I was really interested in collecting insects.

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.

Pokémon was made with Miyamoto-san's advice. Since I was a teenager, playing Donkey Kong, he's always been my role model. He's a mentor for my heart.

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

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

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

In Japan, violence in games is pretty much self-regulated.There's more violence in games in the U.S., in things like Mortal Kombat, where they rip out hearts and cut off heads.