Shōji Kawamori

Shōji Kawamori
Taken during the 14th edition of Japan Expo in 2013 organised at the 'Parc de expositions of Villepinte near Paris in France.
Born	(1960-02-20) February 20, 1960 (age 56) Toyama City, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Other names	Eiji Kurokawa,
Occupation	Anime creator Producer Screenwriter Visual artist Mecha designer
Employer	Satelight
Known for	Macross The Vision of Escaflowne

Shōji Kawamori (河森 正治, Kawamori Shōji^?, born February 20, 1960) is a Japanese anime creator and producer, screenwriter, visual artist, and mecha designer.

Shoji Kawamori was born in Toyama, Japan in 1960. Later in his youth he attended Keio University in the late seventies and in the same years as Macross screenwriter Hiroshi Ōnogi and character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, where they became friends and founded a Mobile Suit Gundam fan club called "Gunsight One", a name the group would use years later during the development of the fictional world of the Macross series.

Shoji Kawamori occasionally used the alias Eiji Kurokawa (黒河影次 Kurokawa Eiji) early in his anime career when he started as a teenage intern at Studio Nue and worked as assistant artist and animator there during the late seventies and early eighties. Later on his career Kawamori created or co-created the concepts which served as basis for several anime series such as The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, The Vision of Escaflowne, Earth Maiden Arjuna, Genesis of Aquarion, Macross 7, Macross Frontier and Macross Delta. His projects are usually noted to contain strong themes of love, war, spirituality or mysticism, and ecological concern. Kawamori is currently executive director at the animation studio Satelight.