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Masahiro Sakurai

Masahiro Sakurai

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Masahiro Sakurai is a Japanese video game director and game designer best known as the creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series. Apart from his work on those series, he also led the design of Meteos in 2005 and directed Kid Icarus: Uprising in 2012. Formerly an employee of HAL Laboratory, he founded Sora Ltd. in 2005, a company he still leads. He is also an author of a weekly column for Famitsu magazine, and has done voice acting work in some of his games.

Known for

Kirby: Fright to the Finish!
Kirby of the Stars Special Episode: Take it Down! The Carapace Monster Ebizo
Fire Emblem Festival Love & Courage 25th Anniversary Concert
Mario Kirby Masterpiece Video
Kirby of the Stars Pilot
Kirby 25th Anniversary Orchestra Concert

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