Versailles Burned with Love is the 101st episode of Lupin the 3rd Part 2.
Synopsis[]
The Black Lily Clique, obsessed with create a new French aristocracy without the monarchy, tries to get Lupin to find the phantom crown belonged to the famous Marie Antoinette. On a hint from Oscar, the young, very attractive leader of the Black Lilly's storm-troopers, Lupin removes the fabulous 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?
Long Summary[]
In nighttime Paris, France, Jigen and Lupin III are both inside a flying plane. Jigen is piloting the aircraft while Lupin, wearing a catsuit and a parachute, reads a letter given to him: information about the crown of Marie Antoinette, described as a "dreamlike, hidden treasure", has been obtained, and so Lupin is asked to meet the letter's author at September 10 at the Versailles. As soon as the plane is overhead the Versailles, Lupin jumps out of it and lands on the top by parachute.
Lupin enters the Versailles through a window, accidentally triggering the alarms touching the floor. He avoids getting caught by the palace guards and by Inspector Zenigata. Very soon after, he is greeted by a noblewoman who introduces herself as Oscar, the one who sent Lupin the letter. Lupin demands she tell him where Marie Antoinette's crown is hidden so he can steal it and share the treasure 50/50, but they get interrupted by incoming palace guards, forcing the two to engage in an impromptu swordfight to help Lupin escape. Oscar tells Lupin to wait at the shores of Normandy by noon the next day, before pushing him outside one of the palace windows so he can escape using the sewer system.
Following Oscar's instructions, Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon arrive at the shores of Normandy by the next day, where there is a stone statue. They express their confusion as to why Oscar would pick such a place to rendezvous. Reading the inscription, Lupin and Jigen discover that the statue is of a guard that became a statue because of "the curse of Marie Antoinette", who was put to death by guillotine during the revolution. Unbeknownst to the three of them, a horse chariot is nearby, with Oscar and a man inside (kept unnamed in the episode, but is named Jean) are watching them from afar. Jean instructs Oscar to take the crown from Lupin and bring it to the head office of the "Black Lily Clique", something Oscar is apparently a blue-blooded executive of. It is revealed by Jean that this secret society plans to revive the French aristocracy.
Just as Lupin and Jigen start to doubt Oscar's authenticity, the chariot arrives. Oscar stares at the statue before getting out of the chariot to apologize to Lupin for being late. She informs him that they only have two hours left and so she asks him to be her adjutant. While she is speaking, Lupin appears to be infatuated with her, something both Jigen and Goemon notice. As Lupin gets on the chariot and leaves with them, Jigen and Goemon are just left dumbfounded at Lupin's reaction to her, thinking Lupin was falling in love with a man, unaware Oscar was really a woman and not a man all along.
Oscar and Lupin, now dressed as a French aristocrat, arrive at the Versailles to obtain Marie Antoinette's crown. Inside, the both of them enter a room filled with 800 mirrors. Oscar gives Lupin a ruby ring that Marie Antoinette owned until she was guillotined, and says that it would lead to the mirror that hid her crown. She leaves Lupin as per his request, and Lupin is surprised at himself that he had allowed himself to fall in love with another male, also unaware Oscar was in actuality a woman. He accidentally drops the ruby ring, which fires a laser beam that bounces off the mirrors in the room and slowly gives away the mirror that concealed the crown.
Lupin and Oscar leave the Versailles, crown in hand. They talk about the crown's aura, which has magical powers because Marie Antoinette's deep-seated grudges is burned into that one, and out of nowhere, Oscar sprays Lupin, causing him to fall asleep. With Lupin taken out, Oscar steals the crown from him, but not before apologizing to him and saying it's the only way to carry out her eternal love. Oscar climbs out the chariot and makes the horses run the chariot off a nearby cliff, with Lupin inside. Lupin is suddenly awakened and tries to escape, but fails and ends up falling down the cliff below with the chariot. Jigen and Goemon notice the crash, as they happened to be fishing on a boat nearby, and so they fish Lupin out of the water.
