Daisuke Ishiwatari

Daisuke Ishiwatari
Name
Japanese	石渡太輔?
Romaji	Ishiwatari Daisuke
Alias	King of Tea
Profile
Gender	Male
Age	50 (2023)
Blood type	Unknown
Birthday	August 14, 1973
Status
Occupation	Guilty Gear's creator, game director, character designer, composer, etc.
Affiliation	Arc System Works

Daisuke Ishiwatari (石渡太輔, Ishiwatari Daisuke?) is the creator of the Guilty Gear Series. Ishiwatari is known for his work as a video game developer, illustrator, musician, composer and voice actor. Ishiwatari designed the characters and storyline, and wrote the music for the Guilty Gear Series. He also is the voice actor for Sol Badguy and Order-Sol up until Guilty Gear 2 -Overture-, when Jouji Nakata took over.

Biography

Daisuke Ishiwatari was born August 14, 1973, in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in Japan. As soon as Ishiwatari left school, he began work with Arc System Works on Guilty Gear. He aslo helped compose music for the BlazBlue series alongside Yoshiro Kusano. Ishiwatri also painted select character potraits for BlazBlue: Continuum Shift. Ishiwatari also composed for Hard Corps: Uprising.

Timeline

Losing the rights to Guilty Gear

Sega and Sammy Corporations merged in 2004 which caused an issue with the rights to the Guilty Gear Series. Arc System Works developed Guilty Gear, but Sammy Corporations owned the IP. During the merger, the rights to Guilty Gear went to the newly formed Sega Sammy Holdings. During this time, Arc System Works turned their focus to the development of the BlazBlue Series. Daisuke Ishiwatari promised that a new Guilty Gear game would eventually come despite the issues.

Credits

Game Credits

Game	Role	Year
Virtual Open Tennis	Assistant Designer	1995
EXECTOR	Designer	1995
Guilty Gear Series	General Director, Designer, Composer, Voice Actor (GG-GGXXΛC+R)	1998–Present
Sangokushi Taisen DS	Original Ba Tai Design	2005
Dimension Zero	Card Illustration	2005
Battle Fantasia	Voice Actor - Freed Velez	2008
BlazBlue Series	Main Series Composer	2009-2017
Hard Corps: Uprising	Designer, Composer	2011
CHUNITHM CRYSTAL	Composer, Illustrator ("Surrogate Life")	2019

Albums

Albums

Title	Year
Guilty Gear Original Sound Collection	1998
Guilty Gear X Original Sound Track	2000
Guilty Gear X Heavy Rock Tracks ~ The Original Soundtrack of Dreamcast	2001
Guilty Gear X Rising Force Of Gear Image Vocal Tracks -Side.I ROCK YOU!!-	2001
Guilty Gear X Rising Force Of Gear Image Vocal Tracks -Side.II SLASH!!-	2001
Guilty Gear X Rising Force Of Gear Image Vocal Tracks -Side.III DESTROY!!-	2001
Guilty Gear XX Original Soundtrack	2002
Guilty Gear XX Sound Alive	2003
Guilty Gear Series Best Sound Collection	2003
Guilty Gear XX in L.A. Vocal Edition	2004
Guilty Gear XX in N.Y Vocal Edition	2004
Guilty Gear Isuka Original Soundtrack	2004
Guilty Gear Sound Complete Box	2005
Guilty Gear 2 Overture Original Soundtrack Vol.1	2007
Guilty Gear 2 Overture Original Soundtrack Vol.2	2008
Guilty Gear XX Λ Core – Secret Gig	2008
Aksys Games 2008 Promotional CD	2008
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Original Soundtrack	2008
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Original Soundtrack ~Bonus Discs~	2009
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Original Soundtrack ~Consumer Edition~	2009
BlazBlue Song Accord No. 1 with Continuum Shift	2009
BlazBlue Song Accord No. 2 with Continuum Shift II	2010
BlazBlue in L.A. Vocal Edition	2011
Guilty Gear X Blazblue OST Live	2011
Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- Vocal Collection	2014
Guilty Gear Strive Original Sound Track	2021