Tetsuya Nomura

Tetsuya Nomura is a japanese character designer, I remember him for his work in Kingdom Hearts. His distinctive style appeals to me with it being a mixture of anime and realism with a touch of disproportional body parts. Tetsuya started as a character designer for Square Enix, he then moved up the line to be lead designer and eventually he became the director of the company.

The main characters in Kingdom Hearts have a really cartoonistic style partly because the game involved Disney characters and places.

Tetsuya's characters all follow a pattern in their style, such as: spiky hair, big feet, clean faces and thin limbs.

The characters seemed to carry large weapons but because of the thin limbs it looks like they cannot possibly hold it.
They also have a large quantity of zips and straps.