The BEST episodes of Lupin III

Every episode of Lupin III ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Lupin III!

Probably the most light-hearted and crazy series of all those dedicated to the gentleman thief.

Last Updated: 11/10/2024Network: Nippon TVStatus: Ended
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13.00
2 votes

#1 - World Dissection (Part 2)

Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 11/30/2015

Rebecca's personality is under Da Vinci's control. In an effort to save her, Lupin delves in to her mind, where he struggles with all kinds of traps set by Da Vinci. He manages to encounter Rebecca's captured personality, but her vitality is gone, and Da Vinci has overwritten all her memories. She even forgets about Lupin...

Directors: Yuichiro Yano
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Viva Lupin the Third
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9.39
18 votes

#2 - Viva Lupin the Third

Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/19/2018

Lupin III has vanished from the internet. Meanwhile, the man himself is updating Peoplelog with confidential information that begins to throw the world into chaos. The international community is forced into armed intervention in order to shut down Peoplelog and the Shake Hands company. As Orig Island turns into a battlefield, Lupin finally appears! What is his ultimate plan for dealing with Peoplelog?

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Just Then, an Old Buddy Said Something
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9.37
16 votes

#3 - Just Then, an Old Buddy Said Something

Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/12/2018

"Papa! Save Lupin!" Ami is reunited with her long last father. But Enzo is already obsessed with using Peoplelog to save the world. Six months after their capture, Lupin and Goemon are being moved in an ICPO convoy, when a single classic car blocks traffic. The man who drove it leans back, smoking a cigarette...

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The Madam and the Robber's Quartet
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9.29
7 votes

#4 - The Madam and the Robber's Quartet

Season 2 - Episode 92 - Aired 7/16/1979

Learning that the entire possessions of Piccolo, a man who taught Lupin about thievery when he was a young punk, have all been impounded by the police, Lupin and company go to see what they can do. Madame, his widow, knows nothing of her husband's true profession, believing him to be a musician, which means one big headache. The foursome are stuck with raiding the Liverpool Police Department while deceiving Madame with musical instruments at the same time.

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Lupin's Toughest Fight Ever
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9.13
8 votes

#5 - Lupin's Toughest Fight Ever

Season 2 - Episode 109 - Aired 11/12/1979

Once again, Lupin's life is the object of a wager. If he wins, Fujiko will get a 5000-carat raw diamond. Lupin's opponent, chosen by Almighty, with whom Fujiko has her bet, is the high-speed killer, Tiger. He's enough of a marksman to hit Lupin in the forehead with a ketchup bullet. The showdown has begun, but is there some sort of trick to Tiger's ability to appear and disappear without warning? The showdown comes to a climax in the amusement park's house of mirrors.

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Answer Me, Zantetsuken
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9.00
14 votes

#6 - Answer Me, Zantetsuken

Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/5/2018

Fujiko has been captured. She's being held at Orig Island, the headquarters of Shake Hands. Lupin and the gang, including Ami, head there to find her. The hacker's attack sends Shake Hands into chaos, allowing the group to reach their destination. As the rescue plan unfolds, something Goemon sees in Peoplelog's data collection on Lupin shakes him.

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The Wolf Saw an Angel
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8.88
8 votes

#7 - The Wolf Saw an Angel

Season 2 - Episode 103 - Aired 10/1/1979

The LA National Bank is hit with a rash of robberies, their objective being the World's Jewelry Fair exhibits being stored there. Lupin, of course, is also carrying out his own plan, an underground attack which is a smashing success. At the moment when he has acquired the valuable jewelry, Vietnam veteran Harry Satler strikes with heavy artillery. He needs money for the treatments his daughter's eyes require. The blind daughter, Mary, meets an angel in the badlands...!

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Versailles, Burning with Love
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8.87
8 votes

#8 - Versailles, Burning with Love

Season 2 - Episode 101 - Aired 9/17/1979

The Black Lilly Party, obsessed with restoring the aristocracy, tries to get Lupin to find the phantom Crown of Marie Antoinette. On a hint from Oscar, the young, very attractive leader of the Black Lilly's Stormtroopers, Lupin removes the crown from a hidden compartment in a mirror at the palace of Versailles, but, breaking the promise of a 50/50 split, Oscar takes the crown and turns fugitive. What is Oscar's true identity?

