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7	An index of the various ''Franchise/LupinIII'' {{anime}} series. Also includes anime-specific tropes in the Franchise.
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11	[[folder:Television Series]]
12	[[index]]
13	* ''Anime/LupinIIIPart1'' (1971-1972)
14	* ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'' (1977-1980)
15	* ''Anime/LupinIIIPartIII'' (1984-1985)
16	* ''Mankatsu''[[note]]An animated sketch/anthology series based on the works of Creator/MonkeyPunch. Not technically part of the Lupin anime canon, but the gang and Zenigata were featured in a pair of recurring segments.[[/note]](2004)
17	* ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine'' (2012)
18	* ''Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure'' (2015)
19	* ''Anime/LupinIIIPart5'' (2018)
20	* ''Anime/LupinIIIPart6'' (2021)
21	[[/index]]
22	[[/folder]]
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24	[[folder:OVA/ONA]]
25	[[index]]
26	* ''Anime/TheFumaConspiracy'' (1987)
27	* ''Anime/ReturnOfTheMagician'' (2002)
28	* ''Anime/GreenVsRed'' (2008)
29	* ''Anime/LupinIIIIsLupinStillBurning'' (2018)
30	* ''Anime/LupinZero'' (2022)
31	* ''Anime/LupinIIIVsCatsEye'' (2023)
32	[[/index]]
33	[[/folder]]
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35	[[folder:Theatrical Releases]]
36	[[index]]
37	* ''Anime/TheMysteryOfMamo'' (1978)
38	* ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'' (1979)
39	* ''Anime/LegendOfTheGoldOfBabylon'' (1985)
40	* ''Anime/FarewellToNostradamus'' (1995)
41	* ''Anime/LupinIIIDeadOrAlive'' (1996)
42	* ''Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConanTheMovie'' (2013)
43	* ''Anime/GravestoneOfDaisukeJigen'' (2014)
44	* ''Anime/GoemonIshikawasSprayOfBlood'' (2017)
45	* ''[[Anime/FujikoMinesLie Fujiko Mine's Lie]]'' (2019)
46	* ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheFirst Lupin III: The First]]'' (2019)
47	[[/index]]
48	[[/folder]]
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50	[[folder:Made For TV Movies]]
51	[[index]]
52	* Anime/LupinIIIYearlySpecials (1989-present)
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54	[[/folder]]
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56	[[folder:Animated Lupin short films]]
57	[[index]]
58	* ''Lupin III: Secret Files'': A collection of short ''Lupin'' videos: Trailers for the first four Lupin films: ''Lupin vs. the Clone'', ''Castle of Cagliostro'', ''Legend of the Gold of Babylon'', ''The Fuma Conspiracy'', and two cuts/dubs of the ''Anime/LupinIIIPilotFilm''.
59	* ''Anime/LupinVIII'': A 1982 French-Japanese pilot for a Lupin series following the descendents of Lupin and his gang in the future. Cancelled due to copyright issues with Maurice [=LeBlanc=]'s estate. Officially released on the Japanese collection ''Master Files''.
60	* ''Anime/LupinFamilyAllStars'': A ten-minute short produced in 2012 for the ''Master Files'' 40th anniversary release. This short reunites the original vocal cast for the last time and marks the final time Masuyama, Inoue, and Naya would play their characters (and was Naya's ''final'' acting role; he died not long after).
61	[[/index]]
62	[[/folder]]
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65	!!Tropes specific to the Lupin the Third anime:
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67	* AbridgedSeries: [[Creator/TeamFourStar KaiserNeko's]] brilliant but sadly short-lived one, which tackled eight episodes from ''Shin Lupin III'' (the "Red Jacket" series that aired on Creator/AdultSwim), including the [[MissingEpisode infamous Nazi one]]. Episodes can be found scattered around Website/YouTube and Dailymotion.
68	* ActionHoggingOpening: The opening sequences for the television series tend to have Lupin and friends being chased all over the world by Zenigata. This chase sequence serves as a visual and action-packed shorthand for the characters' roles. In the actual show, the crew's conflicts with Zenigata tend to feature fewer chase sequences and more clever trickery and disguises.
69	* TheAlibi:
70	** ''Anime/LupinIIIPart1'', in the [[Recap/LupinIIIS1E1 pilot episode]], had Lupin racing in a Formula 1 car, with Inspector Zenigata chasing behind him. While he's just out of sight, he switches places with Jigen, who is driving an identical car. When the nearby hotel explodes and Zenigata attempts to blame Lupin, Lupin points out that Zenigata is his alibi: proof that Lupin couldn't be responsible for the crime.
71	** ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'' second episode, [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E2 "Guns, Bun, and Fun in the Sun"]], has Lupin (along with Jigen and Goemon) arrested for drunk driving. They set up a projector to show the three still in jail as they escape and pull off the episode's heist. It would've worked, except Inspector Zenigata was too suspicious and checked out their cell personally.
