Well I have been in a Lupin the Third kick as of late. This being an anime I enjoyed while it was on adult swim I look up on YouTube every now and again.
Well I had the urge to buy some DVDS of the show and movies.
So I started to look up who was releasing it and what was even released in the US what is dubbed and subbed and so forth.
Man I forget every time just how involved the Lupin series is.
It started to be released by Manga Video then Geneon and now a combination of Funimation and Discotek.
On top of that there are 33 movies some of which where tv specials spanning 40 years. These movies are a mix of all the above companies who released these over the years starting in the mid 90s. Some of these where in movie collections some have been edited rerelease do in the same collection and unedited/censored
The first tv series (green jacket) which is 16 or so episodes is only dived even though Amazon keeps saying dived and subed released by Discotek
The second tv series (red jacket) is 150 episodes but only 74 were ever subed and released in 15 DBS vols by Geneon which are out of print and expensive depending on which DBS vol you are looking for.
He'll even some of the more resent Funimation stuff is already out of print as the show changes hands so often. And of course Funimation has krillian from DBS doing Lupin and piccolo/vagita doing the voice of the gun slinging friend in the show.
The third series does not seem to have been released yet (pink jacket).
The latest series has been released and in bluray (a first in the us) titles the woman called fujiko mine by Funimation. So I will be picking this up in a month.
Most of the movies seems to have been released with some gaps.
I am currently making a spread sheet listing all the movies and series and including who released what. What has been dubbed or subed. And how many different variations of that same movie/show there are so I know what the case looks like.
I have a feeling I am going to do all this work. Slowly get all the stuff that's been released. Only for a bluray Funimation total package with dubbing on the stuff missing like a day after I finish.
If you have questions I own basically every legitimately US released Lupin anime DVD (and some VHS tapes, laserdiscs and foreign releases).
Added in edit:Just for some other Clarifications the earliest US released Lupin stuff came from Streamline who released Castle of Cagliostro, Mystery of Mamo and a few Lupin series II episodes in the early 90s. These were all dubs. Lupin is called "Wolf" here due to not wanting to infringe on rights to the original Lupin character. Manga's Cagliostro is a different dub and the DVD releases include subtitles.
Animego released Plot of the Fuma Clan and Legend of Gold babylon on VHS and LD slightly later. Manga didn't get involved in the US until they redubbed and re-released Cagliostro in the mid 90s. Fuma was dubbed, Gold Babylon was subbed. Lupin is called "Rupan" here due to not wanting to infringe on rights of the original Lupin character.
Funimation released some of the TV specials, the theatrical release movies Dead or Alive and Farewell to Nostradamus in the early 2000s, along with the Fujiko series more recently. All were dubbed and subbed.
Discotek has released TV specials, Mamo, Plot of the Fuma Clan and the entire first series (subbed only) with more TV specials, and an upcoming Blu-Ray and DVD re-release of Castle of Cagliostro.
The Lupin Series II that you saw on Adult Swim was distributed by Pioneer/Geneon in the early mid-2000s, they also made their own dub of Mamo. I believe Geneon did 79 episodes on DVD not 74 and there's also the two episodes (both Miyazaki directed) that Streamline did in the 90s. The 79 episodes are both subbed and dubbed.
Series III has been legitimately released in the US via Hulu in subtitled form but last I knew only episodes 1-30 were up leaving the last 20 for fan subs.
A new series is coming next year.
There's also two live actions Lupin movies, one released on DVD by Discotek some years ago. And a second one released in Japanese theatres this year that has not yet been released on home media in the US. A lot of the TV specials are unreleased in the US along with the theatrically released Lupin vs Detective Conan movie, Lupin The Tomb of Jigen movie, and the Return of Pycal OVA.
