After a long battle with a serious illness, we are greeted by one of the greatest screenwriters in the history of Japanese animation. Known to the public for her role as a cowboy bebop screenwriter, Keiko Nobumoto died at the age of 57. We express our condolences to an unforgettable face of souls.
Born in Hokkaido in 1963, Keiko ha worked on many anime series less known, like Space Candy, Carole & Tuesday, Samurai Champloo and Macross Plus. His career is closely tied to that of director Shinichiro Watanabe, who gave birth to cowboy bebop, recently returned to the limelight, but not in a good way. with live action produced by Netflix. Among his other successes there are too Wolf rain.
The news of Nobumoto’s disappearance came from colleague Dai Sato, who left a reflection on the unbelievable on his official Facebook account Talent she was gifted with. In fact, she has shown her skills outside of the animation world when she wrote for the Kingdom Hearts video game.
Keiko Nobumoto died on December 1, 2021 for natural causes. An esophageal cancer, with which she had been struggling for a long time, finally tore her from life. The screenwriter’s funeral, reserved for close family members, took place on December 4th.
This year 2021 has wrenched some of the most important names from us, including the memorable, late Kentaro Miura, author of Berserk.
Public announcement by Dai Satohttps: //t.co/vv8VsBvbdQ
– リ ボ レ ク さ ん (@ liborek3) December 10, 2021
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