Noboru Ishiguro

Noboru Ishiguro 石黒昇
Noboru Ishiguro
Birthdate (1938-08-24)24 August 1938 Birthplace Tokyo, Japan Died 20 March 2012 (aged 73) in Saiwai, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Statistics Occupation Director, producer, screenwriter, editor Spouse Yumi Ishiguro

Ishiguro in episode 10

Noboru Ishiguro (石黒昇,, Ishiguro Noboru, 24 August 1938 – 20 March 2012) was a Japanese animator who was noteworthy for directing the anime series, Space Battleship Yamato, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, The Super Dimension Century Orguss, Yōkai Ningen Bem, Megazone 23, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Noozles, and the 2008 completed series Tytania.

He was in a hawaiian style music band in his youth. Therefore, he was known as an animation director who could actually read musical scores and had made the best use of his previous experience for works such as "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?" and Legend of the Galactic Heroes''.

Ishiguro Noboru died on 20 March 2012 in a Kawasaki hospital. He died of a lung infection which was the result of a followup surgery procedure to the aneurysm surgery he underwent two years prior.

External links

• Noboru Ishiguro interview with Anime World Order
• Noboru Ishiguro at the Internet Movie Database
• Noboru Ishiguro at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• "NOBORU ISHIGURO 1938-2012: The anime director who steered Space Cruiser Yamato to the screen" -(Jonathan Clements)

TV series
Original Series: Space Battleship Yamato (Episodes) • Space Battleship Yamato 2 (Episodes) • Space Battleship Yamato III (Episodes) Remakes: Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (Episodes) • Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 (Episodes) Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2205 (Episodes) • Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 (Episodes)
Films
Original Series: Space Battleship Yamato • Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato • Space Battleship Yamato 2: Compilation Yamato: The New Voyage • Be Forever Yamato • Space Battleship Yamato III: Catastrophe of the Solar System Final Yamato • Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection Remakes: Space Battleship Yamato 2199: A Voyage to Remember Star Blazers 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark • Star Blazers Chronicle 2202
Live action films
Space Battleship Yamato • Star Blazers
OVAs
Yamato 2520 • Great Yamato #0
Manga
Space Battleship Yamato by Leiji Matsumoto • Space Battleship Yamato by Yuki Hijiri • Space Battleship Yamato by Akira Hio Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato • Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage • Be Forever Yamato Space Battleship Yamato III by Takayuki Masuo • Space Battleship Yamato III by Hiroshi Aizawa • Final Yamato • Space Battleship Great Yamato Star Blazers 2199 • Ace with the Scarlet Eyes • Space Battleship Yamato Next: Star Blazers Lambda
Comics
Star Blazers • Star Blazers : The Magazine of Space Battleship Yamato
Novels
Space Battleship Yamato novelizations • Space Battleship Yamato Dawn: Aquarius Algorithm • Space Battleship Yamato Dawn: The Malignant Memory Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love Side Stories • My Heart is Like This
Video games
The Distant Planet Iscandar • Warriors of Love • Reminiscences of Iscandar • Revenge of the Dark Nebula Empire • Collapse of the Double Galaxy Super Robot Wars V • Space Battleship Yamato arcade game • Space Battleship Yamato for PC • Space Battleship Yamato for Game Boy Space Battleship Yamato for WanderSwan Color • Final Yamato • Space Battleship Yamato 2199 BFI Chapter 2: The Romance of the Endless Sea Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Iscandar • Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Cosmo Guardian • Space Battleship Yamato 2199: The Last Hope 365 Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Hero's Record • Space Battleship Yamato 2202: A Long Journey • Space Battleship Yamato: Voyagers of Tomorrow
Radio
Stereo Gekiga Space Battleship Yamato • All Night Nippon Space Battleship Yamato Special • YRA Radio Yamato