List of Mario Kart 8 staff

This is a list of the staff involved with the game Mario Kart 8.

Nintendo

Producer

• Hideki Konno

Co-Producer

• Yasuyuki Oyagi

Director

• Kosuke Yabuki

Programming Director

• Yusuke Shiraiwa

Design Managers

• Yoshihisa Morimoto
• Manabu Okano

Art Director

• Masaaki Ishikawa

Sound Director

• Kenta Nagata

Planning

• Koji Kitagawa
• Shintaro Jikumaru
• HokWai Ng
• Shinichi Ikematsu
• Kazuyoshi Sensui
• Ryuhei Matuura
• Fumihiro Suzuki
• Akane Ishikawa
• Makoto Kawamata
• Masahito Yonekura

Programming

• Takeshi Miyamoto
• Yoshinori Konishi
• Shoichi Obayashi
• Mifune Hayata
• Tatsuya Takadera
• Miyuki Kimura
• Kenta Sato
• Jun Ito
• Akira Mizukami
• Keisuke Iba
• Hideaki Fukuoka
• Hideaki Nishihara
• Hideyuki Tatsuta

Course Design Lead

• Masahiro Kawanishi
• Hirotake Ohtsubo
• Manabu Takehara
• Toshitaka Mukasa

Course Design

• Tetsuya Kobayashi
• Eisuke Sasaki
• Jihyun Kim
• Kotomi Jin
• Yoshikazu Hara
• Yohei Izumi
• Takeshi Hosono
• Youngseok Kong
• Miki Aoki
• Jun Tanaka
• Homi Hada
• Hiroshi Yamada
• Yoshihiro Wakao
• Mariko Yoshino
• Takashi Yoshikawa
• Yroichi Yamagishi
• Toshikatsu Terashima
• Tsutomu Taniguchi
• Tadatsugu Motomiya

Character Design Lead

• Daisuke Kageyama
• Michiho Hayashi
• Masanobu Sato
• Shunsuke Otsuka

Character Design

• Tomomi Iwasaki
• Ryota Akutsu
• Misaki Imura
• Hikari Harada
• Yoko Tanaka
• Aya Shida
• Keisuke Umeda
• Kazunori Fujii
• Toshiaki Abe
• Osamu Koumura
• Noriyoshi Sekiyama
• Takuya Naito
• Satomi Asakawa

UI Design

• Chiharu Takabayashi
• Mai Yamamoto
• Hiroko Nishibe

Visual Effects

• Sayaka Nishimura
• Makoto Ohta

Music

• Shiho Fujii
• Atsuko Asahi
• Ryo Nagamatsu
• Yasuaki Iwata

Sound Programming

• Sanae Uchida
• Masato Mizuta

Sound Effects

• Natsuko Yokoyama
• Yohei Miyagawa
• Taro Bando

Demo Movie

• Hiroki Hirano

Artwork

• Yuki Ijiri
• Sachiko Nakamichi
• Ryuichi Suzuki
• Hiroaki Kawagoe

Illustration

• Yuri Adachi
• Takumi Wada
• Naoya Hasegawa
• Shigehisa Nakaue
• Ryusuke Yoshida

Illustration Supervisor

• Yusuke Nakano

Character Supervisors

• Yo Onishi
• Yu Yamamoto
• Tsuyoshi Watanabe

Progress Management

• Hironobu Kakui
• Naomiki Yanagisawa
• Yoshinobu Shimada
• Tsuyoshi Koboyashi

Technical Support

• Kotaro Hiromatsu
• Yasuhiro Kawaguchi
• Yoshito Yasuda
• Masahiro Takeguchi
• Hiroyasu Sasano
• Taichi Suzuki
• Junichi Hori
• Hiroyuki Kato
• Kensuke Nakanishi
• Tomoatsu Nagafuji
• Hiroki Yasuhara

