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This is a translation of an interview that was included in the booklet that came with vol. 2 of the Japanese Part 5 DVD/BD release. The interview is with Kenjiro Tsuda, Albert’s voice actor, and he talks about his work on Part 5, Albert, and his views on Lupin III in general. It was conducted by Mai Takano.
The interview was translated by @sotetag. You can contact her about translation commissions if you’ve got Japanese material you’d like to see translated.
From the Secret of Mamo original Japanese movie program.
“Yay!”
Reminder that Braiger’s OP bangs
I'm just one episode into Braiger, but these characters feel uncannily familiar.
Who will embrace the wanderer's cold heart?
making a snowlupin ☃️
kinda out of season with things warming up, but drew this for the lupin advent calendar on the lupin club forum way back last december!
I'm just gonna say that the cousin reveal in a certain series is hilarious to me because someone who was an ass to me about shipping Lupin/Albert was shipping those cousins. :))
silliest guy
I just did some edits and
I've been having absolute shit time these past few weeks, but today was finally a great and productive day and Cagliostro is at my local cinema on Monday, omg.
Acrobunch just might have one of my least favourite anime endings ever. I can't believe I wanted to see this show for so long only for it to have such a shitty ending. I don't normally get mad at shows for the things they imply, but holy shit, I'm actually mad about this.
I’m sure you’ve seen pictures like this one over the internet in the form of memes, in self-declared manifestos and articles that claim to be from the queer community.
Looks like it’s Jigen asking Lupin, right? This does indeed get sold to the internet as if Jigen is asking Lupin such a big question.
The actual scene:
I posted a while ago an example of a very piss-poor translation of a chapter from the original manga that is used by the same people who write this so called propaganda as evidence of ‘gayness’ going on with these characters. You can read it here, TokyoPop simply made a poor job but that also is, apparently, taken seriously and spread all over the internet.
It all could be easily dismissed with a laugh because in the end the show itself is meant to be fun and being in the fandom should be fun but I keep asking myself if this fandom attitude qualifies as queerbaiting. What’s sad is that it comes from other fans who are... in good faith??? (color me suspicious) fooling people into believing things that are not there.
I’m sorry to have to say this but apparently there are some who actually trick people who are invested in certain characters and who might be fragile. People who, right because of this propaganda based on wrong translations, fake pictures, jokes being taken too seriously and too far and cultural misunderstandings, might end up deluded and hurt.
The list of these ‘misunderstandings’ or even misrepresentations can go quite on, here you get just the basic idea.
We’re all up in arms when queerbaiting comes from the powers that be authors and producers but when it comes from allegedly fellow fans is maybe even worse.
“Propaganda” in itself is already a bad word, if you need propaganda to convince people through memes plastered all over the internet that’s another sign that something is wrong. Not to mention most people only know the characters through the internet grapevine and therefore completely out of context, because by their own admission, they don’t even watch the show.
These characters have been around since the 60s, in Japan... I wouldn't even go near them being 'coded' because it could mean having to code them in a really bad way.
Feel free to share your view.
That screenshot was one of the first images I ever saw when I got into Lupin in 2015 and all this time, I've thought it was real. I figured that even if it wasn't the most accurate translation, it was still Jigen talking to Lupin. Wild to find out it's not. It's a little disheartening how many Lupin/Jigen classic moments have turned out to be mistranslations or fandom jokes, but those were never the reason I shipped them, and I don't need canon proof to love a ship.
And to be fair, I don't think most people post stuff like this in order to mislead other fans but to goof around. It's a lot of fun to take screenshots out context and joke about what else they could mean, but it takes just one person not in on the joke to start a game of telephone, especially when Lupin is such a big franchise that very few fans actually know all the content well enough to recognize when a random screenshot is out of context or edited.
having your favorite character be a minor character is like being a proud mother at a school play and cheering every time your kid comes on stage even though they’re playin the part of tree #3
