The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts.

Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the motion.

I was really interested in collecting insects.

I sleep 12 hours and then work 24 hours. I've worked those irregular hours for the past three years. It's better to stay up day and night to come up with ideas. I usually get inspiration for game designing by working this schedule.

I was really into Space Invaders in about 1978. It got me more and more interested in video games. There wasn't any media to get information about games, so I came up with Game Freak magazine.

I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects.

I had a cat, though. I wanted to name the frogs, because I watched them grow, but there were too many.