History TearJerker / LupinIII

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* The behind-the-scenes crap that went down for ''Anime/TheFumaConspiracy''. The recasting of new voice actors for the Lupin Gang caused a lot of hate mail to be sent to their voice actors.
** Furthermore, Creator/YasuoYamada was furious at being recasted (Lupin was a favourite role of his) and put the blame on "Lupin" creator MonkeyPunch for it. Despite Yamada reprising the role later on, relations between them were permanently strained.
* Lupin Part 6's first episode, is the last episode of veteran seiyu Creator/KiyoshiKobayashi. After 52 years of Daisuke Jigen, he announced his retirement from the role. He gets a grand farewell with the episode "Era", where Jigen is considering retiring due to changing eras.
** The episode itself has Jigen spending quality time with each and every one if the core cast, even Fujiko and Zenigata, as if to allow him to enjoy their company for one last time before he goes.

* Lupin Part 6's first episode, is the last episode of veteran seiyu Creator/KiyoshiKobayashi. After 54 years of Daisuke Jigen, he announced his retirement from the role. He gets a grand farewell with the episode "Era", where Jigen is considering retiring due to changing eras.

[[caption-width-right:350:If Zenigata only knew Lupin had faked his death . . .]]

* The episode "Lupin Dies Twice" (English Title: "Lupin the Interred") has Jigen and Goemon so upset when Lupin is apparently killed by an assassin and upon seeing his "corpse", they vent their grief.

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* The episode "[[Recap/LupinIIIS2E69 The Woman the Old Man Fell in Love With]]", where Zenigata finds someone he genuinely cares for [[spoiler: and then she's shot and killed right in front of him when he tries to protect her. Seeing the stoic but goofy Zenigata cry in genuine grief is ''heartbreaking''.]]

* The episode [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E69 "The Woman the Old Man Fell in Love With"]], where Zenigata finds someone he genuinely cares for [[spoiler: and then she's shot and killed right in front of him when he tries to protect her. Seeing the stoic but goofy Zenigata cry in genuine grief is ''heartbreaking''.]]

* [[spoiler: Elen's death at the end of Recap/IslandOfAssassins, noting that for the first time in her life she's actually felt free?]] Cue the water works.

* [[LupinIIITheSecretOfTwilightGemini The Secret of Twilight Gemini]]: [[spoiler: [[GirlOfTheWeek Lara]]]] is trapped in quicksand, and will soon drown. Each of Lupin's attempts to get her out fail, he's run out of ideas, so [[spoiler: Lara]] tells him to go on without her. Instead, he charges up the dune, then back again and hops with her. When she asks why, he tells her that he couldn't leave her to die alone. They both sink together.

* ''Twilight Gemini.'' The girl of the week is trapped in quicksand, and will soon drown. Lupin makes several attempts to get her out, but they all fail. He has run out of plans and the woman tells him to go on without her. Lupin says he has one more thing to try. He leaps into the pit, and tells her that he couldn't imagine leaving her to die alone. They both sink together.

* The episode [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E69 "The Woman the Old Man Fell in Love With"]], where Zenigata finds someone he genuinely cares for [[spoiler: and then she's shot and killed right in front of him when he tries to protect her. Seeing the stoic but goofy Zenigata cry in grief is ''heartbreaking''.]]

* The second TV series had the episode "The Rose and the Pistol" ("Shot Through the Heart" in English) In it, Jigen, of all people falls for a Spanish dancer. Sadly, [[spoiler:she's just acting as part of the villain's plot to kill Jigen and Lupin. In the resulting car chase, Jigen is the one to fire the bullet that sends the bad guys' car into the ocean, killing one of the few women he ever loved.]]

* ''Twilight Gemini.'' Quicksand. That is all.