Motoei Shinzawa

{{Short description|Japanese manga artist}}

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| birth_name = 新沢 基栄

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1958|06|10|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

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| nationality = Japanese

| area = Manga

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| notable works = Highschool! Kimen-gumi series

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| sortkey = Shinzawa, Motoei

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{{nihongo|Motoei Shinzawa|新沢 基栄|Shinzawa Motoei}} is a Japanese manga artist born June 10, 1958, in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.

His debut manga was Sannen Kimen-gumi, published in Weekly Shōnen Jump beginning in 1980. After Sannen ended in 1982, he began publishing Highschool! Kimen-gumi, also in Weekly Shōnen Jump, until 1987. Highschool was a smash hit, and an animated version was begun in 1985, running for two years on Fuji TV, along with a movie in 1986 and two video games. His next manga series was {{nihongo|I'm Shitataka|僕はしたたか君|Boku wa Shitataka-kun}}, which ran from 1988 through 1990. After Shitataka, Shinzawa took a break from publishing manga until 2001, when his current series, Flash! Kimen-gumi began.