History Anime / LupinIIIPart5

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** During the long career of Lupin as a GentlemanThief, he manages to uncover some state secrets and conspiracies that are kept hidden from the public as they could spell massive trouble. [[spoiler: Lupin's leakage of some of the information, verified by [=PeopleLog=] as the truth, sends many nations into panic as they can't outright deny the allegations as they have already vouched for [=PeopleLog=]'s authenticity, and Shake Hanz won't take down the information for the sake of "transparency". This [[TakeAThirdOption causes various governments to declare the ShakeHanz Company as a terrorist group]] so they can justify taking them down with force to protect their state secrets. Given that America was willing to basically commit an indiscriminate killing operation to cover up its own secrets, it should be no surprise that there will be eventual backlash.]]
** The Landlady who owns the place where Jigen and Lupin are staying is almost [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion condemned by the public]] even though she is innocent and has no idea that two high profile criminals are staying in her place. Lupin and the gang have to [[CrueltobeKind take her hostage and kidnap her in front of the crowd]] so she can be absolved of the accusation.

* ShippingGoggles: InUniverse. During the Lupin game many of the fans thought that Lupin, Jigen and Goemon are in a relationship with one another.

Lupin once again dons the blue jacket first seen in the ''The Italian Adventure'', making this the first time Lupin retains his jacket color from a previous, mainline series [[note]]Lupin did wear his original green jacket from the first series in ''The Woman Called Fujiko Mine''[[/note]].

* PeekABangs: Ami's left eye is almost always covered.

Creator/{{Toonami}} debuted the English dub on June 15th, 2019.

''[[Anime/LupinIIIPart6 Part 6]]'' was announced on May 25, 2021.

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

** Fujiko tells Ami that nothing separated her from Lupin in the past. [[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.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Zenigata, by seemingly rescuing Lupin from being assassinated by [[spoiler: Fujiko]] actually nearly killed him, since the plan is to use [[spoiler: Fujiko to fake his assassination. Instead, they are forced to cross the desert, be chased by a Bwandan army helicopter, and nearly die from thirst.]] Lupin still manages to pull off the plan anyway, but it threw a massive wedge in it.

** Everyone points out the fact Lupin isn't throwing himself at Fujiko and seems to have become completely indifferent to her.

* SequelHook: In the final episode, Albert ends up taking Enzo's consultant into custody and proclaims he'll need him for his plans in the future, which involve abandoning the organization the latter worked for. Also, after Enzo is defeated and apparently think he knows Lupin's true secret, he proclaims he'll make a better version of his [=PeopleLog=] app. Though Lupin counters by saying he has more secrets Enzo doesn't know about.

* ShoutOut: The digital mask-making machine shown in Episode 14 is a nod to a similar device featured in ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''.

** During the long career of Lupin as a GentlemanThief, he manages to uncover some state secrets and conspiracies that are kept hidden from the public as they could spell massive trouble. [[spoiler: Lupin's leakage of some of the information, verified by the People Log as the truth, sent many nations into panic as they can't outright deny the allegations as they have already vouched for the People Log, and Shake Hanz won't take down the information for the sake of "transparency". This [[TakeAThirdOption caused the governments to declare the ShakeHanz Company as a terrorist group]] so they can take them down to protect their state secrets. Given that America was willing to basically commit an indiscriminate killing operation to cover up its own secrets, it should be no surprise that there will be eventual backlash.]]

* SurveillanceDrone: One is following Lupin and feeding visuals to the Lupin Game website. [[spoiler: Turns out that Lupin and his gang are the ones controlling it, using it to help set up Lupin's fake death to end the game; this is why none of the Gang bother destroying it]].

