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Lupin III Chapter 71 Review

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this was a fun chapter!! i liked it despite the confusing format

it's a stormy night, and we see a mysterious person wearing a kimono and holding an umbrella wandering through the empty streets

then, we jump to lupin hanging out with what seems to be an old friend in his house. his name is Kido, and he is a professional assassin

they just seem to be messing with each other and catching up from all the past years they didnt talk to each other and such.

then the story switches back to the kimono man, who almost gets run over by a car but quickly dodges it, and detonates it with dynamite

once again, it switches back to lupin and kido, and lupin challenges him to do this one trick he had to see if lupin this time can figure it out he doesn't, it seems to be a trick that redirects lupin's attack to another place, and it prevents anything from hitting kido. interesting!

aaand then we go back to the kimono man he continues to wander and we see someone ontop of a tree trying to attack him with a long spear

we don't know what happens next, as lupin and kido's reunion is interrupted by a fujiko, who informs kido that he shouldn't be drinking as he has an important job tonight then he leaves, and gets confronted by jigen who tries to kill him because kido killed??? his brother??? three years ago????? thank you monkey punch very cool

jigen's attempt fails however, as he gets completely duped by kido's tricks

then, we switch back to kimono man blocking the attack above with his umbrella, and spears the assassin with his own sword, that was attached to his umbrella! new cool weapon idea

then were back to kido, who realizes something and rushes to call back fujiko and tell her to be careful of lupin, but he is too late as she is now having sex... with lupin.

jigen stops lupin at least! he rushes in the room and informs lupin that fujiko is in the rat clan, and passes out

after all that, its revealed that the man in the kimono is actually lupin in the present time, and all the things that happened with kido were, perhaps, days ago.

lupin and kido meet again, and its revealed that his important job was infact to kill lupin. wielding the umbrella, lupin takes on his old friend, and says that he has finally figured out his trick, which was hypnosis! he drops the umbrella down the ground and reveals a gun, but kido has already put lupin under hypnosis...

lupin prepares to shoot kido, but snaps back to reality to see his hands aiming the gun at himself, damn! with much effort, he pulls it back and reveals another plan up his sleeve: the umbrella he set down was prepared to shoot its sword at kido in three seconds!!! after all, even if you have hypnosis abilities, how would you hypnotize an object?

the umbrella shoots kido in the chest, and lupin walks away.

the end.

[lazuliblade]

AnimeFest 2017 Day 1

I fell asleep yesterday before I could make the post...

Dealer’s Room opened late, but I stood in line for quite a while before then, so as soon as it opened, I was into the room and searching out YOI stuff (plus a couple of things to give as presents). My haul (for the first half of the day):

The can badge sets were actually on sale for $10 each, which was amazing. The embroidery of Yurio’s eyes is so pretty. The small poster (wall scroll, I guess) I got was of Yuuri and Victor in Moscow’s Red Square.

I was looking through the kimono stand (I’m always looking for pieces to finish my set)  and the people helping are AWESOME. Not only is the booth/stand filled with gorgeous pieces and simple pieces at all price points to fit a budget, the ladies are very helpful to both the people who have no clue what any of the names are for pieces, and to those who have worn a full ensemble and need specific little things. They shared the story of how they got this business running (3 years of research, planning, and connecting with Japanese salesmen), and were always ready to turn around and answer another question - even though they were running on little sleep. While they had super nice kimono on the racks (the furisode were so gorgeous I wanted to cry), the booth also had grab bags which ranged from $20 to $50. The $20 bags were usually haori (the coat that goes over kimono), $30 were simple kimono with obi, $40-50 are nicer kimono with obi. Some of the descriptions on the grab bags were hilarious! ( “It looks like a basket. Seriously. If you don’t like baskets, don’t get this.” “What a jedi warrior would wear if he wore kimono” “Green and black and [...] perfect for a SLYTHERIN~” “It’s Blue. ‘Nuf said.”)  I should have taken pictures....

I dashed from there to wait in line for the Japanese Guests Autograph Session, but the line was ridiculously long! I was in Block C of the waiting section and not even half of Block B got signatures. If you were there for people besides the YOI trio, they would let you go to those people you wanted to sign your stuff. Apparently some people in the A block of the line were waiting since 10am even though the staff said you couldn’t line up until an hour beforehand. For the remaining days of the con, they’re apparently going to be roping off the area until the hour before, so I guess we’ll see how Day 2 goes?

I went back to the kimono booth to actually buy stuff (they had set my stuff aside), grabbed a snack, and then went to wait with friends for the first YOI panel -- “Yuri!!! On Ice: Meet the Creative Staff”

While waiting in line I met Denki and won a poster for answering her hard question! (Thanks, @sachiro for pointing her out and encouraging me to go ask.)

My question was: “Which four skaters can do the 4Lo?”

I met a mother&daughter couple in the line (the mother was just as much a fan as her daughter. It was so touching!), gave the daughter a small push to actually approach Denki, and she did well to get her own poster. Denki isn’t scary!

There was some amazing cosplay and itabags I saw while waiting through the hour. One person was dressed as Chihoko! Golden fish tail and everything.

When the door opened, we filed in and were directed down the rows to fill every seat. They gave us posters (I guess?) at the door which were printed on fairly thick paper. I ended up second row left-of-center, right in front of Sayo and Kubo!

I’ll put the interview/talk in a separate post because I took notes on what they said and it deserves a separate entry. To make it short, they talked about American figure skaters (Nathan Chen, Adam Rippon, Jason Brown, and Max Aaron), how they learned of each other and met, the relationship between them, and a few notes. When talking about character designs Hiramatsu has formerly done, they mentioned about the dynamic poses in figure skating and the plentiful crotch and butt shots... I believe some people have already noted how Kubo spread tissue-box-Makka’s legs while Hiramatsu covered him. They were so great. At the end, the threw some freebies to the crowd. I managed to catch a pair of gloves!

After the panel was over, a few of us went to go check out the art show where some of Kubo’s pieces were hanging - both YOI and previous works. I was amazed at seeing everything up close. Her line quality is absolutely gorgeous. I browsed through the rest of the art auction pieces and as we were leaving we saw Kubo-sensei! She was looking at her hanged pieces and just starting to leave. Sayo was waiting outside of the room (her sunglasses were off!), and then Hiramatsu-san passed us to get into the room (he greeted us “Hello!”). 

From there, I browsed through artists’ alley (”Bizarre Bazaar”), bought some gorgeous prints from someone whom I reblog a lot of fanart (I’ll put the links to the specific art later!), dropped off my stuff, grabbed a quick snack, and off to Opening Ceremonies at Dallas’ Majestic theater.

It was amusing and interesting to hear what the different guests had to say. Sayo reiterated how she was invited to Anime Fest years before YOI - ever since “Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine.” She was in contact with the guy from then on and would tell him about the cool figure skating project she was trying to have green-lit. She said that he invited her again to come to the con after the anime aired and he had more faith in her project than the producers did. So this is why AnimeFest was one of the first cons that confirmed Kubo, Sayo, and Hiramatsu as guests.

LM.C were hilarious. Aiji gave well-thought-out answers, while maya gave short somewhat deadpan responses that had us laughing. *holds hand up to eyes to look out into the crowd; turns head*  “I’ve memorized all of your faces. You’ll come to the concert tomorrow, right?”

After it was over, my group went to In-N-Out Burger for our first decent meal of the day. When we returned to the hotel, I meant to just curl up to absorb some warmth, but then fell asleep...

I’m planning to go to a lot of evening and night events in Day 2, so I’ll see how tired I am after all of it.