Lupin III vs. Detective Conan

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TV Special Lupin III vs. Detective Conan
Information
Title:	Lupin III vs. Detective Conan
Japanese Title:	ルパン三世VS名探偵コナン (Rupan Sansei VS Meitantei Konan)
Broadcast rating:	19.5% 15.2% (1st rerun) 12.4% (2nd rerun)
Original airdate:	March 27, 2009 March 23, 2012 (1st rerun) December 6, 2013 (2nd rerun)
English airdate:	August 30, 2022
Story
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Shinichi Kudo Lupin III Daisuke Jigen Fujiko Mine Goemon Ishikawa Koichi Zenigata
Case solved by:	Lupin III (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	N/A
Staff
Director:	Hajime Kamegaki
Screenplay:	Atsushi Maekawa
Storyboard:	Hajime Kamegaki
Technical Director:	Hideaki Oba Hajime Kamegaki
Animation Director:	Masatomo Sudo (chief) Satoshi Hirayama (chief) Junko Yamanaka PART: Hideyuki Motohashi, Nobuyuki Iwai, Hiroaki Imaki, Keiichi Tani, Shosuke Shimizu, Meiju Maeda, Yuichi Yoshida, Tomoya Hiratsuka, Atsushi Soga, Minoru Kawano, Masayuki Shimizu, Osamu Miwa, Hirokazu Ishino, Natsuki Egami, Daisuke Kamei, Naoki Murakami, and Shinji Ochi Hajime Kamegaki and Yoshio Mizumura (mecha) Junko Yamanaka (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kanichi Kurita as Lupin III Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Kiyoshi Kobayashi as Daisuke Jigen Makio Inoue as Goemon Ishikawa Eiko Masuyama as Fujiko Mine Goro Naya as Koichi Zenigata Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Yui Horie as Mira Julietta Vespaland Hikaru Midorikawa as Keith Dan Stinger Taiten Kusunoki as Kyle Felipe Vespaland Hiroko Suzuki as Sakura Aludia Vespaland Jun Fukuyama as Gill Cowell Vespaland Yusaku Yara as Gerard Musca Vespaland Shizuka Arai as Alice Yukari Honma as Emmy Mari Kishi as News announcer Shinichirou Ohta as Announcer Shinpachi Tsuji as Sommelier Tohru Furusawa as Fake sommelier Chieko Honda as Clerk Yasuhiko Kawazu as Special police A Eiji Yanagisawa as Special police B Takuo Kawamura as Special police C Hideto Ebihara as Special police D
Officially a Lupin III TV Special

Lupin III vs. Detective Conan (ルパン三世VS名探偵コナン ,Rupan Sansei VS Meitantei Konan) is a 2009 Lupin III TV Special and a crossover with Detective Conan. It is the 21st Lupin III TV Special and was a joint production between Nippon TV and Yomiuri Television. This special has the same name as the later movie Lupin III vs. Detective Conan.

Characters introduced

Lupin III
	World famous gentleman thief Arsène Lupin's grandson

Daisuke Jigen
	Professional marksman Lupin III's partner in crime

Fujiko Mine
	Solitary femme fatale Lupin III's comrade

Goemon Ishikawa
	Samurai Lupin III's comrade

Koichi Zenigata
	Inspector from ICPO and Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department

Keith Dan Stinger
	Vespania Kingdom count

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Shinichi Kudo (in Ran's dream)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch Turbo Engine Skateboard Telescopic Lenses

Production details

Most of the music used in the special was regular background music from the Lupin III anime series, and the classic Lupin III Theme was used for the opening and ending themes. The Detective Conan Main Theme was also used in various scenes focusing on Conan.

Original character designs varied between the Monkey Punch and Gosho Aoyama styles.

Because Detective Conan is considered a family show by Japanese audiences, there was very little adult humor in the special, in contrast to most Lupin specials. Lupin III himself even points this out in a scene where he is trying to sleep with Fujiko and he breaks the fourth wall by "thanking the regular fanbase for being patient all this time". Also, in the last scene, Jigen and Goemon wonder aloud, "Is this an adult movie?"

Case

Situation

During a hunt in her private hunting ground, Queen Sakura, sovereign of the European absolute kingdom of Vespania, is suddenly killed. All indications suggest that she was accidentally shot by her first son, Prince Gill, who immediately after the event commits suicide, overcome by guilt. After Prince Gill committed suicide, he was found by his uncle, Duke Gerard, who felt so sad saying that it was too late to stop it.

Murder
	Location: Under a sakura tree on private hunting ground Victim: Sakura Aludia Vespaland Cause of death: Gunshot wound Suspect: Gill Cowell Vespaland Prince Gill accidentally shot his mother, Queen Sakura, during hunting.

Suicide
	Location: Under a sakura tree on private hunting ground Victim: Gill Cowell Vespaland Cause of death: Gunshot wound Prince Gill committed suicide by shooting himself in the temple with the gun in his right hand.

Therefore, the title of heir to the throne of Vespania passes by Gill to his younger sister, Princess Mira, a tough nineteen-year-old girl and a bit selfish, who coincidentally resembles Ran Mouri. The coronation ceremony, however, is threatened by a growing popular movement that believes Princess Mira is unfit to govern; therefore, taking into account the risk to Princess Mira's safety, Count Keith, the chief of commons, makes Daisuke Jigen, former trainer of the regular army, a personal guard of the princess.

Simultaneously, Lupin III reaches Vespania; his and Jigen's plan is to get their hands on the crown for the queens of the realm, revealing several nice memories for the king of thieves, but it seems clear now that Lupin is pursuing another purpose.

Heist
	Thief: Lupin III Target: Queen Crown Owner: Vespaland family Location: Vespania Kingdom

Furthermore, to increase the princess' popularity, it organized a trip to the state in Japan, and the festival is held at the Grand Hotel West City Tama. Kogoro, Sonoko, and Conan are also at the party. Whenever the announcer asks questions to Princess Mira, she isn't answering because of the tragedy of her mother and brother. Count Keith answers for her instead saying that it's Princess Mira's first time coming to Japan and she loves to eat sushi. Later, when Princess Mira is about to give a toast, Conan exposes the fake sommelier attempting to kill the princess by putting poison in her wine. The fake sommelier runs away but got caught by Kogoro. In the confusion that follows, since the princess wants nothing more than to escape from her condition, she manages to escape, but is noticed by Conan, who follows her trail.

In her escape, she meets Ran Mouri, returning from evening classes, and noting their resemblance the princess decides to trade places with her, so she can gain the thrill of freedom, although her initial thought is to lose all its tracks against Ran. Ran, dressed as the princess, goes back to the hotel and explains what happened, and Count Keith, to avoid leaks that would result in a diplomatic incident with Japan, "forces" Ran to continue to play the role of Mira.

The princess has now been collected by Fujiko, saying that she knows her identity and offers to take her around Japan with her as Mira's bodyguard. Conan tracks the princess and chases the pair aboard his skateboard, but Fujiko loses him and disappears. Meanwhile, the second objective is the light that led to Lupin Vespania: hidden beneath the kingdom is a mineral that thanks to its "complete stealth powers" may be totally invisible to radar. Using the dowsing rods Lupin has located the mineral.

Count Keith breaks his promise to return Ran after the press conference at the airport and brings her to Vespania. And to allow her daughter to follow, Inspector Megure assigns Kogoro as personal assistant to his ICPO old friend, Inspector Zenigata, who is going to turn to Vespania to chase Lupin, which allows him to follow his daughter into Vespania. Conan, who had noticed that Count Keith was doing, manages to board the plane while clutching the basket, and is saved from hypothermia by Count Keith, who claims to be doing everything only for the princess.

