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Hiroshi Minagawa

Hiroshi Minagawa.

Hiroshi Minagawa (皆川 裕史, Minagawa Hiroshi?) was born in 1970 and is a Japanese game artist and game director who joined Squaresoft (now Square Enix) in 1995. Minagawa is credited as "Nigoro" in his earliest game titles. He is best known as the art director of Final Fantasy Tactics (1997) and Vagrant Story (2000). He was chosen by Yasumi Matsuno as his replacement to co-direct Final Fantasy XII (2006). Minagawa delivered a post-mortem of Final Fantasy XII at the 2007 Game Developers Conference.

In November 2010, Minagawa was asked to join the Final Fantasy XIV (2010) team as Lead UI Designer. This was part of a plan to salvage the game after its overwhelmingly negative reception by critics and players. Director Naoki Yoshida considered the fact that one of the Final Fantasy XII directors was now solely responsible for one aspect of Final Fantasy XIV an indication of how serious Square Enix was about improving the game. The improved game Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (2013) was released in August 2013 to critical acclaim. Minagawa has remained a senior member of the Final Fantasy XIV team ever since.

Works within the series[]

Game Release Work
Final Fantasy Tactics 1997 Art Director, Event Director
Final Fantasy IX 2000 Special Thanks
Vagrant Story 2000 Art Director, Character Model Supervisor, Menu & Layout Artistic Supervisor
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2003 Artistic Supervisor
Final Fantasy XII 2006 Director (with Hiroyuki Ito), Visual Design & Character Texture Supervisor
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions 2007 Art Director, Event Director
Final Fantasy XII International Zodiac Job System 2007 Director (with Hiroyuki Ito), Visual Design & Character Texture Supervisor
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift 2007 Visual Design Supervisor
Gyromancer 2009 Special Thanks
Final Fantasy XIII 2009 Crystal Tools Development Staff
Final Fantasy XIV 2010 Lead UI & Web Artist, Crystal Tools Development Staff
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn 2013 Lead UI Artist
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward 2015 Lead UI Designer (3.0), Art Director (3.1-3.5)
Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood 2017 Art Director
Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age 2017 Supervisor
Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers 2019 Art Director (5.0)
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker 2021 Special Thanks
Final Fantasy XVI 2023 Art Director

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