There are too many [Yasuda] stories — you'll have to change the tape two or three more times.

Shinji Mikami (Co-worker, Capcom Japan):

He just focuses on drawing. He doesn't care much about anything else. If he draws one line and he doesn't like it, he throws it away.

Tom Shiraiwa (Translator, Capcom Japan):

He always slept under under the desk. He never went back home.

Shinji Mikami:

When Capcom moved its studios to a new building, [Yasuda] went to every floor and laid down to see how it felt to sleep there. Every floor.

Yoshiki Okamoto:

At one point, [Yasuda] wanted to live a healthy life, so he said, "OK I'm going to drink milk." So he'd always buy these little packs of milk. He'd be working, and then he'd reach down to his little milk packs and drink them. Around his desk, he had like 100 of these packs. So he'd grab one, shake it, and whenever he'd find one with milk in it, he'd drink it and put it back, without even looking at it. And he never knew what the expiration dates were. So he started drinking milk to be healthy, but he was always complaining he had diarrhea.

Tom Shiraiwa:

[Years later] we were working on Red Dead Revolver and we were in the same apartment. And he basically always slept in the closet when there was a huge bed in his room. I just saw his legs coming out of the closet. And I asked him, why is that? And he felt much more peace of mind when he slept in the closet. ...

In some of the rooms [in Capcom's game Resident Evil], you would see a really dirty, beaten up toilet or bathroom or something. ... That's the kind of place he lived in. And he continued that way for a month or two months. And then he started cleaning his room like a maniac. He's a crazy guy. He just cleaned it like 100%, just so perfectly clean. And then he started making trash again. So that's kind of his lifestyle. And he also does the same with his diet. He keeps eating and eating — he's like a pig, right? Then one day he starts all the exercises and the diets like crazy and gets back to normal shape.

Yoko Shimomura (Composer, Capcom Japan):

He has a unique personality — different in a good way. ... I think that talented people are always a little different from the norm. ... There were a lot of people [on the team] who were outside the norm. I might have been the only one who wasn't.