History Anime / LupinIIIPart5

''Lupin III Part 5'' is, as the name implies, the fifth installment of the main [[Anime/LupinIII Lupin]] series.[[note]]technically the sixth if you count the spinoff, ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine The Woman Called Fujiko Mine]]''[[/note]] It follows on directly from 2015's ''[[WesternAnimation/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure The Italian Adventure]]'' (aka ''Part 4'').

''Lupin III Part 5'' is, as the name implies, the fifth installment of the main [[Anime/LupinIII Lupin]] series. [[note]]technically the sixth if you count the spinoff, ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine The Woman Called Fujiko Mine]]''[[/note]] It follows on directly from 2015's ''[[WesternAnimation/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure The Italian Adventure]]'' (aka ''Part 4'').

* ArcVillain: This season seems to go by arc logic or "Episodes". As such Lupin finds himself facing off against recurring villains of that episode.

* CountingBullets: In the first episode Lupin tries to pass himself off as Ami's father, but she sees through him, pulls out a gun and opens fire. After ducking back to avoid being shot, he comes back out into the open stating she has run out of bullets. Ami calls his bluff but sure enough her clip is empty. When she replays the footage before she fired on him, it's revealed Lupin managed to pull out one of her cartridges when he hugged her and pretty much counted the shots afterwards.

* LatexPerfection: Lupin uses this to impersonate [[spoiler: Fujiko]].

* LoopholeAbuse: Lupin hides out in a country out of Interpol jurisdiction. As a member of Interpol Zenigata can't go there for official police business, so he just files for vacation leave.

* MoralDissonance: In episode 23, Jigen outright mass murders police officers when he stops the prisoner transport convoy. While this should give the Lupin gang a bad name in more ways than one, it should also be noted that the police shot at Jigen ''without any provocation'', clearly showing that the officer in charge wasn't too concerned about going dirty to get a criminal in jail (or in the morgue).
** Later, Jigen and Goemon wipe out the American military units who were sent to raid [=ShakeHanz=]'s HQ building. They don't get any flak for killing soldiers, pilots, and marines, but then again, the troops had been sent to cover up America's dirty secrets.

** Surprisingly happens to Lupin in the second arc. After finding out the person who sent him on his "job" was actually an old rival from his starting days. Lupin manages to track him down and had hoped to get the drop on him by infiltrating his security office, finding out who his lover is, disguising himself as said lover (Albert's gay by the way), and switching out the gun in his jacket with one full of blanks. When Lupin confronts Albert at their rendezvous point, he expects Albert to shoot him. Only to find out the gun was switched with ''real'' bullets, Lupin is mortally wounded and loses the black book as a result. What's more, when he tries for a backup plan with a bomb he implanted in Albert's car. The bomb explode in the river much to his shock and Albert reveals he was pretty much expecting that too.
** Lupin does this to Enzo by hiding in a place where [=PeopleLog=] wasn't installed by the local government (Cagliostro). After a month of hiding, the latter's own app gets used to leak dirty government secrets from around the world, leading the majority of the countries to declare Enzo's firm a terrorist organization for refusing to stop Lupin's posts.

* TakingYouWithMe: After Jose is defeated and fatally shot. He activates an explosive in his coat and tries to take Lupin and Albert with him. Lupin manages to pull Albert away just in time.

** Totally averted in the fourth arc when law enforcement and military personnel get killed off by Jigen and Goemon. Jigen wipes out a prisoner transport security detail, going for headshots whenever possible. When his first revolver runs out of ammunition, he switches to a grenade launcher and eventually the PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle he used back in Cagliostro. Shots from the last one [[EyeScream punch through police-issue face plate armor.]] Goemon's use of Zantetsuken against the US Marine Corps leaves little to the imagination. The Marines got slaughtered, especially when Goemon and Jigen pull combo moves that target vital points.

** [=PeopleLog=] is pretty much your go-to online service for verifying facts on people. Unfortunately for Enzo, it appears not to have been installed in the Dukedom of Cagliostro, which explains how Lupin is able to hide for a full month.

