'''Lupin's Funeral March''' [[note]]ルパン葬送曲 (''Lupin Sosookyoku'') [[/note]] with the English title of '''Baton Death March''' is the last Lupin episode to be dubbed in English.

A really glamorous Fujiko pays a visit to Lupin in his latest hideout; she has been invited to a concert directed by the famous Kyoransky, a young genius famous for his diamond-encrusted baton. While at first Lupin and Jigen are uninterested, Goemon decides to join Fujiko and so all the four thieves soon find themselves at the concert. Indeed, Kyoransky’s performance is breath taking, though while Fujiko and Goemon are enthralled, Jigen and Lupin are almost falling asleep due to it. Suddenly, the director points his baton at Lupin, and a few policemen among the audience (lead once again by Zenigata) start shooting at Lupin, forcing him to flee. However, as soon as the concert ends, they act as though they were under hypnosis, not remembering anything.

The following day, Fujiko asks Lupin to put on one of Kyoransky’s disks, but after a while she suddenly goes berserk and tries to kill Lupin with a hot poker, regaining her senses after accidentally smashing the recorder. Lupin discuss the bewildering phenomenon with Jigen, when Goemon arrives and starts watching Kyoransky’s latest performance on TV and in a matter of time he too tries to kill his friends, snapping out of it as soon as Jigen shoots the television. The thief soon comes to the conclusion that the director must have done something to his friends during the concert, and decides to confront him in his own mansion. He even states that he has no interest stealing the priceless baton, but Kyoransky still seems bend on taking revenge on Lupin. As he tries to leave, Kyoransky plays his violin with the baton, seemingly causing a series of poltergeist activity that nearly does Lupin in. Barely surviving the deadly traps, Lupin decides to come up with a plan to find out how Kyoransky could hypnotize his friends. The next day the director is going to do a concert on the mountain pastures live with cameramen and all, unaware that the cameramen are Lupin and Jigen in disguise. However, Zenigata also shows up with reinforcements in order to protect the baton and Kyoransky tries to put everyone against Lupin, but thanks to a cattle stampede the thief manages to get out unscathed.

In his hideout, Lupin studies the tapes and the records until he finally finds out Kyoransky’s secret: a peculiar ultrasonic whistle as he waves his wand forward at the beginning of the play. Doing so, however, gets him attacked by his friends (Jigen was hypnotized during the recording) but he was prepared for this and manages to make them all harmless by stealing their weapons (along with Fujiko’s panties). He then reveals that he has a counter for Kyoransky’s baton in the form of a cooking ladle, which has 27 holes capable of reproducing the same high frequency pitch as the diamond baton. The next day, Lupin and Kyoransky have a final showdown, with the latter revealing that his late father was an Italian jeweler who was murdered by Lupin, who retorts by saying that he was a rogue who tried to kill him first. Kyoransky then mocks Lupin’s weapon of choice and prepares to take control of Zenigata, who showed up in a tank. The two swings their batons, but the whistle from Lupin’s ladle proves stronger than Kyoransky’s own, and as a result Zenigata has the cannon aimed and fired at Kyoransky, who is promptly turned to dust.

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!!'''This Episode provides examples of''':

* BlingBlingBang: Kyoranski's diamond-studded Baton count as one.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Kyoransky's motive for targeting Lupin is due to the latter killing his father in cold blood. Lupin doesn't even remember the guy.
* ClassicalMusic: Kyoranski's specialty, including Music/NightOnBaldMountain among others.
* CrazyPrepared: Thankfully enough, Lupin did take precautions against Kyoranski's music when he showed his companions his secret, namely by removing the bullets from Jigen's pistol, the blade from Goemon's Zantetsuken and finally taking Fujiko's hidden pistol ([[AllMenArePerverts and garterbelt]])
* FakeNationality: InUniverse, the climax implies that, despite the Russian-sounding name, Kyoranski has Italian origins, so his nickname may be an alias.
* FanService: The episode opens with a glamorously-dressed Fujiko, including shots of her cleavage and hips.
* InNameOnly: "The Funeral March of Lupin III" was the GrandFinale of the second ''Lupin'' manga, but plot is completely different, starting with the villainous conductor being one [[SdrawkcabName Ataginez]].
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: While Lupin manages to explain and replicate Kyoranski's gizmo when it comes to controlling people with his music, he couldn't explain how the director could perform the "poltergeist" trick by playing the violin.
* MeaningfulName: In Japanese, the Kyoran from Kyoranski can read as "Insane Madness".
* MindControlMusic: Kyoranski's specialty, though the actual switch is an unaudible ultrasonic wave sent by the baton.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: The final duel involves both parties (Lupin and Kyoranski) trying to control a tank-riding Zenigata into shooting the other. All that's left of Kyoranski is a smoldering crater.
* PointyEars: Kyoranski, like a pretty large number of Lupin the III villains before him and after him, has them along with a greenish skintone.
* YouKilledMyFather: Kyoranski's raison d'etre. His father was an Italian jeweler who was murdered by Lupin. According to the thief, said father was also a ruthless criminal and the murderer was in self-defense.