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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. | | Tetsuya Nomura is a Japanese video game director and character designer in the famous Sqaure-Enix game company. He is the Director, Character Designer, Concept Design Artist and Base Story Writer for the Kindom Hearts series. He is also known for creating and directing alot of the games and characters in the Final Finatasy franshise mainly Final Fantasy VII and its complication and other games outside each franshise. |
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| == Nomura's Work with Squaresoft and Square-Enix == | | == Nomura's Work with Squaresoft and Square-Enix == |
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| | Nomura first job in Square was to make battle graphics for Final Fantasy IV. He then went to work as the graphic director and minor character desinger for Final Fantasy VI under Yoshitaka Amano. His big break ,in 1995, was when he was employed as lead desinger for Final Fantasy VII. Nomura then went on and contibuted Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy X before creating his own franshise Kingdom Hearts with Disney Interactive Studios and Square-Enix. Many designs, quotes, battle terms and items are inspired form the Final Fantasy series and Disney. |
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| ! ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]''
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| || 1991 || <small>[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]], [[PlayStation]], [[Game Boy Advance]], [[Nintendo DS]]</small> || <small>Debugger</small>{{citation needed|date=October 2010}}
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| ! ''[[Final Fantasy V]]''
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| || 1992 || <small>[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]], [[PlayStation]], [[Game Boy Advance]]</small> || <small>Battle Graphics </small>
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| ! ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]''
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| || 1995 || <small>[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]], [[PlayStation]], [[Game Boy Advance]]</small> || <small>Graphic Director </small>
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| ! ''[[Live A Live]]''
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| || 1994 || <small>[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]]</small> || <small>Tosa-ben Translation</small>
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| ! ''[[Chrono Trigger]]''
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| || 1995 || <small>[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]], [[PlayStation]], [[Nintendo DS]]</small> || <small>Field Graphics</small>
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| ! ''[[Front Mission]]''
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| || 1995 || <small>[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]], [[PlayStation]], [[WonderSwan Color]], [[Nintendo DS]]</small> || <small>Graphic Designer</small>{{citation needed|date=October 2010}}
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| ! ''[[Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars]]
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| || 1996 || <small>[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]], [[Virtual Console]]</small> || <small>Boss Monster Designer</small>{{citation needed|date=October 2010}}
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| ! ''[[DynamiTracer]]''
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| || 1996 || <small>[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]]</small> || <small>Concept Designer</small>
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| ! ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''
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| || 1997 || <small>[[PlayStation]], [[Windows]], [[PlayStation Network]]</small> || <small>Character Designer, Battle Visual Director, Original Story</small>
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| ! ''[[Parasite Eve (video game)|Parasite Eve]]''
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| || 1998 || <small>[[PlayStation]]</small> || <small>Character Designer</small>
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| ! ''[[Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring]]''
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| || 1998 || <small>[[Arcade game|Arcade]], [[PlayStation]], [[PlayStation Network]]</small> || <small>Character Supervisor</small>
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| ! ''[[Brave Fencer Musashi]]''
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| || 1998 || <small>[[PlayStation]], [[PlayStation Network]]</small> || <small>Character Illustrator</small>
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| ! ''[[Parasite Eve II]]''
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| || 1999 || <small>[[PlayStation]]</small> || <small>Character Illustrator</small>
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| ! ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''
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| || 1999 || <small>[[PlayStation]], [[Microsoft Windows]], [[PlayStation Network]]</small> || <small>Character Designer & Battle Visual Director</small>
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| ! ''[[The Bouncer]]''
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| || 2000 || <small>[[PlayStation 2]]</small> || <small>Character Designer</small>
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| ! ''[[Final Fantasy X]]''
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| || 2001 || <small>[[PlayStation 2]]</small> || <small>Character Designer</small>
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| ! ''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]|| 2002 || <small>[[PlayStation 2]]</small> || <small>Director, Concept Design, Character Designer & Base Story</small>
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| ! ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]''
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| || 2003 || <small>[[PlayStation 2]]</small> || <small>Main Character Designer</small>
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| ! ''[[Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII]]''
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| || 2004 || <small>[[Mobile phones]]</small> || <small>Character Designer</small>
