Masahiro Sakurai
After years of working for development company HAL Laboratory, Masahiro Sakurai and his wife Michiko Sakurai decided to quit HAL to work as freelancers with their own company. Sora was built as an agency that would contract them as freelancers to different companies. His first project under Sora was "Meteos" with Q Entertainment. Nintendo's Satoru Iwata hired Sakurai, someone he had worked with at HAL Laboratory, to work on "Super Smash Bros. Brawl". Development was supported by various other studios, including Game Arts and Monolith Soft.