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The work "Lupin III" is a major representative of the super longevity series in the Japanese film and television industry, but it was not officially introduced in China at that time, and even like many later juvenile manga, there was no way to gradually become popular in the folk through other channels.
However, decades later, the film "Detective Conan" is actually popular in China, and the two films have a lot of convenient commonalities. First of all, the general contracting studio is the same, which is still small, and the real convenience is that among the distributors, the TV station is the same as the broadcasting network of the two of them, the same distribution company of the two films, and then add that Aoyama Tsuyoshi himself is a Lupin fan.
With these convenient conditions, it is logical that the two works will be linked. It's just that it was really just playing before it was not easy to detect, in recent years, the more you play more and more brightly, the bigger and bigger, and finally the domestic only conan also generally knows that there is such an antique film, so this time we come back to officially talk about this series.
How can Lupin qualify as one of the representatives of the ultra-longevity series, because there are three films born in the sixties that continue to this day, and Lupin is among them. The other two are Ultraman and Miss Conch, which Lupin first animated in 1969.
To say that it is to continue is to have a feeling of continuity, which is not a dead definition but there is a feeling and consensus. For example, "Dragon Ball" and "Sailor Moon" are also producing new films now, but they will hardly be described by saying that they have lasted for twenty or thirty years, because the time between new works is too long, and the word is generally resurrection after many years.
"Gundam" is not much controversial, and the intermittent rhythm is obviously still continuous. Even if it is more than five years, it can be said that it is long or short, and more than ten years is obviously too long to break, even if there is no new work for many years, there are still market goods that have been updated, and the impression of ordinary people is also the legacy of the past.
You said that "Ultraman" seems to have been cut off for fifteen years, but the actual new works have been out, tv has cut off movies, special films have cut off animation, and domestic has broken out of overseas. Lupin does not have so many ambiguous situations, that is, it has maintained a sense of continuity for more than forty-five years since its birth, and there must be new works every three or five years when the partition is longest.
Lupin's original work is not long, it is a weekly comic strip of nearly a hundred times, and it has been serialized in less than two years. In addition, it is not suitable for animation, and the biggest difference between Lupin and Conan and "Magic Quick Fight" is that it belongs to youth comics. No matter which era of youth manga is placed, it is certainly more difficult than the animation of juvenile manga, and the animation of youth manga in that era is more difficult than in the current era.
In general, especially in the film and television industry, the difficulty of making money for men and women of different ages is reversed, and if you pay attention to the magazine's business column in the serial feature, you will mention this issue later. In men, the money of teenagers is better than that of young people, and the money of young men is better than that of teenagers, of course, it is the parents who actually spend money here. In women, the opposite is true, young women's money is better than girls' money, and girls' money is better than young girls' money.
The most successful of the Conan animated version, which surpassed the original manga commercially, and most of the works that were also juvenile manga, was that it claimed to be a juvenile manga and actually attracted a large number of female audiences from adolescence to under-30s. If you go to Japan, you can try it, find a public holiday day during the theatrical release period to see people sitting more full, you go to ten times less said that eight times is obviously more women and less men, and even can see the number of times is about two to one, which is verified by Toho's field investigation for many years.
Therefore, when it was first said that Lupin should be animated, the original author refused, and the effect after the initial animation was really not good. Later, the real fire was very long away from the time when the animation began, which we will talk about in detail when we talk about the history of the series later.
When Lupin's popularity was at its peak, the world's ratings reached 29.1%, and the highest replay was 32.5%, and the degree of similarity in this range was, such as 31.2% of Doraemon and 29.5% of Dragon Ball. Ratings are actually what it is, and what is the world ratings, and if you are interested in paying attention to the special topics of the business column series, you will explain this in detail later. Now let me just briefly emphasize that it is the world ratings, not the generation ratings.
Therefore, the influence of Lupin, who has reached this level, has become a popular topic to the extent that it has become a popular topic, and it is a significant member of the brand of the times. You see the large-scale sampling survey conducted by Fuji TV a few years ago, known as the top 100 popularity of the animated close-up male and female protagonists selected by the Japanese people of 130 million people, in the results of the age group, among the teenage people, Conan ranked second in the male protagonist, Lan ranked second in the female protagonist, Lupin ranked first in the male protagonist among the forty-something people, and Lupin's heroine Feng Fujizi ranked second in the female protagonist, and this generation gap can also be regarded as somewhat reflecting the level of Lupin's status at that time. We don't have the space to expand too much, and we will later elaborate on lupin's influence on a very representative example of Aoyama Tsuyoshi's work.
But Lupin himself, who had this influence, was clearly strongly influenced by another work, the Series of Arsen Robin by the French novelist Maurice Lubbon 110 years ago. After the novel was on fire, the protagonist Robin's strange thief image was of course also on fire, and Lupin's setting was Robin's grandson, so it was called III.
The so-called "Lupin", in fact, the etymology and Robin is the same, the French novel Chinese translated into Chinese is robin, the Japanese into Japanese have their own transliteration, Chinese will sound more like Lupin, and then according to that Japanese pronunciation more transliteration into Chinese into chinese to become what it is now. The people who originally translated it from Japanese to Lupin obviously did not know that the setting of the work was related to that Robin, and then they used it more and continued to use it in this way. But now it is more convenient for us, and we will know in the future that Robin refers to the One from France and Lupin to the One from Japan.
Robin has a famous opponent, that is, Holmes, and Robin's over-the-top picture of Sherlock Holmes was already in the foreign novel. The character image of Conan was sherlock Holmes when it was created, so it was obvious that it was a different work, and it was logical for Aoyama to let the strange thief Kidd cross over to Conan in three days.
However, in the novel at that time, it could not be so direct, unlike when Lupin and Conan wanted to link up, because the two works had the above common points, so it was not difficult to open up the relationship, and it was easier for Kidd to link up with Conan. So it was originally Sherlock Holmes, and the novel was actually written about "Arsen Robin vs. Flock Sherlock Holmes".
Well, here first point to the end, the next time we will talk in detail about how to play a variety of Lupin terriers in the works of Aoyama Tsuyoshi.
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