Leiji Matsumoto, the Japanese manga and anime creator known for science fiction sagas, TV series like Space Pirate Captain Harlock and music videos for Daft Punk, died of acute heart failure on Feb…
Space Pirate Captain HarlockHis death was announced by his studio, Studio Leijisha.Space Battleship Yamato.
In a statement to the BBC, Matsumoto’s daughter and head of the studio, Makiko Matsumoto, said her father “set out on a journey to the sea of stars. I think he lived a happy life, thinking about continuing to draw stories as a manga artist.”Born Akira Matsumoto in 1938 in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, Matsumoto published his first work,His breakthrough work came in the early 1970s with the publication of, a series following a poor, young man preparing for university exams, according to the BBC.
With a career devoted to depicting anti-war themes in his art, Matsumoto’s influence was widespread throughout the manga and anime communities. He collaborated with Daft Punk in the early 2000s on several popular music videos for the music duo’s album, perhaps most memorably for the song “One More Time.” The videos were later combined into the film IMust Read Stories
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