Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War

aka: Ace Combat: Jefe de Escuadrón, Ace Combat: Squadron Leader
Moby ID: 19548

PlayStation 2 credits (2004)

387 people (317 professional roles, 70 thanks) with 468 credits.

Game Designers

Lead Game Designer Natsuki Isaki
Level Designers Ryōsuke Waki, Mori, Satoshi Kawase, Makoto Kiyokawa, Masahide Kito, Tadahiro Katsuta
Radio Script Editors Takeshi Oi, Masahide Kito, Ayako Ōmi, Tomidokoro Yayoi, Daisuke Murano
Script Editor Naoto Maeda

Programmers

Lead Programmer Satoshi Suzuki
Senior Programmer Katsuhiro Ishii
Programmers Yasumichi Onishi, Shigeya Muto, Kunichiro Uekusa, Hiroki Odagaki, Yoichi Murakoshi, Shogo Nakamura, Yoshiaki Hirai, Hitoshi Ueda
Tools & Technical Support Masanori Shima, Yoshimi Kurihara
NU Sound Library Sound Engineers Tetsukazu Nakanishi, Shogo Nakamura, Yuichiro Okamura, Narumi Takahara, Tsuyoshi Fukutomi

Designers - Map Unit

Lead Designer Masato Kanno
Map Director Masato Kanno
Map Designers Chigusa Hosoda, Sachiko Iwasaki, Akiko Matsunaga, Natsuko Aoki, Ryoko Horie, Masaaki Hirano, Eiji Senke
Technical Support Masaaki Hirano
Weapon Designer Eiji Senke, Aya Takemura
Mechanical Designer Masato Kanno

Designers - Aircraft Unit

Aircraft Modeling Director Isshin Yabuki
Aircraft Modeling Artists Naito Ryo, Takayuki Izumi, Kenichi Hara
Lead Aircraft Texture Artist Yasuhiro Kawai
Aircraft Texture Artist Yuichi Nakamura
Lead Cockpit Artist Ryuta Jufuku
Cockpit Artists Masaji Miyaki, Kenichi Fujita

Designers - Cinematics Unit

Cinematics Director Kosuke Itomi
Animation Director Keiko Harada
Director of Photography Hiroyasu Hosoya
Storyboard Artist Kosuke Itomi
Color Setting Keiko Harada
Technical Supervisors Tomohiro Abe, Hiroyasu Hosoya
Lead Background Artists Hiroki Nagaoka, Hiroyasu Hosoya
Background Artists Masahiro Onda, Isao Kato, Daisuke Kataoka, Natsuko Shimizu, Naoki Kawata, Tatsuya Ikarashi, Izumi Kurihara
Aircraft Modeling Takafumi Abe
Aircraft Animation Takafumi Abe
Animal Modeling Isao Kato, Koki Nishida
Animal Animation Isao Kato, Koki Nishida
Character Modeling Director Tomohiro Abe
3D Character Modeling & Rendering Takao Shigeyama, Taichi Higashino, Ikuko Wada, Masaya Suzuki, Ryutaro Ishihara, Yukie Matsuo
Character Animators Takamasa Nakada, Ryuji Kamakura, Saori Ogiya, Mitsuhiro Kubo, Atsushi Sakamoto, Takayuki Naito, Isao Nakayama
Character Designer Takuji Kawano
3D Visual Effects Keiichi Fujii, Kazuhiro Takimoto
2D Visual Effects Masaki Yokobe
2D Compositors Masaki Yokobe, Keiko Harada, Kosuke Itomi, Hiroyasu Hosoya
Editor Kosuke Itomi

Designers - Real-Time Cinematics Unit

Lead Animator Tomohiro Abe
Technical Supervisor Tomohiro Abe
Storyboard Artist Kosuke Itomi
Aircraft & Camera Animation Tatsuya Ikarashi, Naoki Kawata, Koki Nishida, Saori Ogiya, Hiroki Nagaoka

Designers - In-Game Effects Unit

Visual Effects Keiichi Fujii

Designers - Graphic Design Unit

Art Director Kazutoki Kono
"A Blue Dove for the Princess" Written & Illustrated by Tadahiko Kawaguchi
GUI Designers Kazutoki Kono, Yumiko Ooie
Briefing Movie Designers Kazutoki Kono, Yumiko Ooie, Tadahiko Kawaguchi, Kazuhiro Takimoto, Kosuke Itomi
Package Designers Takaharu Suzuki, Tadahiko Kawaguchi, Kazutoki Kono, Masahiro Onda, Hiroyasu Hosoya

