Yoshinobu Nishizaki Dead at 75

75 year old Space Battleship Yamato co-creator and producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki drowned to death on Sunday, November 7 after falling off the deck of the research boat Yamato, which was anchored 250 meters off shore of the Ogasawara Islands to allow Nishizaki and several of the boat’s nine passengers to go swimming.

Nishizaki produced last year’s Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection motion picture and is credited as a creator behind next month’s live action Space Battleship Yamato movie.

Source: Anime News Network