Grasshopper Manufacture

Studio

Console

1-chōme-5-1 Kanda Jinbōchō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 101-0051, Japan

About

Grasshopper Manufacture, led by Suda 51, develops many controversial games on various platforms, often incorporating new and interesting graphical elements, such as cel-shading.

Grasshopper Manufacture was founded in 1998 by Goichi Suda, also known as Suda51. The studio has been releasing games since 1999 (notable titles include Killer7 and the No More Heroes series). The company's name originated from the song "Grasshopper" by the Oxford indie band Ride, which Suda listened to obsessively while working on Super Fire Pro Wrestling 3.

Grasshopper recently released Shadows of the Damned, co-developed with EA and Shinji Mikami.

They are currently in the process of developing a number of games including Lollipop Chainsaw (being co-written with James Gunn), Black Knight Sword (being co-developed and published by Digital Reality), Rebuild of Evangelion: Sound Impact and Killer is Dead.

In January 2013, Grasshopper was acquired by GungHo Online Entertainment, in turn owned by Softbank.

Games

Title - Publisher - Release Year

The Silver Case - ASCII - 1999

Flower, Sun, and Rain - Marvelous - 2001

Shining Soul II - Sega - 2003

Michigan: Report from Hell - Spike - 2004

Killer7 - Capcom - 2005

Silver Case, 25 Ward - Liveware - 2005

Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked - Namco Bandai - 2006

Contact - Atlus - 2006

BLOOD+ One Night Kiss - Bandai - 2006

No More Heroes - Ubisoft - 2007

Zero 4 - Nintendo - 2008

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle - Ubisoft - 2010

Frog Minutes - Grasshopper Manufacture - 2011

Shadows of the Damned - EA - 2011

Rebuild of Evangelion: Sound Impact - Namco Bandai - 2011

Sine Mora - Microsoft Studios / Digital Reality - 2012

Diabolical Pitch - Microsoft Studios - 2012

GUILD01 - Level-5 - 2012

Lollipop Chainsaw - WB Games - 2012

Black Knight Sword - Digital Reality - 2012

Killer is Dead - Kadokawa Games - 2013