Makoto
Encyclopedia
Given name
- Niwano Makoto (にわのまこと), a Manga artist
- Saito MakotoSaito MakotoViscount was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, two-time Governor-General of Korea from 1919 to 1927 and from 1929 to 1931, and the 30th Prime Minister of Japan from May 26, 1932 to July 8, 1934.-Early life:...
(1858–1936), Viscount - Tomioka MakotoTomioka Makotowas a Japanese author and Anarchist. He was also known as Tetsu Nakahama. A member of the anarchist Guillotine Society which made two assassination attempts to avenge the murder of Ōsugi Sakae, Itō Noe, and Osugi's 6-year old nephew, by the military, on secret orders from Hirohito.He was executed...
(1897–1926), Terrorist - Makoto (Sharan Q) (まこと), drummer of Sharan QSharan Qis a Japanese pop rock band composed of lead singer , on guitar, on drums and on keyboards.- Biography :They debuted with in 1992. They were not an instant hit initially, but their fourth single broke the top 50 of the Oricon charts. Eventually, the single got a lot of attention since it...
- Makoto (artist)Makoto (artist), professionally known as , is a Japanese drum and bass musician, DJ and actor. Among other distinctives of Makoto's musical style, a heavy influence of 1970s-era soul, funk and jazz fusion can be heard throughout the vast majority of his repertoire.-Career:Inspired by LTJ Bukem's Logical...
, a drum and bass artist - Makoto HagiwaraMakoto HagiwaraBaron was a Japanese American immigrant and landscape designer responsible for the creating and maintaining the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California from 1895 until his death in 1925...
(1854–1925), a landscape designer - Makoto Horikawa or Ryo HorikawaRyo Horikawais a Japanese voice actor. He is married to fellow Japanese voice actress Hitomi Oikawa, whose birth name is also . His former stage name is also Ryo Horikawa, which has his given name, Makoto, pronounced as Ryo.-Career:...
- Makoto InoueMakoto Inoueis a Japanese professional golfer.Inoue plays on the Japan Golf Tour, and has won twice.-External links:...
(born 1974), professional golfer - Makoto Inoue (author), a short novel writer
- Makoto KawamotoMakoto Kawamoto, born on January 19, 1974 in Japan Fukui-shi, Fukui, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist. She currently sings under the pseudonym Tiger Fake Fur.- Early life :Kawamoto grew up hearing her mother playing the piano...
(born 1974), singer-songwriter - Makoto Kobayashi (artist) (born 1958), Manga artist
- Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)is a Japanese physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."- Biography :After completing his PhD at...
(born 1944), physicist - Makoto Muramatsu (村松誠), an artist famous for pictures of cats and dogs
- Makoto NaganoMakoto Naganois a commercial fisherman and the captain of his vessel, and musician. He is regularly seen on the Japanese television show Sasuke where he is one of the "SASUKE All-Stars," a group of favored competitors who possess the greatest potential in completing the four grueling obstacle courses of Ninja...
(born 1972), 2006 SASUKE winner - Makoto NakajimaMakoto Nakajimawas the commissioner of the Japan Patent Office until he was succeeded by Tetsuhiro Hosono.-Government service:Upon graduating from the University of Tokyo with a law degree, Nakajima began working in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in April 1974. On May 1988, the Industrial...
(born 1952), former commissioner of the Japan Patent Office - Makoto OgawaMakoto Ogawais a Japanese pop singer and actress best known as a former member of Morning Musume. She joined the group in August 2001 along with fellow fifth generation members Ai Takahashi, Risa Niigaki, and Asami Konno.Ogawa is currently a member of Dream Morning Musume....
(born 1987), J-pop singer - Makoto OokaMakoto Ookais a Japanese poet and literary critic.Ooka's poetry column was published without a break seven days a week for more than 20 years on the front page of Asahi Shimbun, which is Japan's leading national newspaper.-Notes:...
(born 1931), Poet - Makoto RaikuMakoto Raikuis a manga artist whose works have appeared prominently in Shogakukan's publication Shōnen Sunday. Starting off an assistant for Kazuhiro Fujita on his manga Ushio & Tora, he started creating several one-shots for the shōnen manga anthology such as Bird Man , Hero Ba-Ban and Genmai Blade is a...
, a manga artist - Makoto Sakamoto (マコト・サカモト), a drummer
- Makoto ShinkaiMakoto Shinkai, better known by the stage name , is a Japanese anime director, animator, and voice actor. A native of the Koumi Nagano Prefecture in Japan, he studied Japanese literature at Chuo University. He traces his passion for creation to the manga, anime, and novels he was exposed to while in middle...
(born 1973), Anime director) - Makoto TamamuraMakoto TamamuraMakoto Tamamura is an automobile chassis engineer. While working forHonda Motor Co. Ltd, Tamamura helped to design the Acura NSX and to tune the suspension of the Acura TL A-SPEC.- References :...
