Masanao Arimoto

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Masanao Arimoto is a veteran graphic designer who works for Nintendo. He joined the company during the end of the Nintendo Entertainment System era and has worked mostly in several high profile games in The Legend of Zelda and Mario franchises throughout his career.

Around the GameCube era, Arimoto took on the role of design director. In recent years, he has been mostly involved in the 2D Mario series.

Game Works

Yūyūki (1989) - CG Design
F-Zero (1990) - Design
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991) - Background Designer
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993) - Character Designer
Star Fox 2 (1995) - Graphic Designer
Super Mario 64 (1996) - Additional Graphics
Mario Kart 64 (1996) - CG Character Designer
Yoshi's Story (1997) - CG Designer
F-Zero X (1998) - Graphic Support
Pocket Monsters Stadium (1998) - Effect Design
Pokémon Stadium (1999) - 2D CG Director
Pokémon Stadium 2 (2000) - Pokémon Stadium: Staff
Animal Crossing (2001) - Effect Design
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2002) - Design Manager
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (2004) - Design Manager
Yoshi Touch & Go (2005) - Design Director
New Super Mario Bros. (2006) - Design Director
Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (2007) - Design Director
New Play Control! Pikmin (2008) - Design
New Play Control! Pikmin 2 (2009) - Designer
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009) - Planning
Steel Diver (2011) - Battle Mode Design
New Super Mario Bros. U (2012) - Field Design
New Super Luigi U (2013) - Field Design
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD (2013) - Graphic Design
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U (2014) - Supervisor (Original Games)
Super Mario Maker (2015) - Lead Character Design
Super Mario Run (2016) - Field Design
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018) - Original Game Supervisor
Super Mario Maker 2 (2019) - Character Art