Shigeru Ohmori is credited as a director of Pokémon Pokopia and conceived its habitat-building concept.
Ohmori is a longtime Pokémon developer who has held major creative roles on the franchise. For Pokopia, he developed the idea of allowing players to cultivate their own Pokémon habitats and emphasized building, exploration, interaction, and bonding rather than making battles the central activity.
Pokopia lists Takuto Edagawa alongside Ohmori as a director. That shared credit is why a question asking for “a director” must identify the intended person through the concept associated with the game’s creation. Ohmori is the credited director connected with the original habitat-focused idea.
He is sometimes confused with Junichi Masuda, another prominent Pokémon creator. Masuda has worked as a composer, producer, and director on earlier Pokémon projects, but the Pokopia credit for this concept belongs to Ohmori.