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Yoko Taro

1970 - Today

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Yoko Taro (横尾 太郎, Yokoo Tarō; born June 6, 1970) is a Japanese video game director and scenario writer. Starting his career at the now defunct game developer Cavia, his best-known work is on the action role-playing video game series Drakengard, and its spin-offs, Nier and Nier: Automata. Yoko was born in Nagoya, Aichi, and studied at the Kobe Design University in the 1990s. While he did not initially intend to pursue a career in video games, after working at Namco and Sony, he joined Cavia and became the director and scenario writer for the first Drakengard game. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Yoko Taro is the 29th most popular game designer (up from 52nd in 2024), the 1,410th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,943rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Yoko Taro ranks 29 out of 77. Before him are Naoto Ohshima, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Reiner Knizia, Carol Shaw, Will Wright, and Masahiro Sakurai. After him are Yu Suzuki, Peter Molyneux, Kazunori Yamauchi, Roberta Williams, Hideki Kamiya, and Eiji Aonuma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Yoko Taro ranks 186. Before him are Saulius Skvernelis, Nobuhiro Watsuki, Abelardo Fernández, Zack de la Rocha, Daniel Lewin, and Masahiro Sakurai. After him are Karen Mulder, Regine Velasquez, Alexander Pschill, JR Bourne, Jimmy Sheirgill, and Stéphane Guivarc'h.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoko Taro ranks 1,409 out of 6,245. Before him are Takeshi Shimizu (1975), Akio Kaminaga (1936), Emiko Kubo (1966), Megumi Ogata (1965), and Tetsuo Hamuro (1917). After him are Katsutoshi Naito (1895), Takashi Kageyama (1977), Kazuo Hasegawa (1908), Akira Yamaoka (1968), Princess Tomohito of Mikasa (1955), Takao Kawaguchi (1950), and Masaji Kiyokawa (1913).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Yoko Taro ranks 14. Before him are Masayuki Uemura (1943), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Shinji Mikami (1965), Naoto Ohshima (1964), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), and Masahiro Sakurai (1970). After him are Yu Suzuki (1958), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Hideki Kamiya (1970), Eiji Aonuma (1963), Yuji Horii (1954), and Tetsuya Nomura (1970).

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