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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Stories like this are so funny in juxtaposition to what I've been reading. I recently got into Arsène Lupin stories from the early 1900s (praise be royalty free) and it's full of fanciful jail breaks and such. Where's the impersonation of a real person? Where's the accomplices sending messages in code? False fingers full of money? No, we get Mr. Pizza cutter. Clearly not a gentleman burglar.

Also, L.M. is the initials of a big bad in one of the stories, lol.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ooo, have a good place to start? i enjoyed the netflix and have been thinking about binging the anime, but i might have the attention span for the book in a month or so

[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6133

The very first book, in all its public domain glory.

Do note that the anime is about Lupin III, which is canonically the grandson of Arsène Lupin.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ooo, thanks for doing all the heavy lifting for me!

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes someone beat me to it! I second the recommendation. The first two books read very much like episodes of an anime. They were released as short stories in a magazine initially, so they're easy on the attention span.

The third book, The Hollow Needle, is more of a novel but maintains the same qualities. After that... bit of a mood shift but you'll just have to see. I understand that it goes back to fun episodes eventually but I'm still recovering from 813, lol.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

wasn't a lot of the best writing back then released in periodicals?

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yup, or at least most popular writing. The funny part was Arsène was literally conceived as a way to build off the fame of Sherlock Holmes which recently had got translated into French and released in periodicals. Arsène, being French and anti-police, immediately became a star in France, lol.