#arsene lupin

[vivtanner]

Cover work for Les Énigmes d'Arsène Lupin & Les Énigmes de D'Artagnan.

[shwubert]

first time posting art on tumblr.... guulp

[thesandlorde]

my comic for Tsushi's Jigen Before and After zine, written by @octokracken! shoutout to Bobby Darin for the tunes 🎶

[yumiko-ichi-zeniiigata]

Some drawings of the lupgang bc yes

Ofc also the Zenigotyumi....

[diamondzart]

I couldn’t stop on Yata and turned the other two into birds as well 🥴

Species names and explanations under the cut!

Lupin is a great tit, because great tits are actually the most deranged and feral of small birds, although few people except for bird-lovers know about this "skeleton in the closet" of theirs. But these cuties can murder other small birds and eat their brains… In captivity, a tit is a universal destroyer of everything it can reach, and there were cases when these little demons unscrewed screws and dropped shelves. So their beak is not only a murder weapon, but also a universal tool of chaos.

Yata is a jackdaw because, as I mentioned earlier, the word "crow" is woven into his full name. I was also told on here that Yatagarasu is the name of a Japanese deity in the form of a large crow with three legs, which only reinforced my already existing association of this character with a corvid bird. But he’s quite thin and light so he didn't look like a raven or a crow in my head, I needed something more elegant and nimble. The choice fell on a jackdaw as a smaller and more graceful member of the corvids, but no less quick-witted.

Zenigata is a grey-faced buzzard because I initially associated him with some diurnal bird of prey. Not with an owl because owls are quite sedentary and prefer to hunt from an "ambush" in short strikes from a perch, while he is all for prolonged persistent pursuit; and not with a falcon because falcons are too small and fit, and we have a really bulky man here. At the same time an eagle would hardly care about a small titmouse. So I landed in the middle, on a not too small but not too large buzzard. Plus, this particular species is common in Japan.

The sizes lineup is not entirely realistic, but this was done on purpose to make it more convenient to draw their interactions with each other. I'll also do the rest of the gang as birds, but a little later ;)

I hope they really do look like themselves while keeping their species somewhat identifiable because this was the main challenge here! I had to invert the colors on Lupin’s belly from those of real titmice for the sake of imitating a green jacket design more closely.

[paohlovelace]

Im so hungry I could eat [name of dead wife]

[louielauana]

Sometimes i like to imagine Sherlock and Lupin in a body fight just cuz is funny idk

[maxwell-grant]

I feel like Arsene Lupin probably has enough for kne of those type charts too lol

He does and you could argue Lupin III also does (a good chunk of the ones listed here are really more Lupin III variants than OG, which I tried to prevent but only so much I could do there), but I was also not about to leave his besties behind: (Characters listed below the cut)

Sherlock Holmes Grass: Detective Chimp Fire: Friar William of Baskerville Water: Thrawn Electric: Detective Pikachu (I know, but sometimes the joke just holds you at gunpoint) Psychic: Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks) Fighting: Nick Carter Rock: Theresa Ferrier (Lavender Jack) Ground: Adrian Monk  Flying: Cool Shock BT  Bug: Conan Edogawa  Poison: Maomao (The Apothecary Diaries) Dark: House  Ghost: L Ice: Inspector Lunge (Monster) Steel: Nam Han-joon (Café Minandang) Dragon: Madame Vastra Fairy: Basil of Baker Street

Fantomas Grass: O Mancha Verde Fire: Shadowman by Georges Franju Water: Blue Mask 60s Fantomas Electric: Phantom Limb (Venture Bros) Psychic: Temptress of a Thousand Faces Fighting: Fantomex Rock: Grendel Ground: The Octopus (The Spirit) Flying: Hawk Moth Bug: Fantomette Poison: Dr. Mabuse Dark: Irma Vep (Les Vampires) Ghost: Judex  Ice: Mexican Fantomas Steel: Diabolik Dragon: Fantomas o Guerreiro da Justiça (Brazilian localization for Ogon Bat) Fairy: Fantomius / Fantomallard

Arsene Lupin Grass: Arpin Lusene Fire: Carmen Sandiego Water: Sly Cooper Electric: The Saint Psychic: Joker (Persona 5) Fighting: Lupin Rangers Rock: Jean le Flambeur (The Quantum Thief) Ground: Assane Diop (Netflix Lupin) Flying: Filibus Bug: Lupin III Poison: Marcel "The Wolf" Marimura (The Confidence Man JP: Episode of the Hero) Dark: The Fiend With 20 Faces Ghost: Kaito Kid Ice: The Thief (Samurai Jack) Steel: The Gray Seal Dragon: Kamen Rider Lupin Fairy: Tuxedo Mask