Usually a progress report would have been made by now, one was planned but sadly was not saved. In short a lot of Part 2 characters were added, some housecleaning and some Part 3 stuff.
Instead a roadmap is going to be made for the wiki. Note that there is some upcoming (not good) news coming on the wiki so this is a good time to mention this.
Characters[]
Currently this is the largest section (outside of the manga) that the wiki needs to have the attention. Since Lupin the Third has been going for 50+ years, there have been lots and lots of characters. While the wiki does have over 170 characters, it is a drop in the ocean compared to what is out there. Even more when you classed untranslated manga chapters that stayed outside of Japan.
While Part 1 is mostly done, Part 2 is slowly getting there and some of the high profile characters added or expanded, the rest of the series has some work to do.
Soon on the wiki[]
- Amore
- Bucky
- Butcher T. Martin
- Camilla - Done
- Emmanuelle Poirot
- Gabriel XIII - Done
- Gallanco - Done
- Gasper - Done
- Gavott
- Galvez from Episode 0
- George McFly - Done
- Hakaryu from Stolen Lupin
- Santama
- Hayate
- Herr Mafroditte - Done
- Holmes III (the other one) - Done
- Inspector Conniseau - Done
- Jasmine
- Jean (Versailles Burned with Love) - Done
- John Klause from Voyage to Danger
- Kikuko Benten and the rest of the Gang of Five
- Lady Black
- Madame X - Done
- Madame Piccolo
- Monica Ivanov
- Rose - Done
- Terry Crown from Alcatraz Connection
- Bomber Linda from Angel's Tactics
- Spider Emily
- Michelle Kyuick from Seven Days Rhapsody
- Guz Kyuick
- Ran Mouri... Mira Julitta Vespaland
- Sandra
- Vivian Lee
- Willy Dream from Lupin VIII - Done
- Alice from Lupin VIII
- Wilhelm Brillia - Done
With a few exceptions most of these characters are from Part 2, the TV Special characters are due to time or whether they have problems. As for why more familiar with the 480p era of the TV Specials than before (outside of Harimao's Treasure and Voyage to Danger) and mostly after (Marco Polo aside), plus Stolen Lupin and Angel's Tactics have less issues questionable translations aside.
High Priority[]
These ones are at a high priority due to the Funimation English dubbed TV Specials that are usually recommended by English speaking fans (e.g. Island of Assassins and Tokyo Crisis being the ones), having nostalgia for them or recent enough that the younger fans have watched them e.g. anyone who has watched Parts 4 and/or 5. Basically anything that is available in the US, Japan and Italy (in most cases, Goodbye Partner and Fujiko Mine's Lie excluded) but might be not available elsewhere.
As for why they are not already on the site is down to two reasons. One is that the computer that I use for the wiki is not powerful enough to run the videos with The Last Job keeps crashing (or a good enough connection for a stream) and waiting for a replacement. Otherwise Fujiko's Lie and The Last Job would have been done a couple of months ago. The second reason at least for Goodbye Partner, Part IV and the 90s era is just down to not seen them yet.
Lupin the IIIrd universe[]
- Bincam
- Gene
- Godfrey
TV Specials[]
- Micheal
- Isabel / Isabella
- Alisa Cartwright
- Roy Forest
- Lara
- Sadachiyo
- Ellen
- Maria Issiki from Tokyo Crisis
- Michael Suzuki
- Rosaria
- Nazarov
- Characters from Blood Seal of the Eternal Mermaid
Dead or Alive[]
- General Headhunter
- Ola
Legend of the Gold of Babylon[]
- Rosetta
- Zenigata's ICPO Agents
The Fuma Conspiracy[]
- Murasaki
Part IV[]
- Brigitte (due to Part 5 cameo)
- Pietro (due to Part 5 cameo)
- Leonardo da Vinci
Future[]
These are currently at a lower priority due to either being niche characters, lack of translation sources or just low demand. The exception is Finnegan has he will have a higher ranking if Prison of the Past gets dubbed/released outside of Japan. Even though they are at a lower priority, they might still make it to the wiki quicker than expected.
- Rest of Part 1 (A Wolf Calls a Wolf, Who Has the Last Laugh, Catch the Phony Lupin! and very minor characters)
- Rest of Part 2 (outside of ones suffer from translation issues)
- Rest of Part III (ditto)
- Maria (Mystery of the Hemingway Papers)
- Crazy Mash
- Judy Scott
- Rasputon
- Rest of Elusiveness of the Fog
- Colonel Garlic and others from Sweet Lost Night
- Finnegan from Prison of the Past
- Princess of the Breeze characters (very low priority)
- Any other TV Special character not already mentioned
- Manga characters (at least with a name)
- Lupin Y
- Lupin Jr
- Fujiko Mine Company
- Inspector Zenigata (live action) characters
Clean Up[]
While a majority of characters are good enough for the wiki, there are just a few characters that would need work on:
- Nyx (top priority)
- Chico - Done
- Ofumi
- Enzo Bron
- Morgana (The Last Job section but anyone fluent in Japanese might check over the Lupin H section for dialogue)
- Andre Maxim (Lupin Y or was it Neo?)
- Kyosuke Mamo (only Elusiveness of the Fog section, the rest is fine)
- Diana Archer, Sir Archer, Goring, Herr Mafroditte (Pursue Harimao's Treasure backstory)
Problems[]
There are some characters that won't be on the wiki for a while, these are due to translation issues where even TMS themselves are inconsistent on how to spell the character names of them. A blog entry will go into detail regarding this issue.
Other[]
Outside of the characters, it is mainly Part III, IV and The Woman Called Fujiko Mine that need more work however it will take some time.
Final Words[]
I hope that you have enjoyed reading the wiki, have been working on here for a year and at some points working day and night on here. Started from someone who just watched Part 2 from an Italian stream and fell in love since to the point of owning various Region B Blu-rays of the series. Any questions or what you like to see on here, feel free to ask.