Syn Sophia

syn Sophia, Inc.

Trade name	syn Sophia
Native name	株式会社シンソフィア
Romanized name	Kabushiki Gaisha Shin Sofia
Formerly	The Man Breeze (1995–1997) AKI Corporation (1997–2007)
Company type	Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	Video games
Genre	Video game development
Founded	June 19, 1995; 29 years ago (1995-06-19) in Tokyo, Japan
Headquarters	Musashino, Tokyo , Japan
Key people	Shuji Yoshida (CEO) Hiroya Tamura (Director)
Number of employees	70 (2016)
Website	www.syn-sophia.co.jp

syn Sophia, Inc. (株式会社シンソフィア, Kabushiki Gaisha Shin Sofia), formerly AKI Corporation and The Man Breeze, is an independent video game development studio located in Kichijōji, Tokyo, Japan, founded on June 19, 1995. The company is best known for its popular wrestling games in the late 1990s and early-mid-2000s, starting with the release of Virtual Pro-Wrestling in 1996.

The company's take on World Championship Wrestling proved successful in the late 1990s with the release of several games, culminating in WCW/nWo Revenge for the Nintendo 64. As a result, the World Wrestling Federation ended their twelve-year relationship with Acclaim Entertainment and partnered with THQ/AKI in 1999. The relationship would continue AKI's reputation for quality wrestling games, which ended with the release of WWF No Mercy.^[1]