#heiji zenigata

[krinsbez]

Pulptober 2024, Themes Elaborated, Part Two. Days 6-10

Link to Part One

Once again, thanks to @maxwell-grant who once again helped me with assembling the lists of alternate examples. Characters who have a plus sign (+) next to their names were suggested by him. Characters with an asterisk (*) are ones where I have not consumed any source material (note that I'm including tie-in or revival media as source material).

6-Steve Canyon/Adventures In Exotic Places: This one is fairly self-explanatory, being stories about heroes who travel to places that are exotic to the average reader. Alts: Terry Lee and Co., Ben Quorn the Gunga Sahib*+, Allan Quatermain

7-The Phantom/Beyond Their Homeland: I will admit this one and the ones before and after kinda blend together. The idea was that these are characters who are associated in-universe primarily with countries other than those where they were created out-of-universe. Alts: Lupin III*, Blake and Mortimer, Blacksad.

8-Barbarella/Pulp From Around The World. This one is, basically, to celebrate Pulp Heroes from outside the Anglosphere, but thanks to @maxwell-grant I have examples of this in many categories. Alts: Mexican Fantomas*, Zigomar+*, Ogon Bat*

9- The Lone Ranger/Weapons of Justice: For some reason, it is A Thing that many Pulp Heroes have an signature, unique weapon. This day is for them. Alts: Heiji Zenigata*+, The Avenger, The Sandman

10-Dark Agnes/Iconoclastic Icons: These are characters who go drastically against social norms of the society they exist in, the society they were created in, or both, beyond the general genre conventions. This one is a bit twitchy, I will grant. Captain Tempesta*+, Raffles (if you go with the Headcanon that he's gay), Golden Amazon*

Hrrmph, bit disappointed with myself with this set.

[l6sadi]

[detshin]

Shinichi and Kaito but they are Jigen and Lupin.

(and Heiji is Goemon of course)

(I kept looking at them and thinking something looked off, and then I realised that Jigen and Lupin always wear their jackets open... but I ain't changing that at this point come on. So let's pretend they are open yeah?)

[cryptablog]

I could spend up to an hour discussing how Japan and Korea treats skin color and equates it to goodness and evil as dark and light and how they frequently make a morally grey character dark just to lighten their skin over time as they become "better" people or gives the black features to show immaturity and a reason to distrust them. While the whiter features show grace and rebirth and TRUE beauty and safety.

But I simply dont have the time.

So instead Here's every character I've ever seen this happen to PERSONALLY.

-Serizawa Katsuya (hair)

-Ussop (skin)

-Sailor Pluto (Skin)

-Wolfwood (skin)

-Blackbeard (skin and hair)

-Phoenix Wright (Skin and hair)

-Zak Gramarye (Skin)

-Lotta Hart (Hair)

-Jigen Daisuke (Skin)

-Goemon Ishikawa XIII (Skin)

-Zenigata Heiji (Skin)

-Marina (Skin)

[Lemme explain THIS actually, cause just saying "sanrio's racist" isnt enough. They saw a dark skinned character from they're OWN media and thought well she's happy and good and kind. She can't be dark skinned. And its not like they dont have dark brown fabric since most of the dolls they make from shows and stuff have BROWN hair. Example: genshin. =/ They have the material but shes not EVIL so she COULDN'T BE DARK. Not to them]

Add more characters if you want I just wanted to prove a point

[sournote2014]

The Zenigata-Heiji TV series theme always reminded me of Henry Mancini.

[kazimakuwabara]

Some art of Oshizu, Heiji, And Ishikawa from my Handcuffs Over Coins story. A lovely lil’ ghost throuple. :>

[sournote2014]

The one with his hand on his hat was definitely taken from the manga.

who wants some… green jacket Secret of Mamo!Zenigata

[maxwell-grant]

Since it's been going around, how would various pulp heroes take on the Death Note murders, and would they survive the ordeal?

A couple of clarifications:

There is a possibility that Ogon Bat, who is a "God of Justice", is either already some kind of shinigami, or at least able to speak with and interact with Ryuk just fine.

The Golden Amazon and Emilia the Ragdoll could definitely kick Kira's ass and solve the case, but they absolutely should not be aware of the existence of the Death Note, that would just make things worse.

You'd think The Monarch / The Blue Morpho getting his hands on the Death Note would be an equally apocalyptic scenario but I don't think he'd even know what to do with it. He very clearly just wants to get one guy, and became the Blue Morpho so he could kill everyone standing in the way of getting that guy, and he's very clearly been putting off killing that one guy for years now. The Death Note is the solution to a problem he defines his life around trying and failing to solve. He'd be stumped.

