Line #17 Series/DaughterOfLupin


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2	''Daughter of Lupin'' (ルパンの娘) is an eleven episode Japanese RomanticComedy {{Dorama}} from 2019, adapted from a 2015 novel. It later received a second season in late-2020 which adapts the follow-up novels, ''Return of Lupin'' and ''Daughter of Holmes''.
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4	It is centered around a young couple on opposite sides of the law - Kazuma, the son of long line of police officers, and Hana, descendant of the infamous "L clan" of thieves.
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6	!!This show provides examples of:
7	* ActorAllusion:
8	** Episode 9 has Kazuma fighting a group of baddies, and then tying them up, [[Series/KamenRiderKiva with a metal chain]].
9	** Episode 11 has Waichi showing up [[Series/KamenRider on a motorcycle in a jacket with double white stripes on the sleeve]].
10	* Literature/ArseneLupin: As the title of the show suggests, the "L clan" is an allusion to Arsène.
11	* BadassFamily: The L clan is three generations of badass.
12	* TheBadGuysAreCops: The Mikumo family is treated as more sympathetic, leaning into this trope at times. [[spoiler: Then full on embraces it in episode 10 when it's revealed that Emili's grandfather attacked Matsu as a teenager and has had it out for the L clan ever since.]]
13	* BlackSheep: Hana, due to initially not wanting anything to do with her family's crimes. Wataru is also treated like this due to never going outside his room.
14	* FreakyFridayFlip: The fifth episode of the second season involves Hana and Matsu swapping bodies after placing one of Wataru's ladybugs on the back of their necks.
15	* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler:Hana and Kazuma were not the first members of their families to date each other.]]
16	* HowDadMetMom: Both Hana and Kazuma's parents tell their story to each other. Matsu later explains her story as well.
17	* IdenticalGrandson: Both Hana and Kazuma look identical to a younger version their grandparents.
18	* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine:
19	** Kazuma and his grandfather are played by Kamen Riders [[Series/KamenRiderKiva Kiva]] and [[Series/KamenRider Ichigou]] respecively.
20	** In the final episode of season one, Kazuma's actor has a fight scene with his stunt double from Kamen Rider Kiva, Seiji Takaiwa.
21	* MeetTheInLaws: First Hana meets the Sakuraba family, then Kazuma meets the Mikumo family, and then the families meet each other. Naturally, Hana gets more tense with each meeting.
22	* MultigenerationalHousehold: Kazuma's grandfather and Hana's grandmother both live with their children.
23	* NoLongerWithUs: Matsu keeps a photo of her husband on the table with some candles, leaving Kazuma to assume that he is dead.
24	* NotAllowedToGrowOld: After an eight year time skip in season two, the Mikumo family complain about growing too old to steal now, but they also still look exactly the same.
25	* OddNameOut: The L clan gets new names that are just the same given name plus a different surname. Except Wataru. He gets stuck with the name Kevin because there were no other Wataru names available.
26	* PhantomThief: Obviously the L clan, but also Hana's childhood friend.
27	* {{Pixellation}}: The show uses this whenever Matsu needs to pick a lock.
28	* SecondActBreakUp: While toyed with prior, episode 7 ends with [[spoiler:the L clan's secret being exposed and thus Kazuma and Hana must part ways. At least until Hana and her father crash Kazuma and Emili's wedding in episode 10.]]
29	* SecretKeeper: Matsu helps Hana hide Kazuma's profession from her parents. [[spoiler:Kazuma himself later has to hide Hana's identity from his parents.]]
30	** SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Both grandfathers (and also Matsu) knew all along of the other family's identity because they were all friends as teenagers.]]
31	* StarCrossedLovers: Hana and Kazuma, obviously. [[spoiler:But also Matsu and Waichi, back when they were teenagers.]]
32	* TimeSkip:
33	** Episode 9 skips forward one year.
34	** The second episode of season two skips forward nine months, and then the following episode skips ''eight years''.
35	* WhamEpisode:
36	** Episode 5 has Kazuma pleading that Hana not show up to save him this time. [[spoiler:She does and he finally unmasks her, revealing her identity.]]
37	** Episode 7 ramps up the "whams" with Iwao revealing that he knew that the Sakurabas were cops, Misako snooping around and finding Etsuko's pendant, [[spoiler:Takeru revealing the L clan secret to Kazuma, the Sakuraba family legacy being revealed to entire Mikumo family, and finally ending with the L clan being exposed.]]

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