Shinji Hashimoto

 ( Japanese Video Game Producers ) 

extra=born May 24, 1958 is a Japanese former game producer at Square Enix and currently senior advisor at Sony Music Entertainment Japan and a board member at Forwardworks. He served as the Final Fantasy series brand manager for over a decade, was an executive officer at Square Enix board of directors and he was the Head of Square Enix's Business Division 3 for 6 years. He is also the co-creator of the Kingdom Hearts series. He served as corporate executive of the company's 1st Production Department during its entire existence.

In May 2021, Hashimoto announced he would be working in Square Enix Holdings as Corporate Advisor training future leaders of the company, after he stepped down from his position of executive director and Final Fantasy brand manager at Square Enix Co.

Hashimoto retired from his duties at Square Enix on May 31, 2022. On June 16, 2022, Hashimoto announced he would be a senior advisor at Sony Music Entertainment Japan, as well as board member for ForwardWorks.

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Biography

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Early work Hashimoto previously worked for the toy company Bandai. He joined Squaresoft (later known as Square Enix) in 1995, which is where he spent the rest of his career.

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Final Fantasy He was the promotions producer for Final Fantasy VII. When asked at E3 2008 about the possibility of a remake of Final Fantasy VII, he said that Square Enix is aware fans would like that, and that they are very busy making other titles first. As Final Fantasy X-2 and Kingdom Hearts were being completed, the learning experience the team had during the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII project spawned the Fabula Nova Crystallis series which was supposed to build on it.

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Kingdom Hearts

When Square was sharing a building in Tokyo with the Disney corporation, Hashimoto found himself conversing in an elevator with a Disney executive, and there they conceived the crossover between Square Enix and Disney called Kingdom Hearts. Hashimoto has stated that the new features in Kingdom Hearts II were the result of the success of the first game and Disney's increased trust in Square Enix to pull off an excellent product.

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Other games

While working on Front Mission Evolved, one of the challenges was balancing the speed of the real time battles the wanzers, or , were having so that the game was realistic to the mechs size, but also still fast enough to be engaging.

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Priorities

While discussing Final Fantasy XIII, Hashimoto mentioned that Square Enix has been attempting to make localization of their game releases close the release gap between Japan and the rest of the world.

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Works

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Video games

1986		Marketing
1989		Producer
1991
1993	Dragon Ball Z
	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure	Executive producer
1994		Producer
1995	Front Mission
1996		Executive producer
	Treasure Hunter G	Producer
	Tobal No. 1	Executive producer
1997	Final Fantasy VII	Publicity producer
	Tobal 2	Producer
	Front Mission 2	Executive producer
	Einhander
	Front Mission Alternative	Producer
	Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon	Executive producer
1998	Soukaigi
	Ehrgeiz	Supervisor
1999	Final Fantasy VIII	Producer
	Chocobo Racing
	Cyber Org
2000	Driving Emotion Type-S
	Final Fantasy IX
	The Bouncer
2001	Wild Card
2002	Kingdom Hearts
2004
2005	Final Fantasy IV Advance	Executive producer
	Kingdom Hearts II	Producer
2006	Final Fantasy V Advance	Executive producer
	Final Fantasy VI Advance
2007		Producer
	The World Ends with You
		Executive producer
2008	Kingdom Hearts coded
	Dissidia Final Fantasy
2009	Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
	Final Fantasy XIII
2010	Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
	Front Mission Evolved	Producer, original concept
		Executive producer
	The 3rd Birthday
2011	Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy
	Imaginary Range	Producer
	Final Fantasy Type-0	Executive producer
	Final Fantasy XIII-2
2012	Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
2013	Final Fantasy All the Bravest
	Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix
	Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster
2014
	Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix
	Final Fantasy Explorers
2015	Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ
2016	World of Final Fantasy	Producer
	Final Fantasy XV
2017	Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue	Executive producer
2018	Dissidia Final Fantasy NT
2019	Kingdom Hearts III
	Left Alive	Producer
2020	Final Fantasy VII Remake	Executive producer
2021
2025		Executive Producer

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Films

2005		Producer
		Executive producer
2009		Producer
2016

Categories: Japanese Video Game Producers, 1958 Births, Living People, Komazawa University Alumni, Square Enix People

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