Kotaro Uchikoshi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kotaro Uchikoshi
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Nov 17, 1973(1973-11-17)
Age	51
Birthplace	Higashimurayama
Country	Japan
Birth City	Tokyo
Horoscope	Scorpio

Kotaro Uchikoshi Biography

Kotaro Uchikoshi is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on November 17, 1973 in Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan.

Kotaro Uchikoshi (打越 鋼太郎 , Uchikoshi Kōtarō, born November 17, 1973) is a Japanese video game director and writer. He is known for his work on visual novels, including the Infinity and Zero Escape series. His writing style often incorporates elements of science fiction with various scientific and philosophical themes, and makes heavy use of plot twists.

Uchikoshi’s first job in game development was in 1998 when he joined KID, a company known for bishōjo games. At the time, KID was also developing video game adaptations of board games; he originally joined KID because of these board game projects, as he was interested in making simple games that a lot of people would be able to enjoy. His first project at KID however was designing 3D models for the action game Pepsiman (1999). Sometime after the release of Pepsiman, a producer at KID asked him to write a scenario for an upcoming bishōjo game. Uchikoshi believes he was chosen because of his personality and experience with writing. The first bishōjo game he worked on was the visual novel Memories Off (1999), followed by Never 7: The End of Infinity, Memories Off Pure and Memories Off 2nd (all 2000). While writing Never 7: The End of Infinity, Uchikoshi wanted to include science fiction themes, but was instructed by his superiors to instead focus on the relationships between the game’s characters.

Kotaro Uchikoshi Net Worth

Kotaro Uchikoshi is one of the richest Director from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kotaro Uchikoshi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Uchikoshi was born on November 17, 1973, in Higashimurayama, Tokyo. Almost immediately after birth, he began choking on amniotic fluid, and claims he would have died had his doctor not held him upside down and “hit his backside”. Uchikoshi was born with torticollis, which required surgery when he was three years old. While in middle school, he started reading gamebooks written by Steve Jackson, which instilled an early interest in narrative based games.

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Both Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and its sequel Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward (2012) were commercial failures in Japan. When Chunsoft put the Zero Escape series on hiatus, Uchikoshi returned to freelance work, and wrote his first anime series, Punch Line (2015). He also worked on a manga and video game adaptation of Punch Line. A large fan presence helped revive the Zero Escape series, and Uchikoshi returned to write and direct the concluding installment, Zero Time Dilemma (2016). In 2017, he left Spike Chunsoft and formed the video game developer Too Kyo Games together with Danganronpa series staff members and his Infinity co-writer Takumi Nakazawa. Shortly after, he wrote the concept for the anime series The Girl in Twilight (2018), and directed and wrote the adventure game AI: The Somnium Files (2019).

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Meanwhile, fans of the Zero Escape series created an online campaign to raise awareness and support the development of a sequel to Virtue’s Last Reward. Uchikoshi noted that the fan presence was a key factor for the sequel’s reevaluation. While delivering the pitch for the game, he used a fan-made vocal rendition of the series theme song; Spike Chunsoft agreed to the proposal, and green-lit production on Zero Time Dilemma (2016). With Zero Time Dilemma, Uchikoshi intended to resolve all mysteries left from the previous two games in the series, as well as those introduced in the third. Following the game’s release, he remarked that having devoted the last decade of his life to the series, he was saddened to see it finally come to an end. His next two projects were announced in 2017: the escape room game The Pop Star’s Room of Doom, and the video game AI: The Somnium Files. Another anime project, The Girl in Twilight, was announced in 2018, for which Uchikoshi wrote the original concept.