Trivia / Lupin III: Part 6

• Channel Hop: In the US, Discotek Media were the distributors of Parts IV and V, as well as releases of Parts I-III and all the various movies and specials after Geneon's collapse. However, Sentai Filmworks obtained the rights to this series instead, though the dub cast remains the same as TMS Entertainment USA contined to produce the dub.
• Market-Based Title: The series is known in Italy as Lupin III - Una storia senza fine ("An endless story").
• The Other Darrin:
  • Kiyoshi Kobayashi retired from the role of Jigen after 52 years of playing the character. Akio Ōtsuka has taken over the role starting with the first episode of this series.
  • Due to the Latin American Spanish dub being recorded in Argentina instead of Mexico, everyone was inevitably recast.
  • The Italian dub is done entirely in Milan instead of Rome (or a Rome/Milan teamup, as it happened in The Woman called Fujiko Mine), and as such everyone except for Jigen is recast.
• Refitted for Sequel: In a way that also works as a Recycled Script, Mamoru Oshii (yes, THAT Oshii) provided the story for episode 10 involving Lupin and Fujiko stealing what they assumed to be a fossil of an archaeopteryx. This was previously one of his suggested story ideas for what would become Legend of the Gold of Babylon, where Lupin would have been tasked with stealing the fossil of an angel from within a rebuilt Tower of Babel in the heart of Tokyo, itself repurposed in both his own Angel's Egg and Patlabor: The Movie.
• Role Reprise:
  • Sadly, Episode 0 was the final time that Kiyoshi Kobayashi would voice Daisuke Jigen.
  • Dub-related; Dorothy Elias-Fahn reprises her role as Fujiko from The Castle of Cagliostro in Episode 4, while she is disguised as the waitress.
  • Again dub related, but in Italian: Luigi Rosa becomes here Lupin's official voice after having briefly voiced him in the second dub of The Castle of Cagliostro.
• You Sound Familiar: Akio Ōtsuka (Jigen) previously played inconsequential roles in the Lupin III series, such as Andy in the Alcatraz Connection TV special and Chris in Farewell to Nostradamus.

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