Nippon Ichi Software program president Tetsuhisa Seko handed away at 55 years outdated

Nippon Ichi Software program has introduced that their firm president Tetsuhisa Seko has simply handed away on January 24. He was 55 years outdated on the time of his dying*. Tetsuhisa Seko had labored at Nippon Ichi since March 2002, however he was largely in command of the corporate’s Enterprise Content material and Community Content material divisions earlier than he turned the corporate president in 2023.

To find out how he turned the corporate president, we must always first look again to the departure of the Disgaea sequence creator and Nippon Ichi’s earlier president Sohei Niikawa in August 2022. The corporate’s founder and chairman Koichi Kitazumi had additionally assumed the president spot since then. However in April 2023, Kitazumi expressed his need to supervise a generational change to make sure the corporate’s sustainability. He due to this fact appointed Tetsuhisa Seko as the brand new firm president in July 2023 so he may return to concentrate on his function because the chairman.

Meaning throughout Tetsuhisa Seko’s tenure as NIS’ president, we noticed the corporate launching worldwide releases of Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles and the at the moment nonetheless Japan-exclusive releases of Bar Stella Abyss and Disgaea 7 Full; the latter of which might have added Asagi as DLC for present gamers. The corporate is planning to launch Phantom Courageous: The Misplaced Hero worldwide and Cladun X3 for consoles in Japan. Sadly, Seko-san wouldn’t be there to supervise the brand new recreation releases.

The Japanese press launch added that whereas the corporate now has one much less board member as a result of Seko’s dying, they nonetheless have sufficient members to satisfy the minimal restrict within the Japanese regulation. It stays to be seen how the chairman Koichi Kitazumi will act to refill the now-vacant-again president slot as a way to fulfill his regeneration imaginative and prescient.

*Translator’s observe: The official press launch famous “55 years outdated” for Seko’s age at dying, however it is because Japan nonetheless makes use of the normal East Asian age reckoning (the place one is taken into account 1 yr outdated of their start yr till the subsequent New Yr’s Day) for obituaries. Since “Showa 46” equates to 1971, he can be 54 years outdated in common western age depend.