Excellently produced, directed, and VA'd to the extent that you can almost forget there isn't really anything here.
For what it's worth, the second half of the show is significantly better than the first half. It's almost good at so many different points, but there's no cure for two episodes worth of premise stretched over a 22 episode season. Michiko is almost an interesting character, her relationship with Hatchin is almost a compelling one, and her motivations almost drive the show forward, but none of those 'almosts' ever manage to bear fruit.
This is a show that makes you really want to like it, and I
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Apr 14, 2022
Given the success that Takahata and Miyazaki would achieve following their work on this series, it seems a bit superfluous to heap praise on them for their work here, but there is such a massive uptick in quality in the show the moment that they take over that it just has to be mentioned. The first few episodes of this first green jacket series are borderline unwatchable. The plots are incoherent, there is nothing intelligent or even interesting about the way Lupin and his cohorts behave, and Fujiko is nothing more than a sexy monster who serves no purpose other than to titillate viewers and
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