#Inspector Gadget (Franchise)

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Why does Pinterest keep encouraging me to watch Inspector Gadget by showing me fanart. Do they know I was so down bad for him as a kid. Yes, the cartoon one.

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one thing i like about inspector gadget's fandom is how many people have their own gadgets and gadget-adjacent characters.

like i see so many! some are big threatening war machines capable of pure mass destruction, whilst othere are just fun. some are pure robots. ive even seen a few with medical impairments and/or disabilities. some are trans. some are nonbinary.

just goes to show how much imagination this franchise has brought people of so many ages and backgrounds. and has done for many years, almost four decades.

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Don't forget THESE goobers

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Welcome to the wonderful world of Arsène Lupin Copyright Shenanigans

Have I ever told y’all about the absolute madness that is the legal issues around the Lupin franchise ? Probably. Can I find the post in question ? No. Am I going to tell you again ? You fucking bet !

The year is 1905, and detective stories are all the rage. Maurice Leblanc, a young writer, is commissioned by the magazine Je Sais Tout to write a short story on the same model as Sherlock Holmes. Maurice Leblanc says « Screw this detective shit », and creates the character of Arsène Lopin, gentleman thief.

No, this is not a typo.

Arsène Lopin, a municipal advisor in Paris, hears about it and contacts Leblanc. « You are not fucking writing a story about a thief who shares my name. » To which Leblanc replied, « Lopin ? No no, you misunderstand, this is Arsène Lupin, completely different person. »

And he gets away with it.

Leblanc writes a bunch more stories about Arsène Lupin, they get popular, and he decides he wants to write a crossover with the famous British detective, Sherlock Holmes. A crossover in which, of course, Lupin will win and Holmes will be humiliated.

Arthur Conan Doyle hears about it, and is not thrilled. He contacts Maurice Leblanc with a message along the lines of « You are not fucking writing a story where my Amazing-Original-Character-Do-Not-Steal gets bested by a thief. » To which Leblanc replies, « Sherlock Holmes? No no, you misunderstand, this is Herlock Sholmes, completely different person. »

And he gets away with it.

The years pass, more Lupin stories are written, they’re translated and exported outside of France, and wouldn’t you know it, Japan takes a strong liking to the « gentleman thief » archetype in general and to Arsène Lupin in particular.

The years is 1967, and mangaka Kazuhiko Kato, best known by his pen name Monkey Punch, is commissioned by the magazine Weekly Manga Action to create a manga for their first issue. He reads 15 of Leblanc’s stories, and creates Lupin the Third, a character who is the grandson of the famous gentleman thief. He does not bother asking the Leblanc Estate for permission, as Japan doesn’t give much of a crap about French copyright laws.

(For the record, Weekly Manga Action was the first manga magazine for an adult audience (outside of erotica), and Lupin III was published in its first issue, effectively making it one if not the very first adult manga in the history of manga.)

The Lupin III manga gets popular, is adapted into an anime, the anime gets popular, it gets translated into other languages and exported to Europe…

And then the Leblanc estate rears its head. «You are not making an anime about our character without paying us fucking royalties, » they say to Monkey Punch. To which Monkey Punch, channeling the spirit of the deceased Maurice Leblanc into his very soul, replies : « Lupin ? No no, you misunderstand, this is Rupan, completely different person. »

And he fucking gets away with it.

(Arsène Lupin became public domain in France in 2012. Before that, Lupin the Third took many different names in European releases, among which Rupan, Wolf, and in France, Edgar de la Cambriole (Edgar of Burglary).)

Additional tomfuckery :

The year is 1982, and science-fiction animated series are getting extremely popular. TMS decides to try and get a slice of the cake, and begins the development of Lupin VIII, a sci-fi spinoff about Lupin III’s descendant. The anime is being produced in France, and the Leblanc Estate once again rears its head. « Sure, you can make that anime, » they say, « but pay us fucking royalties. » TMS, as previously established, does not want to pay the Leblanc Estate diddly squat, and so they scrap half of the project, recycle the other half, and go « Lupin VIII ? No no, you misunderstand, this is Inspector Gadget, completely different person. »

The year is 1930, and famous Japanese writer Tarō Hirai writes The Golden Mask, a novel in which his detective character Kogoro Akechi goes up against none other than Arsène Lupin. Hirai’s pen name was Edgar Allan Poe- wait, wait, no, sorry, it’s Edogawa Ranpo, completely different person.

(Later, Gosho Aoyama names his character, Detective Conan Edogawa, after Arthur Conan Doyle and Edogawa Rampo (and the anime is distributed by TMS).)

