Recently, he has won much praise for his adapted character designs for the popular Death Note TV series.
When asked by fans at Anime Expo 2007, he revealed that L from Death Note is his favorite character, both to empathize with and to draw.
He also stated that he would like to work on an L-themed spin-off anime, and that fans in America and Japan should request one if they too are interested.
At Anime Expo 2007, Kitao revealed some of the sequences he had been personally responsible for on several of his television and theatrical works.
And as a chief animator on the Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card in 2000, he was responsible for the Mirror House sequence.