Hello everyone, today we are going to talk about a 50-year-old evergreen work in the history of anime , Lupin III " !
As one of Japan's first youth manga, "Lupin III" is second only to the super big IP of "Miss Conch" in the history of animation broadcasting. From its serialization in 1967 in Action magazine, to its debut in 1971 after its animation in 1971, to the fifth season of Lupin III in 2018 (although the interval between seasons three and four is longer), it has been more than half a century. It can even be said that this work is fighting against time!
From the Showa era to the Reiwa era, Lupin III himself is even more immortal legend, except for Goku in dragon balls, I don't think anyone else has a perennial popularity can fight with Lupin (One Piece Luffy is also popular!). However, this is a contemporary reason, and it is only good to compare when the pirates have been serialized for thirty or forty years, just like the popularity of the goddess Ayapolis of that year has already declined)!
For the Japanese animation industry, Lupin's meaning is not just an "immortal" character. Almost all of the animation giants of that year were more or less involved in the production of Lupin - Hayao Miyazaki, Takahata, Tsuyoshi Izusaki, Kifumi Kondo, etc. all directed the Lupin III series.
And the love and killing between Miyazaki and "Lupin III" is even more added to this legendary work! Miyazaki was in danger at that time, saving the director's "Lupin III" series, and establishing the image of Lupin hoeing the strong and helping the weak, and the good and evil rogues. It was also his killer at the peak of Lupin, who tried several times to completely end the series.
It can be said that all 155 episodes of the second season of "Lupin III" were all guided by Miyazaki Hayao!
It is said that although the protagonist in "Lupin III" looks like a monkey, the more I look at it, the more I am impressed by Lupin's charm! Iq 300 brain, agile hands, fearless courage to challenge everything, there is a group of friends who have passed, there are interesting but always can not succeed in the good women, there are thieves and the bottom line, there are gold and white to buy songs and laughs of the wandering, always on the road of adventure, unrestrained freedom...
To be honest, the more you look at it, the more handsome you are! Perfect interpretation of the "romance of men" in the mind of the editor, the famous book can cross the era, but it is a bit rogue to talk about the work without the author's era background, and Lupin's era is the free jazz era that Shaun Connery's 007 series has just begun!
The memes and even characters of Lupin III have appeared in some famous games and animated series. There is a monkey face in Lance 9 that Lance calls, exactly the same as Lupin's XD.
I remember that in CLAMP's work "April 1st Spiritual Event Book", there is an episode of the dimensional witch Ihara Youko holding a baseball bat and attaching a spell to it, imitating the five right guards in "Lupin III" holding an iron sword and saying the classic line: "Hum! Chopped off boring stuff again"!
And the female protagonist Feng Fujiko is a perennial existence on the list of anime sexy goddesses. Like "Detective Conan" author Tsuyoshi Aoyama is a fan of "Lupin III", as far as Mine Fujiko is concerned, "Detective Conan" author Tsuyoshi Aoyama created her kind side as Conan, her beautiful mother Kudo Yukiko, and created the evil side into the evil cold-blooded Belmode. Each character's voice is unique, so their voice actors have been using their own unique voices to accompany the characters for decades.
To be honest, at first staring at the screen, this monkey-like walking bamboo pole thief with his legs was really a little uncomfortable. But as soon as the anime opens, especially the smart jazz music enters the ear, there is a great sense of expectation for it! And then so it is!
With a pure thief bloodline (whose grandfather was the thief Arthur Robin created by the French writer LeBron), lupin lupin, who has a superior IQ and a sense of humor, but is extremely fond of women (especially for the second son) has not yet remembered it.
Daisuke Is a good friend of Lupin, who can draw a gun and shoot a sharpshooter in a hundred shots in just 0.3 seconds, but he loves tobacco and alcohol and is afraid of women! It is said that he was once a killer who hunted down Lupin! I don't know why the two became partners later!
There is also the five right guards who hold an iron sword in their hands and slash nothing! After killing the opponent, he did not forget to sigh expressionlessly, "Cut some boring things again." ”
There is also a goddess who has a proud demonic figure and is also an enemy and friend who fascinates men (especially Lupin) and steals the peak.
Finally, of course, there is a criminal police uncle Qian shape who will arrest Lupin regardless of the end of the world, and his entire work is complete.
In the 2012 Best 50 list of anime & close-up male and female protagonists selected by the Japanese people, Lupin III ranked 3rd in the male list (Daisuke Ofetsu ranked 26th in the male list, Ishikawa Goemon ranked 37th in the male list, Mino fujiko ranked 2nd in the women's list, and Chrissy ranked 32nd in the women's list).
In the 2017 Showa vs Heisei: Anime & Close-up Male and Female Characters BEST 30 List, Lupin III ranked 2nd in the Male Showa List & 12th in the Heisei List (The same work of mine fujiko ranked 1st in the Female Showa List & 3rd in the Heisei List).
A few years ago, a live-action film version of "Lupin III" was launched. In the absence of hype at home, Lupin III still captured the hearts of a bunch of domestic fans. He has experienced half a century of immortality, derived from the charm of the core characters.
Lupin III was like a real monster. Driving that retro FIT500 forever and using that Walter P-38 pistol to tackle all sorts of enemies, these details are set like some kind of label, outlining Lupin's bohemian personality. This work, inherited from generation to generation, has become a legend.
For me, Lupin III is different from other Japanese works! Inside, Feng Fujizi shows a woman's style just right! And Lupin's psychology of women is also the psychology common to many men, see one loves one! But I still don't forget the one I can't get!
Having said all this, it shows how much I admire and love this work, and some of the plots of this work of the 70s will never be outdated until now!
Compared to some ten years of grinding a sword! "Lupin III" can be described as a new work every year! The TV version of the anime has been released for a total of six seasons, and the OVA and theatrical versions are almost every year! I'll steal the specific list and don't post it!
By the way, I started the pit from the third season of the TV version of the anime! Not to mention that Lupin's monkey face becomes more and more attractive with each op!