#DIDN'T MEAN TO WRITE AN ESSAY MY BAD. TY FOR ASKING ILY TOO ANON

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✔️❌️ FOR THE LUPIN ASK GAME thank you! have a nice day

no thank YOU for encouraging my madness! and YOU have a nice day too or ELSE

✔️ - i'm trying to think of something i haven't talked about a lot before but really i'd suggest different things based on what people wanted to get out of the story y'know? i guess just off the top of my head i'll say... i mean icon aside i don't really have a HUGE bias for this one, i think i just mentioned once that dead or alive surprised me with just how GOOD it was. AND IT IS!! the animation is gorgeous and the plot is interesting and fills out it's runtime with ease (some lupin movies tend to run a bit longer than they need to sometimes. i mean me too but JUST SAYING) and it's unique and fantastical but still grounded enough that. honestly it wouldn't be a BAD entry point. you get a good feel for all of our guys here, and a REALLY good girl of the week right out the gate!

but like i said, my reccs would change depending on what you were specifically looking for. some are visually more interesting, some have better writing for JUST jigen, some have better writing for JUST fujiko, like i don't know if i've ever found a perfect 10 on all fronts buREALLY I COULD MAKE A LIST OF EVERY SPECIAL/MOVIE I'VE SEEN AND BREAK DOWN EACH ONE'S STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES TO CONCISELY SUGGEST ONE TO ALL OF YOU BUT. THAT WOULD BE A LOT TO DO WITH NO PROMPTING. LET'S MOVE ON

❌ - this was so much easier. twilight gemini!! not JUST because of the random homophobia sprinkled in, but honestly the movie forgets about everyone BUT lupin for well over half its runtime. a lot of specials are guilty of this, but honestly jigen, goemon, and fujiko just appear when its plot convenient with nothing else to like. do. also somehow has the MOST sexual violence in a series already packed with it, i mean this one has an insane amount. like i get part of the novelty of this one is 'omg lupin and fujiko had sex!' but. yeah? i feel like we already know they're doing that. why are there four different instances of women being seen topless when they don't want to be again? why's there like an extended torture scene where fujiko's like ass naked. what's that got to do with anything

i have problems with a handful of specials for somehow struggling to balance a cast of 5 whole characters, and having issues with writing said characters and their plus ones, especially the women, like most people i think. and i understand that sexual violence comes with the territory here, we all know lupin's origins and there's no point skirting around it, but where there's interesting characterization and fun designs in fujiko's unlucky days and beautiful animation and interesting concepts in mamo that lessen the blow of scenes/implications like that, twilight gemini doesn't do anything to like. redeem itself. to me, at least.

#not to get too serious about the silly anime movies but sheesh. we're gonna get you outta there lara #DIDN'T MEAN TO WRITE AN ESSAY MY BAD. TY FOR ASKING ILY TOO ANON #ask game #lupinions