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blueparasiteflower · 6 months ago
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Lupin chapter cover redraw.
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waddlehekk · 1 year ago
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When you take a look at the designs for Jigen, Lupin, and Goemon from the left to the right, the way it goes from the dark to light becomes very clear.
I believe it is a representation of their differing morals. There are some instances where we can see direct contrasts.
In Chapter 61, "A Bundle of Oy!", Lupin is turned into a baby and Jigen and Goemon confront his captors. Notice how Goemon suggests negotiation while Jigen would rather fight.
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Jigen ends up leaving the room because he does not believe Lupin really turned into a baby, but Goemon stays because he trusts them.
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Then there is the next chapter, Chapter 62, "Chasing Tail", where the gang meets with the Master who is able to cure them of the tails they have grown.
Jigen threatens him...
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(this is such a quote
Lupin believes it is a trap...
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And Goemon trusts and protects him.
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I wonder then if this brings more meaning to when Lupin removes his jacket later in the manga. Is the darkness of his clothing underneath showing his true colors?
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peaterookie · 2 months ago
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Headcanon: Lupin is Genderfluid
hiii gamers I'm back to spout some more rambles, this time i will talk woke shit
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I've had this headcanon for a while, not only does it I feel makes sense to his character and his whole shapeshifter kind of deal but I have uhh "evidence"- aka. moments in the manga that hints to him not giving af about his gender
(P.S. i wanna first say that I'm not genderfluid myself nor have any friends that are, so sorry if what i say about genderfluidity is incorrect, please correct me if there's anything i say here that is wrong.)
I'll first start on why it makes sense without the evidence. Lupin countless times, manga and anime, disguises as either man or woman, showing that he is comfortable serving the role of any gender. Perhaps he even disguises as a woman at times to reflect his shift in gender identity.
While you may argue that disguises doesn't necessarily mean anything trans-related, Jigen also uses disguises but I don't think there's been any time in the manga where he disguised as a woman, Zenigata once disguised as a woman but purely out of necessity to catch Lupin, and Goemon actually had dressed as a woman and seemed to enjoy it, but I think my friend already made a post about how she thinks he's a closeted trans-woman already so I'm not gonna touch on that.
Lupin is the only character that consistently disguises as a woman and acts very natural about it, implying he does feel comfortable as a woman, though I think he leans more towards identifying as a man most of the time (or secretly neither).
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(This is when I add my evidence)
There was also this passage in New Adventures that Zeni questions whether Lupin behind the mask is a man or a woman, perhaps neither. He is a complete mystery on the inside, and that includes his true gender.
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(adjusted translation)
The fact that he feels threatened could imply that he's uncomfortable about his gender, but then again I think it's mostly him messing with Zenigata considering it was a fakeout. He doesn't strike me as the insecure type about that sort of thing.
Regardless, MP wrote this here for a purpose so I like to interpret it as Lupin being gender ambiguous.
Lastly, the dual chapter story, Ch. 80 - Brain Swap and Ch. 81 - Body Work, has Lupin forcefully get his brain swapped with this old man that wants to live forever. To get him out of the old man's body, Lupin tricks the scientist to swap his brain with Fujiko, thinking that he is the old man in Lupin's body. BUT ANYWAY
HE IS WAY TOO COMFORTABLE IN FUJIKO'S BODY.
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WHAT CIS MAN JUST CASUALLY WALKS AROUND IN A WOMAN'S BODY LIKE THAT? that's right he is not cis he is Genderfluid that is my very extremely convincing and conclusive evidence on why Lupin drank the gender fluid.
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He even called it a remarkable experience, I think he was a bit happy about being in a woman's body for the first time
and yeah that's it
thanks for reading, byebye!
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natade-art · 1 year ago
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surprise i promised more shin but it was actually just a ploy to draw more of miss fujiko mine
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l6sadi · 9 months ago
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1974 for the tankobon release of the original Lupin III manga, the original chapter covers published in Weekly Manga Action were replaced with completely new drawings by Monkey Punch himself (Most likely due to the poor state of preservation of said covers).
These are my favorites, what are yours?
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thund3randrain · 1 year ago
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"So you were talking about that gay ship you like..."
