Yoshiharu Gotanda has worked as a director for Enix on the Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile series of games. He began programming for the Super Famicom at 17 years of age. Not long after, he developed Tales of Phantasia in 1995, financed by Namco. The following year he co-founded Tri-Ace and developed the first Star Ocean title, on which he served as programmer and scenario writer.
For years Yoshiharu Gotanda headed the hobby musician group @MIDI, which included the participation of Motoi Sakuraba and Michiko Naruke and released 12 albums.
Source: ja.wikipedia.org
