Lupin III: Part 5

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Synonyms: Lupin III: Part V, Lupin Sansei Part V, Lupin Sansei: Adventure in France

Japanese: ルパン三世 PART5

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Type: TV

Episodes: 24

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 4, 2018 to Sep 19, 2018

Premiered: Spring 2018

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 01:29 (JST)

Producers: Nippon Television Network

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Telecom Animation Film

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Seinen

Duration: 22 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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In the new series, Lupin III will travel to France — the home of his grandfather and namesake, Maurice Leblanc's master thief character Arsène Lupin.

(Source: ANN)

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Lupin III (2015)

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Lupin III, Arsene

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Kurita, Kanichi
Japanese

Jigen, Daisuke

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Kobayashi, Kiyoshi
Japanese

Mine, Fujiko

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Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Ishikawa XIII, Goemon

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Namikawa, Daisuke
Japanese

Zenigata, Kouichi

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Yamadera, Kouichi
Japanese

Rossellini, Rebecca

Supporting

Fujii, Yukiyo
Japanese

Enan, Ami

Supporting

Minase, Inori
Japanese

d'Andrésy, Albert

Supporting

Tsuda, Kenjirou
Japanese

Bron, Enzo

Supporting

Kamikawa, Takaya
Japanese

Yatagarasu, Gorou

Supporting

Shimazaki, Nobunaga
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Yano, Yuuichirou

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Zappa, Gou

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Sawashiro, Miyuki

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Okouchi, Ichiro

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"LUPIN TROIS 2018" by Yuji Ohno & Lupintic Six

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"Seine no Kaze ni... (Adieu) (セーヌの風に…（Adieu）)" by Miyuki Sawashiro

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Sep 18, 2018

24 of 24 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

JokerVentura (All reviews)

23 people found this review helpful

Damn, what a love letter to Lupin this series has been.
We got Lupin as he adjusts to a modern age of thievery, having to deal with modern technology as it's used to thwart him at every turn.
The main episodes are truly brilliant, balancing humour, action and violence around amazing stories.
The side episodes have the obligatory Goemon & Jigen one off episodes, and odes to former parts with episodes based on Lupin’s past, shown by his change in jackets. All of which are truly brilliant, honestly there isn’t a single episode I don’t love.
The main cast are delightful as always, especially when showing the relationship read more

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Sep 19, 2018

24 of 24 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

Somali_Strawhat (All reviews)

12 people found this review helpful

TL;DR
It's great...watch it.

For everyone else:

There's this tendency among Lupin enthusiasts to praise every iteration, giving it special treatment, regardless of it's faults.

I'm one of those enthusiasts so forgive my sense of bias.

What makes a Lupin III series fun is in capturing the magic of watching the titular character and his crew of thieves do whatever the hell they want and getting away with it.

Parts 1-3 as well as the specials and movies used this in episodic adventures about kinetic fast paced heists and rescuing princesses and saving/destroying countries.

Part 4 is where that format changes and I'd say for the better with an overarching read more

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Sep 18, 2018

24 of 24 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

ggultra2764 (All reviews)

11 people found this review helpful

This latest installment of the Lupin III franchise adds some new elements to Lupin's thieving adventures that helps freshen up the now 50 year old franchise. First, it explores Lupin dealing with the challenges of modern technology such as the Internet and smartphones. This adds some new challenges for Lupin to deal with as technological elements like hackers, webcams, drones, and social media serve to complicate Lupin's crimes in the modern era. Yet in spite of this and unlike his companions who feel overwhelmed by the changing times at points, Lupin is shown to be quite adaptable in changing technologies and gains a new companion in the form of teen hacker Ami who aids him at a number of points throughout Lupin III: Part V.

The second element that helps make this series a unique one in the Lupin III franchise is that it actually takes time to exploring the relationship dynamics with the members of Lupin's gang. This is quite different from many past installments of Lupin III that mostly focused either on Lupin's thievery, dealing with a worst enemy threat, lusting for Fujiko, or evading Zenigata. With the challenges everyone faces from changing technologies, the members of the gang also come to question what sort of bonds they each have with one another in their connection with Lupin, this especially getting some interesting perspective with Lupin and Fujiko's neverending on and off relationship with one another. This new focus helps to add some new dimension to these characters since older anime fans would mostly identify them from the standard character types they exhibited from past installments of the Lupin III franchise.

