With over three decades of experience and a place in the hearts of the fighting game community, Capcom Executive Producer Yoshinori Ono, stalwart representative of the Street Fighter franchise, is planning to exit the stage. In a lengthy English post on Twitter, Ono announced that he will leave Capcom later this summer, yet another high profile vacancy for Capcom in the year of our pandemic, 2020. Ono leaves behind a complicated legacy with the Street Fighter franchise, as he was front and center for the literal revival of the genre with the Street Fighter IV series and its iterations, but also saw Capcom lose the title of flag bearer for fighting games in the past few years, thanks in part to a sub-stellar reception to 2016?s Street Fighter V.

pic.twitter.com/ym2pFtgZqy ? Yoshinori Ono (@Yoshi_OnoChin) August 9, 2020

?My heart is filled with appreciation to those players who?ve been giving warm and kind support on the brand especially little over the past decade or so as all the activities on the Street Fighter brand regained sunshine and grew its liveliness,? Ono said. ?And now, after serving almost 30 years at Capcom, I am leaving the company in this summer. This means that I will resign my position as the brand manager for Capcom?s various titles including Street Fighter.?

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