Programming Support

• Kenji Yamamoto
• Takuhiro Dohta
• Atsushi Haneda
• Nao Ueda
• Yoshiyuki Sawada
• Katsuhito Nishimura
• Katsuhisa Sato
• Shigetoshi Kitayama
• Masato Kimura
• Tetsuya Nakata
• Daisuke Hiratsu
• Haruki Tojo
• Masashi Mifune
• Shuhei Matsuo
• Ryota Maruko
• Toyoki Kataoka
• Hisashi Sekoguchi
• Hitoshi Kanetani
• Tsutomu Kaneshige
• Naoki Kinoshita
• Takahito Okuda
• Kazuhide Ueda
• Yuta Ogura

Network Support

• Yu Nishikawa
• Tetsu Okubo
• Kimihiko Shimomura
• Yuki Mitsui
• Hirokazu Shimaoka
• Takayuki Hama
• Taketo Konno
• Masayuki Kimura
• Kenkichi Miura
• Shunsaku Kato
• Akira Okazaki
• Miiverse Team

Design Support

• Yoshiki Haruhana
• Keijiro Inoue
• Yoshifumi Masaki
• Daisuke Nobori

Sound Support

• Mahito Yokota
• Takahiro Watanabe

Debug

• Hitoshi Nishizawa
• Masashi Onishi
• Kentaro Nishimura
• Daiki Moriyama
• Yasunori Shibayama
• Maki Yoshitake
• Jun Sugiyama
• Naotaka Matsumoto
• Mario Club Co., Ltd.
• DIGITAL Hearts Co., Ltd.

Nintendo (Localization Staff)

NOA Localization Management

• Leslie Swan
• Nate Bihldorff
• Tim O'Leary
• Reiko Ninomiya

NOA Localization

• Camilo Alba Navarro
• Hélène Bisson-Pelland
• Eric M. Smith
• Thaddée Wiseur
• David Carrasco
• Ethan Stockton
• Kento Oiwa

NOA Product Testing

• Masayasu Nakata
• Randy Shoemake
• Seth Hanser
• Sean Egan
• Robert Johnson
• Andy Kolden
• Jeffrey Storbo
• Tomoko Henley
• Nicko Gonzalez De Santiago
• Teresa Lillygren
• Kindra Timmerwilke
• Shannon Jaye Roberts
• Sara Hoad
• Stéphane Arlot
• Ludovic Tientcheu Ponkin
• Product Testing Technicians
• PTD Guideline Compliance
• Gene Pencil

NOE Localisation Management

• Stefan Kashani-Matin
• Fabrizio Cattaneo

NOE Translation

• Kevin Murray
• Anastasia Golovanova
• Anton Ivanchikov
• Chiara Botta
• Christian Buter
• Cristina Solà
• Enrique Sánchez Rosa
• Georg Schmalhofer
• Giuseppe Tangerini
• Greg T. Sadownik
• Janine Wetherell
• Marijke Pustjens
• Marta Bizarro
• Nicolas Sciotti
• Pete Sheppard
• Pierre Galmiche
• Rodrigo Dias

NOE Quality Assurance

• Naiara Ordorika Ibarguengoitia
• Andreas Langer
• Bert Beeckman
• Cátia Pinto Cardoso
• Florent Aupert
• Ibon Díez Maeztu
• Inna Talalay
• Laura Soto Toral
• Malcolm Thorne
• Margarita Jabner
• Matteo Marras
• Patrick De Sousa
• Sean Keoghan
• Sonia Laranjeira Santos
• Steven Van de Voorde
• Swen Harder
• Veronica Casi
• Marc Henkler

Music Performance

Italics indicate returning musicians

MARIO KART BAND

• Takashi Masuzaki: Electric Guitar
• Teppei Kawasaki: Bass Guitar
• Satoshi Bandoh: Drums
• Tetsuro Toyama: Acoustic Guitar
• Eric Miyashiro: Trumpet 1
• Koji Nishimura: Trumpet 2
• Sho Okumura: Trumpet 3
• Yoichi Murata: Trombone 1
• Kanade Shishiuchi: Trombone 2
• Kazuki Katsuta: Alto Saxophone
• Masato Honma: Alto Saxophone
• Masakuni Takeno: Tenor Saxophone
• Takuo Yamamoto: Baritone Saxophone
• Hitoshi Konno: Violin

