| 1 | * CastingGag: The English dub casts Creator/KeithSilverstein as Arsène Lupin I, referencing him voicing Lupin III in the dubs of the Takeshi Koike-directed film series that began with ''[[Anime/GravestoneOfDaisukeJigen Jigen's Gravestone]]''. |
| 2 | * CreatorCouple: Creator/RichardEpcar wrote and directed the English dub in addition to voicing Daisuke Jigen, and his wife Ellyn Stern voiced Masae Todo in that dub. |
| 3 | * DirectedByCastMember: As with the English dubs of ''Part II'' and ''The Italian Adventure'', Creator/RichardEpcar was the ADR director and Daisuke Jigen's voice actor. |
| 4 | * InMemoriam: The English credits for this special include dedications to Goro Naya, Makio Inoue, and Kazuhiko Kato (a.k.a Monkey Punch). All were alive when this special aired in Japan, though Naya just barely, but had died by the time it hit foreign shores. |
| 5 | * LateExportForYou: The special didn't get a North American release until 2019, eight years after its Japanese premiere. Luckily it also got an English dub. |
| 6 | * MilestoneCelebration: ''Blood Seal ~Eternal Mermaid~'' premiered in 2011, the 40th anniversary of the ''Lupin III'' TV series. |
| 7 | * TheOtherDarrin: This was the first ''Lupin'' special following the cast overhaul. |
| 8 | ** Kan'ichi Kurita (Lupin) was already one as he had assumed his role in 1995 following Creator/YasuoYamada's sudden death. Meanwhile, Creator/DaisukeNamikawa voices Goemon Ishikawa XIII instead of Creator/MakioInoue; Creator/MiyukiSawashiro voices Fujiko Mine instead of Eiko Masuyama; and Creator/KoichiYamadera plays Inspector Zenigata instead of Creator/GoroNaya – Naya's health problems were well-known by the time this special came out and indeed he didn't live too long after it. This left Creator/KiyoshiKobayashi (Jigen) as the only original cast member left, and he managed to keep going for another ''decade'' before finally retiring in October 2021 at age 88, having voiced Jigen for 52 years. |
| 9 | ** The English dub – which has the distinction of being the first TV Special Discotek chose to dub – qualifies. This was only the second special to be dubbed outside of Creator/{{Funimation}}'s block (1993-2000)[[labelnote:*]] The first was ''[[Anime/LupinIIIByeByeLibertyCrisis Bye Bye Liberty Crisis]]'', which had been dubbed in London back in the mid-90's[[/labelnote]]. In this case, Discotek opted to use the ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure Part 4]]'' voice cast they'd already assembled, which itself qualifies due to being identical to the ''[[Anime/LupinIIIPartII "Red Jacket"]]'' cast except with Creator/DougErholtz replacing Dan Lorge as Zenigata. |
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