Toshiyuki Itahana

Toshiyuki Itahana is a game director and character designer for Square Enix. He worked as a character designer alongside Hideo Minaba for Final Fantasy IX. He is the main character designer for the both the Crystal Chronicles and Chocobo spin-off series.
Itahana has directed two games at Square Enix. The first is Code Age Commanders, an Action RPG for the PlayStation 2 that was released in 2005. His second game as director was Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers, an Action RPG released for the Wii in 2009.
== Works within the series ==
Title 	Role(s)
Final Fantasy IX 	Character Designer
Final Fantasy XI 	Art Designer
Final Fantasy XIII-2 	DLC Costume Designer
Final Fantasy XIV 	UI & Web Community Design
Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood 	Special Thanks (4.0)Guest Creator: The Interdimensional Rift - Omega (4.1-4.5)
Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail 	Character Concept Artist
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII 	Character Designer: LuminaCostume Designer: Lightning
Final Fantasy Explorers 	Character supervisor, key art designerhttp://www.siliconera.com/2014/06/20/square-enix-staff-making-final-fantasy-explorers/
Mobius Final Fantasy 	Character Designer
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles 	Art Director, Character Designer
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates 	Character Designer
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King 	Art Supervisor
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord 	Art Supervisor
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers 	Director, Character Designer
Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon 	Character Designer
Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon 2 	Character Designer
Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales 	Character Designer
Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon 	Character Designer
Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon: Majo to Shoujo to Go-nin no Yuusha	Character Designer
Chocobo and the Airship: A Final Fantasy Picture Book 	Illustrator
== Outside Final Fantasy ==
Toshiyuki's non-Final Fantasy related work includes doing character illustration for Makaitoshi SaGa (The Final Fantasy Legend in North America). His first game as a director was Code Age Commanders, an action RPG for the PlayStation 2 that he also contributed artwork for.
== Gallery ==
Ff9 char2.JPG|Artwork of the playable characters in Final Fantasy IX.
Blank-2.gif|Artwork of Blank from Final Fantasy IX.
Beatrix-concept.jpg|Artwork of Beatrix from Final Fantasy IX.
FFXI-Ferena concept.jpg|Artwork of Verena from Final Fantasy XI.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles battle1.jpg|Artwork of the four tribes in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles.
FFCC-RoF-art.jpg|Artwork of the protagonists of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates.
Shirma.jpg|Artwork of Shirma, a recurring White Mage in the Chocobo series.
Itahana 2019 Shougatsu.png|2019 New Year postcard.
Toshiyuki_Itahana_2021.jpg|New Year illustration of 2021, the year of the Ox in the Chinese Zodiac calendar.
==See also==
* Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series
== Citations ==
Category:Artists