Noboru Sugimura was a professional television and video game writer in
Japan, best known for being the main scribe of Capcom's popular
Biohazard (Resident Evil) franchise. In the early 1990s, he worked on
various television shows in Japan, including _"Kamen Raidaa Burakku" (1987)_ and
Dinosaur Squadron Zyuranger (1992), among
other "tokusatsu" shows. His first worked in the video game industry as
a writer in
Resident Evil 2 (1998). During the development of the game, he and Yoshiki
Okamoto formed Flagship, a subsidiary of Capcom dedicated to writing
stories and plots for video games. Since then, he worked on various
games, such as
Dino Crisis 2 (2000) and
Onimusha: Warlords (2001), among others. He also wrote
Resident Evil: Code: Veronica (2000)
(considered to be the true sequel to Biohazard 1 & 2 over the actual
Biohazard 3) and
Resident Evil Zero (2002), as well as the Gun Survivor games. He was
described to be energetic by his peers. He passed away on February 25,
2005 from an undisclosed cause.