Motion Capture

Motion Capture Staff Sumio Itou, Kumiko Naemura, Naoaki Ishida, Yoshiyuki Sawada, Tetsuya Kono, Kaoru Suzuki, Yasunobu Samata, Mio Sato, Naoko Yoshiyama
Motion Capture Actors Shigeru Araki, Takahashi Rinpei, Shigehiro Takeda, Eugene Harada (credited as Eugene), Ono Kagari
Motion Capture Talent Management Gocoo Entertainment

3D Modeling Support

Character Modeling Support Anima Inc.
Producer Kazuya Sasahara
Director Tomohisa Ishikawa
Modeling & Texture Artists Akira Nakamura, Kazuki Amenomiya, Yukiko Hirokawa, Mai Nakamura, Ei Satō, Takashi Satoh

Sound

Sound Director Tetsukazu Nakanishi
Music Director Keiki Kobayashi
Composers Keiki Kobayashi, Tetsukazu Nakanishi, Junichi Nakatsuru, Hiroshi Okubo, Katsurō Tajima
Cinematics Composer Keiki Kobayashi
Sound Effects Tetsukazu Nakanishi
Cinematics Sound Effects Tomomitsu Kaneko
Voice Effects Kanako Kakino

Music

"ACE5 Main Theme" Music Keiki Kobayashi
"The Journey Home" Music Keiki Kobayashi
"The Journey Home" Lyrics Joe Romersa
"The Journey Home" Chorus Yukie Honma, Asai Miho, Michiko Inoue, Tomoka Hattori, Saito Reimi, Hiromi Uchiyama, Oda Asami, Machiko Yamada, Akiko Arai, Saori Nohara, Junko Hirakoso, Hiroki Yamashita, Seki Kiketsu, Shunsuke Tsuda, Jun Sasaki, Takayuki Kondo
"The Journey Home" Chorus Lyrics Translation b-cause inc.
"The Journey Home" Electric Guitar Takanori Goto
"Blue Skies" Lyrics Stephanie Cooke (Courtesy of King Street Sounds)
"Blue Skies" Vocals Stephanie Cooke (Courtesy of King Street Sounds)
"Blue Skies" Recording Support BPM King Street Sounds
Mixing Engineer Hidetaka Hikosaka, Tomoatsu Okamura
Mixing Support Birdie House Inc.
"ACE5 Main Theme" & "The Journey Home" Performed by The Warsaw Philharmonic
"ACE5 Main Theme" & "The Journey Home" Arranged by Katsurō Tajima
"Blurry" Written by Wesley Scantlin, Douglas Ardito, James Christopher Allen
"Blurry" Performed by Puddle of Mudd

VO Recording - Japan

VO Produced by Mit Gathering
Sound Engineers Masayoshi Shimano, Yuki Yasoshima
Casting Management Aoni Production
Casting Director Yasuaki Sumi
Japanese Voice Actors Wakana Yamazaki (as Kei Nagase), Hideo Ishikawa (as Alvin H. Davenport - Chopper), Kenji Nojima (as Hans Grimm), Unshō Ishizuka (as Jack Bartlett), Chikao Otsuka (as Peter N. Beagle - Pops), Hiroaki Hirata (as Albert Genette), Kenji Nomura (as Marcus Snow), Daisuke Gōri (as Orson Perrault), Yasunori Masutani (as Allen C. Hamilton), Takeshi Aono (as Nicholas A. Andersen), Hideyuki Tanaka (as Vincent Harling), Masashi Ebara (as Seryozha Viktorovich Nikanor), Misa Watanabe (as Nastasya Vasilievna Obertas), Tomohisa Asō, Kinryu Arimoto, Michihiro Ikemizu, Kazuya Ichijō, Tetsu Inada, Fumiko Inoue, Naoki Imamura, Hidenari Ugaki, Hisao Egawa, Takeshi Endō, Moriya Endō, Ryuzaburo Otomo, Mahito Ōba, Keijin Okuda, Hirohiko Kakegawa, Nobuhiko Kazama, Shōto Kashii, Hiroshi Kamiya, Takahiro Kawachi, Yasuhiko Kawazu, Takaya Kuroda, Yoshiyuki Kono, Toshio Kobayashi, Koichi Sakaguchi, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Masaharu Satō, Yuki Sato, Bin Shimada, Hisayoshi Suganuma, Shigenori Soya, Keiichi Sonobe, Masaya Takatsuka, Yūgo Takahashi, Satoshi Taki, Tsuyoshi Takishita, Naoki Tatsuta, Kazunari Tanaka, Kazumi Tanaka, Hirofumi Tanaka, Munehiro Tokita, Yasuhiko Tokuyama, Michio Nakao, Ryōhei Nakao, Koichi Nagano, Tamotsu Nishiwaki, Hirofumi Nojima, Masashi Hamano, Koji Haramaki, Naoki Bandō, Keiji Hirai, Masato Hirano, Kohei Fukuhara, Takahiro Fujimoto, Yuki Makishima, Yūji Machi, Taiki Matsuno, Hiroaki Miura, Tsuguo Mogami, Keiichirō Yamamoto, Takahiro Yoshimizu, Chizu Yonemoto, Osamu Ryūtani, Takehiko Watanabe