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Her Relationship With Lupin
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8.83
18 votes

#9 - Her Relationship With Lupin

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/18/2018

Lupin is pierced by Dolma's arrow. Ami and Fujiko take Lupin and escape, hiding in a deserted building. The three of them decide to flee, with Lupin badly injured. Seeing Fujiko risk her life to save Lupin, Ami isn't sure what to think about her. Meanwhile, martial law is declared in Padar, with civil war on the brink of erupting.

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Lupin, Whom I Loved (Part 1)
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8.83
12 votes

#10 - Lupin, Whom I Loved (Part 1)

Season 2 - Episode 50 - Aired 9/18/1978

Tonight another secret auction of smuggled artworks is beginning. Naturally, just as Lupin is taking possession of same, Fujiko comes along yet again and snatches them away. But Fujiko goes missing soon after. The pursuing woman takes off her mask, revealing to Lupin a woman he had loved in younger days, a woman, who lost her life saving Lupin's - Cornelia?!

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Lupin, Whom I Loved (Part 2)
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8.82
11 votes

#11 - Lupin, Whom I Loved (Part 2)

Season 2 - Episode 51 - Aired 9/25/1978

Having met Lupin again, Cornelia does not remember him, and complains of headaches. The secret is her father, Doctor Zell, one of the last remaining Nazis. During World War II, he conducted secret experiments, the Corpse Preservation Project, and has been continuing them ever since. He has even sacrificed Cornelia, who chose Lupin over himself, to the Project. An army of the dead rises from the cemetery. Memories of love cause Cornelia confusion. "Remember, Cornelia!"

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Thief and Thief
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8.77
22 votes

#12 - Thief and Thief

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/6/2018

As Albert decides that "France is my prey," Lupin confronts him. After interrogating Guillaume, they learn the shocking truth about Jose's terrifying plot. Lupin heads to Jose's headquarters with Albert, his old thieving comrade. Jigen and Goemon fight off the heaviest opposition while Lupin and Albert head into the heart of enemy territory.

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8.75
32 votes

#13 - The End of Lupin the Third

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/28/2015

Zenigata foils Lupin's increasingly elaborate attempts at escaping custody. Zenigata's zeal results in his decision to dedicate himself to taking sole responsibility for guarding Lupin in a specially constructed cell.

Directors: Yuichiro Yano
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Albatross, The Wings of Death
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8.75
12 votes

#14 - Albatross, The Wings of Death

Season 2 - Episode 145 - Aired 7/28/1980

Just when Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon wonder what she's called them for, Fujiko shows up, kicks their sukiyaki, has a firefight, and leaves them a present: the detonator plug to a pint-sized A-bomb. An aircraft museum which is restoring old aircraft is merely a cover: in fact, it's a flying merchant of death, with an A-bomb manufacturing plant housed in its wings. The head man, Lonebach, tries to seduce Fujiko by telling her that he will make her his first wife. Will Lupin let him get away with it?

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The Lupin Game
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8.64
22 votes

#15 - The Lupin Game

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/11/2018

"Hunt down the greatest thief of our times, Lupin III!" The Marco Polo executives have set a trap in the form of the Lupin Game. This has people all over the world tracking down Lupin. At the airport, not only are the police looking for him, but regular people are too, leaving him with few options for escape. He tries to steal a plane, but Zenigata plans ahead... will Lupin be able to escape the Lupin Game?

Directors: Yuichiro Yano
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Female Detective Melon
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8.55
11 votes

#16 - Female Detective Melon

Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/17/1978

In response to a notice from Lupin stating that he will take the money from every bank in Paris, Melon, a femal detective and the granddaughter of Inspector Garimard, rival of the original Arsène Lupin, is selected to replace Zenigata. The sea of bills gathered and stored in the underground police morgue is guarded by a special lock, whose switch is in the Superintendent-General's office. Melon's cold beauty shines in the Metro!

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Lupin Laughs While the Alarm Bell Rings
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8.55
11 votes

#17 - Lupin Laughs While the Alarm Bell Rings

Season 2 - Episode 48 - Aired 9/4/1978

Even though he announces that he will take the till from the Kentucky Derby, Lupin's first strike, on the transport car, fails. A despondent Lupin jumps straight into the Hudson River... but it's all part of his scenario. The main act is a supposedly perfect, supposedly foolproof cracking of the Metropolitan Bank's vault. How will Lupin penetrate an alarm system that sounds loud bells at the weight of even a handkerchief?

