Naoki Yoshida is producer of Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy 16 at Square Enix, and hosts the Naoki's Room stage at FF14 Fan Festival 2026 with Toshio Murouchi. Square Enix released the Evangelion collaboration trailer for Final Fantasy XIV: The Silver Wanderer at the Tokyo Fan Festival on October 31.
Yoshida's public position in these stories is producer at Square Enix, tied to Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy 16, and the face of the Fan Festival stage programming. The most recent story puts him at the Tokyo Fan Festival on October 31, where Square Enix released the trailer for "Ghosts of Desire," a collaboration between Final Fantasy XIV: The Silver Wanderer and Evangelion. Yoshida teased that Misato Katsuragi's voice, provided by Kotono Mitsuishi, "means that Misato also app..." before stopping himself.
The Fan Festival circuit runs through the coverage. In Berlin, Yoshida and Final Fantasy 7 Remake director Naoki Hamaguchi discussed the games that influenced them. Hamaguchi said Final Fantasy 6 brought him into the industry, and noted that media often misreport such answers as remake announcements. Yoshida said he understands the desire for remakes of other Final Fantasy titles after Final Fantasy 7, but the scale is considerable. He named Final Fantasy 6, Final Fantasy 8 and Final Fantasy 9 and said a remake could become four or five parts, five if done poorly. Hamaguchi credited his team's stability for the decade-long development of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy and cautioned against committing casually to a similar undertaking.
The October 19 announcement for the Tokyo event, set for October 31 and November 1 at Makuhari Messe, lists Yoshida and Toshio Murouchi as hosts of Naoki's Room on Day 2, with VTuber Kuzuha among the guests. The event is billed as the largest FF14 Fan Festival yet, run with AEON Mall Makuhari New City and Toyosuna Park.
A separate October 6 story concerns a different Naoki Yoshida: Cymbi Inc. appointed Naoki Yoshida, Director, President and COO of Tokyo Executive Search Co., Ltd., as an external advisor effective October 1, 2026.
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Square Enix released the trailer for "Ghosts of Desire," a collaboration between Final Fantasy XIV: The Silver Wanderer and the Evangelion series, at the Fan Festival in Tokyo on October 31. The trailer carries narration by Misato Katsuragi, voiced by Kotono Mitsuishi, and shows Unit-01 dashing. Producer Naoki Yoshida teased that Misato's voice "means that Misato also app..." before stopping himself.
Square Enix's official Final Fantasy XIV account announced on October 19 that VTuber Kuzuha will appear at FF14 Fan Festival 2026, set for October 31 and November 1 at Makuhari Messe. Kuzuha is one of the guests on Naoki's Room, the Day 2 stage hosted by producer Naoki Yoshida and Toshio Murouchi. The posted guest list for Naoki's Room also includes k4sen, SHAKA, Karubi Akami, Clutch_Fi, Nekomugi Tororo, Obo, Uruka, Tonakaito, Sasatikk and Tatsuomi Hamada. The announcement said scheduling had been worked out, leaving the impression the booking was settled late. The event is billed as the largest FF14 Fan Festival yet, run with AEON Mall Makuhari New City and Toyosuna Park, and the venue program covers activities, food menus, a piano concert and a special live performance alongside the guest stages.
Cymbi Inc. appointed Naoki Yoshida, Director, President and COO of Tokyo Executive Search Co., Ltd., as an external advisor effective October 1, 2026. The company says the appointment brings Yoshida's knowledge and industry networks in the human resources domain into its recruiting consulting, RPO, recruiting branding, and HR and organizational development work. Yoshida wrote that he accepted because Cymbi treats recruiting as management strategy.
Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida commented at the Berlin Fan Festival on fan requests to remake Final Fantasy VI, VIII, and IX, saying the scale is unreal and such projects could become four- or five-part series. His remarks followed Final Fantasy VII Remake director Naoki Hamaguchi clarifying that media outlets exaggerated his comments about Final Fantasy VI.
Naoki Yoshida, producer of Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 14 at Square Enix, said during a talk panel at the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2026 in Berlin that remaking Final Fantasy 6 or Final Fantasy 8 could result in a four-part or five-part series. The panel, held July 25-26, featured Yoshida and Final Fantasy 7 Remake director Naoki Hamaguchi discussing games that influenced them. Hamaguchi cited Final Fantasy 6 as his reason for entering the game industry, but noted that media often misreports such answers as an announcement of a remake. Yoshida responded that he understands the desire for remakes of other Final Fantasy titles following Final Fantasy 7, but the scale of such projects is considerable. He mentioned Final Fantasy 6, Final Fantasy 8, and Final Fantasy 9 as examples, suggesting a remake could become a four-part series, or five parts if done poorly. Hamaguchi reflected on the decade-long development of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy, crediting his team's stability for allowing the project to reach completion, and cautioned against casually committing to a similar undertaking.