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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tetsuya Nomura has received more than 2,013,147 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Tetsuya Nomura is the 39th most popular game designer (down from 29th in 2019), the 1,543rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,392nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Tetsuya Nomura ranks 39 out of 77. Before him are John Romero, Steve Jackson, Ed Boon, Ron Gilbert, Yuji Naka, and David Cage. After him are Roberta Williams, Yuji Horii, Todd Howard, Jordan Mechner, Tim Schafer, and Yoshinori Kitase.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Tetsuya Nomura ranks 280. Before him are Nancy Faeser, Mr. Marcus, Moacir Rodrigues Santos, Jon Seda, Kylie Ireland, and Xie Jun. After him are George Fisher, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Whigfield, Serhiy Honchar, Kim Do-hoon, and Joel Glazer.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tetsuya Nomura ranks 1,543 out of 6,245. Before him are Ryohei Suzuki (1949), Chiaki Kuriyama (1984), Naoki Sakai (1975), Kazuyoshi Funaki (1975), Hirokazu Tanaka (1957), and Yoshiharu Horii (1953). After him are Tomoji Abe (1903), Eizo Kenmotsu (1948), Kenjiro Shinozuka (1948), Norihiro Yagi (1968), Musashi Mizushima (1964), and Yoshihiro Akiyama (1975).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Tetsuya Nomura ranks 18. Before him are Yu Suzuki (1958), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Eiji Aonuma (1963), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Hideki Kamiya (1970), and Yuji Naka (1965). After him are Yuji Horii (1954), Yoshinori Kitase (1966), Koji Igarashi (1968), Yoko Taro (1970), Naoto Ohshima (1964), and Goichi Suda (1968).

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