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| ! '''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]]'''|| 2004 || <small>[[PlayStation 2]], [[Game Boy Advance]]</small> || <small>Director, Character Designer, Concept Design & Base Story</small>
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| ! ''[[Final Fantasy VII Advent Children]]''
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| || 2004 || <small></small> || <small>Director</small>
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| ! ''[[Musashi: Samurai Legend]]''
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| || 2005 || <small>[[PlayStation 2]]</small> || <small>Main Character Designer</small>
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| ! ''[[Last Order: Final Fantasy VII]]''
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| || 2005 || <small></small> || <small>Supervising Director</small>
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| ! '''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''' || 2005 || <small>[[PlayStation 2]]</small> || <small>Director, Character Designer, Concept Design & Base Story</small>
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| ! ''[[Final Fantasy V Advance]]''
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| || 2006 || <small>[[Game Boy Advance]]</small> || <small>Monster design</small>
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| ! ''[[Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII]]''
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| || 2006 || <small>[[PlayStation 2]]</small> || <small>Character Designer</small>
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| ! ''[[Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode: Final Fantasy VII]]''
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| || 2006 || <small>[[Mobile Phones]]</small> || <small>Character Designer</small>
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| ! ''[[Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII]]''
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| || 2007 || <small>[[PlayStation Portable]]</small> || <small>Creative Producer & Character Designer</small>
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| ! ''[[The World Ends With You]]''
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| || 2007 || <small>[[Nintendo DS]]</small> || <small>Creative Producer & Main Character Designer</small>
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| ! '''[[Kingdom Hearts coded]]''' || 2008 || <small>[[Mobile Phones]]</small> || <small>Director, Concept Design, Character Designer & Base Story</small>
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| ! ''[[Dissidia: Final Fantasy]]''
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| || 2008 || <small>[[PlayStation Portable]]</small> || <small>Creative Producer & Character Designer</small>
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| ! '''[[Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days]]''' || 2009 || <small>[[Nintendo DS]]</small> || <small>Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer, Base Story</small>
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| ! ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''
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| || 2010 || <small>[[PlayStation 3]], [[Xbox 360]]</small> || <small>Main Character Designer</small>
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| ! '''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep]]''' || 2010 || <small>[[PlayStation Portable]]</small> || <small>Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story</small>
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| ! '''[[Kingdom Hearts Re:coded]]''' || 2010 || <small>[[Nintendo DS]]</small> || <small>Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story</small>
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| ! ''[[The 3rd Birthday]]''
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| || 2010 || <small>[[PlayStation Portable]]</small> || <small>Creative producer, Concept design, Character Designer</small>
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| ! '''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix]]''' || 2011 || <small>[[PlayStation Portable]]</small> || <small>Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story</small>
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| ! ''[[Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy|Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy]]''
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| || 2011 || <small>[[PlayStation Portable]]</small> || <small>Creative Producer & Character Designer</small>
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| ! ''[[Final Fantasy Versus XIII]]''
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| || TBA || <small>[[PlayStation 3]]</small> || <small>Director, Concept Game Designer, Character Designer & Base Story</small>
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| ! ''[[Final Fantasy Agito XIII]]''
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| || TBA || <small>[[PlayStation Portable]]</small> || <small>Character Designer</small>
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| ! '''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D]]''' || TBA || <small>[[Nintendo 3DS]]</small> || <small>Director, Concept Designer, Character Designer & Base Story</small>
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Tetsuya Nomura is a Japanese video game director and character designer in the famous Sqaure-Enix game company. He is the Director, Character Designer, Concept Design Artist and Base Story Writer for the Kindom Hearts series. He is also known for creating and directing alot of the games and characters in the Final Finatasy franshise mainly Final Fantasy VII and its complication and other games outside each franshise.
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
Nomura first job in Square was to make battle graphics for Final Fantasy IV. He then went to work as the graphic director and minor character desinger for Final Fantasy VI under Yoshitaka Amano. His big break ,in 1995, was when he was employed as lead desinger for Final Fantasy VII. Nomura then went on and contibuted Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy X before creating his own franshise Kingdom Hearts with Disney Interactive Studios and Square-Enix. Many designs, quotes, battle terms and items are inspired form the Final Fantasy series and Disney.
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