72	* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: In Italy, ''Anime/LupinIII'' had a song about ''BDSM porn'' as its opening. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOzxaKBY8f8 See for yourself]].
73	* AmbiguousCloneEnding:
74	** The first movie, ''Anime/TheMysteryOfMamo'' seems to be heading for this until the climax, in which [[spoiler:[[TheAntagonist Mamo]] reveals that the Lupin that died at the beginning was the clone.]] When [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Inspector Zenigata]] shows up afterwards to arrest Lupin, [[spoiler:he tries to invoke this trope with Zenigata,]] but the inspector doesn't care.
75	** [[MythologyGag Referenced]] in the later Lupin movie ''Anime/GreenVsRed'', where it isn't clear if the Lupin at the end is the real one, Yasuo dressed as Lupin, or another impersonator entirely. [[MindScrew No one seems to care.]]
76	* AnimationBump:
77	** Several episodes of series 2 (72, 77, 82, 84, 99, 105, 143, 145, 151, 153, 155)[[note]]Episodes 145 & 155 were directed by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki[[/note]], three movies (''Anime/TheMysteryOfMamo'', ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'' and ''Anime/FarewellToNostradamus''), ''Anime/TheFumaConspiracy'', and three specials (''Elusiveness Of The Fog'', ''Play The Lupin'' (a batch of music videos that were released on DVD and UsefulNotes/BluRay) and ''Anime/LupinIIIBloodSealEternalMermaid'') were done by Creator/TelecomAnimationFilm.
78	** Telecom also worked on ''The Legend Of The Gold Of Babylon'' (Backgrounds, Key, In-Between and Finish Animation), ''Seven Days Rhapsody'' (Key Animation by Toshihiko Masuda) and ''Sweet Lost Night'' (Backgrounds) as well.
79	** The Creator/OhProduction episodes of the 2nd series that (pre Telecom) Kazuhide Tomonaga did Key Animation on (which are episodes 4, 8, 14, 20, 25, 31 and 63, he was also stationed at Oh! Production for ''The Mystery of Mamo'' as well) and Creator/HayaoMiyazaki's stuff (manly series 2 episodes 145 and 155 and ''The Castle of Cagliostro'', he also worked on the first series as well).
80	** ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheSecretOfTwilightGemini Secret of Twilight Gemini]]'' has noticeably smooth animation as well.
81	** ''[[Anime/LupinIIIThePursuitOfHarimaosTreasure The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure]]'' may have the smoothest animation in the series, to date.
82	* ArtShift:
83	** ''Anime/LupinIIIIslandOfAssassins'' features flashbacks by Lupin, which are shown as photo-negatives.
84	** In the OAV ''Anime/GreenVsRed'', the final showdown between the Red Jacket and Green Jacket [[Franchise/LupinIII Lupins]] is animated in the style of Monkey Punch's original manga, just one of many {{Mythology Gag}}s to Lupin's four decade history scattered through the film.
85	** Episode 6 of ''[[Anime/LupinIIIPart5 Part 5]]'' has the art slightly changed to appear more like the ''Pink Jacket'' series (albeit with modern character designs), since it's an homage to that series.
86	** The theatrical release ''Lupin III: The First'' ditches hand-drawn animation in favor [[AllCGICartoon 3D CG]].
87	* BarbieDollAnatomy: genitalia are usually completely avoided whatsoever, but specifically [[AvertedTrope averted]] in ''Anime/TheMysteryOfMamo'' and ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine'', where the male and female gender symbols are used to portray sex.
88	* BloodierAndGorier: ''Goemon Ishikawa's Spray of Blood''. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's right there in the title]].
89	* CameraSpoofing:
90	** [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E2 "Guns, Bun, and Fun in the Sun"]] has Lupin and his allies arrested for drunken driving as part of the set-up for a heist. They smuggled in a projector with reels and used bedsheets to make a screen, showing a loop of themselves in bed to the security camera. Interestingly, the guards didn't spot anything -- the plan worked until a suspicious Zenigata checked on the cell itself.
91	** Once again, Zenigata's suspicious nature reveals a flaw in Lupin's attempt in the movie, ''Anime/LupinIIIOperationReturnTheTreasure''. Lupin’s gang takes advantage of the power blink to run footage of an untampered safe while Lupin works on the real one. Zenigata eventually finds an error, but naturally it’s too late.
92	* CarSkiing: Lupin III pulls this stunt often.
93	** In the second ''Anime/LupinIIIPart1'' episode with Goemon, Lupin proceeds to car ski on a single log bridge to run over the samurai. Goemon naturally avoids it, and slices the car in half. At which point, Lupin ''continues to car ski with half a car'' still trying to run Goemon over.
