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• THE ANIGAY GUI TO LUP THE THIRD: INTRO & PART 1ELIZABETH SIMS·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ANIGAY·11 M READ·OCT 11, 2018--3LISTENSHARETHE MANY QUEERNS OF LUP IIIIN THE URSE OF S FIVE S ON-AND-OFF THE AIR, THE LUP III ANIME ANCHISE HAS SPANNED SOME 300 EPISOS, 26 MOVIE-LENGTH TV SPECIALS, A DOZEN THEATRIL RELEAS, SEVERAL OVAS, AND THE WORK OF NUMERO DIRECTORS, ANIMATORS, AND WRERS. AND THOUGH WAS ONLY THIS YEAR THAT AN OPENLY GAY CHARACTER WAS ADD TO S RECURRG ST, LUP THE THIRD HAS BEEN QUEER AT LEAST SCE 1971, BACK WHEN THE MANGA WAS FIRST ADAPTED TO AN ANIME.LUP THE THIRD: PART 2 (1978)BUT WHILE SOME ANIME SERI HAVE CLEAR, NSISTENT DIRECTORIAL VISNS THAT ARE REFLECTED NEATLY HOW THEY PORTRAY QUEERNS, LUP THE THIRD IS AT S RE A LLABORATIVE WORK — S FIRST SEASON ALONE BOASTS NE SCREENWRERS FOR JT 23 EPISOS TOTAL. AND JT LIKE (FOR EXAMPLE) SAYO YAMAMOTO’S TERPRETATN OF FUJIKO ME 2012 DIFFERS OM HAYAO MIYAZAKI’S 1979, LUP THE THIRD’S PICTN OF QUEER PEOPLE AND SUATNS VARI DRAMATILLY PENDG ON WHO IS CREATIVELY RPONSIBLE FOR THEM.THE QUTN OF WHAT IS OR ISN’T “NON” OR TEXTUAL FOR LUP THE THIRD IS ALSO RENRED BASILLY MOOT BY THE WILDLY DIFFERENT TERPRETATNS ON DISPLAY THROUGHOUT THE SERI. BUT THERE ARE FELY A FEW THREADS THAT N THROUGH ALL — OR MOST — OF LUP, AND THOUGH SOME OF THOSE THREADS MAY NFLICT WH EACH OTHER, IF YOU IGNORE THE PULSN TO MERGE EVERYTHG TO ONE NSISTENT “NON,” YOU N UNRAVEL SOME SUPER GOOD (AND SUPER QUEER) STORI THAT EXIST MORE OR LS PEACEFULLY SI BY SI.“THE WOMAN CALLED FUJIKO ME” (2012)SO HOW SHOULD AN TERTED-BUT-OVERWHELMED QUEER VIEWER APPROACH THIS ENORMO, NSISTENT BODY OF WORK? WELL, THAT’S WHAT THE ANIGAY GUI TO LUP THE THIRD IS FOR! THIS SERI WILL TAKE YOU THROUGH THE ENTIRE LUP III ANIME (CLUDG OVAS, TV SPECIALS, ETC), AND POT OUT S BT AND QUEERT EPISOS AND PLOT THREADS ALONG THE WAY — OM JIGEN’S MANY EX-BOYIENDS, TO GOEMON’S AFFY FOR DRAG, TO FUJIKO’S BISEXUALY, TO… WELL, THERE’S TOO MUCH TO LIST. THAT’S WHY I’M DOG A WHOLE SERI!FROM “DRAGON OF DOOM” (1994)IN MY BEYOND “CANON GAY” POST, I PUT LUP III THE IMPLIC-LERAL QUEERNS QUADRANT, BUT TTHFULLY THERE ISN’T A QUEERNS QUADRANT THAT ISN’T VERED BY LUP AT SOME POT. THERE ARE CHARACTERS WHO ARE IMPLICLY AND EXPLICLY GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANS. THERE’S DRAG AND THERE’S GENR-SWAPPG (MAGIL AND OTHERWISE), AND QUEER CULTURAL REFERENC ABOUND. DEPENDG ON THE CREATIVE TEAM, SOMETIM QUEER CHARACTERS AND SUATNS ARE PORTRAYED SYMPATHETILLY, AND EVEN NONCHALANTLY. SOMETIM, HOWEVER, THEY’RE RIFE WH STEREOTYP, HOMOPHOBIA, AND/OR TRANSPHOBIA. THE ANIGAY GUI TO LUP WILL MOSTLY BE DITED TO DISCSG THE MORE TERTG, LS FUCKED-UP STANC OF QUEERNS THROUGHOUT LUP III, BUT I’LL ALSO CLU LISTS OF EPISOS TO DEFELY SKIP STANC OF OVERT AND UN-NUANCED BIGOTRY.AND ON THAT NOTE, A FAL WORD ABOUT LUP THE THIRD AS A WHOLE BEFORE I DIG TO PART 1: LUP III IS AN OLD TV SERI AND AS SUCH IS FULL OF MISOGYNY. LIKE WH EVERYTHG ELSE, THE FLAVOR VARI PENDG ON THE EPISO, BUT THERE ARE FELY SUATNS WHERE LUP IS PICTED AS ATTEMPTG SEXUAL ASSLT OR JT GENERALLY BEG CREEPY AS HELL FOR LGHS. FUJIKO’S CLOTH EQUENTLY E OFF FOR BASILLY NO REASON (THOUGH MALE CHARACTERS ARE RANDOMLY STRIPPED AT LEAST AS OFTEN, IF NOT MORE), AND SHE IS OCSNALLY PLACED SEXUAL PERIL TO ADVANCE THE PLOT. THERE ARE ALSO A FEW GLARG EXAMPL OF RACISM, ANTI-SEMISM, AND OTHER UNFORTABLE AND PROBLEMATIC SH. THE ANIGAY GUI TO LUP WILL LIST EPISOS TO SKIP EXTREME S, BUT DIVIDUAL EPISOS WON’T E WH NTENT WARNGS OTHERWISE, SO PLEASE PROCEED WH UTN. IF YOU’RE ABLE