, an Engineer - Makoto TsumuraMakoto Tsumurais a Japanese voice actress from Hokkaidō formerly affiliated with Mausu Promotion.-Television animation:*Astro Boy *Dokkiri Doctor *Idaten Jump *Inukami! *Ghost Stories...
(born 1965), voice actor - Makoto Ueda (architecture critic)Makoto Ueda (architecture critic)is an editor and architecture critic.After graduating in French literature from Waseda University, Ueda worked as an editor of architectural magazines, notably as chief editor of Toshi Jūtaku.- Books by Ueda :...
(born 1935), architecture critic) - Makoto Ueda (poetry critic), a professor from Stanford
- Makoto YamaguchiMakoto YamaguchiMakoto Yamaguchi has taken an active part in origami as a professional creator after working with the Nippon Origami Association. In 1989, he opened "Gallery Origami House", a venue to showcase the works of origami creators...
, an Origami artist - Makoto YukimuraMakoto Yukimurais a Japanese manga artist. Yukimura made his debut in 2000 with the praised Planetes, serialized in Kodansha Weekly Morning mangazine and adapted into a 26 episodes anime series by the studio Sunrise...
(born 1976), a manga artist - Makoto (wrestler)Makoto (wrestler)is a Japanese professional wrestler. She is currently working for Smash and is also known for her time in Ice Ribbon, where she held the ICE×60 Championship once and the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship twice.-Ice Ribbon :...
(born 1989), professional wrestler
Characters
- Makoto is a monk at the temple of Terayama in the Lian Hearn novel series Tales of the OtoriTales of the OtoriTales of the Otori is a series of historical fantasy novels by Lian Hearn, set in a fictional world based on feudal Japan. The series initially consisted of a trilogy: Across the Nightingale Floor , Grass for His Pillow , and Brilliance of the Moon...
, who later takes up the position of Abbot after the death of Matsuda Shingen - Makoto Kibune, in Bleach (manga)Bleach (manga)is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Noriaki "Tite" Kubo. Bleach follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he obtains the powers of a —a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki...
- Mizoguchi Makoto, in Fighter's HistoryFighter's Historyis a series of competitive fighting games that were produced by Data East during the 1990s. The original Fighter's History was first released for the arcades in and then ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in...
- Makoto (Enchanted Arms), in Enchanted ArmsEnchanted ArmsEnchanted Arms is a science fiction/fantasy-based role-playing game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Although the game was intended to be an Xbox 360 launch title for the Japanese market, its release date was pushed back to , by the developer, From Software...
- Makoto (Street Fighter)Makoto (Street Fighter)is a fictional character from the Street Fighter video game series. She is a Tosan fighter and a Rindōkan karate expert from Japan. She first appeared in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, and again in Super Street Fighter IV. She wears a white dougi and a yellow hachimaki around her neck, intended to...
, in the Street Fighter series - Makoto/Proto-Makoto: A robot girl (On MySimsMySimsMySims, formerly The Sims Wii and Nintendo Sims, is a video game developed by EA Redwood Shores and published by Electronic Arts as a spinoff to Maxis' The Sims franchise for the Nintendo DS and Wii in 2007, then re-released for Microsoft Windows and Mobile phone in 2008.It is the first game in the...
) - Makoto Aihara, in Rumble Roses and Rumble Roses XX
- Makoto Amano, in W JulietW Julietis a shōjo romantic comedy manga series by Emura. It was published by Hakusensha in Hana to Yume between 1997 and 2002 and collected in 14 bound volumes. It is about the relationship between tomboy Ito Miura and the feminine Makoto Amano who share the common dream of becoming actors, as they work...
- Makoto Hashimoto, in Battle Royale II: Blitz RoyaleBattle Royale II: Blitz Royaleis manga inspired by the movie Battle Royale II: Requiem. While the author of the original novel, Koushun Takami, is given the gensaku credit, the story and art are by Hitoshi Tomizawa ....
- Makoto Hozumi, in Sasami: Mahou Shoujo ClubSasami: Mahou Shoujo Clubis a magical girl anime which features the rather familiar likenesses of Sasami and other characters of the Tenchi Muyo! franchise, specifically those of Pretty Sammy. However, this series has nothing to do with either Pretty Sammy anime titles...
- Makoto Hyuga, in Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Makoto IsshikiMakoto Isshikiis a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his series Piano no Mori, which has been adapted as an anime movie and received the Grand Prize for manga at the 2008 Japan Media Arts Festival...
, in RahXephon - Makoto Itō, in School Days
- Makoto Jin, in Battle Fever JBattle Fever Jis a Japanese TV series, being the third entry of the Super Sentai series franchise. It was co-produced by Toei Company and TV Asahi and aired on TV Asahi on February 3, 1979 - January 26, 1980 with a total of 52 episodes...
