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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 ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]''. He moved on to graphic designing for the subsequent two games, as well as several other RPG games for the [[Super Nintendo]]. His employer approached him to do character designs for ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]''. The game succeeded in becoming the definitive game of the [[Play Station]], and he would go on to design characters in subsequent games, succeeding the previous designer [[Yoshitaka Amano]], as well as a number of other properties.
 
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 ''[[Final Fantasy Versus XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Versus XIII]]''.
 
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]]'').
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=== This Creator's portfolio includes: ===
* Final Fantasy Series
** ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]''
** ''[[Final Fantasy V (Video Game)|Final Fantasy V]]''
** ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]''
** ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]''
*** ''[[Advent Children]]''
*** ''Last Order''
*** ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]''
*** ''[[Crisis Core (Video Game)|Crisis Core]]''
*** ''Before Crisis''
** ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]''
** ''[[Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X]]''
*** ''[[Final Fantasy X 2|FinalFantasyX-2]]''
** ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy (Video Game)|Dissidia Final Fantasy]]''
** ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]''
*** ''[[Final Fantasy Versus XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Versus XIII]]''
*** ''[[Final Fantasy Type-0 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Type-0]]''
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' Series
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts (Videovideo Gamegame)|Kingdom Hearts]]''
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories]]''
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]''
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358 Days Over 2 (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2]]''
** ''[[Kingdom Heartscoded (Video Game)|Kingdom Heartscoded]]''
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep]]''
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts 3D]]''
* Parasite Eve Series
** ''[[Parasite Eve (Videovideo Gamegame)|Parasite Eve]]''
** ''Parasite Eve II''
** ''The 3rd Birthday''
* Brave Fencer Musashi Series
** ''[[Brave Fencer Musashi]]''
** ''[[Musashi: Samurai Legend]]''
* Other Series
** ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]''
** ''[[Super Mario RPG (Video Game)|Super Mario RPG]]''
** ''Dynami Tracer''
** ''[[Front Mission]]''
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** ''[[Ehrgeiz]]''
** ''[[The Bouncer]]''
** ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]''
 
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* [[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 Heartscoded (Video Game)|Kingdom Heartscoded]]. Although, to be fair, this was because it would have been a ''brand new KH game released only in Japan'' instead of a simple [[Updated Rerelease]]. Still, this suggests that he ''does'' care about worldwide fans after all. (Really; this says a ''lot'' considering other developers ignore everyone else)
* [[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.
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