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40cakesIt's official; I'm breaking up with the Lupin III manga.
The art style? Awful. It's not as fun when Zenigata/random henchman/police officer is revealed to be Lupin in disguise when I already thought it was Lupin because everyone looks alike. This applies to the women, too. I'm used to the anime women looking like Fujiko because they usually are her. (I have a rule in the anime that any woman who doesn't appear in the same shot as Fujiko is actually Fujiko in disguise. I'm right a good 90% of the time.) But in the manga, all the women look like Fujiko, but are actually different people.
The stories? Silly and contrived. Now, admittedly, a lot of the episode plotlines are silly and contrived, but the anime is also played for teh laffs. In the manga, I'm expected to take this shit seriously.
Also, this apparently ran in Male Fantasy Comics Monthly, because every woman has an hourglass figure, and appears solely to get her dress ripped off her for some sex, whether she consents to it or not (don't even get me started on the amount of rape in this. Really).
Finally (and most definitely the clincher)? Manga Lupin really isn't a good person. I like the anime because even though he's no angel, you get the sense that he's got a heart and a conscience somewhere. It's all fun. Manga Lupin kills a lot of people. He switched places with a prison guard before his execution, sending the guard to his death. He double-crossed someone he was working for so Fujiko wouldn't get in trouble (well, really, so he could get more poon). Out in the freezing mountaintops with two good-looking sisters (of course), their choice was share the bed with him or sleep on the floor by the fire. So he put out the fire. I want him to get caught and go to Hell and die.
So, anyone want the first two issues of the Tokyopop Lupin III manga releases? For cheap!
>^..^
The art style? Awful. It's not as fun when Zenigata/random henchman/police officer is revealed to be Lupin in disguise when I already thought it was Lupin because everyone looks alike. This applies to the women, too. I'm used to the anime women looking like Fujiko because they usually are her. (I have a rule in the anime that any woman who doesn't appear in the same shot as Fujiko is actually Fujiko in disguise. I'm right a good 90% of the time.) But in the manga, all the women look like Fujiko, but are actually different people.
The stories? Silly and contrived. Now, admittedly, a lot of the episode plotlines are silly and contrived, but the anime is also played for teh laffs. In the manga, I'm expected to take this shit seriously.
Also, this apparently ran in Male Fantasy Comics Monthly, because every woman has an hourglass figure, and appears solely to get her dress ripped off her for some sex, whether she consents to it or not (don't even get me started on the amount of rape in this. Really).
Finally (and most definitely the clincher)? Manga Lupin really isn't a good person. I like the anime because even though he's no angel, you get the sense that he's got a heart and a conscience somewhere. It's all fun. Manga Lupin kills a lot of people. He switched places with a prison guard before his execution, sending the guard to his death. He double-crossed someone he was working for so Fujiko wouldn't get in trouble (well, really, so he could get more poon). Out in the freezing mountaintops with two good-looking sisters (of course), their choice was share the bed with him or sleep on the floor by the fire. So he put out the fire. I want him to get caught and go to Hell and die.
So, anyone want the first two issues of the Tokyopop Lupin III manga releases? For cheap!
>^..^
