Space battle ship yamato producer dies

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[quote=JapanTimes]
'Yamato' producer falls off boat, dies
YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) Film producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki, known for the popular TV "anime" series "Uchu Senkan Yamato" ("Space Battleship Yamato"), died after falling from a boat anchored at a port on Chichi Island in the Ogasawara chain south of Tokyo, local police said.

Nishizaki, 75, fell off the boat around 12:30 p.m. Sunday and was rescued about 20 minutes later by a patrol boat but died shortly afterward, the police said.

Nishizaki, whose given name was Hirofumi, was trying out his 485-ton boat, the Yamato, near the port Sunday morning.

He appears to have accidentally fallen into the water while preparing to take a swim, according to the police.
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Source:
[url]http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20101109a8.html[/url]

Another source:

[quote=Kotaku]
This Sunday, 75-year-old Yoshinobu Nishizaki, co-creator of 1970s animated series Space Battleship Yamato (imported to the West as "Star Blazers"), fell from his 485-ton boat "Yamato" at an island port in southern Tokyo.

Nishizaki produced other nautical-themed anime like Space Carrier Blue Noah, Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight and Yamato 2520. The other co-creator of Space Battleship Yamato sued Nishizaki over copyright infringement. Set hundred of years after Space Battleship Yamato, Yamato 2520 featured designs from Syd Mead of and Aliens, Blade Runner and Tron fame.

Nishizaki also produced Urotsukidoji, the first anime to feature tentacle rape.

[highlight]Even as he passed his 50s, Nishizaki never quite settled into old age. In 1997, he was arrested for possession of illegal drugs. He went to the Philippines while on bail, smuggling in a grenade launcher, an M16 and a Glock back into Japan. Two years later, he was sentenced for his drug arrest.

Police later discovered more illegal drugs and firearms in his house. Besides the weapons, he kept 30 howitzer shells in a station wagon in his garage. Nishizaki was also sentenced for the weapons and was finally released from prison in 2007.[/highlight]

The series Space Battleship Yamato helped to popularize flying boats in anime and, later, video games. Bandai developed a series of Yamato games for the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2. As a nod to the series, the StarCraft games have a flying ship that is outfitted with a "Yamato Canon".
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[url]http://kotaku.com/5684125/star-blazers-creator-dead-after-falling-fromboat[/url]

Read the highlighted part. 30 howitzer shells! Is he making a fucking IED or something?

[Leon Trotsky]

:smith:

[Led Zeppelin]

Never heard of the show but he seemed like a badass old man.

[quote]
Even as he passed his 50s, Nishizaki never quite settled into old age. In 1997, he was arrested for possession of illegal drugs. He went to the Philippines while on bail, smuggling in a grenade launcher, an M16 and a Glock back into Japan. Two years later, he was sentenced for his drug arrest.

Police later discovered more illegal drugs and firearms in his house. Besides the weapons, he kept 30 howitzer shells in a station wagon in his garage. Nishizaki was also sentenced for the weapons and was finally released from prison in 2007.[/quote]

[wewt!]

So long, you magnificent bastard :smith:

[cardboard_panda]

All these legendary anime producers dieing off lately, i'm sad to see who's next :(

[MrEndangered]

[QUOTE=cardboard_panda;26081169]All these legendary anime producers dieing off lately, i'm sad to see who's next :([/QUOTE]

If Hideaki Anno dies I will be a poorer man in my heart.

[Dolton]

He made the first tentacle porn.

What.

[not_Morph53]

[QUOTE=cardboard_panda;26081169]All these legendary anime producers dieing off lately, i'm sad to see who's next :([/QUOTE]

I'm hoping for more, many more.

[Electrocuter]

[QUOTE]he kept 30 howitzer shells in a station wagon in his garage.[/QUOTE]

Holy fuck.

