Masahiro Sakurai
Masahiro Sakurai | |
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| Born | August 3, 1970 |
| Occupation(s) | Video game director, designer |
Masahiro Sakurai (桜井政博, Sakurai Masahiro) (born August 3, 1970) is a video game designer who worked at HAL Laboratory from 1991 to 2003.
Sakurai is the creator of 2 video game franchises, Kirby (1992) and Super Smash Bros. (1999), He founded a company called Sora Ltd in 2005, Sakurai also has a Youtube channel called Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games (both a english and Japanese version), which was created in 2022.
Personal Life
He got married to Michiko Sakurai in 2008.