Noboru Ishiguro

He was the founder and president of the animation studio Artland.

Ishiguro is an anime director who has been active in the Japanese animation industry since the 1970s. His representative works include Space Battleship Yamato, Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Megazone 23 and Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

As a director, he did not emphasize his own style, and instead entrusted important positions to talented and motivated people, regardless of their career.

For Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Megazone 23, he selected young artists such as Haruhiko Mikimoto, Ichirō Itano, and Toshihiro Hirano (currently Toshiki Hirano), most of whom were amateurs except for Itano, and placed them at the core of the production to create works of youthful sensibility. Hiroyuki Yamaga and Hideaki Anno of later Gainax, who were still in college, also joined as part-time workers. They only gathered at Artland for about three years, but many of them got their break through with Macross, and later became representative of Japanese animation.