(More than fifty years later, the Lupin III anime makes a tribute to Ranpo’s Gold Mask with the double episode The Imperial City Dreams of Thieves.)

The year is 2021, and Capcom is releasing the video game The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, in which famous detective Sherlock Holmes plays a central role. Unfortunately for them, a few Sherlock Holmes stories are still under copyright, and the Conan Doyle Estate is about as stubborn and greedy as their French cousins. « Pay us fucking royalties, » they say.

In the English release of the game, Sherlock Holmes is renamed to, you guessed it...

...fucking Herlock Sholmes.

[giddlygoat]

inspector gadget 2003 having a stronger story, way better pacing, overall better cohesion, AND being far more in keeping with the original cartoon is definitely not what i expected. that being said, it still left me feeling empty inside and somehow it felt far more soulless than the first movie. the entire cast being replaced was really weird… it’s not a sequel, it’s a total revision of their reboot only 4 years prior. idk man. i still enjoyed it but i’ll never be happy with the way the franchise has been handled.

[surrealliberosis]

I'm not so sure if I had a say in this since I'm not a good film critic nor do I have enough knowledge on the whole Inspector Gadget franchise, but in my opinion, I think that Inspector Gadget 2015 could have been a bit better if the writers improve the Sitcom aspect of the show's comedy. It looks like it could have so much potential. Plus I love me some good ol' Sitcom. What do you guys think, though? I'd love the insight.

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

This is Inspector Zenigata from the over-50-year-old Lupin III franchise (1967–present); these stills/subs are from the blu-ray release of The Mystery of Mamo (1978). However, you're not entirely wrong! Inspector Gadget came about because of a scrapped Lupin III spinoff show: Lupin VIII, a futuristic, five-generations-later, decidedly more kid-friendly version of the franchise proper. The studios involved (TMS and DiC) ran into copyright issues with Maurice LeBlanc's original Arsène Lupin character (this frequently happened with overseas dubs of Lupin III as well), but they wanted to recoup their investment and created Inspector Gadget (1983) to fill the timeslot instead.

This is the part where I admit I'm not terribly familiar with Gadget outside of this deep lore; other than the space setting and visual resemblance to Zenigata (and to another inspector, The Pink Panther (1963)’s Clouseau), I'm not sure how far the similarities go.

Gadget aside, I need you all to know that Zenigata and the titular Lupin III (the man he's yelling after above) are this batshit insane/homoerotic about each other in all the best installments and have been since the beginning.

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Lupin The Third 56th Anniversary!!! 🎊🎉

I drew the big image of Lupin on the right and the "56" last night, and put together a collage for the background of all of the drawings I've made of Lupin thus far (not counting the animations)!✨️🎨

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On this day 56 years ago, Lupin III was first published in Weekly Manga Action!

The manga became an instant hit in Japan, and the series is still going on strong even today, having several manga series, comics, anime series, animated & live action movies, and video games!

It was among the first manga and anime series aimed towards adults, it's the first anime to use stereo audio, and series creator Monkey Punch was the ones who helped usher in the use of digital art and digital illustration.

Lupin III even inspired and was responsible for characters like TV reporter April O'Neal from the TMNT TV shows and films, Dr. Eggman & Rouge The Bat from Sonic The Hedgehog, Inspector Gadget which originally started from a Sci-Fi Lupin III spin off show that was planned (Lupin VIII), Persona 5, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Aria the Scarlet Ammo and many more. Lupin III even inspired some of the stuff you see in Indiana Jones and the Tom Cruz Mission Impossible movies, including the iconic vault stunt from his first MI movie.

Lupin III is an iconic series, one that despite starting in the 1960's, manages to always stay relevant and epic, and always comes out on top no matter what time period it is. The main character himself even prides himself on that!

So Happy 56th Anniversary to the franchise!!!✨️💎

Anyways, sorry for rambling on for so long, and thank you very much for taking the time to read this! ^v^

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Do NOT use, edit or repost this, without my permission!!!

If you want to do either of those things, just ask me for permission to do so beforehand, and I’ll get back to you

Also here is the collage in the background

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Cree Summer Francks (July 7, 1969) is an American-Canadian actress, voice actress, and singer.

