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Kazuma Kaneko, also known as Kazuhiro Kaneko, is an artist involved with the Megami Tensei franchise. He is most known for his work on it and has created a majority of the demon designs in the franchise, as well as multiple character designs and designs for Personas in the first two entries of the Persona series.

Biography

Early Life

Career

Personal Life

Media Credits

This is a list of each Megami Tensei media Kazuma Kaneko was involved.

Year	Game	Role(s)
1990	Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II	Character designer, demon designer, sprite artist
1992	Shin Megami Tensei	Character designer, demon designer, sprite artist
1992	Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible	Coordinator
1994	Shin Megami Tensei II	Character designer, demon designer, sprite artist
	Majin Tensei	Coordinator
	Shin Megami Tensei if...	Character designer, demon designer, sprite artist
1995	Kyūyaku Megami Tensei	Character designer
1995	Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner	Character designer, demon designer
1996	Revelations: Persona	Character designer, Persona designer
1997	Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation	Character design
1997	Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers	Art director, character designer
1999	Last Bible II (GBC version)	Character producer
1999	Persona 2: Innocent Sin	Character designer, Persona designer
2000	Persona 2: Eternal Punishment	Character designer, Persona designer
2000	Devil Children Red Book	Graphics supervisor
2001	Devil Children White Book	Graphics supervisor
2002	Shin Megami Tensei: Nine	Demon designer
2003	Devil Children Light Book and Dark Book	Graphics supervisor
2003	Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne	Creative director, character designer, demon designer
2004	Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner	Character designer, demon designer, Scenario Draft^[1]
2005	Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2	Character designer, demon designer, Scenario Draft^[1]
2006	Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army	Art director, character designer, original concept
2006	Persona 3	Original demon design
2007	Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine	Demon designer
2007	Persona 3	Original demon design
2008	Persona 4	Original demon design
2008	Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon	Producer, art director, character designer, original concept
2009	Devil Survivor	Supervisor, devil designer
	Persona	Art director
	Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey	Producer, character designer, original concept
	Persona 3 Portable	Original demon design
2011	Devil Survivor 2	Demon designer
2012	Persona 4 Golden	Original demon design
2013	Shin Megami Tensei IV	Scenario drafts, demon designer
2013	Persona 4 Arena Ultimax	Original demon design
2014	Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth	Original demon design
2016	Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse	Scenario drafts, demon designer
2016	Persona 5	Demon modeling supervisor, demon designer
2017	Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux	Scenario concept, demon designer
2018	Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth	Original devil design
2019	Persona 5 Royal	Demon modeling supervisor, demon designer
2020	Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster	Series devil design
2021	Shin Megami Tensei V	Series devil design
2022	Soul Hackers 2	Original demon designs

Gallery

Notes

References

↑ "Kazuma Kaneko: I contributed to the most important aspect of the system, “eating”, but also to parts of the story from the early days of the project, as well as the basis of the world setting, including the scenario draft; however, after that I ended up in charge of the character design after I entrusted the rest to the current staff." Playstation.com Kaneko Kazuma interview, 2004 Digital Devil Saga. Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20231214185408/https://dijehtranslations.wordpress.com/2016/08/08/kaneko-kazuma-interview-about-digital-devil-saga/.+Published+August 8, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2023. Dijeh Translations.

[1] "Kazuma Kaneko: I contributed to the most important aspect of the system, “eating”, but also to parts of the story from the early days of the project, as well as the basis of the world setting, including the scenario draft; however, after that I ended up in charge of the character design after I entrusted the rest to the current staff." Playstation.com Kaneko Kazuma interview, 2004 Digital Devil Saga. Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20231214185408/https://dijehtranslations.wordpress.com/2016/08/08/kaneko-kazuma-interview-about-digital-devil-saga/.+Published+August 8, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2023. Dijeh Translations.

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