History TheOtherDarrin / LupinIII

** In 1998, Daiki released four of the original manga, all animated and in color on a PS1 disc. This time, the cast was chosen by Monkey Punch himself compared to what happened with the Fuma Conspiracy. Lupin was voiced by Creator/KeiichiNanba, Jigen by Creator/DaisukeGori, Goemon by Shingo Horii, Fujiko by Creator/ChisaYokoyama, and Zenigata by Creator/YukimasaKishino. Given that this was a live read of the manga and not the anime itself, it would be easy to think that the cast of the anime would forgive Monkey Punch for this slight recast for a one-off project.

** ''Anime/LupinIIIPart5'' is notable for featuring cameos from a large number of characters from throughout the franchise's history. When Detective Melon from the ''Red Jacket'' series appears in episode 23, she's voiced by Yumiko Matsura, as her original seiyu, Michiko Hirai, passed away in 1984. This also applies to the English dub, where Creator/KarenStrassman replaces Emily Brown as the voice of Melon. Meanwhile, another of Hirai’s roles, Mama from ''[[AnimeLupinIIIPartIII Part III]]'', was taken over by Eriko Uchino for the character’s appearance in ''Part 5''. Similarly, when Diana Archer from ''[[Anime/ThePursuitOfHarimaosTreasure Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure]]'' appears in the finale, her English voice is provided by Creator/StephanieSheh rather than Creator/CynthiaCranz.

** ''Anime/LupinIIIPart5'' is notable for featuring cameos from a large number of characters from throughout the franchise's history. When Detective Melon from the ''Red Jacket'' series appears in episode 23, she's voiced by Yumiko Matsura, as her original seiyu, Michiko Hirai, passed away in 1984. This also applies to the English dub, where Creator/KarenStrassman replaces Emily Brown as the voice of Melon. Similarly, when Diana Archer from ''[[Anime/ThePursuitOfHarimaosTreasure Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure]]'' appears in the finale, her English voice is provided by Creator/StephanieSheh rather than Creator/CynthiaCranz.
** ''Anime/LupinIIIVsCatsEye'' brought back Creator/KeikoToda and Creator/ChikaSakamoto as Hitomi and Ai Kisugi, respectively, but the remaining Kisugi sister, Rui, had to be recast with Creator/RikaFukami due to the 2018 death of Creator/ToshikoFujita. Similarly, Creator/{{Mugihito}} took over for the late Tamio Ohki as Mr. Nagaishi.

** Goemon is another character with many voices: he was originally voiced by Enzo Consoli in the Green Jacket series, replaced with Creator/MassimoRossi in the Red Jacket series, and then Creator/VittorioGuerrieri took the role up until 1991, with Massimo Rossi coming back for a pair of videogame adaptations, Creator/ToninoAccolla voicing him in the first dub of ''Cagliostro'', and Flavio Arras getting the role in the Milan dubs of ''Mamo'' and ''Cagliostro''. Antonio Palumbo voiced Goemon since 1992, except for the ''Harimao'' special, where Enrico di Troia voiced him, and the 2021 redub of the Pink Jacket series, where Vittorio Guerrieri came back. Creator/PatrizioPrata took the role for ''Part 6'', while Creator/DavidePerino voiced him in ''Anime/LupinIIIVsCatsEye''.

** Creator/RobertoDelGiudice as Lupin has been one of the very few things that was kept in almost every occasion, with the only exception being the first dub of ''Cagliostro'', where he was replaced by Loris Loddi (actually, Loddi was replaced with Mauro Gravina in the last scenes of that dub) and the Milan dubs of ''Cagliostro'' e ''Mamo'', where Creator/LuigiRosa and Giorgio Melazzi voiced the character. After Del Giudice's death in 2007, the role went to Creator/StefanoOnofri, who kept the role until 2022, when Luigi Rosa became Lupin's new main voice actor.

