was a Japanese

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best known for directing the anime series '' Space Battleship Yamato II'',Noboru Ishiguro's ''Yamato 2'' Memories
/ref> '' Super Dimension Fortress Macross'', '' Super Dimension Century Orguss'', '' Humanoid Monster Bem'', '' Megazone 23 - Part I'', '' Legend of the Galactic Heroes'', and '' Tytania''. He was in a Hawaiian folk 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''.

Death

Ishiguro died on 20 March 2012 in Kawasaki City Hospital of a lung infection which was the result of a follow-up surgery procedure to the aneurysm surgery he underwent two years prior.

Works

As director

References

External links

"Bonus – Interview with Noboru Ishiguro"
with Anime World Order * * 1938 births 2012 deaths Anime directors Japanese animators Japanese screenwriters Japanese animated film directors Japanese animated film producers {{Anime-bio-stub