Yoshinobu Nishizaki - creator of Yamato - passes away

[Logan Darklighter]

I just received some terrible news from Yutaka Shiaratori. Posted verbatim.

Bad news.Mr. Nishizaki was died today.
He fell from the ship in the suburbs of Ogasawara offing
Chichijima and seem to have drowned.

Yutaka Shiaratori

Yoshinobu Nishizaki was the producer and driving force behind Uchuu Senkan Yamato - or Space Battleship Yamato in Japan. And better known here in the west as Star Blazers. It's true that Leiji Matsumoto was more involved in developing the overall look, feel, and mythology of Yamato (particularly in the first two seasons) but without Nishizaki it never would've come to pass in the first place.
Here's a link to one of the first places posting about this.

http://www.fanboy.com/2010/11/space-cru ... -away.html

What’s very sad about this was that after years of legal troubles a live action version of the cherished retro anime series is getting a great deal of positive feedback from those who have seen the first sneak previews of the film. Had he lived the triumph of that film would have been a great personal victory to Nishizaki.

God, no kidding. 
-Logan-------------------At the end of the journey, all men remember their youth as Arcadia--------------------

[robkelk]

And another, which names the ship he fell from: http://www.animenewsnetwo...bu-nishizaki-passes-away

(One wonders whether that's irony or cosmic appropriateness...)
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Rob Kelk
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[Foxboy]

Apparently a later update to the story: He owned the boat he fell from, through a vanity shell corporation.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll