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femme-from-hell · 1 year

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Lupin III HCs <3

My Thoughts On The Gang + Zenigata

Jigen is a brand name ONLY kinda bitch. He refuses to wear anything that isn't in at least the 3 digit price range. The thought of thrifting his clothes causes visible disgust, even for a disguise for a heist.

Lupin's first suit was gifted to him by either his father or his grandfather and that was the look he's rolled with ever since.

When Lupin is on a rant or facing a really intense emotion he'll start speaking rapidly in French, like a default setting. Get him flustered or pissed, either way you'll be hearing some colorful French

Ever since Jigen's fling with the ballerina (Part 2 Ep 58), he started learning Russian

Lupin is a naturally curious person, so in the same way people collect post cards from all the places they've visited, Lupin collects pocket encyclopedias about the places he's been.

Goemon is touch starved and Fujiko craves platonic affection = symbiotic friendship

The gang learned to traditionally make tea as a surprise for Goemon when he's upset

Bouncing off the brand name only Jigen idea, I like to think he's into fashion and WILL actively judge the gang and other people when they're out

Fujiko will join Jigen in judging people when they're out doing stuff

Lupin is weirdly good with yoyo tricks

Goemon loves dad jokes and will go back and forth with Lupin during car rides, Jigen is not a fan of said dad jokes

Goemon also has inhumanly impeccable comedic timing

Fujiko regularly donates large sums of money to charities like women's safe house organizations under an alias

Idk why but I feel like Lupin was a trains kid? Like he had obsession with them and that obsession moved onto different things.

Neurodivergent Lupin for the win

Fujiko didn't have her ears pierced until after she met the gang and they had no idea she was wearing clip-ons

Lupin found out because she wasn't wearing any of the expensive earrings he stole for her

Zenigata and Jigen are both heavy fans of classical and will talk about it on the off chance they're stuck together

Every year, Lupin will take Jigen to the Opera for his birthday

Lupin prefers throwing big parties and doing something special for his friends' birthday but likes just a little something for his b day, like a little cupcake and that's it

Zenigata has a dislike for American cops

Jigen is weirdly good with math

Lupin has a lot of expensive hair products and Goemon mooches off him

Jigen uses the 3 in 1 like a rat but Lupin will empty the bottles and put in the good stuff

Fujiko is really good with computers and learned to program as a hobby at some point

I hope someone finds these at least a little enjoyable! I might incorporate them in some upcoming fics and oneshots I have planned

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catchyhuh · 5 months

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What sort of hobbies or interests do you imagine the Gang having (outside thievery or arresting said thieves)? And do they influence the way they go about their usual antics, or are they mostly Unrelated to everything else in their lives? :0c

oohhooohoho this is a good one because i have a small handful of actual canonical hobbies/interests that come up occasionally and then i have the ones that solely exist in my mind palace. at least until tms decides to let a random little shrimp from america take the reins on their most longrunning successful franchise anyway,

lupin:

i can’t remember if i mentioned lupin loves puzzles. wait yes i did in the video game list SORRY I’M ALREADY HAVING TROUBLE REMEMBERING WHAT I HAVE AND HAVEN’T GONE OFF ABOUT but yes in canon lupin LOVES puzzles. less like, jigsaw puzzles, more like shapey puzzles. but hell man if you can get him to sit still long enough he might like a jigsaw one just to pass the time

i think he likes cooking. him, jigen and goemon all seem to really Get it. so count this under all of them, they just love yummy food and occasionally the process of making it too

he likes to draw :) somebody has to be behind all the slightly different variants of his little mascot guy. SOMEBODY has to redraw bank floor plans so they can plan out each tiny step of the heist. somebody has to scribble over his own wanted posters to put funny little devil horns on the image CMON now!!

jigen:

only jigen could be in a fucking arcade theater complex and pull out a fucking crossword puzzle. why is this dude honestly trying to speedrun being a grouchy old man before he even turns 40. i mean no hate, no hate to crossword puzzles, they are cool but i’m more of a wordsearch guy. BUT THERE’S OTHER STUFF TO DO JIGEN!! at least he’s not going for sudoku though

very random but i think he might like sewing in a passive sense. with how particular he is about his hat and really ANY clothes on his person, he probably just picked up a needle one day to fix a tear and then was like Huh. this isn't too bad actually. kinda repetitive and calming. and then the others found out and tried to get him to fix all their stuff too SO HALF PLEASANT AND HALF NOT SO PLEASANT

fujiko:

you may think i’m insane but fujiko must genuinely have some sort of fondness for computers and technology. more than she lets on at least, because. how DO you know how to fly every type of aircraft. how DO you know how to crack into almost any computer firewall? how do you know how to isolate a computer virus as it’s ALREADY corrupted HALF OF THE SYSTEM?? this goes beyond job necessity to me she must really have some hidden underlying passion for this stuff

i think it’d be cute if she took up some kinda journaling. i mean god knows she’s not writing about her FEELINGS in that little leather notebook, and she doesn’t really have the time to commit to like, scrapbook shit (even if she had the time, she’s not sentimental like that) but something simple like “this is a list of m&m variants in order of how disgusting to not disgusting they taste to me <3” with little candy stickers and gel pen hearts drawn in. the next page has a bloodstain on it and the only thing written is “dw about that lol”

goemon:

okay i KNOW i’ve pushed the Arts Enjoyer goe agenda before but i recently saw that part 3 production art again of him chilling with the pottery wheel so i must state, once again, goemon LOVES sculpting shit in all forms. chip away at some rock, throw zantetsuken at a block of wood, actually invest in some clay for fucking once, whatever he uses, he’ll make something pretty good. and even if it wasn’t good it’s still a fun hobby for him. keeps his hands loose but precise

oh my god you know what he would love. dominoes. you know when people make those like crazy long domino strings that form a pattern when they’ve all fallen. if anybody here could have the precision and strangely placed patience to do shit like that it’s definitely this guy

zenigata:

going through this list easily and eagerly typing up little funfacts about things i do know they like outside of their. “jobs” and then slowly realizing as i get to zenigata that i... cannot think of anything he. uh. does for fun. damn. he DOES talk about movies a lil bit from time to time, and knowing his mixture of a freakish eye for detail and also missing the most obvious things ever i bet hearing him talk about a movie is twice as fun as actually watching it. i would pay HUNDREDS to hear him try to explain what he thinks of space odyssey to me

it would be-- i have no reasoning for this but it would be so cute and hilarious if he did like. tiny magic tricks. you know? like card appearing out of thin air, coin behind your ear type shit. tiny stuff he figured out on his brief off time. we know lupin can do little stuff like that too but it'd just be hilarious if zenigata, completely unawarely and unintentionally for once, ended up being better than him at some inconsequential shit like making a pair of keys disappear

and i guess in light of recent discoveries they all like golf. apparently. well. no one is perfect

