Trivia / Lupin III: The Italian Adventure

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• B-Team Sequel: The Italian Adventure was the first Lupin III series to be animated at Telecom Animation Film instead of TMS Entertainment.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: Richard Epcar considers "With a Gun in My Hand", "The Magician's Left Hand", "Venice of the Dead", and "The Zapping Operation", to be his favorite episodes of the season.
• Directed by Cast Member: Besides reprising his role as Daisuke Jigen in the English dub, Richard Epcar served as an ADR director alongside his wife (and fellow castmate) Ellyn Stern.
• Executive Meddling: This is the reason the dub is based on the Italian version rather than the Japanese version (which, among other things, fixed some Off-Model animation): TMS made them do it that way.
• Fake Brit: Justin Person/Agent Nyx is voiced by Shunsuke Sakuya in Japanese and by Michael McConnohie in English.
• Fake Nationality:
  • In the Japanese version, the featured Italian characters are played by Yukiyo Fujii as Rebecca Rossellini, Jin Yamanoi as Robson Zuccoli, and Kazuhiko Inoue as Leonardo da Vinci.
  • The English version includes Cassandra Lee Morris as Rebecca Rossellini, Neil Kaplan as Robson Zuccoli and Jamieson Price as Leonardo da Vinci.
• The Original Darrin: After being replaced by Sonny Strait, Christopher Sabat and Mike McFarland for The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, Tony Oliver, Richard Epcar and Lex Lang return to voice Lupin, Jigen and Goemon for this series.
• The Other Darrin: Everyone from Geneon's Red Jacket dub returned except for Dan Lorge (Zenigata), who retired from voice acting. Doug Erholtz took over the role.
• Short Run in Peru: The series premiered in San Marino on August 29, 2015, with the Italian premiere occurring a day later. The Japanese version premiered on October 2.
• Studio Hop: All of the previous Lupin III entries were animated by TMS Entertainment. For The Italian Adventure, TMS's subsidiary, Telecom Animation Film, handled the animation.

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