BITCH WHICH ONE
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ohotnig · 2 years ago
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40% off on all this goofy anime stuff (and more) until the end of today!
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Christmas Art Dump!
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sarazanmai · 2 years ago
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tiffany-chan123 · 11 months ago
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It’s for science I swear
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tsukumo-nya · 2 years ago
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There is a legit chapter from the manga where Lupin and Jigen disguise themselves as cats to try to steal a giant "cat eye" shaped gem, and go up against a group of "guard cat's" to steal it!
I NEED THIS TO BE ANIMATED SO BAD!!!
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hellcatinnc · 2 years ago
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These are some of my favorite men in otome..... who agrees?
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waddlehekk · 1 year ago
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Can you talk a little more about how Goemon is intended to be mixed race? I read the manga but never picked up on this; was it lost to translation, or is it extremely subtle (or just a headcanon)? Also, do you have any idea why his race was changed in the Pilot film (if it was at all)?
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Though it is never outright stated, there are clear details in Goemon's design that I believe are included to suggest he is mixed race, being part Asian since he is still the descendant of the original, Japanese, Ishikawa Goemon, and part something else, which I'm thinking is part White. The themes presented in the Lupin manga and in MP's other manga of racial freedom coincide with this too.
It's important to also understand the context of the themes that surround Goemon's character, being raised under strict Eastern culture, but despite being naïve towards Western culture, he does not reject it in the way his masters do and is even curious about it.
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Before I begin, I'd like to make it clear that MP is not the most consistent when it comes to his designs, especially in the earlier manga where he is still working out what he wants of the characters. It doesn't help either that he had to rush to meet deadlines for the manga. With that being said though, I will be focusing on Goemon's consistent character traits that become more concrete in Shin Lupin.
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An obvious detail to Manga Goemon's design is his cleft chin. This is usually drawn in more western-like characters (for instance, he draws Yankee from Bakumatsu Yankee with a cleft chin but not Okita), so it's really interesting how MP chooses to show it in Goemon. MP drew it more obvious as time went on, but it did exist since his first appearance.
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Also, notice how Goemon's hair is not fully inked black as MP does with other characters. Generally, aside from artwork for promotion of the anime, anime ost album covers, and artwork made after the manga's completion, MP would color Goemon's hair as blonde-ish brown. I've seen people refer to it as possibly being ash blonde, or dirty blonde, but I'm not sure.
I'll post examples below. If you've seen them before, please read the rest of the post! I have a lot more to show.
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It's a shame though that in some instances, publishers tried to hide this by recoloring MP's artwork, even if it wasn't meant tor the anime at all. Likely this was done to appeal to the larger amount of fans for the anime, and much of MP's later artwork after the manga's completion would alter other parts of Goemon's design to resemble it too, such as by changing his facial features and removing the pattern on his kimono. If you look closely below, you can see how the publishers weren't perfect at covering it up.
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You may have seen how in my other post, with the artwork of the English Conversation book, or in a small amount of MP's other drawings, that Goemon's hair is instead colored as grey, silver, or not colored at all. I think MP tends to do this to save on color, and you can even see this in how his clothing is colored only white and grey.
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That's also why though Fujiko appears blonde in the covers of that same book, she is also colored with grey hair in its pages inside of the book. Notice how the color of her dress changed too to save on color.
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There's a similar case of Fujiko's hair originally being portrayed as blonde in the manga, but MP coloring it as brown or red in some artwork to match the anime. It didn't seem to be as much of an issue though considering how inconsistent Fujiko's design already was in the anime and early manga, and with how the changing hair color does not suggest as much about Fujiko as it does for Goemon and his race.
Goemon's manga design already does not resemble his anime design, so to make it even more different by having a different hair color would certainly bring more confusion from the anime audience. Goemon in the anime is strongly associated with being Japanese in comparison to the others, so it makes sense why his hair color is not a blonde-brown when MP draws for the anime.
Unlike fully blonde characters like Fujiko though, MP tends to draw Goemon's hair with many lines. I notice that when MP isn't rushing to draw Goemon, he draws certain areas of his hair having more lines condensed together and other areas having empty space.
