is a Japanese manga artist. He created the manga Shadow Star and Bokurano, both of which were adapted into anime series.
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Biography
Kitoh's first manga Vendémiaire no Tsubasa debuted in Monthly 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 two 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 Monthly Afternoon from 1998 to 2003, and was adapted into an anime series in 2003. It was among the jury-selected works of Japan Media Arts Festival 2001.
Kitoh released his manga series Bokurano, 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 Monthly Ikki magazine from 2003 to 2009 and published in 11 volumes. A one-shot spinoff, Bokurano Tokubetsu-hen was announced but not published in Monthly Ikki, but rather bundled with the eleventh volume. It was adapted into an anime series, however the director Hiroyuki Morita made changes to the anime story with Kitoh's permission. He wrote two other manga series during this time, those being Yorishiro Trunk and Ability Hero Correction, although he did not illustrate them. In 2021 Kitoh returned to writing and illustrating manga with the series No Boulder, a manga about bouldering, which ran until 2024.
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| Shadow Star
| 1998–2003
| Serialized in Monthly Afternoon<br>12 volumes published by Kodansha
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| 2004
| Short story published in Mystery Bonita<br>Based on a story by Shinichi Hoshi<br>Included in 1 volume published by Akita Shoten
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| 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<br>1 volume published by Shogakukan
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| 2006
| Serialized in Manga Erotics F<br>1 volume published by Ohta Books
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| 2007–2008
| Light novel series (illustrations)<br>5 volumes published by Shogakukan
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| 2008
| Short story published in Jump Square
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| 2009
| Short story published in Jump Square
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| 2009–2015
| Serialized in Good! Afternoon<br>5 volumes published by Kodansha
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| 2009–2015
| Serialized in Evening<br>11 volumes published by Kodansha
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| 2015–on hiatus
| Serialized in Monthly Comic @Bunch<br>3 volumes published by Shinchosha
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| 2017–on hiatus
| Serialized in Evening
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| 2019
| Short story published in Evening
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| 2021–2024
| Serialized on the Kurage Bunch website<br>4 volumes published by Shinchosha
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Anime
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Video games
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External links
- Japanese language interview with Mohiro Kitoh