Lupin the Third Part 4
| Lupin the 3rd | |
|
Lupin the Third Part IV television poster | |
| ルパン三世 (Rupan Sansei) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Adventure, Comedy-drama, Crime, Kaitō |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by |
Kazuhide Tomonaga (Chief director) Yūichirō Yano |
| Written by | Yūya Takahashi |
| Music by |
Yuji Ohno (Japanese broadcast) Papik (Italian broadcast)[1] |
| Studio | Telecom Animation Film |
| Network |
Italia 1 (Italy) NTV (Japan) |
| Original run |
August 30, 2015 – November 30, 2015 (Italy) October 1, 2015 – ongoing (Japan) |
| Episodes |
26 (Italian broadcast) 24 (Japanese broadcast) |
Lupin the 3rd, known as Lupin III - The Italian Adventure (Italian: Lupin III - L'avventura italiana) in Italy, is the fourth main television adaptation of the Lupin III (ルパン三世 Rupan Sansei) manga series written by Monkey Punch.
Story
Most of the story takes place in Italy and San Marino, although some episodes are partly set elsewhere (e.g., France, Japan), with Lupin in his 20s wearing a blue jacket.
Production
The series was announced at Mipcom in Cannes, France in October 2014 to be broadcast in Spring 2015 in Italy. The series was produced by Telecom Animation Film, with franchise veteran Kazuhide Tomonaga serving as chief director and Yoichiro Yane directing with scripts by Yūya Takahashi. Yuji Ohno returned as series composer. Tomonaga's aim was to mix the opposing elements of the franchise and combine them into a series that is both hardboiled and comical, realistic and fantastical.[2]
Voice cast
| Character | Japanese | Italian | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsène Lupin III | Kanichi Kurita | Stefano Onofri | Tony Oliver[3] |
| Daisuke Jigen | Kiyoshi Kobayashi | Alessandro Maria D'Errico | Richard Epcar[3] |
| Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Daisuke Namikawa | Antonio Palumbo | |
| Fujiko Mine | Miyuki Sawashiro | Alessandra Korompay | |
| Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Kōichi Yamadera | Rodolfo Bianchi | |
| Rebecca Rossellini | Yukiyo Fujii | Gaia Bolognesi | |
| Justin Person (Agent Nyx) | Shunsuke Sakuya | Fabrizio Pucci | |
Release
The series received its world premiere in Italy on August 30, 2015 on the Italia 1 and Italia 1 HD channels,[4] and a preview screening at Concordia theater in San Marino on August 29, 2015.[5] The Japanese premiere was on October 1, 2015 on NTV and the series will be made on the J:Com and Hulu services in Japan on October 21.[6] It is scheduled to run for 26 episodes in Italy and 24 episodes in Japan. The opening theme for the Italian version of the series Lupin, un ladro in vacanza (Lupin, a thief on holiday) is performed by Italian talent show hip-hop singer Moreno featuring Italian anime and cartoons themes veteran Giorgio Vanni.[7] The opening theme for the Japanese version of the series Theme from Lupin III 2015 is composed by Yuji Ohno and performed by You & The Explosion Band. The ending theme for the Japanese version of the series Say It, Or I Won't Give You My Love (ちゃんと言わなきゃ愛さない Chanto Iwanakya Aisanai) is performed by Enka singer Sayuri Ishikawa and features lyrics written by Tsunku. It was released as a single with additional tracks in Japan on October 1, 2015.[8]
The series is being streamed on the Hulu service in Japan.[9] The series will be released across DVD and Blu-Ray releases by VAP in Japan between 23 December 2015 and 20 July 2016.[10]
Crunchyroll began streaming the series as Lupin the Third Part 4 on January 7, 2016. All episode previously broadcast in Japan were added at the same time.[11] An English dub is currently being recorded and directed by Richard Epcar.[3]
Episode list
| No. Jap. | No. Ita. | Original Japanese title | Italian title | Italian air date | Japanese air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "The Marriage of Lupin III" "Rupan Sansei no Kekkon" (ルパン三世の結婚) | "Il matrimonio di Lupin III" | August 30, 2015 | October 1, 2015 |
