List of Paper Mario staff

This is a list of the staff involved with the game Paper Mario.

Chief Director/Game Designer

 * Ryota Kawade

Director

 * Toshitaka Muramatsu
 * Takahiro Ohgi
 * Hironobu Suzuki

Script Writers

 * Kumiko Takeda
 * Kaori Aoki

Art Director/Character Designer

 * Naohiko Aoyama

Graphic Designers

 * Chie Kawabe
 * Hitomi Nakano
 * Tokuko Hirose
 * Takeshi Ando
 * Shigeyuki Asa
 * Sachio Kurita
 * Kiyoshi Mizuki
 * Jun Takamura
 * Shinko Konishi
 * Michiko Ishida
 * Rumiko Matsumoto
 * Misa Nagai
 * Gou Matsuda
 * Takahiko Shimada
 * Hiroko Watanabe

Chief Programmer

 * Kenji Nakajima

Main Programmer

 * Kaoru Kita

Programmers

 * Mitsuru Matsumoto
 * Junya Kadono
 * Tadao Nakayama
 * Makoto Katayama
 * Motomu Chikaraishi
 * Masato Furukawa
 * Kazuhiro Tamura
 * Osamu Yamauchi
 * Kenji Matsumoto

Music Composer

 * Yuka Tsujiyoko

Sound Effect Designer/Sound Programmer

 * Kenichi Nishimaki

Sound Support

 * Taishi Senda

Mario and Yoshi Original Music Composer

 * Koji Kondo

Illustration Support

 * Yoichi Kotabe

English Screen Text Writer

 * Nate Bihldorff

NOA Localization Manager

 * Leslie Swan

NOA Localization Support

 * Bill Trinen
 * Michelle Powers
 * Tim O'Leary
 * Shari Brown
 * Andy Hartpence
 * John Gower

NOA Product Testing Department

 * Michael Kelbauch
 * Jim Holdeman
 * Kiyohiko Ando
 * NOA Testing Team

Translation Manager

 * Hiro Yamada

Techinical Support

 * Hiroyasu Sasano
 * Shingo Okamoto
 * Toshio Sengoku
 * Tatsuya Matsumoto
 * Genju Kubota

Special Thanks to

 * Makoto Kano
 * Atsuhi Tejuma
 * Keizo Kato
 * Hironobu Kakui
 * Shinya Takahashi
 * Tsuyoshi Takahashi
 * Kozo Ikuno
 * Yusuke Kitanishi
 * Yuki Tsuji
 * Masanobu Matsunaga
 * Kenji Yamada
 * Yumi Nagai
 * Makiki Asada
 * Takanori Hino
 * Ryuichiro Koguchi
 * Jun Ikeda
 * Takamasa Takeshige
 * Aya Kitanishi
 * Super Mario Club (debugging team)
 * Minoru Arakawa
 * Mike Fukuda
 * Jeff Miller

Project Manager

 * Toshiyuki Nakamura

Progress Managers

 * Kimiyoshi Fukui
 * Ryouichi Kitanishi

Supervisor

 * Takashi Tezuka

Producers

 * Shigeru Miyamoto
 * Kenji Miki

Excutive Producer

 * Hiroshi Yamauchi

Japanese version
In the Japanese version of the game:
 * 1) The staff list is entitled "Mario Story staff".
 * 2) The credits are given in roman form and English.
 * 3) The following credits take the place of NOA-related ones:
 * 4) * Package Designer: Michiyo Ohshio
 * 5) * Manual Editor: Naoyuki Kayama

PAL version

 * 1) "English Screen Text Writer" and "NOA Localization Manager" are combined into "English Text Editors".
 * 2) The remaining NOA-related credits are removed.

Localization

 * Kai Zeh
 * Tanja Baar
 * Marcus Krause

Testing

 * Kai Neumann
 * Maurice Tisdale
 * Andreas Dietz

Testing Teams

 * German Team
 * French Team
 * Spanish Team

German Translation

 * Micky Auer
 * Andrea Jaehn

Spanish Translation

 * Antonio Greppi
 * Natalia Infante

French Translation

 * Daniel Charbit
 * Nicolas Robert