Noritaka Funamizu (船水 紀孝, Funamizu Noritaka, born December 14, 1965), sometimes credited as Poo,[1] is a Japanese video game designer, director and producer formerly employed by Capcom.
Prior to that, he wrote for Beep as a part-time contributor until he was invited into the company by senior staff.
During the late 1980s and up until the mid-1990s, Funamizu designed and co-designed several of the company's arcade games, including games in the Street Fighter series[2] (particularly Super Street Fighter II and the Street Fighter Alpha series).
Funamizu was later promoted to General Manager of Capcom's Production Studio 1 which produced several of the company's arcade and consumer titles.
He, along with producer Katsuhiro Sudo left Capcom in April 2004 to form Crafts & Meister.