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It’s hard to believe this site launched in January of 2008. At the time, the site was a much needed repository for Iron Chef videos on the internet. And thanks to a few purchases from a collector in Japan and many generous donations of episodes from a collector in the US, we were able to see many battles most of us thought we would never see. And the revival of the show in 2012 led to rebroadcasts of the original first season episodes. What a treat to see the origins of Iron Chef. I enjoyed writing the old Episodes of the Week posts and meeting fans from all over the world.
Fast forward to 2018. You can find just about any episode you want on Youtube or Dailymotion or one of the other video sites. And there are other sources of information about the show that are maintained more frequently than this one. I hate to say it, but I don’t know that the site is needed anymore.
I will renew the hosting and domain name for one more year at the end of this upcoming November. So no matter what, the site will be online through November 2019. (Domain name expires Dec ’19) What happens after that? I don’t know. I’d hate to see the site disappear entirely, so I’d be more than willing to let someone else take over if there is anyone interested.
Let me know if anyone has any thoughts or wants the keys to the kitchen.
Keith
I got this comment from long-time friend of the site Ironnut77 the other day:
I just came across what appears to be a new site (at least I have never seen it before). It is a database for all of the original Iron Chef battles, with PICTURES and all kinds of other goodies!
The site looks very interesting. Give it a look when you have a chance.
To the owner of ICBDB, if you would like to link to any of the episodes or posts on this site, please feel free to do so. And thank you for adding a wonderful resource for the Iron Chef community.
Keith
The fine folks at Tofugu posted this story about one of Iron Chef Chen’s mabodofu restaurants.
https://www.tofugu.com/travel/chin-kenichi-mabodofu/
And there is a note at the end of the story that they are working on a series of articles about other Iron Chef restaurants in the Tokyo area.
I saw a picture on the blog of actress and former idol Yajima Maimi today. She has been co-hosting a radio show with Doc Hattori for the last few weeks. The staff celebrated her birthday, and she posted a picture of her and the Doc. (Link to blog post below.)
https://ameblo.jp/yajima-maimi-official/entry-12351356156.html
Translation of the relevant section thanks to the fine folks at 910 percent on Facebook:
BTW, I had the radio recording of Nack5 Hattori Yukio Well Taste , every Sunday at 12:00 on the air, before the Shima Shima theater yesterday.
*Dr. Hattori is popular for the commentator of Iron Chef.
I didn’t expect it at all!
Surprisingly!!
Dr. Hattori and the staff celebrated my birthday ー
(T ^ T)♡♡
I have done the assistant ,on behalf of Yasuda Kei-san taking maternity leave, only for a short days.
All of them knew my birthday (＞＜)♡♡
I was surprised!(T ^ T)
The stuff give me a beautiful cake and the master Hattori gave me a Saucepan of Geo-Project (T ^ T)♡♡
I was so happy (＞＜)♡♡
I’ll do my best for cooking with the saucepan!(*’▽’*)‼︎
Thank you so much‼︎♡♡
Edit: Here is a Dailymotion link to listen to the 2/4/2018 episode for anyone curious.
I’m sure we’ll look back on this and laugh, but right now I’m not smiling. I’m really sorry I messed up the good part of the site. I will try to keep you updated and a part of the process as I try to get the downloads available again as soon as possible.
Here is the plan:
—Edit the links on the Full Series Episode List to point directly to the video file. At least this way you can still easily access the episode videos even if you don’t have other details about the episode. Fortunately, I was pretty consistent in the file naming, so some copy/paste with minor edits should make the process go fairly quickly. This is now done. You can directly access the episodes by clicking the green ep number in the Full Episode List.
–Make a Google Doc of the Episode List and start putting together the relevant information again. (Original Airdate, IC name, Challenger name, description, etc.) I plan to have this posted in the next day or so and openly available to edit, so anyone can help with this process.
–Use that information to start rebuilding download pages for individual episodes. Do you want me to use the old system or is there another way you think I should do it?
–Re-edit links on the Full Series Episode List to point to the new information/download page of each video.
–Never update or touch the site again so I don’t screw something else up. (This step is optional.) 🙂
I’m definitely open to suggestions for improving the site as the process moves forward. Thank you again for your patience and for your support.
Keith
Apparently, something changed on the host end so that the site was looking on the wrong server for the database. As you can see, I’ve managed to find what happened and get it up again. I still have to fix the download page, but I will do that as soon as possible. Thank you for you being patient.
**Edit – The download page is being a little difficult. I’ll have to take a look at it when I get home from work. Sorry, everybody.
**Edit 2 – I may have killed the file database. (The files are still uploaded, but the program that I used to link to them did something funky with the database that stored all the episode descriptions, judges, info, etc.) I may have to find another solution. I really, really (really, really) don’t want to have to re-enter every single episode description + information. Maybe we can make this a group effort?
–Keith