is Lupin famous in the US? It's rarely talked about on this site
Lupin III
Brayden Turner
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Colton Long
Not “famous” but plenty of older anime people know it in the Anglosphere.
Ryder Thomas
Euros are spergies about this franchise.
Justin Morgan
Euros tend to have better taste than burgos
Chase Thompson
it's mostly italians and the french
William Cook
On average, their taste is good, but they go underpants-on-head bonkers about this one, in particular.
Adam Young
The US had shitty broadcast requirements and tougher TV censorship laws than Europe around that time so it makes sense.
Nolan Hill
They still have ludicrous censorship.
>Can we show a guy ripping another's head off and shitting down his neck.
>Sure, sounds like good, honest family fun.
>Also there might be some nudity.
>HOLY SHIT! I'M CALLING THE COPS!
Michael Jones
Maybe it's because it's because it's reminiscent of European pulp novels and movies from the 60s and 70s.
They also seem to echo the high adventure feel of the ligne claire comics like Tintin and Blake & Mortimer.
Lupin III actually bridges that gap by having family friendly and adult oriented incarnations.
Nicholas Rogers
it also reminds me of James Bond a lot
Colton Anderson
We over here in America didn't even act an assclown over DBZ that hard, and it was THE shit of all time to us.
Cooper Davis
No most people's exposure to Lupin III outside of Japan and some European countries is only the Castle of Cagliostro because it is a proto-Ghibli film that normalfags know about. I assume some would try to watch the 1971 TV series and get scared away by how dated it looks, even in comparison to Cagliostro.
Recently Part V, the follow up TV special and Koeke's new Fujiko film all still fail to make any real splash in the anglosphere. The new CGI film may be able to get some buzz looking like a modern Pixar film, but that remains to be seen.
Evan Sanchez
True, come to think of it: James Bond also swings wildly between dark action and family friendly slapstick.
It's like Lupin can either be Roger Moore or Timothy Dalton, depending on the show/movie/ova.
Asher Taylor
le monke face
Jackson Gomez
Grayson Barnes
Stop dying, Lupin-thread.
Brandon Perry
No one hardly talks about anything on these threads. No one talks about the amazing music, or which movie is there best, whether or not the series will/should go 3D after the latest movie, or what will the eventual part 6 be like.
Liam Thomas
Well at the very least the US made a very entertaining dub
youtube.com
Wyatt Smith
Was this the cartoon network dub?
Daniel Bailey
>or which movie is there best
is there even a contest
Jeremiah Perez
>whether or not the series will/should go 3D after the latest movie
movie looked great but you just know that if you used cg for a series it would look like cheap crap when it is paramount for a lupin series to have expressive animation
>what will the eventual part 6 be like
we already got italy and france down, so maybe a series set in japan. I don't know where it should go thematically after part V re-established lupin's place in the contemporary world, but then again it's not like it needs a reason to exist. just having a fun adventure series is more than enough. for me at least
Ryder Taylor
fuck 3D
there it is, I said it.
Justin Sanchez
usually I'd agree but that movie actually looked great
Dylan Sullivan
Cagliostro is the best movie in the franchise no matter what anyone says. And Part 1 is still the best part. Gold of Babylon is also good. It also bothers me that Part 5 didn't have a new color. It should have been Part 4 (Part 2) instead.
Discuss.
Henry Morgan
>It also bothers me that Part 5 didn't have a new color
it was fine for me. at the end of the day part V seemed to go for a retrospective on the franchise and whether or not it had a place in today's reality, so it makes sense they would switch across the various jackets as the show progressed
>Cagliostro is the best movie in the franchise
it's very solid but far from the best. it doesn't have the best animation, the best visuals, the best story, it's not the best at anything. and his portrayal of lupin as a character I am not fond of at all
>part 1 is still the best part
yes
Gabriel Butler
>it was fine for me. at the end of the day part V seemed to go for a retrospective on the franchise
I guess I did forget about the switching colors. Still, having it be the only numbered part without a new one rustled my autism.
>it's very solid but far from the best. it doesn't have the best animation, the best visuals, the best story, it's not the best at anything. and his portrayal of lupin as a character I am not fond of at all
I'd argue that it's the best directed. Just in general. Lupin's portrayal feels pretty true to form to me from Part 1 and how influential it was on the series to come makes it feel even more consistent. It's not like Lupin in Part 2 or 3 is tonally that close to the manga either, and Koike's Lupin isn't like any of the other animated ones so far, so I don't really care or buy the argument when there have always been slightly different interpretations of the character. But that's just me.
Carson Stewart
I'm not saying other portrayals are more true to the source material, they are just plain better. miyazaki lawful good lupin in cagliostro just sucks, and is only slightly more tolerable in those two episodes of part 2. and he is nothing like part 1 lupin
Nathan Allen
I guess it's up to personal taste, which does go without saying.
It is still the best though.
But it's cool if someone feels differently.
They are wrong though.
Logan Nguyen
I think Blue Jacket is kinda close to Cagliostro Lupin, all things considered. He's very seldom dickish.
Hell, there's even a goddamn "Lupin saves the kids from falling to a life of crime" episode in Part IV. There's your cringe, bro.
Grayson Perry
If you get right down to it, CGI Red Jacket Lupin was also pretty much a boyscout in the new movie.
He wasn't even really flirtatious towards the girl du jour or Fujiko. That's peak family friendly Lupin.
Joseph Young
How can I have missed out on this for so long? It's fucking amazing.