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[[File:shinji2_9091Shinji Mikami April 2013 3.jpg|framethumb|upright| The Man behind [[Resident Evil]].]]
 
 
Shinji Mikami is one of the oldest and most well known video game producers, perhaps best known for the creation of ''[[Resident Evil]]''. He also made [[God Hand]], and helped create [[Clover Studios]] with the help of Hideki Kamiya (Of ''[[Devil May Cry]]'', ''[[Viewtiful Joe (Video Game)|Viewtiful Joe]]'', ''[[Okami (Video Game)Ōkami|Okami]]'' and ''[[Bayonetta]]'' fame) and Atsushi Inaba (Who helped out on a bunch of other works, and helped out with ''[[Mad World (Video Game)|Mad WorldMadWorld]]''), now known as [[Platinum Games]]. Originally a [[Capcom]] member (one of the oldest, actually), he then went to SEGA with the rest of his fellow Clover members at [[Platinum Games]]. He completed ''[[Vanquish]]'' and worked with [[Suda 51|Suda]] [[Crazy Awesome|51]] and [[Silent Hill|Akira Yamaoka]] on a comedy-horror game titled ''[[Shadows of the Damned (Video Game)|Shadows of the Damned]]''.
 
In 2010 he founded [http://tangogameworks.com/ Tango Gameworks], a subsidiary of Zenimax Media (the same parent company as [[Id Software]] and [[Bethesda]]) along with longtime [[Suda 51]] collaborator [[Masafumi Takada]]
 
His official English-language twitterTwitter is [http://twitter.com/#!/shinji_mikami_e here] while his company's twitterTwitter is [http://twitter.com/#!/tango_gw_en here].
 
He has worked on the following:
 
* [[Resident Evil]] series
** [[Resident Evil (Videovideo Gamegame)|Resident Evil]] (directed both, the original PS version and the GC remake)
** [[Resident Evil 2 (Video Game)|Resident Evil 2]]
** [[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]
** [[Resident Evil Code Veronica (Video Game)|Resident Evil Code: Veronica]]
** [[Resident Evil 0 (Video Game)|Resident Evil 0Zero]]
** [[Resident Evil Outbreak]]
** [[Resident Evil 4 (Video Game)|Resident Evil 4]] (director)
* [[Dino Crisis (Video Game)|Dino Crisis]] series
* [[Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Ace Attorney]] series
** [[Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]
* [[PN P.N.03]]
* [[Viewtiful Joe (Video Game)|Viewtiful Joe]]
* [[God Hand]]
* [[Vanquish]]
* [[Shadows of the Damned (Video Game)|Shadows of the Damned]]
 
 
Other involvement:
* [[Devil May Cry]]
* [[Killer 7Killer7]]
 
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His works frequently contain examples of the following:
* [[Self-Deprecation]] / [[Black Comedy]]: If [https://web.archive.org/web/20140121101759/http://tangogameworks.com/others/comic/001/ these comics] were written by him
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: To the point where his company's comics and artwork frequently portray the staff members as zombies
 
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