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The romance of adults is guarded by Lupin.
Audiences familiar with Miyazaki's work may not know that the first animated film he supervised was the theatrical version of the anime Lupin III: Cariostro City, released in 1979. This work was the starting point for him to become a master. Miyazaki's style of characters, painting style, and action scenes have begun to take shape from that period, and Spielberg is said to have called this film "one of the greatest films of all time" at the Cannes Film Festival at that time, especially the opening car chase scene is "the most perfect car chase movie in the history of cinema".
The achievement of Miyazaki's "Lupin III" was officially exploded in the second season of the tv version that followed, and was promoted to Japan's national animation. Between "Lupin III" and not being introduced to Chinese television, most domestic anime fans have established a preliminary impression of this character through "Lupin III VS Detective Conan".
As everyone knows, in Japan, the "Lupin III" series has a history of more than 50 years, and is a super IP with 5 TV animations, 9 theatrical animations, 27 SP, 7 OVA, live-action movies and a large number of games. In October this year, the sixth part of the TV anime will be broadcast again.
According to a 2012 survey of 12,000 Japanese variety shows from 10 to 60 years old in China, the first male animation character loved by the 40th generation is Lupin III, and the heroine Feng Fujiko ranks in the top five of the audience's favorite female animation characters in the 20th to 60th generations. However, the "Lupin III" TV animation, which began to air in 1971, was not a popular work in the early days, and on what basis did it become the undead bird in neon animation?
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From The Thief to the National Animation</h1>
During the period of rapid economic development in Japan from the late 1960s to the 1970s, various sports and science fiction anime works for teenagers were popular at that time, and these stories containing blood, struggle, legend, and conquest of the core were the embodiment of showa boy romance. Among them, the "non-mainstream" work "Lupin III" serialized by cartoonist Monkey Punch (real name Kato Kazuhiko) in 1967, a non-juvenile comic full of elements of Western rogue adventure, has created an idealized man with French ancestry, free and uninhibited, gentle and romantic personality, and an idealized man with humor and humor that fascinates women like Yuppie.
The original setting of the Lupin III comic was influenced by 007 and Tom and Jerry, and Lupin was portrayed as James Bond, who could dodge and fight back against opponents no matter what crisis he faced. Lupin is also Jerry in Tom and Jerry, following rule 33 of the "Guide to Stealing" written by Lupin I, "Don't reveal your true colors to anyone at any time", a mysterious thief who only steals what he likes, and the prototype of the money police department that has long been unable to catch Lupin is Tom.
Daisuke Tsyō, a sharpshooter who has a friendship with Lupin, Ishikawa Goemon, who is proficient in Juhe Chop, and the female monster Thief Fujiko, who has long trapped Lupin in a sweet trap, form the core character group of "Lupin III". The whole story revolves around the fierce chases between them and the Qian Xing Police Department.
Because of the interesting setting and mature story, the manga was favored by the TV station, and the first TV version of the anime (because Lupin wore a green suit, this season is used to be called "Green Lupin") began to be broadcast in the prime time of the TV station in 1971, and the TV station also advertised for animated adults in newspaper advertisements as never before. But in the golden age of television at that time, when all animations had 20% super high ratings, the "Lupin III" animation only had 6% ratings.
The reason is that, on the one hand, adult advertising does not meet the family moral standards of that era, on the other hand, the more decadent worldview of the work conveys that it is also negative, so parents consciously do not let their children watch. Even if Hayao Miyazaki and Takahata joined the supervision in the middle of the broadcast, the TV animation received only 9% of the highest ratings, which could not save the decline, so the first anime was discontinued after 23 episodes.
Unexpectedly, the replay of the first season in the following years changed Lupin's fate.
Yomiuri tv adjusted its replay strategy to put "Lupin III" on the evening. After the crowd orientation is correct, the setting itself is biased towards the preferences of adult male audiences, so that the animation gradually became popular, and finally the ratings soared to 32%, becoming the highest-rated Top3 animation in the 70s, and the super IP of Lupin was conceived.
