Episode 8.5: Lupin III: The First
The gang are joined by editor, podcast host, and the creator of the 'Fake Friends' video essay series that popularised the concept of Parasocial relationships, Shannon Strucci, to discuss the 2019 animated movie 'Lupin III: The First'.
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Comments (27)
Just relistened having incidentally gotten very into Lupin 3rd and it rules how much of a party this film/episode is
Finally signed up to listen to these, just wanted to pipe up as the archaeologist in the back of the cinema- I do indeed just randomly start spouting shit in ancient languages, most accurate representation of us as a profession.
Jesus. There is SO MUCH JOY in this episode! I've gotten through 6 episodes on Spotify, and y'all (understandably) are somewhat down on Bond. This is a great movie and was looking forward to your view on it, and OOOOHHH boy I love how much y'all loved it. Thank you for sharing this!
This is the best anime to 3D translation I’ve ever seen -had so much fun with the movie and happy to own it, and hope it didn’t disappoint at the box office
Johnny Thunder was the absolute shit. Top tier LEGO sets.
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Fun thing, Werner von Braun founded my university
Btw Lupin III has an episode where he;s in disguise as a plumber or something and starts talking to Pops about James Bond. He accuses him of being a George Lazenby fan and gets kicked out of the room. I believe its the Melon Cop episode which is perfect for your formula.
lmao i started listening to this podcast and every time i heard them mention his name i thought of zenigata yelling "George Lazenby? GEORGE LAZENBY!?"
Because I am not up on anime, I thought the gang were watching the Miyazaki 1979 version, The Castle of Cagliostro. Damn. Seriously, though, they should do The Castle of Cagliostro.
I know it's not directly related to Bond, but all the mentions of Indiana Jones make me want the crew to do eps on those movies
Sorry, but...why does everyone keep saying "Lupon"?
That's how it's pronounced
If you need another thing for a special ep, there’s a musical on YouTube called “Spies Are Forever” that absolutely takes the piss out of James Bond. I feel like y’all would enjoy
I subbed for this ep. I absolutely love lupin III
Ah, LEGO Adventures and the extensibility Australian character “Johnny Thunder”
Someone else mentioned castle of Cagliostro which does indeed have one of the best car chases ever, if ridiculous. The reason ai'm commenting though is that there isn't only the one lupin theme - the theme for the first season is also kind of amazing, if less musical - give it a listen, it's aggressively its own thing.
yes i was going to bring that up! in terms of technical skill none of them are too interesting but i find it quite charming, in its own way. the first season was still getting its footing, so there are 3 or 4 different opening themes, many of which are very good (i don’t like the one where they just talk over the intro music though).
The description of the visuals reminds me a bit of the Tintin animated movie. Also a very good one, and with the same realistic weapons/vehicles/looks, but cartoon consequences. Also, that same European adventure heist movie vibe.
It's fun sometimes just to pop some corn and enjoy a good goofy movie! On the subject of Bond-adjacent material, would y'all consider doing a podcast on the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Our Man Bashir"? The entire 45 minute runtime was so explicitly a James Bond send up (in the holodeck, natch) that the Flemming estate actually sued Paramount to get them to stop from making any further episodes.
You should review Evangelion, it's extremely James Bond-adjacent in a number of very important ways which I will not be going into
how did you watch it in english in the uk?
Crimes
If you want more Lupin You all might want to review Lupin III Castle Cagliostro. It is the film debut of Miyazaki and has Stephen Spielberg's favorite car chase in any movie.
pupin the thirst
So is this Lupin 13 or Lupin 31?
The first