Lupin III
Dear Lupin III...
You're the grandson of Arsène Lupin, famed for your daring and mysterious adventures,
and people even call you the smartest man in the world!
You're so much more amazing than me and my bro...
Mornin'!
Hirameki Inventions
Who's there?
It's me! Your big bro!
No, you're not...
Okay, lemme test ya! What's 1+1?
Uh... five!
It really is you!
Foreclosure
What the heck?
Did you put these stickers up?!
Foreclosure
It wasn't me! Some guy turned up asking for money, and stuck 'em on everything!
They weren't here to make an order?
Ooh, I'm hungry!
Foreclosure
Holy moly, even the cabbage has one!
They said if we don't pay our taxes, they're gonna take our stuff!
Y'mean, everythin' they've marked?
So this? And that?
Foreclosure
Even the roof? The whole place is covered in 'em!
Upsy daisy...
They said they're gonna take the entire workshop Dad left us!
Goodness gracious! So it'll all be gone, huh?
Upsy daisy... Pardon us, folks. Coming through!
Upsy daisy... Huh?
Lupin!
Forgive the intrusion, citizens.
You're not getting away!
I know! Lupin's the answer!
"Lupin"? Is that what we're havin' for lunch?
Lupin can help us save Dad's workshop!
Lupin vs. the Smart Safe
Greater Tokyo Bank
Mr. President...
Inspector Zenigata
Greater Tokyo Bank President
I know Lupin tipped us off about his next heist, but isn't this a bit much?
Yes! You there!
Is this a good idea? I mean, the infamous Lupin III has said he's going to steal from you.
It's no problem at all—
It's a huge problem!
Neither Lupin nor anyone else can get past our security measures!
Because, ladies and gentlemen, we have a new safe!
Huh? What?
Special Announcement
A lotta people are makin' a whole lotta fuss 'cause of that fake warnin' we did!
Sir, if you would do the honors...
BRAINPOWER
We built a safe
Size isn't everything, you know?
We've invented a safe that Lupin can't crack, no matter how hard he tries!
BRAINPOWER
This safe measures a person's brainpower before it will open.
Lupin III is the brainiest person in the world, with a brainpower rating of 300!
Amazing
Brain
Power
Not Amazing
Then, you have my big brother, who has zero brainpower!
Doesn't that mean Lupin and his superior brainpower will have a huge advantage?
Not to mention, a safe created by a couple of numskulls with zero brainpower...
Lupin will have that thing open in a flash!
Say something, sir!
Having zero brainpower is the key to us beating Lupin!
How do you figure that?!
All right, people. Simmer down!
We... Ow! We have a plan! Tell them, sir!
The plan we came up with to beat Lupin III...
Not Amazing
Brain
Power
...is basically this.
Amazing
Not Amazing
Amazing
Now, my brother with his lack of brainpower has the advantage over Lupin!
Sweet, ain't it?! I beat Lupin!
What do you think, ladies and gentlemen?
This safe only opens when it detects a brainpower rating of zero!
So my big bro can open it...
...but it's never gonna open for Lupin and his 300 rating!
Isn't it fabulous?!
We have just demonstrated a way to beat Lupin III!
Now, gentlemen, if you'd be so kind...
BRAINPOWER
We built a safe
BRAINPOWER
It's open!
This thing might actually keep Lupin out!
That's right!
Greater Tokyo Bank President
With this safe and its inventors,
even the dreaded Lupin is nothing to fear!
Lupin III, take your best shot!
Oomori Ramen
Sounds like fun to me, Lupin. Why don't you try cracking it?
It doesn't bug you that they just picked a fight with you?
Aren't you the grandson of Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief?
You're just gonna ignore their challenge? How dull...
We are closed to deal with some personal business. Management
You're a household name. Must be nice.
Criminals don't do requests.
Having the world's biggest brain and famous lineage will make dodging the fallout easy.
This big ol' brain of mine is the problem! The safe won't open because of it.
Though, I bet your brain would open it, easy, Jigen.
You might as well try. That thing'll probably pop open as soon as it sees you.
Anyway, I never sent those guys a warning!
You sure that cavity hasn't rotted your brain?
Look, just go and break that safe already!
Wow. I never thought I'd see the famous Fujiko Mine so eager to see my exploits!
You must really be bored. No rich suitors turned up lately?
That's not it at all!
I'm just curious about who phoned in the phony warning!
I don't believe you. Here I am, beside myself with worry,
and you act like you've got no interest in it at all!
Lupin.
How about you pay me back for those smokes I bought you?
Here you go.
