DangerMouse Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 2 minutes ago, ben0119 said: This episode is only half over lol. I meant the season which I left out until I edited, can't believe we're on 23 already. 😅
ben0119 Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 Fujiko calling Lupin one of her treasures. But just one in the vast collection, lol. 2
saito34 Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 3 minutes ago, ben0119 said: I'm sure Winter Soldier didn't invent that concept haha. I don't recall implying that it did, but it's probably the first time you ever saw it. 1
ben0119 Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 So she is his mother or not? I don't trust that woman.
ben0119 Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 Tomoe not immortal after all! A doppelganger, wow. Matthia shot Lupin!
ben0119 Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 So Matthia isn't hypnotized and that's why she wants to kill Tomoe? 1
DangerMouse Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 LOL, so the Miroku weakness? 😅 Fujiko/Sango not enough lol
saito34 Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 haha Lupin's reputation with the ladies precedes him 1 1
CorbeauKarasu Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 le bonheur reviendras? the good feelings will return?
ben0119 Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 Damn Tomoe the master manipilator! How the heck did she plan all this?! So those girls were all part of this.
saito34 Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 6 minutes ago, DangerMouse said: I meant the season which I left out until I edited, can't believe we're on 23 already. 😅 23? holy shit 1
AnimationFan14 Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 That's a pretty great cliffhanger, well done Lupin Well done 1
ben0119 Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 Tomoe evil smile. Lupin had some sort of protection in a specific area?
DangerMouse Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 1 minute ago, OwlChemist81 said: This shit is freaking insane!! We got inceptioned with those hypnosis
ben0119 Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 7 minutes ago, DangerMouse said: I meant the season which I left out until I edited, can't believe we're on 23 already. 😅 Oh. How many episodes in total?
DangerMouse Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 1 minute ago, saito34 said: 23? holy shit Right?! How has it been 23+ weeks already?! I feel like we should still haven't plenty left to go!
ben0119 Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 6 minutes ago, saito34 said: I don't recall implying that it did, but it's probably the first time you ever saw it. Maybe. It feels like something that would be in Cold War spy stories. I could see it being in a James Bond movie or old spy show or something? Hmm.
DangerMouse Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 https://anime.astronerdboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/x06-Fujiko-kisses-Lupin.jpg https://anime.astronerdboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/03-Teasing-Fujiko-600x338.jpg
saito34 Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 (edited) 7 minutes ago, ben0119 said: Maybe. It feels like something that would be in Cold War spy stories. I could see it being in a James Bond movie or old spy show or something? Hmm. Manchurian Candidate. Lupin writers often reference pop culture so i doubt they went back that far. Edited October 9, 2022 by saito34 2
DangerMouse Posted October 9, 2022 Posted October 9, 2022 4 hours ago, saito34 said: Yup...I notice the Lupin series pull from pop culture in a lot of instances. They usually do it in a respectable way too. Yeah, very true. 1
PokeNirvash Posted October 12, 2022 Posted October 12, 2022 (edited) I went into this episode with an unhealthy amount of dread. The moment I noticed all the one-off female characters from this half each had voice credits for this episode - Mylene, Gabby, Linfeng, Amelia, Muru, and even the deceased Hazel - I had a gut feeling that only got worse the moment Mathia went full sleeper agent in episode 19. I feared I would go into this episode and discover throughout the course of its 22 minutes that these characters, even those without an explicit connection to Tomoe, would wind up dead like Hazel. Offscreened in a fashion unseen since Appleseed XIII in 2011. (Trust me, the inconsistent CGI wasn't the only thing wrong with that show.) Now, after having seen it... I feel somewhat relieved that those still alive managed to survive. Sure, having all of them be Tomoe's pupils was a little lazy (if not unprecedented), and having them all enter Lupin's world to play a role, say a specific line in their native language so as to make him go full sleeper agent and return to Tomoe feels awfully manipulative; the latter coming off as even more ridiculous when you remember that some of their episodes had their run-ins with Lupin feel extremely coincidental, especially Muru's. (She wasn't even featured in episode 13's "women watching Lupin" montage, for pete's sake! Even Finn got screentime in that one, and she wasn't even part of Tomoe's trigger phrase plan!) But hey, the only thing worse would've been killing them off without the decency of an onscreen demise for forced drama, and personally, that's all that matters. Bonus: apparently Arianna lived! We never saw her onscreen, but after her bloody exit in episode 19, I thought she'd be dead for sure. But between Zenigata never outright specifying if she lived or died, Arianna's recording saying that Mathia stabbed her, not killed her, and that scene of Yata in a hospital waiting room, it appears that the ambiguity of her fate has shifted to the side of "I lived, bitch." Guess Yata was just being melodramatic, reacting to her losing consciousness from a grievous wound like Mister Pedro reacts to pretty much anything that inconveniences him. [noooooooo~!] Edited October 12, 2022 by PokeNirvash
OwlChemist81 Posted October 14, 2022 Author Posted October 14, 2022 On 10/12/2022 at 6:05 PM, PokeNirvash said: Bonus: apparently Arianna lived! We never saw her onscreen, but after her bloody exit in episode 19, I thought she'd be dead for sure. But between Zenigata never outright specifying if she lived or died, Arianna's recording saying that Mathia stabbed her, not killed her, and that scene of Yata in a hospital waiting room, it appears that the ambiguity of her fate has shifted to the side of "I lived, bitch." Guess Yata was just being melodramatic, reacting to her losing consciousness from a grievous wound like Mister Pedro reacts to pretty much anything that inconveniences him. [noooooooo~!] Well I'll be...I wonder if she will play a role in the final episode? That would certainly be interesting!
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