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[[Tetsuya Nomura]] is a 41 year old director and graphic designer from Kochi Prefecture in Japan. He currently works for [[Square Enix]], where most gamers know him from his character designs in the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' and ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series.
Squaresoft originally hired him as a debugger to work on ''[[
Nomura advanced to a directing role when [[Disney]] and Square Enix joined forces to develop the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series. He has directed all the games in the series, as well as designing the characters, concepts, and base stories to go with them. He has also worked in the animation field, directing ''[[Advent Children]]'' and ''Last Order''. Nomura has also been put at the helm of the much anticipated ''[[
The designer is best known for his use of [[Zipperiffic|zippers]] and [[Too Many Belts|belts]]. While he can produce simple and practical belts, as can be seen on his first iteration of Cid, he has a tendency to go for elaborate designs. These can range from the mildly practical, such as in Sora's case, to the downright improbable mesh of Lulu's skirt (which is seemingly ''[[Too Many Belts|made of belts]]'').
* Final Fantasy Series
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*** ''[[Advent Children]]''
*** ''Last Order''
*** ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]''
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*** ''Before Crisis''
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*** ''[[Final Fantasy X
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* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' Series
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts (
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
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** ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
** ''[[Kingdom
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts
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* Parasite Eve Series
** ''[[Parasite Eve (
** ''Parasite Eve II''
** ''The 3rd Birthday''
* Brave Fencer Musashi Series
** ''[[Brave Fencer Musashi]]''
** ''[[Musashi: Samurai Legend]]''
* Other Series
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** ''Dynami Tracer''
** ''[[Front Mission]]''
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** ''[[Ehrgeiz]]''
** ''[[The Bouncer]]''
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* [[Art Evolution]]: His art style changed starkly from ''[[Final Fantasy]] VII'' to ''VIII'' and then changed again for the first ''Kingdom Hearts''. He's undergone another change since then and seems to have settled down for now.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Worked sea-salt ice cream into ''Kingdom Hearts II'' as the [[Trademark Favorite Food]] of Ansem when he tried it on a trip to Disney World and discovered he liked it. Subverted with Luxord, his favorite Organization XIII member who easily has the smallest role of them all.
* [[Bishonen]]: He has designed many of these types of characters.
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]
* [[No Export for You]]: somewhat averted because, despite [[Final Fantasy X|International Versions]], [[Kingdom Hearts|Final Mixes]] and [[Dissidia Final Fantasy|Universal Tunings]], [[Word of God|he stated that]] he doesn't like the trope when talking about [[Kingdom
* [[Older Than They Look|Older Than He Looks]]: Does the page picture ''look'' like a 40-year old guy to you?
* [[Only Six Faces]]: Increasingly being accused of falling into this as his designs are starting to look like [[Expy|Expies]] of characters from earlier projects. There is at least an in-universe reason for why a lot of ''Kingdom Hearts'' characters look like each other.
** His design of [[Final Fantasy VII|Sephiroth]] in particular has a lot of similar-looking characters, starting with Genesis and Sephiroth's three in-universe Expies, Kadaj, Yazoo and Loz. ''Kingdom Hearts'', Xemnas and Ansem are both long, white-haired villains wearing black cloaks, as was Xehanort in his youth, and the new villain of ''Dream Drop Distance'' is a fourth.
* [[Rummage Sale Reject]]
* [[Signature Style]]: Beyond "beltanzipper", he was primarily brought on to be lead designer for ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' because his blocky, comic-bookish designs would survive the transition to 3D models easier than the [[Design
* [[Too Many Belts]]
* [[Zipperiffic]]
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