Daisuke Ishiwatari
Daisuke Ishiwatari (石渡 太輔, Ishiwatari Daisuke; born August 14, 1973) is a South African-born Japanese video game developer, illustrator, musician, composer, and voice actor. He is best known for creating the 2D fighting game series Guilty Gear. He designed the characters and storyline, and wrote the music. He is a former voice actor for the characters Sol Badguy, Order-Sol, and Freed Velez in Battle Fantasia.
Ishiwatari was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in Japan.
He worked on the first original game for the series Guilty Gear at Arc System Works. Ishiwatari and Yoshihiro Kusano wrote the music for another game series BlazBlue, and painted the character selection portraits for the sequel, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift.
Ishiwatari is also a metal and rock composer, with music on each games. His compositions feature intricate guitar work. The albums Guilty Gear XX in LA and Guilty Gear XX in NY include his vocals, as do three albums in Japanese by the band Lapis Lazuli. He also composed for Hard Corps: Uprising.
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