Biography
He is best known as the art director of Final Fantasy Tactics and the art director and character model supervisor of Vagrant Story. He became the co-director of Final Fantasy XII (with Hiroyuki Ito) when Yasumi Matsuno, the original producer and co-director, left Square Enix during the development of the game due to sickness. Minagawa also served as the game's visual designer and character texture supervisor. Minagawa and Matsuno remain close friends and keep in regular contact despite Matsuno no longer working for Square Enix. They recently worked together on Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together for the PSP.
In December 2010, it was announced that he had been brought into the development team of Final Fantasy XIV. This happened because the development team of Final Fantasy XIV was restructured due to the negative reception of the initial Windows version. The new director, Naoki Yoshida, specifically asked Minagawa to join the team and help with the improvement of the game as he believes that there is nobody better than Minagawa when it comes to designing a graphical user interface.
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