Manga breakup, right on the heels of the rashaka x Saiyuki scan

[40cakes]

It'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!

>^..^

Comments

[kannaophelia.livejournal.com]

Oh, yuck. I'm disturbed just reading it.

regarding the women and the laws of anime...

[carpdeus.livejournal.com]

34. Law of Probable Attire

Clothing in anime follows certain predictable guidelines.

Female characters wear as little clothing as possible, regardless of whether it is socially or meteorologically appropriate. Any female with an excessive amount of clothing will invariably have her clothes ripped to shreds or torn off somehow. If there is no opportunity to tear off the afore-mentioned female's clothes, then she will inexplicably take a shower for no apparent reason (also known as the Gratuitous Shower Scene).

Whenever there is a headwind, a Male characters will invariably wear a long cloak which doesn't hamper movement and billows out dramatically behind him.

First Corollary (Cryo-Adaptability) - All anime characters are resistant to extremely cold temperatures, and do not need to wear heavy or warm clothing in snow.

Second Corollary (Indecent Invulnerability) - Bikinis render the wearer invulnerable to any form of damage.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

You make the manga sound so appealing that I'd love to try it out! As tinder.

Re: regarding the women and the laws of anime...

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Female characters wear as little clothing as possible, regardless of whether it is socially or meteorologically appropriate. Any female with an excessive amount of clothing will invariably have her clothes ripped to shreds or torn off somehow. If there is no opportunity to tear off the afore-mentioned female's clothes, then she will inexplicably take a shower for no apparent reason (also known as the Gratuitous Shower Scene).

Yeah, but I'm fairly forgiving about this sort of stuff, and find it generally silly. "Oh, OF COURSE she happened to rip her dress..." But the dress-ripping was followed by rather questionable advances. And I tried to squint my eyes and repeat that the manga's 40 years old and the feminist movement in Japan at that point was probably two women in the mountains and I should think of the cultural context, but I couldn't take it.

>^..^

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Snicker. Just let me know next time you go to Maine, and I'll send it to you as emergency supplies - toilet paper, tinder, make tiny little tents for squirrels...

>^..^

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Dude! Sad. I was hoping it would be good. I like Lupin for the same reasons you do--he's selfish, yes, but he is a good person. And he wants, like, honest poon.

Gah. Go away, bunnies, I do not wish you to breed me a Lupin plot.

[k-diddy.livejournal.com]

So, anyone want the first two issues of the Tokyopop Lupin III manga releases? For cheap!

Only if I can burn them and send you back the ashes in a Coke can.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

You're the second person to suggest burning them. Maybe I'll have a ceremonial burning next week when I'm on vaycay and post pictures!

>^..^

[sidekicknomore.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan of either anime or the manga. I got my hands on a copy when I visted japan (suprisingly a bi-ligual copy too) I hated evey single minute of reading and watching it.

I too suggest burning it and then selling the ashes on ebay.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I browsed one volume in the mall one day and I couldn't follow the panels very well so I decided not to get into. A wise decision, it seems.

Re: regarding the women and the laws of anime...

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Second Corollary (Indecent Invulnerability) - Bikinis render the wearer invulnerable to any form of damage.

That rule always bemuses me. Especially with the costume-transformation anime shows.

Female characters wear as little clothing as possible, regardless of whether it is socially or meteorologically appropriate.

You know, all my favorite anime series end up being rare ones that ignore that rule: Trigun, Full Metal Alchemist, Naruto, Gundam Wing, Escaflowne, etc...

I wonder why that this?[/mild sarcasm]

That mecha in bikini's look silly?

[carpdeus.livejournal.com]

Just a thought ;)

[bzial.livejournal.com]

Yeah, ye old Monkeypunch there is proud of the fact that he "taught himself to draw"...haha, I would say he didn't teach himself well enough.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

How sad. I love anime Lupin the character (can take or leave the actual anime), and learning his manga has rapes and nastiness depresses me. I love his grandpa, too, and he would've never stood for such foolishness.