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Farewell, O Dearest Lupin
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8.50
8 votes

#18 - Farewell, O Dearest Lupin

Season 2 - Episode 155 - Aired 10/6/1980

An armored robot flying through the skies of 1981 Tokyo raids a jewelry store, demonstrating truly amazing capabilities, and disappearing no one knows where. Lupin's announcement is, what's strange about me using a robot like this? The operator, Oyamada Maki, is cooperating in order to show what a dangerous weapon this robot is, but the truth is, the whole thing is a conspiracy. Thieves love peace!

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Zenigata's Pride and the Desert Dust
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8.48
21 votes

#19 - Zenigata's Pride and the Desert Dust

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/25/2018

Fujiko smiles deviously as she points her gun at Lupin, when Zenigata arrives to save him and Ami. They get into the inspector's car which takes off, but it's soon attacked by soldiers who are trying to cash in the price on Lupin's head. Abandoning the car, they have to cross the desert on foot, a difficult task made harder by the presence of Zenigata!

Directors: Yuichiro Yano
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The Bow, the Princess, and the Terrorist
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8.47
15 votes

#20 - The Bow, the Princess, and the Terrorist

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/4/2018

The boarding school, Annecy School for Girls. Having enrolled there, Ami encounters a strange girl in the garden who aims her bow at a crow. The girl is Dolma, the princess of the Kingdom of Padar. Having no friends, Ami finds herself opening up to the odd Dolma. Meanwhile, Lupin sets his sights on the princess' necklace, "The Bloody Teardrop." Fujiko sneaks into the school as a teacher to get close to Dolma, as well. But then the school is suddenly taken over by a heavily armed group...

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The Imperial City Dreams of Thieves, Part 1
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8.46
13 votes

#21 - The Imperial City Dreams of Thieves, Part 1

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/14/2021

"What's going on with this!?" For some reason, Lupin landed in Tokyo, the imperial capital of the early Shōwa era. There, Lupin is chased by Namikoshi, a police officer who looks like Zenigata and saved by the Black Lizard, a female thief who looks like Fujiko. They all called Lupin a "golden mask"... In a phantom world, what Lupin is supposed to steal?!!

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A Rose and a Pistol
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8.45
11 votes

#22 - A Rose and a Pistol

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/3/1978

Spanish roses are crimson. Zenigata, equipped to the teeth, heads to Spain for an arrest that can't fail, but a trap awaits Lupin and Jigen in Barcelona. Meyer, beaten any number of times, chooses as his trick the clever device of making them appear to be enemies in disguise to one another, and thus have them kill one another. Surrounding them is the stealthy shadow of a woman. Lupin and Jigen aim precisely at one another's hearts, and bullets fly out of the muzzles of their guns...?!

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Falling Cherry Blossoms - The Mysterious Gang of Five (Part Two))
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8.42
12 votes

#23 - Falling Cherry Blossoms - The Mysterious Gang of Five (Part Two))

Season 2 - Episode 56 - Aired 10/30/1978

Goemon challenges Lupin to a one-on-one duel, in order that they may at last fight their decisive battle. Lupin is caught on the point of his sword. Taking advantage of this opening, the Five take the 36 Views, but one of their members, Benten Kikuko, escapes, telling Goemon she wants to show the Views to her gravely ill father. When Goemon discovers that he's been deceived, he bares his neck to Lupin. Where are the 36 Views? If groups of five are the rule, then who's the lead for our side?!

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The Detective and the Crook
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8.41
17 votes

#24 - The Detective and the Crook

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/24/2021

Lily faints after seeing Lupin, while he and Fujiko escape Zenigata. Holmes vows to catch Lupin and tells Lestrade how Lupin was involved in the death of his partner, John H. Watson, 10 years earlier.

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How to Steal A Kingdom
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8.40
15 votes

#25 - How to Steal A Kingdom

Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/11/2018

"Princess Dolma, please save Padar." With that request, Dolma is taken home. Lupin follows shortly, and Ami decides to accompany Fujiko to Padar in order to save Dolma. The country is split between the traditionalists led by the grandmaster and the reformists, led by the king. But when Lupin learns about a planned coup d'etat by the traditionalists, what will Lupin do?

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