Author: LIAR/Anitama Cover Source: Lupin III PART5
The latest work in the Japanese national animation "Lupin III" series, "Lupin III PART5", which began broadcasting on April 3, is two years away from the previous work, and integrates modern "digital" elements to launch a new adventure story. The supervision of this game is still Yuichiro Yano, and the series composition is the first floor of Hanoi, which is the first time to join the "Lupin family". Ōkawa Ichifō and Yuichiro Yano also accepted Akihabara Soken and Anime in a hurry! Anime！ Interviews, through textual interviews, in this orthodox sequel inscribed with "5", in the digital modern world, how Lupin III and his gang will wrestle with the international police and new enemies.
Asked about the opportunity for the first floor of Hanoi to participate in this work, this is also thanks to the work "The Catcher Tent of the Iron Gun Lady". Tokisu Suzuki, who belonged to TMS Entertainment at the time, left the project due to some reason. Ōkawa was obsessed with when he would be able to work with him again, but coincidentally, Suzuki took the initiative to find him this time, and this work was "Lupin III".
※ Suzuki Tokitai is a literary and artistic director in "The Trap Account of the Iron Gun Lady", and in the past, he has also participated in "Lupin The Tomb of Daisuke the IIIRD Dimension" and "LUPIN the Third – The Woman Named Feng Fujiko-", which is also a literary and artistic director, and in "Lupin III PART4" is a Script Manager (script management).
Da Hanoi is also a die-hard loyalist of Lupin III, and when he thinks "why not try it", he feels scared again. On the one hand, "Lupin III" is a national-level work after all, and there are countless die-hards like him, not to mention that among the powerful veterans who have been working for "Lupin" since the 1980s, led by Yuichiro Yano and the character design of Hisao Yokohori, Ōkawa can only consider himself a "newcomer".
"The 'Lupin' we have guarded for so long has been disturbed by you yellow-haired boy." At first, Da Hanoi was worried that they would say so. Later, in the early discussions, he was asked, "What kind of 'Lupin' do you want to do?" "Why is it changing here?" After many meetings, while writing scripts in the studio, Hanoi finally felt like it was getting along with them. "Finally, I am also a member of the 'Lupin Village'!"
Hanoi's first contact with "Lupin" was the second season broadcast in 1977-80, and Hanoi vaguely remembers that it was broadcast in the evening, but there was no understanding that these contents were "not suitable for children". At that time, a series of animations and variety shows such as "TimeShip" often had pictures of women naked, of course, now they are going to be "shot".
The atmosphere in Lupin III is particularly appealing to Hanoi, sometimes a serious and heavy story, which becomes a funny topic next week, with occasional adult love scenes and a foreign stage that has never been seen before. Every week, I carry a small bench full of expectations for "what kind of story is this week", which is very variety show feeling.
The stage of this work is the modern digital society, in the past, when everyone talked about "Lupin III", they would definitely think of luxury props such as lighters and cars, after all, these are also the favorite collections of the "strange thieves" in the impression. But using the machines and props he invented to break through the police's layers of vigilance, not only breaking the nationality, but even going to the lying universe, these actions completely subverted the image of the "strange thief" that Hanoi thought. Therefore, Hanoi was thinking that if he let himself write this time, he should naturally think of "the latest digital props and mechanisms", so the stage setting this time was chosen in the modern digital society. Since it is a modern work, it is natural to think of today's crimes using smartphones, and Hanoi has raised the theme of this time to Lupin in the computer world.
When checking the relevant information, Hanoi found some illegal phenomena, and some people and organizations actually traded in anesthesia and firearms on "dark websites", and Hanoi was very interested in this. In fact, before writing it, Haruhi Shiratori, who was in charge of the setting production, talked to the first floor of Hanoi, "This will always happen", but I didn't expect that there really was, and there was a feeling of "being caught up by reality". And what makes him feel even more incredible is that it is safer and cheaper than direct transactions through the Internet, and even at the bottom of the website there are various "anesthetics here are not adulterated!" " evaluation. However, Ōkawa is very fortunate that this matter exists in reality, and if the animation is broadcast first, it will be said to be a "teaching material" for modern crime.
