Mitsuyasu Maeno Mitsuyasu Maeno Mitsuyasu Maeno was born Shimoichiro Maeno in about 1947. He attended classes in acting at the University of California in 1967. Maeno was married twice, and both marriages ended in divorce. His troubled personal life also included a suicide attempt. According to his father, Maeno came under the influence of the right-wing and ultra-nationalistic philosophies of the writer Yukio Mishima. In November 1970, Mishima had attempted to incite the Self-Defense Forces to overthrow the 1947 Constitution of Japan. When his efforts to restore Japan to a wartime samurai ethic failed, Mishima committed ritual suicide. In contrast to the
Yukio Futatsugi Yukio Futatsugi Yukio Futatsugi is a Japanese video game developer. His work includes leading the teams which created Sega Saturn games "Panzer Dragoon", "Panzer Dragoon II Zwei", and "Panzer Dragoon Saga", and Xbox title "Phantom Dust". He is the co-founder of video game development company Grounding Inc who developed "Crimson Dragon". Yukio Futatsugi grew up in Kobe, Japan, where he attended high school. While spending a year in San Francisco at primary school age he fell in love with games such as "Pong" and "Space Invaders", and later decided to pursue a career in video games over his other hobby,