TO, LUP III IS ABSOLUTELY WORTH THE TROUBLE TAK TO STEER AROUND A FEW OBSTACL.THE ANIGAY GUI TO LUP III: PART 1LIKE THE RT OF THE LUP TV SERI, PART 1 IS AVAILABLE FULL OVER ON CNCHYROLL. UNLIKE THE RT OF THE SERI, PART 1 ALSO HAS AN EASILY AVAILABLE AND REASONABLY-PRICED DVD SET, WHICH EVEN CLUS THE OTHERWISE-IMPOSSIBLE-TO-FD “PILOT FILM” CREATED JT BEFORE PART 1 BEGAN AIRG 1971. COOL!AND NOW, WHOUT FURTHER ADO, LET’S TALK ABOUT JIGEN AND ZENIGATA. BEE WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT QUEERNS LUP III: PART 1, THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE TALKG ABOUT. MORE SPECIFILLY, THE SUBJECT AT HAND IS LUP’S PLITED RELATNSHIPS WH JIGEN AND ZENIGATA, BOTH OF WHOM ARE PICTED AS BEG ( TWO VERY DIFFERENT WAYS) LOVE WH LUP. DO HE RECIPROTE? ARE THE RELATNSHIPS NSISTENT ANY WAY OM EPISO TO EPISO, SERI TO SERI? AND WHAT DO THEY MEAN TO THE CHARACTERS VOLVED? THERE’S ONLY ONE WAY TO FD OUT.ZENIGATAZENIGATA’S RELATNSHIP TO LUP IS REMARKABLY NSISTENT ACROSS THE ENTIRE SERI, AND TENDS TO TEETER ON THE EDGE BETWEEN LERALLY QUEER AND METAPHORILLY QUEER. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? WELL, WHEN ZENIGATA SAYS HE’S TIED TO LUP BY “STY” OR “FATE,” HE’S OSTENSIBLY TALKG ABOUT HIS REPEATED ATTEMPTS TO ARRT LUP, BUT THE LANGUAGE ZENIGATA TO SCRIBE THE FEELGS OCSNALLY (OKAY, PRETTY EQUENTLY) CROSS THE LE TO SO-UNAMBIGUOLY-ROMANTIC THAT ’S CLEAR THE CREATORS WANT TO TERPRET THAT WAY. IN FACT, THE MAJORY OF WHAT ZENIGATA SAYS ABOUT LUP N BE TERPRETED EHER WAY—IS HE TALKG ABOUT TRYG TO PTURE LUP LIKE A P PTUR A CRIMAL, OR IS HE G ANOTHER, LS LERAL MEANG OF THE WORD “PTURE”? THIS DOUBLE-MEANG IS SOMETIM ACKNOWLEDGED EXPLICLY BY OTHER CHARACTERS, AND EQUENTLY HTED AT BY THE VISUALS — LIKE THE FLOWER PETALS THE GIF ABOVE — AND SOUNDTRACK, BLATANTLY ENOUGH TO PH THGS TO THAT “LERALLY QUEER” TEGORY. BUT ZENIGATA’S PROFSNAL-CUM-ROMANTIC TERT LUP OFTEN FEELS JT AS MUCH LIKE MENTARY ON THE HERENTLY ROMANTIC OVERTON OF THE “T AND MOE” TROPE AS DO A NSIRED CHARACTERIZATN OF ZENIGATA. LIKE EVERYTHG ELSE ABOUT QUEERNS LUP III, THIS VARI.NOT ONLY DO PART 1 TABLISH ZENIGATA’S NFLICTED FEELGS SUPER EARLY ON (THE EXTREMELY ROMANTIC GIF ABOVE IS OM THE VERY FIRST EPISO), ALSO LAYS THE FOUNDATNS FOR LUP’S FLIPPANTLY AFFECTNATE ATTU TOWARD ZENIGATA’S OBSSN WH HIM. AND THOUGH ZENIGATA AS A CHARACTER WILL SOFTEN UP A B AFTER PART 1 (FOR THE MOST PART), HIS PLAYFULLY ANTAGONISTIC RELATNSHIP WH LUP IS ONE OF THE SERI’ MOST STABLE, ALL THGS NSIRED.JIGENJIGEN AND LUP’S RELATNSHIP IS A DIFFERENT STORY. BUT THOUGH JIGEN’S ROLE LUP’S LIFE MAY APPEAR TO CHANGE OM ONE EPISO TO ANOTHER, THE FACT THAT HE HAS ROMANTIC FEELGS FOR LUP N BE RELIED UPON TO STAY THE SAME. THIS IS PARTLY BEE JIGEN IS PICTED AS GAY WH ALMOST 100% NSISTENCY OVER THE URSE OF LUP THE THIRD’S HALF-A-CENTURY N. JIGEN’S ROMANTIC DISTASTE FOR WOMEN IS WELL-DOCUMENTED, THOUGH OFTEN POORLY TRANSLATED, AND THE FACT THAT HIS SEXUALY IS FED BY HIS DISLIKE FOR ONE GENR RATHER THAN HIS PREFERENCE FOR ANOTHER IS MORE THAN JT A NOD TO QUEER JAPANE HISTORY (MORE ON THAT A FUTURE POST); ALSO ALLOWS HIM TO FLY SOMEWHAT UNR THE RADAR AS A SEMI-OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER.I SAY “SEMI-OPENLY” BEE JIGEN’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN MANAG TO BE BOTH SURPRISGLY OVERT AND NVEYED ALMOST EXCLIVELY VIA HTS, SUBTEXT, AND DG:THERE’S NO POSSIBLE NON-QUEER TERPRETATN FOR THE PAIR OF SCEN ABOVE, WHICH LUP’S DATE WH FUJIKO IS STARKLY JUXTAPOSED WH JIGEN’S TRATED DART-THROWS AT A HEART-SHAPED TARGET, BUT THE QUEERNS IS ALSO THEORETILLY POSSIBLE TO MISS BEE ’S NEVER STATED OUTRIGHT. FOR THIS REASON, THOUGH GETS EXTREMELY CLOSE TO EXPLIC, I’D ALMOST ALWAYS PUT “JIGEN IS GAY” SQUARELY THE “IMPLIC-LERAL” QUEERNS QUADRANT.BUT WHAT ABOUT LUP? WHERE DO HE F TO THE EQUATN? I KNOW I SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RERD BY NOW, BUT: IT VARI! THE STAT QUO OF LUP AND JIGEN’S RELATNSHIP TAK ON A FEW DIFFERENT FORMS. IN SOME EPISOS, LIKE THE ONE ABOVE (1.9), THE DYNAMIC IS THAT LUP’S PRIMARY (ALMOST NEVER REQUED) ROMANTIC TERT IS FUJIKO (OR, LS OFTEN, ANOTHER WOMAN), WHILE JIGEN PLAYS THE UNLUCKY THIRD PARTY A LUP-CENTRIC LOVE TRIANGLE. (AND I’LL BE REFERRG TO AS THE LOVE TRIANGLE NFIGURATN.) SOMETIM THIS IS NTENT (AGA, ABOVE) AND SOMETIM JIGEN AND FUJIKO SEEM TO HAVE REACHED AN UNRSTANDG. IMPORTANTLY, JIGEN AND FUJIKO’S RELATNSHIP NS THE GAMUT OM MUTUAL HATRED, TO BEGDGG RPECT, TO AFFECTNATE IENDSHIP, AGA PENDG ON THE EPISO.ANOTHER TYPIL VERSN OF THE LUP/JIGEN DYNAMIC IS A PARTNERSHIP THAT FEELS MUCH MORE RECIPROLLY ROMANTIC—THOUGH LUP’S RECIPROTN ALWAYS REMAS IMPLIC. I’LL REFER TO THIS NFIGURATN AS CRIME HBANDS. GENERALLY, THE CRIME HBANDS DYNAMIC APPEARS EPISOS THAT DON’T CENTRALLY FEATURE FUJIKO, THOUGH OCSNALLY SOME HIJKS NSPIRE TO E LUP TO “CHOOSE” OR “END UP WH” JIGEN OVER FUJIKO, WHICH APPEARS TO STRENGTHEN THEIR BOND. THOSE ARE THE EPISOS THAT END WH LUP AND JIGEN LERALLY WALKG OFF TO THE SUNSET TOGETHER, PHYSILLY EMBRACG WHILE THE SCREEN FAS TO BLACK, AND SO ON. LUP IS ALWAYS OVER-THE-TOP TOUCHY-FEELY, BUT CRIME HBANDS EPISOS EMPHASIZE THIS BETWEEN LUP AND JIGEN TO A GREE THAT N ONLY BE SCRIBED AS: CUTE.THERE ARE OTHER JIGEN/LUP(/FUJIKO) DYNAMICS THAT POP UP OVER THE URSE OF LUP III, BUT WHEN PART 1 FOC ON THE QUEERNS OF JIGEN’S RELATNSHIP WH LUP, ’S PRIMARILY BASED ON THE TWO TEMPLAT I JT LISTED. AND I PROMISE I’LL EVENTUALLY STOP REPEATG MYSELF, BUT PRETTY MUCH NONE OF THIS MAK SENSE IF YOU TRY AND F ALL TO ONE NSISTENT TIMELE. IT’S NOT THAT LEAR TIME DON’T EXIST THE WORLD OF LUP THE THIRD; ’S THAT MULTIPLE LEAR TIMEL EXIST, SO TRYG TO MERGE THEM IS AN EXERCISE FUTILY.QUEERNS AND CRIMETHERE’S ONE MORE ASPECT OF LUP THE THIRD THAT’S WORTH POTG OUT EARLY ON, EVEN IF I WON’T LVE SUPER EP TO FOR NOW. AS I TOUCHED ON BRIEFLY MY BEYOND “CANON GAY” POST, CRIMALY IS ONE WAY WHICH QUEERNS N BE NVEYED METAPHORILLY: CRIMALS, PECIALLY REER CRIMALS, LIVE ON THE G OF SOCIETY PERMANENTLY AND DON’T F TO S “NORMAL” EXPECTATNS.¹ OBVLY, LUP AND HIS GANG ARE ALL PRIME EXAMPL OF CHARACTERS WHO REFE TO ADHERE TO NVENTNAL, HETERONORMATIVE LIFE PATHS. SO EVEN REGARDLS OF THE PARTICULARS OF THEIR LERAL SEXUAL ORIENTATNS, THIS MAK THE ENTIRE AMEWORK OF THE LUP UNIVERSE HERENTLY METAPHORILLY QUEER. IN LUP THE THIRD, THIS OVERARCHG METAPHOR IS RARELY IF EVER ED AS A DIRECT OR OVERT MEANS TO DISCS QUEERNS, UNLIKE SERI I WOULD TEGORIZE MORE CISIVELY AS “METAPHORILLY QUEER” (DEVILMAN CRYBABY; MISS KOBAYASHI’S DRAGON MAID; ETC), BUT ’S STILL TERTG TO KEEP MD BEE THE LUP GANG’S MMENT TO THEIR RPECTIVE CRIMAL LIFTYL IS, AT THE VERY LEAST, A GUARANTEED WAY OF KEEPG THE PRSUR OF HETERONORMATIVE SOCIETY OFF THEIR BACKS (AND OUT OF THEIR SHOW).OKAY! SO YOU’VE GOT A GOOD IA OF THE BASIC QUEER STCTUR PLACE FOR LUP THE THIRD: PART 1. READY TO WATCH SOME EPISOS? BELOW ARE A FEW THAT NO QUEER LUP VIEWER SHOULD MISS.THE ANIGAYT EPISOS OF LUP THE THIRD: PART 1EPISO 1: IS LUP BURN’?“IS LUP BURNG’?” DON’T HAVE THE QUEERT THEM ON THIS LIST, BUT ’S THE FIRST EPISO OF LUP THE THIRD EVER, WHICH ALONE MAK WORTH WATCHG. MORE IMPORTANTLY, 1.1 TRODUC ZENIGATA’S BURNG PASSN FOR, UM, ARRTG LUP, ALONG WH SOME OF THE MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD DYNAMICS OF LUP AND JIGEN’S PARTNERSHIP.EPISO 4: ONE CHANCE TO BREAKOUTEPISO 4, ON THE OTHER HAND — WELL, I WON’T SPOIL TOO MUCH BUT BASILLY: LUP GETS HIMSELF UGHT AND THROWN JAIL, AND ROLV TO BREAK HIMSELF OUT. JIGEN AND FUJIKO HAVE WILDLY DIFFERENT PG STRATEGI DURG LUP’S ABSENCE, AND ZENIGATA GROWS CREASGLY NFLICTED AS LUP’S STAY JAIL GROWS LONGER AND LONGER. “ONE CHANCE TO BREAKOUT” IS ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORE EPISOS, AND ALSO ONE OF THE GAYT AND MOST ROMANTIC. IF I HAD TO CHOOSE JT ONE EPISO OM PART 1 TO REMEND, WOULD ABSOLUTELY BE THIS ONE. IT’S PEAK CRIME HBANDS.EPISO 9: KILLER SGS THE BLU“KILLER SGS THE BLU” IS ONE OF THE FIRST EPISOS WHICH THE NTENT LOVE TRIANGLE DYNAMIC BETWEEN LUP, JIGEN, AND FUJIKO IS REALLY HIGHLIGHTED — STARTG WH THE OPENG PAIR OF SCEN, WHICH I ALREADY DISCSED ABOVE AND ARE JT AS QUEER NTEXT. ALSO, BON: FUJIKO DRAG! HELL YEAH.EPISO 13: BEWARE THE TIME MACHE!TIME TRAVEL, LUP MORTAL PERIL, A RARE JIGEN DRAG… WHAT DON’T EPISO 13 HAVE? IN ALL SERNS, THOUGH, 1.13 DO A LOT OF WORK TO PICT THE LUP GANG AS A LOVG, DYSFUNCTNAL FAY, WHICH WILL BEE A STRONGER THEME FUTURE SERI, PECIALLY AS GOEMON SETTL TO HIS ROLE AS A MA CHARACTER. ALSO, I’M JT A SUCKER FOR THE LUP FAY BEG SUPER NCERNED FOR EACH OTHER’S WELL-BEG, SO ANY EPISO BUILT AROUND THAT IS GONNA GET HIGH MARKS OM ME.EPISO 21: RCUE THE TOMBOY!THIS EPISO IS QUEER A B OF A DIFFERENT WAY OM MY OTHER REMENDATNS: INSTEAD OF FOCG ON ANY OF OUR UAL MA CHARACTERS, “RCUE THE TOMBOY!” IS ABOUT LUP’S FATHER (LUP II) AND HIS PARTNER (WHOSE CHILD’S FATE HAPPENS TO FALL TO LUP). THOUGH WE SEE VERY FEW LUP II/PARTNER TERACTNS FIRSTHAND, THE LUP/JIGEN PARALLELS ARE CLEAR, SO THIS IS ONE SMALL AND SELF-NTAED STORY THAT’S WORTH STG A QUEERLY ANALYTIC EYE OVER.EPISOS YOU SHOULD SKIP FOR YOUR OWN SANY
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THE ANIGAY GUI TO LUP THE THIRD: INTRO & PART 1ELIZABETH SIMS·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ANIGAY·11 M READ·OCT 11, 2018--3LISTENSHARETHE MANY QUEERNS OF LUP IIIIN THE URSE OF S FIVE S ON-AND-OFF THE AIR, THE LUP III ANIME ANCHISE HAS SPANNED SOME 300 EPISOS, 26 MOVIE-LENGTH TV SPECIALS, A DOZEN THEATRIL RELEAS, SEVERAL OVAS, AND THE WORK OF NUMERO DIRECTORS, ANIMATORS, AND WRERS. AND THOUGH WAS ONLY THIS YEAR THAT AN OPENLY GAY CHARACTER WAS ADD TO S RECURRG ST, LUP THE THIRD HAS BEEN QUEER AT LEAST SCE 1971, BACK WHEN THE MANGA WAS FIRST ADAPTED TO AN ANIME.LUP THE THIRD: PART 2 (1978)BUT WHILE SOME ANIME SERI HAVE CLEAR, NSISTENT DIRECTORIAL VISNS THAT ARE REFLECTED NEATLY HOW THEY PORTRAY QUEERNS, LUP THE THIRD IS AT S RE A LLABORATIVE WORK — S FIRST SEASON ALONE BOASTS NE SCREENWRERS FOR JT 23 EPISOS TOTAL. AND JT LIKE (FOR EXAMPLE) SAYO YAMAMOTO’S TERPRETATN OF FUJIKO ME 2012 DIFFERS OM HAYAO MIYAZAKI’S 1979, LUP THE THIRD’S PICTN OF QUEER PEOPLE AND SUATNS VARI DRAMATILLY PENDG ON WHO IS CREATIVELY RPONSIBLE FOR THEM.THE QUTN OF WHAT IS OR ISN’T “NON” OR TEXTUAL FOR LUP THE THIRD IS ALSO RENRED BASILLY MOOT BY THE WILDLY DIFFERENT TERPRETATNS ON DISPLAY THROUGHOUT THE SERI. BUT THERE ARE FELY A FEW THREADS THAT N THROUGH ALL — OR MOST — OF LUP, AND THOUGH SOME OF THOSE THREADS MAY NFLICT WH EACH OTHER, IF YOU IGNORE THE PULSN TO MERGE EVERYTHG TO ONE NSISTENT “NON,” YOU N UNRAVEL SOME SUPER GOOD (AND SUPER QUEER) STORI THAT EXIST MORE OR LS PEACEFULLY SI BY SI.“THE WOMAN CALLED FUJIKO ME” (2012)SO HOW SHOULD AN TERTED-BUT-OVERWHELMED QUEER VIEWER APPROACH THIS ENORMO, NSISTENT BODY OF WORK? WELL, THAT’S WHAT THE ANIGAY GUI TO LUP THE THIRD IS FOR! THIS SERI WILL TAKE YOU THROUGH THE ENTIRE LUP III ANIME (CLUDG OVAS, TV SPECIALS, ETC), AND POT OUT S BT AND QUEERT EPISOS AND PLOT THREADS ALONG THE WAY — OM JIGEN’S MANY EX-BOYIENDS, TO GOEMON’S AFFY FOR DRAG, TO FUJIKO’S BISEXUALY, TO… WELL, THERE’S TOO MUCH TO LIST. THAT’S WHY I’M DOG A WHOLE SERI!FROM “DRAGON OF DOOM” (1994)IN MY BEYOND “CANON GAY” POST, I PUT LUP III THE IMPLIC-LERAL QUEERNS QUADRANT, BUT TTHFULLY THERE ISN’T A QUEERNS QUADRANT THAT ISN’T VERED BY LUP AT SOME POT. THERE ARE CHARACTERS WHO ARE IMPLICLY AND EXPLICLY GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANS. THERE’S DRAG AND THERE’S GENR-SWAPPG (MAGIL AND OTHERWISE), AND QUEER CULTURAL REFERENC ABOUND. DEPENDG ON THE CREATIVE TEAM, SOMETIM QUEER CHARACTERS AND SUATNS ARE PORTRAYED SYMPATHETILLY, AND EVEN NONCHALANTLY. SOMETIM, HOWEVER, THEY’RE RIFE WH STEREOTYP, HOMOPHOBIA, AND/OR TRANSPHOBIA. THE ANIGAY GUI TO LUP WILL MOSTLY BE DITED TO DISCSG THE MORE TERTG, LS FUCKED-UP STANC OF QUEERNS THROUGHOUT LUP III, BUT I’LL ALSO CLU LISTS OF EPISOS TO DEFELY SKIP STANC OF OVERT AND UN-NUANCED BIGOTRY.AND ON THAT NOTE, A FAL WORD ABOUT LUP THE THIRD AS A WHOLE BEFORE I DIG TO PART 1: LUP III IS AN OLD TV SERI AND AS SUCH IS FULL OF MISOGYNY. LIKE WH EVERYTHG ELSE, THE FLAVOR VARI PENDG ON THE EPISO, BUT THERE ARE FELY SUATNS WHERE LUP IS PICTED AS ATTEMPTG SEXUAL ASSLT OR JT GENERALLY BEG CREEPY AS HELL FOR LGHS. FUJIKO’S CLOTH EQUENTLY E OFF FOR BASILLY NO REASON (THOUGH MALE CHARACTERS ARE RANDOMLY STRIPPED AT LEAST AS OFTEN, IF NOT MORE), AND SHE IS OCSNALLY PLACED SEXUAL PERIL TO ADVANCE THE PLOT. THERE ARE ALSO A FEW GLARG EXAMPL OF RACISM, ANTI-SEMISM, AND OTHER UNFORTABLE AND PROBLEMATIC SH. THE ANIGAY GUI TO LUP WILL LIST EPISOS TO SKIP EXTREME S, BUT DIVIDUAL EPISOS WON’T E WH NTENT WARNGS OTHERWISE, SO PLEASE PROCEED WH UTN. IF YOU’RE ABLE TO, LUP III IS ABSOLUTELY WORTH THE TROUBLE TAK TO STEER AROUND A FEW OBSTACL.THE ANIGAY GUI TO LUP III: PART 1LIKE THE RT OF THE LUP TV SERI, PART 1 IS AVAILABLE FULL OVER ON CNCHYROLL. UNLIKE THE RT OF THE SERI, PART 1 ALSO HAS AN EASILY AVAILABLE AND REASONABLY-PRICED DVD SET, WHICH EVEN CLUS THE OTHERWISE-IMPOSSIBLE-TO-FD “PILOT FILM” CREATED JT BEFORE PART 1 BEGAN AIRG 1971. COOL!AND NOW, WHOUT FURTHER ADO, LET’S TALK ABOUT JIGEN AND ZENIGATA. BEE WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT QUEERNS LUP III: PART 1, THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE TALKG ABOUT. MORE SPECIFILLY, THE SUBJECT AT HAND IS LUP’S PLITED RELATNSHIPS WH JIGEN AND ZENIGATA, BOTH OF WHOM ARE PICTED AS BEG ( TWO VERY DIFFERENT WAYS) LOVE WH LUP. DO HE RECIPROTE? ARE THE RELATNSHIPS NSISTENT ANY WAY OM EPISO TO EPISO, SERI TO SERI? AND WHAT DO THEY MEAN TO THE CHARACTERS VOLVED? THERE’S ONLY ONE WAY TO FD OUT.ZENIGATAZENIGATA’S RELATNSHIP TO LUP IS REMARKABLY NSISTENT ACROSS THE ENTIRE SERI, AND TENDS TO TEETER ON THE EDGE BETWEEN LERALLY QUEER AND METAPHORILLY QUEER. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? WELL, WHEN ZENIGATA SAYS HE’S TIED TO LUP BY “STY” OR “FATE,” HE’S OSTENSIBLY TALKG ABOUT HIS REPEATED ATTEMPTS TO ARRT LUP, BUT THE LANGUAGE ZENIGATA TO SCRIBE THE FEELGS OCSNALLY (OKAY, PRETTY EQUENTLY) CROSS THE LE TO SO-UNAMBIGUOLY-ROMANTIC THAT ’S CLEAR THE CREATORS WANT TO TERPRET THAT WAY. IN FACT, THE MAJORY OF WHAT ZENIGATA SAYS ABOUT LUP N BE TERPRETED EHER WAY—IS HE TALKG ABOUT TRYG TO PTURE LUP LIKE A P PTUR A CRIMAL, OR IS HE G ANOTHER, LS LERAL MEANG OF THE WORD “PTURE”? THIS DOUBLE-MEANG IS SOMETIM ACKNOWLEDGED EXPLICLY BY OTHER CHARACTERS, AND EQUENTLY HTED AT BY THE VISUALS — LIKE THE FLOWER PETALS THE GIF ABOVE — AND SOUNDTRACK, BLATANTLY ENOUGH TO PH THGS TO THAT “LERALLY QUEER” TEGORY. BUT ZENIGATA’S PROFSNAL-CUM-ROMANTIC TERT LUP OFTEN FEELS JT AS MUCH LIKE MENTARY ON THE HERENTLY ROMANTIC OVERTON OF THE “T AND MOE” TROPE AS DO A NSIRED CHARACTERIZATN OF ZENIGATA. LIKE EVERYTHG ELSE ABOUT QUEERNS LUP III, THIS VARI.NOT ONLY DO PART 1 TABLISH ZENIGATA’S NFLICTED FEELGS SUPER EARLY ON (THE EXTREMELY ROMANTIC GIF ABOVE IS OM THE VERY FIRST EPISO), ALSO LAYS THE FOUNDATNS FOR LUP’S FLIPPANTLY AFFECTNATE ATTU TOWARD ZENIGATA’S OBSSN WH HIM. AND THOUGH ZENIGATA AS A CHARACTER WILL SOFTEN UP A B AFTER PART 1 (FOR THE MOST PART), HIS PLAYFULLY ANTAGONISTIC RELATNSHIP WH LUP IS ONE OF THE SERI’ MOST STABLE, ALL THGS NSIRED.JIGENJIGEN AND LUP’S RELATNSHIP IS A DIFFERENT STORY. BUT THOUGH JIGEN’S ROLE LUP’S LIFE MAY APPEAR TO CHANGE OM ONE EPISO TO ANOTHER, THE FACT THAT HE HAS ROMANTIC FEELGS FOR LUP N BE RELIED UPON TO STAY THE SAME. THIS IS PARTLY BEE JIGEN IS PICTED AS GAY WH ALMOST 100% NSISTENCY OVER THE URSE OF LUP THE THIRD’S HALF-A-CENTURY N. JIGEN’S ROMANTIC DISTASTE FOR WOMEN IS WELL-DOCUMENTED, THOUGH OFTEN POORLY TRANSLATED, AND THE FACT THAT HIS SEXUALY IS FED BY HIS DISLIKE FOR ONE GENR RATHER THAN HIS PREFERENCE FOR ANOTHER IS MORE THAN JT A NOD TO QUEER JAPANE HISTORY (MORE ON THAT A FUTURE POST); ALSO ALLOWS HIM TO FLY SOMEWHAT UNR THE RADAR AS A SEMI-OPENLY QUEER CHARACTER.I SAY “SEMI-OPENLY” BEE JIGEN’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN MANAG TO BE BOTH SURPRISGLY OVERT AND NVEYED ALMOST EXCLIVELY VIA HTS, SUBTEXT, AND DG:THERE’S NO POSSIBLE NON-QUEER TERPRETATN FOR THE PAIR OF SCEN ABOVE, WHICH LUP’S DATE WH FUJIKO IS STARKLY JUXTAPOSED WH JIGEN’S TRATED DART-THROWS AT A HEART-SHAPED TARGET, BUT THE QUEERNS IS ALSO THEORETILLY POSSIBLE TO MISS BEE ’S NEVER STATED OUTRIGHT. FOR THIS REASON, THOUGH GETS EXTREMELY CLOSE TO EXPLIC, I’D ALMOST ALWAYS PUT “JIGEN IS GAY” SQUARELY THE “IMPLIC-LERAL” QUEERNS QUADRANT.BUT WHAT ABOUT LUP? WHERE DO HE F TO THE EQUATN? I KNOW I SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RERD BY NOW, BUT: IT VARI! THE STAT QUO OF LUP AND JIGEN’S RELATNSHIP TAK ON A FEW DIFFERENT FORMS. IN SOME EPISOS, LIKE THE ONE ABOVE (1.9), THE DYNAMIC IS THAT LUP’S PRIMARY (ALMOST NEVER REQUED) ROMANTIC TERT IS FUJIKO (OR, LS OFTEN, ANOTHER WOMAN), WHILE JIGEN PLAYS THE UNLUCKY THIRD PARTY A LUP-CENTRIC LOVE TRIANGLE. (AND I’LL BE REFERRG TO AS THE LOVE TRIANGLE NFIGURATN.) SOMETIM THIS IS NTENT (AGA, ABOVE) AND SOMETIM JIGEN AND FUJIKO SEEM TO HAVE REACHED AN UNRSTANDG. IMPORTANTLY, JIGEN AND FUJIKO’S RELATNSHIP NS THE GAMUT OM MUTUAL HATRED, TO BEGDGG RPECT, TO AFFECTNATE IENDSHIP, AGA PENDG ON THE EPISO.ANOTHER TYPIL VERSN OF THE LUP/JIGEN DYNAMIC IS A PARTNERSHIP THAT FEELS MUCH MORE RECIPROLLY ROMANTIC—THOUGH LUP’S RECIPROTN ALWAYS REMAS IMPLIC. I’LL REFER TO THIS NFIGURATN AS CRIME HBANDS. GENERALLY, THE CRIME HBANDS DYNAMIC APPEARS EPISOS THAT DON’T CENTRALLY FEATURE FUJIKO, THOUGH OCSNALLY SOME HIJKS NSPIRE TO E LUP TO “CHOOSE” OR “END UP WH” JIGEN OVER FUJIKO, WHICH APPEARS TO STRENGTHEN THEIR BOND. THOSE ARE THE EPISOS THAT END WH LUP AND JIGEN LERALLY WALKG OFF TO THE SUNSET TOGETHER, PHYSILLY EMBRACG WHILE THE SCREEN FAS TO BLACK, AND SO ON. LUP IS ALWAYS OVER-THE-TOP TOUCHY-FEELY, BUT CRIME HBANDS EPISOS EMPHASIZE THIS BETWEEN LUP AND JIGEN TO A GREE THAT N ONLY BE SCRIBED AS: CUTE.THERE ARE OTHER JIGEN/LUP(/FUJIKO) DYNAMICS THAT POP UP OVER THE URSE OF LUP III, BUT WHEN PART 1 FOC ON THE QUEERNS OF JIGEN’S RELATNSHIP WH LUP, ’S PRIMARILY BASED ON THE TWO TEMPLAT I JT LISTED. AND I PROMISE I’LL EVENTUALLY STOP REPEATG MYSELF, BUT PRETTY MUCH NONE OF THIS MAK SENSE IF YOU TRY AND F ALL TO ONE NSISTENT TIMELE. IT’S NOT THAT LEAR TIME DON’T EXIST THE WORLD OF LUP THE THIRD; ’S THAT MULTIPLE LEAR TIMEL EXIST, SO TRYG TO MERGE THEM IS AN EXERCISE FUTILY.QUEERNS AND CRIMETHERE’S ONE MORE ASPECT OF LUP THE THIRD THAT’S WORTH POTG OUT EARLY ON, EVEN IF I WON’T LVE SUPER EP TO FOR NOW. AS I TOUCHED ON BRIEFLY MY BEYOND “CANON GAY” POST, CRIMALY IS ONE WAY WHICH QUEERNS N BE NVEYED METAPHORILLY: CRIMALS, PECIALLY REER CRIMALS, LIVE ON THE G OF SOCIETY PERMANENTLY AND DON’T F TO S “NORMAL” EXPECTATNS.¹ OBVLY, LUP AND HIS GANG ARE ALL PRIME EXAMPL OF CHARACTERS WHO REFE TO ADHERE TO NVENTNAL, HETERONORMATIVE LIFE PATHS. SO EVEN REGARDLS OF THE PARTICULARS OF THEIR LERAL SEXUAL ORIENTATNS, THIS MAK THE ENTIRE AMEWORK OF THE LUP UNIVERSE HERENTLY METAPHORILLY QUEER. IN LUP THE THIRD, THIS OVERARCHG METAPHOR IS RARELY IF EVER ED AS A DIRECT OR OVERT MEANS TO DISCS QUEERNS, UNLIKE SERI I WOULD TEGORIZE MORE CISIVELY AS “METAPHORILLY QUEER” (DEVILMAN CRYBABY; MISS KOBAYASHI’S DRAGON MAID; ETC), BUT ’S STILL TERTG TO KEEP MD BEE THE LUP GANG’S MMENT TO THEIR RPECTIVE CRIMAL LIFTYL IS, AT THE VERY LEAST, A GUARANTEED WAY OF KEEPG THE PRSUR OF HETERONORMATIVE SOCIETY OFF THEIR BACKS (AND OUT OF THEIR SHOW).OKAY! SO YOU’VE GOT A GOOD IA OF THE BASIC QUEER STCTUR PLACE FOR LUP THE THIRD: PART 1. READY TO WATCH SOME EPISOS? BELOW ARE A FEW THAT NO QUEER LUP VIEWER SHOULD MISS.THE ANIGAYT EPISOS OF LUP THE THIRD: PART 1EPISO 1: IS LUP BURN’?“IS LUP BURNG’?” DON’T HAVE THE QUEERT THEM ON THIS LIST, BUT ’S THE FIRST EPISO OF LUP THE THIRD EVER, WHICH ALONE MAK WORTH WATCHG. MORE IMPORTANTLY, 1.1 TRODUC ZENIGATA’S BURNG PASSN FOR, UM, ARRTG LUP, ALONG WH SOME OF THE MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD DYNAMICS OF LUP AND JIGEN’S PARTNERSHIP.EPISO 4: ONE CHANCE TO BREAKOUTEPISO 4, ON THE OTHER HAND — WELL, I WON’T SPOIL TOO MUCH BUT BASILLY: LUP GETS HIMSELF UGHT AND THROWN JAIL, AND ROLV TO BREAK HIMSELF OUT. JIGEN AND FUJIKO HAVE WILDLY DIFFERENT PG STRATEGI DURG LUP’S ABSENCE, AND ZENIGATA GROWS CREASGLY NFLICTED AS LUP’S STAY JAIL GROWS LONGER AND LONGER. “ONE CHANCE TO BREAKOUT” IS ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORE EPISOS, AND ALSO ONE OF THE GAYT AND MOST ROMANTIC. IF I HAD TO CHOOSE JT ONE EPISO OM PART 1 TO REMEND, WOULD ABSOLUTELY BE THIS ONE. IT’S PEAK CRIME HBANDS.EPISO 9: KILLER SGS THE BLU“KILLER SGS THE BLU” IS ONE OF THE FIRST EPISOS WHICH THE NTENT LOVE TRIANGLE DYNAMIC BETWEEN LUP, JIGEN, AND FUJIKO IS REALLY HIGHLIGHTED — STARTG WH THE OPENG PAIR OF SCEN, WHICH I ALREADY DISCSED ABOVE AND ARE JT AS QUEER NTEXT. ALSO, BON: FUJIKO DRAG! HELL YEAH.EPISO 13: BEWARE THE TIME MACHE!TIME TRAVEL, LUP MORTAL PERIL, A RARE JIGEN DRAG… WHAT DON’T EPISO 13 HAVE? IN ALL SERNS, THOUGH, 1.13 DO A LOT OF WORK TO PICT THE LUP GANG AS A LOVG, DYSFUNCTNAL FAY, WHICH WILL BEE A STRONGER THEME FUTURE SERI, PECIALLY AS GOEMON SETTL TO HIS ROLE AS A MA CHARACTER. ALSO, I’M JT A SUCKER FOR THE LUP FAY BEG SUPER NCERNED FOR EACH OTHER’S WELL-BEG, SO ANY EPISO BUILT AROUND THAT IS GONNA GET HIGH MARKS OM ME.EPISO 21: RCUE THE TOMBOY!THIS EPISO IS QUEER A B OF A DIFFERENT WAY OM MY OTHER REMENDATNS: INSTEAD OF FOCG ON ANY OF OUR UAL MA CHARACTERS, “RCUE THE TOMBOY!” IS ABOUT LUP’S FATHER (LUP II) AND HIS PARTNER (WHOSE CHILD’S FATE HAPPENS TO FALL TO LUP). THOUGH WE SEE VERY FEW LUP II/PARTNER TERACTNS FIRSTHAND, THE LUP/JIGEN PARALLELS ARE CLEAR, SO THIS IS ONE SMALL AND SELF-NTAED STORY THAT’S WORTH STG A QUEERLY ANALYTIC EYE OVER.EPISOS YOU SHOULD SKIP FOR YOUR OWN SANY

And though was only this year that an openly gay character was add to s recurrg st, Lup the Third has been queer at least sce 1971, back when the manga was first adapted to an the Third: Part 2 (1978)But while some anime seri have clear, nsistent directorial visns that are reflected neatly how they portray queerns, Lup the Third is at s re a llaborative work — s first season alone boasts ne screenwrers for jt 23 episos total. Well, that’s what the AniGay Gui to Lup the Third is for!

From “Dragon of Doom” (1994)In my Beyond “Canon Gay” post, I put Lup III the Implic-Leral queerns quadrant, but tthfully there isn’t a queerns quadrant that isn’t vered by Lup at some pot.

'HARRY POTTER' ST TALKS THEIR FAVORE SCEN AND HOW REM LUP WAS ORIGALLY KDA GAY

There are characters who are implicly and explicly gay, bisexual, and trans.

Sometim, however, they’re rife wh stereotyp, homophobia, and/or transphobia. The AniGay Gui to Lup will mostly be dited to discsg the more tertg, ls fucked-up stanc of queerns throughout Lup III, but I’ll also clu lists of episos to Defely Skip stanc of overt and un-nuanced on that note, a fal word about Lup the Third as a whole before I dig to Part 1: Lup III is an old TV seri and as such is FULL of misogyny. The AniGay Gui to Lup will list episos to skip extreme s, but dividual episos won’t e wh ntent warngs otherwise, so please proceed wh utn.

REM LUP ACTOR THOUGHT HIS CHARACTER WAS “GAY”

If you’re able to, Lup III is absolutely worth the trouble tak to steer around a few AniGay Gui to Lup III: Part 1Like the rt of the Lup TV seri, Part 1 is available full over on Cnchyroll.

This is partly bee Jigen is picted as gay wh almost 100% nsistency over the urse of Lup the Third’s half-a-century n. For this reason, though gets extremely close to explic, I’d almost always put “Jigen is gay” squarely the “implic-leral” queerns what about Lup? As I touched on briefly my Beyond “Canon Gay” post, crimaly is one way which queerns n be nveyed metaphorilly: Crimals, pecially reer crimals, live on the g of society permanently and don’t f to s “normal” expectatns.

Below are a few that no queer Lup viewer should AniGayt Episos of Lup the Third: Part 1Episo 1: Is Lup Burn’? “One Chance to Breakout” is one of my all-time favore episos, and also one of the gayt and most romantic.

PROF. LUP GAY ?

Many latched on to the iendship between Lup and Siri Black as the likelit ndidate for a gay relatnship the anchise. (This was before Rowlg announced, after the book seri had nclud, that Dumbledore was gay.

Rowlg’s knowledge, told me that [my character] was, fact, gay. So I’d been playg a part like a gay man for que a long time.

HARRY POTTER AND THE SECRET GAY LOVE STORY

Moviefone is reportg that David Thewlis claimed he played Lup as gay the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban movie acrdance wh directn om the film’s director, Alfonso Cuarón.

Thewlis revealed that director Alfonso Cuarón gave him a b of advice which was to play the character as a ‘gay junkie. Rowlg revealed that Dumbledore was gay and seems to be an anecdote that Thewlis lik to reveal here and there. (Although marryg a shaphifter don’t exactly preclu homosexualy or bisexualy on the part of the character, Rowlg also explicly rmed the actor later that she didn’t create Lup wh a queer sexualy md.

The “Lup is gay/no he’s not” story seems to e up om time to time, much like burgeong urban legend-type stori regardg blons or redheads beg “extct” a generatn’s time.

LUP GAY IN THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN?

Rowlg eventually revealed that Alb Dumbledore was gay, director Alfonso Cuarón apparently had a siar notn for the werewolf-y Rem Lup (David Thewlis) The Prisoner of Azkaban.

Rowlg's knowledge, told me that [my character] was, fact, gay. So I'd been playg a part like a gay man for que a long time.

IS THERE ANY (NON) EVINCE OF SIRI BLACK BEG GAY?

David Thewlis, who portrays werewolf Rem Lup the Harry Potter films, has admted he thought his character was gay whilst filmg Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

REM LUP ACTOR THOUGHT HIS CHARACTER WAS “GAY”

In fact, the film’s director Alfonso Cuaron actually told David (whout JK Rowlg’s knowledge or permissn) that Rem Lup was a gay man. As such, David says his performance the films was that of a gay man – until, of urse, the seventh stalment we fd out that Lup and Tonks are married. Bee, why would He give him a bt iend who was sex on legs and expect him not to go very gay for him?

Why do people say Lup and Siri are gay? Alright so I'm not homophobic or anythg and I've got nothg agast who people are attracted to, I've got nothg to do wh their liv. I mean yeah sure Siri uld be gay and I'm fe wh that, but Lup on the other hand, he has a wife.