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Cool, evil or casual… He wears a number of specially-ordered outfits, according to time, place and occasion. You could call it ¨Lupin´s fashion¨. His unique custom designs are the envy of all young men.

LUPIN III - PILOT FILM (1969) dir. Masaaki Ōsumi

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too many of the jigen pics on MyAnimeList were not to my satisfaction so here are my submissions. hopefully the MAL mods will not see my burst of blorbo pics as spam.

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This Gadget I found!

Bro is really channelling some of that Pilot Film era Zenigata energy!

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LUPIN III: PILOT FILM (1969) dir. MASAAKI OSUMI

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Lupin Pilot Film

Thanks for coming back to my blog! I'm the Lupin Apologist and today we are going to dive into the 1969 Lupin Pilot Film. This is an interesting watch, so meet you under the cut!

The Pilot film is so interesting. The characters are different than their modern adaptations, and these differences are perhaps glimpses of the purpose Monkey Punch designed for them.

The film is just twelve minutes long, but it is long enough to adequately introduce us to the criminals and the law enforcement officers charged with catching them (even though we will never see one of them again).

This pitch tells us that Lupin is a gentleman thief, Jigen is his only reliable partner, and Fujiko follows them around. Goemon's life devotion is to kill Lupin, Inspectors Zenigata and Aechi chase them. Jigen and Fujiko are pals, and they seem to get along with each other well. Lupin is so in love with her, but he can never quite catch up to her, similar to how Zenigata can never quite catch up to Lupin.

Lupin is taunting Zenigata on the phone, and officers are able to trace the call to the phone booth right outside the office, but Lupin is still able to evade them (and blow up the phone booth with Zenigata's missing game piece in the process). Thus, we are introduced to the perpetual cat and mouse game between Lupin and Zenigata.

At the hide out, we learn more about Lupin's relationship with others. Jigen is his partner, Fujiko is his weekend lover, and Goemon is the one who wants him dead.

The pilot is the first use of some of the iconic footage in part one, and despite this recycling, we can still see how the character designs changed between the pilot and part one. Lupin looks less sinister, Jigen looks less like a walking vape pen, and Goemon becomes paler. Fujiko's design will change so many times in the series, perhaps as a symbol of her versatility as a woman, but her design we see in the pilot is similar to the design we will see in the anime.

Jigen and Fujiko get along quite well during the pilot and the first episodes of the series. I think this sets the stage well for us to see how Fujiko's behaviors and betrayals cause Jigen to become bitter towards her and other women as a result. Perhaps future series (like part five or TWCFM) would attempt to fabricate a backstory to give this relationship more context, but I think there's enough context here. Jigen wasn't entirely bitter when he started working with Lupin, and over the years with him, Jigen became the hardened man we know today. Lupin simultaneously saved and destroyed Jigen.

It is also worth it to mention the disappearance of Zenigata's mentor/side kick from the rest of the series. Aechi did seem like an unnecessary character, but it would have been interesting to see more of Zenigata's interactions with his direct colleagues throughout the series. We see some sort of revival of this with Yata, who also seems to appear out of no where, but it would have been interesting to see how Zenigata would behave around a mentor rather than a mentee. Seeing Zenigata's role change from enforcer to learner would humanize him within the constant mechanical fruitless pursuit of Lupin.

The final get away scene in this film is heart warming. Jigen and Fujiko share a look in the face of Zenigata and Goemon's defeat. The pilot does a wonderful job of outlining Lupin the Third in the frames of the manga, and I think the development it underwent before the 1974 release of Part One (i.e. the elimination of Aechi... why?) was so successful because of the plenary nature of the pilot. I definitely enjoyed watching the pilot and imagining the producers working on the film. I wish they had kept the jazz music and motifs in that transition, but otherwise, I think watching the pilot film has enriched my understanding of the characters and their motivation throughout the series.

episode stats

four stars. Some character designs and depictions are disturbing to look at

trigger/content warnings: sexual assault/harassment, nudity, death, explosions

slight flash warning for some frames at the end

Does Fujiko get sexualized? Yes, a lot. Her clothes get ripped of twice in this film, and she is the main figure in a montage that mirrors the one in Mystery of Mamo (yes, with the boobs)

kill count: two in present day, three in past tense/flashback

That is all about Lupin the Third: The Pilot Film. Would you watch the pilot? Have you seen it? What did you like and dislike about it? Let me know in the ask box and don't forget to like, follow and reblog. See you next time!

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The original voice actress for Fujiko Mine, Eiko Masuyama, has passed away at the age of 89 due to pneumonia. Since passing, her close relatives have held a private service to honour her life.

Eiko Masuyama began her work on the Lupin III series at its animated beginnings, starring as Fujiko Mine in the 1969 pilot film. From here, she remained with the franchise for over forty years, with her final appearance as the character being for 2012’s Lupin Family Line-up OVA. In 2011, she was succeeded by current voice talent for the character, Miyuki Sawashiro.

While Eiko Masuyama has been in retirement for a small while, her passing remains a huge blow to fans of the franchise and anime as a whole. Aside from Lupin, Masuyama also starred in many other shows, including Astro Boy, Cutie Honey, and Case Closed. She even took the role of Winifred Banks in the original Japanese television dub of classic Disney film, Mary Poppins.

Now, the final surviving member of the original Lupin III cast has gone. This is no doubt going to be a difficult thing to process for those of you who have been following the show for some time - as it is for me. For myself, I hope to take a moment to think about the countless hours I have spent enjoying Eiko Masuyama’s work over the years - from that time in Part 2 where she ran from Inspector Zenigata chasing her with a frog, to her double-crossing goodness in Operation Return the Treasure.

Eiko Masuyama is legendary, and her work will continue to be enjoyed by so many for years to come. May she rest in peace, and our thoughts go out to her family and friends.

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In future film adaptations of the HP series, DH is the one book I'm happy for future filmmakers to "mess around" with as much as they like to improve the visual / story experience for all the reasons you mentioned. I'm very happy for them to do a somewhat Twilight film Breaking Dawn-esque departure. Like, instead of focusing on the trio in the woods the whole time, let's get into what the Order are up to, let's show our friends keeping the DA alive at Hogwarts, let's show the other muggleborns having to go into hiding, let's flash over to Draco suffering the worst house guests ever... like we have this expansive cast of characters, let's not waste them for the extended camping trip from hell... also the best part of HP is the wizarding world itself, so many amazing magical set pieces in the world... and we spend the last book mostly in the forest...

Speaking of which, with there being a new series adaptation in the works (with rumours of potentially more HP series to come... perhaps even a Lily Potter / Marauders/ Snape based one...) is there anything you're excited about finally seeing adapted from canon or are terrified of potentially seeing butchered onscreen?

Yeah like and also it isn't even an INTERESTING forest. Like the "children wander into the enchanted forest and face [insert monstrous metaphor for adulthood]" is one of the oldest fairytales in recorded history, with a ton of creepy lore to draw on — you could have had the kids running through mystical haunted forests of ancient Britain! Running into the ghosts of Roman soldiers and Celtic ruins and magical creatures! Forest of Dean could have been COOL.

To your other point: I'd much prefer a Marauders series to a remake of the original. I'm of the not-unpopular opinion that the HP movies are as good as any adaptation of any book can get (save probably the Lord of the Rings movies) in terms of how they balance story structure, fidelity to the text, and onscreen pacing. The cinematography decreases sharply in energy and verve after Alfonso Cuarón, and the later movies unfortunately suffer from the mid-2000s trend of desaturating the frame, but they're solid movies and like — okay, in my heart of hearts, there's a little part of me that's like. Daniel Radcliffe will always be my Harry. I grew up with Rupert Grint and Emma Watson and Tom Felton, and seeing someone else in those roles will never hit me like it did to see eleven-year-old Hermione Granger alive for the first time on that screen. Which is not a real reason. But there you go.

There's also the problem of the genre pivot — the first few movies are obviously children's films, and a whole generation of millennials got to grow up as they gradually changed to Y/A films. But how many children are going to be watching a full season of a HBO miniseries? And how many adults are going to watch that miniseries and then complain it was underwhelming because, again, it's a children's series? It would be better, in my opinion, to start over with the Marauders, whom you can write into adventures that more naturally fit the pacing of a TV show. You can also start with them at like, age 14, which would solve the problem of years 1-3 essentially being about kids in middle school. Unlike HP, nothing happens that we know of in the first 3 years of the Marauders Era that's plot-essential, so strong writing in the pilot and a carefully chosen flashback or two could easily set the stage for a series starting in Year 4.

What I'm nervous about is the contingent of fandom that would expect it to be essentially a TV adaptation of All the Young Dudes, which — while it's an all-time legendary work of fanfiction, like all-time, incredible, wonderful story — does not much resemble what I think HBO writers' room would come up with. ATYD is a slice-of-life bildungsroman about Remus Lupin, and most of its stakes come through emotional tension — you can really easily transplant it outside of a magical setting, and you lose almost nothing. A Marauders show would be an action-adventure series modeled after the Harry Potter books, and it would need an episode-by-episode plot. In ATYD, Remus's development is the engine powering the story. That's not enough in a television series pitching itself as an action-adventure fantasy story, and I don't think the HBO team would be bold enough to depart from genre in this respect. After the failure of Fantastic Beasts, the execs are probably going to clock "Harry Potter show without Harry Potter in it" as a major business risk. Sowhile I'm open-minded and eager to see what the creatives would come up with, I wouldn't envy them the job of having to build out new personalities and arcs for characters that fans have already grown quite attached to their self-designed interpretations of.

It strikes me, too, that Rowling has never gone back to the Marauders as a potential vein for more books, even though she easily could have. She clearly doesn't mind dabbling in the HP universe, and the Fantastic Beasts movies show she's happy to bring the audience back to Hogwarts when she wants to. But for some reason, Harry's parents has always been a little too close to the original series, and I think maybe there's something in her that's afraid of revisiting that period — like if she fucks it up, she's damaging something directly connected to the books that made her famous, cheapening them. Or maybe she just doesn't want to write those stories. Who knows!

I do know that the most important name in that show would be the writing credit, because JKR has demonstrated (1) she isn't great at writing original stories for the screen, and (2) it's really easy to fuck up the pacing of a TV show, and if you don't get the pacing of Harry Potter, then you're not going to adapt it well. The HP books are essentially mystery novels that turn into spy novels. If you don't have that — if you think you're writing a high-fantasy epic from the jump, as the Fantastic Beasts writers seemed to believe, and as the Cursed Child writers seemed to believe — then you're going to write something that doesn't feel like Harry Potter, and most people will notice, even if they don't understand why.

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So this is news to me - Lupin episode 155, directed by Hayao Miyazaki gives us the origin or prototype inspiration for the Laputian robots from ‘Castle in the Sky’.

Here we see the man responsible for creating the robots, who would unfortunately lose his creation to the military industrial complex...

Now if that isn’t enough to have piqued your curiosity, the creator’s daughter is none other than Nausicaa, now piloting one of the robots and using it to commit robberies for Lupin and crew or so it seems...

Additionally, Inspector Zenigata pulls of his own old school version of Kaneda’s bike slide:

There are some killer copter designs tracking the Laputian robot that really caught my eye:

Managed to find an animation cel from the episode here as well:

All in all, super stoked to still be running across Miyazaki work that until recently I was totally unaware even existed (possibly will do a post on episode 145 if I can find some more time). Still always putting the storyboard films up in the background while working to just drool over the way he puts story to paper...