Hiroshi Minagawa

Hiroshi Minagawa is one of those quietly impressive industry veterans who built his career during the golden era of Japanese game development — born in 1970, he came of age right as the game industry was exploding in the late 80s and 90s, and he clearly made the most of it. He helped make Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre with Yasumi Matsuno, moved to Square in 1995, and stepped in as director of Final Fantasy XII after Matsuno left; Matsuno himself has called him an artist first. A craftsman's craftsman.

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Hiroshi Minagawa is a Japanese video game artist, designer and director, born in 1970. At Quest he worked with Yasumi Matsuno on Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre, joined Square in 1995, and took over as director of Final Fantasy XII after Matsuno left. He has an account on X.

Name (English)

Hiroshi Minagawa

Name (Japanese)

皆川裕史

Reading

みながわ ひろし

Born

August 11, 1970 (age 56)

Origin

Japan

Occupation

Game Designer / Game Developer / Television Producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dog

• Xhttps://x.com/minagaw
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9A%86%E5%B7%9D%E8%A3%95%E5%8F%B2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q239429

Tags

• Game Designer
• Game Developer
• Television Producer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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