#i really had trouble reading over this again and being like hm. is this actually a possibility or do i just want it to be #but then i remembered its my blog and i can type what i wish!! yippee!#lupin iii #lupin the third #lupin #jigen #fujiko #goemon #zenigata #asks

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figuramacollectors · 2 years

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loopspoop · 2 months

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Backstory for Fujiko perhaps? ^u^

Unsurprisingly, she’s one of the harder ones for me to write, but I’m giving it my all!

She’s born in Japan to a single mother. They live in a tiny apartment and, while her mother is young, she tries her best to do what she can for her. She’s made mistakes but she’s trying her best for her child. However, the stress gets to her. Her family has shunned her for having a child out of wedlock and for being so young. She leaves her child alone in a park one day. Fujiko is wailing after hours of loneliness and is finally picked up by police after a concerned couple realized the abandonment. Despite her age, the memory is something she recalls often and is where her first distrust of the police comes in. She felt they took her from her mother. She was coming back for her, she had to be.

Group homes were a change for Fujiko. She wanted her mom, but the kids are nice. The girls in the homes get in trouble for painting her nails. Why paint his nails?! He’s a boy! Fujiko was as pissed as a 4 year old could be at that point. She looked great in red nail polish! How dare they? However, this is where she learned that turning on the charm got her what she wanted. She was a cute kid and grew into a beautiful adult. She knew how to work the system before she was 7. Even if it was just for cookies or an extended bedtime, it worked. If that didn’t, she was good at tantrums too. She was an angry kid.

She ends up more rebellious in middle school. Group homes aren’t as nice when they realize how much you act out. She’s angry. She’s realized her mother abandoned her. Nobody concretely adopts her and it pisses her off. She’s shunted from home to home as she begins to steal jewelry and expensive things from foster parents. Sometimes they find everything, sometimes they don’t. She’s caught stealing her files trying to find her mother, which ears her a beating with a ruler for snooping in important files. It intensifies her rage against systems like this. There’s no information on her past except her permanent records of all of her misbehaving. Stealing, fighting, tantrums, she’s done it all.

Puberty doesn’t help. Hair in weird places makes her feel like she’s losing her good looks. She can’t get what she wants by just asking or trying her best. She’s learned this early on. Looks are what gets her what she needs. She’s alone and only has herself. She will kick someone’s ass, but that’s a last resort. She steals razors from the girls sanitary products room and teaches herself to shave. She steals makeup and perfume from stores and grows her hair long. Fuck societal norms at this point, she was whoever she wanted to be, damnit! She ends up getting arrested at 15 for stealing makeup. The group home cuts her hair as punishment. She gets more enraged against these systems. The group homes punish her for self expression. The police made fun of her hair and makeup. She pierces her own ears and fixes her hair to her best ability and runs away.

She adopts a new name. She’s Fujiko Mine now. Her hair grows back beautifully and she manages to learn to hide any masculine features well. Watching enough people teaches her how to raise her voice and she puts on an act to get money from rich suckers who treat anyone below them like garbage anyways. She ages into a woman on the streets, sleeping in fancy condos when she’s doing well and living with filthy men she tricks into letting her stay. She always leaves before they find her out, stealing their wallets and milking their bank accounts dry.

She’s in her 20s when she gets a high mark, gets herself a good amount of money but ends up losing it before she can do much. Down on her luck, a love struck Frenchman sweeps her off her feet and she makes him a mark.

It doesn’t work out like she expected.

He doesn’t leave. He found her out immediately. The stealing, her secrets, everything. He doesn’t care, despite the fact she holds a knife to his throat. He’s Lupin III and he’s… got really great boobs- oh. So that’s how he knew.

Lupin helps her pay her top and bottom surgery and handles all the recovery. He was really sweet for it. They form a bond pretty quickly. She heals and steals his wallet. He kept Monopoly money in it, the little creep. And a phone number. He invites her on heists, presents her with diamonds and dresses and designer bags. It’s what she always wanted. And while Lupin does want things in return, namely sex, he’s not greedy about it like the other men were. He isn’t forceful. If she says no he accepts just cuddling or even sharing a coffee and a chat.

Eventually they end up with a samurai and a gunman in the same situation. Jigen is prickly and thinks she’s just after Lupin’s body. The only thing she really wanted was to exchange chests, but that problem was solved and not much of Jigen’s business anyways. Goemon was shy and a little funny to mess with. He gave her hair tips and they became fast friends in exchanging passing tips. A lot of her anger dies down. She stills hates laws and systems like foster care but she’s not as angry at the world because people like her can do just fine when they get the right family. And she has her family, finally.

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rikeijo · 7 months

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Today's translation #400

Ferbi vol. 41, Sayo Yamamoto's interview

Part 12.

-- So you have experienced an earthquake in the middle of the production, huh.

Y: In the first episode, when they try to steal the treasure from that palace, in the screenplay, the idea was to use a big wave at first as the trick [that helps them get the treasure]. But at that time, it became impossible to depict anything that resembles a tsunami, so I had to come up with a new trick, but I couldn't find anything that would feel right. And to ensure that a sort of "for adults" atmosphere that is present in the original Lupin is present in the anime, too, it was necessary to include some sexy scenes, but I wasn't in the mood at all to think about sexy things... Just like that, the anime was born in a lot of pain. What's more, in the middle of production of "Fujiko" I started to think that I'd like to make an anime about figure skating next. As I was working on "Fujiko", I'd already been obsessed with figure skating, and it was the only way I could refresh my mind [from thinking about something unpleasant e.g.] (laugh). In "Fujiko", we see the character of Lieutenant Oscar - the designs of some of the clothes he wears were inspired by Johnny Weir's costumes.

