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🎁🎄❄️What the Lupin Gang would do for Christmas!❄️🎄🎁

Helloooooooo Lupin fans! You may or may not remember me as that one chick who made that Halloween headcanon post a few months back, as well as the Jigen’s bangs post. I’m back with a Christmas post!!!

Please note: Personally, I really only celebrate Christmas in a non-Jesus-y way. (Which is how I’m also writing this post, because let’s be honest, do you really think Lupin is going to confession and shit? Absolutely not.) It’s purely out of habit because I was raised Catholic, but I practice witchcraft now. My family doesn’t know that though. Because of this, I considered also making posts for other winter holidays, so I could include Lupin fans that don’t celebrate Christmas. But I didn’t want to accidentally mess it up, or write something inaccurate about a holiday that I don’t celebrate. It felt disingenuous to make a Hanukkah post because I’m not Jewish and it doesn’t seem like my place, and I didn’t want to do a Yule one either, because no two people celebrate it the same way. So, I strongly encourage others to add their respective winter festivities to this post if they want to! We’re all about inclusivity here.

Without further ado:

🎁LUPIN:

I don’t feel like it needs saying, but this man goes bonkers for Christmas.

He flip-flops his choice of red or green jacket by the year. But it always comes with an equally garish Christmas-themed tie, just to make explicitly clear that this is The Christmas Jacket for the year, as opposed to the standard red/green jacket.

The hideout(s) are always decorated to the GILLS inside. It’s an odd mix of older classy decorations he’s inherited from his family, and absolutely horrendously tacky ones he’s bought himself.

Picture real branch garlands, wrapped tastefully around gilded candelabras that have been passed down through several generations. And then one of those singing, dancing stuffed animals from Walmart that plays “Jingle Bell Rock” when you squeeze its paw, right next to it.

Christmas-themed heists? You know it, baby. But he won’t steal anything on Christmas Eve or Christmas. It just isn’t in the spirit of the season, in his opinion. But he’ll leave a little something-something with his calling cards during the rest of December. A candy cane, a sprig of mistletoe, a bough of holly, etc.

Lupin despises eggnog. He loves any other Christmas drink, just not eggnog. He’s too grossed out by the idea of drinking eggs with alcohol- some things just shouldn’t be mixed.

Will not allow anyone to mention the truth about Santa Claus in his presence. Yeah, he knows, but that’s not the point. It just feels like bad luck to say it out loud. The harder Jigen tries to debate with him that Santa isn’t real, the harder he digs in his heels that “of course he is you absolute Scrooge, how dare you! If you don’t believe, you don’t receive.”

Favorite Christmas Songs: Anything peppy!

Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney

Step Into Christmas by Elton John

Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee

We Need a Little Christmas by Percy Faith and his Orchestra

A Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives

All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey

Santa Claus’ Party by Les Baxter

Favorite Christmas Drinks: Literally anything except eggnog.

Favorite Christmas Foods: Anything obscenely sugary. Especially gingerbread men and other decorated pastries.

Favorite Christmas Activities: Loves to ice skate and make gingerbread houses! But his houses usually look fairly pathetic, no matter how hard he tries.

Favorite Christmas Movie(s):

The Grinch (Jim Carrey version)

Home Alone

Scrooged

Christmas Gifts: The king of gag gifts, but he also gives surprisingly thoughtful presents too. He’s the kind of guy that would get a person something they mentioned once offhandedly that they really liked, and he’d go back and get it for them.

🎅JIGEN:

Lupin always wants to decorate the hideout(s) the second Halloween ends, but it never happens. With Jigen being the only American in the gang, he always puts a stop to it in order to preserve the quickly-disappearing border between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

What can I say, dude loves his Thanksgiving excuse to eat like shit and do nothing for a day. Even if it is a fucked-up holiday, historically speaking.

But once the Thanksgiving meal is over, he gives Lupin the okay to go crazy. He’s pretty stoked about Christmas too, but too full of turkey to contribute, so he just watches Lupin hang up Christmas lights everywhere while he lays on the couch and digests.

Jigen likes Christmas a lot, but like, in a normal person kind of way. Nowhere near Lupin’s insane level. He’s surprisingly open about his enthusiasm too. The average person would think he doesn’t really care about Christmas much (or anything else really), but to the gang, Christmastime is the most openly excited they’ve ever seen him.

One year’s Christmas-themed heist involved Jigen dressing up as a mall Santa as a part of the plan. The gang powdered his beard, gave him a pillow for his stomach, and sent him on his way. Everything went surprisingly smoothly, and he actually did pretty well with the kids. At first they were a little intimidated, and Jigen was kind of nervous- but he gave them all candy canes and they changed their minds pretty quickly.

