Whatever Happened To Cozy Okada?

When you think of megaten one name probably comes to mind. Kazuma Kaneko. If you’re me, if not, you probably think of Cozy Okada. Here is a man who I wanted to talk about at length in a video style like my Shoji Meguro video, which you should check out, but he’s not got a lot of info regarding him online or otherwise, on the english side of the web and the japanese side of the web, so in lieu of this I will focus on the question in the title of the video for now and hopefully I will find a cache of interesting info regarding him like the four page Soejima biography I found.
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[@dal4268]

Basically he became chaos aligned and his ambitions got the best of him

[@Papapaya101]

Holy shit is so surreal that he was involved on the panama papers leaks, kinda sad that his game company wasn't succesful

[@mammothplant]

This man was the director of Soul Hackers, a game which changed my life and inspired me to go into game development myself. If it were possible, I'd give an arm and a leg to reach out to him and let him know just how much of an impact he's made on my life. Then again, I doubt he's fluent in English... Well, a man can dream. Maybe one day he'll google himself and find this comment on this video, lmao. If I ever do make it big like I hope to, I am going to let the world know that he is an inspiration to me.

[@lambertduong6490]

That's awesome. Soul Hackers changed my life too.

[@Unknowniswhatiam]

Same brother. When i make it big imma let everyone know i owe it all to Kaneko and Okada.

[@DuoBeard]

I feel bad for Cozy Okada, he dreamed big

[@MagillanicaLouM]

Really sad to hear about these constant failures after trying to keep his passion alive with new stuff not tied to Megaten. Its a perfectly understandable sentiment, but a tough road im sure, especially after starting another company from scratch. Hope the tax thing wasn't too serious of a deal and that he's just chilling out somewhere and doing well

[@GamingWithSpoons]

I've always loved the game folklore but never knew kozy Okada worked on it.

[@DuoBeard]

Gaming With Spoons - I didn’t know either, now that I look back. You can really see his involvement

[@marconihimself]

Me too. The elements were there though.

[@MarxasThomas]

Damn really

[@faidou9954]

The difference between Shoji Meguro, Kouji Okada, Hatsura Hashino, and Kazuma Kaneko's directing is Night and Day. Even SMT IV and IV Apocalypse had different directors.

[@Pichuscute]

I didn't realize he was involved with Folklore. That's probably my first exposure to anything related to Atlus, lol.

[@Tw0tson]

depressing

[@AshleyRiot]

Happy 57th Birthday Cozy!

[@SimplyDad]

I mentioned that SMT Nocturne was a flop in my SMT IV video fake fan 😡 blocked and reported

[@Larrue]

Maybe I'm just testing you

[@mattagenleonhart5485]

Tax Frog?!

[@ChallockStudios]

Okada deserved better, all creatives do

[@ailill5458]

I do vaguely remember some hearsay that he was having legal issues.

[@3babylon3]

was not expecting this to be as sad as it turned out to be

[@valentine7388]

Where's kazuma ?

[@ryder9562]

The atlus flower field

[@salbertron]

He was credited in P5 Royal as a demon supervisor

[@KuroeDetectiveAgency]

oof still 240p nice thumbnail btw

[@Larrue]

Yeah, too much of the footage and what not I found were very low resolution so I decided that to keep the video low resolution, maybe next time I'll try scaling them up a little different

[@Mclucasrv]

really sad that he leave to do different games and ended doing something really similar but its not like the franchises he worked before was dead like some other devs that did the same.

[@DoomyRei]

Lol working on persona 6

[@xerontokyo]

Welp

[@salbertron]

did he died?

[@xerontokyo]

@@salbertron Nope recently he had an interview with 4Gamer

[@ayan1875]

@@xerontokyo LINK?

[@Dimiblossom]

240p

[@Larrue]

P042

[@setaentertainment4311]

@@Larrue Old yt.

[@AshleyRiot]

Good video but terrible 240p quality

[@salbertron]

Sounds like The Phantom Thieves need to send Mr. Okada a calling card.

[@jacobjd8274]

no

[@salbertron]

@@jacobjd8274 But he is a corrupt adult. His heart must be changed.

[@jacobjd8274]

@@salbertron Persona 5 isn't real my guy

[@snuffcassette7555]

please im begging you, go outside n socialise with people instead of doing this

[@kamiorange1259]

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