C&C - Lupin the Third Part VI - "Welcome to the Island of Bubbles" [9/24]

[veemonjosh]

Lupin the Third Part VI

Episode 21
”Welcome to the Island of Bubbles”​

Last time:

Spoiler

While preparing for a date with Lupin, Fujiko receives an unexpected visit from an old associate, Amelia, a devil-may-care con artist. Despite their lackluster success rate, Amelia wants to team up with Fujiko again to steal a valuable necklace from a cult leader. They infiltrate the Church of Ayon on Atlas Island, only for Amelia to seemingly betray Fujiko. Fujiko then learns the leader is the former IT company president Grayson, who has a sick obsession for literally branding his "property", but was accidentally branded out his left eye during one of Amelia's bungled escapades.

As Fujiko is about to be disfigured by Grayson with hot branding irons, Amelia turns the tables on him. She reveals that they have come to claim revenge against his old company's child trafficking operations, which included Amelia and her childhood friends who were sold into slavery and died. Meanwhile, Lupin hacks into Grayson's dark web marketing site in a plot coordinated with Fujiko, and he scrambles Grayson's AI system which incinerates him. Some months later, Amelia gives birth to a baby boy.

This time:
During an escapade in a seaside town, an imaginative local takes a vested interest in Lupin and company. If only she could be a part of their world…

 

[Kitschensyngk]

LUPIN'S APPARENTLY-NOT-IN-LONDON-ANYMORE PLAYLIST

Oh, a seaside holiday, huh? Here's a number you'll be humming at the beach, whether you like it or not.

"The Chicken Song" from Spitting Image

 

[Nobodyman]

Previously on Lupin III: Sisters before misters.

Are we ever going back to London? Or the Yata/Ariana storyline?

 

[animePWNS]

If Lupin had been in Hawaii this season, we'd probably have Don Ho's Tiny Bubbles in the jukebox.

 

[Kitschensyngk]

Last time: Sisters are doing it for themselves.

 

[Nobodyman]

I think Fujiko awakened something in this girl.

Yeah, Fujiko's a mermaid alright. The vicious man-eating kind.

Dandy? No, that's a different show.

This girl's a regular fanfic writer.

 

[Kitschensyngk]

"Tell me, what is love in your opinion?"
What's love got to do with it?

Those aren't airbags, are they?

I could see Fujiko as a mermaid. They are notorious hoarders.

Great, here come the racists. "ARIEL CAN'T BE JAPANESE!"

"Dandy, I didn't think you'd come chasing after me!"
I didn't know Fujiko was a rare alien species.

Already we're writing Lupin III Part 7.

 

[Nobodyman]

The Book of Five Rings. By K.L.L. Torken.

Yes, I suppose Einstein was a "Genio".

Are they in the village from Luca now?

It'll take much more than a broken neck to keep Lupin from a heist.

 

[Kitschensyngk]

Lupin is noticeably absent from this fantasy.

So when does Rocky Racoon find Gideon's Bible?

Don't you even take the bones out of your fish?

You'd slap someone in a neck brace? ...not that he didn't deserve it...

What if it's a mermaid with a fish body and human legs?

 

[Nobodyman]

Lupin throws a spanner in the works. He tends to do that.

Love. The only way to win is not to play.

I would not take love advice from Lupin.

Alright, I gotta say it. Something fishy is going on here.

Don't force your fantasies onto them, girl.

 

[Kitschensyngk]

What's love but a second-hand emotion?

You read too much manga, kid.

Never thought I'd hear Batou in a romantic role.

You should write for anime films. I hear Lupin knows someone over at Studio Ghibli.

Fujiko makes a pretty mermaid, I have to admit.

 

[Rod G]

I wonder what Muru would make of Zenigata if he had been there.

 

[Nobodyman]

This girl must be very persuasive to get Fujiko to go along with this.

Sorry. Fujiko's only love is money.

Fujiko's looking very One Piece right now.

 

[Kitschensyngk]

Ehh, who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?

Double-O Fujiko. I'd watch that.

 

[marklungo]

So Lupin III is set in a world where Biblical legends are real and mermaids exist. Good to know!

Anyway, if we had to have a comedic filler episode, at least it was funny to see Muru misinterpret everything Fujiko and the guys did. I'm wondering why neither Jigen nor Goemon noticed her spying on them, though.