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Ken Ishikawa died on November 15, 2006. He was a Japanese manga artist and renowned as the co-creator, with Go Nagai, of the Getter Robo anime series, as well as four of their subsequent manga continuations.
He collapsed at a dinner banquet, after a day of golf, and was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead according to his mentor, Go Nagai.