Lupin III: Part 2 Review
Shin Lupin III
ルパン三世 (第2シリーズ)
新 ルパン三世
Shin Rupan Sansei

Since the Community Anime Reviews site is all but dead, I’m republishing some of my OG reviews from there. I have corrected obvious spelling errors though. I will add new notes in parenthesis, labeled “ANB  note.”  😅 I won’t count these as part of the “Back to the Vaults” series as I have not rewatched them. However, I am planning to rewatch this series and episode blog it. It looks like I never quite finished the series.

Community Anime Review of Lupin III: Part 2

(ANB note: This series was originally reviewed on 12-Jan-2003.)

Lupin brings the gang together five years after the end of the first Lupin III series. Together again, they are again pursued by the ever-present Inspector Zenigata as they hunt various treasures and adventures all over the world.

Basically, each episode is some sort of adventure with Fujiko either working with them or against them (or a combination of both). The fun is in seeing them at work. OK, it can get predictable, but it is still fun, especially if you see this in the original Japanese (Pioneer screwed the English dub script for the first 24 episodes).

As of this review, I’ve seen 26 episodes from this Lupin III series. Two were done by Miyazaki-sama and so both were really good (epidodes 145 & 155). Since both of these episodes are toward the end of this series, Lupin is more like the Lupin of Castle of Cagliostro.

Bottom line:

A fun series and worth checking out, especially in the Japanese. We’ll see what Pioneer does after episode 24 on the English dub.