#the ending was weird

[peaterookie]

Lupin III Chapter 73 Review

THIS CHAPTER. TOOK SO LONG TO UNDERSTAND. I EVEN HAD TO CONSULT THE SPANISH VERSION TO UNDERSTAND IT *sobbing* anyways do you know what this chapter was actually a two parter but merged into one in the aizouban/tokyopop version thats cool aint it

let's begin

the chapter starts with lupin, jigen, and goemon hanging out in their hideout of some sort and they're looking at a plan goemon says that it seems like a job for his blade, but lupin rejects it, and jigen proposes using his pistol, but lupin also refuses

lupin instead tells them to use their heads more, which confuses them a lot.

then the cop shows up and they detain goemon and jigen, but not lupin... he revealed to them his location and it seems that this plan involves the zenigata and the cops as well

the two detainees are very mad and confused, wondering if they've been sold out and yelling at zenigata on why he didn't arrest lupin since that's his whole thing right?? zenigata tells them to SHUT UP!! and wishes that he could've arrested lupin right then and there, but he needs lupin to help him.

then we switch to lupin, disguised as the leader of the evil group of this chapter (tm) and washing ashore off of their island. the members of the group seem suspicious of his arrival and tells him to show the badge that identifies them as the member of this student organization, but we dont know what happens next as it switches back to zenigata's side!

he's interrogating the REAL leader of the group, detained, and laughing at the idea of having lupin impersonate him and infiltrating his group the leader does a jab at the police for relying on a criminal to do their job and tells him that lupin needed the badge for the entire plan to work in the first place (zenigata is shitting his pants)

on lupin's end, the member continues to ask him to show the badge, but lupin manages to steal one from a member and use it to lower their suspicion, for now... he then punches the guy that he stole it from in the gut and returns the badge to him secretly he also beats up another guy for no reason idk why he does that

anyways, they take him to the headquarters and its back to zenigata's side again jigen and goemon, as instructed by him, captured four members of the student group who were hiding out in japan, and turns out one of the four has swallowed a nuke bomb!

the four obviously wouldn't tell zenigata who swallowed it, but instead goes on a long shpeal about their motives

(this is the part that made me go on a wild goose chase in the spanish version the tp version does a horrible job of explaining it)

so basically, the student organization is made up of, you guessed it, college students. they're really mad at the authorities and the police because they have too much control of them and now they're trying to usurp them and demand more power for themselves then the officials are like this is stupid and then they closed all the major universities and now the student group is trying to bomb tokyo because they want the officials to open the university again...!

man so then zenigata's like this is bullshit and punches him but no like aside all the insane shit i think they have a point ngl

so then it's lupin's side again and he finally gets the name of the guys that has the bomb (it's kakuta, whoever the hell that is)

but then the member gets suspicious of lupin again so he just blows cover and tries to escape the island with their boat! unfortunately, it's radio controlled so lupin gets captured by the group

onto part 2!

lupin's locked in their cell and they deliver a notice to zenigata about lupin's capture and he's like GOD FUCKING DAMN IT! LUPIN!!

zenigata tries to use a geiger counter on the prisoners but that doesn't work so now tokyo's set to bomb in less than an hour, so him, jigen, and goemon look out like wow that sucks i guess

meanwhile, on the island, lupin has escaped the jail like he always does, but the current boss tells one of the member to just let him go... or is he?

HE'S. BLINKING IN MORSE CODE. this is what i love about this manga... ha..ha....

so then the guy listens to this message and shoots the table from above to reveal a pair of legs that looks suspiciously similar to lupin's! but it's not lupin! it's a flamethrower!

so lupin tries to escape while holding fujiko for literally no reason fujiko's like ha there's no way to get out and lupin's like ummm no i got a bird then fujiko shoots the bird (see lupin! this woman is nothing but trouble!)

so lupin tries to do some crazy shit!! i'm too tired to explain this so ill just let the drawings talk for me once again

i can't believe lupin's trying to do binary.

[ciearcab]

how do you live?

[mightydyke]

I love when fiction makes the audience feel guilty about their role as the audience. When something fucked up is treated as a joke but later it's recognised how fucked up it was and the audience feels guilty for finding it funny. When a character breaks the fourth wall to plead for help, and you can't do anything so you just watch. And you know that the characters pain isn't real, but they're begging for help and you're not helping because their suffering is entertainment for you

[feymaid]

⚡️DEATH IS ONLY TEMPORARY I’LL LOVE YOU FOREVER!!!⚡️

[doggirlhen]

they should make shopping for cables easier i think. there should be a service where you pick the ends, you pick the length of cable, you pick the like. color and texture of the cable (shitty plastic, nicely woven, bare metal, whatever) and then they make it and ship it to you for a reasonable fee

[mari-lair]

oh to be the only one out of the loop

[havenshereagain]

DPxDC Idea

Danny working at Wayne Enterprises as some sort of engineer, uses the in-house app for all his blueprints and stuff

He starts getting notes from a coworker in-app, and assumes its this annoying older guy in his department who constantly undermines him because of his age, despite his education and past achievements (i feel like in this AU the Fentons react well to the reveal and they work together on a number of non-lethal ecto inventions that have Danny's name attached to them)

Except one day his coworker mentions never using the app, and Danny suddenly realizes there's only one other TD he could've been arguing with in the notes of the app

[paunchsalazar]

better together

[sixofclovers]

tecna this one goes out to you specifically

[haunted-xander]

Well, I guess you didn't have much of a choice either

[eldritchblaaaast]

don't be weird guys

[pangur-and-grim]

Pangur’s happy to be back from the vet

[pollyanna-nana]

So. It’s no secret that the dunmeshi manga gradually changed art style as it went on (thereby twinkifying a few characters…) but I like to think that, in Thistle’s case specifically, it was also a change in perception by the party. I mean…

Early in the story, when all they knew about him was that he was the creepy, all-powerful mad sorcerer? Probably were much more intimidated by him. Same with the reader. BUT….

By the end? Oh, he’s just a little jester twink who writes poetry and can be picked up and slung around like a bag of potatoes. No way they could take him seriously anymore. Literally this meme but in reverse

Little guyification…

[the-barefoot-hatter]

Maybe it's a good thing they didn't storm the penthouse suite.

(joke taken from the superior quackervolt comic by mistahgrundy )

[noornight]

Long distance besties. This definitely happened after the third movie (source: trust me bro)

Based on this

[asha-mage]

MDZS AU where Jiang Cheng realizes that Lan Sizhui is the Wen orphan that Wei Wuxian took care off during the Burial Mounds arc, decides that's close enough to qualify him as Nephew, declares that no Nephew of His (much less a surrogate son of Wei Wuxian's) is going to be raised in the Cloud Recedes, and immediately launches into a custody battle with Lan Wangji.

But since neither Jiang Cheng or Lan Wangji can acknowledge that Sizuhi has any connection to Wei Wuxian, both begin steadfastly and stubbornly insisting that he is a Cultivator of peerless potential and skill and he belongs in their sect thank you very much, and would clearly be very unhappy in the other's. This confuses the hell out of the already mystified Cultivation world, who had barely adjusted yet to gossiping about Sizhui being Wangji's illegitimate child by mysterious love affair.

(Eventually the common consensus in the rumor mills is that both JC and LW where in love with Sizhui's mother and both believe themselves to be Sizhui's real father.)

(LW couldn't care less what gossips say, but JC has to bite his tongue till it bleeds to avoid telling anyone the truth in a fit of anger.)

(It was Nie Huaisang who put that rumor out in the first place, partly to troll JC, partly because, in a way, it's a little true.)