#looptroupe rambles

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We'll run Vegas, honey-baby! Just don't take the chip, dig?

(Zenigata is the courier) (He's out for blood)

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Sometimes I think about how Zenigata gave up his entire life for Lupin and I feel so full of every nameless emotion. Like… that is such pure love to me.

Imagine living a life where you’re respected by your peers and good at your job and every day when you go to the store the man at the counter knows you not because you’re on tv but because you’re a stand-up guy and a pillar in your local community, and then one day you realise you could have everything and nothing every day forever INSTEAD of a guaranteed regular adequacy all the time and you go, “that works,” because it means that you get to lay eyes on someone you hate to your core and love to your core and feeling everything is better to you than feeling just a little.

I wonder if Zeni lost himself a little in that transition, and how much he ‘found’ once it evened out. I wonder if he’s closer to two selves than one, now. The person he was before Lupin is so disconnected from who he is with Lupin to me. I’m not sure I could pinpoint which one is his ‘true’ self tbh. Also like.

Do you think in the same way Zenigata lost himself— his old self— when he found Lupin, Lupin found himself when he found Zenigata? Because I figure that kind of thing must click into place when, as someone who has spent their entire life feeling like a clone of those before you, suddenly you have a driving force that is all your own. You have a person who never went after your father or your grandfather, you have someone who hears your name and thinks of you and not them and it’s like. Wow I finally have the agency I’ve been craving.

Is that love? I think this is love. Maybe this is what they mean when they talk about how a relationship requires give and take. Sigh.

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If anyone is to… stumble upon a streaming link for the new lupin… please do give me a shout 🥺 I’ll sketch you something in return

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Excited for the new Lupin movie but like. In the sense that I’m excited for all the “what it could have been” discussions I’ll get out of it. I fear Koike could never do Zenigata right. I fear. THOUGH I think there could actually be some interesting Lupin stuff in here. I like this version of him a lot. We’ll see in time I guess.

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McDonald’s Japan what did you mean by this

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IM SO SICK OVER LUZENI I can’t stomach it anymore man. I can’t do it. Someone yap to me about them I’m on all fours howling. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET MEEE… GET WHAT I WANT…

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Bad news. I lost half a tooth, got stitches and totally busted my lip as we arrived in Glasgow. Good news! I'm still making it to The Immortal Bloodline ENG premiere today. Nothing is going to stop me 🫡

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Look. All signs point to the next Miyazaki movie being a Nausicaä sequel. Even if Miyazaki has openly discussed how much he doesn’t like sequels.

But oh… how my heart longs for it to be a Lupin movie. A poetic way to actually, ACTUALLY, finally end a career. Two loosely paired films to bookend a mostly-stellar catalogue? A perfect visualisation of his growth as a director? A solid Zenigata AND Fujiko? (Even if he’d totally ignore Goemon. I’m sorry Goemon fans.)

Dreamy sigh.

I’m not a diehard Miyazaki Lupin truther. I think he’s far too obviously selfless, and a little too soft at the edges to be the Lupin I’d ever default to imagining in my head. But I DO love his Lupin. Gently and reverently. Like a little fleck of gold in a river of sludge. He’s sweet and kind and precious, even if it’s in a way that usual Lupin would never be so upfront about. I like seeing those traits in him. And I’d love to see them again, I can’t lie. I’ve got a real soft spot for hero Lup.