Oh, yeah. You still owe me for that coffee the other day.
And there's the time I paid for gas...
Lupin, I have come to collect what I'm owed for the rice I paid for...
We are closed to deal with some personal business. Management
Oh, fine!
How much do you vultures want from me?!
The great Lupin with his 300 brainpower is gonna go crack that safe! Satisfied?!
Got get 'em, professor!
You should've said that at the start.
So I figure, less is more in this case.
Watch closely.
Hey, Lupin!
Lupin?
Well, damn. He might actually pull this off.
See?
I looked brain-dead, didn't I?
That's really impressive! You genuinely looked like a simpleton.
I thought you'd finally lost your marbles!
Oh, really?
Well, guess I'd better go pay off my debts...
This'll be easy. I gobble up safes like these for breakfast.
BRAINPOWER
What are we gonna do? His brainpower's dropping like crazy!
Okay! I'm a-gonna go help him!
S-Sir!
Big bro! Stay!
BRAINPOWER
You can do it! You're almost there!
We built a safe
BRAINPOWER
Whew, thank goodness...
He was so friggin' close!
Even if all he did was space out, this is attempted larceny!
Lupin! Give yourself up!
Lupin! You're under arrest!
Wozzat?
Lupin?
I'd have to really be brainless to get caught like this!
Whoa!
Blammo!
You lose
I lose?
Better luck next time!
See ya, Pops!
Don't you mock me! After him!
I dunno what's goin' down here, but I'm a-goin' with them!
Stay, Big Bro!
That was a good try, Lupin!
Gotta love an energetic, amiable adversary!
After him!
As you just witnessed, Lupin was unable to crack the bank's safe!
All thanks to these brilliant individuals!
They beat Lupin with his 300-point brainpower!
Nice! Hooray for the Greater Tokyo Bank!
Come see us again, Lupin!
Big Bro! Our shop's gonna be famous now!
That means we'll get lotsa work! And we can pay back the money we owe!
We built a safe
You lose
Nice try
Oomori Ramen
This sucks! And it's your fault, Lupin! You're too smart!
You always have to be the hotshot, don't you?
What do you want from me?!
Zero brainpower is near impossible for humans!
Right, Jigen?
I know!
We can whittle down your brainpower, bit by bit!
Fujiko's hit on something there.
All right, for starters, Fujiko...
...take off some clothes.
What are you even saying?!
We've gotta rid the brilliant Professor Lupin of his intelligence, right?
Well, when men see women in the buff,
their mental faculties tend to become impaired.
Oh, yeah, okay! I wanna be dumb!
Why are you taking your clothes off?!
So my pants don't get in the way—
Brainpower Monitor
Hey, that's it! That's how we'll do it.
Oomori Ramen
Here you go!
Hup!
Come on, Lupin! Stop trying to dodge.
All right, come to me...
G-Goemon! Save me from these lunatics!
My grandmother once told me that adding pine cones to your soba is good for health.
S-Say what?
Current
Brainpower
Th-That reeks!
LUPIN
Current
Brainpower
I phoned in the warning for you, Lupin.
Now, you can focus on your training.
All right, let's push him harder!
You guys can slack off if you want, y'know...
Don't be ridiculous, buddy.
He's right. Just bear with it for now.
Please, Goemon!
My grandmother recommends broth made from earthworms as an herbal remedy.
Current
Brainpower
All right, we're nearly there.
I've always wanted to give Lupin this kind of treatment.
Still, his brainpower hasn't hit zero yet.
Even though it's almost the day of the heist!
Come on, no more rest!
Time for the last spurt, Lupin!
All right, time to kill some brain cells.
And to hell with the consequences!
Oomori Ramen
Greater Tokyo Bank
Lupin phoned in another warning?
We've had so many new customers opening accounts with us,
Money
we've made more money than I know what to do with!
Lupin...
Good! So good!
If it means chowin' down on grub this good, I hope Lupin does a good job!
We're not supposed to root for him.
There's plenty more ice cream where that came from.
We're bound to make even more money, thanks to Lupin!
Yay! Ice cream!
So good! Can we have more?
Wisdom
Lupin, it's time to show off the fruits of your training!
Brainpower
It's getting hard to lower his brainpower any further...
Maybe he's built up some kind of resistance.
We've barely got any time left!
We have to find a way to get it lower before the big day.
I know... maybe we can try the direct approach!
Whoa, hang on. He'll be dead before he's dumb, that way.
I know Lupin will pull through, somehow!
We've come so far! It just has to work!
What now, Big Bro?
Big Bro?
Y-You can do it, Lupin!
S'okay! I know you can! Even I could do it!
Brainpower
Of all the shameful—
Don't interrupt the show!
Sir, this is an obstruction of justice!
We built a safe
Brainpower
Yes! We win again!
If you keep this up, I may have to arrest you!
Big Bro... We won, didn't we?
B-Big Bro?
Lupin!
Big Bro?!
Lupin!
Lupin, you tried so hard!
There's not a huge difference between zero and one!
Can't we just say he opened it?!
I know! I'm gonna open it for you!
Big Bro?!
Lupin, it's okay now!
Hold on a second.
Lupin?!
Getting a full-blooded pep talk like that one...
...is enough to mend a fella who's had the brains beaten out of him.
Lupin!
I appreciate it, big guy. "Not a huge difference," right?
I like the way you think.
B-Big Bro?
All righty, it's time for the world's greatest intellect and his 300 points of brainpower...
to demonstrate how he goes about cracking a safe!
BRAINPOWER
Amazing! But now, he's too smart to open it!
Lupin...
Behold! Here's the solution the brilliant brain of Lupin III has rustled up!
Fishy, fishy, fishy!
BRAINPOWER
He's even eatin' the bones!
His brainpower's going up!
What's going on?
Oh, I get it! Blueback fish have something in them that makes you smarter!
A
A mega
A mega-brainy
A mega-brainy fatty acid! I saw it on TV!
A mega-brainy fatty
A mega-brainy fatty acid
By consuming a ton of that mega-brainy fatty acid,
he's making himself smarter!
How's that gonna help?
We built a safe
Go! Go! You can do it!
We built a safe
BRAINPOWER
It opened!
I guess the difference between an idiot and a genius really is paper thin!
I see! Brainpower 300 was the max it could measure, so brainpower 301 caused an overflow!
One more point forced it to reset exactly like a digital clock does.
Whoa! Hold it right there!
Lupin! You're under arrest!
Lupin?
Are you—
Time to make a run for it, Lupin.
Don't dawdle, now!
You okay there, Lupin?
I'm jus' fine...
You're not getting away, Lupin!
Well, he didn't take the money, so I guess it all worked out in the end.
The contest ends in a draw!
That being the case, good night, ladies and gentlemen!
Our safe didn't win...
We're gonna lose the workshop, after all.
I dunno what you mean,
but us and Lupin... we're the same, ain't we?
I mean, we just need to eat fish, right?
Won't eatin' fish mean it's all worked out in the end?
I know!
Big Bro! We might lose the workshop, but...
I think, if we work together, we can make it somehow!
Thanks, Big Bro!
Your safe was really incredible!
What does it feel like to have such low brainpower?
What will you be inventing next?
A new power for a new age!
You know what it is!
Soy Flavor
Curry Flavor
Now on sale!
Canned Fish!
Hirameki Inventions
(Tax inc.) Yen
Canned Fish!
Hirameki Inventions
Now on sale!
Canned Fish
(Tax inc.) Yen
Eat fish...
...and increase your brainpower!
Collect the stickers that come with the cans, and take on Lupin!
Canned Fish
And so, after we'd become overnight celebs and started selling canned blueback fish,
it got super popular because it tastes good and makes you smarter!
And my brother became famous for being funny around the neighborhood!
Let's communicate with cats!
From now on, the two of us are gonna do lotsa work so we can pay off our debts.
Oomori Ramen
Lupin III, a lot has happened, but we're doin' well!
Lupin, about that rice money...
You guys had a lot of fun at my expense, didn't you?
Thinking you could get away with murder just 'cause you were trying to lower my brainpower!
Uh, I have an appointment with the beautician, so I'm gonna head out now...
Y-Yeowch, my cavity's suddenly started acting up...
You're all ne'er-do-wells, I suppose.
It's too much to expect even a scintilla of remorse from you, isn't it?
I guess our esteemed professor wants to be a pain in somewhere other than my tooth.
Okay, fine. Hey, Fujiko, take off your clothes.
Have you gone soft in the head, too?!
Come on, make me dumb again!
Like I said first time...
Why are you taking your clothes off?!
So much for that idea.
I received a request from a guy named Gaston,
who knows all about my past and wants me to steal something.
This guy was once known as a master forger in the underworld.
And since we've got a bit of history, it's not like I can turn him down.
The part where I steal the painting went smoothly enough, but beyond that...
I gotta tell you, something stinks about this whole thing.
Gaston, what kind of trouble have you gotten yourself mixed up in?
Next time: His Name is Albert.
His Name is Albert
I get it. So you're a part of this, too...