History Anime / LupinIIIPart6

* MundaneSolution: The L System can detect Lupin and his gang instantly regardless of disguises. Lupin's solution? He made a fake event that invites cosplayers to dress up as them to win a prize. Even though the supercomputer can detect their movements, it still needs people to apprehend them. This causes massive confusion on the guards as they can't pinpoint exactly where Lupin's gang was.

** The difference between Lupin and Mercedes in their methods of thievery amount to what works in the long run. Lupin relies on stealth and trickery, meaning that while he does make off with lots of valuable items, he isn't considered a threat to national security in any country he's visiting. Mercedes and her gang terrorize their victims with firepower, making them armed robbers as opposed to mere thieves. Lupin won't be chased around for terrorism, but if Mercedes had continued past episode 14, she would have found herself at the receiving end of some nation's military might.
** The "L System", a supercomputer that can detect Lupin and his comrades regardless of their disguises instantly still has a FatalFlaw: It needs electricity to run. The gang just needs to simultaneously to shut off all the power sources but it's easier said than done.

** Episode 12 turns our whole situation on its head in multiple ways. [[spoiler:The MI-6 agent who was spying on Lupin and Holmes is thought to be Watson's killer, but as it were, he didn't kill Watson, and was just a greedy would-be Raven member. Holmes and Lupin get into a nasty fight, and it looks like Holmes got shot. But the fight itself was staged (probably with a magazine of rubber bullets in Lupin's gun) to get Lestrade exposed as the guy who killed Watson. The dead giveaway for this was deduction the fact that Lestrade recognized Lily's scarf from ten years ago in the previous episode. Lestrade was supposedly elsewhere when the shooting happened. So, great, Lestrade was the bad guy the whole time. Oh, by the way, he was a fringe member of Raven. And Raven is ineffective as an organization owing to its decentralization. And our treasure turned out to be a set of bomb threats that was used to blackmail the British government. The bombs used for the threats have mostly become inert due to old age.]]

** The diner waitress in Episode 4 tells Lupin and Jigen that they can't order anything more complicated than a sandwich, and when the sandwiches do arrive, they're absolutely terrible. [[spoiler: It turns out this is because the "waitress" was Fujiko in disguise the entire time. Fujiko had the ''real'' waitress and cook BoundAndGagged in the kitchen, leaving her to fill in for both of them despite her [[LethalChef subpar cooking skills]].]]

* OnceMoreWithClarity: Episode 7 goes into what really happened the night Watson died. [[spoiler:In previous episodes the audience was led to assume Lupin killed him, but this episode reveals that he died in a struggle with one of the Raven's executioners. Lupin happened to be there chasing after one of the leads and witnessed the whole thing, going to check on Watson afterwards. Lily, whom Watson was driving to a hospital when he saw the executioner, followed after Watson and had the misfortune of seeing Lupin standing over her father's body and assumed he was the killer before fainting from her illness.]]

** Jigen's Smith & Wesson Model 19 Revolver might be powerful enough for [[OneHitKill instakilling foes]], but over the years, wear and tear combined with the high-pressure .357 Magnum cartridges fired from it is causing cracks in the gun's frame. Replacement parts aren't in good supply, so Jigen was forced to use .38 Special rounds, but this bit him back when an assassin who wants him dead managed to survive because of the weaker ammo being unable to penetrate a Kevlar vest. In the end, the gun exploded after firing one last Magnum shot. Luckily, Jigen's dealer was able to find a gunsmith capable of reforging the revolver.
** [[spoiler: The Raven gets hit with this two-fold. While having a treasure may allow the Raven to have financial influence over Britain, it doesn't make sense for one treasure alone to allow them to exert so much influence and fear. Which is why the actual "Treasure" is threatening to blow up key places in London with unexploded [=WW2=] ordinance make more sense and why the British government would be embarrassed if anyone found out. Of course, said threat is useless if no one is around to maintain bombs whose fuses will decay over time. Also, having a decentralized and loosely affiliated group of people may allow them to cut off others who risk the group, decades of doing so, not questioning decades-old orders, and most importantly making sure the rest of the group was still around meant the Raven effectively ceased to exist ''in the mid-90's'' without their lower ranked members knowing it.]]

** Episode 7 has Mrs. Hudson, of all people, [[spoiler:guarding Lily with a massive sniper rifle, which would be incredibly hard to get in the UK]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Lestrade verbally blasts Holmes for taking Lily to the place her father died and triggering her PTSD. [[spoiler:The reveal that Lestrade is actually the one who killed him puts this scene in a different light as it can be assumed that his anger stems from fear Lily will remember seeing him kill her father.]]

