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Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也, Nomura Tetsuya?, born October 8, 1970) is a Japanese video game director and character designer working for Square Enix (formerly Square), best known for his work on both the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series. He is the Director, Character Designer, Concept Design Artist and Base Story Writer for the Kindom Hearts series.


History

Tetsuya Nomura began his career at a vocational school, creating art for magazine advertisements. It was not until the 1990s that he was recruited by Squaresoft to contribute to Final Fantasy IV's battle graphics, and then to work as graphic director and minor character designer under Yoshitaka Amano for Final Fantasy VI.

Nomura got his big break in 1995, when he was employed as the lead character designer for Final Fantasy VII. In 1998, he worked on both Parasite Eve, Brave Fencer Musashi, and Final Fantasy VIII. More recently, acted as director, concept artist, character designer, and zipper purveyor for Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, and Kingdom Hearts II.

Nomura was also responsible for directing Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, and is currently at work designing characters for the Fabula Nova Crystallis series and Dissidia Final Fantasy. In addition, he will be directing Final Fantasy Versus XIII and It's A Wonderful World.


Nomura's Work with Squaresoft and Square-Enix

Note: Things in Bold are his Kingdom Hearts work.

Game name First released System name(s) Nomura's role(s)
Final Fantasy IV 1991 Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS DebuggerTemplate:Citation needed
Final Fantasy V 1992 Super Famicom, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance Battle Graphics
Final Fantasy VI 1995 Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance Graphic Director
Live A Live 1994 Super Famicom Tosa-ben Translation
Chrono Trigger 1995 Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation, Nintendo DS Field Graphics
Front Mission 1995 Super Famicom, PlayStation, WonderSwan Color, Nintendo DS Graphic DesignerTemplate:Citation needed
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars 1996 Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Virtual Console Boss Monster DesignerTemplate:Citation needed
DynamiTracer 1996 Super Nintendo Entertainment System Concept Designer
Final Fantasy VII 1997 PlayStation, Windows, PlayStation Network Character Designer, Battle Visual Director, Original Story
Parasite Eve 1998 PlayStation Character Designer
Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring 1998 Arcade, PlayStation, PlayStation Network Character Supervisor
Brave Fencer Musashi 1998 PlayStation, PlayStation Network Character Illustrator
Parasite Eve II 1999 PlayStation Character Illustrator
Final Fantasy VIII 1999 PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Network Character Designer & Battle Visual Director
The Bouncer 2000 PlayStation 2 Character Designer
Final Fantasy X 2001 PlayStation 2 Character Designer
Kingdom Hearts 2002 PlayStation 2 Director, Concept Design, Character Designer & Base Story
Final Fantasy X-2 2003 PlayStation 2 Main Character Designer
Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII 2004 Mobile phones Character Designer
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories 2004 PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance Director, Character Designer, Concept Design & Base Story
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children 2004 Director
Musashi: Samurai Legend 2005 PlayStation 2 Main Character Designer
Last Order: Final Fantasy VII 2005 Supervising Director
Kingdom Hearts II 2005 PlayStation 2 Director, Character Designer, Concept Design & Base Story
Final Fantasy V Advance 2006 Game Boy Advance Monster design
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII 2006 PlayStation 2 Character Designer
Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode: Final Fantasy VII 2006 Mobile Phones Character Designer
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII 2007 PlayStation Portable Creative Producer & Character Designer
The World Ends With You 2007 Nintendo DS Creative Producer & Main Character Designer
Kingdom Hearts coded 2008 Mobile Phones Director, Concept Design, Character Designer & Base Story
Dissidia: Final Fantasy 2008 PlayStation Portable Creative Producer & Character Designer
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days 2009 Nintendo DS Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer, Base Story
Final Fantasy XIII 2010 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Main Character Designer
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep 2010 PlayStation Portable Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story
Kingdom Hearts Re:coded 2010 Nintendo DS Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story
The 3rd Birthday 2010 PlayStation Portable Creative producer, Concept design, Character Designer
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix 2011 PlayStation Portable Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story
Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy 2011 PlayStation Portable Creative Producer & Character Designer
Final Fantasy Versus XIII TBA PlayStation 3 Director, Concept Game Designer, Character Designer & Base Story
Final Fantasy Agito XIII TBA PlayStation Portable Character Designer
Kingdom Hearts 3D TBA Nintendo 3DS Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story


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