(This is kind of hard to explain so I hope the drawing below makes it clear)
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My own interpretation for why he draws his hair this way is to show areas with more denser lines being a darker brown, while the less dense areas show the lighter blonde parts of his hair.
It's worth noting Jigen's hair gets drawn with lines too, but there are more lines to show how much darker it is, and it also lacks any lighter areas. Perhaps Jigen's hair is still meant to be black, with the lines added to show detail in the strands of his straight hair, but what if it was meant to show color in his hair too?
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Part 3, the Lupin anime with character designs that resemble Shin Lupin's the most, makes the decision to color Jigen's hair dark brown to show this, despite it always having been depicted as black in the anime.
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But back to Goemon, I've seen a few people believe that maybe his hair is dyed/bleached. I can understand this notion, given that when he is first introduced he is dating Fujiko who seems more knowledgeable in this, and we do know that Goemon is an open-minded person when it comes to new things despite his old-fashioned upbringing. I disagree though, in part because some of the more detailed color drawings of him give me the impression it is natural. His sideburns also appear to have color in some close-ups of them.
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There is something that he cannot change, however, and that is his eye color. It also happens to share the same color as his hair, more proof that his hair color is natural.
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If you look at this magazine cover, you can see everyone's eyes colored in as black, but MP specifically did not do that for Goemon. Perhaps he wanted this detail about Goemon to stand out to readers.
There are many smaller details too, like his fluffy hair that curls at the ends, and his body hair.
And I can't forget the sideburns either. Though having sideburns obviously isn't a genetic trait, it's more western-like design that MP uses. The point of Goemon having sideburns may be to help you picture a more western person from him.
Compare all this to Anime Goemon, who has straight black hair and smaller eyes with black pupils, no sideburns, no body hair, and a regular chin. There is a very different intention between what the 2 characters are attempting to portray, and it's obvious when you look at them side to side. These different intentions are the reason why the anime is so stubborn when it comes to incorporating parts of Manga Goemon's design.
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You may be wondering, is it unusual that Monkey Punch would make a character like this?
Not at all!
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We know for sure Lupin is mixed too.
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"I don't need a passport because the whole Earth is my country!!"
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"Everywhere on this Earth is my home, even the middle of the ocean."
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The character Inspector John Starmow, who admits to Fujiko that his childhood memories are filled with him being bullied by both other children and adults because he has Indian blood in him.
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MP's other work, "Western Samurai"
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And of course, MP's "Bakumatsu Yankee"
Looking at the designs of the two friends, it almost seems like Goemon is a hybrid of the two that each represent the East and the West. Okita's fully inked in hair and Yankee's hair with hardly any lines, while Goemon has hair drawn with many lines. Also, Goemon's face resembles Okita's, but he has a chin like Yankee. A little off-topic but I've always thought that Goemon's personality was a mesh between the two: Okita's cheerful attitude and Yankee's calm demeanor.
Now onto the rest of your question, why was this not carried into the Pilot?
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If you haven't read my old post, please do read it as it explains my theory on why Manga Goemon was not adapted to the anime, and how Anime Goemon was created: https://www.tumblr.com/waddlehekk/711176903837483008/a-theory-on-the-creation-of-anime-goemon-and-why?source=share
Essentially though, the Pilot and Part 1 very clearly wanted a fully Japanese character out of Goemon to clash with the rest of the cast who are very American.
In the Pilot, Goemon is portrayed with a much darker skin tone rather than being very pale like he is in the Part 1 and nearly every portrayal onwards. Additionally, Mystery of Mamo pushes against Part 1's famously established design, bringing back Goemon's original skin tone and also changing the color of his hair to a dark brown.
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At first I thought this dark color was chosen so that the artists could show lighting in Goemon's hair and give it detail, and that therefore it was still meant to be black, but even looking closer his eyebrows were colored too. Fujiko, the only other member of the gang that doesn't have black hair in this movie, is also the only other one to have colored eyebrows.
I read a post recently saying that he's mixed because of this, but to be honest, I disagree. There are many people in Japan with the standards that being very fair-skinned and having black hair is what makes you beautiful, but that doesn't mean all Japanese people are just born like this, and some even try to hide it. If anything, I think the reason why Goemon is depicted like this to go against these beauty standards and show that Goemon is still just as much a good representation of a Japanese samurai. The teams still wanted to depict a message about racial freedom in Goemon, and I think this is in part why the Pilot and Mamo understand the tone of the manga much better than other adaptations.
