Website Credits & Information

    This web page would not exist without these individuals. Or, it would exist, but it would suck. (Not listed in any particular order.)
     

    Ryo Shiroma
    Cliff Deiss
    Armen Nakashian
    Ethan Forsythe
    Dan Hollis
    Peter Evans
    Rob Peters
    Ken Hollis
    Kanji Bates
    Veronica Bates
    Keith Rhee
    Pat Conley
    Geir Friestad
     Norie Isogawa
    Hiroki Hayashi
    Robert Hull
    Eugene Hamai 
    Bill MacPhee
    Hideki Saito
    Christopher Hull
    and of course,
    Takehiko Itou
    Eugene Lee
     
    Legal Stuff: NG Knight Lamune & 40, the story, characters, and their likenesses are copyrighted works of Takehiko Itou, TV Tokyo, Ashi Productions, and Asatsu. This should not be construed as permission to use any of the images herein. Hopefully someday I'll get hold of the copyright holders and request permission to use these images. Until then, please don't sue me.

    How I got involved in this mess
    (or, the slippery slope of anime fandom)

    This is not the tale of a fateful trip, but if you're wondering, this is the tale of how I found out about Lamune & 40. It started back in 1990. My buddies Rob & Chris Hull had gotten me back into anime after a long hiatus after Robotech went off the air way back when. Rob had taken a trip to Japan, and was there around August/September of that year. While he was there he taped lots of TV shows, which he shared with us when he got back. Like everyone else at the time, I was into the Ranma thing, and I was happy to get some "real" episodes back then. He had taped lots of stuff but I wasn't really interested at the time. Fast forward about 1 year. Rob was away at school, but Chris was home and bored, so I came over for a visit and he was at the time half-watching this show with a short, violent red haired girl with big ears, a spaced-out girl with glasses, and a silly hero with a weird thing on his head fighting a pair of idiotic enemies. The show caught my attention, and I borrowed the tape. I warn all of you that this show, if you suffer from the same mental illness that I do, is more addictive than crack. I asked Rob about why he didn't show it to me, to which he replied that he thought it "sucked". Go figure. Anyway, I had those 3 or 4 episodes for a while until one day when I accidentally bulk erased the tape. OOPS! Since fan interest in the show was slim to none, it was hard to find anyone with the source material. It wasn't until relatively recently that I was able to get hold of all the episodes and OAV's.

    The purpose of this website
    (you do not understand, but you will...)

    The functions of this website are manifold. One, it serves as a tribute to my favorite anime series. It also serves as a tribute to the man behind the story and characters, Takehiko Ito. It serves to enhance the knowledge of this show and what it is about to the English-speaking anime freaks out there. It is my belief that this series is truly underrated and deserves more attention than it has gotten. And, compared to the garbage that fandom seems to attach onto, it seems only fair Lamune & 40 should get a website worthy of the more popular titles. It also serves as a point to the web-design freaks, the fancy boys, and the elite Japanese fans out there that a network administrator from New Jersey can make a good web page.

    How this thing was made
    (my tools are quite large)

    To create this website, I used the following tools:

    Photoshop 4
    Netscape Composer
    Notepad
    EDIT.EXE
    pico

    Other Stuff you might like:
    (or, maybe not...)

    There are a couple of other Lamune TV and OAV series, Including:

    VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire (TV Series)
    VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fresh (OAV)
    (Lamune Fresh was/is released in the US under the title "Knights of Ramune", by the way.)
    Related Series:
    KO Seiki Beast Sanjuushi: Created by the same team as Lamune & 40
    Future Retro Hero Story (manga)
    Outlaw Star (TV)
    Angel Links (TV/OAV) : Created by Takehiko Ito
    Saber Marionette series (TV/OAV): Created by Akahori Satoru
    various Slayers TV and OVA series: very similar to Lamune TV
    Try searching on anipike (www.anipike.com) for more info on these series, except for the KO Seiki Beast page which is here

    Contact me
    (only if I don't owe you money)

    If you have questions, comments, death threats, mail bombs, or just a generic rant, you can email it to me at the following address which has been encoded to foil those evil spam-bots:

    lamune at doki-doki dot net