{"id":40692,"date":"2024-12-02T13:23:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T04:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=40692"},"modified":"2024-12-02T14:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T05:22:26","slug":"visions-of-mana-director-ryosuke-yoshida-leaves-netease-owned-studio-and-joins-square-enix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/visions-of-mana-director-ryosuke-yoshida-leaves-netease-owned-studio-and-joins-square-enix\/","title":{"rendered":"Visions of Mana director Ryosuke Yoshida leaves NetEase-owned studio and joins Square Enix\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ryosuke Yoshida,&nbsp;former Devil May Cry 5 developer and director of <strong>Visions of Mana<\/strong>, has announced his departure from Ouka Studios. According to a message posted on Yoshida\u2019s personal X account, he left the NetEase-owned game studio as of October 31.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, the creator has announced that he will be joining Square Enix starting December this year. Yoshida did not give any details about his decision to leave Ouka Studios, but expressed gratitude to the company and his team members.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On a personal note, I quit NetEase Ouka Studios on October 31st. We were a new studio, but we were able to release Visions of Mana. I am grateful to the development team and NetEase for their support.<br>It was a very good experience. <br>Thank you all.<br>I am happy to announce that I\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Ryosuke Yoshida (@YoshidaBeer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YoshidaBeer\/status\/1863418476637118944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For more context, Ouka Studios is a \u201chybrid\u201d game developer headed by former Bandai Namco Studios\u2019 veteran Tetsuya Akatsuka, with offices in both China and Japan. Ryosuke Yoshida initially joined NetEase Games in 2020, after a 13-year run at Capcom. He worked in China for three years before joining Ouka Studio\u2019s Japanese branch. With the successful release of Visions of Mana behind him, it seems the creator will be continuing his career at Square Enix.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Final Fantasy Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi and other creators <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nhamaguc\/status\/1863419145943208328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">congratulated Yoshida<\/a> on the announcement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryosuke Yoshida,\u00a0former Devil May Cry 5 developer and director of Visions of Mana, has announced his departure from Ouka Studios, as well as plans to join Square Enix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":29014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-40692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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