checkeredknight
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I really enjoyed the Fujiko Mine series. I'm on board with this real quick!
Fujiko was disgustingly bad apart from two episodes, so it's really hard to look forward to this.
Ha. Fujiko was certainly a marmite show, people either love it or hate it. At the time, I hated it. It wasn't the Lupin I knew and loved and by about episode six or seven, I was throwing a big wobbly and refusing the watch any more. Zenigata getting laid with a criminal while on the job was strike one. Zenigata shooting at Lupin and trying to kill him was strike two. The all girls school episode with Oscar was strike three. I was done.
Seeing as though I'm a collector though, I picked it up on Blu Ray regardless since Manga UK released it here. I decided to give it another shot and I ended up enjoying it. It's different. Initially I was pissed off that the first Lupin show we got since the 80's was a radical a change as Fujiko was, but I think watching it a second time I finally accepted it for what it was. The depictions of the characters still aren't great, but I guess if they were going for that "hard and dangerous" style of series they did OK.
That said, not everyone is going to like it. I have more faith in the film because I prefer the staff. Plus, it seems they have had way longer to plan and produce it than they did the show. If it's good enough, I'm hoping we see more of blue jacket.