Lupin III 4
Posted: February 11, 2007 Filed under: Lupin III 1 Comment »As much as I like this series, it’s sort of hard to read, and I always forget that you have to sort of puzzle through it as you read to figure out what’s going on. It’s been made even worse lately because it seems like nearly every chapter in this volume and the next starts out with color pages, which are just impossible to see. Aside from that though, this series is still fantastic and very funny. I even like the extremely unique art despite this flaw.
This volume’s notable because it has “Young Lupin” stories for a big chunk near the end of the volume. We get to find out Lupin’s relationship with the original Lupin and how he was trained in the family business, we get to find out what Lupin walked away with for an inheritance, and we get a few more chapters at the end just about the youth of Lupin. The technique was perhaps still a little rough, but the taste for women was fully developed, perhaps from birth. We find out that this is indeed a family trait. I didn’t like a lot of the stories at the beginning of this volume, but I wound up loving it by the end because of all the backstory. Hooray for Lupin!
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