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: Everything involving Raven turns out to be false, leaving several people screwed over in the process. The "Treasure" is actually UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ordnance set to blow up key locations in London if the British government didn't meet the Raven's demands. However, most of the bombs have long since been rendered ineffective due to their fuses and casings deteriorating. As for Raven itself, the organization became decentralized and fragmented as time went on. While this made it hard to capture the entire group, it also meant no one actually talked to each other for important matter like whether or not ''the organization was even still operational'', leaving the few surviving members to carry out orders out of fear of being killed by higher ups that no longer exist.]]

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: Everything involvingRaven turns out to be false, leaving several people screwed over in the process. The "Treasure" is actually UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ordnance set to blow up key locations in London if the British government didn't meet the Raven's demands. However, most of the bombs have long since been rendered ineffective due to their fuses and casings deteriorating. As for Raven itself, the organization became decentralized and fragmented as time went on. While this made it hard to capture the entire group, it also meant no one actually talked to each other for important matter like whether or not ''the organization was even still operational'', leaving the few surviving members to carry out orders out of fear of being killed by higher ups that no longer exist.]]

** Jigen's [[CoolGuns Smith & Wesson Model 19 Revolver]] might be powerful enough for [[OneHitKill instakilling foes]], but over the years, wear and tear combined with the high-pressure .357 Magnum cartridges fired from it is causing cracks in the gun's frame. Replacement parts aren't in good supply, so Jigen was forced to use .38 Special rounds, but this bit him back when an assassin who wants him dead managed to survive because of the weaker ammo being unable to penetrate a Kevlar vest. In the end, the gun exploded after firing one last Magnum shot. Luckily, Jigen's dealer was able to find a gunsmith capable of reforging the revolver.

* MundaneSolution: The L System can detect Lupin and his gang instantly regardless of disguises. Lupin's solution? He made a fake event that invites cosplayers to dress up as them to win a prize. Even though the supercomputer can detect their movements, it still needs people to apprehend them. This causes massive confusion on the guards as they can't pinpoint exactly where exactly Lupin's gang was.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: [[spoiler:Holmes figures out that Lestrade was the man Lily saw kill her father that night when Lestrade offhandedly mentions the color of the muffler Lily was wearing the night of the murder. Holmes had taken the muffler off of Lily when Lestrade, who was supposed to have been elsewhere, arrived on the scene later. The only way Lestrade could have known that detail is if he had seen Lily earlier that night despite that initially believed to have not been the case.]]

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: Everything involving The Raven turns out to be false, screwing several people in the process. The Treasure? It wasn't treasure but a threat, using rearmed UsefulNotes/WorldWarII airdropped ordnance set to blow up key places in London if the British government didn't meet the group's demands. Most of the bombs are long past being an effective threat owing to their fuses and casings deteriorating. The organization? It became decentralized and fragmented as time went on. While this made it hard to get the entire group, it also meant no one actually talked to each other for important things like ''the organization still being a thing'', making the few surviving members carry out orders out of fear of being killed by higher ups that no longer exist.]]

** In Episode 12, we finally meet Moriarity, who is a young-looking man with unkempt blonde hair, including PeekABangs. He's apparently an old acquaintance of Lupin.

* LegacyCharacter: Sherlock Holmes is basically a title of sort given to the best detective in the world. Though how the mantle is passed on is yet to be revealed.

* MythologyGag: Several of the pictures seen in [[spoiler:Linfeng]]'s secret Lupin shrine in Episode 17 are taken directly from ''Anime/LupinIIIPartI'''s intro sequence.

** Episode 12 ends with Fujiko on a motorcycle passing by Lupin's car while showing off a consolation treasure, just like the end of ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro''.

''Lupin the Third Part 6'' is the, well, sixth numbered entry in the ''Franchise/{{Lupin|III}}'' franchise (The seventh series overall counting ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine The Woman Called Fujiko Mine]]''). Naturally, Creator/TMSEntertainment still provides the animation. So far, it has two overarching arcs.

''Witch and Gentleman'' (Episodes 13-24): When Fujiko shows Lupin an auction listing of rare relics from all over the world, Lupin reacts to one in particular: An unknown red diamond that used to belong in his grandfather's tightly secured mansion that has only been successfully robbed once. Determined to retrieve it, he goes to the auction only for it to be robbed by another group of armed women who all look the same. What is the connection to this woman, and the woman who was the only one successful enough to rob from the first Lupin.

Like its previous series, the dub of Part 6 aired on Creator/{{Toonami}} in 2022 shortly after the end of the sub's original broadcast.