** [[spoiler: Lupin]] has to perform this on [[spoiler: Ami]], after the latter got shot in the arm in episode 3.

* CripplingOverspecialization: The Marco Polo group works online under a cloud of secrecy and has tech at their disposal, but they rely on that tech too much. [[spoiler: When their cameras record the death of Lupin, they take it for real, when it is just Ami using her skills to fake it, since the drone they are relying on is being controlled by Lupin's group all along. Their anonymity swiftly falls apart with Ami's expertise, and all three of Marco Polo's admins are subdued within seconds once the gang tracks them down; none of them have real defenses or guards and they have no escape routes ready]].

* ExactWords: Played for laughs. Two brothers construct a safe that only an idiot can open, which gets them booed for obvious reasons. [[spoiler: They explain that only someone with low IQ can access the safe, which Lupin can’t because he’s too smart. The crowd immediately turns around and starts cheering]].
** 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.]]

* EyeScream: Twice over in the finale in the second arc. Goemon defeats the fanged woman by using the nails he chipped off her during their fight and throwing them into her eyes before going in for the kill. And Albert defeats the spear throwing girl by throwing her spear right into her good eye.

* ForgetsToEat: Ami, to the point that she can barely stand when Lupin first finds her. Later she prefers energy drinks to actual meals because it's "more efficient".

* ICouldaBeenAContender: In one episode where Zenigata had an amnesia, [[spoiler: it turns out that due to his career of chasing Lupin, Zenigata picked up the skills and methods that the latter can use. The only thing that stops Zenigata from becoming HeWhoFightsMonsters is his own moral compass and dedication to his job.]]

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Lupin wants to live his life as the hero of a TV show, where everyone is excited to see what he will do next.

** Lupin hides out in a country out of Interpol jurisdiction. As a member of Interpol, Zenigata can't go there for official police business, so he just files for vacation leave.

** Lupin's rival in this series is named Albert D'Andresy. In the Maurice Leblanc "Arsene Lupin" novels that inspired Lupin III, the original Arsene Lupin's mother is named Henriette D'Andresy; [[spoiler: this marks Albert as a blood rival of Lupin.]]

* NowThatsUsingYourTeeth: One of Jose's henchmen is a woman with sharpened claws and fangs. At one point she goes close range on Lupin who counters with a pipe when he has an opening. Only for her to catch it ''with her teeth''. So does it again in the following episode only this time against ''Goemon's sword''.
* OhCrap: Lupin, Jigen and Goemon think they're in the clear after escaping with Ami in the first episode. But they soon find out that they're being tracked via the internet and people using social accounts to spot him. Meaning virtually the ''whole world'' is after him now.
** Happens again in Episode 4 where Lupin and Jigen find out that everyone is watching their every move via People Log.

* SmartPeoplePlayChess: The theme of Episode 19, which had Lupin and a friendly rival play chess while their gunmen have a sniper battle above them.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Zenigata appears to save Lupin from Fujiko when she tries to kill him for the bounty, [[spoiler: but it turns out Fujiko and Lupin had schemed to have his death faked and Zenigata has instead caused a complication.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: In the third episode, one of the assassins takes on Goemon with a fishing lure made of [[RazorFloss razor thin wire]]. He manages to get it around his neck, only to find out Goemon had ''cut off his hands before he had realized it''.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Albert was this to Lupin back in the past during his starting days as a thief. Indeed, Albert introduction in the present day had him managing to outsmart Lupin by switching the gun full of blanks Lupin had thought he planted before their confrontation and even dismantling the bomb Lupin had planted in his car as a backup.

* ShippingGoggles: InUniverse. During the Lupin game many of the fans thought that Lupin, Jigen and Goemon were in a relationship with one another.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Zenigata appears to save Lupin from Fujiko when she tries to kill him for the bounty, [[spoiler: but it turns out Fujiko and Lupin had schemed to have his death faked and Zenigata had instead caused a complication.]]