Meanwhile, somewhere in a remote area with a plane, Oscar calls Jean, telling him she's leaving the Black Lily Clique as she's not interested in reviving the aristocracy. Jean gets angry at her and warns her she will be killed. Adamant, she hops into the plane and pulls out a piece of paper from her pilot's outfit. The piece of paper is a picture of the guard's statue from the shores of Normandy. A flashback scene plays, where Oscar, wearing a pink and red dress, is running towards a blonde man near a lake in autumn. After finally reuniting, they both kiss, which cuts back to present day Oscar kissing the picture, revealing that the guard statue is of her lover André. She takes off with the crown by her side, planning to go back to the statue by flying over the sea.
Going back to Lupin, he is left hanging on the boat's masts to dry, much to Lupin's annoyance. Jigen asks if he's calmed down yet and talks about Lupin's behaviors regarding Oscar, making him promise he'll get the crown back and he'll make Oscar pay. Lupin notices a plane flying off and spots Oscar in it, and has Jigen shoot off the ropes tying him and Goemon cut the mast off so he can glide upwards and use the ship's sail as a paraglider. He lands on top of Oscar's plane. Oscar keeps trying to shake Lupin off and begs him to let her borrow the crown for a while first, and Lupin tells her he's had enough of her tricks and also openly notes how she keeps on using feminine words, still unaware she was a woman. They stop fighting after Oscar and Lupin notice planes chasing after her, which Oscar explains are there to kill her and take the crown.
Lupin then takes hold of the plane's gun, accidentally bumping Oscar's boobs on chest with his elbow which makes her react, making them both look at each other awkwardly. Together they shoot each plane one by one. On the ground below, which just so happens to be Paris, Jean is spectating the whole dogfight with a pair of binoculars, and everyone else on the ground just watched at the fight above with shock. Lupin intentionally crashes the plane into Jean, who died, and reveals that he knew all along about his plan of reviving the aristocracy and calls it a bad joke.
Now back at the shores of Normandy that same night, Oscar places the crown on the statue of André and says she will be with him soon. Pressured by Jigen and Goemon, Lupin properly engages in a swordfight with Oscar. As she starts to get the upper hand, Goemon throws to Lupin his Zantetsuken, which Lupin uses to cut her sword and then her clothing, revealing her feminine body, which shocks Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon. Oscar acknowledges that Lupin owns the crown but begs to keep crown's stones as her final request, and Lupin, now aware she was a woman, happily obliges. She takes one of the stones and opens it, drinking the liquid inside it, and climbs up André's statue, revealing to Lupin that the liquid inside the stones was the secret potion of Marie Antoinette which could turn anyone into a stone, and was the same potion forced to André because of the queen's jealous rage. Fully committed to reuniting with André, her nudist body quickly turns into a stone, now a part of André's statue, of course doesn't feeling any shame for wear no clothing.
Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon were left astonished, but their shock gets cut short as Zenigata's police sirens, who had followed their traces from Paris, slowly become audible. The trio quickly leave, and Lupin bids farewell to Oscar, finally leaving behind the two lovers' statues shimmering in the moonlight, both hugged and kissed. A romantic and magical ending.
