Junya Inoue (井上 淳哉, Inoue Jun'ya; born 1971 in Shimanto, Kochi) is a Japanese manga artist. He is also known by the…
Junya Inoue (井上 淳哉, Inoue Jun'ya; born 1971 in Shimanto, Kochi) is a Japanese manga artist. He is also known by the name Joker Jun. In 1991 he replied to a recruitment ad for Toaplan. Along with some other staff Inoue was transferred to Gazelle before he left to join Cave, where he worked as character and graphic designer, sound producer, and a video game director. ESP Ra.De. was his first title as graphic director. He debuted as a manga artist in 2002, with his work Otogi Matsuri (おとぎ奉り; lit. Dark Offering). He is best known in the West for his manga Btooom!, which was serialized from 2009 to 2018.
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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…
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. He also created the characters Cactuar, Gilgamesh, and Tonberry. Nomura created and has led the development as director and character designer of the Kingdom Hearts series since its inception in 2002. He has also been a creative producer in The World Ends with You series. He has directed the 2005 film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, and directed Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020), and served as creative director for the sequels Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024) and Final Fantasy VII Revelation (2027).