Reviewed on May 30th, 2006

Visually

This anime is quite good actually. Even though most people would say its not good compared to the high-definition look of animes today.

Audio

The audio is great on Lupin the 3rd. All the characters have there own sense of humor which adds a lot of fun to watch this show even more.

Storyline

The show's opening installments (though both the DVD release and Cartoon Network's midnight Lupin airings are skipping one early episode, "Hitler's Legacy") don't really introduce the characters; this is the second incarnation of Lupin the 3rd, from the late 1970s, rather than his early-'70s TV debut. As the first episode, "The Return of Lupin the 3rd," begins, Lupin and his three sometime partners, Jigen, Goemon and Fujiko, reunite aboard a luxury cruise ship. They've been separated for five years, but return supposedly at each other's behest, only to find they've been tricked. When Lupin's arch-nemesis, the clumsy but dogged Interpol inspector Zenigata, shows up with arrest papers in hand, it briefly seems like he's put together a cunning trap, but Lupin cheerfully points out that Zenigata's warrant is a forgery, and he was clearly duped into the same trap. It soon becomes apparent that the entire ship is designed with murder in mind: Among other things, the dentist's equipment contains a venomous snake and the swimming pool is stocked with sharks. Ultimately, Lupin and his friends have to face a psychotic cyborg obsessed with vengeance. Apparently deciding after that that four heads are better than one, Lupin and his buddies then launch right back into their usual capers, plotting to steal everything from $10 million in Brazilian soccer-match box-office receipts to Tutankhamen's cursed treasure. In the process, they run afoul of the Loch Ness monster, a giggling psychopath with an earthquake-creating device and a corresponding blackmail scheme, and endlessly and inevitably the relentless Zenigata.

DVD

The DVD of Lupin the 3rd was mediocre to what I was expecting. It had some extra features such as voice actors and some behind the scenes type things but other than there there was nothing special about the DVD.

Overall

Overall I have found Lupin the 3rd a great anime series. Even though with its continous acts of Zenigata trying to capture Lupin and the perverted side of Lupin trying to get action with Fujiko.

by Aidan