In 1977, the second part of Lupin III was published.
The second season of "Lupin III" (Red Lupin) is planned and broadcast by Japanese television, absorbing the experience of the previous game, this season adjusts the cold plot into a comedy that focuses on farce, Lupin's image is also funny, and the sexiness of Feng Fujiko is also just right, so that each unit drama becomes a family content for the whole family to enjoy. And because it aired on Monday, there was no professional baseball broadcast, no New Year's Eve program, and the ratings were as high as 29%. So the second season produced a total of 155 episodes over three years, during which two of the most acclaimed theatrical versions of Lupin's historical works were released, "Lupin III VS Replicants" supervised by Yoshikawa Anderson and "Lupin III: Cario stroso Castle" supervised by Hayao Miyazaki. As a result, in the context of word-of-mouth and audience fully rolled out, "Lupin III" became a national animation.
Dissatisfied with the second season of the family reunion produced by Japanese television, four years later, he changed back to the third season of "Lupin III" produced by Buy TV station and read it back to a more personalized adult-oriented animation. This approach turned the third season into a mixed reputation, and there was no "Lupin III" TV animation for 30 years after the third season of the third season was broadcast in 1985, but this did not affect the fact that "Lupin III" had become a super IP, and the mature and romantic charm of the protagonists in "Lupin III" had long been engraved in the hearts of audiences in the 70s.
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The tempered Lupin III</h1>
The romance of men in different eras is different. If the showa boy's romance in the 70s was not afraid of the times, lupin III was created, then the Heisei boy who spanned the 21st century had a more diversified romance in the Internet generation. In the ever-changing animation market, is Lupin III planning to adapt to the changing times? Or is it the kernel that runs through the ancient times to continue to pursue men's dreams? We can find answers in some of the controversial or highly distinctive works in the post-millennial Lupin III series.
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Lupin III, the anniversary work "Green VS Red" was launched as an OVA in 2008. The supervision and production team chose the latter in order to curry favor with fixed fans by relying on old routines and making something a little different from the other way of thinking.
In the OVA, the image of Lupin III in the TV version, SP, and theater version of hundreds of episodes over the past 40 years flashes in the OP, implying that each Lupin III is a different Lupin III. The OVA was extremely low overall at the time, and the reviews were polarized, and for those who wanted to see Lupin as romantic as in the past, this was no longer a lupin III in the traditional sense. There are also a small number of voices that say that this is their favorite Lupin III, and think that it is valuable to venture into such a profound work.
The epilogue theatrical version of "The Tombstone of Daisuke of the Dimension" (2014), "Blood Smoke of Ishikawa Goemon" (2017), "The Lie of The Peak Ofjiko" (2019) in the "Lupin III" series, more with the strong personality of his supervisor Koike Ken, is also a cult work that exerts the aesthetics of men to the extreme in the entire series of Lupin, and various black plots with adult-only romance are very charming and have a strong sense of perception.
In addition, there is the only 3D animated theatrical version of "The First" in the entire series, which returns to the basic disc of the adventure story of Lupin III, without special novelty but makes the audience feel very belonging. These works, which convey the core of the Lupin III series, continue to ignite the audience's enthusiasm for Lupin without interruption.
On the TV animation side, after 30 years, the fourth season of Lupin TV animation Italian (Blue Lubang) was broadcast, co-produced by Yomimai TV and Japanese TELEVISION, which is also highly recommended for newcomers to enter the pit "Lupin III" season.
This animation takes Italy as the stage to unfold a new story of Lupin's protagonist group, taking a brisk romantic route, changing the previous unit drama mode, the character setting and plot are more mature, and for the first time a little main line is added. In addition, from the perspective of the degree of picture production, it is also worth seeing, it can be said that the development of the IP of "Lupin III" has also kept up with the rhythm of the times.