Noboru Ishiguro

Who was Noboru Ishiguro?

Noboru Ishiguro was a Japanese animator who was noteworthy for directing the anime series, Space Battleship Yamato, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, 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 Kawasaki City Hospital. He died of a lung infection which was the result of a follow-up surgery procedure to the aneurysm surgery he underwent two years prior.