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Tetsuya Nomura

Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也 Nomura Tetsuya) is a Japanese video game director and character designer working for Square Enix (formerly Square). He first started working designing few parts from Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI and has also been the character designer from various games, debuting in Final Fantasy VII. Additionally, Nomura debuted as video game director for the Kingdom Hearts series starting in 2002 and was also the director from the CGI film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children.

Nomura received the "Excellence in Visual Arts" award by the International Game Developers Association for his work in the first Kingdom Hearts game, alongside Shinji Hashimoto.[3] In IGN's "The Top 100 Video Game Creators of all Time" Nomura was listed at number 84.


“Walking this road without you to remake forgotten promises”
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“ Sora, don't ever change.”
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“ If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each other's lives no matter what.”
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“ Thinking of you, wherever you are. We pray for our sorrows to end, and hope that our hearts will blend. Now I will step forward to realize this wish. And who knows: Starting a new journey may not so hard or maybe it has already begun. There are many worlds, but they share the same sky- one sky, one destiny.”
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