Matsumoto possesses the masterful ability to produce space opera. His style is characterized by tragical heroes; tall, slender, fragile-searching heroines by using heavy wills; & the love of parallel gauges & dials inside his ballistic capsule. Victims large gauges & dials come dearly known as "松本ゲージ" (Matsumoto Geji, lit. Gauges of Matsumoto) or even "æ?¾æœ¬ãƒ¡ãƒ¼ã‚¿ãƒ¼" (Matsumoto Meter) by his fans.

Matsumoto number 1 gained prominence shortly fallowing World War II by drawing manga dealing with war themes. Within 1972 he created the character Captain Harlock in an anime series which ran for 42 episodes. He has since placed many anime series in that universe, including Galaxy Express 999, Queen Emeraldas and Cosmo Warrior Zero. This divided universe is typically known as a Leijiverse or even a Matsumoto Milieu.

Matsumoto too supervised a creation of many music videos for the techno music group Daft Punk, set to tracks from either their album "Discovery." These in line videos were issued prevent-to-prevent (making the good-length alive motion-picture show) on the DVD release entitled ''Daft Punk & Leiji Matsumoto's Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem''.

Leiji Matsumoto is likewise typically credited when a author of Space Battleship Yamato, known outside Japan as Star Blazers. Truly, he was brought onto a plan fallowing its conception by producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki, but these are okay, usually in agreement that Matsumoto's artistic vision & counsel is the primary understanding how come Yamato was such the memorable profits. Matsumoto created a manga loosely according to a series, & a Yamato makes cameo appearances (sans crew) around many of his works including the Galaxy Express 999 manga. The recent act by Matsumoto known as Peachy Yamato featuring an updated Yamato got to exist as renamed Great Galaxy due to the legal issues with Nishizaki. When of this writing two Matsumoto & Nishizaki come working in independent anime projects featuring a acclaimed Space Battleship Yamato, sustaining a conditions that Matsumoto just can not utilise a title Yamato or even even even a plot or characters from either a original & Nishizaki can't apply a conceptual art, character or ship designs of the original.

List of works
Captain Harlock Galaxy Express 999 Queen Emeraldas Cosmo Warrior Zero Queen Millenia Starzinger (aka Spacekateers as a share of the Force Five import line) Planet Robot Dangard Ace (part of the Force Five import line) Space Battleship Yamato Senkan Mahorobo (Battleship Mahorobo or even Illusion, Untranslated) Interstella 5555 Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years Series made for a U.s. market by editing together the original Captain Harlock TV series and a 'Queen Millenia TV series) Galaxy Railways The Cockpit Space Symphony Maetel Harlock Saga Der Ring des Nibelungen''