She helped Yoshitaka Murayama create the Suikoden series of role-playing video games.
A newly hired artist at Konami in 1993, Kawano was assigned to create an RPG along with writer Yoshitaka Murayama, another newcomer to the company.
Kawano was not directly involved with the following two entries to the series, instead writing, producing and designing her own title, the adventure game Shadow of Memories[2] (titled Shadow of Destiny in North America).
It was released for the PlayStation 2 in 2001 to generally positive reviews, and later ported to Windows/PC, Xbox and PSP.
[6] She made a successor to Shadow of Memories in 2008, titled Time Hollow,[7][8] and the adventure puzzle game Zack & Ombra: The Phantom Amusement Park in 2010,[9] both for the Nintendo DS.