"FanimeCon is proud to announce animator and illustrator Mamoru Yokota as a Guest of Honor at FanimeCon 2010. Born on February 16th in Tokyo, Mamoru Yokota became famous for his illustrations in the light novel series, Rune Soldier Louie. Since then, his talents have extended into producing and directing animation. In addition to doing the original character designs for the anime version of Rune Soldier Louie, Mr. Yokota has also worked on well-known anime like the Toei version of KANON, the theatrical version of Air, Magical Kanan, DEATH NOTE, True Mazinger Impact! Z, Macross Frontier, Astro Fighter Sunred, and HELLSING IV.

Mr. Yokota’s art has been featured in many video games as well. Such titles include Nonomura Byouin no Hitobito (Sega Saturn), Doukoku Soshite… (Sega Saturn), Kaen Seibo -The Virgin on Megiddo- (DreamCast), ELYSION (PS2 and DreamCast), two of the games in series Katekyo Hitman REBORN! (PS2), Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekidou (Wii), and Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokuretsu (NDS). Mr. Yokota also works on set designs and manga designs in various Japanese dramas. More details and examples of his work are available on his personal website."