Yoshinobu Nishizaki is best known as the co-creater of
Space Battleship Yamatois a Japanese science fiction anime series and the name of its eponymous space craft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato or Star Blazers; an English-dubbed and partly edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television under the...
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Yoshinobu Nishizaki is best known as the co-creater of
Space Battleship Yamatois a Japanese science fiction anime series and the name of its eponymous space craft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato or Star Blazers; an English-dubbed and partly edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television under the...
. He was born in 1934 and graduated from
Nihon UniversityNihon University is the largest university in Japan. Akiyoshi Yamada, the minister of justice, founded Nihon Law School in October 1889....
Art Department.
In 1994, he designed
Yamato 2520Yamato 2520 was Yoshinobu Nishizaki attempt at a sequel to Space Battleship Yamato set several hundred years in the future after the original show...
. But in the end, Nishizaki was sued by the other Yamato co-creator,
Leiji Matsumotois a well-known creator of several anime and manga series. His wife is also known as a manga artist.-Space opera:Matsumoto is famous for his space operas such as Space Battleship Yamato. Many such as Toshio Okada and Eiichiro Oda have remarked in interviews that the Romanticism prevalent in his...
, for breach of copyright.
Shortly thereafter, Nishizaki was arrested for gun and drug offences, but eventually overcame those challenges.
There is expected to be a new Space Battleship Yamato anime film late 2009.
Filmography
- Little Wansa
is a mascot for Sanwa Bank designed by Osamu Tezuka. It was later turned into a manga series by Tezuka and an anime series from 1973.The hero of Wansa-kun was Wansa, a puppy who is sold for a pittance, then escapes, and spends much of the rest of the series looking for his mother...
(1973)
- Space Battleship Yamato
is a Japanese science fiction anime series and the name of its eponymous space craft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato or Star Blazers; an English-dubbed and partly edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television under the...
(1974)
- Space Carrier Blue Noah
is a science fiction anime TV series produced by Office Academy which ran in Japan from October 13, 1979 through March 30, 1980. It was later distributed overseas in English by West Cape Corporation under the name "Thundersub"...
(1979)
- UrotsukidÅji
is a Japanese manga and an Original Video Animation releases.- History :UrotsukidÅji was created by Toshio Maeda, in 1986, and was a huge departure from his earlier works in that it mixed erotica with humor, and the supernatural. He was commissioned to do the series for Wani Magazine, a seinen...
(1987)
- Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight
, also known as Odin: Starlight Mutiny is a 1985 Japanese anime film produced by Yoshinobu Nishizaki's West Cape Corporation which was previously known for Space Battleship Yamato...
(1985)
- Yamato 2520
Yamato 2520 was Yoshinobu Nishizaki attempt at a sequel to Space Battleship Yamato set several hundred years in the future after the original show...
(1994)
- Uchuu Senkan Yamato Fukkatsu-hen (2009)