Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Hiroyuki Kobayashi (小林 裕幸, Kobayashi Hiroyuki), born August 12, 1972 in Nagoya in Japan, is a Japanese video game and anime television series producer and supervisor. He was formerly employed by Capcom for 27 years, best known as the producer and creator of the Sengoku Basara franchise, and is currently part of NetEase Games.

History

Kobayashi studied computer science at Chukyo University. After graduating, he was hired at Capcom in 1995 as a programmer on the first Resident Evil game. After working as programmer on the sequel and a planner on the first Dino Crisis game, his first producer role was on Dino Crisis 2 in 2000.

Starting with the first Sengoku BASARA game (titled Devil Kings in North America) in 2005, Kobayashi worked as the producer for the video game series as well as a planning supervisor for the various anime adaptations. He was very interested in the Sengoku period and wanted to create an action game inspired by that period.

Works

Kobayashi has worked on a number of video games, including the following (dates given are for the Japanese release). Credits are for producer unless otherwise indicated.

• Resident Evil (programmer, 1996)

• Resident Evil 2 (programmer, 1998)

• Dino Crisis (planner, 1999)

• Dino Crisis 2 (2000)

• Devil May Cry (2001)

• Resident Evil Code: Veronica X (associate producer, 2001)

• Resident Evil (2002)

• Resident Evil Zero (promotional producer, 2002)

• Dino Crisis 3 (2003)

• P.N.03 (2003)

• Under the Skin (2004)

• Resident Evil 4 (2005)

• Killer7 (2005)

• Sengoku Basara (2005)

• Sengoku Basara 2 (2006)

• Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes (2007)

• Devil May Cry 4 (2008)

• Sengoku Basara X (2008)

• Sengoku Basara: Battle Heroes (2009)

• Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes (2010)

• Sengoku Basara Chronicle Heroes (2011)

• Dragon's Dogma (2012)

• Resident Evil 6 (executive producer, 2012)

• Project X Zone (Supervision & Cooperation (Devil May Cry Series), 2012)

• Sengoku Basara 4 (2014)

• Gaist Crusher (2014)

• Megami Meguri (2016)

• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017)

• Devil May Cry 5 (2019)

• Resident Evil Village (2021)

• Exoprimal (2023)

Animation

Kobayashi has also worked on several anime series.

• Devil May Cry: The Animated Series (television series, supervisor, 2007)

• Resident Evil: Degeneration (CG film, producer, 2008)

• Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings (television series, planning supervisor, 2009)

• Sengoku Basara II (television series, planning supervisor, 2010)

• Sengoku Basara: The Last Party (film, planning supervisor, 2011)

• Resident Evil: Damnation (CG film, producer, 2012)

• Sengoku BASARA: End of Judgement (film, planning supervisor, 2014)

• Resident Evil: Vendetta (CG anime film, producer, 2017)

External link

• Wikipedia article