| After receiving a mysterious invitation, Inspector Zenigata arrives in San Marino for Lupin's wedding to Rebecca Rossellini, a wealthy heiress and businesswoman. It's soon revealed that the marriage is a sham, and that Lupin plans to steal the Royal Crown of Liberty, a rare artifact given to women to wear on the day after their wedding. Zenigata unravels the plan after someone claiming to be Lupin sends him a message, and begins chasing the criminals. As this is happening, Fujiko attempts to steal the Crown by tying up and gagging a local administrator and stealing his identity. She is captured in the ensuing chase, and Lupin is forced to surrender the Crown in exchange for her release. Someone disguised as the local police captain then leaves with the Crown, but is cornered by Lupin. After removing their disguise, it is revealed that the mastermind behind the entire plot was Rebecca, and that she deliberately manipulated Lupin to serve as a distraction while she stole the Crown herself. She manages to escape with the artifact, while Lupin remarks that he should have made her sign divorce papers before she left. | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "The False Fantasista" "Itsuwari no Fantajisuta" (偽りのファンタジスタ) | "Il falso fantasista" | August 30, 2015 | October 8, 2015 |
| Mauro Brozzi, a popular footballer, asks Lupin for help to steal a medical record from a dangerous criminal's well patrolled mansion that proves he's using doping in order to fight off his upcoming blindness. Lupin agrees, asking in exchange that Brozzi score a hat-trick in his last match before retirement, the final of the Coppa Italia | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "0.2% Chance of Survival" "Seizonritsu 0.2 Pāsento" (生存率0.2%) | "0.2% possibilità di sopravvivere" | August 30, 2015 | October 15, 2015 |
| Lupin announces that he'll manage to steal a precious diamond from the Prince of England, who is currently in Italy to pay a visit to Rebecca. However, Lupin is forced to fight for his prize against Nyx, a well trained member of the MI6 in charge of the Prince's protection (inspired by James Bond). At the decisive moment, forced to chose between protecting the prince or kill Lupin and Jigen, Nyx decides to obey to his duty, and the two escape safely; moreover, Lupin manages to steal the jewel. | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "Hand Me a Gun" "Waga Te ni Kenjū o" (我が手に拳銃を) | "Tiratore scelto" | August 30, 2015 | October 22, 2015 |
| Jigen finds himself in a town where a dangerous boss, Eric, punishes anyone holding a firearm by wounding them so severely that they'll die an agonizing death. Despite having been forced to hand over his gun to a young female doctor in exchange for medical care, Jigen manages to fight against Eric and his gang, forcing them to kill each other. | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "The Left Hand of the Magician" "Mahōtsukai no Hidarite" (魔法使いの左手) | "La mano sinistra del mago" | September 6, 2015 | October 29, 2015 |
| Fujiko seems to fall in love with Luca, a young circus performer. But the truth is that Fujiko is simply pretending in order to lure him into revealing her all the magic tricks that he has learned from his recently deceased mentor, the famous magician Tony Belcastro. However the same tricks are also coveted by Tony's son and Lupin himself. | |||||
| - | 6 | "Venice of the Dead" "Vu~enisu Obu za deddo" (ヴェニス・オブ・ザ・デッド) | "Zombie a Venezia" | September 6, 2015 | DVD/Blu-ray exclusive |
| Rebecca invites Lupin to one of her mansions, near Venice, in order to sign the papers for their divorce. Suddenly, a horde of zombies attack the islands, and the two barely manage to escape. At the end, Lupin discovers that it was simply a candid-camera for an upcoming film Rebecca is producing. To avoid having his face publicly revealed, Lupin tries to steal the film before its debut, but Rebecca manages to convince him to give it back by assuring that digital effects will be used to make Lupin himself a zombie, saving his privacy. | |||||
| 6 | 7 | "Until the Full Moon is too" "Mangetsu ga Sugiru Made" (満月が過ぎるまで) | "Fino al tramonto della luna piena" | September 6, 2015 | November 5, 2015 |
