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TL;DR: this anime show exactly what you should do if you want to fail.

Lupin VIII is the adventure of the 8th generation of Lupin. Because this pilot was juste a pilot, there aren't voices. But that's not a real problem.
You need first to know that this anime was a collobaration between the Japanese studio and... a French studio.
First error: going on the Land of Arsène Lupin where copyrights would not let you do whatever you want.


The history is a total change of Lupin. All the characters were "Westerned" for fitting the "Western Audience". For an anime which already was quite "good" in that regard.
Lupin isn't ... a thief, but now a detective. Why not? Arsène Lupin in one of his story actually played the detective, and even in Lupin III you've a bunch of detective stories.
Jigen is totally changed, he don't smoke anymore (well, given the situation of France during the time it's normal, you can't put someone smoking), but now he got a... lollipop. He's not anymore the ol' Jigen, and that's very strange.
Goemon now use a laser sword...
Finally Zenigata don't have a reason to exist anymore. He is merely a rival of Lupin, because of Lupin III vs. Zenigata. He carry now a pipe which isn't "real' (it's a communicator), that's probably a reference to Commissaire Maigret a famous detective.

Globally this episode is very weak. The "story" could have been good, but it's just a lot of changes which aren't how Lupin III is. All the changes just make this bad, and laughable.

You can watch it, if you're watching all the Lupin. Or if you just want to watch an episode of something badly made. Idea of doing a Lupin in futur as a detective could have been good. Even though being a thief is good for "being a hero" (let's remind us about Arsène Lupin! He's a thief and he was well accepted by the people!).
All the changes to be more "western" are where the thing went bad.

5/10. Because the had good ideas, and he's still... a Lupin.

So you wanted to read Love Selection of Gunma Kisaragi huh ?
Well here my review.

Story :
There are 10 different stories. Gunma do some good story, not too stupid.

The story begin with Love Selection. The story is good, well the debut seems a little stupid but there is the love story between Ami and Daiki wich is good. also Gunma do some funny thing with Nao.

Help me!! Misaki-san : funny story. Good sex.

... Summer Fun : love story, cousin, incest. What else do you want ?
Well some people say it's a little netorare. I don't agree with them, the girl always love her cousin. Same for the man.
The change of the girl through the passing of time is really a good thing.
One of the best story of Gunma.

Sister Syndrome : after cousin we have sister. As Summer Fun it's really a good chapter, the girl (Mayu) is really beautiful. Very nice end btw (if you like seifuku and megane).
On of the best story of Gunma.

Cream Processing Manual : funny story.
Molester Lessons : same as CPM.

Favorite Menu and its sequel Favorite Menu ~delivery~ : really good story. Yayoi is awesome! The sequel is nice.

With onii-chan : Cousin then Onee-chan then imôto. Yeah Gunma Kisaragi know how to please (w)incest lover. Good story, really.

Ikemen GET!! : nice. Funy story
Slut exchange student : same.

Art :
I think that one of the best thing with Gunma is his art.
Love Selection have 4 colored pages.
Characters are well draw.