She is known for playing Winifred “Freddie” Brooks in A Different World. In animation, she was the original voice of Penny in Inspector Gadget. Her other voice roles include Princess Kneesaa in Ewoks, Elmyra Duff in Tiny Toon Adventures and Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain, Susie Carmichael in Rugrats and All Grown Up!, Numbuh 5 and Cree Lincoln in Codename: Kids Next Door, and Cleo the Poodle in Clifford the Big Red Dog. She is the voice of Princess Kida in the franchise Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Valerie Gray in Danny Phantom, Penelope in Barbie as Rapunzel, Blackarachnia in Transformers Animated, Rayna Cartflight in The Buzz on Maggie, Beast Girl in Teen Titans Go!, Priscilla Skunk in Sheriff Callie’s Wild West, Maxine “Max” Gibson in Batman Beyond, Foxxy Love in Drawn Together, Magma in X-Men Legends, Yvonne and Gordon in Mrs. Munger’s Class, Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy, and Witch Haggar in Voltron: Legendary Defender. She voiced the character Mo in The Horrible Histories, as well as Kermit’s Mom, Star, and Pilgrim in Kermit’s Swamp Years, as well as a role in Queen Sugar.

She has dual American and Canadian citizenship. She married producer Angelo Pullen (2013-22). They have two daughters born. She has a younger brother, Rainbow Sun Francks, a Canadian actor and songwriter who was an on-air personality at Much Music. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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hello Gadget fans!!! big announcement!!! read new Inspector gadget managa at barns nd or noble!!! remember to support all offical gadget related media and franchise materail!!! -im allways on duty!

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John: *has a shitty life yet still looks on the bright side of things*

Puss in Boots: first time

Okay, some backstory musings for Inspector Gadget (1999).

Making this up from whole cloth because I feel like it. Also totally ignoring Matthew Broderick's actual age when he played the role.

John Brown was born and raised in rural Kansas, the younger of two boys. A late in life baby of his parents and like 10 years younger than his older brother (Penny's father).

I'm going to say his parents were old fashioned kind of religious and named their kids Matthew and John.

John absolutely idolized his big brother. Matthew was super smart and when John was 8 he went off to some law school in Ohio and became a public defender by the time he was 22. He married his college sweetheart and they were moved into their first house and had Penny really quickly.

John, just going into highschool, LOVED spending his summers in the comparatively big city with his brother and gladly babysat his niece in return.

Given that the age gap between him and Penny wasn’t much bigger than the one between him and Matthew he considered himself her defacto big brother. They were immediate best friends and Penny threw the biggest fits when John went back home every fall.

John, being not very smart but a hard worker, only got mediocre grades in highschool and had no clue what he wanted to do with his life. So instead of going to college right away he took a gap year (or two) and lived with his brother in Riverton.

He took a few part time jobs to save up money and was a little directionless. Confessed to his brother that he just wanted to help people, like he did. He knew he wasn't smart enough to be a lawyer or anything, but there had to be a lot of ways to help people in need that didn't require a degree right?

John went back to Kansas when he was 20 because his dad, who was in his 60s now, was in pretty poor health and he wanted to be there for his mother.

He enrolled in a local community college, but it didn't really work out well. A year later his father passed away and he dropped out and got a job at the local supermarket because his mother got conned into taking out a mortgage on the house to pay for her husband's medical debt and funeral costs.

His brother did not come back for the funeral. He would have but Penny, age 7, had chicken pox.

Penny comes visit Kansas during the summer during the following years.

Three years go by and John's mother passes in the middle of winter.

After a lot of discussion it's decided between Matthew and his wife that they won't take Penny with them to the funeral. She's only 10 and while she knows what death is they're overprotective.

Penny is upset because her grandmother is dead and they're leaving her alone with a sitter for a week, but they tell her that when they come back they'll have Uncle John with them and he'll be able to stay this time. This cheers her up considerably.

Their plane crashes in an ice storm on the way there.

This leaves everything in disarray. John ends up having to abandon everything in Kansas and let the house foreclose instead of trying to sell it like he planned. He rushes to Riverton instead.

He's Penny's godfather and his brother's next of kin, so at 24 he inherits the house there and Penny's guardianship.

It takes him a bit to get his feet under him. Within a year he lands the job as Security guard at Bradford Industries.

Which brings us to present day. He's been a security guard for about three years, has realized he'd love to be a cop one day but can't afford to go to the police academy because he owns a house he can barely afford on his salary and trying very hard to raise his niece, who is exactly half his age as of 1999. He's also totally smitten with his employer's daughter and has only just gotten to the point where he can kinda sorta talk to her.

And then he gets blown up by Scolex.

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TMS Entertainment, a beloved Japanese animation studio currently owned by Sega Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of SegaSammy holdings, has just announced that for their 60th anniversary, they’ll begin uploading special animated features of significant importance to the company to their official YouTube page. Most noteworthy to Sega/Sonic fans, this includes the first six episodes of Sonic X in its original Japanese dub. The entire campaign begins on August 5th, 2024. This is a good chance to get a taste of what Sonic X was originally like, free of both English voices and the cacophony of censorship edits imposed on it in its original English dub by 4Kids Entertainment

Gotta go fast as you rush past the break for the skinny on this special event. GO! GO! GO! GO! LET’S GO!

