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Originally Posted by CHz
Yes I mentioned that earlier, the stray credit to "N.KAZUO." Why do you think that's Hanzawa and not someone named Kazuo N.? The presence of other names like "O.MASANORI" (Masanori Ohuchi) suggests it's a person whose family name starts with N.
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Yeah, I know you mentioned it in an earlier post -that's how I found out about it. I was just curious why you thought that wouldn't be evidence of Kazuo being the name or an official alias. Sure, it does seem, based on the format of the names (last name initial, first name), that the person's name would be Kazuo N., but there's no other occurrence of anyone named Kazuo who worked at Konami at that time except for what we've known to be Kazuo Hanzawa. Furthermore, the N could have very easily been a translation error and was meant to be an H. The two letters are very similar looking. So based on this, I feel like the staff roll in Cue Brick does point to an official credit for Kazuo H (if that H was intended to be an N). Do you know of any other Kazuo's that could have been?
Also, not that they can be trusted as legitimate sources, but there are many places on the internet that list Cue Brick as part of Norio Hanzawa's gameography. For example,
here or
here or the description
here. Again, who knows how legitimate those sources are, but it does kind of help the notion that Kazuo N in Cue Brick is meant to be Kazuo H aka Norio H.
Perhaps try searching "Norio Hanzawa" along with "Cue Brick" to see more of the places where Norio is credited with Cue Brink. Maybe there's a more official listing that I didn't come across. All in all, I think it's still really unclear what his name is and that it could be any of the three: Kazuo, Norio, or Ichio.