The princess, Mira has since been reported to be back in Vespania through Fujiko who is spending time with her. Lupin learns how the princess's character transformed into a cynical and selfish one due derivatale anguish, her status as princess and grief due to the death of her mother and brother. It turns out that Fujiko was hired by Count Keith himself precisely to remove a little 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 forced and involuntary help of Jigen. Lupin meanwhile, helped by Goemon, has entered the vault of the building, but finds out that crown has been stolen by Fujiko. However, he is forced to give up and flee the building as it has become completely surrounded by police after the alarm sounds.

Mira, after visiting the place where her brother and mother died, decided to assume her duties as the future queen, and agrees to return to the palace.

People

Gerard Musca Vespaland
	Duke of Vespania Queen Sakura's younger brother

Gill Cowell Vespaland
	Victim (gunshot) Prince of Vespania Princess Mira's older brother

Sakura Aludia Vespaland
	Victim (gunshot) Queen of Vespania

Keith Dan Stinger
	Count of Vespania Royal family's manager

Mira Julietta Vespaland
	19 years old Princess of Vespania Ran's lookalike

Kyle Felipe Vespaland
	Princess Mira's bodyguard and SP leader Count Keith's close friend and subordinate

Maid #1
	Princess Mira's maid for five years

Maid #2
	Princess Mira's maid for three years

Woman #1
	Sakurasaku Hotel reception clerk

Woman #2
	NNN Breaking News speaker

Man #1
	Sakurasaku Hotel reception announcer and host

Man #2
	Fake sommelier Arrested (attempted poisoning) Mercenary

Man #3
	Sakurasaku Hotel master sommelier Victim (kidnapping)

Rumi Nagata
100px	Baseball team #20 player Kogoro's idol

Resolution

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Princess Mira is just in time for Conan to start his reasoning show, revealing to all, including her the truth about this alleged incident. Conan tries to put Kogoro to sleep with his usual tranquilizer needle, but fails to hit Kogoro (which is actually disguised Lupin), and hits Zenigata instead. Zenigata quickly wakes up after 30 seconds (Conan calls him a monster for doing so). Lupin, revealing his secret identity to Conan, helps resolve the case by pretending to be the true Sleeping Kogoro, and together they reveal the truth: The murderer of the queen and the crown prince is the work of the Vespanian duke, Gerard Musca Vespaland. Immediately afterwards, Gerard had also killed Gill to make it appear that the prince had killed himself out of remorse of accidentally shooting his mother.

The decisive evidence for Gerard's guilt is the fact that Queen Sakura disapproved of killing innocent lives, and therefore had secretly converted the hunting cartridges into blanks, meaning that neither Gill nor Gerard could have used their rifles to kill even if they wanted to. In addition, the twig shot off the cherry tree indicated that Gill was not the culprit, as he would never hurt anything his mother cherished. Gerard's motive was that he could ascend the throne and get rich by selling the rare ore the queen had forbidden to sell and use, due to her pacifist nature and the potential of the ore to be used in war.

Thanks to Conan, Lupin and Lupin's hoodwinked stealth device, the culprit is apprehended, 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 be taken in a car by members of the Japanese embassy. The people in the car are actually Lupin and his gang, who have decided to help Conan return to Japan due to Conan lacking a passport (since Conan Edogawa was an alias he made up and he illegally entered the country).

Lupin explains that he returned to honor a promise he made to Queen Sakura; he had successfully stolen the royal crown years before, but after seeing that Sakura was infatuated with him, he returned the crown to her to remind her of her responsibility to her country and its people. Additionally, Lupin and his associates demonstrate surprising knowledge about Conan's true identity, calling him Shinichi Kudo, while Conan promises them that if one day they cross paths again, he will definitely arrest them all. Once loaded aboard a submarine provided by yet another of Fujiko's "good friends", Conan finds himself the unwanted object of intense "scrutiny" by Fujiko, who wants to closely examine the effects of the APTX 4869.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French	Lupin III contre Détective Conan	Lupin III vs. Detective Conan
German	Lupin III. VS. Detektiv Conan	Lupin III vs. Detective Conan
Vietnamese	Lupin III đối đầu thám tử lừng danh Conan	Lupin III vs. Detective Conan

See also

• TV Specials
• Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie