New "Lupin the Third" TV Anime Promo Video Released

New promotion video for the new TV series of anime "Lupin the Third" has been released on August 26.

This anime, based on the popular manga written and illustrated by Monkey Punch, has been made into the new TV series for the first time in 30 years. Details of the series were also made public. The first episode will be aired on Oct. 2 at 1:29 a.m. on Nippon Television in Japan. It will also be aired on Yomiuri Television in October. 

Total of 24 episodes are scheduled to be aired over about half a year. As for the music, the composer Yuji Ono, who has been involved in the TV series since 1971, recorded "Theme of Lupin The Third" specially for this new series. The golden oldie is reborn in 2015. This remastered theme song is played also in the latest PV. And the original sound track which includes this song is scheduled to released Oct. 21.

The anime work, generally directed by Kazuhide Tomonaga, directed by Yuichiro Yano, and scripted by Yuya Takahashi, is a tale of various adventures experienced by your famous Lupin the Third, along with Daisuke Jigen, Goemon Ishikawa, Fujiko Mine, Inspector Zenigata, and others in Italy. The story is joined by a freewheeling beauty Rebecca Rossellini, British Intelligence representative MI6, and other characters.