Grasshopper Manufacture
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| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 30 April 1998 |
| Headquarters | Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan |
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35 (2016) |
| Parent | GungHo Online Entertainment |
| Website | www |
Grasshopper Manufacture Inc. (の株式会社グラスホッパー・マニファクチュア No Kabushikigaisha Gurasuhoppā Manifakuchua?) is a Japanese video game developer founded on 30 March 1998 in Suginami, Japan. Grasshopper gained mainstream attention in 2005 for the GameCube and PlayStation 2 game Killer7. In addition to Killer7, they have developed Michigan: Report from Hell (released in Japan, Europe) and a number of Japan-only titles. Grasshopper Manufacture was also responsible for the Nintendo DS game Contact, the Wii game No More Heroes and its sequel No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, and Shadows of the Damned. The company is headed by Goichi Suda, also known as Suda51, and is noted for its original and imaginative titles - ones that are also fraught with financial risk. Potential losses are often made up by the development of games based on popular anime franchises, such as Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked, Blood+: One Night Kiss, and Rebuild of Evangelion: Sound Impact.
In May 2007, Suda announced during a speech at the 2007 Game Developers Conference that Grasshopper was at the time working on three titles for the Wii, two of which have now been released: No More Heroes and Fatal Frame IV. There is no information on the status of the third Wii game in development then.
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