For the 2013 movie, see Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie.
Lupin III vs. Detective Conan (ルパン三世VS名探偵コナン Rupan Sansei Vāsasu Meitantei Konan) is a crossover television special between the Lupin III and Detective Conan franchise. It was broadcast on Nippon TV on March 27, 2009. It is the only Lupin TV Special not to be numbered.
Plot[]
Queen Sakura, sovereign of the European absolute kingdom of Vespania, in Turkey, is killed while out hunting. All indications suggest that she was accidentally shot by her son, Prince Gill, who immediately commits suicide, overcome by guilt. The title of heir to the throne of Vespania passes to Princess Mira, a girl who rejects the throne because she thinks that she's not the rightful heir. The coronation ceremony is threatened by a growing popular movement that believes Princess Mira is unfit to govern. Count Keith, the royal family's manager, makes Jigen, former trainer of the regular army, a personal guard of the princess.
Simultaneously, Lupin reaches Vespania: he and Jigen plan to get their hands on the crown for the Queens of the Realm.
To increase the princess' popularity, a trip around Japan is organized. A festival is held at the Sakurasaku Hotel. Kogoro Mouri and Conan Edogawa attend. At the party, Conan exposes an attempt to poison the princess. The princess wants nothing more than to escape from her condition, so in the confusion that follows, she sneaks away. Conan notices this, and follows her.
She meets Ran Mouri, who is returning from evening classes. She notes a resemblance in their appearance, and decides to trade places with her. Ran, dressed as the princess, goes back to the hotel and explains what happened. Count Keith, to avoid a diplomatic incident with Japan, forces Ran to continue to play the role of Mira.
The princess has now been collected by Fujiko, who knows her identity and offers to take her around Japan. Conan tracks the princess and chases the pair on his skateboard. Fujiko loses him and disappears. Meanwhile, hidden beneath the kingdom is a mineral that thanks to its "complete stealth powers" may be totally invisible to radar. Using dowsing rods, Lupin has located the mineral.
Count Keith breaks his promise to return Ran after a press conference at the airport, and brings her to Vespania. Conan, who noticed what Count Keith was doing, boards the plane, and is saved from hypothermia by Count Keith.
The princess Mira has since been reported to be back in Vespania. Lupin learns how the princess's character was transformed into a cynical and selfish one due to her unhappiness with her status as princess and her grief due to the death of her mother and brother. It turns out that Fujiko was hired by Count Keith to remove the princess from court life to make her feel, at least for a while, the typical teenage experience. After meeting with Ran and Kogoro, Conan begins to investigate the murder of the Queen, with the involuntary help of Jigen. Lupin, helped by Goemon, has entered the vault of the building, and finds out that the crown has been stolen by Fujiko. He is forced to give up and flee the building when it is surrounded by police after an alarm sounds.
Mira, after visiting the place where her brother and mother died, decides to assume her duties as future queen, and agrees to return to the palace. Conan tries to put Kogoro to sleep with a tranquilizer needle, but fails to hit Kogoro (who is actually Lupin in disguise), and hits Zenigata instead. Zenigata quickly wakes up after a few seconds. Lupin reveals his secret identity to Conan, and helps resolve the case by pretending to be the true Sleeping Kogoro. Together they reveal the truth: the murder of the queen is the work of the Prime Minister of Vespania. The Prime Minister had also killed the prince, making the case seem to be a murder-suicide. His plan was to ascend to the throne himself, and to get rich selling the ore the Queen had forbidden to sell due to its potential to be used in war, and her love for nature, which would have been destroyed if excessive mining had taken place.
Thanks to Conan and Lupin, the culprit was caught, and Princess Mira becomes the new queen of Vespania. Ran and Kogoro are welcomed as saviors of the kingdom, and Zenigata yearns for yet another fight with Lupin. The final scene shows Conan being taken in a car by the Japanese. The people in the car are actually Lupin and his gang, who have decided to help Conan return to Japan due to Conan's lack of a passport. Lupin explains that he returned to honor a promise he made to Queen Sakura. He knows the true identity of the young detective, calling Conan Shinichi Kudou, while Conan promises them that if one day they cross paths again, he will definitely arrest them all.
Cast[]
- Japanese
| Characters | Voice Actors |
|---|---|
| Lupin III | Kanichi Kurita |
| Daisuke Jigen | Kiyoshi Kobayashi |
| Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Makio Inoue |
| Fujiko Mine | Eiko Masuyama |
| Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Goro Naya |
| Conan Edogawa | Minami Takayama |
| Ran Mouri | Wakana Yamazaki |
| Kogoro Mouri | Akira Kamiya |
| Sonoko Suzuki | Naoko Matsui |
| Ai Haibara | Megumi Hayashibara |
| Inspector Juzo Megure | Chafūrin |
| Wataru Takagi | Wataru Takagi |
| Shinichi Kudo | Kappei Yamaguchi |
| Mira Julietta Vespaland | Yui Horie |
| Keith Dan Stinger | Hiraku Midorikawa |
| Sakura Aludia Vespaland | Hiroko Suzuki |
| Gill Cowell Vespaland | Jun Fukuyama |
| Gerard Musca Vespaland | Yusaku Yara |
| Kyle Vespaland | Taiten Kusunoki |
Additional voices:
- Shinpachi Tsuji as Sommelier
- Tohru Furusawa as Fake Sommelier
- Shizuka Arai as Maid 1
- Yukari Honma as Maid 2
- Chieko Honda as Clerk
- Eiji Yangisawa as SP 1
- Hideto Ebihara as SP 2
- Takuo Kawamura as SP 3
- Yasuhiko Kawazu as SP 4
- Mari Kishi as News Announcer
- Shinichiro Ota as Announcer
Italian[]
- Stefano Onofri as Lupin III
- Alessandra Korompay as Fujiko Mine
- Rodolfo Bianchi as Inspector Zenigata
English[]
For a while, this dub was unavailable in English-speaking countries. J-LOD, who was responsible for handling the dub, was connected to the Japanese government and involved with exporting Japanese content overseas as listed the English dub as complete. According to J-LOD, the dub was completed in 2020 and was made to gather an interest to both series in South Africa.[1] This dub was made available on home media by Discotek.
