History YMMV / LupinIIITheItalianAdventure

* CompleteMonster: [[PresidentEvil President Carlos]] and [[TheGeneralissimo Combalona Maledorich Nanno Consano]] embroil Corcaca Island in a CivilWar, driving out the residents to fight for a legendary treasure. Throwing away the lives of their men en masse, Consano even takes to recruiting international ArmsDealer Mr. Marces to bolster his side before betraying and killing the man to take his mercenaries. [[TeethClenchedTeamwork Shakily allying]] to dig for the treasure, the two order their entire forces into treacherous conditions just to devote all manpower to their expedition.

* HilariousInHindsight: A significant chunk of the series revolves around Lupin's attempts to annul his marriage to Rebecca--who in turn is called out by Fujiko during [[TheMissusAndTheEx the events of]] "The Drunken Pig" for not knowing Lupin at all, leading Rebecca to begin reflecting upon their "relationship." By the finale, [[spoiler:Rebecca reveals to Lupin she never actually signed their marriage certificate and, having genuinely fallen for him, wants to become a thief worthy of the name "Mrs. Lupin"]]. [[Anime/LupinIIIPart5 In the following series]], viewers eventually learn that [[spoiler:Lupin instead got hitched to Fujiko sometime after their adventures in Italy]]. On the other hand, Fujiko's aforementioned dressing down of Rebecca crosses over into HarsherInHindsight, as [[spoiler:the pair also divorced prior to ''Part 5'', creating [[WorkingWithTheEx a rift between them]] that drives Fujiko to prod Lupin for answers on how he really views her--though Lupin's answer to her question in the final episode and [[AndTheAdventureContinues the ending of]] ''[[AndTheAdventureContinues Part 5]]'' [[AndTheAdventureContinues itself]] suggests they're ([[MaybeEverAfter probably]]) back to being an OutlawCouple]].

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Rebecca's character arc basically says "Don't just steal because you're bored, rather dedicate yourself to it so as to be worthy of the attention of one of the greatest thieves in the world."

* HilariousInHindsight: A significant chunk of the series revolves around Lupin's attempts to annul his marriage to Rebecca--who in turn is called out by Fujiko during [[TheMissusAndTheEx the events of]] "The Drunken Pig" for not knowing Lupin at all, leading Rebecca to begin reflecting upon their "relationship." By the end of the series, [[spoiler:Rebecca reveals to Lupin she never actually signed their marriage certificate and, having genuinely fallen for him, wants to become a thief worthy of the name "Mrs. Lupin"]]. [[Anime/LupinIIIPart5 In the following series]], viewers eventually learn that [[spoiler:Lupin instead got hitched to Fujiko sometime after their adventures in Italy]]. On the other hand, Fujiko's aforementioned dressing down of Rebecca crosses over into HarsherInHindsight, as [[spoiler:the pair also divorced prior to ''Part 5'', creating a rift between them that eventually drives Fujiko to prod Lupin for answers on how he really views her]].

* EarWorm:
** Even though it's hated in its home country, a good chunk of fans admit the Italian theme is actually pretty catchy. In Italy, the opening is hated because of the silly lyrics and because one of the two singers is Moreno, a rapper from an infamous reality show. The music itself is catchy, fitting and really good, but the lyrics are pretty awful.
** SWEEP's "Don't Leave Me," the second ending theme of the series.

* AccidentalInnuendo: Goemon's words right before he [[spoiler:uses his sword to non-lethally remove a bomb planted in Belladonna's heart?]]
---> '''Goemon:''' Relax, I'm going in.

** SWEEP's "Don't Leave Me", the second ending theme of the series.
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Rebecca's character arc basically says "don't just steal because you're bored, rather dedicate yourself to it so as to be worthy of the attention of one of the greatest thieves in the world."
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Due to the immense popularity of the ''Lupin III'' franchise in Italy, the series began airing over there several months before it aired in Japan.
* {{Misblamed}}: Some complained to Creator/DiscotekMedia for basing the English dub on the Italian airings rather than the Japanese version. That decision was made by TMS themselves, however; at worst, Discotek was a bit hands off with the dub. Additionally, the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the series will separate the Japanese audio and the English audio rather than putting them in the same set. Some complained about this as well, but according to Reed Nelson, this is because the Italian video, the one used for the English dub, and the Japanese video have many visual differences, and alterations to the dub audio would be needed to line it up with the Japanese visuals. Giving the dub and the sub their separate sets was the best compromise they could come up with.

* InternetBackdraft: In Italy, there was a general negative reception to the Italian opening sung by the rapper Moreno, including attempts at getting it switched ''before'' the show was first aired. This quickly extended to the replacement of parts of Yūji Ōno's soundtrack with tracks from Italian artist Papik and [[ScrewedByTheNetwork the network airing the series late in the night]]. To note: the series was first aired in the second half of August, on Saturday [[OtakuOClock at 23:00]]. And the series was also aired with cuts and censoring. It really looked like Mediaset didn't want the series to be successful and doomed it from the very beginning. Part of this carried over to the U.S. when in was announced that the English dub of the series would have the same music as the Italian broadcast. TMS apparently decided that since a new score was created for ''a'' non-Japanese language version, it should be used for ''all'' such releases.[[note]]The subbed version retained the soundtrack of the Japanese broadcast.[[/note]]