Kogado Studio

KOGADO STUDIO, Inc.
株式会社かぶしきがいしゃ工こう画が堂どうスタジオ
Industry	Video games
Founded	1916; August, 1960 (public trading)
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Area served	Japan
Number of employees	43 In total Kogado Software Products: 18 (as of June 25, 2009) Kogado Studio: 25 (as of 24 April 2012)
Website	http://www.kogado.com

Kogado Studio (株式会社かぶしきがいしゃ工こう画が堂どうスタジオ) is a Japanese company which currently deals in graphic design and video game development.

The company was founded in 1916 as Zuan to Hanga Tani Kogado (図案ずあんと版画はんが谷たに工こう画が堂どう) and originally handled design and printing. In the late 1960s Kogado entered the toy market and handled the Japanese localization of board games from Milton Bradley before creating original board games for Takara. The company later entered video game development in the 1980s.^[1]

Kogado has released adventure, strategy, and bishōjo games for the MSX, MSX2, PlayStation 2 and PC, including such titles as Symphonic Rain, Gadget Trial, Little Witch Parfait, Tristia of the Deep-Blue Sea (which has been made an original video animation), and Power Dolls. The studio has a number of teams working together.

Subsidiaries

KOGADO STUDIO, Inc. Design Production Division: Graphic design, digital content, corporate planning.
KOGADO Software Products: Video game studio.

List of teams in Kogado Studio

Usagi-san Team
Kuroneko-san Team
Iruka-san Team
Kuma-san Team
Shimarisu-san Team^[2]
Panda-san Team
Kitsune-san Team
Shukujo Team^[3]

List of developed video games

Usagi-san Team

2000	Sequence Palladium MANIA KIT Sequence Palladium 2 MANIA KIT
2003	Pointers (指ゆび極きょく星ぼし)
2004	Sequence Palladium 2 DVD Sequence Palladium 3 ~ Foam top and bottom
2006	Sequence Palladium (Aizo version) Palais de Reine
2007	Palais de Royale POWER DoLLS series
2008	Palais de Carnival Ayashi no Miya
2020	Palais de Reine (remastered version)

Kuroneko-san Team

1999	Little Witch Parfait Little Witch Renette
2000	Flore in The Flower Garden Parfait Fan BOX
2001	Angelic Concert Happy ★ Millefeuille
2002	AS-Angelic Serenade
2003	Heartful Memories DVD (Little Witch Parfait 2 Heartful Memories) Magical Twara Angel Rabbi ☆ ASDVD-Newborn Love Song
2004	Symphonic Rain Angelic Concert-Encore
2005	Little Witch Parfait Complete Symphonic Rain (Collector Edition) AS Rabbi ☆ (Collector Edition)
2006	Dear Pianissimo
2007	Dear Pianissimo refrain Solfege Symphonic Rain (Popular Edition)
2008	Solfege ~ Sweet harmony ~
2009	Mimana Iyar Chronicle Solfege ~ La Finale ~ Usotsuki and Inugami possession
2011	Smile ☆ Shooter ~ Fast ☆ Chiketto ~
2014	Little Witch Parfait-Kuroneko Mahouten Monogatari
2017	Symphonic Rain (2017 remastered version)
2022	Star Melody Yumemi Dreamer^[4]

Iruka-san Team

2001	RASETSU
2002	RASETSU XAN-Rakshasa / Zan
2004	RASETSU 2 ~ Rakshasa 2
2005	Blue flow RASETSU 1 + Xan DVD pack Blue flow fan disc
2006	Blue Blaster Blue Blaster Fan Disc
2007	Giotail

Kuma-san Team

2002	Tristia of the Deep-Blue Sea
2003	Tristia Doki Doki Operation Schwarzchild V
2004	Tristia of the Deep-Blue Sea Limited DVD Pack
2005	Neosphere of the Deep-Blue Sky Neosphere of the Deep-Blue Sky: Exciting Adventure Effective E
2006	Gadget Trial
2008	Akatsuki no Amaneka and the Blue Giant Gadget Trial (Popular Edition)
2010	Silver Cal and the Queen of the Blue Sky
2023	Tristia:legacy^[5] Tristia:restore^[5]

Shimarisu-san Team

2011	Hakuisei Renai Shoukougun
2012	Hakuisei Renai Shoukougun Re:Therapy
2015	Hakuisei Aijou Izonjou^[6]
2019	Yumeutsutsu Re:Master
2020	Yumeutsutsu Re:After

Panda-san Team

2003	Swordsman Hoshin Engi-Hoshin Engi Ibun
2007	Keitai Shoujo PC

Kitsune-san Team

1999	The Project Mars 2 Schwarzschild III TRUTH
2000	The Project Mars 3 Psychic War 2: Great Ash Guys & Dolls Schwarzschild Z
2001	Schwarzschild IV
2003	The Project Mars DVD
2005	Joukyou Kaishi!
2006	Schwarzschild III + IV

References

^ "天皇陛下てんのうへいかご著書ちょしょの装釘そうていから『デュエマ』のイラスト、『覇は邪よこしまの封印ふういん』まで! 多彩たさいな事業じぎょうを手てがける1916年ねん創業そうぎょうの100年ねん企業きぎょう「工こう画が堂どうスタジオ」が経営けいえい危機ききに直面ちょくめんしてもゲームを作つくり続つづける理由りゆうとは!?". 6 December 2021.
^ "株式会社かぶしきがいしゃ工こう画が堂どうスタジオソフトウェア開発かいはつ部ぶ".
^ "Kogado teams" (in Japanese). Kogado. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
^ "Kogado Studio announces rhythm adventure game Star Melody: Yumemi Dreamer for PS4, Switch, and PC". Gematsu. 2021-09-30.
^ ^a ^b "Kogado Studio announces Tristia: Legacy and Tristia: Restore for Switch, PC". Gematsu. 2022-09-14.
^ "White Robe Love Addiction coming to PS Vita in Japan this April". Gematsu. 2015-01-06.

External links

Kogado's official website (Japanese and Chinese)
Kogado's official production website
List of Kogado games on MSX
GameFAQs entry for Kogado Studio

[1] "天皇陛下てんのうへいかご著書ちょしょの装釘そうていから『デュエマ』のイラスト、『覇は邪よこしまの封印ふういん』まで! 多彩たさいな事業じぎょうを手てがける1916年ねん創業そうぎょうの100年ねん企業きぎょう「工こう画が堂どうスタジオ」が経営けいえい危機ききに直面ちょくめんしてもゲームを作つくり続つづける理由りゆうとは!?". 6 December 2021.

[2] "株式会社かぶしきがいしゃ工こう画が堂どうスタジオソフトウェア開発かいはつ部ぶ".

[3] "Kogado teams" (in Japanese). Kogado. Retrieved 2008-04-03.

[4] "Kogado Studio announces rhythm adventure game Star Melody: Yumemi Dreamer for PS4, Switch, and PC". Gematsu. 2021-09-30.

[tristia-5] "Kogado Studio announces Tristia: Legacy and Tristia: Restore for Switch, PC". Gematsu. 2022-09-14.

[6] "White Robe Love Addiction coming to PS Vita in Japan this April". Gematsu. 2015-01-06.

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