Closing Fantasy IX Character Designer Toshiyuki Itahana Goes Freelance

Toshiyuki Itahana, one of many most important character designers of the beloved Closing Fantasy IX, in addition to the character designer for the Closing Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles and Chocobo sequence, left Sq. Enix on the finish of 2025. This comes because the twenty fifth anniversary for Closing Fantasy IX involves an finish.

Itahana’s message on his retirement, in each Japanese and English, is linked right here. He doesn’t look to be retiring as an artist, solely as a full-time position for working for Sq. Enix.