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Tetsuya Nomura is a Japanese video game director and character designer working for Square Enix . He has been rated by the website Next Generation as the 7th most important and anticipated video game developer of 2007.
Biography
Time Before Square
Nomura was born in Kochi Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. When he was a young man, he worked at a vocational school creating art for advertisements.
Time at Square
In the early 1990s, Square hired him to work as monster designer for Final Fantasy V and then as graphic director and minor character designer for Final Fantasy VI.
Nomura did not gain recognition until 1995, when Square asked him to be the character designer for Final Fantasy VII to replace Yoshitaka Amano, the series' original character designer. It was a huge critical and commercial success and became the definitive role playing game for the PlayStation. In 1998, he worked on both Parasite Eve & Brave Fencer Musashi. In 1997, Nomura worked on 1999's Final Fantasy VIII, a game that achieved commercial success, where he returned as the character designer.
Afterwards, Nomura worked on several other different projects for Square Enix, ranging from character designing in Ehrgeiz for the PlayStation to complete designing and orchestration of "The World Ends With You" for the Nintendo DS. He continued on to design characters for Square's first PlayStation 2 game, The Bouncer, before returning to character designing for the Final Fantasy series with Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy XI, and "Final Fantasy XII". . More recently, he has acted as the director, concept artist, and character designer for the Kingdom Hearts series, which currently includes the title game, the Game Boy Advance sequel Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, and the PlayStation 2 sequel Kingdom Hearts II.
Movie
Nomura directed the CGI animated film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children which was released on 2005 in Japan and in North America on April 25, 2006, and also wrote some of the lyrics that appear on the soundtrack
