"Anime Style Mobile Game Developer.
miHoYo was founded in the Spring of 2011 by 3 super OTAKUs from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Having faith in "Tech Otakus Save the World", miHoYo is dedicated to create anime-style moe games and related products, saves our fellow believers by shaping a series of miHoYo virtual idols."
― miHoYo first company profile
About miHoYo[]
As an R&D company, miHoYo has successfully launched excellent products in the field of home-made animation and mobile games such as “Zombiegal Kawaii”, “Houkai Gakuen 2”, and “Honkai Impact 3rd”, which are popular among users.
With games and comics, animation, peripherals and other fields in the same direction, we successfully created China's famous original domestic animation IP - Houkai series, related game products have landed in overseas markets and achieved outstanding results.
miHoYo the original team[]
Cai Haoyu (蔡浩宇)[]
Nickname: Hugh Tsai
Job: Game producer (Independent game developer)
Weibo: 独立游戏开发者蔡 (Deleted?)
Graduated from: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Introduction: Cai Haoyu is the core figure of the entire miHoYo and Houkai series, independent game developer, and the largest shareholder of miHoYo Corporation. Now he is the chairman of miHoYo, and has led the development of miHoYo with several other founders. The Houkai series has a strong EVA element and style largely derived from Cai Haoyu is an EVA fan.
Liu Wei (刘伟)[]
Nickname: Da Wei (大伟哥) / Brother Wei
Job: Game producer
Weibo: 刘伟Forrest (Deleted?)
Graduated from: Department of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Introduction: The founder of miHoYo has the highest popularity and is the most public figure facing the game player publicly. Now he is the CEO and director of miHoYo, Liu Wei's name spreads in the majority of Houkai players began in the "Houkai Gakuen 2". Today, Liu Wei has become an official representative of miHoYo in addition to the company’s operations management.
CiCi[]
Real name unknown
Nickname: CiCi
Job: Artist
Weibo: 黑眼圈很深的CiCi
Pixiv: [1]CiCi
Introduction: CiCi joined miHoYo in 2011 and became the main beauty of the game in the team. Later, he participated in related art designs such as "FlyMe2theMoon", "Houkai Gakuen" and "Houkai Gakuen 2". That is to say, Kiana, Mei, Bronya, Palefox, Yae Sakura, and the early 2 zombie characters in GGZ all came from CiCi.
Yuhao Luo (罗宇皓)[]
Graduated from: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Job: Game producer
Introduction: Yuhao Luo is the founder of the above three other than the one can get more relevant information, Yuhao Luo is one of the founders of miHoYo has two basis. One is Yuhao Luo is the one of the developers of “FlyMe2theMoon” and the other is Yuhao Luo who was one of the earliest four paid investors and the current miHoYo director when miHoYo was founded. There is too little other informations about Yuhao Luo.
FlyMe2TheMoon game credit[]
Company History[]
Early days[]
Before miHoYo was founded, Cai Haoyu created 2 games called "Legend of Saha" and "Bubble Heroes"
Year 2011[]
miHoYo Founding Team launched the game "FlyMe2theMoon" as an independent developer.
Year 2012[]
miHoYo Founding Team launched the game "Zombiegal Kawaii" as an independent developer.
miHoYo Company was formally incorporated and launched the mobile game "Houkai Gakuen", the first online game made by miHoYo
Year 2014[]
miHoYo successfully launched "Houkai Gakuen 2" which detonated the domestic animation and mobile game field
"Honkai Impact 3rd" project started to develop and research in 2014
Year 2016[]
"Honkai Impact 3rd" was announced in China and has won the favor of many users with extremely high quality graphic at that time.
Future[]
miHoYo is working on remastering both "Houkai Gakuen 2" and "Honkai Impact 3rd", also release another IP and game besides Houkai series called "Original God Project (原神Project)/Genshin Selevents".
Houkai IP Roadmap (old)[]
- January 2014, Houkai 2nd (Houkai Gakuen 2) went online.
- June 2014, added 4-koma comics.
- September 2014, added manga.
- October 2014, added new loading CG
- April 2015, added official merchandise.
- June 2015 Houkai KMB Virtual idol Premiere
- December 2015, major update for Houkai 2nd.
- September 2016 Houkai 3rd went online.
- August 2017, first Animated OVA released (well, not actually the first)
- July 2019, Houkai 3rd landing on consoles and launching Houkai KMB Live concert
- 2020 Houkai 4th launch
- August 2019 Long anime launch.