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Tetsuya Nomura

1970 - Today

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Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也, Nomura Tetsuya; born October 8, 1970) is a Japanese video game artist, designer, producer, and director working for Square Enix. He was hired by Square initially as a monster designer for Final Fantasy V (1992), before being shifted towards secondary character designer alongside Yoshitaka Amano for Final Fantasy VI (1994). Final Fantasy VII (1997) had him working in the original story alongside Hironobu Sakaguchi, and marked his debut as the lead character designer, a capacity he would retain for several future installments of the series, as well as other Square Enix titles such as The Bouncer and The World Ends with You. He also created the characters Cactuar, Gilgamesh, and Tonberry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2024). Tetsuya Nomura is the 39th most popular game designer, the 1,705th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,544th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Tetsuya Nomura ranks 39 out of 77. Before him are Roberta Williams, Hideki Kamiya, Eiji Aonuma, Chris Taylor, John Romero, and Yuji Horii. After him are Dave Arneson, Yuji Naka, Tim Cain, Jeff Kaplan, Mike Harrington, and Toshihiro Nagoshi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Tetsuya Nomura ranks 286. Before him are Johann Mühlegg, Åsne Seierstad, Jonah Falcon, Takanori Nishikawa, Võ Văn Thưởng, and Olga Kuzenkova. After him are Paul B. Preciado, Alexi Lalas, Erkan Petekkaya, Serdar Ortaç, Regina Hall, and Sajida al-Rishawi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tetsuya Nomura ranks 1,706 out of 6,245. Before him are Satoshi Koizumi (1985), Ryuta Kawashima (1959), Kenichi Kawano (1982), Shuhei Shirai (1985), Yoshiko Tanaka (1956), Kenta Hasegawa (1965), and Hiroyuki Tazawa (1978). After him are Akira Takabe (1982), Hiroshi Hirakawa (1965), Yukito Kishiro (1967), Hirokazu Tanaka (1957), and Ryuji Nagata (1972).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Tetsuya Nomura ranks 20. Before him are Yoko Taro (1970), Yu Suzuki (1958), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Hideki Kamiya (1970), Eiji Aonuma (1963), and Yuji Horii (1954). After him are Yuji Naka (1965), Toshihiro Nagoshi (1965), Yoshinori Kitase (1966), Goichi Suda (1968), Keiichiro Toyama (1970), and Tetsuya Takahashi (1966).

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