Someone Made an Entire Movie into a Flash Game - 4399 Exploration

4399.com can be an interesting place to explore. It is a Chinese games site that allows users to play online browser games as well as flash games and also has a large collection of android games and apps. It even has side projects including 4399dmw.com/donghua which is an anime encyclopedia similar in some ways to myanimelist.net. China is well known for being the origin of many bootlegs and unlicensed content. This is the case for 世纪末的魔术师, also known as The Last Wizard of the Century.

4399 logo from: 4399.com

This game is a flash-based visual novel in Chinese using the entirety of the movie and soundtrack for content. While the game does feature still frames taken from the movie as backgrounds, other parts of the game use whole sections of animation taken from the movie. This game is certainly unlicensed, and is a very interesting example of what someone can create.

Link to the game:
http://www.4399.com/flash/138354_2.htm

Top Thief Anime

There have been a lot of anime made showing detectives and genius outsmart and capture criminals, but there have also been many anime that have followed the perspective of the thieves.

4. D.N. Angel
D.N. Angel follows Daisuke Niwa, who after his birthday turns into the famous phantom thief Dark Mousy.










3. Detective Conan Kid the Phantom Thief (Magic Kaito)
An anime series by TMS, set in the Detective Conan universe and following the Magic Kaito manga by Goshou Aoyama. It follows the journey of Kaito Kuroba who finds out that his father, who had gone missing when he was younger was the internationally known Kid the Phantom Thief 1412. He finds out that his father was murdered by a group of criminals looking for a gem that has the power of immortality, and he takes his role as the new Kaitou Kid.

2. Lupin III
Lupin III is a long-running anime franchise that has ran from 1971 to now and follows Lupin III, the great grandson of Lupin, an infamous gentleman thief. Lupin and his gang travel around the world stealing priceless objects while trying to evade inspector Zenigata of the ICPO (INTERPOL). Lupin III has had numerous movies, and five main series encompassing hundreds of episodes, as well as the spin off series Lupin the Third: Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna.






1. Magic Kaito 1412

This anime follows the journey of the same Kid the Phantom Thief series from #3. This is another adaptation of Goshou Aoyama's Magic Kaito 1412 manga series, this time made by A1 pictures, and is more like a standalone series that does not need the viewer to know about the Detective Conan universe, unlike #3 which does require viewers to know at least the Detective Conan basics. This series is great, and works well as a short standalone series.