Nomura just needs to chill out and quit making leathery-belt creatures who listen to MTV. If he could just go back to the mindset he had when he was creating Brave Fencer Musashi, Parasite Eve, and FFVIII that would be cool (although his madness slowly began with VIII). But before all that, he is actually an excellent monster designer. I think he should, yeah, let someone else take over character designing for a while until he gets a spiritual epiphany, and continue solely designing monsters.

As for 'The World Ends With You'; I'm uninterested in the title at the moment. Not because of Nomura's repetitive designs, I don't let that bother me, but because the gameplay does seem like a complete mess as mentioned above.