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Goemon is training a young boy, Ken, who falls ill. A doctor diagnoses him with Jinrozen, an incurable ailment that attacks multiple organs at once. Ken asks Goemon to help him. The mafia boss, Keppochi, killed his father for his fortune, although he couldn't actually locate where the money was hidden. He stole what he could, including a painting his father made, The Tree Which Bares Bells which hides a map within it. Goemon vows he'll help Ken seek his revenge and enlists the help of Lupin and Jigen as well. They're persuaded by Fujiko to join them since she used Keppochi's computer to locate the map on the painting. It's revealed when put up against a light. But once they realize that Keppochi can't figure out where the map is, he throws it out, so he'll definitely go after Ken for the inheritance. When Goemon reaches him, the cabin is burned, and Ken has already been kidnapped, so he goes ahead with the rest of the gang. Arriving at Ken's father's mansion, Goemon is stopped right away and forced to drop Zantetsuken; otherwise, Ken will be killed. Meanwhile, the gang sneaks into the mansion. They run into a room full of junk and find the painting. Goemon is tortured in order to get answers out of Ken. Lupin, Jigen, and Fujiko hide out underground to figure out how to reveal the map, but suddenly, a window above them shines moonlight on it, revealing the map. They leave but are sent a random message that they have Goemon and Ken, and they'll exchange them for the map. They meet up and see Goemon disheveled and run to see if he's okay. But they fall into Keppochi's trap. They trap them in a cage and send them down underground tunnels in the mansion. Fujiko tells Keppochi how to find the map, and they run off, leaving the mansion to explode. Luckily, they managed to escape through the waterway in time. The guys all start to follow the map to the fortune, but Fujiko appears. Lupin runs over to her, clearly battered and bruised, she says that they shined the painting on the sun, revealing a fake map that took them through trechourous mountains so she was the only one to survive.

I thought this episode was pretty sweet. While it wasn't really a Goemon episode, it put more emphasis on him than usual. I feel like there was a proper, honest setup for why everything happened. They weren't tricked into it, this kid Goemon was training just wanted one last wish, and that's what leads the plot. It makes you want to root for the guys far more than if it was just Fujiko asking Lupin for something again. So, like a few episodes ago, this is definitely a revenge plot I support.


I think it's weird Goemon is raising this kid first of all. Nothing wrong with it, but I'm just a bit curious as to the circumstances of how they got here.

Fujiko was really evil. I honestly thought she had good intentions but then she actually tries to find the treasure with the mafia. That's so awful to do to a kid I presume she knows and is dying. When she came back from the mountains completely wrecked, I can't say I felt to bad for her, she did something really evil here.






The character designs in this episode were really weird. As I mentioned in the last episode, there was a noticeable change. They look a lot more reminiscent of the solid manga designs, like what you would see on the covers. While this is just weird. I didn't get Lupin pictured here because he was the least different. But Jigen has hair under his hat now, Goemon and Fujko's hair have no fluff to them and droop down like it's wet, and oddly, Zengiata seems more sturdy, more akin to Otsuka's design of him. Very bizarre design choices for whatever reason. I actually liked the characters new to this episode. They seem like characters you could easily believe seeing in the manga. Especially the doctor, who has an elongated body yet short legs.