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NowonSA
Jul 19, 2013

I am the sexiest poster in the world!

Rand Brittain posted:

I can see where this is going, towards "everyone in the world is a thief" when Lupin repurposes the Lupin Game to make random people into his accomplices, and it's going to be great.

Come to think of it, I think we'll get some real shades of Persona 5 as this delves into social media more.

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Elfface
Nov 14, 2010

Da-na-na-na-na-na-na
IRON JONAH

Srice
Sep 11, 2011

I'm not really feeling the social media aspect and I hope it's something they tie up sooner rather than it being a season-long deal. Especially since with the way it was implemented they've done things that are functionally similar in the past.

I'm optimistic about the show's future tho, even if I do feel it's almost one of the weakest season premieres a Lupin series has had.

chiasaur11
Oct 22, 2012



Rand Brittain posted:

I can see where this is going, towards "everyone in the world is a thief" when Lupin repurposes the Lupin Game to make random people into his accomplices, and it's going to be great.

With everyone a criminal, the law is rewritten so that being a cop is illegal.

Being the last law-abiding citizen, Zenigata duly arrests himself.

Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

Watched the first episode. Other than a few of the movies the last bit of Lupin I watched was whatever episodes Adult Swim was airing way back in the day, so I've been out of the loop for a while.

It was pretty fun! Stylish, too. Really curious to see how the "Lupin Game" angle is developed in these upcoming episodes.

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord
And today, Lupin learns about Soylent

wielder
Feb 16, 2008

"You had best not do that, Avatar!"
I was amused by how they got out of the airport. It counts as both absurd and clever.

Seeing Lupin get briefly serious later on was interesting. He's only rarely like that.

I have the feeling these killers at the end are probably a reference to an earlier Lupin story, no?

Crain
Jun 27, 2007

I had a beer once with Stephen Miller and now I like him.

I also tried to ban someone from a Discord for pointing out what an unrelenting shithead I am! I'm even dumb enough to think it worked!

wielder posted:

I was amused by how they got out of the airport. It counts as both absurd and clever.

Seeing Lupin get briefly serious later on was interesting. He's only rarely like that.

I have the feeling these killers at the end are probably a reference to an earlier Lupin story, no?

I'm by no means a Lupin historian, but I assume it's a hodgepodge of rivals and enemies from past stories and probably some new ones.

Also the whole "It's totally anonymous and can't be traced bit" is extra funny since it's been shown that tracking *coin ledgers is stupid easy. At least for the FBI.

I hope Lupin gets revenge on the series bad guys by emailing Zenigata their "my_crimes.txt".

AnacondaHL
Feb 15, 2009

I'm the lead trumpet player, playing loud and high is all I know how to do.

AnacondaHL posted:

Car in the preview looks kinda like an Aston Martin.

omg it was a Telsa lmao this show

Pootybutt
Apr 5, 2011

Anime Chris Hardwick spotted

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
Presumably, Ami will be the Lupin gang’s guide to the horrifying wonderland that is the Internet. She’s probably going to end up betraying them, but not in, like, a femme-fatale way, more ‘I have something I desperately need to do and I don’t trust you weirdos’. Or, alternatively, ‘this is probably going to kill me and I don’t want you weirdos involved because I like you’.

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012
Goemon not knowing how to use a camera felt a bit inconsistent with past depictions. Normally I'd just say, "lol, Lupin continuity," but I feel like even in very recent stuff (like the previous episode), Goemon has been portrayed as less clueless about technology than that. Or is the joke the other way around, and Goemon is so young that he's only taken pictures with a phone before?

Brutakas
Oct 10, 2012

Farewell, marble-dwellers!

AnacondaHL posted:

omg it was a Telsa lmao this show

But Lupin stole it so it was an Edison. :science:

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012
By the way, another Goemon-related thought; I like that this episode makes clear that he's just one among many assassins with gimmicks involving non-gun weapons in the Lupinverse. (Are these assassins all new characters, or did some of them appear in some Part II episode? I've only watched a few episodes of Part II.)

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

At the end of everything, hold onto anything



Fun Shoe

Darth Walrus posted:

Presumably, Ami will be the Lupin gang’s guide to the horrifying wonderland that is the Internet. She’s probably going to end up betraying them, but not in, like, a femme-fatale way, more ‘I have something I desperately need to do and I don’t trust you weirdos’. Or, alternatively, ‘this is probably going to kill me and I don’t want you weirdos involved because I like you’.

I know they're unlikely to shake up the core cast but it'd be awesome if she stuck around somehow. She's great and plays off the others pretty well.

EDIT: \/ probably. Just saying a full time hacker would add a lot to the group's dynamics overall.

Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Apr 11, 2018

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Mokinokaro posted:

I know they're unlikely to shake up the core cast but it'd be awesome if she stuck around somehow. She's great and plays off the others pretty well.

It’s reasonable to assume she’ll be this series’s Rebecca.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

so good for the first cour then progressively more sidelined until she is basically a damsel in the finale

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

This is the most San Francisco anime and it's set in France.

Bakanogami
Dec 31, 2004


Grimey Drawer

wielder posted:

I was amused by how they got out of the airport. It counts as both absurd and clever.

Seeing Lupin get briefly serious later on was interesting. He's only rarely like that.

I have the feeling these killers at the end are probably a reference to an earlier Lupin story, no?

I'm watching the Japanese simulcast on niconico and someone in the comments added footnotes. They're all from the original manga, many of them from fairly early on in it.

I'm digging the basic premise of the show so far. It is a bit heavy handed, though. In particular I kind of got the feeling the Tesla and energy drink this episode were kind of heavy handed instances of product placement?

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

Product placement where the name of the product is not mentioned and they're clearly legally distinct parody right.

It's fine if you thought it was a bit much, but product placement it absolutely was not.

Waffleman_ fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Apr 12, 2018

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
you can find those lil bags of jelly everywhere, it's basically food on the go, it's like solid snake promoting calorie mates

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

i suppose it's product placement in the same way lupin having a fiat was product placement. even from the first series, the anime has definitely had a focus on accurate recreation of things like cars and guns, which i feel goes more with a romanticism about the tools of thieves and spies than commercialism.

TwoPair
Mar 28, 2010

Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Grimey Drawer

NowonSA posted:

Come to think of it, I think we'll get some real shades of Persona 5 as this delves into social media more.

Part 4 did literally end with Lupin stealing a girl's heart.

Sharkopath
May 27, 2009

I want to more about the assassins guild but I especially want to know more about the friggin f1 racer assasin.

Evrart Claire
Jan 11, 2008

Sharkopath posted:

I want to more about the assassins guild but I especially want to know more about the friggin f1 racer assasin.

Someone please gif the moment where the f1 racer zooms by through a loving forest while Goemon's fighting the fishhook dude.

LostRook
Jun 7, 2013
That did give the scene a Pink Panther Strikes Again vibe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-ZjldsoyAs

MonsterEnvy
Feb 4, 2012

Shocked I tell you
Appearntly most or all of these guys are Lupin Manga villains.

NowonSA
Jul 19, 2013

I am the sexiest poster in the world!

TwoPair posted:

Part 4 did literally end with Lupin stealing a girl's heart.

Gotta get around to watching me some part 4!

MonsterEnvy posted:

Appearntly most or all of these guys are Lupin Manga villains.

That's the vibe I got, my faves were the flea and the guy with the harpoon and old timey sailor outfit. Nice to see the manga get shoutouts when I think most people, including me, know the anime better.

Silver2195 posted:

Goemon not knowing how to use a camera felt a bit inconsistent with past depictions. Normally I'd just say, "lol, Lupin continuity," but I feel like even in very recent stuff (like the previous episode), Goemon has been portrayed as less clueless about technology than that. Or is the joke the other way around, and Goemon is so young that he's only taken pictures with a phone before?

I was hoping it was going to fall apart in his hands somehow, since one of my few Lupin trivia bits of knowledge is that Goemon can't use tech well and kind of doesn't like it. He didn't seem particularly tech savvy in the past episode to me, and I think maybe at best his character has progressed to knowing some of the basics of tech (like what the internet is) but not being able to use it well at all.

My fresh take is that I'm pretty shocked at one little moment they showed in the preview, like it's not major in the grand scheme of things but showing Ami get shot in the shoulder seems like a major plot development to give away in the trailer. Then again, trailer's supposed to make you tune in to the next ep and showing moments like that is probably a good idea to try to hook people, especially this early into the show.

Relin
Oct 6, 2002

You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!
i'm watching part 4 and unless i'm not paying attention no one got murdered by the lupin gang until ep 9 wherein goemon murdered a good number of dudes

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012

Relin posted:

i'm watching part 4 and unless i'm not paying attention no one got murdered by the lupin gang until ep 9 wherein goemon murdered a good number of dudes

Ah, Requiem for the Assassins. Not a very good episode, that one. It's pretty good evidence that Goemon can't carry a 100% serious story in a modern, non-Japanese setting on his own - it just ends up being unintentionally surreal. And the ~so moe~ assassin girl who speechifies about how she’s only a weapon to be wielded by the evil man who saved her life is a tiresome cliché at this point. It could have been an OK episode if it just took itself a bit less seriously.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

Um

Holy poo poo Ami's backstory?


Also:




Lupin with a selfie stick

Waffleman_ fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Apr 17, 2018

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012

Waffleman_ posted:

Um

Holy poo poo Ami's backstory?

It felt a bit uncalled for, TBH.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

Yeah, no, it was incredibly off-brand. Hopefully it's just a backstory thing and never comes up again.

Mokinokaro
Sep 11, 2001

At the end of everything, hold onto anything



Fun Shoe

Waffleman_ posted:

Yeah, no, it was incredibly off-brand. Hopefully it's just a backstory thing and never comes up again.

I don't know if that would somehow make it worse but yeah it felt rather dark for Lupin.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

On a brighter note, I enjoyed the skull man and his dog who seemed to step directly out of a 70s artstyle.

Srice
Sep 11, 2011

It's simultaneously shocking and really sanitized in a way that makes it feel real odd, like they were kept from going as far as they'd wanna?

Which might also explain the way they had to do that shot of Goemon chopping off a dude's hands.

Srice
Sep 11, 2011

The child pornographer who is okay with abducting kids and snapping nude pics but would NEVER consider loving them.

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012

Srice posted:

The child pornographer who is okay with abducting kids and snapping nude pics but would NEVER consider loving them.

They have to keep Ami a pure virgin for the fanboys, I guess.

Ick.

Irony Be My Shield
Jul 29, 2012

Yeah Ami's backstory seemed like an inappropriate subject for a show with a generally lighter and more comedic tone. I am a fan of Goemon cutting off someone's hands without him noticing though.

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Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

I dunno, I can see why they think it might fit the whole dark web aspect of the story.

But yeah it was definitely not what I was expecting.

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