[KILL001]

[quote]'Yamato' producer falls off boat, dies[/quote]

you gotta be shitting me

[evilweazel]

[QUOTE=Led Zeppelin;26079911]Never heard of the show but he seemed like a badass old man.[/QUOTE]

I imagined some old muscular guy in sunglasses walking through a metal detector with a whole bunch of guns in his hands going "I don't give a fuck."

[Anteep2]

a sheep dies in africa
we might as well have that as news too

[highlight](User was banned for this post ("Trolling" - verynicelady))[/highlight]

[Miya]

[QUOTE=Anteep2;26081712]a sheep dies in africa
we might as well have that as news too[/QUOTE]

don't be disrespectin the producer of the Battleship yamato

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKe0wARmks4[/media]

[Anteep2]

i'll play your game
a tribesman dies in africa
let's have that on news

(it's a bit more isn't it?)

[evilweazel]

[QUOTE=Wii60;26081765]don't be disrespectin the producer of the Battleship yamato

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKe0wARmks4[/media][/QUOTE]

It's not like anyone gives a fuck about anime so it's ok.

[Azou]

[QUOTE=Anteep2;26081824]i'll play your game
a tribesman dies in africa
let's have that on news

(it's a bit more isn't it?)[/QUOTE]

Because as sad as it is, no-one would care.

[BlkDucky]

[QUOTE=evilweazel;26082084]It's not like anyone gives a fuck about anime so it's ok.[/QUOTE]

I'll never understand people who so blindly hate anime. Seriously.

[Anteep2]

[QUOTE=imawerewol;26082180]Because as sad as it is, no-one would care.[/QUOTE]

i think you are starting to understand the point

[Mr. Scorpio]

Captain Harlock was a badass. His passing will be mourned.

[iusehax]

He died a few days ago? I swear I read it somewhere on the interwebs.

[Drasnus]

[QUOTE=BlkDucky;26082192]I'll never understand people who so blindly hate anime. Seriously.[/QUOTE]
It's cool to hate something entirely based on what country it comes from.

[Mr. Scorpio]

[QUOTE=Drasnus;26084267]It's cool to hate something entirely based on what country it comes from.[/QUOTE]

I fucking hate Japan and Japanese culture and I still like a lot of anime.

I understand why a lot of people hate it, what with it's weird animal tranny tentacle porn and it's retarded fucking soap opera plots and it's creepy schoolgirl fixation, but then if you can't look past the bad(and the disturbing) you'll never see the good stuff. And the good stuff is almost always unique and interesting.

For example, Paranoia Agent, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Akira, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika, Summer Wars, Red Line, etc. . .

[wewt!]

[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;26084519]I fucking hate Japan and Japanese culture and I still like a lot of anime.

[B]I understand why a lot of people hate it, what with it's weird animal tranny tentacle porn and it's retarded fucking soap opera plots and it's creepy schoolgirl fixation[/B], but then if you can't look past the bad(and the disturbing) you'll never see the good stuff. And the good stuff is almost always unique and interesting.

For example, Paranoia Agent, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Akira, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika, Summer Wars, Red Line, etc. . .[/QUOTE]
That's not japanese culture you idiot

[Mr. Scorpio]

[QUOTE=wewt!;26085168]That's not japanese culture you idiot[/QUOTE]

There I was talking about anime specifically, not Japanese culture.

[not_Morph53]

[QUOTE=wewt!;26085168]That's not japanese culture you idiot[/QUOTE]

I like tentacle porn, because I'm an octopus trapped in the body of a lesbian, trapped in the body of a man.

[Kai-ryuu]

Oh shit I used to watch this

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-1zWsXFNs[/media]

This shit was so awesome

[RG4]

Space-Knots is that even real

[BBKF]

[i]I'm off a boat![/i]

[OrionChronicles]

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;26079886]Source:
[url]http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20101109a8.html[/url]

Another source:

[url]http://kotaku.com/5684125/star-blazers-creator-dead-after-falling-fromboat[/url]

Read the highlighted part. 30 howitzer shells! Is he making a fucking IED or something?[/QUOTE]

I do believe he was going to turn his yacht INTO the Yamato.