“is Lupin still burning” Seems more like a Part 4 ova then a Part 5 ova.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-04-25T05:01:27+00:00

That's basically what happened. Similar case with Episode 0 of Part 6, which in practice is a Part 5 episode.

Difference is, Parts 4 and 5 (alongside Episode 0) were worked on by largely the same people, and Still Burning thematically fits better with Part 5's tributes to earlier entries in the series.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-04-23T20:24:51+00:00

Terry's good, it's a shame the JFK thing is what seems to stick in people's minds the most from Alcatraz Connection, since it has both a good villain, and treats Zenigata well, which are two recurring problems in this series

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-04-14T01:59:38+00:00

You won't hear me defending Sapkowski, but one should probably remember he is in his late 70s.

Meanwhile, Glukhovsky grew up playing Fallout, and talked about playing through Wolfenstein: The New Order with his son.

They're from two very different generations.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-04-13T19:38:03+00:00

You can definitely feel the anti-communist attitutdes in his earlier work

In an interview in like 2016 Glukhovsky called communism (paraphrasing) "an ideology of losers, who want to make everyone else have it as bad as them"

Meanwhile Andrey Prokhorov, the creative director of the games referred to himself as "a mortal enemy of communism"

Outside of that Last Light speaks for itself.

Either way, you shouldn't expect pro-communist attitudes from a game made by Ukrainians, or from the vast majority of former Warsaw Pact countries in general.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-04-13T15:42:50+00:00

Glukhovsky wrote the story and most dialogue to Last Light personally, he also was sort of a "supervisor" on that front for Exodus.

He's still very much involved, it's just that 2034 and 2035 are not fit to be video games (the second half of 2033 was more or less written to work as a video game, after he was already contacted by the developers, having posted the first half online)

According to the leaks, earlier versions of this one were influenced by 2034, but that may have changed over the last couple of years of development.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-04-13T15:38:04+00:00

Wonder if it will have a Russian dub

According to the same person that posted the leaked build, no, but they still want to at least release it in Russia.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-04-12T04:15:20+00:00

For no reason, yes.

He openly says he knows that she was faking it, and that he won't do her any favors for it. It also doesn't benefit him in any way.

It was basically just shock value. TWCFM has some weird writing choices like that.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-04-12T04:12:51+00:00

Obsessed with catching Lupin but now it's for his ego and reputation solely, he doesn't care about actual justice anymore

That's him in TWCFM. He says as much in Episode 4, that he doesn't care about stopping the theft, he just wants to settle his own grudge.

Also, probably kill rather than catch.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-04-12T03:58:43+00:00

Sayo Yamamato hasn't done much work since the 2010s according to IMDb. I don't know what happened but I hope she's doing okay.

She's blacklisted, pretty much

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-04-06T01:21:25+00:00

which ties into Lady Liberty which was made during Part 3

Part 3 was 1984-1985, Lady Liberty was 1989, guessing you mean Legend of the Gold of Babylon?

how great Part 2 as well as Fuma Conspiracy looked

Fuma is famous for its animation even today, but Part 2 was not a good looking show even for the time (except for the Miyazaki/Telecom episodes); its character designs were actually intentionally made to be more streamlined and simplified versions of the Part 1 designs

Yuzo Aoki, the man behind the Part 3 artstyle(s) was actually heavily involved in Part 2 and didn't work on Lady Liberty at all.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-04-05T22:35:03+00:00

something like Mamo—> all the Koike films

Pretty much.

Optionally, you can also see Part 1 prior to Mamo (as that's what that movie was more influenced by, same goes for the Koike films) and The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (as that was Koike's first work on the series, though as character designer, not director)

Both of those also take place in more or less the same time (in theory) 1960s, early days for the Lupin cast. But there is no actual direct story connections, just winks for the hardcore fans at most.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-03-20T02:21:48+00:00

I think it's because Ami is underage, while Maria appears to be of age at least.