Cast[]
- Japanese
| Characters | Voice Actors |
|---|---|
| Lupin III | Yasuo Yamada |
| Daisuke Jigen | Kiyoshi Kobayashi |
| Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Makio Inoue |
| Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Gorō Naya |
| Oscar | Niki Terumi |
| Jean | Ryusuke Shiomi |
- Italian ("Folle Amore a Versailles")
| Characters | Voice Actors |
|---|---|
| Lupin III | Roberto Del Giudice |
| Daisuke Jigen | Sandro Pellegrini |
| Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Massimo Rossi |
| Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Marcello Prando |
| Oscar | Anna Marchesini |
| Jean | Unknown |
- Spanish ("Amor eterno en Versalles")
| Characters | Voice Actors | |
|---|---|---|
| Telecinco (1991 dubbing) |
Animax (2008 dubbing) | |
| Lupin III | Txema Moscoso | Juan Navarro Torello |
| Daisuke Jigen | Juan Pascual (as Óscar) |
Iker Muñoz |
| Goemon Ishikawa XIII | Paul Muniain (as Francis) |
José María Carrero |
| Inspector Koichi Zenigata | Mario Hernández (as Basilio) |
Ángel Rodríguez |
| Oscar | Unknown | Unknown |
| Jean | Unknown | Unknown |
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Censorship[]
Italian[]
The Italian dub while faithful to the Japanese original had some dialogue changes regarding Oscar. As mentioned in the notes with the insult that Lupin calls her was changed being one example. Until Mediaset bought the rights in 1987, this episode was aired uncut and the dialogue was dubbed.
In the Italian TV airings, after the second duel between Lupin and Oscar the ending was altered due to Oscar being completely naked, as the nude Venus. There is a freeze frame from Jigen and Goemon when Lupin uses the Zantetsuken and her clothes were coming off. The following nude scene was cut afterwards:
- When the gang was surprised that Oscar is a woman.
- When Oscar requests Lupin for her to keep one diamond while Lupin takes the crown.
- Oscar going near the statue to move the crown and unscrewing the vial.
- Oscar going towards the statue to follow in love with André. This also includes the conversation with Lupin that had no questionable content on his solo scene.
- When Oscar turns to stone.
The only part that was retained was Oscar drinking the vial due to the plotline. There is a hint that Mediaset originally cut out the ending and this small scene but got reverted in 2004 due to visible tape tracking at the top of the screen from this point.
Notes[]
- This was one of the four fan suggested episodes to celebrate 100 episodes of the series and was selected out of 5000 entries, Shigeru Kimiya came up with the idea while Shoichirō Okubo wrote the episode.
- The episode is a crossover with the popular manga series The Rose of Versailles (aka "Lady Oscar"), making it the first ever instance where the Lupin animated series was paired with another franchise outside of Yasuo Yamada's impression of Bakabon's Papa for the preview of Part 2 Episode 1. Monkey Punch already made a crossover chapter with Color Girl in the Papillon magazine issue of August 9, 1973. This was aired before the first anime episode of The Rose of Versailles that was on the October 10, 1979. Despite both series being done by TMS, they were done by different staff and both have different character designs. André also has blond hair in the episode, while he had black hair in the series.
- Jean's character is nameless in the episode and was credited as Black Lily Boss in the English Discotek credits.
- Jigen namedrops the series when he stubs out his cigarette, however this was dropped in the Italian dub.
- Oscar's voice actress is different in both the Japanese original and the Italian dubs. In Japanese, Oscar was done by Niki Terumi while in Rose of Versailles she was done by Reiko Tajima. In Italian, Oscar was done by Anna Marchesini while in Lady Oscar she was done by Cinzia de Carolis.
- In the original Japanese version, unlike most episodes of the series, there are multiple references to homophobia and transphobia towards Oscar from Lupin, Jigen and Goemon. Male pronouns and words were used for Oscar despite being a woman however the original source material Oscar was also referred to as a male. The strongest was when Lupin was on the plane with Oscar, Lupin calls Oscar "You transvestite bastard" in a fan translation, the Italian Blu-ray translated this slur as "fucking f****t" as Lupin thinks that "You acting like a woman makes me sick to my stomach" while on the English Discotek translation the dialogue was softer and it became "What are you, a fairy? You're all soft and weepy like a woman, it's creepy!" with the "fairy" being a slur. While they were acceptable at the time of production, in many countries it is no longer considered acceptable and future dubs changed some of the dialogue to be more suitable. It is unknown whether the Spanish Animax dub was changed as it was the latest dub.
- The scene with Lupin flying through the Arc de Triomphe might be a reference to the same feat done in reality by Charles Godefroy in 1919.
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