On a final note, I'd like to add that if Manga Goemon is supposedly mixed, and these themes do exist throughout MP's manga, why not then see characters like Jigen, Fujiko, and Zenigata as being just as racially ambiguous? For all we know, Lupin and Goemon could be a combination of more than what I've said here. I'd love to hear any headcanons.
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peaterookie · 1 month ago
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Shin Lupin III Japanese Scans in High Quality
I hope someone's had this on their Christmas wishlist! 🎁
It's long overdue... This is all* of Shin Lupin III scanned in high quality. I hope you guys will enjoy this holiday gift from me to you❤️
*Welcome to Adultland! has not been scanned yet. This will be done in the future.
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This has been a 4 month long endeavor that me and my friend, @cometecti, put our whole effort on. For the longest time, the Lupin manga community's only source of Shin Lupin scans was a poorly done ai-upscaled version of the book, causing the artwork to become a blurry mess.
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This is frankly unacceptable, thus I've dedicated all of fall to scan my own bought copy of Shin Lupin, cleaning every single page and re-stitching and repairing double scans. For a while it was all I could think about... if there was any free time I could spare I would always dedicate it to cleaning the pages.
So, I hope that everyone is happy with my hard work these past few months. It is not only a dedication to Monkey Punch's work, but a love letter to the series and community that I love very much. I hope you guys have a Merry Christmas, and a Happy Shin Year !!! (heh)
When you open the drive, please make sure to read the CREDITS.txt file. It will answer a couple of question and clear up some of our methods to cleaning this book.
Here's also the mega folder for this:
I also want to add that these scans are a biiit better than the one's found on Mangadex in English...
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anyways uh yeah im gonna maybe post about my experience going through this absolute nightmare of a project, that would probably be cool. this is so worth it though. i love seeing lupin in high quality. ive been genuinely using these scans from time to time.
when will adultland be scanned? i am not sure, because that would require me to spend more money to buy a copy of a volume that contains that chapter. maybe if you guys can support me financially, the scan will come faster! i might open comms soon teheheheheeee
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mine-fujiko · 11 months ago
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As for the style of the character design I’m under the impression that the manga Shin Lupin and the anime part 2 influenced each other. The manga was released during the airing of part 2, meaning between 1977 and 1980/81.
It’s obvious both the manga and part 2 went into a different style for the characters. Apart from the fact that a huge portion of part 2 was, can I say it? just badly drawn and even worse animated to the point that some panels don’t even seem to have reached the final stage of a drawing but looked like the first raw sketches were directly sent to print, (either they were under pressure and had to go with quantity in place of quality or I have to believe a deliberate bad job in order to obtain… what?) see the difference between the first bunch of episodes up until 100 ca and the better quality from there on, not to mention when A Production aka Miyazaki and co. returned and gave us those final episodes that were masterpieces if compared to the previous episodes and the characters regained their normal look.
As I was saying though it looked like part 2 had an influence on Monkey Punch’s style as well. I’m not sure I actually prefer Shin Lupin to the first series, talking stylewise not storywise.
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l6sadi · 2 months ago
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Monkey Punch about his time working on the Lupin III Manga:
“I was really busy back then, I wish I could sleep three days in a week. It was so much so that the black ink started to look red”
—Quote taken from an interview with Mr.Katō on June 5, 2007—
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Link to the Full interview
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I want you all to think about this:
•His only registered assistant was his brother, who after the first manga went on to work on his own.
•None of the 3 Lupin mangas had any breaks/hiatus, totally weekly without fail.
~Lupin III 1967-1969
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~Lupin III New Adventures 1971-1972
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~Shin Lupin III 1977-1981
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I've always felt that in these discussions about mangakas working themselves to the bone they're missing the point that it's not just editorial pressure, it's also pure love for art.
We're not going to change too much by just ask artist to just don't do it, it's something that you feel you have to do. The same applies to all the professions that we may be passionate about.
But please, take care of your bodies and your mind, and know how to rest.
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