TOKYO, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Leiji Matsumoto, the famed Japanese manga and anime creator of epic house sagas together with “Galaxy Categorical 999” and “House 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 collection “House Battleship Yamato” – titled “Star Blazers” in america – with Matsumoto credited as its director in addition to the creator of the manga collection spun off from it.
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 Warfare Two ended, stated his work was knowledgeable by his want for folks to not expertise conflict and to stay for the earth.
“Human beings ought to make efforts to guard all residing creatures and nature on earth,” he informed public broadcaster NHK in 2015.
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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.
Reporting by Kaori Kaneko; Enhancing by Chang-Ran Kim and Edwina Gibbs
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