Tetsuya Nomura

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 Additionally Nomura created and has led the development as director of the Kingdom Hearts series since its inception in 2002 and has been creative producer in The World Ends with You series He has also directed the 2005 film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children and directed Final Fantasy VII Remake 2020 and served as creative director for the sequel Final Fantasy VII Rebirth 2024 Description above from the Wikipedia article Tetsuya Nomura licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia