ルパン三世 Green vs RED

Re-watched it. Still find it great. This time got a subbed version so finally understood some bits. During the first (few) times hadn't managed to grasp the idea that Yasuo did not intentionally become Lupin. This time had a nice understanding that being a criminal genius is hard and you have to make your own entertainment, like for example carefully raising an opponent worth fighting (maybe the creators read a lot about Vetinari?).Has become one of my favourites for ever and ever and ever. Also love the many nods to Castle of Caligostro they have been having lately.
About the end, am sure that the weird guy at the ramen shop is a post-op Yasuo after all, he knew Yukiko but she didn't) and Lupin nicked Yasuo's ring as a keepsake and an entertaining memory of [another?] experiment gone wrong. Somehow it's a theme the anime has lately - looking for a subtitute and pointing him in the right direction only to have him fail at the end. Maybe am looking too much into this because of Jigoku Shoujo III (maybe they are working together, muaha)
The voices are a bit strained, but I suppose that that is how it is and I can only hope that the seiyuu know how much joy they bring the die-hard fans. Looks like we'll be getting a new Zenigata, also possibly Goemon

lupin III: Green vs Red

overall: 10 (would put more but am trying to create a scale)
Sadly I understood only half of the story, but it was brilliant. I actually felt a rush and half of the time I was giggling like the little girl that I am.
No great organization or killers to go against this time, but lots and lots of Lupins running about the place. i like how the story was focused not on the gang but on the impostors.
Bags of eye candy for all Lupin-lovers, especially with a little R-33 license plate at the bottom of the river in the beginning.
now have to find a review to understand how exactly it ended, since can't make heads or tails and it's eating me alive.

Am happy, happy, love, love

Cowboy Bebop

Watched the first episode of Cowboy Bebop.
it's everything I thought it might be. Pure Lupin, but set in the future and has even more jazz. The art style in nice, the music great. Will have to see and decide what to make of it

Lupin III: Kiri no Elusive

Overall rating:7
The story is weak. Really, really weak, but the animation and the feeling of the movie as a whole is so nostalgic. This is the first time I noticed that they returned to the drawing style of the first series, which I will forever hold as the original. It was also somehow similar to Castle of Caligostro, right down to the original little Beetle and a cameo by Clarissa (granted, she was merely a sign on a truck that drove by, but it's the thought that matters). The expressions, the way they grinned at one another and a silly moment by Goemon were all so similar to those I saw in the first series and in Miyazaki's work. Not to mention the opening and ending sequence and the song, which they took from the first series.
The humor was also something out of the 70's, especially the moment in the boat where the small boy asks Lupin, Jigen and Goemon their names, while referring to them as 'old men' at which Lupin and Jigen do a comical moment announcing themselves in funny voices as "Old Man number one - Lupin!" and "Old Man number two - Jigen!" unconsciously pushing Goemon to keep up with the act and him saying "Old Man number three-"before remembering himself and just saying "Ishikawa Goemon" in an unnecessarily low tone.
It was nice, something for a person, who misses the sweet charm of Castle of Caligostro, but doesn't have too high expectations. This is something light with animation that quite good.