Jigen enjoyed it a lot, actually... to the point that he may have potentially started volunteering to be the local mall Santa. Every year during December, he leaves for a day or two on “business.” Nobody in the gang can prove it though, and trust me, they’ve tried.

Favorite Christmas Songs: The classics and the chill ones, with a few rock ones thrown in for a little kick.

Mele Kalikimaka by Bing Crosby

Sleigh Bells by Gene Autry

(There’s No Place Like) Home For The Holidays by Perry Como

Jingle Bells by Frank Sinatra

Caroling, Caroling by Nat King Cole

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow by Dean Martin

Silver Bells by Dean Martin

Happy Holiday by Bing Crosby

Run Rudolph Run by Chuck Berry

Merry Christmas Baby by Bruce Springsteen (Sang this once after too much eggnog and will never live it down)

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by the Barenaked Ladies (He’s not into all the Jesus-y stuff, but it’s pretty catchy.)

Favorite Christmas Drinks: Jigen is ALL. ABOUT. THAT. NOG. He’ll make his cup a little stronger than everyone else’s.

Favorite Christmas Foods: He really likes candy canes, especially the mini ones. He’ll keep a few in his pocket with his cigs, and switch between them depending on his mood. Out of habit, it’ll usually dangle out of his mouth like a cigarette would.

Favorite Christmas Activities: Watching Christmas movies and laughing at Lupin’s shitty gingerbread houses.

Favorite Christmas Movies:

Anything that’s on at the moment, really. He likes to lounge by the TV, and he’s not picky.

He has a soft spot for A Charlie Brown Christmas though.

A Christmas Story, solely because of the BB gun.

Scrooged, because Bill Murray’s hilarious.

Christmas Gifts: Something practical and useful that the person never realized they needed until they opened the box.

☃️GOEMON:

Goemon wasn’t originally a huge fan of Christmas. Shocking, I know.

He now enjoys some aspects of it, and tolerates others. He likes the idea of giving heartfelt gifts and spending time with loved ones as a tradition, but dislikes the cheesy commercial aspect of Christmas.

He already enjoys the snow and walking through the forest, so the gang usually commissions him to pick a tree for them and cut it down with Zantetsuken. (If they’re somewhere where that’s an option.)

Unbeknownst to the rest of the gang, he will always replant the tree he cut down, and he will wrap something cozy around the bottom of the sapling to keep it safe. Yes, this was directly inspired by A Charlie Brown Christmas. No, he will not admit to this.

Favorite Christmas Songs: The instrumentals, and a few he’d rather die than admit to liking.

The Nutcracker March from The Nutcracker

Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker

Christmas Time Is Here (Instrumental) by the Vince Guaraldi Trio

Greensleeves by the Vince Guaraldi Trio

Last Christmas by Wham! (He likes the storyline and the romantic aspect of it.)

Do They Know It’s Christmas? by Band Aid (He likes that it was for a good cause, even if it has its flaws.)

Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon and Yoko Ono (Again, flawed, but he enjoys the intended message of peace. Also, represents Japan on the side with Yoko Ono.)

White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes

Favorite Christmas Drinks: Surprisingly fond of hot cocoa. Heavy on the whipped cream and marshmallows.

Favorite Christmas Foods: Doesn’t really like eating gingerbread men, but enjoys decorating them. They’re always pristine, like something you’d get in a bakery.

Favorite Christmas Activities: See above. Also enjoys going out in the snow, and making ice sculptures with Zantetsuken.

Favorite Christmas Movies: Refuses to admit he likes any of these.

Any of the classic Rankin Bass claymation specials.

Any other animated ones for kids. Has a soft spot for A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Polar Express.

A few of those cheesy Hallmark ones.

Christmas Gifts: Something small and sentimental he saw while walking by a store that reminded him of the person he’s giving it to. Nothing extravagant, but thoughtful nonetheless.

⛸FUJIKO:

Fujiko decorates the tree. Period. Lupin cannot be trusted to do this on his own. Goemon picks the tree, Lupin and Jigen put it in the stand, and from there, it’s all Fujiko. The ornaments, lights, and tree skirt are all perfectly color/theme coordinated, and arranged like a pristine store display.

She also has a few ornaments that she bought for each specific member of the gang. Lupin’s is a monkey (he was not pleased, but he’s whipped for her, so he let her keep it). Jigen’s is a carved wooden pistol. Goemon’s is porcelain, with hand-painted sakura blossoms on it. She bought one for Zenigata too as a joke one year- a tiny bowl of ramen noodles.

