Anime

Hot Shot News (Japanese) is reporting that the Toho Gifu theater will be showing Cagliostro for six days starting on November 11. If you are lucky enough to be in Japan, go see one of the great classic films.

Find them both on my blog. Currently one other Lupin item you might be interested in on there also. Check back often if you like as I will be slowly but surely posting pics of my Lupin toys and generally rambling on about things.

Enjoy!

From Hot Shot News!, there is going to be a Seven Day Rhapsody game released for Japanese cell phones. Not many details beyond that, but it is interesting to see this decades old franchise pushing the boundaries of new media and marketing.

Wonder if they will put a version of the game in the DVD release...

Via Anime News Service (likely by way of Hot Shot News and other Japanese sources), Mitsui & Co. Ltd., TMS Entertainment and Nippon Television Network Corporation will be releasing Lupin TV specials to the i-mode and EZWeb phone services starting 2006 August 7.

It is official; Hot Shot News has posted the time and a small official description and pics of the 2006 special.

No solid date from NTV yet, but they have posted a small message that the special is coming in September.

As another Friday in Japan has rolled on by, I decided to check out the NTV Kinro page to see if they had added the first Friday in August to the schedule listing. They had, and it was not good news.

It's a very Cagliostro news day; Anime Boston announced today that Sumi Shimamoto will be a guest of honor at this year's festivities. She voiced Clarisse in Cagliostro as well as the heroine Oyamada Maki in the Miyazaki directed last episode for the second TV series. I'm looking forward to getting her autograph on my R2 DVD!

Have not seen anyone else posting screen captures for Monkey Punch's latest anime Gun Musashi; so, I am declaring this an official scoop. Check them out and check back every week for more.

From the Japanese fan site MoonPhase and translated by a variety of sources like Anime Nation, a new Monkey Punch anime called Musashi will be airing on the BS-i satellite TV network starting 2006 April 9. Digging a bit more has not revealed an official site for the series yet.