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Shigesato Itoi (糸井 重里, b. November 10, 1948) is a Japanese essayist and copywriter whose works are widely considered to have had a defining influence on modern Japanese culture. He's dabbled in pretty much everything at some point or another over the past thirty years or so - he's done books, he's done songwriting, he's done websites, he's done voice acting, he's done film, he's done television, [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others|he's done day planners]]... The man is an endless font of variety, really, and Japan loves him for it.
Of course, that's [[He Also Did|not what he's known for]] in the western world. No, the west knows him better for something that to him and to Japan was little more than a little experiment in storytelling he did on the side. Around here, he's best known as the brilliant mind behind the ''[[MOTHER]]'' trilogy of [[Nintendo]] video games, namely ''[[MOTHER 1|MOTHER]]'', ''[[
In 1998, he established the [http://www.1101.com/ Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun] (Pretty-Much-Daily Itoi News, commonly called ''Hobonichi''), a strange news site-hybrid themed around the idea of brightening peoples' days. It's partially a news site, but its biggest draw is its status as the home of his essays and thoughts on life, living, philosophy and his dog, and interviews with interesting people. On that note, he ''really'' loves interviewing people - his interviews never fail to be long and interesting and he's filled multiple books with them. This is pretty much why Iwata sometimes gets him to do important ''Iwata Asks'' interviews instead - because he's really, ''really'' good at it.
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* ''[[Iron Chef]]'' - judge on four episodes
* ''[[MOTHER 1|MOTHER]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Mother 3]]''
* ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]''
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: If ''MOTHER'' wasn't enough to convince you that this is the case, the rest of his body of work will!
* [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Gold Fever]]: He tried his hand at gold mining in the early 90s; this later inspired the Dusty Dunes Desert mining site in ''[[
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|Grandpa, What Massive Hotness You Have]]: General consensus among the ''MOTHER'' fandom is that still looks fantastic for someone aged 61, never mind someone of that age who used to smoke.
* [[Harmful to Minors]]: Again, the story about Giygas's creation.
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