** On the long career of Lupin as a GentlemanThief, he managed to uncover and stumbled some state secrets and conspiracies that are kept hidden from the public as they could spell massive trouble. [[spoiler: Lupin's leakage of some of the information, verified by the People Log as the truth, sent many nations into panic as they can't outright deny the allegations as they have already vouched for the People Log, and Shake Hanz won't take down the information for the sake of "transparency". This [[TakeAThirdOption caused the governments to declare the ShakeHanz Company as a terrorist group]] so they can take them down to protect their state secrets. Given that America was willing to basically commit an indiscriminate killing operation to cover up its own secrets, it should be no surprise that there will be eventual backlash.]]
** The Landlady who owns the place where Jigen and Lupin were staying was almost [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion condemned by the public]] even though she is innocent and had no idea that two high profile criminals are staying on her place. Lupin and the gang had to [[CrueltobeKind hostage and kidnap her in front of the crowd]] so she can be absolved of the accusation.
* SurveillanceDrone: One is following Lupin and feeding visuals to the Lupin Game website. [[spoiler: Turns out that Lupin and his gang are the ones controlling it, using it to help set up Lupin's fake death to end the game]].

** a literal case of this, with the reveal above. And it’s affected Fujiko that she has to ask Lupin how things are between them.

** Averted in the second arc. [[spoiler:Jose's assassin team]] die very bloodily in some of the most brutal on-screen violence ever seen in the Lupin III franchise.

* CripplingOverspecialization: The Marco Polo group works online and has tech at their disposal, but they rely on that tech too much. [[spoiler: when their cameras record the death of Lupin, they take it for real, when it was just Ami using her skills to fake it, since the drone they were using was being controlled by Lupin's group all along.]]

* DudeWheresMyRespect: When Lupin is arrested by Interpol and taken into custody after failing to bust Fujiko out of [=ShakeHanz=]'s HQ, another inspector claims at a press conference that the arrest was an international collaborative effort. Yata bursts onto the scene and chews out the guy and the press for taking credit away from Zenigata, who had been the most useful policeman on the job. After all, Zenigata had been the best at tracking Lupin without smart technology while all the other cops had to resort to [=PeopleLog=] to make their arrests.

* EverythingIsOnline: Bit of a theme in the first arc, the first ep alone has Lupin using tech and being tracked by the public via an online social media-based [[AlternateRealityGame ARG]] called "The Lupin Game". Later he's put on a "death pool"-style website called "Happy Deathday" where people bet on when he'll die, which spurs assassins to make bets and go after him.

* ExactWords: Played for laughs. Two brothers construct a safe that only an idiot can open, which gets them booed for obvious reasons. [[spoiler: They explain that only someone with low IQ can access the safe, which Lupin can’t because he’s too smart.]]
** 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.]]

** During the second arc, Lupin calls in Goemon for help but he's coming off meditation from under a waterfall. So Goemon doesn't understand his finger is too wet for the touchscreen to register and receive the call, causing him to throw the phone down in frustration. Later while walking through a village, he gets a text message but doesn't now how to answer it and has to have some local kids help him.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Zenigata, by seemingly rescuing Lupin from being assassinated by [[spoiler: Fujiko]] actually nearly killed him, since the plan was to use [[spoiler: Fujiko to fake his assassination. Instead, they were forced to cross the desert, chased by a helicopter, and nearly die from thirst.]] He still manages to pull off the plan anyway, but it threw a massive wedge in it.

* OhCrap: Lupin, Jigen and Goemon think they're in the clear after escaping with Ami in the first episode. But they soon find out that they're being tracked via the net and people using social accounts to spot him. Meaning virtually the ''whole world'' is after him now.

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: When Lupin appears to be cornered, Zenigata comes roaring by in a car to get him away, so that he can arrest Lupin past the border.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Everyone points out the fact Lupin isn't throwing himself at Fujiko and seems to have become completely indifferent to her.

