Mohiro Kitoh

Template:Nihongo is a Japanese manga artist. He created the manga Shadow Star and Bokurano: Ours, both of which were adapted into anime series.

Biography

Kitoh's first manga Vendémiaire no Tsubasa debuted in Afternoon magazine in 1995. It consists of several short stories where mechanical puppet humanoids called Vendemaires meet and serve boys of various character and morals. Vendémiaire no Tsubasa ran until 1997 and was published by Kodansha in 2 volumes. It was followed in 1999 by SiNNa 1905, a single-volume online manga detailing a civil war in an alternate-history Japan.

Kitoh's next major manga series was a science-fiction drama called Shadow Star, also known in Japan as Narutaru, about elementary and middle-schoolers who adopt alien starfish-like creatures. It ran in Afternoon from 1998 to 2003, and was adapted into an anime series in 2003.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was among the jury-selected works of Japan Media Arts Festival 2001.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Kitoh released his manga series Bokurano: Ours, about a group of children who participate in a real-life robot battle against alien invaders but whose victories cost their lives. It was serialized in Ikki magazine from 2003 to 2009 and published in 11 volumes. A one-shot spinoff, Bokurano Tokubetsu-hen was announced but not published in Ikki magazine, but rather bundled with the 11th tankōbon volume.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was adapted into an anime series, however the director Hiroyuki Morita made changes to the anime story with Kitoh's permission.<ref name="ann 20090625"/> In 2010, Bokurano won an Excellence Prize in the Manga Division at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards.<ref name="ann 20101208"/>

In 2011, he designed the Septentrion invader characters in the video game Devil Survivor 2,<ref name="siliconera devil survivor 2"/> which was also made into an anime. Around the same time, Kitoh also served as a character designer for the animated film Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, in which he was responsible for the design of the Third Angel.

From 2009 to 2015, Kitoh worked on the manga Noririn, serialized in Kodansha's Evening magazine, about a salaryman who loses his driver's license and takes up cycling along with a road racing high school girl. It ran for 11 volumes.<ref name="ann 20150308"/>

In 2015, Kitoh released Futago no Teikoku, a fantasy manga which takes place in a world resembling Japanese-occupied China during the 1930s and concerns a girl cursed to kill anyone who touches her. So far three volumes have been written.

His most recent manga, Hayabusa-chan mo Tondemasu was released in January 2017.

Works

Title	Year	Notes	Refs<ref name="madb"/>
Vendémiaire no Tsubasa	1995–97	Serialized in Monthly Afternoon 2 volumes published by Kodansha	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Shadow Star	1998–2003	Serialized in Monthly Afternoon 12 volumes published by Kodansha	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="ann 20061203"/>
Template:Nihongo	1999	Webcomic 1 volume published by Biblos
Template:Nihongo	2003–05	Serialized in Manga Erotics F 1 volume published by Ohta Books
Bokurano: Ours	2003–09	Serialized in Monthly Ikki 11 volumes published by Shogakukan 14th Media Arts Festival Award – Manga Division Excellence Prize	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="ann 20101208">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="ann 20061203">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="ann 20070614">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Nihongo	2004	Short story published in Mystery Bonita Based on a story by Shinichi Hoshi Included in 1 volume published by Akita Shoten
Template:Nihongo	2004	Collection of works originally published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, Weekly Shōnen Champion, Afternoon Season Zōkan, Monthly Afternoon, Young Magazine GT, Weekly Young Magazine and Monthly Ikki 1 volume published by Shogakukan
Template:Nihongo	2006	Serialized in Manga Erotics F 1 volume published by Ohta Books
Template:Nihongo	2007–08	Light novel series (illustrations) 5 volumes published by Shogakukan
Template:Nihongo	2008	Short story published in Jump Square	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Nihongo	2009	Short story published in Jump Square	Template:Citation needed
Template:Nihongo	2009–15	Serialized in Good! Afternoon 5 volumes published by Kodansha
Template:Nihongo	2009–15	Serialized in Evening 11 volumes published by Kodansha	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="ann 20090728">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Nihongo	2015–on hiatus	Serialized in Monthly Comic @Bunch 3 volumes published by Shinchosha
Template:Nihongo	2017–on hiatus	Serialized in Evening
Template:Nihongo	2019	Short story published in Evening
Template:Nihongo	2021–24	Serialized on the Kurage Bunch website 4 volumes published by Shinchosha	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Anime

Title	Year	Notes	Refs<ref name="madb"/>
2013	Devil Survivor 2: The Animation	Septentriones characters design	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Video games

Title	Year	Notes	Refs<ref name="madb"/>
2011	Devil Survivor 2	Septentriones characters design	<ref name="siliconera devil survivor 2"/>

External links

• Template:Official website Template:In lang
• Template:Anime News Network
• Japanese language interview with Mohiro Kitoh