervisor
Sonic Colors (2010) — Sonic Character Supervisor (Sega)
Sonic Generations (2011) — Sonic Character Supervisor (Sega)
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (2011/2012) — Sonic Character Supervisor
Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games (2013) — Sonic Character Supervisor (Sega Development Team)
Sonic Forces (2017) — Writer, Japanese Story and Script^[2]
Sonic Frontiers (2022) - Sonic Character Supervisor
Sonic Superstars (2023) - Sonic Character Supervisor
Shadow Generations (2024) - Sonic Character Supervisor, Japanese Story and Script^[3]

Miscellaneous

Sonic Comic — Story, art
Sonic Wallpaper Cover Stories - Writer
Sonic Colors: Rise of the Wisps - Japanese Script
Sonic Colors Comics - Story, art (with Yui Karasuno)^[4]
Sonic Calendar Isekai Ōgiri Story - Writer
Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings - Japanese Localization

References

↑ https://www.youtube.com/live/Yho2jIJ2-lk?feature=share&t=1029
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Eitaro Toyoda on Twitter. Twitter (November 20, 2022). "Eitaro Toyoda: I was in charge of adjusting the dialogue and checking for any set-up glitches.
Then, using a rough Japanese translation, I created a script for the Japanese version and wrote the Shadow scenario for the DLC.
Thanks!"
↑ Eitaro Toyoda on Twitter. Twitter (October 27, 2024). "Eitaro Toyoda: Yes, I did.
The Japanese script was coordinated for translation by myself and my team.
We were able to check all aspects of the scenario and Sonic's world setting, which made this title one of the more endearing titles for me personally. :)"
↑ Eitaro Toyoda (@E_Toyoda39) on Twitter (Japanese). Twitter (8 February 2023). Retrieved on 8 August 2023. "Eitaro Toyoda: SONIC PICTの絵柄の「ソニックカラーズアルティメット」の漫画です。前後編の２つあります。私とカラスノさんで作ってます。ウィスプ達がとっても可愛いので、ぜひぜひ見て読んで、よろしければゲームも遊んでくださいね♪"

External links

Eitaro Toyoda on Twitter
Eitaro Toyoda at the Internet Movie Database

Sonic Team members

Producers	Akinori Nishiyama · Takashi Iizuka · Yuji Naka · Yoji Ishii
Programmers	Takahiro Hamano · Takeshi Sakakibara · Tetsu Katano · Yuji Naka · Yoshihisa Hashimoto
Designers	Eitaro Toyoda · Hirokazu Yasuhara · Kazuyuki Hoshino · Makoto Yonezu · Manabu Kusunoki · Naoto Ohshima · Nobuhiko Honda · Hiroshi Miyamoto · Sachiko Kawamura · Shinichi Higashi · Shiro Maekawa · Shun Nakamura · Takashi Yuda · Yasushi Yamaguchi · Yoshitaka Miura · Yuji Uekawa
Directors	Hiroshi Nishiyama · Kenjiro Morimoto · Morio Kishimoto · Takashi Iizuka
Sound engineers	Hideaki Kobayashi · Jun Senoue · Kenichi Tokoi · Mariko Nanba · Masaru Setsumaru · Naofumi Hataya · Takahito Eguchi · Tatsuyuki Maeda · Teruhiko Nakagawa · Tomoya Ohtani
Other	Tomoko Kanemoto · Yui Karasuno

[1] ttps://www.youtube.com/live/Yho2jIJ2-lk?feature=share&t=1029

[:0-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Eitaro Toyoda on Twitter. Twitter (November 20, 2022). "Eitaro Toyoda: I was in charge of adjusting the dialogue and checking for any set-up glitches.
Then, using a rough Japanese translation, I created a script for the Japanese version and wrote the Shadow scenario for the DLC.
Thanks!"

[3] Eitaro Toyoda on Twitter. Twitter (October 27, 2024). "Eitaro Toyoda: Yes, I did.
The Japanese script was coordinated for translation by myself and my team.
We were able to check all aspects of the scenario and Sonic's world setting, which made this title one of the more endearing titles for me personally. :)"

[Eitaro_&_Yui-4] Eitaro Toyoda (@E_Toyoda39) on Twitter (Japanese). Twitter (8 February 2023). Retrieved on 8 August 2023. "Eitaro Toyoda: SONIC PICTの絵柄の「ソニックカラーズアルティメット」の漫画です。前後編の２つあります。私とカラスノさんで作ってます。ウィスプ達がとっても可愛いので、ぜひぜひ見て読んで、よろしければゲームも遊んでくださいね♪"

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