US Localization

Localization Manager Noriko Wada
Localization Producer Hiroshi Tanaka
Assistant Localization Producer Taiki Homma
Localization Staff Michael Murray (''Supersonic''), Takashi Akiyama (''Kuma''), Shoko Doi (''Sargeant'')

US Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance Manager Glen A. Cureton
Quality Assurance Supervisor Daryle Tumacder
Lead Tester Gene Bang
Assistant Lead Test Pilot Michael Peterson (''Red5'')
Test Pilots Jomokian Arbuckle (''Bellhop''), Mark W. Brown (''Golden''), Corey Chao (''MB Kazuya''), Chris Cotton (''C-Note''), Jhune De La Cruz (''Junebug''), Leticia C. Dueñas (''Siren''), Brian Ellak (''Griffin''), Levi Hill (''Capn''), Ryan Lecha (''Greedy''), Justin Mateo (''Tumbleweed''), Jesse Mejia (''Da Veteran''), David Miller (''Snafu''), Christopher Lawrence Morgan (''Rain Man''), Phillip Musil (''Pwnin Noobz''), Andrew Nicholson (''Earlybird''), Scott Pendleton (''2XtrEEm''), Matthew Peterson (''Diggaleezo''), Y Pham (''Y-bola''), Christopher Stanley (''TGIF''), Dan Tovar (''Veggie Dog''), Chester B. Vergara (''Madu Dew''), Brandon Voytoski (''BallNChain''), Thomas Yang (''Moe'')

Aircraft License Management

Licensing Coordinator Andreea Enache-Thüne
Licensing Manager Hiroaki Ochiai
BAE SYSTEMS - Public Relations Manager Mike Sweeney
BAE SYSTEMS - Customer Solutions & Support Mike Sweeney
BAE SYSTEMS - Intellectual Property Manager John Eastmond
Boeing Business Services Company - Manager, Trademark & Product Standards Gay Hawkins
Boeing Business Services Company - Business Development Manager/Trademark Management Group Gail M. Roth
DESSAULT AVIATION - Manager/Institutional Relations and Corporate Communications Department Bruno Briegel
DESSAULT AVIATION - Operational Expert/International General Directorate Hervé Hamon
Equity Management Inc. - Vice President, Licensing Jonathan Samet
Equity Management Inc. - Vice President, Sales Jonathan Samet
Equity Management Inc. - Product Coordinator Marc M. Dion
Northrop Grumman Corporation - Trademark Licensing Manager Patrick Joyce
Special Thanks Melinda Bonewell

US Marketing

Senior Product Marketing Manager Kim Morgan
Product Marketing Managers Yoko Nakao, Wayne Shiu
Public Relations Managers Mika Kelly (''Red''), Kristin Calcagno

US Special Thanks

US Special Thanks Terry C. Mitchell (OASD Public Affairs), Gene Jillson, Neva Lawson, Don Houghtailing, Defense Visual Information Center, U.S. Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Svetlana Watkins, Irma Gog, Yutaka Maseba (ZRO Limit Productions), Haruyo Kanesaku (ZRO Limit Productions), Les Claypool III, Mary Claypool, Namco Hometek Choir, John Kenzo Hickey, Scott Pendleton, Jesse Mejia, Namco Hometek IS Department, Jim Atkiss, Yasuhiro Noguchi, Jennifer Tersigni, Brian Schorr, Yoshi Niki, Kristin Calcagno, Mika Kelly, Jeffrey Lujan, Rodney Nakamoto, Garry Cole, Robert Ennis, Nobuhiro Kasahara

