Shigeru Kitayama (北山 茂, Kitayama Shigeru) is a Japanese anime producer. Some of his major works include Yasuhiro Nightow's Trigun television series[1] as well as Nightow's other series Gungrave. He has worked on Shinichi Watanabe's adaptation of Excel Saga and the Geobreeders OVA series. He worked with Koichi Mashimo of Bee Train on producing what would later be known as the "girls with guns" series starting with Noir in 2001, then Madlax in 2004, and finally El Cazador de la Bruja in 2007. In 2010 he attended Anime Expo to watch the premiere of Trigun: Badlands Rumble.[2]