Jiro Ishii

Jiro Ishii
Jiro Ishii
Occupation	Director
Notable work	428: Shibuya Scramble

Jiro Ishii (イシイジロウ, Ishii Jirō) is a Japanese video game developer and television and anime producer. He is best known for directing the live-action visual novel 428: Shibuya Scramble, producing the adventure video game Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, and creating the original concept for the anime short Under the Dog which was funded on Kickstarter.

Biography

Jiro Ishii started his career working on early PC games at Data West. He got a job at Chunsoft in 2000. In 2008, he directed 428: Shibuya Scramble, a live-action visual novel which earned a perfect score from Famitsu magazine, only the ninth game ever to do so. He moved to Level-5 to write and direct Time Travelers in 2012. Finally, he left to go freelance in 2015.^[1]

Works

Video games

Release	Title	System	Role(s)
1987	Imitation City	PC-88	Creator
1993	Night Slashers	Arcade
1996	Air Walkers	Arcade	Character Designer
1997	Little Lovers	PC
1998	Little Lovers 2nd. Yui	PC
1999	Little Lovers: She So Game	PlayStation
2002	Fushigi no Dungeon: Fūrai no Shiren Gaiden: Onna Kenshi Asuka Kenzan	Dreamcast	Game balance
2002	Kamaitachi no Yoru	Game Boy Advance	Director (GBA port)
2004	3年B組金八先生伝説の教壇に立て!	PlayStation 2	Director
2006	Banshee's Last Cry: Niwango version	mobile phone, web	Producer
2007	Imabikisō	PlayStation 3	Producer
2008	428: Shibuya Scramble	Nintendo Wii	Director, writer
2009	Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors	Nintendo DS	Producer
2010	TRICK × LOGIC	PlayStation Portable	Producer
2012	Time Travelers	Nintendo 3DS	Director, writer
2013	Devil Station	mobile phone	Director, world concept
2015	Monster Strike	Nintendo 3DS	Story project structure
2019	Sakura Wars	PlayStation 4	Story structure
2022	CrimeSight	PC (Steam)	World view setting and supervision
2022	Zombie of the Dot	iOS, Android	Story planning, drafting and supervising

Anime

Release	Title	Role(s)
2009	Canaan	Producer
2012	Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life	Episode 7 screenwriter
2015	Monster Strike	Story, project composition
2016	BBK/BRNK	Series composition, screenplay
2016	Under the Dog	Original concept