Hiroyuki Kobayashi (producer)

Hiroyuki Kobayashi
Native name	小林 裕幸
Born	(1972-08-12) August 12, 1972 Nagoya, Japan
Nationality	Japan
Ethnicity	Japanese
Alma mater	Chukyo University
Occupation	Video game and anime producer, planner, and supervisor
Years active	1995–present
Employer	Capcom
Notable work	Dino Crisis series Resident Evil series Sengoku Basara series

Hiroyuki Kobayashi (小林 裕幸, Kobayashi Hiroyuki, born August 12, 1972 in Nagoya, Japan) is a Japanese video game and anime television series producer and supervisor. He is employed by Capcom.

Works

Kobayashi studied computer science at Chukyo University. After graduating, he was hired at Capcom in 1995 as a programmer on the first Resident Evil game. After working as programmer on the sequel and a planner on the first Dino Crisis game, his first producer role was on Dino Crisis 2 in 2000.

Starting with the first Sengoku Basara game (titled Devil Kings in North America) in 2005, Kobayashi worked as the producer for the video game series as well as a planning supervisor for the various anime adaptations. He was very interested in the Sengoku period and wanted to create an action game inspired by that period.

Video games

Kobayashi has worked on a number of video games, including the following (dates given are for the Japanese release). Credits are for producer unless otherwise indicated.

• Resident Evil (programmer, 1996)
• Resident Evil 2 (programmer, 1998)
• Dino Crisis (planner, 1999)
• Dino Crisis 2 (2000)
• Devil May Cry (2001)
• Resident Evil Code: Veronica X (associate producer, 2001)
• Resident Evil (2002)
• Resident Evil Zero (promotional producer, 2002)
• Dino Crisis 3 (2003)
• P.N.03 (2003)
• Under the Skin (2004)
• Resident Evil 4 (2005)
• Killer7 (2005)
• Sengoku Basara (2005)
• Sengoku Basara 2 (2006)
• Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes (2007)
• Devil May Cry 4 (2008)
• Sengoku Basara X (2008)
• Sengoku Basara: Battle Heroes (2009)
• Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes (2010)
• Sengoku Basara Chronicle Heroes (2011)
• Dragon's Dogma (2012)
• Resident Evil 6 (executive producer, 2012)
• Project X Zone (Supervision & Cooperation (Devil May Cry Series), 2012)
• Sengoku Basara 4 (2014)
• Gaist Crusher (2014)

Anime

Kobayashi has also worked on several anime series.

• Devil May Cry: The Animated Series (anime TV series, supervisor, 2007)
• Resident Evil: Degeneration (CG anime film, producer, 2008)
• Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings (anime TV series, planning supervisor, 2009)
• Sengoku Basara II (anime TV series, planning supervisor, 2010)
• Sengoku Basara: The Last Party (anime film, planning supervisor, 2011)
• Resident Evil: Damnation (CG anime film, producer, 2012)

External links

• Hiroyuki Kobayashi (producer) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Hiroyuki Kobayashi at the Internet Movie Database
• Hiroyuki Kobayashi at MobyGames