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>>257
The funniest thing for me is that the creator of Moonlight Mask later converted to Islam and made a show called "Messenger of Allah", but that one is unfortunately completely lost.

>>258
what u mean by completely lost? like gone?

>>259
Yeah, it didn't get preserved and now it's gone. I guess it's possible it might still show up, but it seems unlikely.

(watch someone come by and give a torrent link)

>>259
>>261
Op here, at least the first episode survives and a proportion of the final episode as well, it’s unfortunate because it is something quite rare at the time and still is, the manga however does survive in its entirety

>>262
For real? Is it on the internet?

>>262 huh, didnt get preserved?
what does that mean? doesnt tsuburaya or whatever museum holds ownership of it forever?

isnt it historically important piece of footage to supposedly be kept?

>>264
It’s toei, not tsuburaya productions(they didn’t exist as a company until 3 years later) simply put things just end up getting lost, the early days of Japanese television are somewhat vauge.
>>263
I think you can look that up

It's possible unmarked reels are lying around somewhere in storage, but who's ever going to find them? Sadly, film and tv preservation is quite bad, even in Western countries, and people only make an effort to hunt down big name stuff. We have found a lot of old 20s movies in third world countries, but since Messenger of Allah was probably never screened outside Japan it's very unlikely.

I've always found this series interesting. It comes from a time where Islam/Middle East was this far away and exotic, not all war and terrorism. Hard imaging someone making this kind of stuff nowadays.

>>288
If I were to come up with a modern reimagining I’d have his first opponents be like an ISIS type group and how they’re using a twisted version of their beliefs, then it would be the typical villains criminal groups that would often be featured in the creators works. I know someone(probably an artist from tatsunoko) did a drawing of him if he were to appear in an 80s ani e reboot but I can’t find it

Thanks OP i'm gonna dl all of them I can find

>>289
What I don’t understand is this constant emphasis on fighting ISIS style bad guys, a group so rare they barely appear at all nowadays. The US government kills more people in larger numbers than ISIS could ever hope to. If anything, he should fight the Americans.

>>721
Woah, that’s certainly an wild statement, a little extreme imo since that would give a false impression on what his character is supposed to be, he’s still a Japanese detective after all, not giving terrorist’s a favor. Although there could hypothetically be an episode addressing parallels to the various middle eastern crises that had occurred without going full anti-western propaganda lol. And the setting is a fictional nation similar to Jordan or Saudi Arabia so such a story wouldn’t really be relevant unless they do a. “Very special anti-war episode” but staying true neutral. Damn made this thread almost two years ago and now it’s got more replies nice

>>722
Nah, I’m just tired of everything in the Middle East being reduced to terrorism and Muslims having to show they’re the good guys by fighting the evil boogeyman terrorists. As if we can’t be shown do normal ordinary activities or anything that doesn’t involve terrorism or protecting a government that shows no concern for our lives. I’d rather he just be the weird Japanese detective in an fictional Middle Eastern country than it be yet another commentary on terrorism.

>>723
That’s why I initially only mentioned the very first story, everything else afterwards would feature costumed criminals. I did make that comment two years ago so I’ll just come out and say that maybe dipping into social commentary like that is a bit too much and should be more say fantastical with the villains trying to obtain a magic lamp