** Did you really think that the Marco Polo group could outsmart Lupin and get him killed? [[spoiler:By the time he'd gotten to Bwanda, he already had a plan to fake his death!]]
** Surprisingly happens to Lupin in the second arc. After finding out the person who sent him on his "job" was actually an old rival from his starting days. Lupin manages to track him down and had hoped to get the drop on him by infiltrating his security office, finding out who his lover is, disguising himself as said lover (Albert's gay by the way), and switching out the gun in his jacket with one full of blanks. When Lupin confronts Albert at their rendezvous point, he expects Albert to shoot him. Only to find out the gun's magazine was switched with another one carrying ''live'' cartridges, Lupin is mortally wounded and loses the black book as a result. What's more, when he tries for a backup plan with a bomb he implanted in Albert's car, the bomb explodes in the river and Albert reveals he was pretty much expecting that too.

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

* PaperTiger: The Marco Polo leaders are this: they're great at running criminal enterprises or ordering death from a computer, but when it comes to actually risking their lives they're too cowardly and ineffectual to move around. Lupin points out to Chuck Glay that a criminal who can't face risks of failure or death isn't worth the money he steals for himself.

* MoralDissonance:
** In episode 23, Jigen outright mass murders police officers when he stops the prisoner transport convoy. While this should give the Lupin gang a bad name in more ways than one, it should also be noted that the police shot at Jigen ''without any provocation'', clearly showing that the officer in charge wasn't too concerned about going dirty to get a criminal in jail (or in the morgue).
** Later, Jigen and Goemon wipe out the American military units who were sent to raid [=ShakeHanz=]'s HQ building. They don't get any flak for killing soldiers, pilots, and marines, but then again, the troops had been sent to cover up America's dirty secrets (and the American government has no problem with killing everyone in [=ShakeHanz=] in the first place).

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: On the long career of Lupin as a GentlemanThief, he managed to uncover and stumbled some state secrets and conspiracies that are kept hidden from the public as they could spell massive chaos. [[spoiler: Lupin's leakage of some of the information, verified by the People Log as the truth, sent many nations into panic as they can't outright deny the allegations as they have already vouched for the PeopleLog, and ShakeHanz won't take down the information for the sake of "transparency". This [[TakeAThirdOption caused the governments to declare the ShakeHanz Company as a terrorist group]] so they can take them down to protect their state secrets. Given that America was willing to basically commit an indiscriminate killing operation to cover up its own secrets, it should be no surprise that there will be eventual backlash.]]

''[[Anime/LupinIIIPart6 Part 6]]'' was announced on May 25 2021.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: The series ends with Lupin managing to defeat [=PeopleLog=] and Jigen, Goemon, Fujiko and he rushing off from the HQ building with Zenigata (along with Yata) in hot pursuit. Though they leave Ami with Enzo (at her own decision 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 proclaims he'll always be ready and willing for the challenge and his gang is more then happy to continue having their adventures with him.

* BloodlessCarnage: Quite a few assassins die fighting Lupin's gang or each other but there is no blood spilled.[[spoiler:Except when Lupin is apparently shot in the head, [[YourHeadAsplode resulting in a geyser of blood,]] but even then it is all in silhouette. Turns out to have been an internet filter.]]

** Episode's 11, 12 and 20 on the other hand are stand alone episodes that call back to the ''Red Jacket'' series.

* BringIt: With social media tracking his every move through "The Lupin Game", Lupin goes on social media himself to show where exactly he's going - to a fictional African country, Bwanda, which isn't part of Interpol jurisdiction. Once there, he continues to post about his daily activities ad nauseam, making many people quit the Game out of boredom since the thrill of the chase is gone. However Marco Polo still sends assassins against him, and Lupin goes online with "Lupin is here" signs to get them all in one place.

** 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.

* 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 also this. And following arc (Black Notebook) has some of the most brutal violence ever seen in a Lupin show.

** 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.]]

** Both were absent from the previous main story arc, so this may be the production teams way of making up for that.

* HighClassGlass: As seen on the poster, Lupin wears one during heists which acts as a portable hacking tool. It's also a web-cam.
* HopelessWithTech: Goemon's good with a sword, but smart-tech? Not so much.

