{"id":11243,"date":"2026-02-13T11:48:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/?p=11243"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:03:43","slug":"jigen-now-and-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/02\/13\/11243\/","title":{"rendered":"Jigen Now and Then"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/topazcomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/OnlineJigenNowAndThen02.jpg\" alt=\"A Lupin the Third fan comic. There is a flashback of Jigen\u2019s childhood. He is hanging out with Lupin while both of them are teenagers. The scenes match moments from the anime Lupin Zero: Jigen shooting his gun from inside a speeding train, both of them smiling with their arms around each other, and Lupin asking Jigen if he was able to steal Jigen\u2019s heart. The final panel is of Jigen and Lupin walking away from each other. This is implied to be their final parting, both of them looking forward to their futures and confident that they will see each other again. They are saying \u201csee you later\u201d in unison.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1391\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/topazcomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/OnlineJigenNowAndThen03.jpg\" alt=\"A Lupin the Third fan comic. We have returned to the present. Jigen is sitting at a table. His iconic magnum is beside him and there is a collection of newspaper clippings in front of him. He has been tracking any piece of information he can find about Lupin. An emergency broadcast from the radio interrupts the page and Jigen listens intently as as the radio announces that \u201cA man claiming to be the decedent of the famous French thief Arsene Lupin, Lupin III, has sent a message card to the Yokohama bank stating \u2018I, Lupin III, master thief, will rob the bank at exactly 12am on April 12\u2019.\u201d\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1391\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/topazcomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/OnlineJigenNowAndThen04.jpg\" alt=\"A Lupin the Third fan comic. A crowd has gathered outside of the Yokohama bank, eager to see if Lupin the Third will actually appear. Jigen is part of the crowd, but unlike the other members who are looking forward to seeing the show he is tense and nervous. Someone from the crowd shouts \u201cthere he is!\u201d Jigen looks up, hopeful that this really will be his old friend, but scared in case it\u2019s not.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1391\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/topazcomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/OnlineJigenNowAndThen05.jpg\" alt=\"A Lupin the Third fan comic. A young Lupin the Third is hanging from a hot-air balloon designed to look like a cartoon of his face. He has a large bag of money over his shoulder and is dramatically positioned in front of the central tower of the Yokohama bank. He is waving to the crowd below him. He has the showmanship he displays when he is older, but is a bit awkward.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1391\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/topazcomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/OnlineJigenNowAndThen06.jpg\" alt=\"A Lupin the Third fan comic. Jigen is looking up at Lupin in awe - he\u2019s everything he remembered him being and more. He begins walking away from the crowd, but he is no longer nervous and anxious. Lupin the Third is real, and this time Jigen\u2019s going to find him.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1391\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jigen Now and Then was done for the charity zine &#8220;Jigen, Before and After&#8221; modded by <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/tsushi.bsky.social\">Tsushi<\/a> and all proceeds ($500USD) went to the Transgender Law Center!<\/p>\n<p>This comic was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/mparker.bsky.social\">Max<\/a>, and sketches\/thumbs can be seen for free over on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/jpawlik\/posts?filters%5Btag%5D=jigen+now+and+then\">Patreon!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jigen Now and Then was done for the charity zine &#8220;Jigen, Before and After&#8221; modded by Tsushi and all proceeds ($500USD) went to the Transgender Law Center! This comic was written by Max, and sketches\/thumbs can be seen for free over on Patreon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/topazcomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/OnlineJigenNowAndThen01.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"A Lupin the Third fan comic. Jigen, in his early twenties, is walking down the streets of Japan in the 1960s. He sees a newspaper headline asking \u201cWho is Lupin the Third\u201d and buys it from a newspaper vendor in a desperate rush.","footnotes":""},"categories":[1264,1278,1500],"tags":[17,1567,25,2230,1963,1568,21,22,1795,1579],"class_list":["post-11243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-comic","category-lupin-iii","tag-comic","tag-jigen","tag-jigen-daisuke","tag-jigen-now-and-then","tag-jiglup","tag-lupin","tag-lupin-iii","tag-lupin-the-third","tag-lupin-zero","tag-lupinjigen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11500,"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions\/11500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpawlik.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}