Jun Akiyama

Jun Akiyama is a Japanese video game event director and scenario writer that has been working for Square since 1995. He is best known for his work in Vagrant Story (2000) and Final Fantasy XII (2006).
==Biography==
Jun Akiyama joined Square in 1995, around the time Chrono Trigger released in Japan. In his role as event planner for Final Fantasy VII, Akiyama was responsible for the story elements and event scenes involving the characters Red XIII and Yuffie Kisaragi.Final Fantasy VII 10th Anniversary Ultimania page 8–13 During his work as the event director of Vagrant Story, he intended to make the transitions between gameplay and event scenes as smooth as possible. The game's fully polygonal graphics entailed precise camera movements, character animations, and the use of lens effects.http://web.archive.org/web/20020808122651/http://www.playonline.com/archives/psgame/vagrantstory/flb/stuff/02.html
In January 2002, Akiyama joined the Final Fantasy XII project as event director. He was in charge of all aspects of the cutscenes, such as the cinematography, camera movements, character facial expressions and body movements, and the Japanese voice acting.Final Fantasy XII Scenario Ultimania「FFXII」開発スタッフインタビュー4 When Yasumi Matsuno stepped down as the game's producer and co-director in mid-2005, he expressed his confidence in the remaining core team members, such as Hiroshi Minagawa, Hiroyuki Ito, and Jun Akiyama.http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ffxii-producer-steps-down/1100-6130121/ Akiyama was given Matsuno's position of scenario director, while still remaining as the event director. Minagawa, who was handpicked by Matsuno to be his replacement as the game's co-director, has stated that many of the scenario ideas Akiyama came up with had to be abandoned for the game to be finished on time.http://youtu.be/EYIzjBbO2FQ?t=5m37s
He was originally the event director of Final Fantasy Versus XIII, which was being directed by Tetsuya Nomura. However, he left the project in July 2012 when it was decided by Yoichi Wada (then Square Enix president) the game would be rebooted in Luminous Studio as Final Fantasy XV. When that decision was made, Wada chose Hajime Tabata to be the game's new director and assigned the Final Fantasy Type-0 dev team to make the game.http://kotaku.com/meet-the-new-man-in-charge-of-final-fantasy-1680386455http://www.4gamer.net/games/260/G026084/20140917119/http://www.famitsu.com/news/201409/22062014.html
==Works within the series==
Game 	Release	Work
Final Fantasy VII 	1997 	Event Planner
Final Fantasy Tactics 	1997 	Event Planner
Vagrant Story 	2000 	Event Director, Scenario Planner
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 	2003 	Event Script Editor
Final Fantasy XII 	2006 	Event Director & Scenario Director
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions 	2007 	Storyboard (New FMV Cutscenes)
Final Fantasy XII International Zodiac Job System	2007 	Event Director & Scenario Director
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift 	2007 	Special Thanks
Final Fantasy XIII 	2009 	Crystal Tools Development Staff
Final Fantasy XIV 	2010 	HQ cutscene production(Ul'dah Intro: "Flowers For All")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHQrOn1MElc
World of Final Fantasy 	2016 	Event Director
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age 	2017 	The Zodiac Age Game Designer
Final Fantasy Versus XIII 	 	Planning Director (Event)
==References==
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