Keiji Inafune, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Keiji Inafune

Japanese video game designer

Date of Birth: 08-May-1965

Place of Birth: Kishiwada City, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Profession: computer scientist, painter, video game developer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Keiji Inafune (?? ??, Inafune Keiji, born 8 May 1965) is a Japanese video game producer, illustrator and businessman.
Starting his career at Capcom in the late 1980s, his job was as an artist and illustrator.
The first two games he worked on were the original Street Fighter and Mega Man in 1987.
He was then an illustrator and artist of the Mega Man series during the NES and Super NES era.
For Mega Man X, he created and designed the character Zero.Inafune then moved onto the position of producer with his first title being Mega Man 8 in 1996.
In addition to being the producer for Mega Man X4, Mega Man X5, the three Mega Man Legends games, the Mega Man Zero series, and the Mega Man Battle Network series.
Inafune was also a producer of the Lost Planet, Dead Rising and Onimusha series.
In 2006, he was promoted to Senior Corporate Officer of Research & Development.
In 2010, he became Global Head of Production at Capcom.He left Capcom in late 2010, and later founded his own companies Comcept, and Intercept.
He also became Representative Director of DiNG, a mobile game studio.
Intercept worked on the game Kaio: King of Pirates which was announced in 2011 and cancelled in 2015.
While at Comcept, Inafune oversaw work on such games as Mighty No.
9, Soul Sacrifice, and the unreleased Red Ash: The Indelible Legend.
In 2017, Comcept was purchased and became a subsidiary of Level-5, becoming Level-5 Comcept.