| Zenigata is assigned to protect Elena Gotti, the famous wife of a recently deceased billionaire, Roberto Gotti. In fact it's said that she's the only one to know where Roberdo hid all his money, so her life is continuously threatened by many robbers, included Lupin. Elena was a poor girl forced into prostitution by her own father, until she met Roberto which saved her; but when he found out that she had a lover he spread the false news about her knowing about his caveau's hideout before he died, in order to make her life a living hell. Zenigata manages to protect her from Lupin, but it's later revealed that she was really aware of the caveau's hideout: however, after having known Zenigata, she decides to use it for the good of Italy. | |||||
| 7 | 8 | "Zapping Operation" "Zappingu Operēshon" (ザッピング・オペレーション) | "Il rapimento" | September 13, 2015 | November 12, 2015 |
| Brigitte, Nyx's daughter (who, like her sisters and her mother, doesn't know about his father's true job), is kidnapped during a school trip by women's smugglers that wants to sell her as a prostitute to her own father, who is currently working undercover. When Nyx finds out he starts looking for her using his special abilities, a situation that alerts all the MI6's Roman division. In the meantime, Brigitte finds herself in company of Lupin and Jigen, who have casually stole the smugglers' car after a robbery. | |||||
| 8 | 9 | "Welcome to the Haunted Hotel!" "Hōnteddo Hoteru e yōkoso!" (ホーンテッドホテルへようこそ！) | "Benvenuti all'albergo infestato" | September 13, 2015 | November 19, 2015 |
| Lupin and Jigen go looking for a treasure in an old castle, converted into an hotel, which is said to be haunted by a ghost. Here, Lupin must face an aged woman thief and her two sons, but is helped by a little girl, Carla, who claims to be the owner's daughter. At the end, Lupin manages to find the treasure room, but in the meantime he finds out that Carla herself was the ghost (in the treasure room there are also her bones); however, since someone has been able to find the treasure, she can finally rest in peace. | |||||
| 9 | 10 | "Requiem for Assassins" "Koroshiya-tachi no Rekuiemu" (殺し屋たちの鎮魂歌（レクイエム）) | "Requiem per gli assassini" | September 13, 2015 | November 26, 2015 |
| Sometime ago Goemon had been hired with other killers by the young italian politician Leopoldo Flago in order to kill Samuel Decale, an African dictator, and his bodyguard, Zora, a legendary sniper. During the mission Goemon met Isabella, a young rookie killer, and they swore to protect each other till death. The mission succeeded, but now someone is killing all the killers involved in that mission, and this leads Goemon to to fear that Zora is alive. So, the samurai goes looking for Isabella to protect her, but the truth is much more difficult to handle than he thought. | |||||
| 10 | 11 | "Lovestruck Pig" "Koi wazurai no Buta" (恋煩いのブタ) | "Nettare d'amore" | September 20, 2015 | December 3, 2015 |
| Lupin is invited by both Fujiko and Rebecca to a party where the collection of a recently deceased famous wine producer, Count Maacrama, will be put on sale, and decides to accept both the invites trying to jump from a girl to the other during the party. In order to win Lupin's affection, the two girls challenge each other to find the legendary Nettare d'Amore (Love's Nectar), a very rare and precious wine. However, it's a really dangerous wine, connected to a dark secret. | |||||
| 11 | 12 | "The Italian Dream (Part One)" "Itaria no Yume Zenpen" (イタリアの夢 前篇) | "Il sogno italiano (prima parte)" | September 20, 2015 | December 10, 2015 |
| Rebecca is kidnapped by the MI6, and Robson calls for Lupin's help. Lupin finds out that the MI6 is looking for the researches of Rebecca's lost love, Wataru, a young japanese scientist who died sometime ago. Since the MI6's italian headquarter (located in the basement of the ancient Teatro di Marcello in Rome) is impregnable, Lupin manages to trick Nyx in order to make him escort Rebecca outside the building, but when Robson, to protect her mistress, threatens to hurt Nyx's family, the agent goes berserk, attacking his own companions when they try to stop him; then, despite being branded by the MI6 as a traitor, he starts searching for Lupin in order to exact his revenge. | |||||
| 12 | 13 | "The Italian Dream (Part Two)" "Itaria no Yume Kōhen" (イタリアの夢 後篇) | "Il sogno italiano (seconda parte)" | September 20, 2015 | December 17, 2015 |
