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Tetsuya Nomura (野村 哲也, born October 8, 1970) is a Japanese video game artist, designer and director working for Square Enix (formerly Square). He designed characters for the Final Fantasy series, debuting with Final Fantasy V and continuing with various later installments. Additionally, Nomura helmed the development of the Kingdom Hearts series starting in 2002 and was also the director for the CGI film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. He received the "Excellence in Visual Arts" award by the International Game Developers Association for his work on the first Kingdom Hearts game, alongside Shinji Hashimoto. In IGN's "The Top 100 Video Game Creators of all Time" Nomura was listed at number 84.

Relationship with the Monster Hunter Series
Tetsuya Nomura made a collaboration with Monster Hunter.

Tetsuya Nomura x MH4U
The collaboration was announced on October 12, 2014. The collaboration is exclusive to Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and is not present in Monster Hunter 4G. It features a Palico Armor Set fashioned after Final Fantasy Series' Warrior of Light an Armor Set, as well as the following Weapon, both designed by Tetsuya Nomura himself:



In addition to that, a Play-Arts Kai figure will be made for Tetsuya Nomura's Hunter design.