Shigeru Kitayama

Japanese anime producer

Shigeru Kitayama (北山茂, Kitayama Shigeru) is a Japanese anime producer. Some of his major works include Yasuhiro Nightow's Trigun television series^[1] as well as Nightow's other series Gungrave. He has worked on Shinichi Watanabe's adaptation of Excel Saga and the Geobreeders OVA series. He worked with Koichi Mashimo of Bee Train on producing what would later be known as the "girls with guns" series starting with Noir in 2001, then Madlax in 2004, and finally El Cazador de la Bruja in 2007. In 2010 he attended Anime Expo to watch the premiere of Trigun: Badlands Rumble.^[2]

Works

Staffed in

Ninja Scroll (1993 film), Assistant producer
801 T.T.S. Airbats (1994 OVA series), Producer
Trigun (1998 TV series), Producer
Geobreeders (1998 OVA series), Producer
Excel Saga (1999 TV series), Producer
Geobreeders 2 (2000 OVA series), Producer
Noir (2001 TV series), Producer
Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution (2002 TV series), Producer
Gungrave (2003 TV series), Producer, Soundtrack Executive Producer
Madlax (2004 TV series), Producer, Soundtrack Supervisor
El Cazador de la Bruja (2007 TV series), Producer
Trigun: Badlands Rumble (2010 Movie), Producer

Cast in

Puni Puni Poemy (2001 OVA series), Producer Kitayama

Mentioned

旅する少女と灼熱の国, worked with the author ^[3]

References

^ "AX 2010 – Funimation Industry Panel Special Announcements". Anime Diet. July 2, 2010. Retrieved October 3, 2015.
^ "Funimation - Anime Expo 2010". Anime News Network. July 3, 2010. Retrieved October 3, 2015.
^ "teatime-talk". Retrieved June 30, 2021.