He was in a hawaiian style music band in his youth. Therefore, he was known as an animation director who could actually read musical scores and had made the best use of his previous experience for works such as "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?" and Legend of the Galactic Heroes''. Ishiguro Noboru died on 20 March 2012 in a Kawasaki hospital. He died of a lung infection which was the result of a followup surgery procedure to the aneurysm surgery he underwent two years prior.