Who would guess he was hiding eh? But seriously, it seems that the writer of Majora's Mask and co-director of 1080 Snowboarding is the new Zelda title's director.

N-Sider has realised that the answer to the question "who is directing the new Zelda title?" was right under our noses the whole time.

It seems that the job has gone to Mitsuhiro Takano, who previously worked on The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as well as other titles. It appears that the title has gone to a good man for the job. A full biography of Takano-San can be found below.

Company: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Position: Director and Script Writer
Department: Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
Entrance: 1994

Mitsuhiro Takano started out as a scenario planner and script writer for many games including Marvelous, Star Fox 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Takano got to team up with director Masamichi Abe, and co-direct his first title, 1080 Snowboarding. Takano's script work on The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and lead design efforts on 1080 Snowboarding really impressed Miyamoto. When Eiji Aonuma left the Zelda series to work on original EAD projects, Takano seized the opportunity and stepped in as the new main director of the sequel to GameCube's The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

Mitsuhiro Takano - Director - Nintendo EAD

Mitsuhiro Takano is making his directorial debut on The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo GameCube. Takano has worked for both Nintendo R&D2 and Nintendo EAD in his 7 year tenure as everything from a script writer, graphic designer, to assistant director. Takano spoke briefly of his project and mentioned the development team was working very hard on expanding the controls and hoped to fully utilize the GameCube controller. It shall be interesting to see how one third of the original The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask creative designers does with the new Zelda now that Eiji Aonuma and Yoshiaki Koizumi have moved on to other projects.

Assistant Director - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Assistant Director - Marvelous ~Another Treasure Island~
Coordinator - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Demonstration Sequence Director - Wave Race 64: Kawasaki Jet Ski
Director - 1080� Snowboarding
Graphic Design - Marvelous ~Another Treasure Island~
Script & Event Planning - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Script Writer - Star Fox 64
Script Writer - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask