Shinya Kumazaki
Shinya Kumazaki (熊崎信也 Kumazaki Shinya, 1979-present) is a Japanese video game and graphic designer, and chief director who works for HAL Laboratory. He began working as a designer on Kirby Air Ride and served as director on Kirby Super Star Ultra for the first time. He is currently managing the development of the entire Kirby series as General Director since Kirby: Planet Robobot, and succeeded Masahiro Sakurai.
List of Works
- Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land - Communication Debug
- Kirby Air Ride - Design
- Kirby: Canvas Curse - Design
- Kirby Super Star Ultra - Director
- Kirby's Return to Dream Land - Director
- Kirby's Dream Collection - Director (with Tatsuya Kamiyama)
- Kirby: Triple Deluxe - Director
- Kirby Fighters Deluxe - Director
- Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe - Director
- Kirby: Planet Robobot - General Director
- Team Kirby Clash Deluxe - General Director
- Kirby's Blowout Blast - General Director
- Kirby Battle Royale - General Director
- Kirby Star Allies - General Director
- Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn - Character Supervisor
- Super Kirby Clash - General Director
- Kirby Fighters 2 - General Director
Trivia
- Like many staff members of HAL Laboratory, Shinya Kumazaki signs with the first letters of his name (his being S.K.).
- Shinya Kumazaki has voiced the following characters:
- King Dedede (Kirby series, since Kirby's Return to Dream Land)
- From the same sample: Shadow Dedede, Dedede Clone, King D-Mind, Parallel Dedede
- Void Termina (Phase 4, with Hirokazu Ando, Yuuta Ogasawara, and Yumi Todo)[1]
- King Dedede (Kirby series, since Kirby's Return to Dream Land)
- Shinya Kumazaki once had a pet cat called Tom (now deceased) whose voice was sampled for the following characters:
- Star Dream
- Nago (for the Cleaning ability, Kirby Star Allies)
- Shinya Kumazaki has a personal art gallery where he has illustrated some Kirby characters, including Drawcia and Taranza. The gallery can be viewed here.
- He was one of the Box Comic draft artists in BYE-BYE BOXBOY! and BOXBOY! + BOXGIRL!, and appears to have drawn some of the Celebration Pictures in Kirby Star Allies.