94	** In ''Anime/TheMysteryOfMamo'', Lupin is car skiing on top of a falling barrier.
95	* ChasedOffIntoTheSunset: A number of movies and episodes end with Zenigata chasing Lupin off to the next adventure.
96	** ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'' ends with Lupin III and his gang fleeing in the Fiat away from the police into the sunset.
97	** ''Anime/TheMysteryOfMamo'' provides a twist, by having Zenigata handcuff Lupin, then having them both run off together being chased by missiles launched by the US and Russia.
98	* ClothingDamage:
99	** Goemon's primary method of disabling cops and anyone else chasing the Lupin Gang is to cut off their clothing with his sword, to which he will often say [[CatchPhrase "Once again, I've cut another worthless object."]]
100	** This also happens to main cast, with their clothes occasionally getting torn, burned, bitten off, or singed in an explosion. It happens far more to the guys than Fujiko, and is often for RuleOfFunny.
101	** Lupin never uses a disguise twice and literally tears them off his body as he's making an escape.
102	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Several examples exist for Lupin's "ya-tah-ta-''taa''" theme song appearing during the story itself.
103	** ''Anime/LupinIIICrisisInTokyo'' features Lupin whistling it.
104	** In the TV special ''Anime/LupinIIIStolenLupin'', Lupin's ringtone played the theme song.
105	** Lupin is also whistling the theme tune while crossing the desert in ''Anime/LupinIIISweetLostNight''
106	* DisposableWoman: The fate of any love interest who doesn't stab one of our four main protagonists in the back. Though to be fair, Fujiko's boyfriends, fiances, and husbands end up dead too.
107	* DisposableLoveInterest:
108	** Fujiko married the prince of Beltenberg. He was simply never brought up again.
109	** Zenigata almost married chief Jasmine. He simply decided that he could not balance a marriage and a police job like a normal human being, despite her also being with Interpol.
110	** Goemon nearly married a girl named Murasaki in ''The Fuma Conspiracy'', then broke off the engagement at the end. She was never seen or mentioned again.
111	* DrivenToSuicide: The HonorBeforeReason Goemon would sometimes attempt suicide because his sword was stolen and he felt he was nothing without it.
112	* DroppedAfterThePilot: The ''Anime/LupinIIIPilotFilm'' (released in the west with the [[Anime/LupinIIIPart1 Green Jacket]] series, but in Japan with the ''Secret Files'') has Detective Kogoro Akechi (the same character as Edogawa Rampo's detective), an established character in the manga series, as a partner for Inspector Zenigata who never appears again in the anime portion of the franchise.
113	* EvilChancellor:
114	** ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'' begins the story after the Count has taken power from the dead Duke who ruled. There's no suspicion raised InUniverse for why the Duke might've died in a huge blaze inside his ''Stone Castle'', especially when the Count has a secret army, counterfeiting operations, and is called the "shadow" line of the family. The only member of the "light" line of the family is Princess Clarisse, and the Count rules as regent in her place.
115	** There's another in the ''Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConan'' special. He's the BigBad, because he murdered his Queen and the Prince Crown of [[{{Ruritania}} his land]], and attempts to murder the SoleSurvivor of the royal family, the BrokenBird Princess. In this case he was never regent, merely next in line to the throne, and upset his advice wasn't being followed by the Queen.
116	* InstantDogend: Whenever Lupin or Jigen smoke, you can usually expect the cigarette's to be crumpled and twisted.
117	* MindScrew: The anime sometimes drifts into this territory.
118	** Many fans have been confused about what order of events or who the winner was in ''Anime/GreenVsRed''.
119	** ''Anime/TheMysteryOfMamo'' had the Mamo character who enjoys messing with Lupin's head.
120	** ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine'' used a number of MindScrew elements, especially where the series was preparing to reveal ''why'' Fujiko acted the way she did. [[spoiler: "Because she's Fujiko" is basically the answer fans were given, the entire story arc leading up to the reveal getting turned into a TakeThatAudience for getting invested on her tortured history as a little girl.]]
121	** ''Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure'' has some of this when [[spoiler: Da Vinci]] and the "[[ArcWords Italian Dream]]" are involved.
122	* MultipleChoicePast: Considering this series runs on zero continuity, any and all "origin stories" of the main cast should be taken with a grain of salt. Backed up by the fact that the characters are the same age every season, and every season takes place in the decade it was made.
123	* MythologyGag:
124	** ''Anime/GreenVsRed'' was packed with these, from the Lupin impostors drawn in the style of previous character designs at the beginning, to the [[spoiler:final battle done in the style of the original manga]]. During a gathering of Lupin impersonators, one spray-paints "Rupan" on a wall and another says, "Isn't that wrong?" This is a reference to the MarketBasedTitle "Rupan" that Creator/AnimEigo used for its English-language Lupin III releases, and a rare example of ''inverted'' LostInTranslation — probably relatively few Japanese viewers would catch the reference.
