Today, Sega announced it Yakuza executive director and producer Toshihiro Nagoshi will step down from the corporate board. Still, he will stay at Sega.
As reported Game Biz, Nagoshi will leave the board from April 1, when the new Japanese financial year begins. He will leave the position of creative director of Sega but will work as a creative director.
There is speculation online in Japan that Nagoshi was expelled as a result of a controversial comment he did last year, seemingly mocking her Puyo Puyo sports players. The producer said they looked like they were eating beef bowls with cheese. The term chiizu gyuudon gao (チ ー ズ 牛 丼 顔) or “cheese bowl face” has been circulating online. Shortened a chiigyu (チ ー 牛) or “cheese cow”, this slang term is used to refer to people who live in rural areas, look very young, wear glasses and do not have much ambition. It’s a negative and mocking term to make fun of people who may not consider themselves “cool.”
Nagoshi he apologized for the comment, saying: “Since the goal was aimed at players who are struggling while playing a Sega title, Puyo Puyo, and since it soiled all sports, that’s why I’m so sorry. It was really inexcusable. “
The famous producer continues to appear on Sega YouTube live views (pictured, above), so perhaps Nagoshi resigns for other reasons. Hopefully, you will be able to focus your energy more on Yakuza games and not corporate politics.