) - Makoto Kashino, in Yumeiro PatissiereYumeiro Patissiereis a shōjo manga and anime series by Natsumi Matsumoto. It began serialization on September 3, 2008, in the October 2008 issue of Ribon. The individual chapters have been collected into nine tankōbon volumes by Shueisha as of May 2011. The series ended on June 3, 2011, and is expected to be 10...
- Makoto Kawamura, character in Futari EcchiFutari Ecchi, also known by other names Manga Sutra, Step Up Love Story or Manga Love Story, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsu Aki....
- Makoto Kino (Lita Kino), in Sailor Moon
- Makoto Kohsaka, in GenshikenGenshikenis a manga series by Shimoku Kio about a college club for otaku and the lifestyle its members pursue. The title is a shortening of the club's official name, , or "The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture". The series has also been adapted into an anime directed by Tsutomu Mizushima...
- Makoto Konno, in The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- Makoto Kozuka, in Paranoia AgentParanoia Agentis a Japanese anime television series created by director Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse about a social phenomenon in Musashino, Tokyo caused by a juvenile serial assailant named Lil' Slugger...
- Makoto Kyogoku, in Case ClosedCase ClosedCase Closed, known as in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since February 2, 1994, and has been collected in 73 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011...
(Detective Conan)) - Makoto Mizuhara, in El-Hazard
- Makoto Nanaya, in BlazBlue: Continuum ShiftBlazBlue: Continuum Shiftis a 2-D fighting game developed by Arc System Works. The game is the official sequel to BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. As with the previous game, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift first came to arcades before both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions as the game was currently released for the Taito Type...
- Makoto Narita, in W JulietW Julietis a shōjo romantic comedy manga series by Emura. It was published by Hakusensha in Hana to Yume between 1997 and 2002 and collected in 14 bound volumes. It is about the relationship between tomboy Ito Miura and the feminine Makoto Amano who share the common dream of becoming actors, as they work...
- Makoto Ōgami, in Ghost HoundGhost Houndis an anime TV series, created by Production I.G and Masamune Shirow, noted for being the creator of the Ghost in the Shell series. The original concept and design was first developed by Shirow in 1987...
- Makoto Ohkawa, in Man of Many FacesMan of Many Facesis a manga by CLAMP about a nine-year-old boy named Akira Ijyuin who steals beautiful and valuable objects to please his two mothers and is known to the public as the dashing, clever thief named the Man of 20 Faces. The manga took inspiration from the works of Edogawa Rampo, most notably from the...
and Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLETsubasa: Reservoir Chronicleis a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by the manga artist group Clamp. It takes place in the same fictional universe as many of Clamp's other manga series, most notably xxxHolic. The plot follows how Sakura, the princess of the Kingdom of Clow, loses her soul and how Syaoran, a young... - Makoto Sawatari, in Kanon
- Makoto Shido, in Idaten JumpIdaten Jumpis a manga series created by Toshihiro Fujiwara serialized in Comic BonBon, about a boy who loves dirt biking. It was adapted into a 52-episode anime by Aniplex, whose original name is 韋駄天翔. A toyline was also made by Tomy...
- Makoto Shishio (志々雄真実), a villain in Rurouni Kenshin
- Makoto Yutaka, in The Day of Revolution/Princess Princess
Other uses
- Makoto (game)Makoto (game)Makoto is a game invented in Colorado by Paul R. Russel and Alysn Hassenforder in 1992. It simulates a battle by requiring the player to hit lighted targets on three computer-controlled "opponents".-Playing Court and Equipment:...
(a single-player aerobic electronic game) - Makoto, the name of one of the MegatokyoMegatokyois an English-language webcomic created by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston, debuting on August 14, 2000, and then written and illustrated solely by Gallagher since July 17, 2002. Gallagher's style of writing and illustration is heavily influenced by Japanese manga. Megatokyo is freely available on...
servers as well as one of the characters in the Megatokyo omakeOmakemeans extra in Japanese. Its primary meaning is general and widespread. It is used as an anime and manga fandom term to mean "extra or bonus". In USA, the term is most often used in a narrow sense by anime fans to describe special features on DVD releases: deleted scenes, interviews with the...
"Grand Theft Colo: Otaku City" - Magic Sword "Makoto", a Katana in Demon's SoulsDemon's Soulsis an action role-playing game video game developed primarily by From Software exclusively for the PlayStation 3. It was released in Japan on February 5, 2009 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment...
See also
- Motoko (disambiguation)
- Macoto TezkaMacoto Tezkais a Japanese film and anime director, born in Tokyo. He partially owns Tezuka Productions and helped in releasing the posthumous works of his father, the famous Osamu Tezuka. He also runs his own company, Neontetra...
(the son of Osamu Tezuka)