** Goemon is another character with many voices: he was originally voiced by Enzo Consoli in the Green Jacket series, replaced with Creator/MassimoRossi in the Red Jacket series, and then Creator/VittorioGuerrieri took the role up until 1991, with Massimo Rossi coming back for a pair of videogame adaptations, Creator/ToninoAccolla voicing him in the first dub of ''Cagliostro'', and Flavio Arras getting the role in the Milan dubs of ''Mamo'' and ''Cagliostro''. Antonio Palumbo voiced Goemon since 1992, except for the ''Harimao'' special, where Enrico di Troia voiced him, and the 2021 redub of the Pink Jacket series, where Vittorio Guerrieri came back. In 2022, Creator/PatrizioPrata took the role.
** Zenigata was originally voiced by Enzo Consoli, except in the Red Jacket episodes where Marcello Prando took the role. Enzo Consoli kept the character for many years, being briefly replaced by Paolo Poiret in the first dub of ''Cagliostro'' and Maurizio Scattorin in the Milan dubs of ''Mamo'' and ''Cagliostro''. In 1991 the role was taken by Sandro Iovino in the ''Hemingway'' special and Rodolfo Baldini in the ''Napoleon'' and ''From Siberia with Love'' specials. Rodolfo Bianchi took the role then, except when Enzo Consoli briefly came back in the dubs of the ''Nostradamus'', ''Dragon of Doom'' and ''Tokyo Crisis'' specials. The role was then given to Creator/MarioZucca in 2022.
** Fujiko had a slightly easier life with voice changes: originally voiced by Piera Vidale, she was replaced with Creator/AlessandraKorompay in 1987 starting with the ''Legend of the Gold of Babylon'' film. Korompay kept voicing her until 2021, except for the first dub of ''Cagliostro'' where Germana Dominici took the role and the Milan dubs of ''Mamo'' and ''Cagliostro'', where Creator/JasmineLaurenti voiced her. In 2022, Creator/EmanuelaPacotto became Fujiko's new voice.

** Goemon is another character with many voices: he was originally voiced by Enzo Consoli in the Green Jacket series, replaced with Massimo Rossi in the Red Jacket series, and then Creator/VittorioGuerrieri took the role up until 1991, with Massimo Rossi coming back for a pair of videogame adaptations, Creator/ToninoAccolla voicing him in the first dub of ''Cagliostro'', and Flavio Arras getting the role in the Milan dubs of ''Mamo'' and ''Cagliostro''. Antonio Palumbo voiced Goemon since 1992, except for the ''Harimao'' special, where Enrico di Troia voiced him, and the 2021 redub of the Pink Jacket series, where Vittorio Guerrieri came back. In 2022, Creator/PatrizioPrata took the role.

** Roberto Del Giudice as Lupin has been one of the very few things that was kept in almost every occasion, with the only exception being the first dub of ''Cagliostro'', where he was replaced by Loris Loddi (actually, Loddi was replaced with Mauro Gravina in the last scenes of that dub) and the Milan dubs of ''Cagliostro'' e ''Mamo'', where Creator/LuigiRosa and Giorgio Melazzi voiced the character. After Del Giudice's death in 2007, the role went to Stefano Onofri, who kept the role until 2022, when Luigi Rosa became Lupin's new main voice actor.

** Fujiko had a slightly easier life with voice changes: originally voiced by Piera Vidale, she was replaced with Alessandra Korompay in 1987 starting with the ''Legend of the Gold of Babylon'' film. Korompay kept voicing her until 2021, except for the first dub of ''Cagliostro'' where Germana Dominici took the role and the Milan dubs of ''Mamo'' and ''Cagliostro'', where Creator/JasmineLaurenti voiced her. In 2022, Creator/EmanuelaPacotto became Fujiko's new voice.

** ''Anime/LupinIIIPart5'' is notable for featuring cameos from a large number of characters from throughout the franchise's history. When Detective Melon from the ''Red Jacket'' series appears in episode 23, she's voiced by Yumiko Matsura, as her original seiyu, Michiko Hirai, passed away in 1984. This also applies to the English dub, where Creator/KarenStrassman replaces Emily Brown as the voice of Melon. Similarly, when Diana Archer from ''Anime/ThePursuitOfHarimaosTreasure'' appears in the finale, her English voice is provided by Creator/StephanieSheh rather than Creator/CynthiaCranz.

** ''Anime/LupinIIIPart5'' is notable for featuring cameos from a large number of characters from throughout the franchise's history. When Detective Melon from the ''Red Jacket'' series appears in episode 23, she's voiced by Yumiko Matsura, as her original seiyu, Michiko Hirai, passed away in 1984.