Doc Savage, well on one hand of course he would solve the case, he's Doc Savage, if Kira was in a Doc Savage story the whole Shinigami business would have been smoke and mirrors perpetrated by criminals with access to a heart attack inducing machine with a perfectly logical explanation. On the other hand, Doc Savage is one of the only guys in here who is globally famous with his full name and face on the papers, so realistically Kira would nail him very quickly. I'm gonna split the difference by saying Doc would solve the case either way.

Nick Carter does most of the things Doc Savage does except he actually does regularly encounter weird fantastical kitchen sink bullshit on the regular, so I think he'd have a much easier time wrapping his head around the Death Note's particulars.

The Spider would not intuit the mechanics of the Death Note, he probably would not be aware of there even being a thing as a Death Note, but by the end of the story in the last paragraph he would have killed Kira one way or another, very possibly by accident. Same goes for the sword-n-sorcery characters featured there, they would have gotten their kills by the end of it (Spear would probably have the easiest time, he's just a caveman with a giant tyrannosaurus on his side and neither of them have names Light can use to kill them, he's fucked)

Six-Gun Gorilla does have a name that Light could use, but A: He would never find out, B: He would never think a gorilla would be his undoing, and C: There's a decent chance Ryuk would let the gorilla hunt and kill him because it's funny and so would be handing Six-Gun Gorilla the Death Note.

Nyctalope would probably survive Kira's usual method of execution given his heart is artificial, but I don't think he'd be able to crack the case, he's not much of a detective. A lot of these characters were chosen because they have different skillsets that don't make them as suited for uncovering this case regardless of how smart they are.

There is a decent chance that Hugo Danner would figure out Kira by complete accident, and most likely beg Light to find a way to kill him.

Nick and Nora Charles would not solve it but they'd be okay, the case would probably solve itself and they'd laugh it off.

I could also put Blue Morpho, El Sombra, The Whisperer, Black Bat and Hugo Danner in a "Would somehow make the situation worse" category.

Putting the names of the characters below the cut:

Can intuit the mechanics / Can solve the case -The Shadow, Arsene Lupin, Sherlock Holmes, Mexican Fantomas -Heiji Zenigata, Ogon Bat, Thomas Carnacki, Silver John/John the Balladeer, Sar Dubnotal -Nero Wolfe, Tom Strong, Tesla Strong, Nick Carter, Captain Harlock, Golden Amazon -Ducky (Lavender Jack), Rufus Carter, Theresa Ferrier (Lavender Jack), Emilia the Ragdoll, Carmen Sandiego, Rocambole

Can intuit the mechanics / Could not solve the case -The Spirit, The Phantom, Edison Hark (The Good Asian), Lavender Jack -G-8, Green Lama, Peter Cannon, Jules Grandin, Wesley Dodds, Judex -Indiana Jones, Spider-Man Noir, John Blacksad, John Thunstone, Nyctalope, Tintin, Solomon Kane

Cannot the mechanics / Can solve the case -The Spider, The Avenger, Doc Savage, Honoria Crabb -Assane Diop, Conan the Barbarian, Lobster Johnson, Tarzan, Dick Tracy -Flash Gordon, Professor Challenger, Red Sonja, Scrooge McDuck, Imaro -Byomkesh Bakshi, Six-Gun Gorilla, Spear (Primal), Black Terror, The Blue Morpho

Cannot intuit the mechanics / Could not solve the case -Moon Man, Green Hornet & Kato, Lone Ranger, The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh -Phillip Marlowe, Domino Lady, Rocketeer, Miss Fury, Hugo Danner, John Carter -Zorro, Black Bat, El Sombra, Shaft, Sailor Steve Costigan -Darkman, The Whisperer, Nick & Nora Charles, Crimson Clown

[couldtheycatchkira]

[nezumikozo6th]

Pulptober 2024 Day 30-Hero in Adaptation-Hanshichi

Hanshichi Torimonocho is an ancient Japanese detective novel series written by Okamoto Kido,the first half of which was serialised in the Monthly Kabuki Review Magazine in the late 1920s,early 1930s.It tells the story of a reporter in the Meiji era who interviewed Hanshichi,a detective who solved many crimes in the Edo period,and the past investigative achievements of the old man are composed in the form of short stories to make the entire series.What many people don’t know is that the reporter is not entirely fictional character:Kido accidentally met an old man named Hanshichi who used to be a goyoukiki(Unofficial collaborator of the Japanese police at the time),and often listen to him talk about his criminal investigation experience,he adapted them for that groundbreaking dime novel series.

