Daisuke Watanabe

Born on March 11, 1974, in Yokohama, Daisuke Watanabe is a scenario writer for Square Enix. Along with fellow scenario writer Kazushige Nojima, he has written the scenario for Final Fantasy X-2, and later worked on the scenarios of Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy XIII.
==Profile==
Watanabe's first work in the Final Fantasy series was on Final Fantasy X. He co-wrote the scenario with Nojima, Motomu Toriyama and Yoshinori Kitase.Computer and Video Games Interview: Square Invades London
While not being initially part of the development of Final Fantasy XII, he joined the game's writing staff in November 2004. The original scenario writer Yasumi Matsuno left that project in August 2005 due to sickness.http://uk.gamespot.com/news/2005/08/01/news_6130121.html Jun Akiyama was put in charge of the game's story when Matsuno left. Working under Akiyama's direction, part of Watanabe's job was fleshing out what had been written by Miwa Shoda, who had also joined the writing staff alongside him.https://twitter.com/shodamiwa/status/347778814383894528 Watanabe wished to create a story where there were no heroes or villains as such, instead being different interpretations of events."Final Fantasy XII Developer Interviews": Final Fantasy XII Collector's Edition Bonus DVD Due to production deadlines, many of Akiyama's and Watanabe's ideas had to be dropped from the script, much to the regret of co-director Hiroshi Minagawa.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYIzjBbO2FQ
Regarding Final Fantasy XIII, Watanabe was brought in after the central core of the narrative was created, including the game's mythos, but Watanabe was left to flesh out much of the detail after Toriyama gave him a rough outline of events. For Final Fantasy XIII-2, Watanabe had scenario input from Emi Nagashima, better known under her pen name Jun Eishima.http://emi-nagashima.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2011/12/index.html He resumed his role for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, receiving input from multiple staff members including Toriyama. His writing for the project was slow, causing problems for the rest of the development team: this prompted him to work extra hard on creating a suitable finale. Speaking after the release of the game, he stated that the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy was his most exhausting project, and that his feelings were "complicated".http://www.famitsu.com/news/201407/11056946.html
==Works within the series==
Game 	Release	Work
Final Fantasy X 	2001 	Scenario Planner (with Motomu Toriyama)
Final Fantasy X-2 	2003 	Scenario (with Kazushige Nojima)
Final Fantasy XII 	2006 	Scenario (with Miwa Shoda)
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings 	2007 	Special Thanks
Dissidia Final Fantasy 	2008 	Scenario
Final Fantasy XIII 	2009 	Lead Scenario Writer
Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy 	2011 	Scenario Supervisor
Final Fantasy XIII-2 	2011 	Lead Scenario Writer
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII	2013 	Lead Scenario Writer
Mobius Final Fantasy 	2015 	Lead Scenario Writer
Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age 	2017 	Scenario Advisor
==External links==
*Wikipedia article on Daisuke Watanabe
==Citations==
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