After all, "Lupin III" is a work with history, Hanoi naturally does not dare to slacken off, and when he gets the planning book, he has the requirement of "hoping to write handsome Lupin", coupled with the voice actors familiar to Telecom Animation who have produced the animation of "Lupin III" for many years, as a "newcomer", Hanoi is often wary of grasping the right balance. In Hanoi's view, Lupin gives the impression that 80% of them are very "frivolous", but once they are handsome, it is absolutely fatal.
However, since the stage of "modernity" is chosen, in addition to maintaining the score of the past impression, half of the content is to be changed. So, what does it take to change to make people feel "modern"? First of all, the shape and personality of the main characters will not change, if they change, let alone the audience, even Hanoi himself can not stand it. At this time, Da Hanoi thought of upgrading the "form of the story". Everyone knows that although the Money Police Department always loses to Lupin, he is definitely not an incompetent policeman. In order to reflect the ability of the money shape and his presence in the organization, Hanoi hoped to add more of the perspective of the money shape, so the role of the eight birds was born.
In addition, the performance of the remaining characters such as the side of the five right guards who are not good at mechanics will be naturally reflected in the play. Entering modern society, mobile phones are naturally indispensable, but only Lupin uses the latest smart phones, the dimension is only equipped with a clamshell machine, the five right guards are not used, and the money shape is equipped with the internal machine of the international police.
Da Hanoi has watched a lot of overseas TV dramas in recent years, and the end of each story will satisfy people's appetites, so that everyone can't help but look forward to the arrival of next week after watching it. In the past, "Lupin III" was almost a unit drama that ended in 1 episode, and if you suddenly let everyone watch a full two-season series, it may not be acceptable. So in this work, Hanoi took a compromise plan, and the small unit of 4 to 5 episodes was interspersed with the story of the end of 1 episode. In this way, if the audience starts watching from the middle of the way, they will want to continue watching, giving people a feeling of "new look" of "Lupin III".
Although Hanoi very much wants to write funny love stories, but this time he mainly stands in the position of series composition, not very good at writing "funny back", Hanoi also laughed and said, "If there is 'PART6', please be sure to let me write funny back." "In the eyes of Hanoi, "Lupin III" can especially feel the personality of different STAFF from each word, especially the story at the end of 1 episode, which is particularly distinct, which is the reason why "Lupin III" is full of variety. Therefore, in this "PART5", lupin III will not only be allowed to stand out alone, and the characters of the dimension, the five right guards, and the money shape will also have their own small stories, or funny or benguet reasoning dramas, which are very rich. Scenes and characters that allow past audiences to laugh out loud will also appear, in a sense, because of telecom Animation, which has been in the "Lupin" series for many years, and this "PART5" was established.
Speaking of the digital society, what impressed Hanoi the most was the development of SNS social networking services, which has become an indispensable component of today's society, and SNS also accounts for a very large part of the play. When writing the script of "DEVILMAN crybaby", Dahanoi often shared and communicated with netizens on Twitter, especially when he saw many replies from overseas audiences. Nowadays, it is possible to communicate with people all over the world through social networks without leaving home, so Hanoi also hopes that this time "Lupin III PART5" will be enjoyed not only by Japanese audiences, but also by overseas animation audiences. For example, the hardcore sense of "PART1" and the jokes of "PART2" will also appear in this work, which has prepared many surprises for the old audience in the past.
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Akiba Research Institute: Among the staff, I was the only "newcomer" ..."Lupin III PART 5" series composition, Okochi Ichiro interview
anime! anime! : Why did Lupin III PART 5 set in a digital society? Interview with Director Yuichiro Yano × Ichiro Okochi
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