Quote Originally Posted by rkotm View Post
WoW, i had no idea they were so lax about it-It never occured to me about the doujin comics..
Side note, is the Earthbound box holding up okay? I still think about it from time to time, like an old car lol.
I'm going to look up Lupin the Third, sounds interesting. Also, i wonder if Japan even likes Mother series half as much as the west does..
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you--I for some reason have had bad cases of oversleeping.

Yes, the box is holding up fine. I want to get a box protector for it soon. And you might have heard somewhere that I now have an actual game to go with it. ^__^

Lupin the Third is awesome. It's about a professional thief and his allies... so kind of Ocean's Eleven/The Thomas Crown Affair, but far more whimsical and in serial format. The copyright issue comes in because Lupin the Third is a pretty unabashed fanfic/ripoff of the Arsene Lupin novels by Maurice LeBlanc, which at the time were not in the public domain (some of them are now, and can be found in English on Project Gutenberg... they're worth a read).

And yes, Japan LOVES Mother. All three games recently made it onto Famitsu's "Top 100 Games of All Time" lists, with Mother 2 and 3 especially ranking pretty high on said list. Mother 3 was also the first game in history to get all-perfects from that magazine, which is notoriously brutal.