Mamoru (まもる, マモル) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: Marcus Mamoru Toji (born 1984), American actor , Japanese composer , Japanese composer best known for his work with animator Hayao Miyazaki , Japanese politician , Japanese rugby union player , Japanese shogi player , Japanese film director , Japanese inventor, music composer, and Chief Executive Officer of VitaCraft and VitaCraft Japan , Olympics marksmen Mamoru Iriguchi, Japanese multimedia artist and theatre designer , Japanese anime director , Japanese former professional baseball starting pitcher , Japanese politician , Japanese boxer , Japanese ninth degree (kudan) judo sensei , Japanese jurist , Japanese actor and voice actor , Japanese astronaut , Japanese middle-distance runner , Japanese mechanical designer, character designer, and manga artist Mamoru Nakamura (died 1992), Palauan jurist , Japanese entomologist and geneticist , Japanese mixed martial artist , Japanese film director Mamoru Oye (born 1937), Canadian judoka , Japanese high-level official , Japanese composer , Japanese TV and film screenwriter and author Mamoru Sato (born 1937), American modernist sculptor , Imperial Japanese Navy officer , Japanese Minister of Foreign affairs at the end of World War II , Japanese journalist for Dentsu , Japanese former volleyball player , Ryukyuan businessman , Japanese illustrator/manga artist , Japanese professional golfer , Japanese ice hockey player , Japanese criminal/murderer , Japanese ophthalmologist , Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor , Japanese architect , Japanese mixed martial artist , Japanese anime illustrator, and character designer and producer , Japanese ice sledge hockey player
Fictional characters , a character in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni visual novel and anime series , a character in The King of Braves GaoGaiGar , a character in the Sailor Moon series , a character in the Inazuma Eleven , a character in From the New World , a character in Forbidden Siren 2 , a character in the Captain Tsubasa series , a character in Kage Kara Mamoru! , a character in Space Battleship Yamato , a character in the Hajime no Ippo series , a character in Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo! Mamoru-kun, the anthropomorphic canine mascot for Fukuoka Prefecture's disaster prevention, created by CyberConnect2. Mamoru-kun was originally planned to be the main character of Tail Concerto II, but due to the poor sales of the last game, it never came to fruition.
See also Kage Kara Mamoru!, series of light novels written by Achi Taro Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku o!, a light novel series by Hiroki Iwata 4613 Mamoru, a main-belt asteroid