TMS Animation has launched a new character introduction trailer for the upcoming Lupin the IIIrd The Film: Fujimi no Ketsuzoku anime movie. The movie is scheduled for a theatrical launch in Japan on June 27, 2025. 

The character trailer introduces the movie’s predominant forged of characters, together with Lupin, Daisuke, Goemon, Fujiko, and Inspector Zenigata. 

Takeshi Koike is directing the Fujimi no Ketsuzoku anime movie, having beforehand labored on titles akin to Redline, Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen’s Headstone, Lupin the IIIrd: Goemon’s Blood Spray, and Lupin the IIIrd: Fujiko’s Lie. 

Different workers concerned embrace Yuya Takahashi (Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen’s Headstone, Lupin the IIIrd: Goemon’s Blood Spray) as screenwriter, James Shimoji (Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen’s Headstone, Lupin the IIIrd: Goemon’s Blood Spray, and Lupin the IIIrd: Fujiko’s Lie) as music composer, and Katsuhito Ishii (Redline character and machine designer et al., Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen’s Headstone, Lupin the IIIrd: Goemon’s Blood Spray, and Lupin the IIIrd: Fujiko’s Lie) as inventive advisor. Telecom Animation Movie is in cost of the movie’s animation manufacturing. 

• • Kanichi Kurita as Lupin the IIIrd
• • Akio Otsuka as Daisuke Jigen
• • Daisuke Namikawa as Goemon Ishikawa
• • Miyuki Sawashiro as Fujiko Mine
• • Koichi Yamadera as Zenigata
• • Ainosuke Kataoka as Muomu
• • Aoi Morikawa as Sarifa

A prequel, Lupin the IIIrd: Zenigata to Futari no Lupin, will start streaming in Japan earlier than the theatrical premiere of Fujimi no Ketsuzoku on June 20, 2025. A TV broadcast premiere on WOWOW will comply with on June 22, 2025.

The new movie is the franchise’s first predominant 2D animated function movie since Lupin the third Useless Or Alive in 1996. The Lupin movies Koike beforehand directed weren’t function size and had been all spinoffs of Lupin the Third: The Girl Known as Fujiko Mine. 

The Lupin III franchise, which options the exploits of the grasp thief Lupin III, started with the manga collection by the late Monkey Punch, which ran in Futabasha’s Weekly Manga Motion journal from August 10, 1967 to Could 22, 1969. A complete of 14 tankobon volumes had been initially launched in Japan. Tokyopop licensed the manga for launch in English. Seven Seas Leisure would later launch choose chapters in omnibus e book format in 2021 and 2023, respectively. 

The manga spawned a franchise that features quite a few manga entries, TV anime diversifications, movies, crossovers, OVAs, and a 3DCG anime movie. Considered one of the earliest Lupin III anime movies was the Hayao Miyazaki‘s The Fortress of Cagliostro.

Fujimi no Ketsuzoku follows Lupin and his buddies trying to find an elusive treasure on a mysterious unmarked island.

Sources: TMS Anime’s Official YouTube Channel, Crunchyroll News