125	** A similar "different styles of Lupin" MythologyGag occurs in ''Anime/TheFumaConspiracy'' -- when under the influence of a psychedelic gas, a group of mooks see Lupin's face morph into many of the different art styles used during the TV series and films, before morphing into a demon's face.
126	** Almost every Lupin TV special or movie since the early '90s has involved some sort of homage or reference to ''Castle of Cagliostro'' or, in rarer cases, the Miyazaki Lupin III TV episodes—featuring similar situations or plot elements, derivative chase sequences, re-uses of title music, or recycled vehicle designs. ''Green vs. Red'' is a particularly egregious example—given that its entire ''raison d'être'' is to be referential to every single incarnation of Lupin that came before, spotting the references is practically a DrinkingGame.
127	** Episode 6 of part 5 is basically this towards the Pink Jacket series.
128	* NamedWeapon: Goemon has a legendary sword named ''Zantetsuken'', which translates to "iron-cutting sword". It does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
129	* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: Normally, Japanese Manga that are adapted into Animé keep the same name, so the first series was named ''[[Anime/LupinIIIPart1 Lupin III]]''. The sequel series was named ''[[Anime/LupinIIIPartII Shin Lupin III]]'' (''New Lupin III''), and the third was named ''[[Anime/LupinIIIPartIII Lupin III: Part III]]''. When the fourth was made, the refocus on Fujiko Mine gave the Creators the excuse to give another completely different title, ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine''. ''The Italian Adventure'' is referred to in Japan as Part 4, ignoring ''Fujiko Mine'' for focusing on a supporting character (or being tonally different with the other shows).
130	* OutfitDecoy: One of Lupin's most frequently used tactics. Using it to lead scent-tracking missiles in the wrong path, or faking a group drowning that the cops waste hours trying to fish up while the real thing is breaking into a bank across town. He also makes use of clothed fake limbs for whenever Zenigata pops out from nowhere and claps cuffs on him.
131	* SternChase: No matter where they go, Zenigata and Interpol are always hot on their tail, and they're wanted in literally every country on earth, which is why they tend to be in a completely different country every episode.
132	* StockNinjaWeaponry: There's one ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'' episode where our heroes are challenged by a group of four ninjas and a kunoichi ([[spoiler:actually a guy pretending to be a female ninja]]) who take great pride in using old-school weapons, including swords, daggers and kusarigama. They also add axes and bows to the lot.
133	* SubmarinePirates: In "Telepathy is Love's Signal'', Lupin and Jigen battle a sub full of female pirates for possession of a sunken pirate ship full of Spanish gold beneath the Bermuda Triangle.
134	* SummonToHand: Goemon has return the ''Zantetsuken'' to his hand using a string tied to the sheath.
135	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: In the years leading up to 2011, Zenigata's appearances became much more limited due to the RealLife illness of Creator/GoroNaya. After his retirement and having Zenigata [[TheOtherDarrin recast]] with Creator/KoichiYamadera in the role, the good inspector gets to be much more active again.
136	* SlippedTheRopes: Lupin can only be handcuffed if he lets you handcuff him. At one point, in ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'', Fujiko uses this trait to convince Zenigata he's possessed: there's blood on the cuffs, which means he had to fight his way out of them... something the normal Lupin wouldn't have to do.
137	* VocalEvolution: The anime side of the ''Lupin III'' franchise managed the impressive feat of keeping almost all of the original Japanese voice actors from 1971 to 2011, except for Creator/YasuoYamada, who passed away in 1995.
138	** Fans started to notice in the 2000's-era TV specials (''especially'' the ones in the second half of the decade) that age was starting to take its toll on the Japanese voice actors, causing the characters to sound older than they looked, and threatening fans' WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. The most pronounced example was sadly Creator/GoroNaya, who played Inspector Zenigata; he was diagnosed with throat cancer, making it much harder for him to carry on his role. Writers compensated by reducing Zenigata's part in his later specials.
139	** In mid-2011, TMS announced that Naya, Creator/EikoMasuyama (Fujiko), and Creator/MakioInoue (Goemon) would be replaced with younger actors in future ''Lupin'' projects, including 2012's ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine'' TV series. Fittingly, the final special with the original (surviving) cast was titled ''Anime/LupinIIITheLastJob''.
140	** Until his retirement in 2021, Creator/KiyoshiKobayashi (Jigen since 1969) sounded noticeably older than every other character.
141	* WhatTheHellHero: Whenever Lupin falls for Fujiko's [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder inevitable betrayals]], expect Jigen (and sometimes Goemon) to call him out for it.
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