History Anime / LupinIIIYearlySpecials

# ''Anime/LupinIIIStolenLupin'' (Stolen Lupin ~The Copy Cat is a Midsummer's Butterfly~)

# ''Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConan''
# ''Anime/LupinIIITheLastJob''
# ''Anime/LupinIIIBloodSealEternalMermaid''

* DependingOnTheArtist: As mentioned above, this is the rule rather than the exception since TMS would farm out different specials to different studios.

Many of these specials have found their way into the Western Market. Creator/{{Funimation}} licensed and dubbed eight of them – from 1993's ''Voyage To Danger'' to 2000's ''Missed By A Dollar'' – which they released in the early/mid 2000's, though they are now out-of-print. [[Creator/MangaEntertainment Manga UK]] dubbed and released the first special, ''Bye-Bye Liberty Crisis'', in PAL-VHS markets in the mid-90's. Creator/{{Discotek|Media}} has picked up several specials from both before and after Funimation's block, and as of 2016, even the ones in Funimation's block have been re-entering print thanks to Discotek. [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Italy]] has released a large number of them as well, but even they do not have all of them.

* GirlOfTheWeek: Don't count on any females introduced in one special to appear in anything futher, especially since some of them are KilledOffForReal.

* LighterAndSofter: Like many adaptations, they're still not as dark as ''[[Manga/LupinIII the original manga]].

* CerebusRollercoaster

* GirlOfTheWeek: Love interests or not, don't count on any females introduced in one special to appear in anything futher, especially since some of them are KilledOffForReal.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Sometimes, characterization woukd be different from special to special.

* DependingOnTheArtist: As mentioned above, this is the rule rather than the exception since TMS woukd farm out different specials to different studios.

Many of these specials have found their way into the Western Market. Creator/{{Funimation}} licensed and dubbed eight of them – from 1993's ''Voyage To Danger'' to 2000's ''Missed By A Dollar'' – which they released in the early/mid 2000's, though they are now out-of-print. Creator/{{Manga|Entertainment}}UK dubbed and released the first special, ''Bye-Bye Liberty Crisis'', in PAL-VHS markets in the mid-90's. Creator/{{Discotek|Media}} has picked up several specials from both before and after Funimation's block, and as of 2016, even the ones in Funimation's block have been re-entering print thanks to Discotek. [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Italy]] has released a large number of them as well, but even they do not have all of them.

Many of these specials have found their way into the Western Market. Creator/{{Funimation}} licensed and dubbed eight of them – from 1993's ''Voyage To Danger'' to 2000's ''Missed By A Dollar'' – which they released in the early/mid 2000's, though they are now out-of-print. Creator/{{Manga|Entertainment}}UK dubbed and released the first special, ''Bye-Bye Liberty Crisis'', in PAL-VHS markets in the mid-90's. Creator/{{Discotek|Media}} has picked up several specials from both before and after Funimation's block. [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Italy]] has released a large number of them as well, but even they do not have all of them.

# ''Anime/LupinIIIBloodSealEternalMermaid'' (Blood Seal ~Eternal Mermaid~)

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On April 1, 1989, twenty years after the ''Anime/LupinIIIPilotFilm'' was released and four years after ''Babylon'' hit cinemas, NTV aired ''[[Anime/LupinIIIByeByeLibertyCrisis Bye Bye Liberty Crisis]]'', a 97-minute MadeForTVMovie. Featuring the return of the original music composer and voice cast, it was a big hit. Since then, TMS has made an effort to have a new ''Lupin III'' special produced every year, typically airing either in April or (more recently) in late Fall. However, 2014 came and went without any special at all. 2015 has seen a new ''Lupin'' TV series (an Italian co-production, {{fan nickname}}d "Blue Jacket"), with its own special released in January 2016, but as of this writing it is unknown whether the specials will continue or if 2013's regular special – the 25th – was the last.[[note]] Quite possibly. Ratings for the ''Lupin'' specials had been steadily dropping for years; had a special aired in 2014, it might have seen numbers finally fall below 10,000,000.[[/note]]

