Masahiro Sakurai

Masahiro Sakurai is a former employee of HAL Labs, and the creator of Kirby. He made the Kirby series and most of its characters, and then continued to help make Super Smash Bros.. In fact, Sakurai was the lead director in all three Super Smash Bros. games. Sakurai, however, left HAL Labs sometime after the production of Super Smash Bros. Melee. He eventually formed his own company in 2005, called Sora Limited.