Noboru Ishiguro

Given name: 昇

Family name: 石黒

Birthday: Aug 24, 1938

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Noboru Ishiguro was born in Tokyo, Japan on August 24, 1938. He was in a hawaiian style music band in his youth. Therefore, he is known as an animation director who can actually read musical scores and has made the best use of his previous experience for works such as Macross: Do You Remember Love and Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

He entered Nihon University in the Department of Art and graduated 1964. He later joined Onishi Pro where he first worked as key animator on subcontracted Astro Boy episodes. In 1978 he founded the animation studio Artland and has since been serving as president as well as head director for most productions the studio was involved in.

He passed away on March 20, 2012.

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Director of Macross Passes Away

According to Asahi News, anime director Ishiguro Noboru passed away on March 20th. He was 73 years old. He founded Artland studio in 1978 and directed Legend of the ...read more

Mar 21, 2012 5:01 AM by dtshyk | Discuss (71 comments)

Ishiguro Noboru's Original Anime Angel ScandyS Announced

According to the official website, The Animation Enterprise Group of Japan (TAEGJ) announced an original anime "Angel ScandyS". It will be released next ye...read more

Dec 17, 2010 8:38 PM by dtshyk | Discuss (36 comments)

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Pipebomb_Teller | 7 hours ago

LOGH, Macross, Megazone, Yamato...what an amazing career

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Zero_JM3 | Apr 2, 10:52 AM

God

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ER-MANN | Jun 18, 2017 6:57 AM

LotGH and Chiisana Viking Vickie best animes ever

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sunfukung | Apr 22, 2017 9:50 AM

one of the best and the most underrated anime directors of all times

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DenzRui | Dec 31, 2016 10:45 PM

RIP

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Niddy | Nov 2, 2016 2:10 PM

I HUMBLY BOW DOWN TO THEE ETERNAL MASTER FOR THOU HATH CREATED A MASTERPIECE FAR SURPASSING ALL THAT IS WORLDLY AND HOLY, AOKI HONOO. IT IS WITH AWE-INSPIRATION AND APPREHENSION THAT I RELAY THIS MESSAGE AS IT IS UNLIKELY THAT A FUTURE IN WHICH US MERE MORTALS WILL EVER STUMBLE ACROSS SUCH A MAGNIFICENT WORK OF ART IN OUR LIFETIME

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