Keiji Inafune



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Keiji Inafune is a well known character designer which put the game company Capcom on the map. He was the person who created the very popular character, Mega Man. Although this is his best creation he has worked on many other games such as Street Fighter and Onimusha: War Lords. He has been credited for more than just an illustrator in the credits of the Mega Man games; he has also been credited in production, design, support, and graphics. In the credits he does not go by his real name, he goes by Inafking. This is believed to be because in that time it was considered geeky to have worked on designing a game, this information is unconfirmed though. After Graduating from University around 1981 he went to work for Capcom as a new illustrator looking to make it big. His first game was for the arcade which ended up being street fighter. Soon after he was assigned to the project Mega Man where he was to design the characters in the game. When the game was complete marketing said it would never sell so the only released it in Japan with a limited amount. The game caught on very quickly and within a couple months Capcom was sending the blue bomber to America. During an interview with Keiji, he stated that he was amazed at how well he did with Mega Man; he never expected this at all. He also said that his favorite game, among the dozens that there are, is the second one, the game that truly made the series. He says that it is the game he put the most of his heart and soul into making. Currently Keiji Inafune is working for Capcom and is the head of Capcom Production Studio 2. Being a corporate officer most of his career he was happy to hear that he was promoted to senior corporate officer in April 2005. It is no known were he got the idea for Mega Man but he says a lot of it comes from anime when he was a child. It is in popular belief that the anime "Shinzou Ningen Kashaan" ((Neo Human Casshan, also known as Casshan) had a large role in the creation of Mega Man. Since this show ran during Keiji’s childhood it is believed to be a source of inspiration during his education which he then brought to his career. 	Casshan is about robots going insane and attacking humans. To save the world a boy volunteers to become a fighting android to combat the robots. He also had a robot dog to help him out. This shows a mix of the Mega Man X series and the Mega Man Classic series.