Shigesato itoi drawings of roses

Japanese game designer and copywriter

Shigesato Itoi (糸井 重里, Itoi Shigesato, born November 10, ) is a Japanese copywriter, essayist, lyricist, game designer, and actor.

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Shigesato Itoi visits illustrator and children's book author Keiko Shibata in her studio to commemorate the collaboration series for the.

It's “someone with a lively wake*.” The person who passed away has to be in all sorts of different people's memories.

Written by Shigesato Itoi, an essayist, slogan maker, copyeditor, voice actor, famed blogger, short fiction collaborator (with Haruki Murakami), Iron Chef judge.

In addition to yesterday's news, Nintendo's official EarthBound page has been updated to include a message from Shigesato Itoi.

Itoi is the editor-in-chief of his website and company Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun ("Almost Daily Itoi Newspaper").^[2] He is best known outside Japan for his work on Nintendo's Mother/EarthBound series of games, as well as his self-titled bass fishing video game.

Writing

During the s Itoi established the profession of writing copy for advertisements among the general public in Japan. In , he co-authored a collection of short stories titled Yume de Aimashou ("Let's meet in a dream") with writer Haruki Murakami.

Later Itoi branched into writing essays, lyrics, and designing video games. He is best known outside of Japan for Nintendo's EarthBound, released in in Japan (as Mother 2: Giygas Strikes Back) and in in North America.

In , Itoi began using the Internet and bought