History HoYay / LupinIII

** Volume 2 chapter 17. Jigen is in his boxers and a towel because he was in the river and Lupin didn't give him time to dress before going on a mission. Jigen days he'd rather not work naked. Lupin tells him he shouldn't be embarrassed because he has a great body.

* Castle of Cagliostro: Lupin and Jigen have been alone for a whole year without Fujiko or Goemon. At the castle ruins, Jigen puts Lupin into some pretty compromising positions trying to torture the silence out of him.
* In Part 1 / Green Jacket series, Jigen absolutely despises Fujiko and acts horribly jealous of the amount of attention Lupin pays to her. He prevents her from visiting Lupin in jail for an entire year, throws Lupin out of a boat in a huff after he comments about a cute girl, saying he can go swim after her, and breaks down in tears when he thinks Mamoh has poofed Lupin out of existence.
* Goodbye Partner: When Lupin confronts Roy Forest about Jigen's betrayal, he does so in a way that implies Jigen was cheating on him with another woman/man.
* The Blood Spray of Ishikawa Goemon: Fujiko is getting a back massage from Lupin, but it's made to look like something more intimate is happening at first. Jigen complains about her moaning. Fujiko says he's envious of her position.

** Volume 2 chapter 17. Jigen is in his boxers and a towel because he was in the river and Lupin didn't give him time to dress before going on a mission. Jigen days he'd rather not work naked. Lupin tells him he shouldn't be embarassed because he has a great body.
** Volume 3 chapter 20. Zenigata is trying to threaten and bribe Jigen with food to get him to rat on Lupin. Jigen says Lupin would kill him if he squeeled, followed by "Don't get the wrong idea, I love the guy." Bonus points: unlike the other examples from the manga listed here, which are Woolseyisms, this line is present in the original Japanese too.

** Volume 8 chapter 72. Lupin is trying to rape a woman who turns out to be Jigen in a fullbody Fujiko suit, turning a NoYay situation into a gay joke. Lupin says "I know he's horny, but nobody's THAT horny."

** Episode 32 had fanservice for everyone. After saving a girl from two rapists, she invites them to a palace full of half naked women that they were planning to rob. Lupin plays with the girls in the pool while Jigen sits in the corner looking extremely pissed at Lupin for getting distracted again while on the job and outright refuses to look at the girls. Lupin fondles the head lady and asks Jigen if he's jealous. Jigen responds in an extremely tsundere manner; "You idiot!"

** Jigen only seem to shed tears when something terrible happens to Lupin, never for any temporary love interests who die on him or stab him in the back. When he thinks the Assassin Puma has gunned down and drowned Lupin, he completely loses his shit while taking out his anger and grief on the environment, ''in tears'', while locals and tourists look on in trepidation at the distraught man shooting the trees around him.
** In episode 49 of Part 2, there's a one minute montage of Lupin and Zaclyne having lovey-dovey hand-holding romance, while a very lonely Jigen stares on and is visibly pissed about it.
** Episode 84 had some great bromance, including a moment where Lupin was sleeping on Jigen's shoulder in the car. Jigen gets rescued by Lupin in the nick of time while he's tying to help his old mentor Spade Jack escape mobsters. Jack ends up being a backstabber, like nearly everyone else in Jigen's life. Jigen is emotionally crushed and his gun arm was hurt jumping from the car. Lupin vows to take revenge on Jigen's behalf, due to both his hurt arm and the emotional damage of having to shoot another former loved one. They discover that Jack has some kind of Star Trek like teleporter that can beam stolen goods directly to Jack's penthouse, but it's never been tested on humans before. Lupin insists on being the first test subject rather than Jigen, whom is dumbstruck that Lupin would do this and visibly worried about things going wrong. Lupin is disoriented from his trip and things don't go as planned, so Jigen teleports loaded dynamite to save Lupin.

** Lupin and Jigen are hiding from the New York mafia when the building they're in explodes. They take refuge in a cramped little safe in a compromising position and mess of tangled limbs. When Zenigata starts digging through the rubble, they realize they're going to be like this for awhile.

** Episode 21, Lupin and Fujiko are in a tank being chased by the police. Jigen shoots out the cops tires from a distance on a boat. Lupin yells "Jigen! Aishiteru ze!" which means "I love you."

* The Woman Called Fujiko Mine:

* Lupin Zero unexpectedly acts as a decades-in-the-making payoff for all the subtext described above by essentially telling Lupin and Jigen's teenage love story: the two meet in the first episode and gradually bond over the following three episodes, with the fifth episode culminating in the two being on opposing sides of a conflict ''much'' bigger than the two of them. The excitement of the situation leads to Lupin realizing that he thoroughly enjoys living on the edge with Jigen, deciding then and there that he'll become a thief, and subsequently pulling off his first heist, as Lupin approaches Jigen (who still has his magnum pulled on him, mind), the tension so hot a heartbeat is audible... and places his hand on Jigen's chest before pulling it away. While the two boys never directly say they love each other, the meaning of this scene is, unlike past romantic teases, unambiguously clear.

* In Part III, Goemon is completely on-board Jigen's hate-train for Fujiko. He gets very irritable whenever Lupin wants to do something for Fujiko, and especially testy if it involves marriage plans. He will usually excuse himself from the mission, but DependingOnTheWriter he and Jigen sometimes go along with no complaints if the episode required Fujiko be a team player.
* From at least mid Part 2 all the way to Part 5, Goemon makes it clear in his face, actions, and words that he does not like it when Lupin flirts with women, especially if it's Fujiko.

** Episodes 21-23, Goemon is offended when he finds out he is listed as Lupin's underling on his [=PeopleLog=] profile. He spends the entire day angsting over what his relationship status with him is, what Lupin feels about him. Enzo suggest that Goemon is like a pretty gem Lupin collected to look at. In a stupor, he challenges Lupin to a duel and cuts him, then freaks out when he realized what he's done. Amy compares Goemon's situation with Lupin to Fujiko's situation with Lupin. Goemon stays with Lupin the entire time he's in the hospital and looks more miserable than he ever has in his life. In the ambulance, Lupin reminds Goemon of a time he fell for a cross-dresser.

** The gang has just escaped from a jail that uses hair to scent-track escaped convicts. Throughout the episode, the gang has been discarding various items of clothing to throw the trackers off the trail. At once point, the three of them are in a deep hole standing on each other's shoulders in nothing but their underwear. Goemon holds Jigen around the waist while he aims his pistol, and his underwear vanishes for a few frames.

** In episode 44 Fujiko and Goemon go on a holiday to Miami together, leaving Lupin and Jigen to carry out a heist on their own, something the two men are quite annoyed by since the other two's skills could have really helped in that occasion. In a moment of frustration, Jigen has a petty ImagineSpot during which he envisions the two being swept away by a big wave while they're surfing, and for some reason in his fantasy they are both pictured wearing extremely skimpy swimsuits - yes, not just Fujiko, but Goemon as well.

** In episode 41, Goemon spends the first half of the episode worrying about Jigen because he hasn't contacted them, then gets mad when he finds out Jigen was late because of a woman. When He and Lupin are in a plane, Lupin jokes that Jigen is on a date with the girl and Goemon is visibly furious.
** In episode 43, Jigen and Goemon leave Lupin and Fujiko alone to do their mission together. The two of them just hang out in the bushes for awhile. Goemon looks annoyed when Jigen leaves to follow Lupin.

* In ''The Legend of the Gold of Babylon'', after Lupin manages to have the upper hand over a group of Mafia henchmen who attacked him in his hideout, Jigen and Goemon pop out of a nearby room asking if the commotion is over with. Jigen is in a full pajama while Goemon is barechested - enough fodder as it is already, then a slightly misaligned cel makes it look like Goemon is wearing only the sarashi without the fundoshi, giving the impression he was effectively naked from the waist down while sharing a bedroom with Jigen.

* A scene from ''Anime/LupinIIITheFirst'' that Japanese shippers got some mileage out of is the one where the gang is captured and tied up. During the whole time Jigen keeps one leg wrapped over Goemon's, and the samurai doesn't seem bothered at all by the somewhat awkward physical contact. It even got its own nickname, "Reiwa niowase" (Reiwa era hint, fodder).

* Lupin wakes up to find himself stripped down to his boxers and chained to a wall in an auction house, with the auctioneer saying people can do whatever they want with him. Several men make a bid without stating what their intentions are.
* On November 27 2020, TMS Entertainment's official Twitter page asked it's followers if they shipped Lupin with Jigen or Zenigata. [[https://twitter.com/tmsanime/status/1332368590406762497]]

* WarShip: Not so much about who you ship Lupin or Jigen with, and more about who is top or bottom. Less prominent due to the rise in popularity of Seke over {{Seme}} or {{Uke}}.

* In the crossover episode with Anime/TheRoseOfVersailles in Part II, Lupin looks quite interested in Oscar even before finding out she's a woman.

In a series spanning nearly 50 years with a mostly male cast, it’s bound to have a lot of tension between them. Anything with Zenigata will be in the MORE Subpage under [[FoeYay/LupinIII Foe Yay]].

* In the crossover episode with Anime/TheRoseOfVersailles in Part II, Lupin looks quite interested in Oscar even before finding out she's a woman.

** Volume 3 chapter 20. Zenigata is trying to threaten and bribe Jigen with food to get him to rat on Lupin. Jigen says Lupin would kill him if he squeeled, followed by "Don't get the wrong idea, I love the guy." For bonus points: unlike the other examples from the manga listed here, which are Woolseyisms, this line is present in the original Japanese too.

** Volume 3 chapter 20. Zenigata is trying to threaten and bribe Jigen with food to get him to rat on Lupin. Jigen says Lupin would kill him if he squeeled, followed by "Don't get the wrong idea, I love the guy." And unlike the other examples from the manga, which were Woolseysms, this line is present in the original Japanese too.

** Episodes 21-23, Goemon is offended when he finds out he is listed as Lupin's underling on his [=PeopleLog=] profile. He spends the entire day angsting over what his relationship status with Goemon is, what Lupin feels about him. Enzo suggest that Goemon is like a pretty gem Lupin collected to look at. In a stupor, he challenges Lupin to a dual and cuts him , then freaks out when he realized what he's done. Amy compares Goemon's situation with Lupin to Fujiko's situation with Lupin. Goemon stays with Lupin the entire time he's in the hospital and looks more miserable than he ever has in his life. In the ambulance, Lupin reminds Goemon of a time he fell for a cross-dresser.

* In ''The Legend of the Gold of Babylon'', after Lupin manages to have the upper hand over a group of Mafia thugs who tried to attack him in his hideout, Jigen and Goemon pop out of a nearby room asking if it's over with. Jigen is in a full pajama while Goemon just in his sarashi and fundoshi - enough fodder as it is already, then a slightly misaligned cel makes it look like Goemon is wearing only the sarashi, giving the impression he was effectively naked from the waist down while sharing a bedroom with Jigen.

* In the Pink Jacket series, Jigen is reading a little something many fans consider to be an acknowledgement of Jigen being canonically bisexual, namely him reading a Play Bohz magazine with a beefcake man on the cover. This magazine makes a short cameo in the Part 5 series.
* In late Part 2 and all of Part 2, Goemon always chimes in when Jigen is snarking about Fujiko, and he refuses to look at naked or scantily dressed women.