Hironobu Sakaguchi
, transliterated as Aeris Gainsborough in the English releases of "Final Fantasy VII" and "Final Fantasy Tactics"—is a fictional character in Square's (now Square Enix) role-playing video game "Final Fantasy VII". She was designed by Tetsuya Nomura with influence from Yoshinori Kitase, Hironobu Sakaguchi and Yoshitaka Amano.