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Akihiko Yoshida

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Akihiko Yoshida

Akihiko Yoshida (吉田 明彦, Yoshida Akihiko) is a character designer for Square Enix. He helps create the character images and wardrobe that will appear on the character in the game. Yoshida joined Squaresoft, the company which would merge later with Enix to create Square Enix in 1995. His work for Square includes character design for Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy XII, and Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions. He has also worked on the Nintendo DS remake of Final Fantasy III. Work for the company that he has done not under a Final Fantasy title includes Vagrant Story, which does have some relation to a few games in the Final Fantasy series.

Prior to working on Final Fantasy Tactics, Akihiko did work with Quest, along with Yasumi Matsuno, on Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together and Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen, a pair of strategic role-playing games which are widely considered to be the predecessors of Final Fantasy Tactics.

[edit] List of Works

Game Name Yoshida's Role(s)
Final Fantasy Tactics Character Design, Background Art Direction
Vagrant Story Character Design
Final Fantasy XII Character Design, Background Design Supervisor
Final Fantasy III DS Character Design
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions Character Design, Background Art Direction
Final Fantasy XIV Art Direction
Hikari no Yon Senshi Final Fantasy Gaiden Character Design

[edit] Gallery

Various character designs in Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions.

Character Illustrations from Final Fantasy XII.

Character Illustrations from Vagrant Story.

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