Koji Igarashi

Koji Igarashi (also known simply by his nickname of IGA) is a Konami employee and the current producer of the Castlevania video game series. He is best known as the assistant director of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and the producer of Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. He left the series for a while and then returned to produce Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance and has been in charge of the directing the series ever since. Contrary, perhaps, to the direction in which he has taken the series, Igarashi has commented on several occasions that his favourite Castlevania game is Akumajou Densetsu.

The first game he worked on was Detana!! Twinbee. The ending of Gradius II also credits him as a programmer.

Production Roles

 * Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Assistant producer
 * Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance - Producer
 * Castlevania: Chronicles - Producer
 * Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow - Producer
 * Castlevania: Lament of Innocence - Producer
 * Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - Producer
 * Castlevania: Curse of Darkness - Producer
 * Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles - Producer

Castlevania Retcon Controversy
In 2001, Igarashi made a controversial move by removing certain Castlevania games from the official Castlevania timeline and personally revised the history of the Belmont clan by writing Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. The removed games includes Castlevania Legends, Castlevania 64, Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, and Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. He stated his reasonings for removing the games was intended to clean up the Castlevania continuity.[citation needed] Recently though, in the latest timeline included in pre-ordered copies of Portrait of Ruin, all games removed from the timeline have be replaced as side stories, except for Castlevania Legends.