** In the 23rd episode, Jigen single-handily stops the convey that transporting Lupin to prison with nothing more then an armory's worth of guns on him, including his trusty revolver.
** In the final episode, Goemon and he prevent the army trying to get into the building to stop Lupin with nothing more then their personal weapons. Even the American general supervising things and the internet watching through Lupin's monocle are in disbelief that two men are managing to keep them at bay.

* {{Outgambitted}}: Surprisingly happens to Lupin in the second arc. After finding out the person who sent him on his "job" was actually an old rival from his starting days. Lupin manages to track him down and had hoped to get the drop on him by infiltrating his security office, finding out who his lover is, disguising himself as said lover (Albert's gay by the way), and switching out the gun in his jacket with one full of blanks. When Lupin confronts Albert at their rendezvous point, he expects Albert to shoot him. Only to find out the gun was switched with ''real'' bullets, Lupin is mortally wounded and loses the black book as a result. What's more, when he tries for a backup plan with a bomb he implanted in Albert's car. The bomb explode in the river much to his shock and Albert reveals he was pretty much expecting that too.

* RankedByIQ: "Lupin vs. the Smart Safe" involves Lupin III trying to crack a safe that measures intelligence on a scale from 0 to 300, and the safe opens when it's at 0. Lupin's a 300, and the gang basically just kick the shit out of him to give him enough brain damage to open it. [[spoiler: They can only get it to 1, so instead, Lupin just uses his normal intelligence and eats enough of fish to make him smarter so it overflows to 301 and opens.]]
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: An eyecatch for has Lupin attempt to pull this off. During the first arc, [[SubvertedTrope it instead blows back in his face]], but in the arcs after he successfully does it and causes a screen shatter effect.

* BloodlessCarnage: Quite a few assassins die fighting Lupin's gang or each other but there is no blood spilled. [[spoiler:Except when Lupin is apparently shot in the head, [[YourHeadAsplode resulting in a geyser of blood,]] but even then it is all in silhouette. Turns out to have been an internet filter.]]

* BookEnds: The series begins with Lupin being hunted through an ARG and the final arc start with him likewise being hunted through this method only with much more advanced software that make it near impossible for him to counter against. Even his near flawless disguises don't work as the app can scan facial features.

** Episode 23 see's Lupin [[spoiler: hiding in what looks like the ruins from ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro''. Additionally, he begins his final plan once he gets a message from [[WesternAnimation/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure Rebecca Rossellini]]]].

* CountingBullets: In the first episode Lupin tries to pass himself off as Ami's father, but she sees through him, pulls out a gun and opens fire. After ducking back to avoid being shot, he comes back out into the open stating she has run out of bullets. Ami calls his bluff but sure enough her clip is empty. When she replays the footage before she fired on him, it's revealed Lupin managed to pull out one of her bullets when he hugged her and pretty much counted the shots afterwards.

* CopKiller: Jigen kills a ''lot'' of police officers near the end of the series.

* HighClassGlass: As seen on the poster, Lupin wears one during heists which acts as a portable hacking tool.
* HopelessWithTech: Goemon's good with a sword, but tech. Not so much.

* IdiotBall: Unusually, it serves as a MacGuffin in one episode. [[spoiler: A safe is programmed so that only an idiot can open it. Lupin tries to reduce his intelligence, but instead settles for overriding the safe controls.]]

* OhCrap: Lupin, Jigen and Goemon think they're in the clear after escaping with Ami. But they soon find out that they're being tracked via the net and people using social accounts to spot him. Meaning virtually the ''whole world'' is after him now.

** In the 23 episode, Jigen single-handily stops the convey that transporting Lupin to prison with nothing more then armory worth of guns on him, including his trusty revolver.
** In the final episode, Goemon and he prevent the army trying to get into the building to stop Lupin with nothing more then their weapons. Even the general supervising things and the internet watching through Lupin's monocle are in disbelief that two men are managing to keep them at bay.

* SequelHook: In the final episode, Albert ends up taking Enzo's consultant into custody and proclaims he'll need him for his plans in the future, which involve abandoning the organization he worked for. Also after Enzo is defeated and apparently think he knows Lupin's true secret, he proclaims he'll make a better version of his [=PeopleLog=] app. Though Lupin counters he has more secrets Enzo doesn't know about.

* LoopholeAbuse: Lupin hides out in a country out of Interpol jurisdiction. As a member of Interpol Zenigata can't go there for offical police business, so he just files for vacation leave.

* MoralDissonance: This series features the gang outright mass murdering police officers. Not only do they not face any consequences, they are never portrayed in a negative light for doing so.

* PapaWolf: Lupin gets ''very'' pissed when three young men harass Ami.

** Episodes 21 and 22 have short montages where various one-shot villains from past seasons, such as Ginko Hoshikage from ''Green Jacket'', can be seen [[spoiler: using the [=PeopleLog=] app]].

** In Episode 17, Lupin disguises himself as a private eye named "Jim Barnett III". Lupin author Maurice Leblanc also wrote an anthology novel - ''"The Barnett & Co. Agency"'' which was about was about the eponymous detective Jim Barnett solving cases in the same 'verse as Arséne Lupin...[[spoiler: and turns out to be none other than Lupin himself.]]

* TakeAThirdOption: In the Smart Safe caper, Lupin can't access a safe due to needing the I.Q of an idiot to open it. So Fujiko, Jigen and Goemon all use methods to drop his intelligence to do so. Problem is 1) being stupid will leave him vulnerable to getting captured and 2) it wasn't enough to open the vault when they tried again. So what does Lupin do? [[spoiler: He decides to ''boost'' his intelligence by eating fish that can put him just over the vault's cap of 300 to 301 to override the system and get it to open. So ironiclly being more smarter than the vault could handle allows him to win.]]

* WhamEpisode: Episode 22.

* LeaningontheFourthWall: Lupin wants to live his life as the hero of a TV show, where everyone is excited to see what he will do next.

Set some time after his adventures in Italy, Lupin sets his sights on the greater treasures of France. Of course, in doing so he gains the ire of some very dangerous people and soon finds himself up against a figure of his past as well while trying to stay alive and uncovering long buried secrets in the process. Secrets that could spell trouble for the nation in the wrong hands.

Set some time after his adventures in Italy, Lupin soon sets his sights on the greater treasures of France. Of course, in doing so he gains the ire of some very dangerous people and soon finds himself up against a figure of his past as well while trying to stay alive and uncovering long buried secrets in the process. Secrets that could spell trouble for the nation in the wrong hands.

* RankedByIQ: "Lupin vs. the Smart Safe" involves Lupin III trying to crack a safe that measures intelligence on a scale from 0 to 300, and the safe opens when it's at 0. Lupin's a 300, and the gang basically just kick the shit out of him to give him enough brain damage to open it. [[spoiler: They can only get it to 1, so instead, Lupin just uses his normal intelligence and eats enough of a type of fish that makes it smarter for it to overflow to 301 and open.]]

** Episode 22 has a short montage where various one-shot villains from past seasons, such as Ginko Hoshikage from ''Green Jacket'', can be seen [[spoiler: using the [=PeopleLog=] app]].

** Averted in the second arc.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Part 4, while having dark moments, was fairly jovial for the most part with the capers being pretty light hearted. The first arc (Marco Polo) though, there's a surprisingly sober and more down to Earth tone to this one. Marco Polo is taken very seriously and Zenigata is oddly more calm and collected here then his more bumbling yet driven self to capture Lupin. Almost along the lines of his ''Woman Named Fujiko Mine'' incarnation. The second arc, involving the black book is also this.

** Episode 23 also has a cameo from Detective Melon, a character (or possibly [[MuggedForDisguise Fujiko impersonating her]]) who was heavily featured in a self-titled ''Red Jacket'' episode.

Creator/{{Toonami}} will debut the English dub on June 15th, 2019.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Lupin keeps pronouncing Ami's name with a shorter "i" sound than she herself does, and she keeps correcting him. [[{{Woolseyism}} The English subtitles]] have him say "Amy", while she corrects it to "Ami".

Creator/((Toonami)) will debut the English dub on June 15th, 2019.