{"id":829,"date":"2023-02-20T13:04:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T04:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/?p=829"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:04:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T04:04:33","slug":"leiji-matsumoto-passed-away-good-bye-and-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"Leiji Matsumoto passed away, Good Bye, and Thank you."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, best known for his SF manga &#8220;Galaxy Express 999,&#8221; passed away on February 13th from acute heart failure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was 85 years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His passing was a shock to the manga industry, and many have expressed their condolences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matsumoto debuted as a shoujo manga artist and gained popularity with his work &#8220;Otoko Oidon&#8221; in 1971. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1974, he participated as a mechanical designer for the TV anime &#8220;Space Battleship Yamato,&#8221; and from there, he became deeply involved in TV anime and anime movies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Yamato&#8221; and &#8220;Galaxy Express 999&#8221; became a series, and &#8220;Matsumoto Anime,&#8221; which dealt with the theme of space, became famous for its axis of &#8220;love and peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"\u9280\u6cb3\u9244\u9053999 (1978) OP - \u3055\u3055\u304d\u3044\u3055\u304a \/ Galaxy Express 999 OP -  Isao Sasaki\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Shu4Ee7g9i0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, best known for his SF manga &#8220;Galaxy Express 999,&#8221; passed away on Feb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,59],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","category-game","category-manga","tag-leiji-matsumoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}