** In 2011, TMS retired Makio Inoue, Eiko Masuyama, and Goro Naya (Goemon, Fujiko, and Zenigata, respectively), replacing them with (much) younger actors from the 2011 special onwards – Creator/DaisukeNamikawa as Goemon, Creator/MiyukiSawashiro as Fujiko, and Creator/KoichiYamadera as Zenigata.[[note]] The original cast would reunite one last time in 2012 for a 10-minute short, ''Anime/LupinFamilyAllStars'', a few months before Naya's death.[[/note]] This left Jigen as the only character of the main cast whose seiyuu remained consistent since the 1969 pilot short film (not counting ''The Fuma Conspiracy'') until 2021, when it was announced that Creator/AkioOhtsuka would be taking over the role beginning in ''Anime/LupinIIIPart6'' due to Kiyoshi Kobayashi's retirement at age 88.

** ''Lupin III vs. Manga/CatsEye'' brought back Creator/KeikoToda and Creator/ChikaSakamoto as Hitomi and Ai Kisugi, respectively, but the remaining Kisugi sister, Rui, had to be recast with Creator/RikaFukami due to the 2018 death of Creator/ToshikoFujita. Similarly, Creator/{{Mugihito}} took over for the late Tamio Ohki as Mr. Nagaishi.

** Fujiko had a slightly easier life with voice changes: originally voiced by Piera Vidale, she was replaced with Alessandra Korompay in 1987 starting with the Pink Jacket series (and the redub of the Green Jacket series, as these episodes aired together). Korompay kept voicing her until 2021, except for the first dub of ''Cagliostro'' where Germana Dominici took the role and the Milan dubs of ''Mamo'' and ''Cagliostro'', where Creator/JasmineLaurenti voiced her. In 2022, Creator/EmanuelaPacotto became Fujiko's new voice.

** Roberto Del Giudice as Lupin has been one of the very few things that was kept in almost every occasion, with the only ecception being the first two dubs of ''Cagliostro'', where Loris Loddi and Creator/LuigiRosa took on the character(actually, Loris Loddi was replaced with Mauro Gravina in the last scenes of that dub), and the third dub of the ''Mamo'' film, where Giorgio Melazzi briefly took the role. After Del Giudice's death in 2007, the role went to Stefano Onofri, who kept the role until 2022, when Luigi Rosa became Lupin's new main voice actor.

** Fujiko had a slightly easier life with voice changes: originally voiced by Serena Spaziani, was replaced by Piera Vidale in the Red Jacket series, and then in the Pink Jacket series it was replaced with Alessandra Korompay voiced her until 2021, except for the first dub of ''Cagliostro'' where Germana Dominici took the role and the Milan dubs of ''Mamo'' and ''Cagliostro'', where Creator/JasmineLaurenti voiced her. In 2022, Creator/EmanuelaPacotto became Fujiko's new voice.

** Roberto Del Giudice as Lupin has been one of the very few things that was kept in almost every occasion, with the only ecception being the first two dubs of ''Cagliostro'', where Loris Loddi and Gigi Rosa took on the character(actually, Loris Loddi was replaced with Mauro Gravina in the last scenes of that dub), and the third dub of the ''Mamo'' film, where Giorgio Melazzi briefly took the role. After Del Giudice's death in 2007, the role went to Stefano Onofri, who is the character's current voice.
** Jigen was voiced by Germano Longo in the first dub of the Green Jacket series, but in the ''Mamo'' film Sandro Pellegrini took the role and kept it for a very long period, excluding the first dub of ''Cagliostro'' where Raffaele Uzzi took the role and the Milan dubs of ''Cagliostro'' and ''Mamo'', where Marco Balzarotti voiced him. Sandro Pellegrini died in 2013, so Alessandro D'Errico took the role in the latest productions.
** Goemon is another character with many voices: he was originally voiced by Enzo Consoli in the Green Jacket series, replaced with Massimo Rossi in the Red Jacket series, and then Creator/VittorioGuerrieri took the role up until 1991, with Massimo Rossi coming back for a pair of videogame adaptations, Creator/ToninoAccolla voicing him in the first dub of ''Cagliostro'', and Flavio Arras getting the role in the Milan dubs of ''Mamo'' and ''Cagliostro''. Antonio Palumbo voiced Goemon since 1992, except for the ''Harimao'' special, where Enrico di Troia voiced him, and the 2021 redub of the Pink Jacket series, where Vittorio Guerrieri came back.
** Zenigata was originally voiced by Enzo Consoli, except in the Red Jacket episodes where Marcello Prando took the role. Enzo Consoli kept the character for many years, being briefly replaced by Paolo Poiret in the first dub of ''Cagliostro'' and Maurizio Scattorin in the Milan dubs of ''Mamo'' and ''Cagliostro''. In 1991 the role was taken by Sandro Iovino in the ''Hemingway'' special and Rodolfo Baldini in the ''Napoleon'' and ''From Siberia with Love'' specials. Rodolfo Bianchi took the role then, except when Enzo Consoli briefly came back in the dubs of the ''Nostradamus'', ''Dragon of Doom'' and ''Tokyo Crisis'' specials.
** Fujiko had a slightly easier life with voice changes: originally voiced by Serena Spaziani, was replaced by Piera Vidale in the Red Jacket series, and then in the Pink Jacket series it was replaced with Alessandra Korompay who is still her voice by now, except for the first dub of ''Cagliostro'' where Germana Dominici took the role and the Milan dubs of ''Mamo'' and ''Cagliostro'', where Creator/JasmineLaurenti voiced her.