| After his escape from Rome, Lupin manages to decrypt Wataru's notes, suddenly finding himself in a sort of dream, where he meets Wataru himself. He informs Lupin that this world, called Il Sogno Italiano (the Italian Dream) has the power to influence all mankind, and that someone killed him in order to find out his secrets. Therefore, when Lupin awakes, he and Rebecca go to San Marino to destroy his researches. However they're found by Nyx, who uses his abilities for memorize Wataru's notes before their destruction, then he tries to kill Lupin, but they're both captured by the MI6. Sometime later, Zenigata manages to obtain Lupin's custody from the MI6, while Nyx manages to exchange Wataru's researches with his life and his family's safety. | |||||
| 13 | 14 | "The End of Lupin III" "Rupan sansei no saigo" (ルパン三世の最期) | "La fine di Lupin III" | September 28, 2015 | December 24, 2015 |
| Zenigata is able to stop several attempts by Lupin to escape from many italian prisons, but the italian government can't afford all the costs for such surveillance. So, to prevent him to escape once and for all, Zenigata escorts Lupin to a single, impenetrable cell on a tiny island, under his personal surveillance. But not even this will prove enough to stop the King of Thieves. Meanwhile, a mysterious prisoner manages to escape from the MI6's headquarters in Rome. | |||||
| 14 | 15 | "Do Not Move the Mona Lisa" "Monariza o ugokasu na" (モナリザを動かすな) | "Non spostate la Gioconda!" | October 5, 2015 | January 7, 2016 |
| Lupin is out of money for his long detention, so he decides to steal the Mona Lisa in Paris in order to sell it to a nationalist Italian millionaire. He manages to complete his theft, but he soon finds out to have stolen a fake, since the original Mona Lisa is in the hands of a corrupt french politician, Philippe, which is secretly using it to fund his political career. At the end, the real Mona Lisa returns to the Louvre, but Lupin manages to sell to the millionaire an incredible well done replica casually found by Fujiko. Meanwhile, the man who created the perfect fake, looking at an italian 1€ coin, believes he recognises one of his sketches on it. | |||||
| 15 | 16 | "Operation Infiltrate High School!" "Haisukūru sen'nyū dai sakusen!" (ハイスクール潜入大作戦！) | "Sotto copertura al liceo" | October 12, 2015 | January 14, 2016 |
| Lupin steals a precious diamond with the unique power to change the personality of anyone who looks at it, but during his escape the jewel ends in a boy's backpack. To take it back, Lupin sneaks in the boy's high school as a new professor, when he finds out that the diamond has been found by a group of teachers that are planning to use it to build a bomb and free themselves from a blackmailer. | |||||
| 16 | 17 | "Lupin's Day Off" "Rupan no kyūjitsu" (ルパンの休日) | "Il giorno libero di Lupin" | October 19, 2015 | January 20, 2016 |
| Lupin, Jigen and Goemon want to spend some time in the hills outside Rome, but they casually find a lost dog. The dog belongs to a rich woman who's ready to offer a big reward to anyone who will be able to take it back to her. So, the trio starts a long journey to Messina, where they'll be able to fulfill their duty. | |||||
| 17 | 18 | "The Murdering Marionette" "Minagoroshi no Marionetto" (皆殺しのマリオネット) | "La marionetta assassina" | October 25, 2015 | January 27, 2016 |
| Lupin and his team are kidnapped by Greco, some sort of philanthropist who has sworn to rid the world of all criminals. Trapped in a giant underground basement, they're challenged to find a way to get out, but they are informed by Greco that one of them has been secretly brainwashed in order to become his personal puppet. Unable to find out who is the puppet who's trying to kill them all, Lupin and the others end up suspecting each other. | |||||
| 18 | 19 | "The First Supper" | "La prima cena" | November 2, 2015 | February 4, 2016 |
