Shinbo Nomura

{{Short description|Japanese manga artist}}

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{{nihongo|Shinbo Nomura|のむら しんぼ|Nomura Shinbo|born {{nihongo|Shin Nomura|野村 伸|Nomura Shin}}; 24 September 1955 in Minamikayabe, now part of Hakodate, Hokkaido}} is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the author of the yonkoma manga {{nihongo|Tsurupika Hagemaru|つるピカハゲ丸||lit. "Little Baldy Hagemaru"}}, which was adapted as a 58-episode anime television series and for which he received the 1988 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga.{{cite web | url=http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html | script-title=ja:小学館漫画賞: 歴代受賞者 | publisher=Shogakukan | language=Japanese | accessdate=2008-06-14 | archive-date=24 April 2005 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050424231028/http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html | url-status=dead }} He also later created a manga adaption of Ratchet & Clank.

He began his career as an assistant to Kenshi Hirokane.