Shōji Kawamori (河森 正治, Kawamori Shōji; born February 20, 1960) is a Japanese animation creator and producer, screenwriter, visual artist, and mecha designer. He is best known for creating the Macross mecha animated franchise and the Diaclone toyline, which were in turn the basis for the Robotech and Transformers franchises, respectively. He is also known for creating The Vision of Escaflowne anime series. He pioneered several innovative concepts in his works, such as transforming mecha (including the VF-1 Valkyrie in Macross and Optimus Prime in Transformers) and virtual idols (including Lynn Minmay and Sharon Apple in the Macross franchise). His work has had a significant impact on popular culture, both in Japan and internationally.

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.

Kawamori jokingly claimed that his preference from designing mecha stemmed from his experience of playing with Fischertechnik construction blocks given to him by his father during his youth. The prohibitive expensiveness of the toys left him with a limited supply of blocks, which encouraged him to take advantage of their numerous articulation points to create individual designs with multiple variations.

Shoji Kawamori started his anime career as a teenage intern at Studio Nue, working as an assistant artist and animator during the late seventies and early eighties. He occasionally used the alias Eiji Kurokawa (黒河影次 Kurokawa Eiji) in his early work. Later in his career Kawamori created or co-created the concepts which served as basis for several anime series such as 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.

Kawamori is the current president of the Anime Tourism Association, an organization dedicated to promoting tourism to Japan driven by interest in anime and manga. He was appointed to the position on October 8, 2024, succeeding Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, who had previously held the position since ATA's foundation in 2016.

Shoji Kawamori is a visual artist and a mecha designer – projects featuring his designs range from 1983's Crusher Joe to 2005's Eureka Seven. Also, each and every variable fighter from the official Macross series continuity has been designed by him.

Kawamori's design aesthetics and philosophy drew inspiration from childhood interests, particularly the works of Giorgetto Giugiaro (designer of the Isuzu 117 Coupé and DMC DeLorean), the fictional machines and vehicles featured in the original Thunderbirds series, and the designs of real-life aircraft and spacecraft such as the North American XB-70 Valkyrie and the modules of the Apollo program. The Isuzu 117 specifically cemented Kawamori's belief that a designer has influence over the final product.

Kawamori also helped to design various toys for the Takara toyline Diaclone in the early 1980s, many of which were later incorporated into Hasbro's Transformers toyline. Quite a few of them became iconic Transformers: Generation 1 toy designs. Among them the first Optimus Prime ("Convoy") toy design, Prowl, Bluestreak, Smokescreen, Ironhide, and Ratchet. In 2006, he designed both the Hybrid Style Convoy and the Masterpiece version of Starscream for Takara.