Lupin III (2015): Italian Game

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: ルパン三世 イタリアン・ゲーム


Information

Type: TV Special
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jan 8, 2016
Licensors: Discotek Media
Source: Original
Genres: ActionAction, AdventureAdventure, ComedyComedy
Theme: Adult CastAdult Cast
Demographic: SeinenSeinen
Duration: 1 hr. 31 min.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.421 (scored by 24932,493 users)
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Ranked: #74502
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Popularity: #7886
Members: 6,465
Favorites: 2

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Episodes: /1

Synopsis

The special's story centers on the kidnapping of Rebecca Rossellini, a beautiful business owner who is a featured character in the new Lupin III TV anime series that is currently airing. Upon hearing of her kidnapping, Lupin rushes to her rescue. Additionally, Lupin receives a written challenge from a mysterious person named "The Masked Count" suggesting a contest: who can obtain the "inheritance of Count Cagliostro" first.

(Source: ANN)

Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Tomonaga, Kazuhide
Director, Storyboard, Key Animation
Yano, Yuuichirou
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard


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Reviews

Feb 9, 2021
Mixed Feelings
This is a complicated special to review. Despite giving it a 5 this film is more like a 7 or 8 however it is completely dragged down by one crucial thing. 70mins of the film's 90 minute runtime is comprised of 3 "Lupin III (2015)" episodes played entirely in their full. This means that only 20 minutes are actually comprised of new story and animation. And of what is new, most of it is not particularly good and mostly functions to loosely tie the plot of the three episodes together. So the only purpose this film serves is if you haven't already seen the 2015 ...
May 20, 2022
What even is this special? Over 70% of the run time is abridged version of the first half of Part 4 aka "Lupin III (2015)" Thus the actual original content lack any time to develop and is rushed near the end.

And I have to say, by this point when you say "Count Cagliostro" in a Lupin III story, nobody is gonna realize you are referencing the original Arsene Lupin story, everyone's gonna assume you are talking about the one from "Castle of Cagliostro", it's already a bad choice and the special also didn't do a job stating that case.

With so little actual run time, how ...
Feb 25, 2017
I can say I've developed a standard for my Lupin content, and this failed on the character development. One thing I can take away from this is after seeing the character development go so wrong I have a better understanding of what right looks like.

The opening is way to long with clips that happen in the movie, with no context. It even some shows very dramatic scenes, but I have that "why should I care" when they scenes are around the girl I don't know yet. And, the opening is too long.

Speaking of the character development girl, I don't feel like she actually learned anything ...

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