Jiro Ishii

is a Japanese video game developer and television and anime producer. He is best known for directing the live-action visual novel 428: Shibuya Scramble, producing the adventure video game Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, and creating the original concept for the anime short Under the Dog which was funded on Kickstarter.

Biography Jiro Ishii started his career working on early PC games at Data West. He got a job at Chunsoft in 2000. In 2008, he directed 428: Shibuya Scramble, a live-action visual novel which earned a perfect score from Famitsu magazine, only the ninth game ever to do so. He moved to Level-5 to write and direct Time Travelers in 2012. Finally, he left to go freelance in 2015.

Works Video games Release Title System Role(s) 1987 Imitation City PC-88 Creator 1993 Night Slashers Arcade 1996 Air Walkers Arcade Character Designer 1997 Little Lovers PC 1998 Little Lovers 2nd. Yui PC 1999 Little Lovers: She So Game PlayStation 2002 Shiren the Wanderer Gaiden: Asuka the Swordswoman Dreamcast, Microsoft Windows Game balance 2002 Kamaitachi no Yoru Advance Game Boy Advance Director 2004 3rd grade B group Kinpachi sensei Stand on the legendary platform! PlayStation 2 Director 2005 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS Game planner 2006 Banshee's Last Cry: Niwango version mobile phone, web Producer 2007 Imabikisō PlayStation 3 Producer 2008 428: Shibuya Scramble Nintendo Wii Director, writer 2009 Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors Nintendo DS Producer 2010 TRICK × LOGIC PlayStation Portable Producer 2012 Time Travelers Nintendo 3DS Director, writer 2013 Devil Station mobile phone Director, world concept 2015 Monster Strike Nintendo 3DS Story project structure 2019 Sakura Wars PlayStation 4 Story structure 2022 CrimeSight PC (Steam) World view setting and supervision 2022 Zombie of the Dot iOS, Android Story planning, drafting and supervising 2028 Shibuya Scramble Stories Director

Anime Release Title Role(s) 2009 Canaan Producer 2012 Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life Episode 7 screenwriter 2015 Monster Strike Story, project composition 2016 BBK/BRNK Series composition, screenplay 2016 Under the Dog Original concept

Film and television - director Another - production manager