Shu Takumi

Shu Takumi.

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Shu Takumi is the main developer of the core Ace Attorney series, serving as director and storywriter for each game. In addition, he provided the Japanese voice for Phoenix Wright throughout the series. He works at Capcom.

Games

Shu Takumi is credited in the following games:

• Resident Evil 2 (1998)
• Dino Crisis (1999)
• Dino Crisis 2 (2000)
• Gyakuten Saiban (2001)
• Gyakuten Saiban 2 (2002)
• Gyakuten Saiban 3 (2004)
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (2005)
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All (2006)
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations (2007)
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (2007)
• Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (2009)
• Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (2010)

Interviews

GayGamer.net interview

Takumi talks about the creation of the character Miles Edgeworth, here referred to by his Japanese name Reiji Mitsurugi. Source

Question: Comments collected from User’s Voice say that although he’s gaudy, there’s a fondness for Mitsurugi. How was creating Mitsurugi’s character?

TAKUMI: Compared to Naruhodo, Mitsurugi wasn’t easy to think much up for. I had to play around a lot with him. Once I included the fact he was rich, I was able to steadily add more to his character.

Q: When you say “rich”, fans (and I) obviously think about his high class tendencies.

T: I wonder why they would think that? (laugh). Maybe he breeds big dogs? He’d put the white cravat on their necks. So that he could keep them indoors, of course he’d have a big rich mansion. “Hey Pesu, what are you barking about?”

Q: PESU!?

T: The dog’s name. (laugh) Mitsurugi can’t communicate well with people and horses, so he can only talk to Pesu. (laugh)

Q: Only with Pesu. (laugh) You speak fondly of him.

T: If Pesu died, I think Mitsurugi’s world would completely collapse. Then he’d be a dangerously unbalanced man.

Q: The foundation of Mitsurugi’s heart, Pesu. (laugh) Ordinarily he puts up a strong front, but in front of Pesu he can show his weak side?

T: Joking aside, Mitsurugi does have two faces. At first my plan was to write an unlikeable man. But…in Futabasha-san’s Capture Book, Suekane-san drew “Mitsurugi likes the Steel Samurai” in a comic. (laugh) That’s the first time I thought a likeable man would be cuter.

Q: Naruhodo and Mitsurugi, which do you think is the cutest?

T: Naruhodo is a lot like myself, but I’ve never thought of him as “cute”. I can see things from his point of view, is all.

Q: Then, from Naruhodo’s point of view, Mitsurugi is…

T: He’d probably say he’s become a pretty cute guy. (laugh) Mitsurugi’s character’s flavor really came out from around “Gyakuten Saiban 2” on. In that game I wanted to really expand upon Mitsurugi, so I thought up the episode where he rescued Naruhodo from that pinch.