Photos are starting to roll in as sites cover the Tokyo International Anime Fair. moe yo! has posted some from the TMS booth where they have the classic Cagliostro Fiat and a modern Fiat for Green VS Red.
I'll be collecting all photos for posterity as I come across them; keep checking the dedicated page for updates.
Entries for the two Lupin games, Cagliostro and Babylon, produced for the NEC PC-8801 system have been added. Thanks to Reed Nelson of LupinTheThird.net and podcast fame for pointing these out on the Japanese language site Typer's Lupin the Third Search Party.
Thought I would start out the new year on a good note and slogged through the rest of the third TV series. Every episode now has a summary and an image; I've also jotted up a review of the series as a whole.
My next task will be to sit through the entire second series and grab images for all the episodes. With Geneon down for the count, I'll be back to watching raw episodes for the latter portion. I plan to watch one episode a day until I make it through them all.
Thank you for your support in 2007! I look forward to keeping you updated on any Lupin information in 2008.
Hot Shot News has posted information and photos of the latest batch of Lupin merchandise. I hope the pistol alarm clock hits eBay soon...
My hosting provider recently moved their NOC from one state to another; no move ever goes smoothly, and they have been fighting various issues for the past week. Unfortunately, there is no way to predict when these downtimes will occur; if you find the site down, try again in an hour or two. Hopefully, they'll have the remaining issues sorted out this week.
YouTube continues to roll out new features, and the latest one, custom players, makes life for this lazy webmaster a bit easier. Instead of having to manually rotate the video on the homepage, I can now display a custom player that displays an entire playlist of videos. Makes it a lot easier to shuffle videos around, add new ones, etc. So, I should have no excuse to keep that front page content fresh.
On a side note, I hope to get back into watching the third series and finish writing up summaries for the episodes. Keep your eyes peeled, as I won't be announcing every new episode posting. I'll be posting them as I go along.
Finally overhauled the design of the site, and I have transitioned to a new content management system. That last bit won't mean a thing to the non-web geeks in the audience; however, it makes my life a lot easier in terms of managing content and giving the site a make-over now and then.
Still trying to work out a few server configuration issues, so the site may be unreachable at points. Try back in a few minutes, and you'll be all set. Hopefully will have all of these issues ironed out in the next day or two.
Finally pushed through the entire game and completed Lupin niwa shi o, Zenigata niwa koi o; still trying to get an S rating on every episode, but I'm through the entire story now. I've written up a more complete review/overview of the game; I highly recommend picking this game up and hope this review will clearly explain why.
Didn't spot this until now, but the upgrade of the CMS software of the site broke the pagination on the second and third TV series listings. There doesn't seem to be an official patch for my version, but the forum community had a home-grown fix. So, things should be back to normal; if you see any other problems, let me know. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Happy New Year one and all! It has been quite some time since I've last updated the site, but I've begun adding back image galleries to the site. If you follow my blog, you know that I've started using a nifty image gallery library on it.
Now, this site uses it as well; I've added galleries for the various anime series that I've personally captured images straight from the DVDs. More will be coming over time as I go back through my DVDs. The best just keeps on getting better. ;) Hope you enjoy!