| Strange paintings representing Lupin, his team and many other persons involved in the Sogno Italiano affair begin to appear all around Italy. In search for answers, Lupin and all the others represented people (Jigen, Goemon, Fujiko, Rebecca, Robson, Zenigata, Nyx and Gibbons, the high chief of the MI6's italian division) meet in Santa Maria delle Grazie, where someone has prepared for them some sort of revisiting of Leonardo da Vinci's L'Ultima Cena. The mind beyond all this will prove to be Leonardo himself, cloned and resurrected by the MI6 thanks to Wataru's researches about the Sogno Italiano, which proves to be some sort of collective consciousness inside the mind of every man on Earth where all mankind's knowledge is housed. Leonardo claims to be surprised of how much Italy has changed since his times, and before his escape he says that soon the country will know a new era. | |||||
| 19 | 20 | "Dragons Sleep Soundly" | "Non svegliare il drago che dorme" | November 9, 2015 | February 11, 2016 |
| Fox, a dangerous mercenary, manages to steal the "Dragon's Tail", a top secret list of all the MI6's secret agents around the world, taking it to his island. To take it back, Gibbons orders Nyx to retake his place in the secret service, or otherwise his family will be killed. However, Lupin too is looking for the Dragon's Tail, and during their fight the MI6, believing that Nyx has failed, decides to sterilize the whole island. Somehow Nyx and Lupin manage to escape alive from the island, and while Nyx secretly saves his family from MI6's killers, Lupin and Leonardo face Gibbon, with Lupin discovering that the Dragon Tail's theft had been commissioned by Leonardo in order to protect himself from the organization. Gibbons takes a shot at Leonardo, but is killed when his gun (sabotaged by Leonardo) backfires, and Leonardo decides to leave the Dragon's Tail to Lupin. | |||||
| 20 | 21 | "To Hear You Sing Again" | "Per sentirti cantare ancora" | November 15, 2015 | |
| Lupin steals an old Fiat 500 "Topolino" from a vintage cars' dealer, and Zenigata cannot arrest him because the car is extremely precious and could be damaged. The Fiat in fact belongs to an aged italian singer, Nora Anita, who is now at the brink of death, and her husband has decided to sell anything that could make him remember her love when she'll be dead to avoid further suffering. However, the car seems to have some sort of independent will, forcing Lupin to travel to a peaceful place on the banks of a lake, a place used by Nora and her husband as their private love refuge in their youth. Nora, in her heart, wanted to feel for the last time all that peaceful and beautiful sensations, and this feeling had been "absorbed" by the car, giving her a proper consciousness. | |||||
| 21 | 22 | "N/A" | "Dal Giappone con amore" | November 15, 2015 | |
| Shortly after having returned to Japan Fujiko is kidnapped, and her abductor orders Lupin to come back to Japan too in order to steal for him a precious doll. At the end, they both discover that the kidnapping was a trap prepared for them by the japanese detective Akechi Holmes, and Lupin is arrested. Fujiko instead manages to escape, and to restore her pride she decides to make Lupin escape, taking advantage of the lack of coordination between Akechi and Zenigata. | |||||
| - | 23 | "N/A" | "Rendez-vous senza fermate" | November 22, 2015 | DVD/Blu-ray exclusive |
| While watching her last movie, inspired by a true story, Rebecca remembers the day when she and Lupin met for the first time. Rebecca and Robson had been kidnapped by a stalker, and Lupin, which had recently arrived in Italy to meet Rebecca to prepare the theft of the crown, was able to save them thanks to Zenigata's help. | |||||
| 22 | 24 | "N/A" | "Ti prenderò, Lupin" | November 23, 2015 | |
| Rebecca realizes she is truly in love with Lupin, and announces to Italy that she'll be able to capture him. In the meantime, Lupin continues to break into various banks without stealing anything, and Rebecca understands that he's searching for something in particular. It's the beginning of a great battle between the two, with the final stand that will take place inside the last bank. At the end, Rebecca finds out that Lupin was in search of a single banknote in order to win a bet with Jigen, and they somehow manage to safely escape the police, even with Robson's help, proving to be quite a fine couple. Despite this, at the end Lupin decides to escape, and Robson, despite his concerns, decides to let Rebecca live as she pleases. | |||||
| 23 | 25 | "N/A" | "L'armonia del mondo (prima parte)" | November 29, 2015 | |
| Leonardo is ready to create his greatest masterpiece, the Armonia del Mondo (World's Harmony), and uses a futuristic device to entrap all the Italians inside the Sogno Italiano, replicating at the same time his consciousness in the mind of every inhabitant of Italy. Inside this dream, he defies every italian to beat him in the thing he's most versed: if the challenger prevails, he'll be able to wake up, or otherwise his/her consciousness will be "reprogrammed" based on Leonardo's one, with the final objective to create a nation of genies with the necessary knowledge to create a new world. Lupin, Jigen, Goemon, Nyx and Zenigata manage to defeat Leonardo, but when he arrives in San Marino Lupin discovers that all the other Italians, starting from Rebecca, have instead failed, and soon they'll reawaken with new personalities. Lupin then uses Leonardo's device to replicate even his own consciousness inside Rebecca's mind, where Lupin and Leonardo fight for control. | |||||
| 24 | 26 | "N/A" | "L'armonia del mondo (seconda parte)" | November 30, 2015 | |
| Inside Rebecca's mind, Lupin manages to defeat Leonardo, allowing Rebecca to maintain her original personality. However, Leonardo believes to have won nonetheless, since all the Italians should be again under his influence, but he soon finds out that Lupin has copied his consciousness not only in Rebecca's mind, but also in all the Italians' minds, and so he managed to defeat Leonardo entirely. Then, Leonardo starts to feel sick, since his artificial body is now close to death. Before his demise, Lupin comforts him, telling him that his mind will live forever in all the Italians, and in his mind as well, thanks to the Sogno Italiano, while his unprecedented contribution to all of mankind will be remembered forever. Sometime later, with all the world accusing him for what happened in Italy, Lupin is forced to leave the country, but before taking off he has a final meeting with Rebecca. Rebecca promises to wait for him till his return, and he allows her to keep the "Lupin" surname. The last image shows Lupin and his gang escaping from Zenigata, disappearing among the crowd in the Stazione Centrale in Milan. | |||||
Manga
A manga adaptation by Naoya Hayakawa began publication on December 28, 2015.[12]
References
- ↑ http://www.irmagroup.com/it/papik-wrote-music-lupin-iii/
- ↑ "New Lupin III Anime to Premiere This Fall With Original Composer (Update)". Anime News Network. April 20, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Richard Epcar Reveals ‘Lupin the 3rd Part Four’ Anime Dub Production". The Fandom Post. January 14, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
- ↑ "Lupin III - L'avventura italiana". RTI Mediaset. August 15, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
- ↑ "LUPIN III presto al CONCORDIA con ben 2 episodi MADE in RSM". RTV San Marino. August 21, 2015. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
- ↑ "On Air". TMS Entertainment. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
- ↑ "Lupin, un ladro in vacanza - Single". Apple iTunes. August 28, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
- ↑ "2015 Lupin III TV Anime's New Video, Ending Theme Revealed". Anime News Network. August 26, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
- ↑ Beveridge, Chris (October 22, 2015). "Lupin the 3rd Part Four’ Anime Begins Hulu Distribution… In Japan". Fandom Post. Retrieved November 2, 2015.
- ↑ "「ルパン三世」待望の新シリーズのBlu-ray&DVDが2015年12月23日より全8巻、順次発売決定！". Animate.tv. October 1, 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
- ↑ "Crunchyroll to Simulcast Lupin III Part 4 Anime". Anime News Network. December 28, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ↑ "ルパン三世 1". Futabasha. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
External links
- Official website (Japanese)
- Lupin the Third Part 4 (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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