** Goemon is another character with many voices: he was originally voiced by Enzo Consoli in the Green Jacket series, replaced with Massimo Rossi in the Red Jacket series, and then Vittorio Guerrieri took the role up until 1991, with Massimo Rossi coming back for a pair of videogame adaptations, Creator/ToninoAccolla voicing him in the first dub of ''Cagliostro'', and Flavio Arras getting the role in the Milan dubs of ''Mamo'' and ''Cagliostro''. Antonio Palumbo voiced Goemon since 1992, except for the ''Harimao'' special, where Enrico di Troia voiced him, and the 2021 redub of the Pink Jacket series, where Vittorio Guerrieri came back.

** Goemon is another character with many voices: he was originally voiced by Enzo Consoli in the Green Jacket series, replaced with Massimo Rossi in the Red Jacket series, and then Vittorio Guerrieri took the role up until 1991, with Massimo Rossi coming back for a pair of videogame adaptations, Tonino Accolla voicing him in the first dub of ''Cagliostro'', and Flavio Arras getting the role in the Milan dubs of ''Mamo'' and ''Cagliostro''. Antonio Palumbo voiced Goemon since 1992, except for the ''Harimao'' special, where Enrico di Troia voiced him, and the 2021 redub of the Pink Jacket series, where Vittorio Guerrieri came back.

** Fujiko had a slightly easier life with voice changes: originally voiced by Serena Spaziani, was replaced by Piera Vidale in the Red Jacket series, and then in the Pink Jacket series it was replaced with Alessandra Korompay who is still her voice by now, except for the first dub of ''Cagliostro'' where Germana Dominici took the role and the Milan dubs of ''Mamo'' and ''Cagliostro'', where Jasmine Laurenti voiced her.

** Discotek Media also dubbed the ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure Part 4]]'' and ''[[Anime/LupinIIIPart5 Part 5]]'' TV series themselves, but this time with Epcar Productions, and most of the ''Red Jacket'' cast (including Tony Oliver) returning... except for Zenigata, where Dan Lorge was replaced with Doug Erholtz. They later did new dubs of ''Anime/LegendOfTheGoldOfBabylon'' and ''[[Anime/LupinIIIBloodSealEternalMermaid Blood Seal ~Eternal Mermaid~]]''.

** In 1998, Daiki released four of the original manga, all animated and in color on a PS1 disc. This time, the cast was chosen by Monkey Punch himself compared to what happened with the Fuma Conspiracy. Lupin was voiced by Creator/KeiichiNanba, Jigen by Creator/DaisukeGouri, Goemon by Shingo Horii, Fujiko by Creator/ChisaYokoyama, and Zenigata by Creator/YukimasaKishino. Given that this was a live read of the manga and not the anime itself, it would be easy to think that the cast of the anime would forgive Monkey Punch for this slight recast for a one-off project.