In regards of plotting, Lupin Part V is mostly similar to Lupin Part IV in that it features ongoing plot developments throughout its entire series run. This series is divided up into several arcs where Lupin and his gang are challenged in some form with whatever big adventure they are involved in revolving the mentioned themes above, carrying a solid balance of serious and amusing moments throughout each arc. With the 24-episode run time, each character has enough time to get their own spotlight of focus throughout the series, this even including series character Ami who gets a fair amount of development throughout the series as she breaks out of her introverted shell. Outside of the series arcs, Lupin: Part V also has the occasional episodes serving as buffer between arcs that have the tone of the episode be similar to that from past Lupin III TV anime, serving as a homage of sorts to past Lupin III works as long-time fans of the franchise can pick up on what series is being portrayed through the color of Lupin's jacket.

Overall, I was quite entertained with what this latest addition to the Lupin III franchise had to offer. It added in some new story elements that helped freshen up the franchise's typical story formula, while retaining the ongoing story developments offered from Part IV and having the occasional episode serving as a homage to past Lupin anime. If you've been a longtime fan of the Lupin franchise, this is a definite recommendation I would suggest you try to watch at some point.

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Sep 19, 2018

24 of 24 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

Daddy-O (All reviews)

7 people found this review helpful

I’m glad that Lupin III still attracts enough of an audience to fund the steady output of shows and films. I wouldn’t give the label “masterpiece” to much in the Lupin III franchise—maybe to The Castle of Cagliostro and a few of the specials from the 90’s—but I can always count on enjoyment no matter how corny the writing. I grew up on the Miyazaki film and so was destined to become a certified Lupin III fanboy. I can say I enjoyed the hell out of this season.

I struggled with Lupin III Part 5 for the first few episodes. I believe the words I used to describe the pilot to friends were “horseshit” and “garbage writing.” The whole livestreaming plot that this season begins with is corny as hell, but I think I was primarily pissed off by the panty shot of the teenage girl and the subsequent “Do you want to have sex with me, Lupin?” It might not have been such a problem for me if teenage characters in anime didn’t look like they were ten years old. In any case, after getting over the initial flaws the season really gets its act together. At episode 5 they hit you with a throwback episode, creating a whole one-off Lupin heist plot in the style of the pink jacket series. It’s fucking awesome, and it worked as a sort of relieving message to the audience: “We’re fans too.” This concept continues throughout the season, doing fantastic one-off throwbacks to each of the old Lupin III seasons. These were the highlights of the season for me, as they cover pretty much exactly what I want out of any new addition to the franchise: classic heist episodes.

The actual over-arching plot to this one is a serious improvement over Part 4’s. It’s your basic utopian antagonist who couldn’t care less what gets in the way of his ideals of universal peace and safety… but he’s a smart phone app designer. Unfortunately, the writers ooze out their personal politics onto some of the plot, but these moments are brief and largely irrelevant. One episode features a corrupt “anti-immigration” politician who orders fake terrorist attacks to gain public support. This is a bizarre strawman of a complex issue going on in Europe now, and so the writers’ open-borders-policy bias is made obvious. Further on throughout the season, the writers make continual reference to the "evil" ways of American foreign policy. One subplot actually ends with the success of a theocratic monarch over an American-backed revolution. Fortunately, the writers keep their politics out of the dialogue of the main characters… that would piss me off. In any case, it never got as bad as the episode of The Woman Called Fujiko Mine that out-of-nowhere started spewing Fidel Castro propaganda.

Overall, this was a really good season. The animation was on point, the plot wasn’t complete nonsense (looking at you Part 4), and the famous characters were all perfectly designed and fully in-character. There was actually some awesome character writing with tension between Lupin and his cohorts, giving Goemon some great introspection that I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen in previous series. The final episode includes Lupin expressing the sentiment that he’ll keep on being the world-famous gentleman thief as long as the audience is interested. I hope the audience remains interested for decades to come, ‘cause Lupin III is one cool motherfucker.

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