Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: A role-playing video game (commonly referred to as role-playing game or RPG, and in the past was also known as computer role-playing game or CRPG) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (and/or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world. Many role-playing video games have origins in pen-and-paper role-playing games (Including "Dungeons & Dragons") and use much of the same , settings and game mechanics. Other major similarities with pen-and-paper games include developed story-telling and narrative elements, player character development, complexity, as well as replayability and immersion. The electronic medium removes the necessity for a gamemaster and increases combat resolution speed. RPGs have evolved from simple text-based console-window games into visually rich 3D experiences. Since the 1980s, Role-playing is the most commercially viable video game genre in Japan, and has more market share of any other genre in the japanese gaming industry, although in the 2010s first-person shooters and western iOS and Android games were becoming rapidly and increasingly popular in that country., Biography.
Early life.
Born in Shinj, Yamagata, Togashi began drawing manga casually in his first to second year of elementary school. In high school, Togashi joined the fine-arts club; he later enrolled at Yamagata University where he studied education in the hope of becoming a teacher. During college he submitted some of his manga work to "Weekly Young Jump", published by Shueisha. In 1986, at age 20, he authored a manga titled for which he received the Tezuka Award, the most prestigious award for new comic artists in Japan. Another manga by Togashi titled was an honorable mention in Shueisha's first annual "Hop Step Award Selection" magazine, published in 1988. After having given up his goal of becoming a teacher, Togashi was contacted by an editor of "Weekly Shnen Jump" during his senior year of college, who asked him to move to Tokyo., Early life.
Eiichiro Oda claimed that at age four he resolved to become a manga artist in order to avoid having to get a "real job". His biggest influence is Akira Toriyama and his series "Dragon Ball". He recalls that his interest in pirates was probably sparked by the popular TV animation series titled "Vicky the Viking". He submitted a character named Pandaman for Yudetamago's classic wrestling manga "Kinnikuman". Pandaman was not only used in a chapter of the manga but would later return as a recurring cameo character in Oda's own works. , Enix is best known for publishing the "Dragon Quest" series of role-playing video games. The company merged with Square in 2003 to become Square Enix. As a result of the merger, Square Co., Ltd. was dissolved and Enix was the surviving company. , Company history.
Matrix Software was founded in July 1994 by Oohori Kousuke and three friends who had each been involved in the video games industry for many years beforehand. Kousuke, a veteran of the game development industry since high school, joined with former members of Climax Entertainment and Telenet Japan to create a company that he felt would "bring people serious game content". Nearly three years after their establishment, the company released their first game, "Alundra" for the PlayStation game console in April 1997, which would prove popular enough to receive a sequel two years later. In September 1999, Matrix obtained their first business partner in Chunsoft, with whom they collaborated to create a spin-off to their popular "Dragon Quest" series, "". Since then, the company would join with other companies to create games for other entertainment franchises such as Yoshihiro Togashi's "YuYu Hakusho", Eiichiro Oda's "One Piece", and Square Enix's "Final Fantasy"., , published as Dragon Warrior in North America until 2005, is a series of internationally best-selling console role-playing video game (RPG) titles created by Yuji Horii and his studio, Armor Project., The manga has been adapted into an original video animation (OVA) produced by Production I.G in 1998, and an anime series produced by Toei Animation, which began broadcasting in Japan in 1999 and has aired 774 episodes to date. Additionally, Toei has developed thirteen animated feature films, two OVAs, and five television specials. Several companies have developed various types of merchandising such as a trading card game, and a large number of video games. The manga series was licensed for an English language release in North America and the United Kingdom by Viz Media and in Australia by Madman Entertainment. The anime series was licensed by 4Kids Entertainment for an English-language release in North America on 2004, before the license was dropped and subsequently acquired by Funimation in 2007., China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia. With a population of over 1.381 billion, it is the world's most populous country. The state is governed by the Communist Party of China, and its capital is Beijing. It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan. The country's major urban areas include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Hong Kong. China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia, and has been characterized as a potential superpower., Japan ("Nippon" or "Nihon" ; formally "" or "Nihon-koku", means "State of Japan") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland (east of China, Korea, Russia) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest. , Russia (from the  Rus'), also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016. The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern, about 77% of the population live in European Russia. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara., The original Square Enix Co., Ltd. was formed as the result of a statutory merger between Enix Corporation and Square Co., Ltd. on April 1, 2003, with Enix legally absorbing Square. Each share of Square's common stock was exchanged for 0.85 shares of Enix's common stock. At the time, 80% of Square Enix staff were made up of former Square employees. As part of the merger, former Square president Yoichi Wada was appointed president of the new corporation, while former Enix president Keiji Honda was named its vice president, and the founder of Enix, Yasuhiro Fukushima, the largest shareholder of the combined corporation, became its honorary chairman. As a result of the merger, Square Co., Ltd. was dissolved and Enix was the surviving company. , Torneko : The Last Hope , known as Dragon Quest Characters : Torneko no Daibken 2 - Fushigi no Dungeon (    2    , `` Dragon Quest Characters : Torneko 's Great Adventure 2 - Mystery Dungeon '' ) in Japan , is a role - playing video game for the PlayStation . The game was co-developed by Chunsoft and Matrix Software and published by Enix in both Japan and North America in 1999 and 2000 respectively . Torneko : The Last Hope is a spin - off title of the Dragon Quest franchise and the second Mystery Dungeon game to star the Dragon Quest IV character Torneko . It is also the second game in the Mystery Dungeon series to be released in North America , after Chocobo 's Dungeon 2 . Like in Torneko no Daibken : Fushigi no Dungeon , Torneko ( or Taloon , as he was known in Dragon Warrior IV ) explores dungeons in search of items , while fighting of hordes of monsters . In Japan , the game was ported to the Game Boy Advance in 2001 , renamed Dragon Quest Characters : Torneko no Daibouken 2 Advance ., Riot.
The Riot subsidiary of Telenet Japan was best known for employing graphic artist and later director Eiji Kikuchi, and music composer Michiko Naruke., Subject: torneko: the last hope, Relation: designer, Options: (A) composer (B) major (C) manga (D) square enix (E) yuji horii
Output (English): yuji horii