-- I didn't know that! (laugh)

Y: I was planning that after I finished working on "Fujiko", I would make an anime that would be just full of things that I love. The reason why I thought that was because I was in a bad place mentally, but it was mainly, because I felt like I didn't know what I lived for, if I couldn't do something that I really wanted to do.

#yuri on ice #yoi translations #yuri on ice translation

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ask-ultimate-fashionista · 4 days

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Killing Game Chapter Order: Danganronpa Deduction Production

A killing game set on Black Bear White Studios, a secluded movie studio.

Note: This is not FUJIKO'S original class. This is her male counterpart Fujio Tokuma, The Ultimate Socialite.

Executions go to those who already have one prior to writing this out:

Protagonist: Yuka Mukami, the Ultimate Chess Champion Support: Mayako Nakajima (The Ultimate Prosecutor)/Einosuke Sato (The Ultimate Informant/Consigliere)

This killing game would have a path system which effects the approach that Yuka takes when navigating through the killing game: the side of Justice (Mayako), the side of Survival (Einosuke) or the side of Independence (Yuka herself). If you chose the side of justice, Yuka would approach the cases in a relatively humane way, choosing to try and bait out confessions with very specific word changes and waiting for the opportunity that the blackened to slip and reveal themselves. If you chose the side of survival, Yuka would approach the cases with the idea that being civil could never work in situations like this. Learning to get the information she wants/needs through intimidation tactics and lying her way into exposing the truth. If you chose the side of Independence, Yuka would learn to navigate the killing game and the trials her own way, adopting principles of both sides while trying to discover what her place is in this killing game and her life leading up to it.

Antagonist: Mayako Nakajima/Einosuke Sato Mastermind: Ren Hanabi

Chapter 1: Motive: The Phone

There are two phones hidden around the studio. The first students to physically touch the phones will get the chance to call a loved one for a minute.

Victim: Yori Sugawara Blackened: Lola Halliday Execution: Ring of Fire

Lola reached for her classmates, crying out in hopes that someone could sympathize with her. She had a good reason, one she was sure that the others would understand. But no one would look at her, avoiding her gaze at all costs. Her pleas had fallen upon deaf ears. The door behind her swung open and a metal chain launched out, clamping onto her ankle with a click of the lock. In one swift pull, Lola was yanked to the ground and dragged into a dark corridor. She desperately clawed at the concrete beneath her, her hands and fingertips becoming rugged. Her face already became red and puffy with fearful tears. Another door behind her swung open and she was flung out into an open world. Beneath her was an island that had been engulfed by the lava of an erupted volcano. Any wild-life that had yet to have been destroyed were crying out for someone to save them. In the reflection of Lola’s ember eyes was the scene of a small town set that had been set aflame. On the roofs of the buildings were large groups of monokumas, some in “tears” and others crying out for her destruction. That she was the reason why they were facing their impending doom. The chain continued to pull her towards the active volcano and came to a sudden halt, holding her above the mouth of the beast. Lola closed her eyes from the heat as well as a slow acceptance of her death. The ground beneath her rumbled. Instead of the clamp around her ankle immediately letting go, the arm dipped down and flicked up quickly. Her body was flung up into the air, causing her to do flips. At the peak of her stunt, a giant monokuma emerged from within the molten lava with an open mouth. And Lola was consumed in one chomp. The Monokuma, happy with its treat, held its hands in the air and twirled around in its descent back into the volcano.

Chapter 2: Motive: Till Death Do We Part

If the blackened gets away with the murder, they get to choose one person to take with them. They can refuse to take anyone with them.

Victim: Daichi Sugawara Blackened: Kenji Inoue Execution: Siren's Call

Kenji sat in a dark room that was illuminated by the light of a single candle. A small table separated him from a beautiful faceless girl, and, on top of it was the candle and a slim vase holding two peonies, one red and one pink. The two were faced away from each other but were aware of each other’s presence. The girl starts to sing a sinful harmony, immediately catching the attention of the boy. He goes to turn to the girl but a large sign falls in front of his face reading "Do Not Look!". Kenji, at first, obeys and keeps his back turned. But then another girl appears, even more beautiful than the last. She began to sing along with the other, piquing Kenji’s interest. He tries to take a glance at the two but one of his eyes was shot, replacing it with a blood-covered nightshade. The Ikebana Artist let out a pained cry and a warm stream of blood slid down his cheek. His breathing speeds up and his hands gripped onto the fabric of his pants. One after another, more girls piled on the other side of the table and their siren’s song grew louder and louder. His ears started to ring at the pitch of their voices and the wall holding back his urges was starting to break. He made a promise, one he had broken so many times. One he would finally pay his dues for. His right hand drifted from his lap and towards the group of girls behind him. That’s when his hand was also shot with a petunia, effectively rooting it to the floor. His hand oozed more of the light pink fluid. This was his last chance to make things right for both him and for her. So, through a pained wince, he closed his right eye. The choir of girls had quieted with the sound of Kenji’s heartbeat replacing it in his ears. He forced down a gulp and flinched at the sudden weight in his lap. A delicate finger traced over his chest directly where his heart was. “Who does your heart belong to?” A feminine voice cooed. The boy’s lips parted but nothing came of it. He struggled to remember the name of the girl he promised his life to. There was a burning sensation engulfing his heart. He knew that his time was ticking and that it was ticking fast. His breathing grew erratic; his mind was scattering to find the name. Kenji opened his mouth and a single magnolia petal slipped out. That’s when he remembered but it was far too late. His heart and chest burst open and an elegant magnolia bush blossomed from within it. Each flower was tainted with bright pink splatters. The weight of the bush forced him to fall back, his head turned to the table. And, with his last bit of strength, his eye opened to see that the pink peony has wilted with a single petal falling into the candle flame.

