Line #7 Trivia/LupinIIIPartII


1	Trivia relating to the ''Anime/LupinIIIRedJacket'' series
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3	* {{Blooper}}: In the English dub of Episode 53, Richard Epcar briefly takes over from Tom Wyner for a single line of Phantoma's dialogue with his chief scientist. This is likely a line that Epcar recorded as a placeholder for Wyner to dub over, but Geneon forgot to.
4	* ExecutiveMeddling: Apparently, Geneon's dub has a few examples, mainly in the fact that the executives apparently requested that they ''try'' to cover its temporal origins. While the cast enjoyed working on the dub overall, Creator/RichardEpcar admitted he would have preferred it if the executives hadn't told the writers to try to update the dialogue, since not only was this series made in the late 70s, it ''looks'' like it too, though he admitted he saw where they were coming from with the decision. A few jokes that weren't wildly out of time-place (notably the replacement of Beatles references with Star Trek references while breaking into NASA – an agency famous for having more than a few Trekkies working there) can be seen as improvements.
5	* MissingEpisode: [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E3 "To Be or Nazi Be"]] was this due to potential controversy surrounding its premise, even on the early DVD volumes. See OutOfOrder for what happened next.
6	** Likewise, Richard Epcar's resume state that Geneon ''might'' have dubbed up to Episode 104. If this is true however, none of the dubbed versions by Geneon after Episode 79 have seen the light of day. And it's frankly doubtful they will due to Geneon going belly-up. However, he could have just been referring to scripts, as those are often completed in batches long before recording begins.
7	* TheOriginalDarrin:
8	** After being replaced by Yukiko Nikaido for ''Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket'', Creator/EikoMasuyama returned to voice Fujiko Mine for this series[[labelnote:*]] (oddly enough, Masuyama ''does'' appear in one episode of "Green Jacket" as a socialite being waited on and cased by Fujiko – it sounds, appropriately enough, like two Fujikos talking to each other)[[/labelnote]]. With the exception of ''Anime/TheFumaConspiracy'', she would be the only Japanese voice actress to handle the role until Creator/MiyukiSawashiro took over in 2011.
9	** English dub fans consider this trope invoked any time this specific dub cast returns to work on other ''Lupin'' projects.
10	** In the case of Discotek's 2017 DVD release, a few scenes cut from episode 78 were restored, bringing back Dan Lorge out of retirement to reprise his role as Zenigata.
11	* TheOtherDarrin:
12	** Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka did not reprise his role as Goemon and was replaced by Creator/MakioInoue, who would become the fourth actor to do so and, aside from ''Fuma Conspiracy'', Goemon's permanent voice through 2010.
13	** Creator/StreamlinePictures dubbed episodes 145 and 155, while Creator/{{Geneon}} dubbed episodes 1-79, and both used their own voice casts. Had Geneon reached those two episodes, this would have been DuelingDubs, but they didn't, simply making it this instead.
14	* RealTimeTimeskip: The five years between Part 1 Episode 23 and Part 2 Episode 1 was the same as the real difference between the two anime.
15	* SequelGap: Came out five years after Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket
16	* OutOfOrder: Not only was "To Be or Nazi Be" a MissingEpisode on Creator/AdultSwim (despite the Rio episode broadcasts retaining the preview for it), Creator/{{Geneon}} opted to not include it on its first DVD – it's the third episode in broadcast order – instead shifting it to the end of what would be considered the first season. This wrong order is retained on the Crunchyroll upload of the series. However it's [[AvertedTrope averted]] with [[Creator/DiscotekMedia Discotek]]'s rerelease, since its DVD and Blu-ray releases put all the episodes in the original Japanese viewing order (fans had to get several reassurances this would be the case).
17	* UnfinishedDub: Twice. Creator/StreamlinePictures could never dub anything past the two Creator/HayaoMiyazaki-directed episodes, while Creator/{{Geneon}} never dubbed anything past episode 79. Even if one is willing to put the two dubs together (since they do cover different parts of the series), that's only 81 out of 155 episodes dubbed overall.
18	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/StreamlinePictures actually considered dubbing more than just the two episodes directed by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, but they couldn't get a TV deal, which would have been necessary to sustain any dub of the TV series. It wasn't until Creator/{{Geneon}} managed to get a deal with Creator/AdultSwim that there were more serious efforts to dub the series. Of course, that's not to say their own dub doesn't have examples.
19	** Creator/BobBergen auditioned to reprise his role as Lupin in Geneon's dub. The reason why it didn't go through was that it was a non-union production (with many of the union actors who did appear in the dub going under pseudonyms), leading Creator/TonyOliver to get the role instead.
20	** Creator/RichardEpcar has said in at least two interviews[[labelnote:*]] (the special features in Creator/FUNimation's release of ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine The Woman Called Fujiko Mine]]'' and his introduction to the dub of the first episode of "Green Jacket")[[/labelnote]] he wasn't the first choice to voice Jigen in Creator/{{Geneon}}'s dub of this series. He hasn't said who else auditioned to voice Jigen, but apparently TMS didn't like any of the actors, and finally they just told Richard to give it a shot. He had been unwilling to do so since he was already directing. They liked his performance, and the rest is history.
21	** And of course, had the dub been more successful on TV and had Geneon not lost the license (then imploded shortly after), episodes 80-155 might have been dubbed by them, though this would have created a case of DuelingDubs in the case of the two Creator/HayaoMiyazaki episodes.
22	** Discotek seriously considered dubbing the rest of the series to completion with them going so far as to delay the latter half of their releases so they could make the arrangements. The high costs of doing so eventually put those ambitions to rest.
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