** In the final episode, Goemon and Jigen prevent the army trying to get into the building to stop Lupin with nothing more then their personal weapons. Even the American general supervising things and the internet watching through Lupin's monocle are in disbelief that two men are managing to keep them at bay.

* PaperTiger: The Marco Polo leaders are this: they're great at running criminal enterprises or ordering death from a computer, but when it comes to actually risking their life they're too cowardly and ineffectual to move around. Lupin points out to Chuck Glay that a criminal who can't face risks of failure or death isn't worth the money he steals for himself.

* RankedByIQ: "Lupin vs. the Smart Safe" involves Lupin III trying to crack a safe that measures intelligence on a scale from 0 to 300, and the safe opens when it's at 0. Lupin's a 300, and the gang basically just kick the shit out of him to give him enough brain damage to open it. [[spoiler: They can only get it to 1, so instead, Lupin just uses his normal intelligence and eats enough fish to make him smarter so it overflows to 301 and opens.]]

* SmartPeoplePlayChess: The theme of Episode 19, which had Lupin and a friendly rival play chess while their gunman have a sniper battle above them.

* SpyFiction: The second arc has shades of this. Specifically the ''Dirty Martini'' kind.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: On the long career of Lupin as a GentlemanThief, he managed to uncover and stumbled some state secrets and conspiracies that is kept hidden from the public as it could spell massive chaos, [[spoiler: Lupin releasing some of the information on the public, and verified by the People Log as the truth sent all the nations into panic as they can't outright deny it as they have already vouched for the PeopleLog, and the ShakeHanz wont take down the information for "transparency". This [[TakeAThirdOption forced the governments to declare the ShakeHanz Company as a terrorist group]] so they can take them down to protect their state secrets.]]
* SurveillanceDrone: One is following Lupin and feeding visuals to the Lupin Game website. [[spoiler: Turns out that Lupin and his game are the ones controlling it, using it to help set up Lupin's fake death to end the game]].

* TakeAThirdOption: In the Smart Safe caper, Lupin can't access a safe due to needing the I.Q of an idiot to open it. So Fujiko, Jigen and Goemon all use methods to drop his intelligence to do so. Problem is 1) being stupid will leave him vulnerable to getting captured and 2) it wasn't enough to open the vault when they tried again. So what does Lupin do? [[spoiler: He decides to ''boost'' his intelligence by eating fish that can put him just over the vault's cap of 300 to 301 to override the system and get it to open. So ironically being smarter than the vault could handle allows him to win.]]

* 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]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: On the long career of Lupin as a GentlemanThief, he managed to uncover and stumbled some state secrets and conspiracies that is kept hidden from the public as it could spell massive chaos, [[spoiler: Lupin releasing some of the information on the public, and verified by the People Log as the truth sent all the nations into panic as they can't outright deny it as they have already vouched for the PeopleLog, and the said company wont take down the information for "transparency". This [[TakeAThirdOption forced the governments to declare the Peoplelog as a terrorist group]] so they can take them down to protect their state secrets.]]

** Episode 18 is a comedic episode about the gang's toilet being broken and Goemon wanting Japanese food.

''Lupin III Part 5'' is, as the name implies, the fifth installment of the main ''[[Anime/LupinIII Lupin III]]'' series.[[note]]technically the sixth if you count the spinoff, ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine The Woman Called Fujiko Mine]]''[[/note]] It follows on directly from 2015's ''[[WesternAnimation/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure The Italian Adventure]]'' (aka ''Part 4'').

** Episode 23 sees Lupin [[spoiler: hiding in the catacombs of ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro''. Additionally, he begins his final plan once he gets a message from [[WesternAnimation/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure Rebecca Rossellini]]]].

''[[Anime/LupinIIIPart6 Part6]]'' was announced on May 25 2021.

''Anime/LupinIIIPart6'' was announced on May 25 2021.

A Part 6 was announced on May 25 2021.