Koji Igarashi (五十嵐 孝司)

Producer

Koji Igarashi has served as producer and director of Konami's Castlevania series of games. He got his start as a programmer on the sidescrolling shooter Detana! Twinbee in 1990. He served as a producer on the Playstation remake of Castlevania Chronicles, as well as the Playstation 2 titles Lament of Innocence and Curse of Darkness. On the Playstation title Symphony of the Night and for the Game Boy Advance games Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow, he acted as assistant director and scenario writer.

Igarashi stated in a lecture delivered at the 2007 Game Developers Conference that he will continue to work on 2D action titles. Not unlike the caped vampires who inhabit his famed action titles, the game designer maintained, "2D games will never die!"

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