Lupin III 10
Posted: January 11, 2008 Filed under: Lupin III Leave a comment »I had a lot of fun with this volume too, actually. At one point, Lupin is extremely happy because there seems to be a woman who wants to have sex with him. He comments that he can’t believe he doesn’t have to force her, and… that’s when you realize the series is full of rape, and then feel bad. Not really, a joke about force being Monkey Punch’s thing is made, but still… it was a creepy moment of truth.
Anyway. There’s a bit of a continuing story at the end of the volume when Lupin has to get a family island back from a man who seems to have claimed it as his own, had it sworn in as a sovereign nation, and declared himself president. Zenigata is featured prominently, and in the continuing story, he is captured so Lupin can impersonate him. A serum that make people believe they’re Lupin is thrown into the mix at one point, and of course Lupin gets some only because the girl believes she is Lupin III.
There’s a story with a game played between criminals. Whoever opens the box that doesn’t kill them wins police immunity. You can imagine where that goes.
At one point, while fighting Zenigata, Zenigata somehow gets the better of Goemon by sliding a pair of handcuffs down the blade of his sword… and then from there, one cuff is around his wrist and the other winds up around a tree branch, suspending him in midair. Jigen berates Goemon for a minute, says nothing like that will happen to him, then after a panel of dust, we see the two suspended together from the tree. Lupin looks up at them, then turns to face the “camera” (so to speak) and says something to the effect of “What the shit is this?!” It was one of my favorite moments in Lupin III ever.
So yes, this series has still got it, too.
