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The Mike Toole Show: Saito's Impossible Hit

(one of them begins with a plot to chemically induce Golgo's target to rape a family member while underneath a heavy chandelier, which Golgo then shoots, and climaxes with his double-crossing client trying to stab Golgo, only missing and accidentally murdering his own 8-year-old grandson instead),

You're all nodding, thinking of Jean Reno shooting people in an awesome movie from 1994. But this was in 1992.

I lined up at the Brattle Theatre to view the film, and I wasn't disappointed.

Also, I'm not at all convinced that any of the film's subsequent releases and re-releases on home video in North America are entirely legitimate, as they all seem to come from the same terrible print with the same awkward, muddy dub.

Fortunately good sense and good taste eventually prevailed, and Viz hit fans with a quality 13-volume release of the best Golgo 13 stories starting in 2006.

Not only does it take place in my home state of Massachusetts-- well, the Takao Saito America-sure-is-wacky version of Massachusetts, where you can tell you're in America because the police ask to see your gun-- but the central event happens at good old Fenway Park.

In 1996, upstart anime publisher Urban Vision (whatever happened to them?) surfaced

And fansubbers still never finished Golgo either.

Is it me or is Golgo kinda based on Illich Ramirez "Carlos the Jackal" Sachez?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal

And fansubbers still never finished Golgo either.

walw6pK4Alo wrote:

And fansubbers still never finished Golgo either.

Normally, non-completion of an obscure series is put down to the work of nebulous sub-ninjas, working tirelessly to prevent people from watching Panzer World Galient. In this case, however, I think Duke Togo may be taking matters into his own hands.