The Legend of Zelda × Mario Kart 8 band

(Including Hyrule Circuit, Dragon Driftway, and Mute City)

• Takashi Masuzaki: Guitar
• Teppei Kawasaki: Bass
• Hiroyuki Noritake: Drums
• Luis Valle: Trumpet
• Masato Honma: Alto Saxophone
• Takuo Yamamoto: Tenor/Baritone Saxophone
• Masatsugu Shinozaki: Violin/Erhu

Animal Crossing × Mario Kart 8 band

(Including Wild Woods, Super Bell Subway, Big Blue, and Animal Crossing)

• Takashi Masuzaki: Guitar
• Teppei Kawasaki: Bass Guitar
• Satoshi Bandoh: Drums
• Koji Nishimura: Trumpet/Flugelhorn
• Eijiro Nakagawa: Trombone
• Kazuki Katsuta: Alto Saxophone (Big Blue)
• Masato Honma: Alto Saxophone
• Takuo Yamamoto: Soprano/Baritone Saxophone
• Hideyo Takakuwa: Flute/Tin Whistle
• Takayuki Mogami: Oboe
• Toshihiro Nakanishi: Violin
• Yoshiaki Sato: Accordion

Special Thanks

• Naohiro Saito
• Masanori Kato
• Hideto Yamazaki
• Yasushi Omori
• Shigeru Yokoyama
• Hajime Nakatani
• BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.
• Tomohiko Yamazaki
• Yuuki Aoshima
• Keisuke Kadota
• Naruhisa Kawano
• Ryosuke Hirayama
• Kohei Ozeki
• Masayoshi Oki
• Eiichi Shirakawa
• Yasuto Kakimoto
• Hiromitsu Fujikawa
• Fumihiko Tamiya
• Soji Hiroki
• Satoko Okada
• Junji Morii
• Tsubasa Sakaguchi
• All EAD

General Producer

• Shigeru Miyamoto
• Eiji Aonuma (uncredited)

Executive Producer

• Satoru Iwata

Uncredited

Character Voices

• Charles Martinet (Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Metal Mario, and Tanooki Mario; Male Piantas and Nokis also likely) (uncredited)
• Samantha Kelly (Princess Peach, Toad(s), Toadette, Baby Peach, Pink Gold Peach, and Cat Peach; Female Piantas and Nokis also likely) (uncredited)
• Kazumi Totaka (Yoshi(s)) (uncredited)
• Kenny James (Bowser and Dry Bowser) (uncredited)
• Takashi Nagasako (Donkey Kong) (uncredited)
• Nate Bihldorff (Shy Guy(s)) (uncredited)
• Deanna Mustard (Princess Daisy and Baby Daisy) (uncredited)
• Laura Faye Smith (Rosalina and Baby Rosalina) (uncredited)
• Lani Minella (Lemmy and Morton) (uncredited)
• Mike Vaughn (Iggy) (uncredited)
• Michelle Hippe (Larry) (uncredited)
• Ashley Flannegan (Wendy) (uncredited)
• Dan Falcone (Roy) (uncredited)
• David J. Goldfarb (Ludwig) (uncredited)
• Tadd Morgan (Lakitu) (uncredited)
• Tomo Adachi (Female Mii) (uncredited)
• Katsuhiro Harasawa (Male Mii) (uncredited)
• Tomoyuki Higuchi (Male Mii) (uncredited)
• Hitomi Hirose (Female Mii) (uncredited)
• Yuko Kaida (Female Mii) (uncredited)
• Ayumi Nagao (Female Mii) (uncredited)
• Fumihiro Okabayashi (Male Mii) (uncredited)
• Takuya Sato (Male Mii) (uncredited)
• Sanae Suzaki (Boos) (uncredited)
• Unknown (Sunshine Airport and Super Bell Subway P.A., and Thwomps)
• Nobuyuki Hiyama (Link) (uncredited)
• N/A (sound effects) (Koopa Troopa, Villager and Isabelle)
• Jack Merluzzi (Big Blue announcer) (uncredited)