Hiroshi Minagawa

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Hiroshi Minagawa 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
==External links==
*Hiroshi Minagawa's Official Twitter Page
*Interview with Hiroshi Minagawa about the PAL version of Final Fantasy XII
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