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On April 1, 1989, twenty years after the ''Anime/LupinIIIPilotFilm'' was released and four years after ''Babylon'' hit cinemas, NTV aired ''[[Anime/LupinIIIByeByeLibertyCrisis Bye Bye Liberty Crisis]]'', a 97-minute MadeForTVMovie. Featuring the return of the original music composer and voice cast, it was a big hit. Since then, TMS has made an effort to have a new ''Lupin III'' special produced every year, typically airing either in April or (more recently) in late Fall. However, 2014 came and went without any special at all. 2015 has seen a new ''Lupin'' TV series (an Italian co-production, {{fan nickname}}d "Blue Jacket"), but as of this writing it is unknown whether the specials will continue or if 2013's special – the 25th – was the last.[[note]] Quite possibly. Ratings for the ''Lupin'' specials had been steadily dropping for years; had a special aired in 2014, it might have seen numbers finally fall below 10,000,000.[[/note]]

On April 1, 1989, twenty years after the ''Anime/LupinIIIPilotFilm'' was released and four years after ''Babylon'' hit cinemas, NTV aired ''[[Anime/LupinIIIByeByeLibertyCrisis Bye Bye Liberty Crisis]]'', a 97-minute MadeForTVMovie. Featuring the return of the original music composer and voice cast, it was a big hit. Since then, TMS has made an effort to have a new ''Lupin III'' special produced every year, typically airing either in April or (more recently) in late Fall. However, 2014 came and went without any special at all. 2015 is seeing a new ''Lupin'' TV series (an Italian co-production, {{fan nickname}}d "Blue Jacket"), but as of this writing it is unknown whether the specials will continue or if 2013's special – the 25th – was the last.[[note]] Quite possibly. Ratings for the ''Lupin'' specials had been steadily dropping for years; had a special aired in 2014, it might have seen numbers finally fall below 10,000,000.[[/note]]

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# ''Anime/LupinIIIMysteryOfTheHemingwayPapers''

# ''Anime/LupinIIIStealNapoleonsDictionary''
# ''Anime/LupinIIIBankOfLiberty''

On April 1, 1989, twenty years after the ''Anime/LupinIIIPilotFilm'' was released and four years after ''Babylon'' hit cinemas, NTV aired ''[[Anime/LupinIIIByeByeLibertyCrisis Bye Bye Liberty Crisis]]'', a 97-minute MadeForTVMovie. Featuring the return of the original music composer and voice cast, it was a big hit. Since then, TMS has made an effort to have a new ''Lupin III'' special produced every year, typically airing either in April or (more recently) in late Fall.

Many of these specials have found their way into the Western Market. Creator/{{Funimation}} licensed and dubbed eight of them – from ''Voyage To Danger'' to ''Missed By A Dollar'' – which they released in the early/mid 2000's, though they are now long out-of-print. Creator/{{Discotek|Media}} has picked up several specials from both before and after Funimation's block. [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Italy]] has released a large number of them as well, but even they do not have all of them.

# ''more to come''

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[[caption-width-right:340: Lupin's shirt is dark, someone's gonna die!]]

The unexpected flop of 1987's ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheFumaConspiracy Fuma Conspiracy]]'' was a blow to [[Creator/TMSEntertainment TMS's]] efforts to revive the ''Franchise/LupinIII'' franchise after the poor receptions of ''Anime/LupinIIIPinkJacket'' and its movie ''Anime/LegendOfTheGoldOfBabylon''. Yet the strong passions ''Fuma'' aroused proved that Japan had not yet given up on ''Lupin''; TMS just needed to take a new (or old) tack...

# ''Anime/LupinIIIPrincessOfTheBreeze'' (Lupin III Princess of the Breeze ~Hidden City in the Sky~)