Masahiro Yasuma

Masahiro Yasuma in 2015.

Masahiro Yasuma (江口正和, Yasuma Masahiro, translated as Masahiro Anma in some sources) is a game developer. He was a central figure in every mainline Mega Man Battle Network and Mega Man Star Force games. He was mainly in charge of the battle system. Yasuma joined Capcom in 1995 but has since left the company.

Works

• Mega Man Battle & Chase - Planner
• Mega Man Legends - Event Design, Mini-Game Design
• The Misadventures of Tron Bonne - Game Design
• Mega Man Battle Network series - Director and Planning for all numbered GameBoy Advance titles, including Rockman EXE 4.5 Real Operation.
  • Mega Man Battle Network 5: Double Team DS - Chief Supervisor
  • Rockman.EXE Operate Shooting Star - Series Director
• Mega Man Star Force series - Director and Game Design for MMSF1 and MMSF3. Game Design only for MMSF2.

Other

• Rockman.EXE 15-Shūnen Arrange Best Track - Dialogue Planning, Supervision (EXE4.5 track)

Gallery

Masahiro Yasuma in 2004.

Masahiro Yasuma in 2009.

Trivia

• According to an interview blurb, the staff thinks he cares too much about Bass.
• Yasuma is a fan of putting in chips that can be worked into combos and feels good when they hit multiple times. As such, he's a fan of the Yo-Yo and the Meteors Battle Chips .
• Yasuma is envious of kids who won the boss character contests, since as a kid he sent in postcards for things like Ultraman 80's monster recruitment but was unsuccessful.
• Watching the Rockman EXE: Hikari to Yami no Program movie reaffirmed to him how cool the Battle Network characters are.

External Links

• Yasuma's Twitter