| Characters | Voice Actors |
|---|---|
| Lupin III | Tony Oliver |
| Daisuke Jigen | Richard Epcar |
| Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Lex Lang |
| Fujiko Mine | Michelle Ruff |
| Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Doug Erholtz |
| Conan Edogawa | Wendee Lee |
| Ran Mouri | Cristina Vee |
| Kogoro Mouri | Xander Mobus |
| Sonoko Suzuki | Minx Lee |
| Ai Haibara | Erica Mendez |
| Inspector Juzo Megure | Jake Eberle |
| Wataru Takagi | Christopher Bevins |
| Shinichi Kudo | Griffin Burns |
| Mira Julietta Vespaland | Cristina Vee |
| Keith Dan Stinger | Daman Mills |
| Sakura Aludia Vespaland | Tricia Gilfone |
| Gill Cowell Vespaland | Brian Timothy Anderson |
| Gerard Musca Vespaland | John Estanislau |
| Kyle Vespaland | YongYea |
Additional voices:
- Suzie Yeung as Attendant A
- Xanthe Hyunh as Attendant B
- Khoi Dao as MC
- Jalen K. Cassell as Guard
- Brent Mukai as Baseball Annnouncer
- Matthew Greenbaum as Commentator
Manga adaptation and film sequel[]
A manga adaptation of the special was published in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday in October 2013. A theatrical film sequel titled Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie was released in Japanese cinemas on December 7, 2013.
Gallery[]
Releases[]
Japan[]
- DVD July 24, 2009 (VPBY-13355, VAP)
- Blu-ray July 24, 2009 (VPXY-71003, VAP)
USA[]
- DVD October 27, 2015 Lupin the Third VS Detective Conan: The Special (Discotek, Japanese with English subtitles)
- Blu-ray August 2022 (Discotek Media) [English Dub, Japanese with English subtitles]
Hong Kong[]
- Video CD 14th August 2014 (Neofilms / Deltamac, Japanese and Cantonese with Traditional Chinese subtitles)
- DVD 14th August 2014 (Neofilms / Deltamac, Japanese and Cantonese with Traditional Chinese subtitles)
Notes[]
- The production committee for the TV Special is TMS Entertainment and Nippon Television (and its affiliate Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation) however Shogakukan are also involved due to publishing the Detective Conan manga.
- The TV Special and crossover was made to celebrate the 55th anniversary of NTV and the 50th anniversary of YTV. It was also the 40th anniversary of the Lupin the Third: Pilot Film.
- Since the TV Special was originally broadcast for 104 minutes, later TV airings from 2013 had cut this down to the standard 90 minutes TV Special time slot. It was unknown what was cut.
- Monkey Punch has not read the script and was not involved with the TV Special outside of publicity however Detective Conan mangaka Gosho Aoyama had read the script and made adjustments making a personal statement that "Lupin was not like this (laughs)" since he grew up with Lupin the 3rd Part 1. He was also involved with the scene between Jigen and Conan.[2]
- In Japanese this was nicknamed to "ルパコナ" (rupakona, LupiCona).
- Currently this is the last Lupin animation where Oh! Production were involved who had been doing outsourced animation since Part 1 Episode 2.
- According to Japanese Wikipedia, it claims that the TV Special was animated in HD however when it was aired on Italia 2 in Italy, it was an upscale like the Blu-ray releases between Alcatraz Connection to The Last Job. It is unknown whether it was in HD or upscaled to HD.
- This TV special is one of three TV specials that have articles on Wikipedia, the others being Bye-Bye Liberty - Close Call! and Episode 0: First Contact.
- A number of musical cues in this special are lifted directly from Tokyo Crisis, most notably in the opening sequence just before Queen Sakura's death.
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References[]
- ↑ https://j-lodr1.jp/j-lod2020-case/%e3%83%86%e3%83%ac%e3%83%93%e3%82%b9%e3%83%9a%e3%82%b7%e3%83%a3%e3%83%ab%e3%81%8a%e3%82%88%e3%81%b3%e5%8a%87%e5%a0%b4%e7%89%88%e3%80%8c%e3%83%ab%e3%83%91%e3%83%b3%e4%b8%89%e4%b8%96vs%e5%90%8d%e6%8e%a2/ J-LOD English dub listing of Lupin III vs Detective Conan the Movie (in Japanese).
- ↑ http://daredaredare.blog74.fc2.com/blog-entry-560.html Monkey Punch X Gosho Aoyama Original Author Dialogue - Special Feature on Lupin III VS Detective Conan VAP DVD