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| Hannibal did cross the Pyrenees with his army to get to Italy, but his famous feat was crossing the Alps. Similarly, there is a small independent country in the Pyrenees, Andorra, but it's not anything like the unnamed militaristic country seen here, nor is the flag the same. I don't know whether the writers didn't know about these things or if they just fudged it because the reality didn't serve their purposes. Naturally in this show the final answer to such questions is "it doesn't matter". The plot was pretty thin in this episode but it more than makes up for it with some great set-pieces like the teaser before the title card, Goemon's tricks on the plane and with the tree, and the whole sequence of Jigen collecting the parts of his gun. It's this sort of visual flair that shows up in the better Lupin movies and specials. |
| In which Jigen is challenged to a duel! Strange episode that felt oddly segmented. The opening chase, once again set to that English insert song I've grown to love, was very fun. Goemon's repeated attempts to get Jigen to abandon the duel were sweet, and even Fujiko was concerned for him. I can't decide if I liked the duel itself though. I dunno that, thrilling as it was, my suspension of disbelief was properly sated seeing Jigen dodge literally hundreds of bullets fired by a professional, AND reassemble his gun, piece by piece, AND win with a single shot. I love Jigen, but c'mon! XD Plus the comedic end of the gang losing the treasure and driving half a car away fell flat. Ah well, better luck next time. |
| Leaving his gun parts all over the place, just WTF were you thinking Lupin? |
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| That "back"up plan car, I want one car like that xD Should have put the gold in front of the car I don't know how the car is still able to move since the car engine should be behind them xD |
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| I love the way Lupin found to guide Jigen to the border's gate by marking the way with the parts of his gun. It was a bit risky though, poor Jigen had to run all the way down with a man shooting to kill him, but it worked. A pity that the treasure was lost with half of the car, but it was nice to see Fujiko, Goemon, and even Lupin on his own way, worrying about Jigen. |
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| The background music sounded better than normally and there was also more of it, so I checked if this was a new season or something. Not yet (that would be ep. 104), but apparently this was the very first episode of any anime to be broadcast in stereo. So I guess they had more music because of it. I like the soundtrack variation, the jazzy pieces, sometimes a bit funky, with a few classical pieces in the mix. Especially in this episode there was (in the first 3rd and near the end) a nice variation of the Lupin theme with a trumpet and whistling. Maybe Cowboy Bebop was influenced by this soundtrack, I wonder. The plot here was all over the place, like Jigen's gun. It wasn't really explained, but I believe Lupin left the gun parts scattered because his trust in Jigen's abilities was so great that he decided to make the challenge more interesting with this handicap. So what was a serious duel for a professional gunman was more like a game for Jigen. |
| Jigen go crazy this episode |
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