US VO Recording

VO Produced by ZRO Limit Productions in association with Animaze Inc.
Associate VO Producer Keisuke Onishi
ADR Directors Kevin Seymour (as Quint Lancaster), Joe Romersa
Recording Facility Magnitude 8 Post
Sound Engineers Collin McQueen, Michael McCarty, David W. Barr
Script Editor Hiroshi Tanaka
Military Consultant Pete Bonanni (Boomer)

Translation

Scenario and Radio Script Translation InterOne Inc.
Translation Editor John Ricciardi
Translators Kevin Gifford, D. Scott Miller
Coordinators Tetsuo Fukuda, Hiroko Minamoto

UK Localization - Namco UK Office

Representative Director Hideo Yanagihara
Senior Manager Hiroaki Ochiai
Production Manager Takashi Ebiike
Assistant Product Manager Ed Valiente
Assistant Producer Luis Alis
Production Assistants Nobuko Mihara, Hidetoshi Nakatsukasa

UK Localization - Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

Producer Simon Roberts
Assistant Producer Alison Lau
Senior Product Manager Isabelle Tomatis
PR Manager Imogen Baker
Assistant Product Manager Carly Tilbrook
Assistant PR Manager Kevin Smyth

Marketing

Hi-Res Image Artists Masahiro Onda, Hiroyasu Hosoya, Keiko Harada, Takafumi Abe, Yoshikazu Hara, Isao Kato, Natsuko Shimizu, Izumi Kurihara, Takao Shigeyama, Ikuko Wada, Saori Ogiya, Masaya Suzuki, Taichi Higashino
Demo Reel Production Kosuke Itomi, Hiroyasu Hosoya, Kazutoki Kono, Tadahiko Kawaguchi
*Aces Web* Designer Yukihiko Mishina

Sales Promotion

Sales Promotion Managers Kai Tanaka, Hiroshi Ikeda
Sales Promotion Coordinators Taku Tsuge, Ken Takeda, Morikazu Orikasa, Hiroshi Fujii

JPN Localization Staff

Unit Leader Michael Murray
Localization Staff Masanori Kato, Takashi Akiyama, Shoko Doi

JPN Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance Manager Shinichi Tsuruya
Quality Assurance Staff Ryo Tanaka

Special Thanks

Special Thanks Masako Ōgami, Kazuhiro Nakamura, Keiichi Naito, Tetsuto Tanabe, Isao Higashino, Kazuhiro Nishizawa, Taro Watanabe, Tajima Masahiro, Takeshi Isobe, Yoshihiro Nagata, Takashi Nakamura, Miyuki Shibuya, Koichi Miura, Momoko Daigo, Keiko Iso, Hiroshi Numakami, Ryo Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Sawada, Kana Ishikawa, Makoto Ando, Kazuaki Iwasawa, Kazuaki Fujimoto, Akiko Nakazawa, Hoshimura Mieko, Jun Imamiya, Daigo Okumura, Takashi Umaki, Masaki Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Hideo Teramoto, Yoshinori Naoi, Yoshiya Tanaka, Motoharu Eto, Kazuma Nishiwaki, Takuya Iwasaki (cavia inc.)

Production Support

Screenplay Support Studio 4 °C
Producer Eiko Tanaka
Satellite Imagery Provided by Japan Space Imaging Corporation
Human Resources Support DIGITALSCAPE Co. Ltd.
Fonts Provided by Fontworks International Limited
Radio Script Editor Shuhei Iizuka
Military Consultant Yoshifuru Otsuka

Credits

Screenplay Sunao Katabuchi
Director Kazutoki Kono
Producer Hiroyuki Ichiyanagi

Sales

Channel Marketing Manager Brian Schorr (''Fury'')

Special Thanks (Manual)

Special Thanks Nobuhiro Kasahara, Robert Ennis, Garry Cole, Yoshi Niki, Rodney Nakamoto, Jeffrey Lujan (''Jlu''), Andreea Enache-Thüne, Yoko Nakao, Masanori Kato, Takefumi Hyodo, Jennifer Tersigni, Yasuhiro Noguchi
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