Shu Takumi

is a Japanese video game designer, director, and writer at Capcom. He is best known for his work on the Ace Attorney series, serving as director and scenario writer for the original trilogy. In addition, he provided the Japanese voice of Phoenix Wright for the first four games. He then served as director and scenario writer for Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective in 2010.

Career Shu Takumi joined Capcom in 1994 along with Hideki Kamiya. His first game was Gakkou no Kowai Uwasa: Hanako-san ga Kita!! (学校のコワイうわさ 花子さんがきた!!), a 1995 video game adaptation of an anime of the same name. He was designated as a planner, and because the director was busy with multiple projects, Takumi had some freedom in his role. In the years that followed, Takumi came up with an idea for a detective game, though nothing came out of it at first.

Takumi was later picked up by Shinji Mikami to work on Dino Crisis. However, in early 1997, the Dino Crisis team was temporarily redirected to help work on the ill-fated original version of Resident Evil 2. Takumi was then made director of the Dino Crisis project before being demoted to planner, being responsible for the first half of the game. He was then made director of Dino Crisis 2, and was able to maintain his position throughout the game's development. The producer, Atsushi Inaba, liked the game so much that he requested that it be made into a trilogy. Takumi was not involved in the development of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies due to concentrating his efforts on said crossover game at the time. He went on to work on a spinoff series of the Ace Attorney games taking place in Victorian London and incorporating the "joint reasoning" system that he had conceived all those years before, including The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures and The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, which were released in 2015 and 2017 respectively. Takumi also acted as a script supervisor for the 2016–2018 Ace Attorney anime series. After working almost exclusively on the Ace Attorney series for two decades, Takumi contributed to the 2020 mobile game Monster Hunter Riders as a questline writer.

Works Year Game Role 1995 Gakkou no Kowai Uwasa: Hanako-san ga Kita!! Planner 1998 Resident Evil 2 Planner 1999 Dino Crisis Lead planner, event director 2000 Dino Crisis 2 Director 2001 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Director, concept, scenario, planning 2002 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for AllDirector, scenario, planning 2004 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations 2007 Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Supervisor, scenario 2010 Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective Director, scenario, game design 2011 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Supervisor 2012 Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Co-director, scenario 2015 The Great Ace Attorney: AdventuresDirector, scenario, planning 2017 The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve 2020 Monster Hunter Riders Quest writer