>>41012035He's also the CEO and that I need to remind idiots like you, as the founder of Game Freak (with Sugimori) - the magazine that became Game Freak the studio (founded alongside Sugimori and Masuda), the only way anyone's getting rid of those three is by carting them out in wooden boxes. Even today, he's still being listed on the studio's titles (and I've read somewhere he still personally reviews and approves all game scripts for each new game), but is doing the bigger role of running Game Freak to allow the rest of the staff to make Pokémon.