Lupin III is Back in Thieving, Cinematic 2D Action

Lupin III has been steadily going done manga, anime, and films for decades, but it’s been astir 5 years since Lupin III: The First back successful 2019. If you consciousness similar it’s clip for a caller movie, TMS Entertainment agrees with you, and it turns retired they’ve already got thing caller successful the hopper.

During Thanksgiving, the workplace unveiled a preview for a marque caller Lupin film task whose rubric and crippled are presently unknown, prevention for the information that we’ll erstwhile again spot the Gentleman Thief and his friends successful yet different caper. The series’ longtime Japanese dependable actors are backmost reprising their respective roles, and successful the animation spot is Telecom, returning aft antecedently handling assorted parts of the anime and several films successful the franchise, positive the 2022 Lupin Zero web series. Takeshi Koike, who directed Redline and franchise films centered connected Fujiko, Goemon, and Jigen during the mid-2010s, is besides connected manus to helm this caller venture, workng disconnected a publication by the anime’s Part IV writer Yuya Takahashi.

But it’s not each aforesaid old, aforesaid old: according to Lupin successful the trailer, an full country’s gunning for the unit (in summation to Inspector Zenigata, of course), and the tagline teases audiences volition summation immoderate much penetration into Lupin. Notably, this movie is some a caller fresh communicative pursuing the passing of manga creator Monkey Punch successful 2019, and the archetypal 2D anime movie for the bid since Lupin III: Dead oregon Alive all the mode backmost successful 1996.

The new Lupin III movie is expected to travel retired sometime successful 2025, truthful we’ll larn much astir it—including its authoritative name—in the coming months.

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