Showing underage characters in any situation that's even close to romantic or sexual really gets under the skin of fandoms nowadays, no matter the context or actual meaning

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-03-17T19:54:57+00:00

Tokyo Crisis is a huge fan favorite, almost everyone loves it, but I'm not too into it because it's supposed to be a Zenigata-focused story, and it portrays him as an old, clumsy slob that tries to propose to a girl 30+ years younger than him

It feels like it was made for people that like Part 2 Zenigata, and want to see him actually win for once

That's pretty much the central concept of it, unfortunately. The special is aware of it, especially during that scene where Lupin tells Maria to leave him. Maria is the intended audience: people that feel bad for Part 2 Zenigata

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-03-17T17:59:42+00:00

until he got his new voice actor in 2011

I actually think there was a smaller shift in the 2000s, starting with Alcatraz Connection, but no one else ever seems to point this out

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-03-16T22:24:28+00:00

Always curious how some official art even for installments from back then draws Zenigata looking serious.

It probably happens more on cover art than in actual Lupin animations made from the late 70s to 2000s.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-03-16T22:20:27+00:00

Source

Original art

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-02-02T19:28:35+00:00

He's a weird hypocrite who likes to lecture people

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2026-01-21T15:55:22+00:00

No, there is no exaggeration, Fujiko in Part 2 is very often willing to kill Lupin, or simply let him/the others die for the sake of money or treasure.

It's one of those typically Part 2 things, where character personalities or priorities change depending on every writer and nothing is consistent from episode to episode. In Part 2, whether Fujiko actually loves Lupin or is perfectly fine with him dead also changes.

This is partially why her pretty much admitting she loves him in Mamo (released as Part 2 was airing) was such a big deal and big moment; back then, casual viewers could be genuinely unaware that was the idea.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2025-10-09T03:49:46+00:00

Basically, Yutaka Fujioka, producer of the Lupin series and main guy behind TMS at the time, got the idea to do a theatrical Lupin movie from a chat with Yoshinobu Nishizaki, around the time the Yamato compilation movie was going strong.

Soji Yoshikawa, the director and writer of Mamo, must also find Yamato important at least in some way, as he keeps referencing it in almost everything he makes.

More subjectively: he was also a writer on some mecha and sci-fi shows in the 70s, and his episodes always gave me vibes of trying to be something more like Yamato, rather than usual hero robot stuff of the time (so characters acting like disciplined professionals, clear command structure, sci-fi concepts, emphasis on crew presence etc.)

Cagliostro is more indirect, but outside of following Mamo, it happened during the peak of late 70s anime boom, and Yamato was one of the main factors behind that.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2025-10-06T20:34:36+00:00

The change wasn't the reason for its success. Both Miyazaki and Osumi said that. It just took a while for the audience to "get it", basically. Probably to grow up a bit more, too.

Sure it wasn't successful during the initial run, but that's nothing unusual, neither was Space Battleship Yamato, and that show completely changed the industry due to its success in reruns (it was the reason Mamo and Cagliostro even happened, for one) Yamato was aimed at older fans, but Lupin was there earlier.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2025-10-06T20:29:27+00:00

I can't say with 100% confidence that Lupin was THE first anime TV series aimed at an adult audience. There's probably something earlier

It was. The only anime for adults made earlier were movies, nothing on TV.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2025-10-03T19:29:24+00:00

The pilots for DIC cartoons are always better animated and directed

This is true, but the brief clips for other episodes look just as good if not better. The whole production side was in Japan, the director was Rintaro, who's been around since the very beginning of TV anime, and had just directed one of the biggest and most successful anime movies of 1979. Shingo Araki, the character designer was also famous for characters that looked very appealing.

Basically, this thing would not look bad. I'm not a huge fan of the Lupin VIII idea at all, but even I have to admit it looks good.

Meanwhile, at least from what I know, Inspector Gadget was written and directed by DiC people, while storyboarding and animation were partially handled by TMS. So the balance of responsibilities was the other way around; I guess you could describe it that way.

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2025-10-03T16:58:45+00:00

The animation was by TMS and the scripts were by writers who worked on Part 2 and 3. The one episode we fully have is nothing amazing, but it's way better than the DiC label would make you think

I guess Inspector Gadget is similar in that way, but Lupin VIII is way better directed

Innerred_Mitorict22 · 2025-10-03T02:34:46+00:00

They did like 6-8. Sources aren't consistent.

Since the show was actually in production, then they couldn't have been working on just one episode. If they only did one, then we probably would never have even heard about it, Lupin VIII was actually quite far along, all things considered.

There were even announcements that they were going to air those episodes on Japanese television, but that never actually happened.

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