Chapter 3: Motive: None Victim 1: Katsuki Akahoshi Victim 2: Fujio Tokuma Almost Killed: Hisai Sanae Blackened: Isabella Miyoshi Execution: Hope's Peak All-Stars

Isa is shown waving happily to the audience. Groups of cheerleading mannequins were lined up on both sides of her, waving white and black pom-poms as she did. A spotlight flashed onto the cheer squad and, at the command of Isa, they started their routine. Jumps, flips and all kinds of tricks were performed, making the crowd of monokumas go wild. The icing on the cake was a quintuple tumble coming from the Ultimate Cheerleader herself. She stood up straight and held up her hands proudly. Yet, instead of hearing the impressed screams of the crowd, all lights flickered off, plunging the entire field into darkness. A single spotlight flashed, revealing Isa to be hooked up to a strange machine. Her arms, legs and neck were being held still by chains. Her mouth was a slightly agape in a curiosity and over her eyes was a blindfold. Another spotlight flashed over monokuma, sitting behind a joystick device that seemingly went to the machine. With its iconic wicked smile, it smashed a red button on the controller and the machine let out a nerve-wracking noise in startup. The monokuma grabbed onto the joystick and started to move it around. And, like clockwork, all chains started to twist and turn, commanding Isa to do their bidding. Twisting her body in uncomfortable positions, testing the limits of her flexibility. The Monokuma jerked the joystick around in inhuman speeds, the chains following suit. Her bones were being crushed, her organs collapsing under the intense speeds and pressure. Her head was spinning and her brain was being tossed around in its cage. The Monokuma had been too rough with the controller and had effectively broken off the joystick. The machine went haywire and tossed the girl around, all parts of it starting to self-destruct. The bear bolted, leaving the machine by itself. The machine exploded in a large dust cloud and a strange orb fell from it. The wind cleared away the dust to reveal a ball of flesh and blood, viciously molded together to create a human meatball of the Ultimate Cheerleader.

Chapter 4: Motive: Nomination Videos

Each student walks into the “Editing Office” and is forced into separate rooms. Each room has a tv, a dvd player and a disc that has their name on it. Each disc holds a reel of their life before the killing game but it was their lives before the events of the killing game and who nominated them to be apart of it.

Victim: Mantaro Takemura Blackened: Toru Marin Execution: Mutiny

Toru is set on a large ship at sea. The tides were wild and the thunderstorms around her roared. Toru stood inside the captain’s quarters. The things around her slid around the room as the boat rocked from the rough seas. The crew burst through the door and forced her out. They all pointed to a large Kraken attacking the ship. She motioned for the crew to take it on by themselves. The crew looked at each other and then back to the captain. They all grabbed her and started pushing her towards the Kraken. She struggled in their grasps, her heels dug into the wooden floorboards, everything she could to stop the men. But it was futile as she was so much smaller and weaker than the collective. The Kraken wrapped a tentacle around the ship and lifted it out of the sea. Its cry sent a few of the men flying overboard. The crew picked up the girl as an offering for the beast. The Kraken, pleased with their sacrifice, took Toru from the crew. But before the Kraken could throw her into her mouth, a harpoon series of harpoons was shot at the creature, by the crew no less. She tried to yell out for them to stop but they didn’t listen and she was struck in the stomach with a harpoon. The beast, filled with holes and harpoons, collapsed into the water, bringing the sailor with him. Leaving the water to transform from a dark blue to bright pink.

Chapter 5: Motive: Insomniac's Lullaby

The students wake up with a metal collar around their necks. Monokuma announces that they are something similar to dog collars. The catch is that they have a time bank that they depletes when they sleep. Once someone runs out of time, the collar will release a 1200-watt shock that will kill the collar wearer. The collars will break once a body has been discovered.

Victim: Mayako Nakajima/Einosuke Sato (Depending on which path you took) Blackened: Chiyo Kageyama Execution: Only A Witch

Chiyo sat on her knees in the center of a theatre stage, dressed in witch clothing. Around her neck was a rope tied into the form of a noose that leads up into the ceiling. Her eyes darted up to the audience filled monokumas in various wigs and masks that reflected all of the people in her life. Her parents, loved ones, passed friends. All who took their lives because of her curse. A being wearing a burlap sack over her head danced onto the stage. She bowed to the audience and stood in the stance of the fool. Like magic, a rope fell from the ceiling and into the girl’s hands. Her head tilted slightly to expose a sadistic smile underneath the sack. The executioner pulled the rope down and on the other side, Chiyo was lifted up, her entire body hovering above the stage floor. Her body jerked and struggled against the rope around her neck. But her arms made no effort to pry it away. But she didn’t need to, as the movement from her body made the rope scratch against the medium. The occultist’s face paled, her breathing became sparse and her vision started to blur. With one last jerk, the rope snapped at her weight. Chiyo fell down and crashed into the floor. The executioner peered into the hole and watched her fall with a maliciously curious smile. She hit concrete with a hard thud, slowly marinating herself in a strange pool of liquid. Chiyo hissed at the pain that surged through her entire body. She wasn’t sure if she had shattered any bones but god did it feel like it. The smell of the liquid was intense and immediately recognized what it was. A torch was lit from the other side of the room. Her eyes darted to the torch and the being from before holding it. They waved it around haphazardly before tossing it, her mouth feigning a worried “O”. It landed in the liquid; the fire quickly expanding and running straight to Chiyo, illuminating the dungeon as it went. The occultist scurried to her feet and sprinted away from the swiftly approaching flames. The gap between the two gradually lessened and it wasn’t long before the flame started to take hold onto Chiyo’s shoes, then her stockings and then her skirt. She kicked off her shoes and hoped it would make it easier for her to run. But that effort proved to be fruitless. Desperate to free herself from its grip, she shed herself of what was remaining of her skirt and her blouse, leaving her in her underwear. The girl smacked into a metal door. Her hands frantically patted for the handle door. The fire and the flames were approaching faster and faster, riding the gasoline like a wave. At the last second, she was able to find the metal knob and opened the door. She rushed inside and closed the door behind her. Large floodlights flashed on, showing a roman colosseum completely filled with cheering monokuma. All with stones in their robotic paws. A feminine “yoohoo” caught Chiyo’s attention. Her eyes followed the voice where she saw the being once again with a tossing a small pebble in their hand. They didn’t bother to pull down the sack that had been raised to be above their nose. Their arm slowly raised to point to Chiyo. Pew. All at once, everyone in the crowd started to throw stones at Chiyo. Chiyo tried to move away but was pelted left and right by the rocks. And no matter where she could have gone, a flurry of stones would have hit her. Despite having nothing to shield herself or to cushion the blow, Chiyo stood in the colosseum, covered in blood and bruises. She clung onto her tiny thread of life. Her swaying body was approached by the executioner. They tilted her head in question, remaining wordless. Do you wish to know who I am? Their gripped onto the burlap sack and pulled it off. Through a fading vision Chiyo’s brown eyes met her own. The clone held up the pebble to Chiyo. They winked playfully at the occultist. They flicked it at her and it hit the center of her forehead. A sinister smile was flashed at the sight of Chiyo’s body collapsing to the ground.

Chapter 6: 'Joint' Execution: Yuka Mukami/Ren Hanabi (But she escapes in the end)

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roskirambles · 4 months

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(Archive) Animated movie of the day: Lupin III The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)

Originally posted: January 1st, 2022 Happy New Year everyone! This month(maybe February too) is gonna be about animated movies. And since this is the beginning of the year, let's start with a debut. Namely, Hayao Miyazaki's first feature film.

A simple but charming heist story with light elements of mystery, it's action packed and comical fun in spades. Lupin and the gang's antics are as entertaining as ever, and while rather thin(with endearing but simple characters in the damsel that is Clarisse and villain that is the Count), the plot is solid enough to justify the creative set pieces.

These are brought to life with stunning animation. Over 40 years later it still holds up in spite of the film production constraints given the animation was made in just 4 measly months. Yuji Ohno's classy score doesn't hurt either, enhancing some beautiful scenes to magical (Jazz ftw).

If there's an issue with the film(and it's not really about its standalone quality) is that it is pretty misleading for newcomers to the Lupin III series. It's almost flat out kid friendly save for some instances of violence that may be a bit too intense for children, Lupin's characterization is mostly heroic and the prime anime femme fatale that is Fujiko is completely devoid of sexual charge. In other words, a complete far cry from the rest of the series. Miyazaki planned for this, but it backfired in Japan initially. Appreciation for the film didn't come until later.

Overall though, it's still a great adventure film that inspired many other works, including the Castlevania series and maybe even Steven Spielberg when making Raiders of the Lost Ark. Such is its legacy.

#roskirambles #animated films #anime #lupin iii #castle of cagliostro #hayao miyazaki #tms entertainment #action films #heist film

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Animation Night 143 - Lupin III

Animation Night oldtimers - what few remain... - may remember Animation Night 37. It was a fun night where we carved a core through the Lupin III franchise in its many iterations.

For a series of such towering importance to the history of anime, I must have written a massive writeup, right? Ah, if only ‘twere so. Apparently I was having meds trouble - la plus change... - so all you got was a list of films and a promise to write more later.

Well, it’s finally time! Fully two years later x3

So, Lupin III! It’s a lot of things but before it was any of them, it was a gritty seinen manga by Kazuhiko Katō - far better known by the name Monkey Punch - serialised in a magazine called Weekly Manga Action starting in 1967. Here’s the opening spread...

At this time, Monkey Punch was 30, meaning he’d grown up through the second world war, starting his career in comics in junior high where he competed with other artists in the school newspaper. His route into manga was via dōshinshi, then 4koma, and eventually working as an assistant to Naoki Tsuji on influential wrestling series Tiger Mask.

Lupin III took inspiration from, of course, Maurice Leblanc’s stories of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, by way of a little James Bond. Many of the details of the plot were improvised. Femme fatale Fujiko Mine was originally to be one of a rotating cast of girls like in the Bond films, but that proved to be too much work, so she became a recurring character. Lupin’s samurai buddy Goemon was originally his enemy.

The Lupin manga has that strange horny energy that you tend to expect from 60s manga. It’s definitely still a comedy, but the kind of comedy where the first issue involves microfilm hid inside someone’s vagina and the second has a man almost wrongfully executed. The artwork is sometimes very detaile, but more often sketchy; its expressions are exaggerated, but it predates the codification of standard manga expressions. It’s shaded - in watercolours, I think, and markers. It feels very different from later manga characterised by ultra-precise illustration.

At this point in the history of manga, the waves of gekiga were beginning to be felt. So far as I’m able to tell the distinction goes, Lupin falls outside the (later-defined) line between ‘gekiga’ and ‘manga’, but there was definitely a feeling that more ‘serious’, dramatic stories were coming in. Original flavour Lupin is less ‘thief with a heart of gold’ and more ‘horny trickster’, a much more amoral character.

The manga introduces at first the cat-and-mouse pair of Lupin and Inspector Zenigata, perpetually a step behind. It gradually introduces the rest of the recurring characters: rival thief Fujiko the sexy girl full of cunning plans; Lupin’s partner the gunslinger Jigen whose main trait is shooting really fast and accurate; samurai Goemon whose sword can cut anything, especially clothes.

So, the anime then! This is one of those nights where we’re leaning on Matteo Watzky, who’s provided a great deal of information on the production of the original Lupin TV series.

Lupin was only in serialisation for a year when esteemed animator Yasuo Otsuka left Toei in the midst of ongoing union struggles, shortly after the completion of Horus: Prince of the Sun on which he’d worked as animation director. (See Animation Night 70 for more on that!) Otsuka landed at A-Pro, one of a number of studios in the orbit of a company called Tokyo Movie Shinsha, to work on an adaptation of Lupin - at the time, intended to be a feature film under the direction of Masaaki Osumi.

In 1969 they finished a twelve-minute pilot film that steered close to manga in both design and sensibility. Monkey Punch himself provided some supervision. The pilot is a series of brief vignettes introducing the main characters of the manga, with a narrator describing their main traits and fashion choices before brief skits that mostly end in explosions. Its animation is impressively elaborate and stylish and does not look like much from the era, but producers balked at all the sex and violence, so it was retooled into a TV show. Otsuka and Osumi were pulled away to work on Moomin, and the staff shuffled around a lot - not for the last time.

Lupin finally hit TV in 1971, again under Osumi with Otsuka designing characters. It was going for something dark and dramatic by the standards of the time, in the vein of Ashita no Joe (c.f. Animation Night 95) or Star of the Giants. But Osumi’s manga-faithful take hit poor ratings, and when Osumi was unwilling to compromise, he was gradually squeezed off the project.

Instead, Otsuka brought in two of his protégés from the Toei days, recently hot off the collapse of Pippi Longstocking. You may have heard of them. They were of course Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata - at this point an inseparable pair. Although they took over the series, they did a lot of it pseudonymously, and they would leave A-Pro down the line.

