Grasshopper Manufacture

Background
Grasshopper Manufacture Inc. (sometimes stylized as grasshopper manufacture inc.) is a Japanese game development studio founded by Gōichi Suda, better known as Suda51 (the name 'Gōichi' in Japanese can be interpreted as '5-1', hence the nickname) on March 30, 1998. The studio is best known for the No More Heroes franchise, as well as various other titles including Michigan: Report From Hell, Killer7, Shadows Of The Damned, Lollipop Chainsaw, and Killer Is Dead. The studio was acquired by GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc. in 2013.

1st Logo (October 7, 1999-June 16, 2009)
Nicknames: TBA

Logo: On a navy blue background, we see over a red rectangle an illustration of a blue grasshopper with red eyes, in addition to a white human face with its eyes closed, hunched over and crossing its front limbs. At the bottom of the rectangle is the red lowercase letter 'g' in a blue circle with a round notch on either side.  grasshopper  in seen above in white Impact font,  MANUFACTURE  below in a thin font. Below the grasshopper is  SALON#ANALOG#ORGANIZATION .

Variants:


 * On the PlayStation 2 version of Flower Sun and Rain (Hana to Taiyō to Ame to) and Michigan: Report From Hell, the background, grasshopper eyes and 'g' are lime green, the text is navy, and the rectangle behind the grasshopper is omitted.
 * On Contact, the logo is lime green on a white background.
 * On Killer7, the logo is light blue on a white background, the grasshopper's eyes being a red-orange gradient. Suddenly, the logo shifts to black on a red background, the human face becoming white.
 * On the Nintendo DS version of Flower Sun and Rain, the grasshopper is redrawn and slightly more detailed, standing inside of a crest consisting of a navy circle with a white border and the text  GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE  above and  Punk's Not Dead  below, a domestic cat on the left and unicorn on the right holding up the circle, two white roses, and a green banner reading  Video Game Band  on the bottom. Above is a shrine-like shape with a blocky, hexagon-like letter 'G' inside a white circle, and a green rectangle under it reading  since 1998 .

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Music/Sounds Variants:


 * On Killer7, we hear a maniacal laugh, followed by a gunshot as the color scheme changes.

Availability: Uncommon. First seen on the Japanese-exclusive The Silver Case (or Silver Jiken) on PlayStation.

Editor's Note: None.