#Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus

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Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus Directors: Shunya Itō & Takeshi Shirato Studio: TMS | Japan, 1995

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why does the villain in farewell to nostradamus look like jerma

[crispywisp]

managed to find a cel and its matching sketch from my favorite scene in lupin iii: farewell to nostradamus (showing the tagalog dub with my translation because it's genuinely great, also "defective" is not a typo, it's lupin's nickname for detective zenigata in this dub lmao)

being able to obtain a cel that i instantly recognized from a movie/scene i love was one of the things on my bucket list, so im extremely happy to have found this!!

more photos and notes about the artwork under the cut:

the cel and sketch came in one packet, i was initially pretty worried because the package didn't have any sort of hard surface like cardboard to prevent it from bending a lot, but fortunately it's in great condition

whoever previously owned this stapled the cel to the sketch (😭), so i was bracing for the cel's paint to be stuck to the paper since it's 20+ years old, but i let out the biggest fucking sigh of relief when i saw that it was miraculously still separated, so i went ahead and carefully removed the staple

back of the cel

close ups of the cel (zenigata's legs are completely cropped out in the final film, a very strong clue that this is authentic)

the cel shows very early stages of vinegar syndrome (slight deterioration on the cel structure, though no wrinkling, and super faint vinegar smell) and has light fading in the lineart, but it's still pretty well preserved for its age (made around 1994 or 1995), this cel will have to be stored separately from the rest of my collection to prevent it from spreading to them

close up on the sketch

back of the sketch, you can see the tiny pieces of paint from the cel stuck on here

this is most likely a key drawing rather than a breakdown or inbetween drawing based on the circle around "13" in the top right corner of the sketch (breakdowns are usually marked by a line underneath the number, inbetweens are usually unmarked); im surprised this cel didn't cost more since it's a really nice key drawing from a feature film, but im guessing it was cheaper since it's zenigata and not the other main cast characters

there is a tiny timing chart near the bottom, i've reached out to my animation lead co-worker to ask if she knows what this indicates since im not very confident in reading timing charts yet haha, will update this note once she gets back to me

EDIT: my co-worker has responded, she said that the timing chart on the sketch is most likely a very simplified version of a quarter timing, here is her note:

some more tiny notes on the sketch, if anyone knows what the japanese notes say, let me know!

EDIT: my co-worker also said that the X's in the sketch most likely indicate that those are empty areas, telling whoever is doing the cleanup to not color in those spots (i had noticed afterwards that there are more X's in other spots that are meant to be empty, so she's definitely on the money)

EDIT: @cultistzenyatta has informed me that the japanese note should read "shirt" シャツ, as in to distinguish between zenigata's coat and shirt sleeve for cleanup to color in

and here's the artwork in their separate storage packets, gonna add them to the portfolio binder :D

(also, im currently creating my own site to showcase my cel and sketch collection all in one place, so i'll make a post about it once it's nearly done 🙂)

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Someone asked for a gif of this scene so I did my duty and made one.

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Jigen is cool

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I finally FINSIHED IT.

Redraw of an opening that had me hooting and hollering cause I was not expecting THAT lmaaoo

(y'all should watch Farewell to Nostradamus btw it's good. Has boobies in it tho so heads up.)

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“Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus” (1995)

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fujiko redraw from farewell to nostradamus!

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I was looking for screen caps from Farewell To Nostradamus for something I’m working on but I found this piece of gold instead. I laughed my ass off when I first found it and popped out these two stupid memes. I’ll add the blank screen cap as well if anyone wants to make their own. If you do, pls feel free to add them to this post! I’d love to see them!

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“Now two people are missing.” “Maybe we should get Pops to make Fujiko and Julia detectors!”

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Best of Lupin III Poll

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LUPIN III - THE FOURTH

Aka "Lupin's extended family bullies him live on TV"

Y'all remember Maki from Blood Seal - Eternal Mermaid?

☝️ This awesome kiddo who spent half of the movie harassing Lupin into taking her as an apprentice? And who was actually quite good at thieving, good enough that she managed to get to Lupin's target by her own means?