It's difficult to determine which of these stories are based on Hanshichi's real-life experiences and which are entirely fictional, and he doesn't seem to have left much record of his life outside of Okamoto's work.Regardless,his novel incarnation became the first detective in Torimonocho fiction,which is a Japanese creative theme that combines the Edo period background and mystery plot.Hanshichi does not have criminal investigation equipment and scientific knowledge from the modern period,he solves cases primarily through reasoning,intuition, connections,and knowledge of Japanese society at the time,and is willing to use eavesdropping,rumors,or other tricks to obtain evidence when necessary.It is understandable in an era before there're computers,cars and test tubes.

Just like what happened after Sherlock Holmes became famous,after Hanshichi Torimonocho became the first Torimonocho work,this theme spawned many works,and it has been adapted into stage plays and TV series many times.The more famous works of later Torimonocho novels include Zenigata Heiji Torimonocho,Umon Torimonocho,Sashichi Torimonocho and Young Samurai Torimonocho.

(Editorial:QuaterniFecha de edición,2014)

Hanshichi,played by Kazuo Hasegawa

[knittinglizards]

a semi-serious zenigata episode!?

if there are any more red jacket eps where fujiko is with the group at the beginning then when the plot starts she leaves i hope i remember and take note of it bc the one time was like really funny

[castleofswagliostro]

Part 1 Episode 1 - "Is Lupin... Burning?"

It's me, the Lupin Apologist and thanks for clicking on my episode review for P1E1, "Is Lupin... Burning?" The answer to that question and many other burning issues are beneath the cut. Enjoy!

An alternate title to this episode could have been Vroom Vroom, and I think it still would have worked.

It is difficult to jump into Part 1 without establishing some chronological context first. Even though this is the first episode of part one, it is not the pilot of Lupin the Third. In fact, the pilot was a 1969 short film produced two years after Monkey Punch released the first Lupin the Third manga. I didn't know this when I first started watching the series and I think the pilot film is one of the hidden gems of the franchise. More on the pilot film in my next post (come to think of it)!

Also, you can't talk about part one without talking about the intro. For now, suffice to say that the intro is a BOP and whoever says it isn't is mean.

ok now onto the real shit.

The episode opens with a suspicious character trying to pour some magic shit into Lupin's race car. I WILL be calling it nascar for this whole post. I don't care if it's technically indy cars or whatever, I was raised in Appalachia so everything is nascar to me. Respect my culture!

Lupin then calls Jigen and their plot is then discussed. Fujiko Mine is supposed to be infiltrating the offices of the company who is sponsoring the race, the Miracle Hotel. This is an iconic exchange and one of the more light hearted parts of the episode. Some of my favorite lines are delivered in this exchange, one of them being from Jigen. When Lupin asks him how Fujiko is doing on the mission, he says he doesn't know but is "sure she'll be fine." Spoiler alert, but she is anything but fine!

While Fujiko was attempting to plant a bug in the conference room of the Miracle Hotel, the commissioner captures her and straps her to a table. He then reveals that the entire race was a rouse he created as a death trap for Lupin (Death Cab for Cutie reboot?) and raises some interesting points about human nature. Why are humans unable to resist certain things? What is going on in Lupin's schema that makes him a sucker for a good nascar race? Whatever it is, the commissioner is capitalizing on his racing addiction and hoping that this vice will lead to his demise, and eventually the collapse of the crime empire Lupin is cultivating. Fujiko tries to contact Jigen and tell him what she just learned, but a henchman stomps on her walkie-talkie and she goes no-contact with Jigen.

Meanwhile, Lupin becomes aware of Inspector Zenigata's presence in the race. He is right behind Lupin, hot on his trail but he could never quite catch him. This is a sick metaphor for Zenigata's life and role in the franchise. He is capable, strong, and a victim of his own power. Zenigata goes into an interesting monologue where he states "If he wasn't the grandson of Arsene Lupin... and I wasn't a descendent of Heiji Zenigata..." and he never concludes that thought. If you weren't, then what?! Would you be friends? Would you admire him? Do you already admire Lupin and the whole "gentleman thief" thing is just a monkey wrench, Zenigata? Would he be a colleague, or something more? We may never know the answer to this question, but holy shit isn't speculating fun!?

