Meet the team
Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt are a husband and wife team who run a Tokyo-based translation company that specializes in producing the English versions of Japanese video games, comic books, and literature. Matt is the co-author of Super #1 Robot, a history of Japanese robot toys, and Matt and Hiroko are also the co-authors of Hello, Please! Very Helpful Super Kawaii Characters from Japan, an on-the-street exposé of Japanese cute character culture. They happen to have firsthand yokai experience as extras in Takashi Miike's film The Great Yokai War (Kadokawa Films, 2005).
Illustrator Tatsuya Morino became the assistant of Shigeru Mizuki, one of Japan's most beloved manga artists, fresh out of high school. After going independent, he illustrated the graphic novel Kibakichi, which was turned into two movies in Japan. He also works as a character designer, with credits including the Gainax video game "Yokai Family" and the web comic "Trip Trek." His comic "Legentail Sennenta" is currently being serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's monthly comic collection Kero Kero Ace.
