Hiroji Kiyotake

Hiroji Kiyotake (1961 –) is a game designer for Nintendo. He is the original designer of Wario. Kiyotake is one of the directors and graphic designers of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins and Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land, making him to one of the key people for the introduction of the character Wario and the Wario series. He was also involved in the development of further Wario games as a designer, for Virtual Boy Wario Land he acted as a director again. However, for Wario games released after Wario Land 4, his role is mostly limited to the Wario design and advising, according to the credits of the respective games.

Games

Kiyotake's Mii, as seen in WarioWare: Smooth Moves

• Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins – Director, Graphic Designer
• Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land – Director, Graphic Designer
• Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman! – Graphic Designer
• Virtual Boy Wario Land – Director
• Wario Land II – Character Designer
• Wario Land 3 – Designer
• Wario Land 4 – Designer
• WarioWare series – Wario Design
• Wario World – Advisor
• Wario: Master of Disguise – Wario Supervisor

In the credits of many sports and party titles of the Mario series, he is mentioned as one of the character designers.

Trivia

• Hiroji Kiyotake's Mii in the credits of WarioWare: Smooth Moves is one of the few Miis wearing purple overalls, a yellow shirt, and green shoes like Wario. This is an obvious reference to the fact that Kiyotake is the original Wario designer.
• Kiyotake is also responsible for designing characters in the Metroid series, including Samus Aran.