Tag: Nonchalant Lupin

raifuujin:

Since Okita has reappeared in DC, let us remember the rest of the older lookalikes from Gosho’s works alongside him.

( Yes, they mostly lean more toward Kaio lookalikes, but I count it if Kaito and Shinichi are supposed to have the same face. )

(I

always

get a huge urge

to RP Kaito Lupin whenever I read that oneshot.

I can’t, because I already do a bad job keeping up with the two muses I have, and he’d be even stranger to try and get into the RP fandom as his own person in some ways… Since he’d more likely just be taken for an AU Kaito, even if Lupin came first… He essentially is Kaito, just… think about it.

He’d be a slightly more normal character, granted. He’s not a professional and international thief, nor was his father, despite his name being a double hit for ‘thief’. He causes problems at school and steals test scores, but not overly a criminal like his more well-known successor. Still a magician, still far too skilled and bright for his age, but… no Kid.

Lupin is a Kaito that never became Kid. Technically, we never even hear anything about his parents, so they could still be alive. And you actually see Aoko’s mom.

…I half want this, or that we at least get a possible special for it at some point, like they did with some of Gosho’s other short stories… Unlikely to happen, as Magic Kaito has overshadowed it’s precursor, but I can dream. An MK anime was a dream up until a few years ago, so… I can at least hope for a special. (Pft. Since the first MK special was ‘The Secret Birth of Kaitou Kid’, it could be considered, the real secret birth of Kaitou Kid.)

How many of the new MK fans from the anime side are gonna know about the first Kaito, hmm….)