Daisuke Ishiwatari

Japanese video game developer, illustrator, musician, composer, and voice actor. Ishiwatari was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in Japan. He is best known for creating the heavy metal-themed 2D fighting game series *Guilty Gear*. He designed the characters, storyline and wrote the music for all the games. He also formerly provided the in-game voices for the characters Sol Badguy and Order-Sol. He, along with Yoshihiro Kusano, also wrote the music for *BlazBlue*, and painted the character selection portraits for the sequel, *BlazBlue: Continuum Shift*.