{"id":832,"date":"2023-02-20T13:53:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T04:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/?p=832"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:53:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T04:53:21","slug":"leiji-matsumoto-dies-matsumoto-anime-supported-abroad-daft-punk-admired-matsumoto-created-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"Leiji Matsumoto Dies &#8220;Matsumoto Anime&#8221; Supported Abroad; Daft Punk Admired, Matsumoto Created Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Renowned manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, known for works such as &#8220;Galaxy Express 999,&#8221; passed away from acute heart failure on the 13th at a hospital in Tokyo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was 85 years old and originally from Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A private funeral has already been held for immediate family members, with a farewell gathering planned for a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matsumoto became deeply involved in TV anime and anime films as a mechanical designer for &#8220;Space Battleship Yamato,&#8221; which aired on TV in 1974. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He then became known as a hitmaker in the anime industry, starting with the film adaptation of &#8220;Yamato&#8221; in 1977, and his space-themed &#8220;Matsumoto Anime,&#8221; including &#8220;Yamato&#8221; and &#8220;Galaxy Express 999,&#8221; became serialized and a social phenomenon that captured the hearts of children and adults alike, with the axis of &#8220;love and peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Matsumoto Anime&#8221; was widely popular overseas as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Daft Punk - One More Time (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FGBhQbmPwH8?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><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">youtube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The French dance music duo &#8220;Daft Punk,&#8221; known for world hit songs such as &#8220;One More Time&#8221; and &#8220;Get Lucky,&#8221; admired Matsumoto and made headlines by having him design the music video for &#8220;One More Time&#8221; released in 2000 and the Japanese edition jacket for their 2001 album &#8220;Discovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, known for works such as &#8220;Galaxy Express 999,&#8221; passed away f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,59],"tags":[190,191],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","category-manga","tag-leiji-matsumoto","tag-leiji-matsumoto-daft-punk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","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=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekaiend.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}