Shigefumi Kawase

Shigefumi Kawase

Shigefumi Kawase (川瀬滋史, Kawase Shigefumi) is the current President and CEO of HAL Laboratory, having been appointed to the position from Senior Vice President in 2018. Kawase has been involved with the production of Nintendo games for over two decades, many of which being in the Kirby series.

List of works

Kirby series

• Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land (2002) - Air Grind Team
• Kirby Air Ride (2003) - Director
• Kirby's Return to Dream Land (2011) - Producer
• Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (2015) - Producer
• Kirby: Planet Robobot (2016) - Supervisor
• Team Kirby Clash Deluxe (2017) - Supervisor
• Kirby's Blowout Blast (2017) - Supervisor
• Kirby Battle Royale (2017) - General Producer
• Kirby Star Allies (2018) - Supervisor
• Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn (2019) - Producer
• Super Kirby Clash (2019) - General Producer
• Kirby Fighters 2 (2020) - General Producer
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land (2022) - General Producer
• Kirby's Dream Buffet (2022) - General Producer
• Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe (2023) - General Producer

Special Thanks

• Kirby: Triple Deluxe (2014)

Pokémon series

• Pokémon Stadium (Japanese) (1998) - Technical Support
• Pokémon Snap (1999) - Designer
• Pokémon Stadium (English) (1999) - Technical Support
• Pokémon Channel (2003) - Chief Designer
• Pokémon Ranger (2006) - Game Planning

Special Thanks

• Pokémon Stadium 2 (2000)
• New Pokémon Snap (2021)

Other

• Itoi Shigesato no Bass Tsuri No. 1 Ketteihan (2000) - Technical Support
• General Knowledge Training (2006) - Director
• Minna no Joushiki Ryoku TV (2008) - Director
• Face Pilot: Fly With Your Nintendo DSi Camera! (2010) - Director
• Face Raiders (2011) - Director
• Part Time UFO (2017) - Producer
• BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! (2019) - General Producer
• Part Time UFO (Nintendo Switch port) (2020) - General Producer

Special Thanks

• Super Smash Bros. (1999)
• Picross 3D: Round 2 (2015)

External links

• HAL - Our Philosophy