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2 | [[caption-width-right:156:Draws manga the same way [[Creator/FranciscoDeGoya Goya]] painted family portraits.]] |
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4 | Mohiro Kitoh (born August 8, 1966) is a mangaka best known for ''Manga/ShadowStar'' and ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', both of which have been adapted into anime series. Before those, he also wrote the two-volume manga ''Manga/WingsOfVendemiaire'' as well as a number of short stories. |
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6 | He typically writes in the science-fiction genre, and his work frequently sits on [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism the far end of the cynical side of the scale]] (though there are exceptions). It frequently involves very disturbing material and [[MoodWhiplash abrupt changes in mood]]. [[AuthorAppeal Common themes]] include the [[HumansAreBastards cruelty of humans]] and the [[ChildrenAreInnocent innocence]] ([[BreakTheCutie or loss of]], [[SubvertedTrope or indeed lack thereof]]) of children. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He is also really fond of mountain bikes and airplanes]]; in fact, one of his more recent series, ''Noririn'', [[MoodWhiplash is about bikes]], while another, ''Hayabusa-chan mo Tondemasu'', is about aviation. |
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8 | When you break apart the kanji for his name, it means "[[MeaningfulName ogre headed teacher.]]" [[AbusiveParents And]] [[RapeAsDrama considering]] [[HarmfulToMinors the]] [[FromBadToWorse stuff]] [[DeusAngstMachina that]] [[BreakTheCutie he]] [[AnyoneCanDie writes...]] |
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10 | Compare to Creator/GenUrobuchi, [[Literature/ReZero Tappei Nagatsuki]], Creator/ChuckPalahniuk, and Creator/GarthEnnis. |
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13 | !! His works include: |
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15 | * ''Manga/WingsOfVendemiaire'' |
16 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' (Angel design, support: Sachiel, Israfel, Zeruel. Main: 3rd Angel ROE.) |
17 | * ''Manga/ShadowStar'' |
18 | * ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' |
19 | * ''Ekrano'' |
20 | * ''Manga/HallucinationsFromTheWomb'' |
21 | * ''Kare no Satsujin Keikaku'' (His Murder Plan) |
22 | * ''Manga/OwariToHajimariNoMiles'' |
23 | * ''Noririn'' |
24 | * ''Nanika Mochigatte Masuka?'' (Is ''Their'' Something Wrong?) |
25 | * ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' (character design) |
26 | * ''Manga/FutagoNoTeikoku'' |
27 | * ''Sinna 1905'' |
28 | * ''Kaze no Ou'' (King of the Wind) |
29 | * ''Hayabusa-Chan no Tondemasu'' |
30 | * ''Princess's Helmet'' |
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32 | He has also served as an illustrator, doing cover art for some of the novels of Natsumi Masataki (a science-fiction writer whose work frequently focuses of aviation and the military). |
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35 | !! Tropes present in his works: |
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37 | * AbusiveParents: Fairly common in his works. |
38 | * AlternateHistory: ''Sinna 1905'' takes place in one, in which Japan is undergoing a civil war. ''Manga/FutagoNoTeikoku'' is also set in an alternate history. |
39 | * AMechByAnyOtherName: In ''Sinna 1905'', the mechs that the characters use are called "Tomikrots", which is an Ainu word meaning "battle coffin". In the novelization of ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' this word is also used for the enemy robots. |
40 | * ApocalypseHow: Kitoh's manga often depict the world coming to an end. For example: |
41 | ** In ''Manga/ShadowStar'', [[spoiler:humanity gets wiped out by Shiina's Shadow Dragon--[[GeniusLoci the Earth itself.]]]] |
42 | ** The main characters' world isn't destroyed in ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', but [[spoiler:over a dozen others are, along with their entire universes.]] |
43 | ** The oneshot ''Ekrano'' takes place in a world that's become covered by ocean and infested with alien life-forms called Kujirani, which the protagonists use [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle ekranoplanes]] to fight. |
44 | * AnyoneCanDie: This is how both ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' and ''Manga/ShadowStar'' end. |
45 | * BalkanizeMe: Happens to Japan in ''Sinna 1905'' |
46 | * BlackAndGrayMorality |
47 | * BreakTheCutie |
48 | * BugWar: ''Ekrano'' is set in the midst of one, with the "bugs" in question being alien sea monsters. |
49 | * ChildSoldiers: The pilots in Bokurano are all in their teens or younger. [[DeconstructedTrope This is treated with all the seriousness it would be in real life.]] |