Her ornament? The star on top of the tree, because she’s the star of the show, baby. It’s actually a snowflake, made of the finest crystal she could steal.

Favorite Christmas Songs: Pop music and Motown’s finest.

Underneath The Tree by Kelly Clarkson

All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey

Santa Tell Me by Ariana Grande

This Christmas by Donny Hathaway

What Christmas Means To Me by Stevie Wonder

Sleigh Ride by The Ronettes

Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by Darlene Love

A Marshmallow World by Darlene Love

I Like A Sleighride (Jingle Bells) by Peggy Lee

Favorite Christmas Drinks: Hot chocolate and mulled wine.

Favorite Christmas Foods: Loves baking and eating gingerbread men. She lets Goemon decorate them with her. Hers have lots of candy and sprinkles on them, while his are just icing.

Favorite Christmas Activities: Along with baking, ice skating! She’s the best at it out of the whole group. None of the guys are particularly good at it, but she makes them go with her at least once regardless.

Favorite Christmas Movies:

Hallmark ones, solely to make fun of them.

Babes In Toyland, but only the 1986 one, because it has Keanu Reeves in it, and “I don’t care if I’m your girlfriend, Lupin. In this house, we support Keanu Reeves.”

Christmas Gifts: Something expensive/extravagant that will make the person think of her every time they use it.

🎄ZENIGATA:

Zenigata is the second biggest Christmas enthusiast, just behind Lupin.

He doesn’t get to settle down and decorate anything really, since he’s always running after the gang, but he does lots of other little things to celebrate instead. Like getting hot chocolate instead of coffee, tuning the squad car radio to the Christmas station, getting an air freshener that smells like gingerbread, and wearing a festive scarf and gloves with his trench coat to keep out the cold.

In years past, Zenigata still had to work on Christmas Eve/Christmas, even if Lupin wasn’t out stealing anything. Lupin found out and thought that was a little harsh of ICPO, so he came up with a plan.

Each year he sends a calling card to the station with the conditions that only Zenigata can come to investigate. Zenigata does some research, shows up to the location on Christmas Eve, and every year, nothing’s there except for a neatly wrapped present from Lupin.

Zenigata keeps the present as “evidence,” goes back to the station, and they give him Christmas off to go investigate on his own, in case Lupin tries anything else. Lupin never does, but the station doesn’t know that. Bada bing, bada boom, Lupin just got Zenigata a vacation.

Zenigata never catches on, bless his heart.

Favorite Christmas Songs: Ones he can sing/hum along to in the squad car.

The Man With All The Toys by The Beach Boys

Celebrate Me Home by Kenny Loggins

Feliz Navidad by José Feliciano (Does Zenigata understand Spanish? Absolutely not. Does he get the point and think it’s festive? Darn right.)

A Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer by Dean Martin

Winter Wonderland by the Eurythmics

Silver Bells by Dean Martin

Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season by Andy Williams

Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town by Gene Autry

December by Earth, Wind, and Fire (Let him have this okay, it’s a good song and he gets made fun of for liking it by the rest of ICPO)

Skating by the Vince Guaraldi Trio

Favorite Christmas Drinks: Hot cocoa and eggnog, but not strong eggnog like Jigen’s.

Favorite Christmas Foods: Anything, really. It’s something besides cup noodles, so he’s grateful. Lupin’s gift always includes lots of various Christmas goodies because of this.

Favorite Christmas Activities: Zenigata enjoys the snow in theory, but doesn’t handle the cold well. So he likes to watch the snow from his window while he listens to Christmas music in his squad car and sips his hot cocoa.

Favorite Christmas Movies: He doesn’t really have a lot of time to sit down a watch a movie, with how hard he works. But he remembers a few from when he was younger, and he really likes those. His favorite is Frosty the Snowman.

Christmas Gifts: Something inexpensive because ICPO vastly underpays this poor man, and he’s always embarrassed because of that, but it’s always something super sweet and heartfelt.

MERRY CHRISTMAS! And for those who don’t celebrate it, HAPPY HOLIDAYS! <3

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Toonami Night Review: The COUNTDOWN has Begun

So last week the COUNTDOWN event started, and it seems we’re off to a dramatic and bizarre start. With TOM and SARA talking about art criticism, to suddenly TOM being teleported away, and quickly replaced with a banged up version that’s brought an ominous countdown with him. Hopefully tonight’s run will give us clues as to where TOM went, and what this countdown means.