The middle of the episode explores a few sub plots. Jigen and Lupin switch cars on the race track and Jigen drives the car for a little bit (beep beep). Lupin infiltrates the hotel posing as a plumber (whose hat has a wide ass brim, bro why is your hat so damn big?) and Fujiko gets sexually harassed by the commissioner. Yay! Lupin rescues Fujiko, electrocutes a bunch of guys, switches back with Jigen and returns to win the race. Yay! Fujiko bonks Jigen on the head and ties him up. Yay! Lupin blows up the race track! Yay! Fujiko cuts a deal with Zenigata and turns him in for her arrest warrant. Yay! Lupin fools Zenigata and gets off scot free for killing a ton of people! Yay! Lupin and Fujiko ride off into the sunset. Yay. Episode complete.

Fujiko's portrayal in this episode is really interesting. It's much different than what we will see in parts two-five. She's much more subtle about her intentions. She is calm and collected, and while she will always remain competent, there is an air about her that convinces others to trust her. Part of this is Jigen's behavior towards her. Jigen is very trusting of Fujiko in this episode. He gives her a pet name, he turns his back to her. And she takes advantage of that. I think this is before Fujiko enters into the femme fatale reputation of her own choosing, and a demonstration of how she really does know how to protect herself when she has control. For some reason she let herself be captured earlier in the episode, when I fully believe she would have been able to take him. Why would she let herself get captured?

She knew Lupin would drop everything to come rescue her. He would leave the race he was so enticed to participate in (even plan for that possibility with Jigen) because he loves her so. This episode is a great introduction into the intricacies of Lupin and Fujiko's relationship. At this point in time, I think it is one sided on Lupin's part. But I think as time goes on and we see more of their lives, we can be convicted that Fujiko truly loves him, too, and just faces different barriers to the realization of that love than Lupin ever will.

The final thing I would like to talk about is the title of this episode, and how it comes full circle. The commissioner arrives to the scene of the race and finds that it is in flames and rejoices that it is burning, for despite all of the hassle, his plan has come to fruition. Lupin is burning! He's going to burn in Hell! We win!

That couldn't be further from the truth. Lupin capsizes that plan and burns the entire place to the ground. Lupin isn't burning, but he is burning. He is the catalyst, not the variable. He is the perpetrator, not the victim. Thus continues Lupin's full sprint into the beginning of his legacy, as he has been a fugitive for longer than we've known him.

episode stats

Four stars. It's a good opener but the droning nascar noises will hurt your head after a while and some of the character designs are just... meh, they're still figuring things out. It gets better the more you get into part one.

Trigger/content warnings: sexual assault/harassment, death, electrocution in water, explosions, nascar, tickle torture, nudity

Plot is good and easy to follow! I like how the symbolic title comes into play.

Does Fujiko get sexualized? Yes, and you see her nips.

Kill count: AT LEAST an entire hotel staff and some nascar drivers.

Flash warning for the scene where Lupin electrocutes everyone in the tickle chamber (it'll make sense once you watch it)

Thank you for reading! Please like, comment, and reblog. I would love to know what you've thought of this episode and your thoughts on part one in general. I always have thought that is was underrated and under appreciated, so I am very happy to start my blog by shining a spotlight on it.

I'll see you on this channel! ;)

[wuxiaphoenix]

Worldbuilding: The Struggles of Peace

Wars are big. Wars are colorful. Wars are Dramatic; at least as Hollywood does them.

War is also pretty much the default state of human beings, as far back as we can check. Yes, humans have instincts to be kind, altruistic, and caring... to others in our in-group. Those outside the group are either ignored, or targets.

Peace, on the other hand, is neither natural nor easy. Peace takes hard work, determination, and the occasional cracking of a non-peaceful skull. And it all has to be done in a way the majority of people involved can live with, or it all frays at the seams.

War and action type stories are interesting in part because you get to show how far characters can go and still be good people. Peacetime stories are interesting because your characters have to work within limits.

It’s like poetry. Free verse can be expressive, rhythmic, and powerful. But I’ve always appreciated the skill involved in expressing yourself in a tanka, sonnet, or ballad. When you have a set of rules, you have to be creative!

You also have to know which set of rules your characters are working under. Often there are several. Written laws? Professional codes of ethics? Social rules? Family customs? A lot of tension can come from a character deciding he’s going to have to break some rules to solve the problem, and he has to decide which rules can be broken, which can’t, and what price he’s willing to pay.

This is a big thing in a lot of works in Regency or Victorian settings. There are people you can talk to, people you must not, and certain subjects that absolutely Cannot Be Discussed Ever.