I think she should become Lupin IV.

...And I might have gotten a bit carried away.

Yes they all call themselves Lupin IV. Yes there is an explanation to that. The explanation is to bully Lupin.

Maki: master thief, and leader of the Gang. The actual official Lupin IV as far as the Lupin succession line is concerned. Outgoing and bubbly, a determination that can break though walls. (Blood Seal - Eternal Mermaid)

Ami: tech expert and hacker. Likes to pretend she has no feelings. (Part 5)

Julia: social engineer/people person. Very strong personality and very confident. (Farewell to Nostradamus)

Kenny: gunman. Very loyal, inherited Jigen's "knight in shining armour" complex. (Part 6)

Murasaki: medic. Too tired for this bullshit but is actually having fun. A ray of sunshine. (The Fuma Conspiracy)

Long story short:

Growing up Maki never stops wanting to become a thief. By the time she's an adult, she's actually gotten quite good at it.

One day she runs by chance into Ami, and learns about how much Lupin changed her life. And how many other children - now adults their age - he impacted as well.

Maki sets out to find as many of them as she can, and founds her own thieving gang.

But Maki doesn't only have skills like Lupin's, she also has his knack for causing problems. So once she's assembled her team of "Kids Lupin Left Behind And Who Also Like Causing Problems", she goes out to find Rebecca Rosselini, aka Lupin's almost-but-not-exactly-divorced-wife (Part 4).

"Rebecca," she says, "do you mayhaps want to annoy the heck out of Lupin for funsies?"

"Boy do I!" replies Rebecca. "What do you need from me?"

"Oh nothing much," says Maki. "Just a little signature on these four adoption forms."

And thus Maki, Ami, Julia and Kenny legally acquire the last name Lupin. And all officially declare themselves Lupin the Fourth.

Lupin is fuming, Zenigata is having a stroke, the rest of the LupGang are laughing their asses off.

Murasaki is there too because these kids need a responsible adult.

EDIT: You can discover the supporting cast and more succession shenanigans here!

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Source: Lupin The Third-Farewell To Nostradamus

Sorry for the late post, I was kinda indecisive of what to even post lol

But yeah! Nostradamus is my absolute fave movie from this franchise, it comes pretty close to Mamo, Cagliostro, and The First for me, the animation and character designs really were well done!

For being Kanichi Kurata's first debut for voicing Lupin (at least that's what I think I heard-), it wasn't that bad of a performance!

I also heard that the same people who did Tiny Toons did the animation, when I first watched it, I was like "For some odd reason, that animation style reminds of something... I can't really point out what it is though...." Until I saw the scene where Lupin is switching channels on the tv in one scene and it showed a tiny cartoon snippet and I was like *Insert Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme here* lmao

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I keep saying I want the Lupgang to come to Brazil for anything that isn't having Brazil as a backdrop for a random event, and everyone might be thinking: "Oh, this brazilian girl just wants the blorbos to experience her country and enjoy it! I, too, want them to go to my motherland so they can experience all of our culture". I think you're missing the point entirely. I want the Lupgang to come to Brazil so I can see Lupin absolutely disgusted when he discovers we fill croissants with chocolate, caramel, and others. I want him to call his good ex-wife, Rebecca Rossellini, and say: "Hey babe– wait, no don't hang up on me, it's important. Did you know brazilians put ham, eggs, onions and peas on pizza? They say the pizza is portuguese if it's like that. They put ketchup over it sometimes" and you can hear that woman wince in pain. I want Goemon to discover about our pastel de sushi, and for him to curse every single Japanese immigrant that DARED creating pastel only to allow it to be used against their ancestors like this

I want Jigen to have a jolly time, though. He's looking at brazilian hot dogs with smashed potatoes, barbecue sauce and vinagrete and going "man this shit's amazing how did i never think of that before" and he doesn't understand why everybody else is so upset, nor why Lupin is having a existential crisis after actually enjoying the taste of croissant de chocolate. That's what I want for them

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Lupin III: Kutabare! Nostradamus

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