Yuji Horii

Yuji Horii, Horii Yūji 「堀井 雄二」in Japanese, is a game designer from Japan and is best known as the creator of the Dragon Quest series, supervising and writing for Chrono Trigger and his series of murder mystery visual novel adventure games The Yuji Horii Mystery Trilogy, consisting of Portopia Serial Murder Case, Hokkaido Chain Murders: Okhotsk Vanishes and Karuizawa Kidnapping Guide. He was also a manga author going by the fake name Ikkei Honda,「本田一景」in Japanese, and writing manga such as Tantei Momonogatari and Ano Musume wa Hedou.