Lupin III: Hemingway Paper no Nazo

Another wacky zappy Lupin adventure where everything is really serious and deep rooted in really serious stuff, but Lupin and the gang come and mess up everything for everyone!

You know how we get introduced to a past relation to Jigen the person wants to kill him and he's strangely cool about it sometimes? It's one of those. You know how Goemon can randomly show up for any reason, and rarely is it about a job? It's not one of those. Goemon has actually been hired by the side opposing the group that hired Jigen. They handling it in very convincing ways, and they have each ... other's back when it's time to make a run for it.

Lupin a lot of his goofy self, but it's not so easy to get the others to help him, like it usually is. Lupin is being presented with a real challenge to get people on his side in this one. I liked he didn't get his way so easily, and he even got pushed aside some.

Character development woman (cdw) seemed like she had a lot to say, but didn't get to say it. She didn't much to do, and left everything up to the gang. honestly, her story was pretty wiped up by the time they got there, and she had a mostly "retired" mind set about what was going on.

Fujiko was great in this one! She jumped into action and had everyone's backs! she didn't have a side plot in this one, but I'm ok with that.

I wouldn't recommend this to Lupin fans because of how dry cdw was. I would recommend this to new anime fans, and anime new comers.

Hemingway Papers is a pretty enjoyable early Lupin special.

Lupin and the gang end up on an island where two tyrants are having a conflict, and a sleazy arms dealer is in the middle. That guy wants a treasure, and of course so do Lupin and Fujiko.

Jigen has a pretty interesting role in this, getting hired by one of the tyrants to infiltrate them and get revenge against a crazy mercenary, who he has a problem with from the past. They really play up Jigen's stoic badass nature in this, which is nice.

Goemon hears that a chest can't be cut by his legendary Zantetsuken blade, so ... it's his mission to cut it. He's funny and cool as always, the straight man to the more wacky things happening around him. Inspector Zenigata is entertaining in his few token scenes as well.

Fujiko has some entertaining dialogue with Lupin here, of course, their chemistry is classic stuff. They do some thievery in this, as you'd imagine.

There's a woman, Maria, who owns a bar on the island and has her own issues with the villains here. She's pretty cool, and is a fine guest star in this story.

Pretty much, the Lupin gang fight people, have some amusing interactions with eachother, commit some crimes, and do some heroic stuff as well. This one doesn't stand out, but it gets the job done.

If you enjoy the Lupin brand of entertainment, this should be on your watch list.