# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aya-kyogoku
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:45:40.605Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aya-kyogoku"
name: "Aya Kyogoku"
slug: "aya-kyogoku"
description: "Aya Kyogoku  is a Japanese video game director and producer. She is the current manager of Nintendo's Entertainment Planning & Development (EPD) Production Group No. 5, which oversees the Animal Crossing and Splatoon franchises. Kyogoku is best known for her work on Animal Crossing, where she has alternately served as a producer, director, and supervisor since 2008."
tagline: "Japanese video game director"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1981-01-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.645468000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/AyaKyogoku"
    handle:    "AyaKyogoku"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/aya_kyogoku/"
    handle:    "aya_kyogoku"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2082185/"
    handle:    "nm2082185"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E4%BA%AC%E6%9E%81%E5%BD%A9"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Kyogoku"
    title: "Aya Kyogoku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Kyogoku"
    title: "Aya Kyogoku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Kyogoku"
    title: "Aya Kyogoku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Kyogoku"
    title: "Aya Kyogoku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%AC%E6%A5%B5%E3%81%82%E3%82%84"
    title: "京極あや"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B5%90%EA%B3%A0%EC%BF%A0_%EC%95%84%EC%95%BC"
    title: "교고쿠 아야"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%91%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%83%2C_%D0%90%D1%8F"
    title: "Кёгоку, Ая"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%AC%E6%9E%81%E5%BD%A9"
    title: "京极彩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aya_Kyogoku"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aya_Kyogoku"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17194779"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump