Before starting at Taito, Senba was a key animator in anime, and ended up by accident as one of the animation directors for Char's Counterattack. He did art for a number of Taito games, and was director of the shooting games Gun & Frontier and Metal Black, as well as the fighting game Dino Rex.

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