Line #12 Creator/ShinjiMikami


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: The Man behind Franchise/ResidentEvil.]]
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4	Shinji Mikami (born August 11, 1965) is one of the oldest and most well known video game producers, perhaps best known for the creation of ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. He also made ''VideoGame/GodHand'', and helped create Creator/CloverStudio with the help of Creator/HidekiKamiya (of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'', ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' fame) and Atsushi Inaba (who helped out on a bunch of other works, and helped out with ''VideoGame/MadWorld''), now known as Creator/PlatinumGames. Originally a Creator/{{Capcom}} member (one of the oldest, actually), he then went to Creator/{{Sega}} with the rest of his fellow Clover members at Platinum Games. He completed ''VideoGame/{{Vanquish}}'' and worked with Creator/Suda51 and Music/AkiraYamaoka on a comedy-horror game titled ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheDamned''.
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6	In 2010 he founded [[http://tangogameworks.com/ Tango Gameworks]], a subsidiary of [=ZeniMax=] Media (the same parent company as Creator/IdSoftware and Creator/{{Bethesda}}) along with longtime Creator/Suda51 collaborator Music/MasafumiTakada. He would eventually depart the company in 2023.
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8	In 2015, he voiced Takahashi from ''VideoGame/Fallout4''.
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10	His official English-language twitter is [[http://twitter.com/#!/shinji_mikami_e here,]] while his company's twitter is [[http://twitter.com/#!/tango_gw_en here.]]
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12	!!List of game titles Mikami has worked on as director or producer:
13	[[index]]
14	* ''VideoGame/WhoFramedRogerRabbit?'' (Game Boy version) -- The first game he ever worked on.
15	* ''VideoGame/{{Aladdin\|Capcom}}'' (SNES version)
16	* ''VideoGame/GoofTroop''
17	* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series
18	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' (directed both, the original PS version and the GC remake)
19	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' (team producer)
20	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' (producer)
21	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'' (producer)
22	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'' (executive adviser)
23	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' (director)
24	* ''VideoGame/DinoCrisis'' (director)
25	* ''VideoGame/OnimushaWarlords'' (adviser)
26	* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' (executive producer)
27	* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' series (worked as an executive producer on the original GBA trilogy)
28	* ''VideoGame/SteelBattalion'' (general producer)
29	* ''Videogame/PN03'' (director)
30	* ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'' (executive producer)
31	* ''VideoGame/Killer7'' (executive producer, also co-wrote the story with Creator/Suda51)
32	* ''VideoGame/GodHand'' (director)
33	* ''VideoGame/{{Vanquish}}'' (director) - His first work after departing from Capcom.
34	* ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheDamned'' (creative producer)
35	* ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'' (director)
36	** ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin2'' (producer)
37	* ''VideoGame/GhostwireTokyo'' (producer)
38	* ''VideoGame/HiFiRush'' (executive producer)
39	[[/index]]
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41	!!His works frequently contain examples of the following:
42	* CreatorBacklash:
43	** He loathes being called the father of ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', a title he feels more accurately belongs to Tokuro Fujiwara, the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 first game]]'s producer.
44	** While he has an overall positive opinion of his ''Aladdin'' game, he admitted years later that he thought [[VideoGame/AladdinVirginGames the Virgin Games version]] was a superior game to his own in every way, outside of the soundtrack.
45	* DisownedAdaptation: He quit Capcom after they ported ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' for the [=PS2=] without his permission, wanting it to be a Platform/NintendoGameCube exclusive.[[note]](Don't let the fact that a "Shinji Mikami" is credited as a designer on ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'' fool you; it's just someone with the same name)[[/note]]
46	* SelfDeprecation[=/=]BlackComedy: If [[http://tangogameworks.com/others/comic/001 these comics]] were written by him
47	* ZombieApocalypse: To the point where his company's comics and artwork frequently portray the staff members as zombies

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