History Anime / LupinIIIPart5

Creator/Toonami will debut the English dub on June 15th, 2019.

* OvertRendezvous: Lupin and the [[spoiler: head of the DGSE have one in episode 7. The latter was GenreSavvy enough and made sure everyone in the café they were in was also a DGSE agent. Too bad Lupin was actually expecting the double cross]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: Part 4, while having dark moments, was fairly jovial for the most part with the capers being pretty light hearted. The first arc (Marco Polo) though, there's a surprisingly sober and more down to Earth tone to this one. Marco Polo is taken very seriously and Zenigata is oddly more calm and collected here then his more bumbling yet driven self to capture Lupin. Almost along the lines of his ''Woman Named Fujiko Mine'' incarnation.
** The second arc, involving the black book is this.

** Episode 17 continues the trend, this time being a call back to ''Green Jacket'', especially the they way Hayao Miyazaki directed the series. Also, Lupin's ''disguise'' being a stripped tie and glasses combo is ripped straight from "The Fuma Conspiracy" right down to the color of the tie.

** Episode 17 continues the trend, this time being a call back to ''Green Jacket'', especially the they way Hayao Miyazaki directed the series.

** In Episode 17, Lupin disguises himself as a private eye named "Jim Barnett III". Maurice Leblanc also wrote an anthology novel ''The Barnett & Co. Agency'' which was about was about the eponymous detective solving cases in the same 'verse as Arséne Lupin...[[spoiler: and turns out to be none other than Lupin himself.]]

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The series ends with Lupin managing to defeat [=PeopleLog=] and Jigen, Goemon, Fujiko and he rushing off from building with Zenigata (along with Yata) in hot pursuit. Though they leave Ami with Enzo (at her own descion when Lupin offered) and Enzo proclaiming he'll make an even better version of his app which will likely make it harder to to do their heists. Lupin is more then ready and willing for the challenge and his gang is more then happy to continue having their adventures with him.

** Episode 23 see's Lupin [[spoiler: hiding in what looks like the ruins from ''Anime/TheCastleofCagliostro''. Additionally, he begins his final plan once he gets a message from [[WesternAnimation/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure Rebecca Rossellini]]]].

** [[spoiler: Episode 24 features a number of female leads from prior series's and specials, including Rebecca, and Diana from ''Anime/LupinIIIThePursuitOfHarimaosTreasure'']].

** Fujiko tells Ami that nothing separated her from Lupin. [[spoiler: she means that without any danger, risk or rivalry to keep them going, there was no passion in their relationship and it fell apart]]

* WorkingWithTheEx: [[spoiler: Lupin working with Fujiko is, surprisingly enough]], treated as this in the show. The former talks about [[spoiler: getting the latter's help in faking his death as "strictly business", though there's a subtle amount of UnresolvedSexualTension in the conversation, as if they both wish they could go back to how things were before, but can no longer do so]].

* GenreSavvy:
** In the intro, Lupin spies on Fujiko sunbathing on a beach... then Zenigata appears next to Fujiko.
** In the finale of the second arc, Lupin manages to get the black book back and drives Albert back to his home, likewise helping him a bit due to wounding his arm in the climax. Once done Lupin drives off and Albert smirks thinking he nicked the black book off him...only to find that it's a fake, showing that Lupin was more savvy to that trick.

** [[spoiler: Rebecca herself appears in Episode 24]].

** Episode 4: Enzo Bron, the head of a multinational tech company who backed the King of Padar in the previous arc (against the high priest), and is now out to get Lupin.

* BookEnds: The series begins with Lupin being hunted through and ARG and the final arc start with him likewise being hunted through this method only with much more advanced software that make it near impossible for him to escape from. Even in disguise.

* CountingBullets: In the first episode Lupin tries to pass himself off as Ami's father, but she see through him, pulls out a gun and opens fire. After ducking back to avoid being shot, he comes back out into the open stating she has run out of bullets. Ami calls his bluff but sure enough her clip is empty. When she replays the footage before she fired on him, it's revealed Lupin managed to pull out one of her bullets when he hugged her and pretty much counted the shots afterwards.

* ArcVillain: This season seems to go by arc logic or "Episodes". As such Lupin finds himself facing off against recurring villains of that episode

** Episode 2: Supposedly Albert, a man from Lupin's past, at the start. But it then shifts to Jose and his group who get their hands on a black book both were after by the third episode of the arc. With Lupin and Albert forced to work together to stop them.
** Episode 3: Has the high priest of Padar. Though it hints that someone else may be the actual villain behind the scenes. which leads us to.

* SmartPeoplePlayChess: The theme of the 20th episode which had Lupin and a friendly rival play chess while their gunman have a sniper battle above them.
* SniperDuel: Jigen gets into one against an old flame of his named Mirage in the 20th episode.

** Episode 11 and 12 follow up on 6 in being homages to a previous series, this time ''Red Jacket''. 11 in particular frames itself as a flashback episode, with the gang reminiscing about an earlier heist.