Also, with every immersion event, we of course have special intro and outro bumpers that reflect it. I really can’t wait to see what changes will come for TOM, SARA, and the rest of the inhabitants of the Vindication. And speaking of the Vindication, hopefully nothing terrible happens to it, they just got it to fly since last year after all.

Moving on from the event, the rest of the run went great as usual. Though I wasn’t able to be around for all of it, as I was visiting family out of state that weekend, and I had to get up in the morning to drive back home. But fortunately I stuck around to see the new shows, and left when they started to play old shows that I could look up later online.

So with that said, let the recap commence!

Dragon Ball Super: The battle between Goku and Hit intensifies, as both combatant power up and get a better understanding of each others abilities and techniques! All this leading to what will be an epic finale to this incredible fight!

DBZ Kai: We’re introduced to an old pervy Kai like Roshi, Old Kai, who begins to do a long and silly dance that will supposedly help Goten become powerful enough to defeat Majin Buu. Meanwhile, after a few tries, young Goten and Trunks succeed in mastering Fusion. Unfortunately, their combined form needs an attitude adjustment, as they take off in a rush to fight Buu.

Stardust Crusaders: As JoJo and the others make their way to the border between India and Pakistan, they are soon attacked by another enemy stand user, ZZ, and his stand that is a car, Wheel of Fortune. After an intense fight, JoJo defeats ZZ and ties him to a desert rock, before taking off with the others in what was once the Wheel of Fortune.

Gundam IBO: After defeating Dawn Horizon Corps and capturing their leader Reuters, Tekkadan takes care of Gyojan, who had hired Dawn Horizan to attack Kudelia and Tekkadan’s base. Meanwhile, Orga begins to gain favor of the boss of Teiwaz, who gives him some half-metal mines on Mars, which apparently had an old Gundam and something bigger within them. Orga, as well as Mikazuki and Merribit, meet with McGillis, who wants their aid in his power struggle with his rival, Rustall Elion.

Hunter x Hunter: Gon continues his Nen training, Bisky has a Nen ability to summon a lovely masseuse named Cookie, and Killua’s younger brother Kalluto has joined the Phantom Troupe. Also Tsezguerra and his crew find out their contract has been terminated, but will still be paid, provided they survive the the Devil Bombs (apparently I’ve been incorrectly calling Genthru and his crew the Mad Bombers, really need to read the wiki more often) who have invaded the mansion.

Lupin the Third: Lupin and his crew are challenged by an “evangelical philanthropist”, Greco, to steal a golden chalice before he kills them. Lupin accepts the challenge not only to wipe the smug grin off of Greco’s face, but also those who are betting against him in the betting pool that’s going on. As soon as Lupin and his gang arrive at the church however, they’re soon dropped into its catacombs, where they’re trapped due to the exit being blocked.

Greco then tells them that the exit will be open in 24 hours, provided if they survive that long, as he had hypnotized one of them to each to be his assassin. The first one to be killed is Fujiko, followed by Lupin, leaving Goemon and Jigen to attack each other out of suspicion. After they seemingly kill each other, the hypnotized assassin is revealed to be Lupin, who is then ordered by Greco to kill himself.

However, it’s soon revealed that Lupin isn’t hypnotized, and that the rest of his gang are alive. The whole thing was an act to fool Greco and those betting against them. Greco then tries to kill them, but Lupin tricks him into thinking he had hypnotized him instead, and soon leaves him acting like a monkey while Lupin and his gang leave with both the golden chalice and the money from the betting pool.

Naruto Shippuden: While Shikaku fails to convince the Fire Daimyō to elect Kakashi as the candidate for hokage instead of Danzō, Kakashi remembers back to when he was made leader of Team 7.

Outlaw Star: Gene and the gang sign up for a great space race, and get sponsored by Fred. Unfortunately, Aisha Clan-Clan has found them, and tries to once again exact revenge on them during the space race.

Cowboy Bebop: While hunting a mob boss, Spike meets Rocco, who’s also on the run from the same mob boss after stealing a plant that could help his sister’s blindness. After a shootout in the cathedral, the Bebop crew manages to corner the mob boss, but Rocco dies from his wounds.

Soon after, Spike visits Rocco’s sister, Stella, who’s getting ready to undergo surgery to repair her eyesight. After finding out Rocco didn’t make it, she asks Spike what was her brother like. Spike then tells her that she knows better than anyone, that Rocco was a terrific guy.

GitS: SAC 2nd GIG: Following the nuclear World War III and the non-nuclear World War IV, Japan passed an act known as the Refugee Special Action Policy, inviting war refugees from all across Asia to enter Japan. Thousands of Asian refugees took Japan up on the offer to enter their country, and have taken low-paying jobs handed out to them by various companies looking for a cheap work force.

Gino, a combat pilot and World War IV veteran, is one such refugee, working as a helicopter pilot for a corporate CEO. He is angry and depressed and plots revenge against Japanese society, starting with assassinating his employer. When Section 9 is sent to investigate his plots, Kusanagi eventually concludes that Gino lacks the fortitude to act out his fantasies, and is just one in the long line of pitiful souls who dream about fulfilling goals they can never accomplish.

That’s it for last week’s recap! And just in time too, Toonami is about to start soon. Will make another review soon after tonight’s run, see ya then!

#toonami

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REVIEW: Lupin the Third THE FIRST Anime Film Stole the Show in Its First CG Romp

After getting fans excited over the new animation style, the new Lupin the Third anime film, Lupin the Third THE FIRST was released into Japanese cinemas earlier in December 2019 as the first-ever CG Lupin the Third property. We sent out resident Japan Correspondent, Daryl Harding, to chase down the film and give his thoughts on the caper.

It was hard not be impressed by the level of quality stemming from Lupin the Third THE FIRST from the teasers and scenes they released to hype us up. While this would be the first time Lupin has been seen in CG animation (rather than traditional animation or live-action), this isn’t the first CG rodeo from director Takashi Yamazaki, who directed Stand by Me Doraemon, which received critical and commercial success in Japan, winning the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year in 2015.

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Lupin the Third has come in many shapes, sizes, and stories over the years. From the Hayao Miyazaki directed The Castle of Cagliostro to The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, there is a Lupin story out there for everyone. With Lupin the Third THE FIRST, you’re given a simple story of Lupin and his gang, plus Inspector Koichi Zenigata and newcomer Laetitia, uncovering the secrets of the Bresson Diary and stopping the bad guys from gaining its treasure.

The simple story is as predictable as it gets, there is not a moment in the film when I was left worried for our heroes, because, in true Lupin fashion, they’re able to escape the clutches of plot problems with a skip and a wink. Though, I was pleasantly surprised the film to be a better Indiana Jones film than The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, with sprinkles of The Adventures of Tintin animated film, both in animation style and story.

That being said, the strongest aspect of Lupin the Third THE FIRST is its colorful animation. No surprises. After a string of CG animated films from Japan that have all had the same “look” about them, Lupin blows all of them out of the sky with the level of detail and direction behind it. Yamazaki knows how to create a beautiful frame in both CG and live-action and he threw everything he knew at THE FIRST. During close-ups, you could see shadows being cast from imperfections on the character’s faces and the details in each character’s hair.

The action scenes were amazingly well choreographed as well. The car chase (below) is just one of the many throughout the film that is the perfect blend of action and humor. Yamazaki understands how to use CG animation to create scenes that can’t be mimic in live-action films (usually). It was incredibly fun to watch the fight scenes of Lupin acting goofy and slapstick, whilst the bad guys are trying their best to be serious fighters. Each having its own style which is reflected in the animation.

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Speaking about style, the film gave every character their own time to shine throughout the film. Fujiko got to use her assets to move the plot forward under her own terms, Goemon got many intimate sword moments, Laetitia had her own motives separate from the group, and even the Inspector was useful, in his own way.

The punchy animation is some of the best CG I’ve seen from Japan. With the likes of Frozen II casting its spell across the world, being able to see a film like THE FIRST be able to steal some of the spotlight away from it makes me incredibly happy for it. I’m not usually one to praise CG animated anime—preferring traditional animation over it any day—but I feel Lupin couldn’t, nay shouldn’t, be made in any other way. I did notice in the credits that a lot of the film was outsourced to animation studios in China and Russia, internationalizing the animation process.

Lupin the Third THE FIRST is probably the most fun I’ve had in the cinema this year. While yes, there have been better anime films released in 2019, like Weathering with You or Her Blue Sky, Lupin has all the elements of a fun time where I could turn my brain off and just enjoy what I was watching. You won’t get the highest caliber of storytelling, if you enjoy animation as much as I do, you’ll be entranced by Lupin’s modern style.

REVIEW ROUNDUP:

+ Puchy CG animation that will blow you away

+ Characters that are just plain fun to watch

+ Great direction with impeccable action choreography

+/- Simple, predictable story

- Was too short, left me wanting more

The latest Lupin the Third TV anime series, LUPIN THE 3rd PART 5, is currently streaming on Crunchyroll!

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs the YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.

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