** Discotek Media also dubbed the ''[[WesternAnimation/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure Part 4]]'' and ''[[Anime/LupinIIIPart5 Part 5]]'' TV series themselves, but this time with Epcar Productions, and most of the ''Red Jacket'' cast (including Tony Oliver) returning... except for Zenigata, where Dan Lorge was replaced with Doug Erholtz. They later did new dubs of ''Anime/LegendOfTheGoldOfBabylon'' and ''[[Anime/LupinIIIBloodSealEternalMermaid Blood Seal ~Eternal Mermaid~]]''.

With over 40 years of animation & dubbing, it is inevitable that examples of replacements without In-Universe explanation occur.

** In 2011, TMS retired Makio Inoue, Eiko Masuyama, and Goro Naya (Goemon, Fujiko, and Zenigata, respectively), replacing them with (much) younger actors from the 2011 special onwards – Creator/DaisukeNamikawa as Goemon, Creator/MiyukiSawashiro as Fujiko, and Creator/KoichiYamadera as Zenigata.[[note]] The original cast would reunite one last time in 2012 for a 10-minute short, ''Anime/LupinFamilyAllStars'', a few months before Naya's death.[[/note]] This left Jigen as the only character of the main cast whose seiyuu remained consistent since the 1969 pilot short film (not counting ''The Fuma Conspiracy'') until 2021, when it was announced that Creator/AkioOtsuka would be taking over the role beginning in ''Anime/LupinIIIPart6'' due to Kiyoshi Kobayashi's retirement at age 88.

** In 2011, TMS retired Makio Inoue, Eiko Masuyama, and Goro Naya (Goemon, Fujiko, and Zenigata, respectively), replacing them with (much) younger actors from the 2011 special onwards – Creator/DaisukeNamikawa as Goemon, Creator/MiyukiSawashiro as Fujiko, and Creator/KoichiYamadera as Zenigata.[[note]] The original cast would reunite one last time in 2012 for a 10-minute short, ''Anime/LupinFamilyAllStars'', a few months before Naya's death.[[/note]] This left Jigen as the only character of the main cast whose seiyuu remained consistent since the 1969 pilot short film (not counting ''The Fuma Conspiracy'') until 2021, when it was announced that Creator/AkioOtsuki would be taking over the role beginning in ''Anime/LupinIIIPart6'' due to Kiyoshi Kobayashi's retirement at age 88.

** In 2011, TMS retired Makio Inoue, Eiko Masuyama, and Goro Naya (Goemon, Fujiko, and Zenigata, respectively), replacing them with (much) younger actors from the 2011 special onwards – Creator/DaisukeNamikawa as Goemon, Creator/MiyukiSawashiro as Fujiko, and Creator/KoichiYamadera as Zenigata.[[note]] The original cast would reunite one last time in 2012 for a 10-minute short, ''Anime/LupinFamilyAllStars'', a few months before Naya's death.[[/note]] This left Jigen as the only character of the main cast whose seiyuu remained consistent since the 1969 pilot short film (not counting ''The Fuma Conspiracy'') until 2021, when it was announced that Creator/DaisukeNamikawa would be taking over the role beginning in ''Anime/LupinIIIPart6'' due to Kiyoshi Kobayashi's retirement at age 88.

** In 2011, TMS retired Makio Inoue, Eiko Masuyama, and Goro Naya (Goemon, Fujiko, and Zenigata, respectively), replacing them with (much) younger actors from the 2011 special onwards – Creator/DaisukeNamikawa as Goemon, Creator/MiyukiSawashiro as Fujiko, and Creator/KoichiYamadera as Zenigata.[[note]] The original cast would reunite one last time in 2012 for a 10-minute short, ''Anime/LupinFamilyAllStars'', a few months before Naya's death.[[/note]] This leaves Jigen as the only character of the main cast whose seiyuu has remained consistent since the 1969 pilot short film (not counting ''The Fuma Conspiracy'').

** ''Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket'' replaced Lupin, Goemon, and Fujiko, with Creator/YasuoYamada, Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka, and Creator/YukikoNikaido, respectively. Masuyama (one of the voice actresses for Fujiko in the Pilot) still appears in this series as an incidental character.
** ''Anime/LupinIIIRedJacket'' created the initial standard arrangement, with Creator/YasuoYamada as Lupin, Creator/KiyoshiKobayashi as Jigen, Creator/MakioInoue as Goemon, Creator/EikoMasuyama as Fujiko, and Creator/GoroNaya as Inspector Zenigata.