LUPIN ZERO Main Trailer Depicts Fateful Encounter between Lupin and Jigen
The official website for LUPIN ZERO, the forthcoming new web anime depicting the boyhood of the characters of the popular anime franchise Lupin the Third, has posted a 70-second main trailer to introduce its theme songs and main characters, including Lupin’s future partner, Daisuke Jigen.
The main theme is “Afro ‘Lupin ’68,” originally uses as the second opening theme of the first Lupin The Third TV anime in 1968. And the insert song is “Lupin The Third Theme II” originally sung by Charlie Kosei as the ending theme for the first Lupin TV anime. This new version is sung by singer-songwriter Tabito Nanao.
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In addition to the previously announced two leads, Tasuku Hatanaka (Denki Kaminari in My Hero Academia) as Lupin and Shunsuke Takeuchi (Alexander Yamato in KING OF PRISM) as his partner, Daisuke Jigen, four more cast members have been announced.
Saori Hayami (Yor Forger in SPY x FAMILY) as Yoko, a beautiful woman who holds the key to the story; Toa Yukinari (Casca in Berserk) as Shinobu, Lupin’s live-in housekeeper; Yoshito Yasuhara (Kadokura in Golden Kamuy) as Lupin The First; and Toshio Furukawa (Asuma Shinohara in Mobile Police Patlabor) as Lupin The Second, Lupin’s father and a thief who steals from various places.
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#ルパンゼロ
第二弾キャスト発表！
＼洋子役に #早見沙織 さん！
しのぶ役に #行成とあ さん！
ルパン一世役に #安原義人 さん！
ルパン二世役に #古川登志夫 さん！@hayami_official @toa_ailurofilia @TOSHIO_FURUKAWA
????声優キャストコメントはこちら????https://t.co/fpAoZIPirP pic.twitter.com/QLNYHyD7VR— アニメ『LUPIN ZERO』公式 (@lupin_zero) December 1, 2022
In Japan, the six-episode anime series will be streamed on DMM group’s newly-launched channel DMM TV. The first two episodes will be posted on December 16, the the reaming four episodes will be streamed sequentially every Friday.
The story is set in the 1960s, the same year as Monkey Punch’s original Lupin the Third started serialization in Futabasha’s Weekly Action magazine. It tells a nostalgic yet new original story about young Lupin who is still a nobody and travels around Japan during its period of rapid economic growth. Lupin, a junior high school student, is trained by his grandfather in the art of stealing, but he cannot decide whether to become a law-abiding citizen or a thief in the future. While spending his days in boredom, he meets a classmate, Jigen, who draws a gun against delinquent students. He has been traveling around with his mercenary father and is already familiar with the use of guns. Lupin and Jigen happen to run into trouble over a certain woman, and they end up working together.
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????新規プラットフォーム
DMM TVにて12月16日(金)配信決定！
＼@DMMTV_PR#ルパン三世 #Lupinthe3rd #DMMTV
▼DMM TVの詳細はこちらhttps://t.co/HlPb6OcFWs— アニメ『LUPIN ZERO』公式 (@lupin_zero) December 1, 2022
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Source: “LUPIN ZERO” official website / Twitter
Original work: Monky Punch © TMS
