# Yoko Taro

> Yoko Taro  is a Japanese director and scenario writer for video games. Starting his career at the now defunct game developer Cavia, his best-known work is on the action role-playing video game series Drakengard, and its spin-offs, Nier and Nier: Automata. Yoko was born in Nagoya, Aichi, and studied at the Kobe Design University in the 1990s. While he did not initially intend to pursue a career in video games, after working at Namco and Sony, he joined Cavia and became the director and scenario writer for the first Drakengard game. He has since worked extensively on every game in the series, and on mobile titles after becoming a freelancer following Cavia's absorption into AQ Interactive. Furthermore, Yoko Taro has been assigned as the writer of the upcoming Neon Genesis Evangelion series teased in 2026.

*Video game director, writer and designer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/yoko-taro

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Japan
- **Born:** 1970
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 57.6
- **Momentum:** 3.7

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/yokotaro (@yokotaro)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1576477/ (@nm1576477)

## Sources
- [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/3946224)
- [يوكو تارو](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88)
- [Τάρο Γιόκο](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%BF_%CE%93%CE%B9%CF%8C%CE%BA%CE%BF)
- [Yoko Taro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Taro)
- [Yoko Taro](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Taro)
- [تارو یوکو](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88_%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%88)
- [Yoko Taro](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Taro)
- [Jokoo Taró](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokoo_Tar%C3%B3)
- [Yoko Taro](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Taro)
- [Tarō Yokoo](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar%C5%8D_Yokoo)
- [横尾太郎](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E5%B0%BE%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E)
- [요코 타로](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9A%94%EC%BD%94_%ED%83%80%EB%A1%9C)
- [Yoko Taro](https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Taro)
- [Yoko Taro](https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Taro)
- [Yoko Taro](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Taro)
- [Yoko Taro](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Taro)
- [Ёко, Таро](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE)
- [Йоко Таро](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE)
- [横尾太郎](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A8%AA%E5%B0%BE%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E)
- [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/df4abdd2-8fc5-408d-8c03-79c875f86eb8)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11542446)
- [Yoko Taro](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1903734)

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