CLAN
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CLAN EXPERTS
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Creator
DENSUKE28
Plans and directs across various creative fields. Focuses on the "BUGREPORT" project, using game bugs as symbolic expressions. Also creates through "Magic Bibby," an avatar and alter ego character.
4D Creator
ENDO SHINYA
Inspired by the movie "Jurassic Park", I started my career in special effects makeup and modeling. After working in film and television, I am currently active in many fields of digital design, including 3D modeling for theme parks, stages, and museums, as well as architectural design.
STOF / BEDSIDEDRAMA DESIGNER etc
HIROSHI TANIDA
Mainly a fashion designer. Other areas include products, graphics, interior design, etc. To eat. trip. I like manga.
Game Studies / Associate Professor at Ritsumeikan University, College of Image Arts and Sciences
INOUE AKITO
Currently an Associate Professor at Ritsumeikan University. Engaged in a serialized discussion titled ‘Games as Phenomena Without a Center,’ exploring what the experience of games truly entails. Authored the book ‘Gamification’ (NHK Publishing, 2012). Notable game developments include the energy-saving game ‘#denkimeter’ released during a disaster.
Film producer
ITO CHIKARA
Born in Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, in 1978. Transitioning from actor to film producer, he founded the film production company "and pictures" in 2013. To promote regional revitalization, he collaborates with filming locations to conduct shooting and screenings. In 2021, he launched the "MIRRORLIAR FILMS PROJECT" with Takayuki Yamada and others. In 2024, he announced Season 5, utilizing the corporate hometown tax system, and continues to work with local executive committees to provide production support and hold screenings.
Technical Director
IWASAWA TAKASHI
The younger brother of the Iwasawa Brothers, an experience design and space design unit, established Batta Nation Ltd. in 2002 with his brother, Hitoshi Iwasawa. Concept design and direction of space design. Member of TMPR, a research unit that plays with the city, moving back and forth between digital and physical, high-tech and manual work, and the perspectives of things and people.
Performing Artist
JONISHI TAKASHI
I was a former dance member and choreographer of WORLD ORDER, a dance group that has reached wide acclaim around the world. In 2018,I founded the world's first airdance group (AIRFOOTWORKS).
Board Game Development, Director and Producer
KARIYA KEIJI
He has been in charge of the operation of Japan's largest board game event “Game Market” for 10 years. He also has over 20 years of experience editing books and board games. Currently, he has established a board game maker.
Candy shop owner ／amusement producer
KITAHARA TAEKO
A candy shop in a Kyoto townhouse open on Saturdays and Sundays. Take off your shoes and go up as if you were visiting a friend's house, In addition to candy, you will find an assortment of toys from the 2025, Heisei, and Showa eras. Children and adults alike are drawn to linger in the store.
Illustration, communication, and construction of exchange sites
KOIKE AMIGOS
Illustrator and picture book author living in Tomigaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. Former president of Tokyo Illustrators Society. Chairman of the School Management Council of Tomigaya Elementary School in Shibuya Ward. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, he did fieldwork in the Tohoku region and created artworks. He has held exhibitions in various places in Japan and also holds drawing workshops for children. In the Tomigaya area of Shibuya Ward, he promotes the community art project “Tomigaya Model” and collaborates with the Shibuya Future Department of elementary schools. Picture book “Harunohi” won the Japan Picture Book Award.
Editor and alley activist
MITSUKAWA TAKAHIRO
Editor and alley activist. Founded Kyoto-based creative firm bank to LLC. to discover and disseminate all kinds of content in the city. His life's work is researching Kyoto's alleys, and he "knows more about them than Google Street View.
artist creator OTAKU
MITSURU NAKAMURA
artist creator OTAKU
Filmmaker, Associate Professor, Department of Games & Media, Faculty of Informatics, Osaka Electro-Communication University
NAGATA TAKESHI
Filmmaker, creative duo “TOCHKA” that formed by Nagata Takeshi and Monno Kazue since 1998. Invented a method of making animation called “PiKA PiKA”, which is the combination of long exposure photograph and stop motion animation technique. It enables everyone to make animation with drawings by penlights in the air. Area of activity is from experimental animations to contemporary art
critic/editor
NAKAGAWA DAICHI
Daichi Nakagawa is Critic/editor. Deputy editor of the critical journal PLANETS. With a focus on video games, anime, TV drama and other culture, he has been active with wide range interests including contemporary thought, urbanism, anthropology, life sciences, and information technology. He has written various critiques and reviews that bridge reality and fiction through technology. He is the author of Toukyou sukaitsurii ron (Study on TOKYO SKYTREE) (Kōbunsha 2012) and Gendai geemu zenshi (Brief History of Contemporary Games)(Hayakawa shobō 2016), and co-edited Ama-chan Memories(Bungeishunju 2013) .
