Grasshopper Manufacture

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Grasshopper Manufacture is a Japanese video game development house responsible for the GameCube and PlayStation 2 game Killer7. In addition to Killer7, they have developed Michigan (released in Japan and Europe) and a number of Japan-only titles. It is headed-up by Goichi Suda, also known as Suda 51. Grasshopper Manufacture was recently responsible for the Nintendo DS game Contact which was published by Marvelous Entertainment in Japan and was released in North America by Atlus on October 19, 2006. They also recently made a PlayStation 2 game based on the popular anime franchise Samurai Champloo called Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked, which was released by Bandai in both Japan and North America. They also recently finished the game "Blood+ - One Night Kiss" based on the Blood+ anime series.

In many recent interviews, Suda 51 has mentioned that Grasshopper is currently working on a game called "No More Heroes" for Nintendo's Wii which "will focus heavily on direct input through the controller, and will exceed Killer7." In addition, in an October 2006 interview with Game Informer, Suda 51 announced that Grasshopper is working on a second, as yet untitled, Wii game. On top of this, Grasshopper is also said to be working on a concept for a PlayStation 3 game called Kurayami. Kurayami is an action and non-linear adventure that is inspired by the worrying and confused universe of the Czech writer Franz Kafka who Suda Goichi admires very much. However, development on this title has not begun just yet.