As stated above, Sonic will be the one to kick off TMS Entertainment’s 60th anniversary celebration on August 5th. On that day, at noon EST, 9AM PST, they will upload episode 1: The Supersonic Hero Takes The Stage, in its original Japanese format with English subtitles. On August 6th, episode 2 will follow, then episode 3 on August 7th, and so on, but episode 6 will come on August 12th instead of August 10th. Strangely, their schedule says they will upload episode 5 again on August 13th-16th. Based on this, it’s possible each episode besides episode 5 will only be online for one day, so just in case, make time to catch each episode on the upload date.

Fortunately, TMS has already provided links to episodes 1-5 on YouTube. You can go to each and click the “Notify Me” button to have YouTube send you a notification for when each episode will premiere. Here are the embeds to each episode.

As for the rest of the 60th anniversary event, TMS will also be uploading episode 1 of Big X (The studio’s very first anime from August 3rd 1964, based on the Osamu Tezuka manga), Super Dimension Century Orguss episodes 1-10, and the Takeshi Koike directed Lupin III movie trilogy, consisting of Jigen’s Gravestone, Goemon’s Blood Spray, and Fujiko’s Lie. Go to TMS Entertainment’s 60th anniversary celebration news page for the details and schedule on all anime being presented.

TMS Entertainment has been the animation studio for many beloved anime throughout the decades. They are most associated with long running franchises such as Lupin III, Detective Conan (Known in the west as Case Closed), as well as several anime based on Sega franchises, not just including Sonic X, but also Virtua Fighter, Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girls, and Phantasy Star Online II: The Animation. They also animated the FMV cutscenes in Burning Rangers. Besides anime, they also had a hand in animating several western cartoons, including Inspector Gadget, Cybersix, The Real Ghostbusters, Batman: The Animated Series, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, and The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Currently, they are working on popular anime such as Undead Unluck and Dr. Stone.

TMS Entertainment’s official YouTube page currently hosts trailers, clips, and full episodes of many anime they have produced throughout their long history. In same cases, they have the entire series of some of their anime available to view absolute free, including Karate Master (1973), Cat’s Eye (1983), Magic Knight Rayearth (1994) (Along with its Brazilian Portuguese dub), Virtua Fighter (1995) (As well as its Spanish dub), Itazura na Kiss (2008), Lupin III Part 2 (1977), Lupin III Part 4 (2015), and the English dub of Sonic X (Season 1) (Season 2) (Season 3) (Plus, the Brazilian Portuguese dub, surprisingly). They are gradually uploading episodes of The Gutsy Frog (1972), Yowamushi Pedal Grande Road (2013), Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (2009), and Z/X Ignition (2014). They are also, as of this writing, in the middle of an ongoing Lupin III celebration in which they upload a feature-length Lupin III TV special every month, with this current month’s pick being Tokyo Crisis (1998). They’re a channel worth following if you love watching all kinds of anime, no matter its age.

So will you be catching these uploads of Japanese Sonic X? Are there any TMS animated productions you’re a particular fan of? Give us a holler in the comments section before.

And remember, if you like Sonic X in Japanese, the entire series has been made available on Blu-Ray courtesy of Discotek Media. (Who also blessed us with complete Blu-Ray releases of Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girls, Virtua Fighter, and The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog)

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Todays rip: 17/03/2024

YTPMV Plant Inspection

Season 2 Featured on: Rips of Christmas Past Also on: The SiIvaGunner YTPMV Collab (Eek!).veg

Ripped by Zoom

Requested by mobbsz02! (Ask Box)

And now, after a number of posts made covering Season 2's incredible ability to introduce new memes...it comes time to torture them.

I've made it no secret that Season 2 was likely when my investment in SiIvaGunner was at its absolute peak, and that was in large part due to how invested I'd become in the ongoing lore and story at that time. Part of it was of course everything surrounding the main story itself: Season 1 had stuff like the reboot with I Saw a Brainwasher Today and the Mr. Rental side story with Mr. Rental [B Side] ~ Out of Options, and Season 2's slow-burn premiere had kept me thoroughly engaged with rips like 28 Saves Later and Patched Plains Fusion Collab all building up to the premiere of the Christmas Comeback Crisis. But another part of it was also how even the most off-shoot things were often spun to tie in with the channel's lore during Season 2 in particular: the Smooth takeover described in Haltmanna feat. Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20, the Inspector Gadget takeover of Become as Gadget, and so many more...Because of this, and the memories of Season 1's various ARG-like puzzles strewn about from time to time, it felt more important than ever to consider the meaning and depth to every rip uploaded, to consider how a rip's contents may be reflecting what's going on in the world of Grandiose City, almost akin to trying to deduce Dark Souls lore through item descriptions.

