The Woman Named Fujiko Mine #03 — Minus Nipples

April 18th, 2012

 

Plus a horde of shrieking banshees.

Impressions:

As expected, this was focused on Goemon. And by "focused on Goemon," I mean focused on a pack of screaming Austrian children. Because that’s what children do in shows. SCREAM. ENDLESSLY. Until they have pierced your eardrums and all you can hear is the haunting echoes of their wailing cries. It also meant that they got to hang around and scream at Goemon for most of the goddamned episode. And that’s also something I’ve always said that would improve Lupin greatly. Screaming goddamned children. It worked out so well for the last Lupin special too.

Fujiko, meanwhile, was about as useful and relevant as she was last week, playing den mother to the children, doing such important things to the plot like… following them and… strapping them into their seats. However could this show possibly function without her? And of course, since it was a protagonist assassin with screaming children all over the place, you can about guess how things went. They hang around him and befriend him and then he can’t go through with it. But thankfully, here’s another assassin to derail the train. And Fujiko’s master plan? Steal the guy’s belt. Also rub her nipples against Goemon in case you thought the show could possibly go a week without a close up of her funbits.

Okay, all this ‘introduction’ nonsense is over, unless they’re going to give Zenigata an intro episode too. Let’s pull things together now. Maybe… I don’t know… kick Fujiko out and replace her with… hmmm… some manner of comical over the top thief maybe? Yeah, that sounds good. Let’s go with that.

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2 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • MAR-KLAC-VELOUS DE-KLAC-CADE says:
    April 19, 2012 at 5:16 am

    this is how fujiko first meet with goemon.

    indeed goemon slash it all from making metal rabbit, to slashing train chain, etc & hey make expose fujiko ok then.

    yet being tempt by the fujiko oh my yea she is the tempt.

    also quite ok ep yea even fujiko got some soft spots for kids.

  • Sly says:
    April 22, 2012 at 3:52 pm

    I just have to disagree. Fujiko’s always been one of my favorite, maybe even my number one favorite, supporting character from the Lupin franchise. Definitely my kind of dame. I think this series is so far shaping up to be the best thing to happen to Lupin since the red jacket series, and was a better episode to spotlight Goemon than any of the terrible Goemon-centric episodes of said-red-jacket-series. They kept all of the things that have always worked about the character, ditched all the things that never quite did (Goemon’s usually on the opposite end of the spectrum from Fujiko for me), put in plenty of Goemon’s exposed flesh to make up for just showing Fujiko’s all the time, and I thought the kids were adorable. I for one can’t wait to see what’s next for this series (hopefully more Lupin & Pops!)