Yoshinobu Nishizaki
Yoshinobu Nishizaki (西崎 義展, 18 December 1934 – 7 November 2010) was a Japanese film producer, writter and director best known as one of the two co-creators of the anime series Space Battleship Yamato. He was sometimes credited as Yoshinori Nishizaki. He was graduated from the Nihon University Art Department.
Created Shows
Yamato 2520
3 Episode s . Yamato 2520 was Yoshinobu Nishizaki's attempt at a sequel to Space Battleship Yamato, set several hundred years after the original series. However, Nishizaki was sued by Leiji Matsumoto for breach of copyright. Ultimately, Yamato 2520 was left unfinished after only three episodes were released. The OVA series features mechanical designs by Syd Mead and a soundtrack by jazz musician David Matthews.
Yamato 2520
3 Episode s . Yamato 2520 was Yoshinobu Nishizaki's attempt at a sequel to Space Battleship Yamato, set several hundred years after the original series. However, Nishizaki was sued by Leiji Matsumoto for breach of copyright. Ultimately, Yamato 2520 was left unfinished after only three episodes were released. The OVA series features mechanical designs by Syd Mead and a soundtrack by jazz musician David Matthews.
Space Battleship Yamato
77 Episode s . Space Battleship Yamato is a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers. The first two seasons of this version were broadcast in Greece in 1981-82 as Διαστημόπλοιο Αργώ. An Italian-language version was also broadcast under the name Star Blazers in Italy, and a Portuguese-language version was successfully shown in Brazil under the title Patrulha Estelar and Viaje a la Ultima Galaxia or Astronave Intrepido in Spain and Latin America. It is a seminal series in the history of anime, marking a turn towards more complex serious works and influencing works such as Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion; Hideaki Anno has ranked Yamato his favorite anime and credited it with sparking his interest in anime. Yamato was the first anime series or movie to win the Seiun Award, a feat not repeated until the 1985 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Space Battleship Yamato
77 Episode s . Space Battleship Yamato is a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers. The first two seasons of this version were broadcast in Greece in 1981-82 as Διαστημόπλοιο Αργώ. An Italian-language version was also broadcast under the name Star Blazers in Italy, and a Portuguese-language version was successfully shown in Brazil under the title Patrulha Estelar and Viaje a la Ultima Galaxia or Astronave Intrepido in Spain and Latin America. It is a seminal series in the history of anime, marking a turn towards more complex serious works and influencing works such as Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion; Hideaki Anno has ranked Yamato his favorite anime and credited it with sparking his interest in anime. Yamato was the first anime series or movie to win the Seiun Award, a feat not repeated until the 1985 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Star Blazers [Space Battleship Yamato] 2205: The New Voyage
8 Episode s . Three years have passed since the battle with the White Comet Empire. President Dessler, who has been searching for a new mother star to save the dying Gamilas people, finds a star that meets the conditions in a section of the Milky Way galaxy. But it was within the territory of a mighty interstellar nation. The territorial dispute that broke out in the galaxy inevitably involves the Earth, which has a security treaty with Gamilas. The magic of the time fault, which brought military and economic advantages to the earth, has disappeared in exchange for their own lives. Susumu Kodai sets out on a training voyage with the new crew in preparation for an upcoming emergency. Without knowing that someone who is aiming for himself is in the middle. Yamato is about to embark on a new journey in an era of unprecedented anxiety. On the way, an unimaginable new enemy awaits ...
Star Blazers [Space Battleship Yamato] 2205: The New Voyage
8 Episode s . Three years have passed since the battle with the White Comet Empire. President Dessler, who has been searching for a new mother star to save the dying Gamilas people, finds a star that meets the conditions in a section of the Milky Way galaxy. But it was within the territory of a mighty interstellar nation. The territorial dispute that broke out in the galaxy inevitably involves the Earth, which has a security treaty with Gamilas. The magic of the time fault, which brought military and economic advantages to the earth, has disappeared in exchange for their own lives. Susumu Kodai sets out on a training voyage with the new crew in preparation for an upcoming emergency. Without knowing that someone who is aiming for himself is in the middle. Yamato is about to embark on a new journey in an era of unprecedented anxiety. On the way, an unimaginable new enemy awaits ...