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Howdy! Call me Sting, he/it, 20s. Ask me about ecology so i can feel like my degree might mean something when they finally let me get my hands on it ! Gatorposting will continue as long as i feel like it, but i still check in :)

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another lupin reblog dump is in the cards for tomorrow night! as last time, they'll be tagged and scheduled 5 mins apart til i run out again :]

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we're queued up from 6 to approximately 11 have fun everybody

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back on my bullshit tonight, although i thiiiiiink therell be fewer posts than last week. not sure but im optimistic. peace and love

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youll never believe whats happening again!!!!!!!!!! however my counsel has advised against my posting for 14 straight hours (everyone say thank you to them Right Now) as i originally ended up scheduling, so instead i'll be breaking it up to post much more sparsely throughout the whole next week (thru 6/6), generally 1 or 2 posts an hour for part of the day. tagged as usual. have fun everybody !

[hemingway-papers]

the wizard of oz (1939) is a lot like the castle of cagliostro where the movie is full of a certain sincere lightness and hope that is cherished deeply for a reason a very good reason. but the source material and other adaptations of the wizard of oz and lupin iii are all markedly different and at times the tone will venture into dark cynical experimental and surreal. which can REALLY put people off to it when they go in expecting more of the other thing. but if you go into it expected entirely anything possible it can be REALLY cool and interesting and weird, iconic and great stuff. i love you mystery of mamo i love you The Wiz i like how you are kind of scary and would have made me cry as a child now i think you're actually like genius. and i still love you cagliostro and judy garlands oz you are literally nestled deep where my tender heart and soul are ❤️

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We don't talk enough about how Yuji Ohno clearly loved contemporary black american & caribbean culture and music and tried very hard to capture it when he composed for lupin iii. which played a big role in bringing black music and culture to japan, as did many of his peers in the burgeoning Citypop genre.

You can hear it in The Wiz (1978) clear as day this IS the lupin soundtrack this was exactly what Yuji Ohno intro and OST track is trying to envoke. and became legendary in its own right. it sounds almost interchangeable i love that. that's just one example off the top of my head because i was taking about living The Wiz but this style of music was already a decade old by 78.

You can hear it in Issac Hayes Shaft theme lol from 1971. this is part of the blaxploitation era which was a new type of very popular detective crime & action shows in the early 70s that starred black actors and artists for the first time (but also fell into exploitative and racially insensitive themes at times hence the name. this genre VERY clearly played a huge part of the look sound and theme later used in Part 2.

as much as you had James Bond and Noir oldies and Columbo all mixed in it, you can't forget this element of early 70s blaxploitation action detective movies & tv . tho we rarely mention it and many might not realize how many lupin tropes and motifs come from black art. the Motown chorus of ladies singing lupins name. the random man just smoothly exposition dumping about how cool and sexy shaft is in the middle of the song lol. it's all there.

the adult swim bumper / promo is well aware of this and doing a parody of that old school fuckalicious blaxploitation action schlock lol. they understood the assignment it seems:

stuff like this is THE nexus origin point from which you get the iconic Lupin III funk/disco/smooth jazz sound. which blended well with the older jazzier themes from noir and bond. a music style which has carried over into the Persona series, Cowboy Bebop, sonic games and more. that's why japanese games and series with a crime and mystery theme always sound like this.

THAT is why it is called AFRO LUPIN '68. IM NOT KIDDING .

everyone say thank you Mr. Hayes lol

although speaking of. the part 1 soundtrack has a lot of a late 60s british psychedelic rock mixed in which is also so awesome. the ending song always reminds me of like Procol Harum Whiter Shade of Pale or something. the Bee Gees had a very similar shift from british psychedelic folk rock to disco cause that was just what was big and happening

We didn't circle back to black caribbean music much but this is a great example of a blend of calypso and funk getting big on the japanese music scene and the reason a lot of citypop has steal drums and latin american instruments and such. one of my all time favorite albums All of Me (1979) features mostly afrolatino caribbean music mixed with funk and motown inspired vocals and instrumentation and it's an incredibly joyous experience of music tbh. the Samba tracks on the 78 lupin ost also reflect the importance of latino and afrolatino music in all this. most "nostalgic" video games from the 80s and 90s feature music that can be considered citypop because that was the fashion and pop of the time, so you'll have Chao Garden sounding like a track straight off of any calypso mix on youtube. an example if you don't know what it sounds like off the top of your head

it is extremely joyful and exciting to understand more about where our favorite stuff comes from . because of antiblackness in america and japan (in otaku and other reactionaries who dominate anime and video game scenes tbh), the importance and iconography of black culture on japanese pop culture is often erased. a lot of this stuff is just OLD as well and not something young fans would have or would be expected to have heard of with the best of intentions. you can have the most pro-black politics and appreciation and easily just never have encountered or watched an obscure and very dated tv show from 1971 to make that connection without being directed there. so it's a fun deep dive. know your lupistory lmafo. the impact people in the world have on each other is really beautiful 🏝🎆❤️

[goemon-fan]

Fujiko: money

Lupin: women

Jigen: alcohol

Goemon: rotisserie chicken

[taya-ki]

Captivated by that one scene where they talk about this... How often do they sit down to have side by side autism dinner..

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[officialfist]

Unrestrained summer fun

[djinn-ale]

i have brainrot

[kaaramel]

[detectivehole]

when part 2 jigen appears from offscreen in his little apron with his sleeves rolled up and you are reminded that he canonically does the cooking for the gang

[o-kurwa]

[officialfist]

Unrestrained summer fun

[loop-zooper]

Mankatsu but it’s just Zenigata going through the seven layers of hell🥹

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[meinshimmel]

[redwiddershins]

Wanted to do something with a sketch I had sitting around

[bellum-diam]

Mine Fujiko my queen

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

What I love about Fujiko is that when she says "Sorry boys, you're on your own" she means it. She ain't coming back for you later. She's getting her perfect ass the fuck out of there.

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[theimpossiblescheme]

#i LOVE the banter in the hayter dub:#jigen: [slips] “whoa!”#lupin: “i forgot to mention the hole.”#jigen: “‘i forgot to mention the piranhas and crocodiles; jigen.’”#lupin: [fondly] “shut up.”

[edorazzi]

time for some irregularly scheduled conan and papa

i don’t know why i’m so into the dynamic of these two but i don’t regret getting invested