The series that resulted under their direction is known to fans as ‘Green Jacket’ Lupin, because (shockingly) Lupin wears a green jacket. It’s full of foreshadowing for Miyazaki’s later works. Osamu Dezaki, also working pseudonymously, directed a number of episodes as well in his distinctive style. Under their direction, the series became a lot lighter in tone, with a gleeful sense of chaos that would become the defining tone of later adaptations. It wrapped up after 23 episodes, with Miyazaki apologising for the stuff - but all in all it was a success, although not as much as the next one would be...

The second Lupin III adaptation, Lupin III Part II known as ‘Red Jacket’ Lupin, came six years later. In this time a great deal had happened. A-Pro had evolved into Shin-Ei and left the TMS orbit, and the other TMS satellites like Madhouse were also going their own way; in such uncertain conditions, and with their own director obsessed with his ultimately fruitless project to adapt Little Nemo In Slumberland, TMS sought to return to some of their various established licenses to make some reliable money.

A very long production that hit 155 episodes, the Red Jacket series is where Lupin really took off. It’s a mixed bag, with plenty of filler, but also several real standout scenes and episodes. In Watzky’s account, much of this has to do with the involvement of Oh Production, a subcontracting studio that would be a close ally of Takahata and Miyazaki right into the Ghibli days. Their star was Kazuhide Tomonaga, known for his work on Space Battleship Yamato, not to mention duelling Yoshinori Kanada to outdo each other in effects for the ridiculously elaborate finale of Galaxy Express 999. Tomonoga’s best moments would come after Miyazaki’s return, but we’ll come to that in a moment.

Red Jacket gave rise to the first Lupin movie, The Mystery of Mamo, which served as a vehicle to bring back a lot of the departed Shin-Ei animators into the TMS fold, and prior to Akira, it was the highest budget animated film in Japan with enormous ambitions for animation. Read Matteo’s article to get a sense of the different animators and studios shuffling around, but to summarise very briefly, it brought back most of the staff who had created the pilot film and they were able to bring much of the same energy. The film sets Lupin up against an immortal psychic billionaire, and it features an impressively varied animation style, with manga panels or a dreamlike psychic sequence when Lupin runs through a series of series of surrealist paintings.

Next came... guess what... The Castle of Cagliostro! Miyazaki’s back and he’s going to push his vision of Lupin as a romantic, kind-hearted character to a new level, once again in a green jacket. The film featured startlingly elaborate animation. The car chases cemented Lupin’s car as a staple of the series, the finale features the classic ‘I am a traditional animator and I want to flex’ setting of a gigantic clock full of cogwheels. It’s as fun and impressively shot a film as you’d expect from something headed by Miyazaki, although to Lupin fans, it is widely seen as a frustrating one, since it hews furthest from the ‘proper’ roguish characterisation of Lupin.

Cagliostro is also important for another reason: among otaku, the nascent lolicon movement fixated on its character Clarisse, much as Miyazaki himself had once fixated on the girl Bai-Niang from Toei’s The White Snake Enchantress. That’s a... complicated subject to explicate to put it mildly; I discussed it more on Animation Night 69. ‘Clarisse clones’ started popping up all over the place; Cagliostro was perfectly placed as one of the most impressive animated movies at the dawn of the otaku boom.

The TV series continued to run throughout all this, and the success of Cagliostro washed back in, with sudden character redesigns and of course, the two episodes directed by Miyazaki exhibiting all his quirks. Its scenes feel eerily preminiscent of Ghibli, even more so than Green Jacket, elaborate enough to seriously push the envelope on TV animation.

After all this, Lupin had been firmly cemented as a ‘classic’, nostalgic series in anime. Rather than a single canonical story, it was a group of iconic characters with a general setting and tone that was flexible enough to accommodate many more stories. This probably has a lot to do with its enduring presence: you certainly don’t have to have followed Lupin III from the very beginning to be able to jump in to one of the later installments and have a pretty good sense of what’s going on. There is a comfortable status quo, with Zenigata chasing Lupin who’s always one step ahead; from there, you can pull Lupin and the gang into whatever escapade you have in mind.

Through the 80s and 90s, TMS continued to produce Lupin films with a variety of directors. These generally follow the tone set out by the TV series and they’re a lot of fun. Monkey Punch himself actually directed one, being Lupin III: Dead or Alive, albeit reluctantly at the last minute! The 2000s saw TMS, facing budget limits, stripping production down to OVAs.

The most interesting change of direction came with Sayo Yamamoto, of Michiko and Hatchin and later, Yuri on Ice, who we covered back on Animation Night 36. Reading back her comments in the present, it’s like, wait, that Mari Okada?

In Yamamoto’s hands, the focus shifted from Lupin (though he’s still present) to Fujiko as the main character. The tone hews far closer to Monkey Punch’s manga: sex and violence, sure, but also escapades. It’s a hell of a ride, with all sorts of unexpected tones.

The animation, although clearly taking inspiration from the heavy lines of the manga, is most of all a Koike-ism - the deliberate and weighty way characters move, the use of black, the colour palette all scream ‘I just finished working on Redline for seven years’. Koike would end up staying with Lupin even after Yamamoto moved on, directing a trilogy of hour-long movies, Jigen’s Gravestone, Goemon’s Blood Spray and Fujiko’s Lie.

Last time we did Lupin, we watched one of the three, Goemon’s Blood Spray, last time, and honestly... well it’s a weird one! If Yamamoto’s take was able to preserve the comic chaos even with the darker content, Koike decided to fully go for a drama, with a very strange plot that sees Goemon going on a kind of spirit quest as he’s drawn into an intense battle with first gangsters and then a massive lumberjack guy. The long final battle of the movie sees the two gradually slicing bits off each other, meticulously animated in the way only Koike can (truly I never have seen a more carefully rendered sagittal section of the upper arm muscles), but at the time I found the film struggles to deliver the emotional stakes. It’s a long way from the rest of Lupin, and I’m curious but a little apprehensive to see what Koike did with the other two films.

The other major development in Lupin films is the CG film Lupin III: The First (2019) dir. Takashi Yamazaki (his first animated film), featuring a distinctive stylisation that reminds me most of recent Chinese films like New Gods: Nezha Reborn. It’s a curiously bold departure; it caught my attention with clips of hyperchoreographed action scenes; it’s got a very broad, exaggerated style of movement that’s far from the norm for anime and a constantly roving camera. It’s kind of fascinating to look at, CG that isn’t trying to look like something else. It’s also a departure for the animators at Marza Animation Planet, whose previous works tended to be hyperrealist adaptations such as the 2013 version of Space Pirate Captain Harlock or Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV. That’s a lead to follow up on, actually. They would later come to work on the Sonic the Hedgehog films.

So, this movie. It’s evidently attempting to retool Lupin for the CG era, with tributes to the iconography of the old anime, such as remaking Lupin’s car in 3D and staging a chase with it; whether this attempt to ‘modernise’ will land I’m not sure. I don’t love their models for the female characters especially lol, they’re painfully Disney. The plot is a Lupin escapade vehicle with a dash of Indiana Jones, putting Lupin and the gang up against Nazi occultists. I don’t expect it to challenge much, but it does look fun.

So! What’s the plan for tonight?

Well, it’s basically the same plan as last time: another cross-section through the Lupin III series! We’ll hit the following notes:

the original Lupin pilot!

The Mystery of Mamo

Miyazaki’s two episodes of Lupin III Part 2!

the two parts of Jigen’s Gravestone

Lupin III: The First

Sound fun? Great! (Doesn’t sound fun? I’ll shoot you.) We’ll be starting early tonight; going live at 7pm UK time, and starting films after about 20 minutes. I’m going to try and keep the start of Animation Night in the 7-8pm range from now on - let’s see if we can rebuild this thing.

If you will, then: head to https://twitch.tv/canmom and get ready for some burglary, robbery, theft, and even perhaps a bit of larceny. See you in the theatre~

#animation night #lupin iii

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Title: Cinderella boy (2003) Season: 1 Vote: 6.5/10 The story behind this series is interesting. The mangaka creator of lupine, monkey punch, also had another idea in his head: that of a detective who, due to an experiment, shares his body with that of a woman with whom he exchanges places at midnight. Among the proposals, the lupine idea won and the other was discarded after just one manga chapter.

In 2013, an attempt was made to produce 13 episodes that expanded on the original idea. The result is a story that feels a lot like the Lupine series with the two body-swapping protagonists looking a lot like Fujiko and Lupin. The tone of the episodes is very similar and the product is sufficient but not good.

Just as the Lupin manga was highly censored and made more suitable for children in order to move from manga to anime, so too Cinderela boy, which was a more mature manga, was heavily sweetened with only one scene in which blood is seen, although obviously the female character often offers fanservice scenes.

Two small curiosities, the first is that almost all the recurring characters have names that recall fairy tales: dr. Grimm, Mr. Hook, Peter, Maid Oz, Rella Cindy, Mad Pig Band. The second is that in each episode Dr. appears for a few seconds. Grimm in the same way that director Hitchcock did in his films.

#Cinderella boy #monkey punch #lupin III #cartoon #2003 #6.5

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I have hit Post Limit so I am responding here:

So Lupin the Third:

This is an Adult series written specifically for Adults. It's crude, sexual, and violent. It is also complex and heartwarming and MOST OF ALL: IT'S HILARIOUS

Lupin III has the slapstick flirty hilarity that original Loony Tunes has but for more adult audiences. Lupin definitely has a joy of life and mischievous Buggs Bunny energy to him.

Arsene Lupin III is the third of a line of master thieves. This manga from the 60's (technically ongoing) and anime from the 80's is (very very very very loosely) based off of the french Arsene Lupin stories where Famous detective Herlock Sholmes chases after the titular master theif who bests Herlock on many occasions. (Originally it was Arsene Lupin v Sherlock Holmes but that was a very early and famous case of IP/Copyright and his name was changed).

Lupin's partners Jigen Daisuke (half Italian and half Japanese raised in NY half his life) and Goemon Ishikawa XIII (descended from a Samurai theif from IRL history) work with him to pull off incredible capers.

Goemon is a master swordsman with yakuza history and Jigen is a master marksman with mob history.

Lupin is in love with Fujiko Mine another master theif (imo) who is the femme Fatale of the series. She's sometimes a member of the gang and sometimes not. Lupin will do almost anything to get into her pants and she uses that to her advantage regularly to manipulate him into stealing things for her. She's sort of similar to Nami from One Piece in a lot of ways.

Zenigata is the intrepid Inspector/Detective thats chasing after our titular theif and his gang. He's a lot like Gumshoe from Ace Attorney. He's sweet, and deeply cares about Justice and Lupin is his Arch Rival. His luck is terrible and his pay is low but the people that love him are very loyal. He will chase Lupin to the ends of the earth. He's a major comic relief character even in the more serious entries.

Hayao Miyazaki worked on Lupin III in the second half of the first arch Green Jacket and the movie Castle of Cagliostro was his first big movie break. They're beautiful to watch and very heartwarming and he had a lasting effect on the media canon.

A lot of this information will be repeated in the video essays I'm about to reccomend but honestly she'll do a WAAAAY better job of singing this series praises than I will.

Check out the video essays by @infinitesnowpro (Infinite Snow Productions on youtube).

Her essays -Miyazaki's Lupin- and - The Mystery of Mamo (Will be in the Criterion Collection) - are fantastic and the Miyazaki Lupin video confirmed some of my suspicions about Green Jacket.

She goes over good places to start in the video but if you want a small taste : Lupin the 3rd The First is on Netflix I believe. It'll give you an idea of what the characters are generally like.

Some of the series is on TMJ's official YouTube. They actually put a lot of their stuff on their channel for free. Not just Lupin stuff.

My favorite arch is Red Jacket the second arch but I watched Red Jacket for the first time back in the mid to late 00's so it'll always have a special place in my heart. ❤

If you like funny cops vs robbers type storylines and like a lot of the tropes of detective or heist media I think you'd like it. It's a very fun watch.

It's infinitely memeable and there's a ton of hilarious shorts compilations and soundbites floating around the internet.

The music is fantastic btw. There's compilations on youtube thst are like an hour or more in length under funny names that reference memes and they're nice to listen to while doing housework. -It's a beautiful morning and you're a Terrible Theif- or -A five minute egg cooks in 5 minutes- etc.