Except that realistically speaking they have to be discussed at some point. Hopefully before someone dies. And then social fallout ensues.

I used Regency and Victorian because those are familiar to a lot of readers, but honestly, up until fairly modern times, strict social rules about who could freely communicate with whom were common most places. And the unwritten rules you had to follow to avoid a breath of scandal or be ruined - meaning eventually dead, from lack of support or work....

There’s a neat example of “working within the rules to keep peace” in the first episode of Season 2 of Zenigata Heiji (see the Samurai vs. Ninja channel). Long story short, a ring of thieves figured out ways to implicate respectable shops in crimes. Meaning even when the police know who and where they are and could catch them... if the gang goes to trial and any implications come out, the businesses involved will be devastated. Leading to most of the families and employees being condemned to starvation or suicide.

If only, muse Heiji and his boss, there were a legal way to catch the gang without the case going to trial....

(It’s risky, but yes. There is.)

And if you want to see the effort needed to keep as much possible peace in a society at war, I recommend the series Foyle’s War. An inspector trying to solve murders and bring criminals to justice in WWII England has a heck of a job on his hands.

One episode ends with a murderer taunting Foyle, and... well. Here’s from Wikiquote.

Howard Paige: You sound like a sore loser. You know what the French say? "C'est la guerre."

Foyle: Precisely, Mr. Paige. "It's the war." And no war has lasted forever, and neither will this one. A year, maybe ten, but it will end. And when it does, Mr. Paige, you will still be a thief, a liar, and a murderer, and I will not have forgotten. And wherever you are, I will find you. You're not escaping justice, merely postponing it. Au revoir.

Stories with action are good. Stories with justice, even if it can’t be today - those take a skilled touch.

What kind of rules do you want your characters to break? What do you want them to uphold at all costs?

[p5popquiz]

[peaterookie]

Lupin III Chapter 64 Review

this cover is a cooler one, but i wish the paint texture didnt look so weird on it...

ok ok so now lupin's in the university since they practically have no choice but to let him inn

he is trying to promote his new club, the Master Thief Club! but he bumps into zenigata along the way obviously they dont like each other and zeni makes it out VERY CLEAR to him that he isn't going get away with doing anything in here he also makes a comment about the heiji zenigata family line so yeah thats cool (why is his first name heitaro now)

lupin plasters posters advertising his club all over the university, zenigata and fujiko try to stop him but they get trolled instead. lupin is such a bastard already...

then we skip some time a bit to see lupin trying to extort someone into paying 50 million yen or else he has to leave this school?? what on earth is he planning???

turns out he ain't only extorting from one person, he has multiples of them hanging around outside the university!

"The Master Thief Donors Club" Lupin shows a billboard that lists the other debts he forced onto other people- all ranging into the million...

he even goes out of his way to extort fujiko out of 100k yen! zenigata sees this, and clearly doesnt accept what lupin is doing. a professor in the school by the name of jippo also doesn't accept it either... and lupin also extorts him.

"We, the members of the Master Thief Club, hereby demand the resignation of Professor Jippo. The denial of this request will be met with a 10 million yen fine and 42 cases of beer."

what is the meaning of all hes doing...?

lupin and zenigata get into an all-out brawl, and lupin gets called in by the chancellor to have a little meeting... lupin tells zenigata to wait at the donor wall, and "everything will make perfect sense."

lupin then meets with the chancellor, along with the parents of the kids that got extorted (they are all very rich and snotty, according to lupin.) lupin then tells the chancellor the reason why he's doing this. after some research, he's found out that the parents had bribed professor jitto to let their kids pass! thus, he fake-extorted the kids back in order to expose the parents how does he expose them you ask? with some simple steps!

lupin tells the parents to look in this curtain, and goes out to zenigata outside the donor board

he rips out the sign that originally says "The Master Thief Donors Club" to reveal...

"WE BRIBED PROFESSOR JITTO TO PASS OUR STUPID KIDS!"

the curtain was all just a trick for the parents to reveal themselves on the board, and the price was simply to show how much they payed jitto to get their kids to pass...

good on you lupin! it wasnt the best of ways but you did something good.

the end.

[sournote2014]

He's known Lupin for a long time, so why is he thinking this, despite the fact that he'd be unhappy if Lupin were executed? So he can get the power? So he can win the challenge? So he can prove he's the world's greatest policeman?

Looking at this scene again, his reaction is compared directly with Goemon's. In the deleted opening, he is distraught when it seems like Lupin is killed. His feelings are incredibly complicated.

I wonder what Gorô Naya thought?