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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 1,913,261 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Tetsuya Nomura is the 29th most popular game designer (down from 20th in 2019), the 1,395th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,123rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Japanese Game Designer.

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Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Tetsuya Nomura ranks 29 out of 56. Before him are Will Wright, John Carmack, Hidetaka Miyazaki, John Romero, Yu Suzuki, and Eiji Aonuma. After him are Dave Arneson, Yuji Horii, Yuji Naka, Hideki Kamiya, Ron Gilbert, and Roberta Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Tetsuya Nomura ranks 257. Before him are Kaoru Kadohara, Alex Garland, Hao Haidong, Joacim Cans, Shannon Leto, and Bart De Wever. After him are Jon Seda, Stacy Valentine, Lynn Okamoto, Valery Bolotov, JR Bourne, and Emmanuel Pahud.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tetsuya Nomura ranks 1,395 out of 6,048. Before him are Yoshioka Yayoi (1871), Akie Abe (1962), Takekazu Asaka (1952), Tatsuya Fujiwara (1982), Ikuo Takahara (1957), and Kenji Honnami (1964). After him are Masaaki Suzuki (1954), Michiko Matsuda (1966), Noriaki Sugiyama (1974), Lynn Okamoto (1970), Takehiro Tomiyasu (1998), and Hisashi Kimura (1870).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Japan

Among game designers born in Japan, Tetsuya Nomura ranks 15. Before him are Shinji Mikami (1965), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Masahiro Sakurai (1970), Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), Yu Suzuki (1958), and Eiji Aonuma (1963). After him are Yuji Horii (1954), Yuji Naka (1965), Hideki Kamiya (1970), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Naoto Ohshima (1964), and Yoshinori Kitase (1966).

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