Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1971

After a certain number of admissions to watching “fansubs,” while it might not act as absolution I was able to put my Blu-Ray player to use at last with the new release of Lupin the Third Part I from Discotek. Lengthy antique anime series would seem to be tricky to make a profit on over here, of course. Given the first Lupin series leads into a long-running franchise, its relative brevity at twenty-three episodes might not be all that significant in its having been licensed; nor can I make too much of a connection between that brevity and the series direction shifting from Masaaki Osumi to Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. After being tempted to suppose the last few series I’ve watched were “beginning to shift towards different audiences,” though, it’s then tempting to keep pondering about this series having tried to go too far too fast.
( The many adventures of Lupin )