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2015 Lupin III Anime Airs August 29 in Italy + Title, Visual & Videos Revealed

The official website of the recently announced 2015 Lupin III anime has revealed new information for the upcoming October anime. First, the anime will premiere in Italy ahead of the Japanese schedule, airing on Italia 1 from August 29. In addition, the anime’s title has been revealed alongside a new visual and two new videos.

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The official Italian title of the upcoming 2015 Lupin III anime will be Lupin III – L’avventura Italiana (Lupin III – The Italian Adventure). The anime will debut on Italian TV channel Italia 1 from August 29, before the anime airs in Japan this October. The anime itself will be 26 episodes long.

Two brand new videos have been revealed for the anime, which previews the Opening sequence of the anime:

Here is the second new video, which introduces new character Rebecca Rossellini who is to be wed to Lupin.

The anime’s staff that will produce the series are as follows:

  • Chief Director: Kazuhide Tomonaga (Key Animator for Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, Lupin III vs. Detective Conan The Movie)
  • Director: Yuichiro Yano (Moyashimon, Fran♥cesca)
  • Scriptwriter: Yuuya Takahashi (Donten ni Warau Series Composer)
  • Music Composer: Yuji Ohno (Lupin III Films)
  • Animation Studio: Telecom Animation Film (Moyashimon, Lupin III: Blood Seal – Eternal Mermaid)

Tomonaga, the Chief Director, comments that the audience for the original Lupin III anime that aired 40 years ago had a major impact on his generation. It was radically different to previous anime aimed at children and that it is very important to the adult anime fans of today. Tomonaga wants to recreate the amazement that his generation experienced that current anime fans have not. He wants to produce an exciting anime that is realistic yet sprinkled with fantastic elements with  hard-boiled yet comical, cool yet tongue-in-cheek elements.

Lupin III (Lupin the Third) is a manga created by Monkey Punch back in 1967. The original series began serialization from 1967 to 1969 in Futabasha’s Weekly Manga Action magazine for a total of 14 compiled volumes. A sequel manga titled Lupin III: The New Adventures was published from 1977 till 1981 in the same magazine for a total of 21 volumes. The series received an anime adaptation in 1971 from TMS Entertainment (Detective Conan, Yowamushi Pedal) as Lupin III Part I, which was soon followed by Lupin III Part II and Lupin III Part III in 1977 and 1985 respectively. Since its release, the series has exploded in popularity in Japan and the rest of the world. The series has influenced many manga artists, anime directors and writers, and even gave Hayao Miyazaki, of Studio Ghibli fame, his debut directing role for Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro. Since the 1985 anime, numerous spin-off films, OVAs, specials and video games have been made.

Here is a synopsis of the original series:

Arsene Lupin III is the grandson of the master thief Arsene Lupin. With his cohorts Daisuke Jigen and Goemon Ishikawa XIII and his love interest Fujiko Mine, he pulls off the greatest heists of all time while always escaping the grasp of Inspector Koichi Zenigata.

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The 2015 Lupin III anime,  Lupin III – The Italian Adventure, will air in Italy from Saturday August 26th. The anime will then air in Japan during the Fall/Autumn 2015 anime season, starting in October.

You can visit the anime’s website here: http://lupin-new-season.jp/
And follow the Tumblr: http://lupinnewseason.tumblr.com/

 
Source Article and Images – Lupin III – The Italian Adventure Anime Website
Source Article – Anime News Network
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