Bonus: As a series for adults with adult characters it will appeal to Middle Aged Men Enthusiasts so even if that's all anyone takes out of it I've still done my job promoting it. o7

sounds cool as fuck 👍

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don't mind me going through your blog to consume all the lupin content 👀👀 but, on a side note, i was wondering if i could ask your preferences in the many verses of lupin! as in, in which verses do you like to see the main cast the most? which ones do you feel are the most "authentic" to the character? keep up the good work, and happy writings! ❤️

I’m kinda dumb so I’m assuming when you say ‘verses’ you mean like all the different versions of Lupin and the gang! For me, It would have to be a tie between Miyazaki’s Lupin (castle of Cagliostro), Takeshi Koike’s movie iterations of Lupin, Lupin in part 2 (red jacket), and part 5.

When it comes to what is authentic within Lupin and the character group to me, there are so many specific attributes to consider that are key focal points that make him, well, him! In Castle of Cagliostro, I adore the romantic nature where he leans more into the “gentleman” of the gentleman thief title. Miyazaki had stated that in his film, he wanted to depict a Lupin in his twilight years, a more mature version of himself. I feel like that more kind and caring nature is to die for, and it does really well in showing how the accumulation of all that he has gone through would understandably result in that type of personal development later in his life, assuming you were to put that movie on a timeline with all the other content. Along with Lupin, I love how the relationships between him and those he cares about are obviously close without having to directly say it, such as how he and Jigen wrestle about with one another, how Fujiko and him have a “I loved you once, and I still love you, just not in that way” vibe going on, etc.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, we have Koike’s depictions of Lupin and the others which heavily lean more into the “thief” portion of his title. The gritty nature, the unshaken attitude in the face of violence or death, all of it is a beautiful reminder of his origins (the manga)! It never fails to nail in the fact that in reality, he is a criminal, he isn’t really a good guy. Sure, once in a while he’ll save someone or do something kind, but most of it is as a result of an alterative motive. For example, in Fujiko Mine’s lie, he helps the kid out not because of morals or anything, but because the kid offered cash. That darker aspect of Lupin and his friends are rare in the later productions in the series, but whenever it does come about (with exceptions for stuff like Island of Assassins bcs its just a bad movie), it is beautifully done. It mixes a sense of manic sporadicity into Lupin which makes things all the more thrilling and interesting because it turns from just being this silly goofy guy to one of many layers of an internationally wanted criminal.

Part 5 manages to mix that mature nature earlier displayed by Miyazaki’s Lupin but reistablishes the fact that Lupin isn’t just some guy you see in the paper, but he is in fact, a dangerous wanted criminal. A scene I love deeply is when in part 5, then Ami (amy? Idk she was a little annoying I won’t lie), had run off into an alley and these goons started picking on he and Lupin swoops in as usual. Unlike the usual goofy beating he would give them, he puts his gun into one of the dude’s mouths and was like, “I’m not some celebrity. I’m a criminal, I’ve killed before and I’ll do it again.”! It is one of my all time fav scenes across the board for the series. In terms of the maturity, it can be seen in his relationship with Fujiko which I adore. There scenes are so palpable with unspoken tension, his love for her exceeding words and how what they have will never be as simple as ‘I love you’. It takes all these good parts and mashes them together to make something amazing

As for my thoughts on part 2? He’s a gigantic asshole! He’s selfish, childish, whiney, but he’s also brilliant, inventive, and hilarious. All of these together make part 2 a great depiction of Lupin in his youth.

Sorry this got kind of long, i got pretty carried away but I had fun writing a little summary on my thoughts! I hope you enjoyed it and I’m sorry if I misunderstood (￣▽￣*)ゞ

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snfsnf. do you guys smell counterfeit money ink in here

WHAT DO THEY SMELL LIKE i can hear you asking. I NEED TO KNOW FOR MY NEXT TRIP TO BATH AND BODYWORKS i hear you cry. well. um. i don't know a lot about perfume so this is all vibes. LETS MAKE THIS ONE RELATIVELY QUICK!

lupin: cologne so expensive that it smells cheap. you know how people say (don’t laugh) chanel no. 5 smells like jerkass grandmas to them? one of those. it’s not that it smells BAD, it’s just… kind of basic. you get the same smell walking to the edgy man section of a sephora

jigen: okay it’s not. BAD. it’s not BAD but you know he smells like cigarette smoke. the thing with lupin is that his nasty cologne is very overpowering (this isn’t even a headcanon multiple people can smell it from yards away IN the franchise) and kind of masks the smoke on him, but jigen just keeps up basic hygiene. for someone who loves the fancy things he doesn’t strike me as a cologne type of guy. probably smells a little bit like hair gel too, or some kinda product like that you feel me

fujiko: CHANGES! changes frequently. despite her fujikoness she doesn’t automatically gun for expensive-for-the-sake-of-being-expensive perfumes, but she DOES tend to favor rarer ones. probably part of the reason she mixes it up so much aside from the fact (evidenced by her hair) she just likes keepin things fresh. unless it’s for the sake of a disguise, she really goes for those like. you know when you smell a perfume and go “this would be red if it were a color” because it’s very dark and deep but hard to put into words? yeah

goemon: smells. clean. idk if that makes sense. he takes pride in his image, not his APPEARANCE, but his image, his history, etc, so he washes the whole getup very frequently, so he just seems like he’d smell like fresh laundry. it's very subtle-- with the prev three you can TELL when they walk into a room but with goemon it doesn’t leave a big impression. fun fact steel actually has a smell too and you know hes always fucking polishing that thang so there’s like a faint undertone of a slightly-alcohol-y zantetsuken there.

zenigata: a mix of shit to the point you couldn’t place it unless you watched his routine. sometimes cologne, sometimes not (either way its not Great cologne lmao) there’s a little bit of coffee in there, that smell winter coats have when you pull them out after being locked up for half the year, bit of cigarette smoke, its a LOT but like goemon it’s mostly just. kind of there. you’d have to be standing beside him to be like “are there mothballs in this room? do you guys smell mothballs” and he’d get vaguely defensive because he KNOWS he’s the mothballs

#lupin iii #lupin the third #i know someone actually wellversed in perfumes is out there and would have intriguing insight on this i'm sure but.#unfortunately my extent of knowledge is that they made a bacon perfume in 2012 for some ungodly reason wasnt 2012 fucked up guys #lupin #jigen #fujiko #goemon #zenigata

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