#the woman called fujiko mine

[laurenfoxmakesthings]

So I was trying to mentally design a setting for a book, very 1960s spy-fi vibes, and then I remembered a floor pattern from The Woman Called Fujiko Mine that I really want to rework somewhere in the book. The one from episode 2 in the casino.

But part of my brain found it familiar somewhere, so I did a little search-engine-ing and...

I knew it was real somewhere! It's a Verner Panton furnishing design! Geometri!

THAT is how hard The Woman Called Fujiko Mine goes for the 1960s aesthetic. I was curious if anyone else has picked up on this, maybe mentioned in trivia about Lupin III. Google came up with nothing.

I could be wrong, but no else seems to have picked up on this, and I have just because I'm a big enough dork about '60s design.

#the woman called fujiko mine #verner panton #geometri #1960s #1960s design #lupin iii #lupin the iii #lupin the third #lupin the 3rd #fujiko mine #Agents of C.A.M.P.

[ctrl-lupin]

Goemon is terrifying

#i don't say that often but TWCFM managed to make him look genuinely scary #this series struck a very good balance between the legitimate danger goemon exudes and his naivety and inadequacy with the world #he seems simultaneously very old and very young #like a child that was forced into becoming a killing machine #forced to grow up too fast and at the same time never allowed to actually grow up #idk man i just have a lot of feelings about TWCFM!Goemon #goemon ishikawa #lupin iii #twcfm #The Woman Called Fujiko Mine #takeshi koike

[goemon-fan]

He has autism Fujiko

#lupin iii #lupin the third #lupin the 3rd #goemon ishikawa xiii #goemon #fujiko mine #twcfm #the woman called fujiko mine

[tsuuuuken]

Lupin the Third: Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna (Episode 02)

#casino #lupin the 3rd #the woman called fujiko mine #fujiko mine #gambling #slot machine #roulette #baccarat #aesthetic #playing cards #poker #chips #anime

[drilanime]

#Lupin III #The Woman Called Fujiko Mine #Fujiko Mine #TMS Entertainment #Dril #DrilAnime

[uyallstars]

Let´s see which one of us can get the secret formula first. Don´t disappoint me, Mine Fujiko!

#lupin iii #lupin the third #twcfm #lupin iii the woman called fujiko mine #ルパン三世 #lupiniiiedit #animeedit #animationedit #animangahive #animangaboys #fyanimegifs #dailyanimatedgifs #edits* #episode 1 #the woman called fujiko mine #lupin iii mine fujiko to iu onna

[elliottjpg]

I'm rewatching The Woman Called Fujiko Mine; this is my take on Lupin and Jigen's relationship from episode 8 onward 💕

#i fucking love them so much you don't understand!! #in every universe. in every timeline. jigen tries to kill lupin and lupin immediately goes 'YOU. i want YOU.' #and then proceeds to cherish him more than any treasure on earth JUST to spite jigen's traumas. (and also bc jigen deserves to be cherished #and every single time lupin's way of getting jigen to like him is to BULLY HIM into becoming his best friend. AND IT WORKS. #I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AAAAAAAAAAAAH #fucking idiot thieves of my heart #lupin iii #daisuke jigen #the woman called fujiko mine #twcfm #takeshi koike

[fat-tasty-krogan]

Well I don’t have any ideas sadly ;; my brain is about as empty as a discarded corn can XD

but if you do have time, I do really miss seeing your drawings of Koike Jigen, so I’d you ever have time I’d love to see more of him :3

The night with Lupin the Third has begun!)))

Especially for you, an old Koike-style JIgLup

#jigen daisuke #lupin iii #lupin the third #jiglup #The Woman Called Fujiko Mine

[redwiddershins]

Playing around with this new brush pen!

#lupin iii #the woman called fujiko mine #twcfm #fujiko mine #mine fujiko #fujiko #red art

[animebw]

So The Woman Called Fujiko Mine feels like an argument against itself.

I don't mean that in broad metaphorical terms. I mean that this show quite literally looks into the camera and tells you that the very concept behind it is bullshit. It's a grim and gritty re-imagining of Lupin III that seems to regard grim and gritty re-imaginings as little more than contrived nonsense, something hastily slapped onto a perfectly fine piece of media with no regard for what makes that media work in the first place. I don't think I've ever seen a more purposefully self-defeating work of fiction in my life.

What do I mean by this? Well, the basis of this show seems to be explaining the backstory of Fujiko Mine, the Lupin franchise's resident femme fatale cat burglar. What kind of experiences, it asks, would lead someone to sleeping and stealing their way through life? And this being a supposed grim and gritty re-imagining with Naked Titties and Fucking, the answer it comes to is, of course, horrific sexual trauma. The final arc descends into this ludicrously overcomplicated conspiracy involving hallucinogenic drugs, human experimentation, possibly actual magic, all to explain how Fujiko was horribly abused as a child and repressed those awful memories through a life of cheap sex and fancy trinkets. Even the OP screams this point at the start of every episode: "The act of stealing lets her forget everything and keep her memories at a safe distance." She covers herself in jewels and men as if they can hide her shameful, scarred body from the horrors it was forced to endure, a lifetime of cheap thrills to escape the pain of her womanhood.

Except just when you think the whole conspiracy justifying this backstory can't get any more complicated, it overcomplicates itself even further to reveal that none of this actually happened. Turns out, Fujiko's repressed trauma memories were false memories implanted in her when she was already an adult as part of some roundabout cry for help from the actual victim. And in fact, Fujiko was already a sex-loving, treasure-grabbing femme fatale by the time those false memories were put in her. Not because of trauma, but because she just likes having sex and stealing things. And I'm not exaggerating when I say she all but looks the audience in the face and outright says, "See? Isn't it stupid and condescending trying to force a contrived rape narrative onto a female character just because she likes sex? Why can't I just be a bombshell who loves what she does without having to feel ashamed of it? Or does it only count as feminism if characters like me have to suffer for our sexiness?"

It's a genuinely wild subversion that feels a decade ahead of its time. But therein lies the problem: you still have to sit through a mostly straightforward grim and gritty deconstruction to get to the point where it points out how stupid most grim and gritty deconstructions are. And if the point was to criticize those kinds of stories just by being an example of one, well, all I can say is that it succeeded. It absolutely feels at times like a pointlessly dark and edgy paint job slapped on top of a story for the sake of feeling "mature" when all that really means is lots of rape and uncomfortable sexual hangups. Did I mention there's a Class S episode where Fujiko becomes the teacher at an all-girls school and proceeds to have affairs with multiple of her students? Because that happens, and I could feel my skin trying to crawl off my body the entire time.

Like I said in an earlier post, this isn't fanservice in the traditional sense. In fact, with the ending reveal in mind, the presentation and execution is almost maddeningly confrontational, as if daring you not to see it for the cheap shock value it is. You can almost hear Yamamoto and Okada laughing behind the scenes as you scramble to find an explanation for why all this misery porn needed to exist, only for the show itself to say "Actually, yeah, this was all pretty tasteless and crass, who would actually want Fujiko's story to be like this?" But it's still a frustrating fucking show to watch in the moment because all that possibly intentional metafictional subversion just reads as straight-up boring edgy grimdark before you're shown the man behind the curtain. Or, woman behind the curtain. Whatever.

I dunno, I don't think I can give this one a proper score. 5/10, I guess? Ask me in a few months and see if that's changed at all. For now, I'm more than happy to polish off my Yamamoto back catalogue and move onto something else. Which 2013 show will take its place, I wonder?

#anime #tabw #the anime binge watcher #the woman called fujiko mine #lupin the third #lupin III #2012 aniwatch

[lipsticksandheartbreaks]

animes with unique animation ★彡

acca: 13-territory inspection dept. (2017)

one season | 12 ep

sonny boy (2021)

one season | 12 ep

cowboy bebop (1998)

one season | 26 ep

great pretender (2020)

one season | 23 ep

sailor moon (1992)

five seasons | 200 ep

one piece: baron omatsuri and the secret island (2005)

92 mins

lupin III. - the woman called fujiko mine (2012)

one season | 13 ep

#thats actually the best one piece movie #anime / manga #sonny boy #lupin iii #cowboy bebop #sailor moon #great pretender #one piece #the woman called fujiko mine #acca 13

[ctrl-lupin]

Tourist Goemon

#buddy? priorities?? #goemon ishikawa #it fucks me up that HE COULD HAVE MET LUPIN RIGHT THERE #like they were TEN METERS FROM EACH OTHER #THEY PASSED RIGHT BY EACH OTHER #hhhhhhhhhhh #lupin iii #twcfm #the woman called fujiko mine #takeshi koike

[goemon-fan]

fujigoe

#this will likely be the last of my recent twcfm posts #but i did love goemon's (and fujiko's) depictions/relationships #all goemon wants is a friend like him since he feels so alone in the world #but he fell in love with a person who doesn't exist #and he keeps setting himself up for failure by hoping for fujiko to change into the woman he thought she was #only to end up more lonely since before meeting fujiko (the ending of twcfm “resolves” their relationship but it felt wrapped up too soon) #also i'm specifically thinking of the scene where they're on the beach and goemon interprets her actions as having been good and honest for #once only to end up disappointed when she hadn't changed for the better to be more in line with his values #as for fujiko she got closure from her trauma but her relationship with goemon went nowhere #she was too traumatized to understand that goemon was trustworty and genuinely did love her unlike all the other men in her life so far #but it was interesting to see her being comfortable “alone” after she dealt with her trauma as well as her new outlook on life #but i still feel bad for goemon; he deserved better and all he wanted was for someone to want/love him and make him feel he belongs #lupin iii #lupin the third #lupin the 3rd #goemon ishikawa xiii #goemon #fujiko mine #twcfm #the woman called fujiko mine #fujigoe

[bestoflupiniiipoll]

Best of Lupin III Poll

#lupin iii #lupin the 3rd #lupin the third #polls #anime #daisuke jigen 2023 #jigen daisuke movie #Daisuke jigen #the woman called fujiko mine #TWCFM

[charactersmashorpass]

#fujiko mine #the woman called fujiko mine #tumblr poll #smash or pass

[femme-from-hell]

𓆩♡𓆪 More Lupin III HCs 𓆩♡𓆪

More Thoughts On Lupin & Co. (This one is a little long)

lupin is super picky about his coffee and WILL get pissy if he doesn't get it how he likes it.

Fujiko made Lupin coffee for the first time along time ago after their first night together when they started their little situation-ship and Lupin has drank his coffee like that ever since.

Fujiko drinks energy drinks and Lupin is repulsed by them. Lupin caught her drinking one but she’ll deny it until the day she dies.

Jigen drinks his black because he can't handle too much caffeine. (for context, black coffee has a pretty low caffeine content for those who don't know.)

Lupin was a track and field kid. As seen in the events in Lupin Zero -sorta spoiler warning for those who haven't seen it-, his dad wanted him to live a normal life, so he convinced his son to do something normal kids do to get his energy out rather than stirring up shit. Lupin was reluctant but fell in love with the sport.

Jigen has really pretty hand writing but Lupin’s is shit, so Jigen writes all of Lupin’s cursive calling cards, but Lupin signs them. Sometimes Lupin just makes Jigen write things for him when he doesn't need it because he just really likes his hand writing.

Lupin likes drawing doodles on all of his notes, letters, etc. Without fail, Lupin's papers are littered w drawings of him, his friends, sometimes Zenigata, or whatever treasure they're after.

Zenigata doesn’t cook often, nor is he the best at it, but he really enjoys doing in nonetheless.

If Lupin doesn’t get his ‘beauty sleep’ he just turns into a full blown bumbling idiot, like I’m talking walking straight into door frames, tripping over his own feet, all of it

On top of that, if someone interrupts his sleep, he gets incredibly pissy and short tempered.

^^Jigen kept blasting opera over the radio once in the hideout, resulting in Lupin being woken from his nap. Without even a second thought, Lupin rolled over on the couch, shot the radio, and rolled back over.

Lupin has A LOT of scars, it comes with the territory of nearly dropping dead with every job he takes on, and he uses his skills as a disguise artist to cover them up because he feels self conscious about them.

I feel like he's a perfectionist so he would see these scars as reminders of how he could have done better or could have done more.

Fujiko is a big spoon and you can pry this thought from my cold dead hands.

Lupin has a little collection of those 3d puzzles, even rubix cubes, and he fiddles with them to keep his mind working during stretches of travel or when he can’t think

Both Goemon and Jigen have tried to use said puzzles out of curiosity but got frustrated when they couldn’t figure them out

Because Fujiko rides motorcycles a lot, I like to think she has a lot of automotive knowledge and has tinkered with the Fiat once or twice.

Lupin doesn’t let her near it often because she isn’t afraid to sabotage the car if she plans on double crossing them.

Lupin is great with kids, but is incredibly irresponsible. He isn’t a big fan of dealing with them but once he’s got attached to them, all hell breaks loose. He is the kind of person that if they asked for ice cream for dinner he would absolutely respond with “WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT”

Goemon rarely sleeps on missions, in part because he always wants to be alert but also in part because he sleeps like a rock. Like, if a shoot out fight started right over him he would be snoring on cloud 9.

Goemon tried smoking like Lupin and Jigen once but he coughed everything up for a solid minute and hasn’t touched another cigarette since.

Lupin will borrow Jigen’s suits once in a while when he needs to tone down the color a bit but Jigen refuses to touch Lupin’s stuff with a ten foot pole no matter how much Lupin insists he would look good with a pop of color.

Jigen has perfect pitch, which is one of the main things that plays into his taste in music.

Lupin has trash taste in music, like absolutely horrid and he is banned from touching the radio in the car or the portable one on look outs.

The gang will regularly play cards together, and of course Lupin, Jigen, and Fujiko are cheating but Fujiko will actively sabotage Jigen and Lupin if Goemon starts losing really bad. Goemon knows how to cheat, he just refuses to.

Based off that one McDonalds commercial with Goemon ordering ahead on his phone, I like to think that when he discovered he could order food over his phone he went a little nuts ordering his favorite food from the local Japanese joint down the street. Like, I'm talking several hundred dollars worth in a day.

Lupin and Fujiko aren’t the best at apologizing when they get into a fight with someone, but I like to think that when they try and apologize, it's sorta just a thoughtful gift they’ll slide to the person they were arguing with.

Lupin has never once forgotten Pop’s birthday and leaves him a little something every year. It's never anything stolen because he knows Zenigata wouldn't accept it if it was.

Lupin’s fur coat from his green jacket days (the one he was wearing in TWCFM) was one of the first extravagant things he bought with money he stole.

Lupin writes everything down, he’s the kind of person when presented with a riddle or a puzzle, he needs to do a hand full of scribbles that only make sense to him and then he’s got it solved. More specifically, he writes in his grandfather’s journal he found in the movie Blood Seal of The Eternal Mermaid.

Lupin has a pretty high pain tolerance but when he so much as gets a small cold, he’ll moan and groan about it.

Yikes, this got long! But I still have so much more, what is a little guy like me to do! Guess ill just have to actually post more rather than just rebloging stuff at 2 am...

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