And I mean, hey - lore or not, that feeling that any one rip uploaded has the potential to set off a chain reaction in relevance based on its popularity is one of the most fun parts of following SiIvaGunner even today (Mad Mew Mew Becoming Uncanny and THE NEW TEAM 10 FORT​!​!​! [Francis Flow: Original Mix] are just two examples come to mind.). Yet that specific tie and investment to the ongoing lore of the Christmas Comeback Crisis, the fight to free the captured Figments being exploited by Haltmann and The Voice Inside Your Head, is what IMMEDIATELY made YTPMV Plant Inspection stick out as far more important and meaningful than it may otherwise have been seen as. With the combined bellows of the Howie Scream and Loud Nigra, it takes but a few seconds to realize that something here had gone terribly wrong.

The original Studying the Factory theme from Kirby 64 has become one of the franchise's most enduring themes, despite how much it differs from most anything you'd expect from the series' soundscape. Its an imposing, industrial-sounding theme driven by percussion that sounds like heavy-duty machinery pounding in the background, with a lead synth trying its best to be heard through the savage tools its surrounded by. It strikes an absolutely brilliant balance of sounding imposing, oppressive yet simultaneously infectiously catchy: An atmosphere that, somehow, through leveraging our attachment to the channel's existing memes, YTPMV Plant Inspection is able to perfectly translate to the medium of YTPMV. Again, the literal first thing we hear is the channel's foremost and second-most iconic scream-memes, one of which almost replaced the other in the Reboot storyline, now seemingly suffering the same torturous fate - only to be followed by vocalizations of PSY seeming to only barely be holding on. Even as the rip picks itself together past the intro, you never truly get past the sense that the sources feel almost as if they're pain performing, with slight tweaks made to their melodies to better fit the progression of Studying the Factory - as if they're being made to fall in line. This feeling is only enhanced by the climax to the rip's chorus being performed by the two aforementioned scream-memes, sounding just as strained and suffering as they did in the song's opening.

And look, I'm aware this interpretation of things is a bit silly - of COURSE a YTPMV rip of a song like Studying the Factory, especially the Planet Robobot rendition of the track, was going to sound like this. I don't necessarily believe that it was Zoom's intention to make a rip directly referencing the idea that SiIva's captured figments were undergoing genuine torture, but...again, the idea of linking even innocuous rips to lore was one that had been well established at that point.

With everything from Grand Dad Metropolis to Angry Joe's Theme, the SiIvaGunner team had conveyed to audience members like me that they LOVED rewarding us for paying attention to everything being done on the channel. It was that speculation being done over the deeper meanings in rips just like YTPMV Plant Inspection that played a huge part in keeping them etched in my memory banks for a long time, that was what kept me coming back to video after video to see what was being said and discussed in their comments sections. Because sure, YTPMV Plant Inspection is no doubt a banger in isolation, it uses and plays with a lot of sources and fiddles with them just enough to fit the main track's melody and progression smoothly, a lot of classics like Smooth and Bonfire and Drop It Like It's Hot with fantastic use of samples like PSY's and Joel's GRAND DAD!! shout...but it really was everything SURROUNDING the rip that made it stick with me for years since.

It's damn impressive what a rip can do with just some atmosphere and buildup, huh?

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It’s extra fucked up how mid tier to downright insulting the modern Disney live action remakes are when we’ve literally seen how good the studio is at making incredible and memorable adaptations of existing works. Remember Holes? Of course you do. Bridge to Terabithia? That shit made you cry in a way you haven’t forgotten.

Even shit like the Inspector Gadget live actions have their own funny charm. And let’s not discount how Pirates of The Caribbean revived a thought long defunct movie genre with a new twist, even if the franchise is not an adaptation of existing stories all the time.

The fact that the studio has had a lot of low budget Disney Channel original movie stinkers and keep producing big budget box office flops in recent years doesn’t mean the studio is incapable of making good films, it means they’re being lazy. And you shouldn’t let them make you settle for that. Don’t reward lazy films.

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fun fact: apparently the reason they made his coat so short was so the animators wouldn’t have to deal with collision physics

I've done something I've never done x))) I DREW A GADGET FROM 3D! xDDD But I wanted to sketch this moment for a long time)