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 *, anime director *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese film director *, Japanese inventor, music composer, and Chief Executive Officer of VitaCraft and VitaCraft Japan *, Olympics marksmen *, Japanese anime director *, Japanese boxer *, Japanese middle-distance runner *, Japanese actor and voice actor *, Japanese astronaut *, Japanese animator and character designer *, Japanese film director *, Japanese impostor * Mamoru Sato (born 1937), American modernist sculptor *, Imperial Japanese Navy officer *, Japanese Minister of Foreign affairs at the end of World War II *, Japanese illustrator/manga artist *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese criminal/murderer *, Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor *, Japanese architect *, Japanese mixed martial artist

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*, a character in ''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni'' visual novel and anime series *, a character in the ''Sailor Moon'' series *, a character in the ''Inazuma Eleven'' *, a character in ''From_the_New_World_(novel), From the New World'' *, a character in ''Forbidden Siren'' *, a character in the ''Captain Tsubasa'' series *, a character in ''Kage Kara Mamoru!'' *Mamoru Kodai in Space Battleship Yamato *, a character in the ''Fighting Spirit'' (はじめの一歩, ''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 Tail Concerto, the last game, it never came to fruition.

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