Hiroji Kiyotake is a game designer for Nintendo. He is the original designer of Wario

Wario

is a fictional character in Nintendo's Mario series. The character was designed as another antagonist to Mario , and first appeared in the 1992 Game Boy title Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins as the main antagonist and final boss...

. Kiyotake is one of the directors and graphic designer

Graphic designer

A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...

s of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

is a platforming video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. It was released in Japan on October 21, 1992, in North America on November 2, 1992, and in Europe on January 28, 1993...

and Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, known in Japan as , is a platforming video game developed by Nintendo on the Game Boy in 1994. It is the first video game to feature Wario as both a playable character and the main character, as well as the first appearance of Captain Syrup and her Brown Sugar...

, making him one of the key people in the introduction of the character Wario and the Wario series.

He was also involved in the development of further Wario games as a designer. For Virtual Boy Wario Land

Virtual Boy Wario Land

Virtual Boy Wario Land, known in Japan as , was released by Nintendo for its ill-fated Virtual Boy system in 1995. It stars Wario in a platforming adventure quite similar to most of his other starring roles....

he acted as a director again. For Wario games released after Wario Land 4, his role is mostly limited to the Wario design and advising, according to the staff credits

Credit (creative arts)

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 of the respective games. For example, during the development of Wario: Master of Disguise

Wario: Master of Disguise

Wario: Master of Disguise, known in Japan as , is a platforming video game developed by Suzak, and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. The game was released on January 18, 2007 in Japan, and was released on March 5 in North America. The game's Japanese title...

, Kiyotake supervised the numerous forms of disguised Wario designed by SUZAK.