In my last article on Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, I mentioned that the movie felt like a pale echo of The Castle of Cagliostro. That got me thinking about how good Castle of Cagliostro actually was, and how little it gets discussed nowadays. I often run into anime fans who don’t even realize it was Hayao Miyazaki’s first feature film, that before Totoro and Nausicaa and all the rest, he worked on a “little” movie based on the TV series of Lupin III. Those who have seen it can … [Read more...]