Lupin the 3rd

[J Legault]

I most of you are anime fans and bet most of you are into Lupin the 3rd, World's Greatest Theif and popular idle of Japan.

I recently got in it and only own 3 DVDs and 1 Manga, and hoping to have a massive collection later on. :D

Any of you think he rules?

[Ryona]

I haven't seen it yet, but I do plan to as I heard it's quite good. :)

[Anarky]

Hell yes, Lupin is great. And the German dub is really good, especially Jigen. Therefore he is my favourite character.

[DrSpengler]

Huge fan. I own just about every episode of all 3 series, and nearly all the films, OVAs and tv movies. Great stuff. I even wrote reviews for the first 15 episodes of the Third Series over at Lupin Encyclopedea. I had to stop because the Third Series was just too painful to watch.

Anyway, awesome stuff. Glad to see I'm not the only one who likes it.

[J Legault]

Huge fan. I own just about every episode of all 3 series, and nearly all the films, OVAs and tv movies. Great stuff. I even wrote reviews for the first 15 episodes of the Third Series over at Lupin Encyclopedea. I had to stop because the Third Series was just too painful to watch.

Anyway, awesome stuff. Glad to see I'm not the only one who likes it.
Every episode including the ones written by Miyazaki? Man you're lucky, and so far I only own 2 movies and 1 DVD with 6 episodes from the 2nd TV series.

But surly I'll get more as time goes on.

[DrSpengler]

I have the entire first series and about 2/3 of the second series. I have half the third series and have no plans on getting the rest.

The Miyazaki episodes ("Albatross: Wings of Death" and "Good Bye, Lupin") were collected on a video tape and released in America as "Lupin III's Greatest Capers". They're pretty good, though they're more action adventure scenerios than anything to do with thieving.

[J Legault]

I see. Well if I never heard of Miyazaki's works in animation, then I'm not sure if I'd still get into Lupin the 3rd. But I'm kinda glad I checked out Castle of Cagliostro to see what Lupin is like. Even if it's slightly different to some of the other Movies I haven't seen yet.

[DrSpengler]

I see. Well if I never heard of Miyazaki's works in animation, then I'm not sure if I'd still get into Lupin the 3rd. But I'm kinda glad I checked out Castle of Cagliostro to see what Lupin is like. Even if it's slightly different to some of the other Movies I haven't seen yet.

Castle of Cagliostro is an great movie, even if you've never heard of Lupin III before. And as a Lupin III film it's practically perfect. Cagliostro is pretty the standard to which all other Lupin films are judged.

If you liked Cagliostro I hihgly recommend you pick up Fuma Conspiracy. It was originally meant to be a feature film but got released straight to video instead. The production quality is of feature film-level, and even superior to that of Cagliostro. The animation style tries it's best to mimic Miyazaki's style and does a great job at it. The voices aren't the typical Lupin cast (they decided to drop Yamada Yasuo, Naya Goro and the rest in exchange for some different talent), which is kind've off-putting at first but eventually you get used to it.

It was released on DVD in American as "Rupan III: the Fuma Conspiracy". If you can find it I suggest you grab it. Great flick.

[J Legault]

Castle of Cagliostro and Dead or Alive are the only Lupin films I've seen so far.

Dead or Alive is pretty good.

I've read about the Fuma Conspiracy, it's suppose to be one of the only Lupin Films to have his name changed to Rupan the 3rd for some strange pulicle reasons.

At the moment I'm broke so I can't order it just yet.

But when the time is right I will.

[DrSpengler]

Castle of Cagliostro and Dead or Alive are the only Lupin films I've seen so far.

Dead or Alive is pretty good.

I've read about the Fuma Conspiracy, it's suppose to be one of the only Lupin Films to have his name changed to Rupan the 3rd for some strange pulicle reasons.

At the moment I'm broke so I can't order it just yet.

But when the time is right I will.

Actually the name change was made in the 80's. The estate of the guy that created the character of Arsene Lupin was outraged that the character of Lupin III was created without their approval, so all Lupin III media could not be released outside of Japan for a very long time (at least, not under the name "Lupin"). So distributers got creative and went with names like "Rupan" and "The Wolf" (a very loose translation of his French name). It wasn't until the 90's that whatever legal redtape that kept the name "Lupin" from being used got cleared up.

THe reason the DVD wasn't retitled "Lupin III: Fuma Conspiracy" was because Animeigo didn't want to spend the money to redub the film since the name "Rupan" is used through-out it.

Another good one to get your hands on is Episode 0: First Contact. It was produced a couple years ago and tells the origin story of all the characters. The best of all the tv movies, IMO.

[PiffDaddy]

I really want to check out the movies, I've only seen what has made Adult Swim like 3 times over. Awesome show, I'm a big fan

[J Legault]

If you like Miyazaki's works and Lupin then Castle of Cagliostro is your type of movie.

If you like Monkey Punch the man behind Lupin directing his own Lupin Movie then Dead or Alive is jsut for you.

[DrSpengler]

Well, off the top of my head, here are some of the best films, OVAs, and tv movies from the Lupin series:

Castle of Cagliostro
Fuma Conspiracy
Episode 0: First Contact
Walther P-38 (released in America as "Island of Assasins")
Dead or Alive
Mystery of Mamo (not a great story, but the english dub by ADV is hilarious and completely saves the film)

[Barkworm]

Are we talking about the "Mononoke Hime" Miyazaki here? He did a Lupin movie? I got to see this!

[DrSpengler]

Are we talking about the "Mononoke Hime" Miyazaki here? He did a Lupin movie? I got to see this!

Yep, the same.

He also did two episodes from the last season of Shin Lupin III. As a matter of fact, the robots that appear in Laputa: Castle in the Sky, as well as the old leader guy of the sky pirates, all originated from his episodes of Lupin III. It was all just one big reference.

[J Legault]

I'd really like to see the epsiodes written by THe Miyazaki. I might have to order off of Ebay or this Lupin the 3rd 1-3 Disc I saw off of Amazon that says contains 1-25 Fulling Subtitled epsiodes.

[DrSpengler]

I'd really like to see the epsiodes written by THe Miyazaki. I might have to order off of Ebay or this Lupin the 3rd 1-3 Disc I saw off of Amazon that says contains 1-25 Fulling Subtitled epsiodes.

I think there's 5 volumes of the Hong Kong Shin Lupin III DVD bootlegs. They're good if you want to see the series (I own several), but be warned, the subtitles are pretty muh engrish jibberish. Not a problem for me since I speak Japanese, but for everyone else not much help.

[J Legault]

Yeah, but just a thought in all.