Leiji Matsumoto, the famed Japanese manga and anime creator of epic area sagas together with “Galaxy Categorical 999” and “Area Pirate Captain Harlock”, has died aged 85, his workplace stated on Monday.
The reason for loss of life was coronary heart failure, native media stated.
Matsumoto was additionally identified for his work with Yoshinobu Nishizaki on the Nineteen Seventies TV sequence “Area Battleship Yamato” – titled “Star Blazers” in the USA – with Matsumoto credited as its director in addition to the creator of the manga sequence spun off from it.
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He additionally supervised a number of animated movies for the French digital music duo Daft Punk together with “One Extra Time”.
Matsumoto, who was 7 years previous when the World Conflict Two ended, stated his work was knowledgeable by his want for folks to not expertise battle and to dwell for the earth.
“Human beings ought to make efforts to guard all residing creatures and nature on earth,” he advised public broadcaster NHK in 2015.
Matsumoto is the recipient of a number of awards from the Japanese authorities, in addition to the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French authorities.