Yukinobu Chida

Yukinobu Chida (千田 幸信, Chida Yukinobu, ; born on September 29, 1950) is a director of Square Enix, and general producer of the Dragon Quest series. After joining Enix in 1982, Chida helped organize their Game Hobby Program Contests where the winning submissions were then published by Enix. It was at these contests where Chida, Yuji Horii, and Kōichi Nakamura all first became acquainted. After working together on the Famicom version of The Portopia Serial Murder Case, Chida would serve as the original producer of the Dragon Quest series. After Square merged with Enix, Chida became an executive director of Square Enix before stepping down from that position in 2018.

Works

• Dragon Quest (1986) -- Producer
• Dragon Quest II (1987) -- Producer
• Dragon Quest III (1988) -- Producer
• Dragon Quest IV (1990) -- Producer
• Dragon Quest V (1992) -- Producer
• Dragon Quest VI (1995) -- Producer
• Dragon Quest Monsters (1998) -- Producer
• Dragon Quest VII (2000) -- Producer
• Dragon Quest Monsters 2 (2001) -- Executive producer
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart (2003) -- General producer
• Slime MoriMori Dragon Quest: Shougeki no Shippo Dan (2003) -- General producer
• Torneko no Daiboken 3 Advance (2004) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest VIII (2004) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime (2005) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest: Shōnen Yangus to Fushigi no Dungeon (2006) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (2006) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (2007) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest Wars (2009) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest IX (2009) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 (2010) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest Heroes (2015) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest Builders (2016) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 (2016) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest Heroes II (2016) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest XI (2017) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest Builders 2 (2018) -- General producer
• Dragon Quest Treasures (2022) -- General producer

Non-Dragon Quest Works

• The Portopia Serial Murder Case (1985) -- Producer
• Mystic Ark (1995) -- Executive producer
• Terranigma (1995) -- Executive producer
• Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft (1998) -- Executive producer
• Star Ocean: The Second Story (1998) -- Executive producer
• Itadaki Street: Gorgeous King (1998) -- Executive producer
• Valkyrie Profile (1999) -- Executive producer
• Itadaki Street 3 (2002) -- Executive producer
• Robot Alchemic Drive (2002) -- Executive producer
• Drakengard (2003) -- Executive producer
• Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel (2003) -- Executive producer
• Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (2003) -- Executive producer