“I appreciate your continued support in my new role”.
Junichi Masuda, one of the founders of Game Freak, current Managing Director, and long-time composer of the Pokémon series — among many, many other roles at the company — is stepping down from his role for pastures new.
Masuda has been with Game Freak since it was formed in 1989, and has been the producer and director for many Pokémon games over the years. Today, however, he jumps over to The Pokémon Company, where he’ll hold the title of Chief Creative Fellow, where he’ll use his knowledge of the series to help develop new services and products. It’s a pretty similar move to what Shigeru Miyamoto made, who became Creative Fellow at Nintendo to help manage the brand and step away from the game development side of things.
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