Now that the Koike Petnology is all Dubbed and no new Lupin projects seem to be in development.
Most of my personal favorite Lupin III adventures were among these specials. But there are many I still haven’t seen because I’ve chosen to remain strictly Dub only with Lupin.
First priority should perhaps go to the Dezaki directed specials not yet dubbed, the first and last of them are Dubbed but not the ones in between. Hemingway Papers sounds like the most interesting premise to me personally.
According to an old article by Ben Ettinger which I know about thanks to Caribou-kun, Dezaki was only nominally involved in Napoleon’s Dictionary. That one tends to be considered by those who have seen it one of the worst. I often like what others don’t but for franchises like Lupin on how things rank at least my opinions often line up mostly with common opinion. So yeah this one can remain at the bottom of the priority list.
From Siberia With Love should be a solid outing though. Dezaki plays an important role in how I define Anime.
Next the 2001 Special Alcatraz Connection was the first Lupin Anime to be Animated Digitally, the transition from Cel to Digital is an interesting topic to Anime historians so this landmark in one of Anime’s oldest and most consistent franchises is important. And it turns 25 years old this August.
But the special that turns 20 this year is Seven Days Rhapsody in September. I’m developing a thesis that April 2006-March 2007 was the best year in Anime. So it’d be nice to see if that year’s Lupin special can live up to the hype.
The Last Job from February 2010 is famous for how it was the send off of 3 long time members of the Japanese voice cast. You can’t really translate that meta significance into a Dub unless maybe you saved it for when the current BangZoom cast eventually retires? I doubt they’re thinking that far ahead though.
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