50 | ** The cast of ''Sinna 1905'' are also child soldiers, fighting a civil war in an alternate Japan. |
51 | * CoolBike: Appears incidentally throughout his work, and is the focus of ''Noririn''. |
52 | * CoolPlane: Kitoh is very fond of aviation, and detailed depictions of aircraft often appear in his works. His latest manga, ''Hayabusa-chan mo Tondemasu'', is even about a girl who can transform ''into'' an airplane. |
53 | * CreatorThumbprint: Like Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, he is extremely fond of flight, and flight in some form features in a large number of his works. He's nowhere near as [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism idealistic]] as Miyazaki, though. |
54 | * CutShort: His manga, their anime adaptations, and their translations all have an unfortunate tendency for this to happen to them. ''Manga/OwariToHajimariNoMiles'' is probably the worst offender, since not only was it discontinued but the magazine in which it ran was also cancelled. |
55 | * {{Deconstructed Trope}}s: His best-known works are [[GenreDeconstruction deconstructions]] of genres like {{Mon}}s (''Manga/ShadowStar'') and SuperRobot (''Manga/{{Bokurano}}''). |
56 | * DatingCatwoman: One of the main characters of ''Sinna 1905'' has a crush on a woman who fights on the opposite side of the war. |
57 | * DysfunctionJunction: Gee, where to start. . . |
58 | ** Pretty much none of the dragon-bearers in ''Manga/ShadowStar'' are mentally well-adjusted; even Shiina loses her cool at the end. |
59 | ** The HumongousMecha pilots in ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' are similar. |
60 | ** His short story series ''Manga/HallucinationsFromTheWomb'' is set in entire ''city'' that's one of these. |
61 | * EnfantTerrible: Many of the kids in ''Manga/ShadowStar'' are pretty nasty, as is Kodama from ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}''. |
62 | * HumansAreBastards: The standard message of his stories |
63 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: ''Manga/WingsOfVendemiaire'' has some Gratuitous French, ''Manga/ShadowStar'' has some Gratuitous Russian, and ''Sinna 1905'' is unusual in having a great deal of Gratuitous ''Ainu.'' ''Manga/FutagoNoTeikoku'' contains a lot of Gratuitous Chinese. |
64 | * HumongousMecha: ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' is a [[GenreDeconstruction deconstruction]] of this idea. |
65 | ** His short manga ''Sinna 1905'' and ''Kaze no Ou'' are more straight examples. |
66 | * KidsAreCruel / TeensAreMonsters: All over the place. |
67 | * LighterAndSofter: Noririn, which is about bicycling. It's pretty tame. |
68 | ** A lot of his oneshots qualify too. For example, ''Ekrano'', despite its post-apocalyptic setting, is pretty much G-rated. |
69 | * MilitaryMoe: ''Manga/OwariToHajimariNoMiles'' and ''Hayabusa-Chan no Tondemasu'' both count, with their teenage girl protagonists and detailed images of military vehicles. |
70 | * MoodWhiplash / FromBadToWorse: '''Always''' expect those when reading his works ... |
71 | * NoodlePeople: Kitoh's characters are almost always slender and gangly, even if they're supposed to be overweight. |
72 | * NoExportForYou: The only works of his to have gotten official English translations were ''Manga/ShadowStar'' and ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}''. |
73 | * OurMonstersAreWeird: He has a serious creative streak when it comes to designing monsters, including the various Dragons from ''Manga/ShadowStar'', the Septentriones from ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'', the Kujirani from ''Ekrano'', and the Third Angel from ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion''. |
74 | * RapeAsDrama: A lot, but the most disturbing example is to be found in ''Hallucinations from the Womb''. In it, [[spoiler:a man has sex with a girl and gives her an STD.]] |
75 | * ShownTheirWork: Kitoh has a lot of technical knowledge about vehicles, especially aircraft, and it shows in his manga. This is especially true in the manga version of ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', which has technical details on the futuristic aircraft in the bonus segments. |
76 | ** He's also fluent in Russian, and Russia shows up surprisingly often. |
77 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: His most famous works are extremely far on the "cynical" end of the scale, but the other stuff he's written is a lot more variable. |
78 | * SteamPunk: ''Manga/WingsOfVendemiaire'', ''Manga/FutagoNoTeikoku'', ''Sinna 1905'', and ''Kaze no Ou'' all have elements of this. |
79 | * StrawNihilist: It's hard to tell whether he's one himself or not, but some of his characters and perhaps several of his stories definitely are nihilistic. |
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