Nihon University Associate Professor / Research Institute for Next Generation Society (RINGS) director
OSAWA MASAHIKO
Masahiko Osawa is a Associate Professor of Nihon University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Sxience from Keio University in 2020. He was Research fellow (DC1) at The Japan Society of the Promotion of Science from 2017-2020. His research interests include machine learning, autonomous robots, human-agent interaction, cognitive science, biologically inspired cognitive architecture, and computational neuro science. He is a member of the the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Japanese Neural Network Society, Japanese Cognitive Science Society, Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly, and ACM. His dream is making DORAEMON.
Guitarist/Producer
SAHASHI YOSHIYUKI
Born in Tokyo in 1961. Influenced by West Coast American music during junior high school, he started playing guitar. Debuted in 1984 with the band "UGUISS" and also worked as a session guitarist. His guitar work on "Love Story wa Totsuzen ni" and "True Love" became a hot topic. He has participated in numerous tours, including those of Motoharu Sano and Tatsuro Yamashita. Currently, he focuses on producing and nurturing young talent while also resuming activities with his unit "Yamagen" with his long-time partner Kazuhiro Ogura, and has even held revival concerts for "UGUISS."
Jyukuseizushi YOROZU
SHIRAYAMA AKIRA
Born in Nagasaki in 1989. After graduating from high school in Osaka, he started his apprenticeship at a sushi restaurant through his school's introduction. A year and a half after beginning his training, he visited a sushi restaurant for study and was so impressed that he volunteered to become an apprentice. In 2017, he became the head chef of "Champagne & Wine and Aged Sushi Rikyu", and in 2019, he opened his own restaurant "Aged Sushi YOROZU", which was awarded a Michelin star in the same year.
HYTEK Inc. Founder / Creative Director / Artist
Takaya "Mic" Mitsunaga
After working as an artist all over the world, he founded HYTEK Inc. in 2021. While working on creative director for global brands, he himself has appeared in NBA, AGT, TEDx, and other events. He has received awards in various fields including Japan Media Arts Festival, ADAA, and WIRED CHA. As a creator, and a producer, he will pursue his goal to connect the mainstream of entertainment and the backstage, the seen and the unseen.
Huuuu Representative Director / Editor
TOKUTANI KAKIJIRO
Editor born in Osaka in 1982. Lives in Nagano Prefecture. Representative director of Huuuu Co., Ltd. It covers 47 prefectures nationwide. Main works include ``Jimokoro,'' ``Yahoo! JAPAN SDG`s,'' and ``SuuHaa.'' At the turning point of 40 years old, he published his own book ``Tell Me About Me''. He runs ``Snack Yokaze'' in Nagano City. My motto is "Don't worry, but don't be relieved."
Manager, Hotel Anteroom Kyoto / Curator, Gallery 9.5 Visiting Researcher, Game Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
TOYOKAWA YASUTAKA
With a background in academic research on video games as a student, he has developed various projects with game creators and artists, as well as game researchers in Japan and abroad. He has been disseminating information on artists and creators of the next generation while expanding the field of art, including exhibitions of contemporary art and indie games.
designer
TYLER.
Graduated from Bunka Fashion College in 2006. He then founded the upcycle apparel brand Desertic. The brand's signature creation, "Liquidknit," is made from vintage knitwear worldwide. "Liquidknit" was featured at Comme des Garçons.
CEO
URASAWA OSAMU
1973, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.After graduating from Aoyama Gakuin University, I joined the TV Life editorial department.Edited numerous entertainment books.In 2004, I started a multilingual website production company specializing in Japanese accommodation facilities. Currently CEO of O Japan Co., Ltd. For about 4 years from 2017, I was in charge of radio volunteer director in Shibuya.
Artist
xorium
xorium is a creative unit consisting of a designer and engineers from Ryo Takegawa, Tomohiro Nakaya, and Shingo Nakamura, who are active mainly in Kyoto. Creates works based on "comfortable coexistence with digital in real space".
axis CEO
YAMAZAKI SHIN
While working at a TV program production company, he learned computer graphics on his own, and is active mainly in computer graphics and design for TV programs. He is specialized in creating complete productions from shooting to editing, utilizing his background in production. In addition to TV programs, he also works on print media, music videos, and music videos.
Announcer
YOKOMACHI AI
A true gamer announcer who has been holding a controller since he was 3 years old. In addition to serving as the official MC for BitSummit, Tokyo Game Show, etc., he also distributes games himself. In addition, he served as the ``Special Tourism Envoy'' for Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture, and was involved in regional revitalization across the country as a local mascot MC, including Funassyi. The mother of two is planning to carry out activities with the theme of "Games x Children."