*PART 3 REVIEW* - *7/10* *(Subbed)*

Compared to the 2 month period that took me to watch Lupin: Part II, which took me about 2 months, it only really took 9 days to watch all 50 episodes of this show, which compared the length of Part II, is a breath of fresh air because I didn't feel like it was getting tedious. Note, this is the only mainline Lupin show is not have a dub made in any capacity which, yeah, it is kinda ironic that the a show that uses western culture so much *never* actually received an official English localization. I'd love to see the Tony Oliver cast eventually dub this, but watching the sub wasn't too bad.

I was fully going into this show expecting it just to be okay because I felt that it wouldn't be saying much in the franchise compared to Part I and Part II, and while that is true an *extent*, but *man* it surprised me by actually being good. I don't think it's as dramatically driven as Part I or as funny and unpredictable as Part II, but what it does is very good. I heard this was considered the black sheep of the Lupin shows and I didn't that *at first*, but the more I watch through the show, I think it's because it doesn't have that much of a personality. Part I and Part II have personality, but this show is kinda... more of the same and I don't want to bash the too hard because a lot of the individual episode are good, but the question "what separates it from the rest of the pack?" Well, the best I could come up with is towards the later half of the show, they phased out the breasts shots entirely and now uses really wacky, slapstick animation which is actually now one of my favorite Lupin styles now. Some episodes can get really goofy which I like those episodes. Overall the quality is somewhat consistent throughout, which are mostly in that 7/10 area, but there's just not a lot of *great* episodes. The only episodes I would give that 8/10 too are Episodes 6, 30, and 37. 'cause those episodes say "Hey, let's actually try to tell a really compelling story with these characters while also being very enjoyable". What I noticed is that there aren't a lot of specific character driven episodes. Like there's a few Jigen episodes and tiny bit of Goemon episodes, but there aren't as many as Lupin: Part II. There's not a lot to talk about with the characters because their mostly just the same as Part II, except the slight design changes. The early episodes have this more "realistic humanoid" style which I'm not too big on, and of course the aforementioned wacky, silly style that I actually am a fan of. The only character designs that are worth talking about are Jigen's and Zenigata's. Jigen in the "realistic humanoid" style I don't really like. They take away the fact that his hat goes over eyes which really takes away from his defining design feature which actually tells you what kind of character he is, but they give him the hat droop back in the "wacky, goofy, silly" style. I actually really like Zenigata's design in this show, which only really rivals Mystery of Mamo's design of him, but I don't really have much too say about that.

I mean... yeah, I don't have that much to say about it overall because it's not story driven, it's episodic. It's surprising good for what it is, but it obviously is the weakest out of the original three shows