Mutō (武藤 "warrior

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") is a Japanese surname. It is also romanized as Muto, Mutoh, or Mutou. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Muto, American animator * Akira Mutō, chief of staff of the 14th Area Army * Ayami Mutō, singer *

Azumi Muto was a Japanese pin-up model and aspiring actress for an agency in Tokyo, Japan. She was murdered by her 21-year-old brother (born 1985) on December 30, 2006. Her death aroused the Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloids' notice for the circumstanc ...

, actress *, Japanese businesswoman * Kaneyoshi Muto, Japanese fighter ace in World War II * Hideki Mutoh, race car driver in the Super GT series *

Joe Muto Joe Muto, known as the "Fox Mole", is a former employee of Fox News known for his leaks of material from the company to Gawker. Muto, a graduate of University of Notre Dame, started work at Fox as a production assistant in July 2004 and became an ...

, television producer * Keiji Muto, pro-wrestler * Luke Kenichi Muto, Japanese Anglican bishop * Masatoshi Muto, Japanese diplomat * Michiko Toyama Muto, American composer * Nobuyoshi Mutō, general * Toshiro Muto, Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan * Tomu Muto, former AKB48 member *

Yoshinori Muto is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward or a winger for Vissel Kobe. Muto started his career with J1 League club FC Tokyo in 2013 who he played with for three seasons. In May 2015, he signed for German club Mainz 05 wh ...

, football player *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese footballer Fictional characters include: *Akio Mutou, science teacher in the visual novel

Katawa Shoujo is a ''Bishōjo game, bishōjo''-style visual novel by Four Leaf Studios that tells the story of a young man and five young women living with varying disabilities. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an AD ...

*Ashirogi Muto of ''

Bakuman is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, the same creative team responsible for ''Death Note''. It was serialized in Shueisha's Shōnen manga, manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from Augus ...

'' *Kaname Muto of ''

Yahiko no Sakabato is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The story begins in 1878, the 11th year of the Meiji era in Japan, and follows a former assassin of the Bakumatsu, known as Hitokiri Battosai. After his work against ...

'' * Kazuki Muto of ''Buso Renkin'' *Kenji, Shizuka, and Yuki Muto of Lian Hearn's '' Tales of the Otori'' trilogy * Nobuyushi Muto *Rikako Muto, female lead from the anime

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*Yugi and Sugoroku Mutou of ''

Yu-Gi-Oh! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuki Takahashi. It was serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' between September 1996 and March 2004, with its chapters collected in 38 volumes. The ...

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MUTO The MUTOs (acronym for Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism) are fictional monsters, or ''kaiju'', in Legendary Pictures' MonsterVerse, MonsterVerse media franchise. The characters first appeared as the antagonists in ''Godzilla (2014 film), ...

, an acronym for "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism", a species of kaiju in the 2014 film ''Godzilla''

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