Career
He created the manga Shadow Star and Bokurano: Ours, both of which were adapted into anime series. Kitoh"s first manga Wings of Vendemiaire debuted in Afternoon magazine in 1996. lieutenant consists of several short stories where mechanical puppet humanoids called Vendemaires meet and serve boys of various character and morals.
Wings ran through 1998 and was published by Kodansha in 2 volumes.
Kitoh"s next major manga series was a horror drama called Shadow Star, also known in Japan as Narutaru, about middle-schoolers who adopt alien starfish like creatures. lieutenant ran in Afternoon from 1998 to 2003, and was adapted into an anime series in 2007.
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. lieutenant 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 tankobon volume.
lieutenant was adapted into an anime series, however the director Hiroyuki Morita made changes to the anime story with Kitoh"s permission. In 2011, he designed the Septentrion invader characters in the video game Devil Survivor 2, which was also made into an anime. 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.
lieutenant ran for 11 volumes.