Shōji Kawamori

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Affectionately nicknamed 'Holy Floating Head' by western fans. I do not know why.

Shoji Kawamori (河森正治 Kawamori Shōji) is a renowned Japanese mechanical designer. He was born February 2, 1960, in Toyama Prefecture.

He was one of the designers working for Takara on Diaclone and is known to have contibuted to the design of Battle Convoy amongst others. However, he is most famous for having designed the transforming VF-1 Valkyrie fighter jet/mecha for the series Super Dimensional Fortress Macross. A toy version of the Valkyrie was later used as the Transformer Jetfire.

Recently he has returned to the Transformers world, designing for the Masterpiece and Transformers Hybrid Style (THS) lines.

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