prickly pear Part 4 is a good place to start. Then you can go right into Part 5. Castle of Cagliostro is a great movie directed by no less than Hayao Miyazaki but it’s not terribly representative of what the majority of Lupin is like. The benefit of Lupin is that there’s no continuity so you can mostly jump in wherever you want. But I recommend starting with Part 4 since it’s very good, beautifully animated, and tonally a nice balance between the cartoonier stuff and the more hard boiled stuff.
It’s awesome to get to see Miyazaki’s actual animation work, when he was the animator and not the director. The attention to detail shows that he is a truly observant man. He once said “How can you draw people if you don’t like to look at people?”
Tunder Comet If Zenigata can’t get Lupin, then maybe Natsumi Tsujimoto and Miyuki Kobayakawa from You’re Under Arrest can. And maybe throw in Officer Jenny from Pokemon for good measure.
@@sakalarts4861 The Music was from "Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro." A... Wait for it. Waaaaaait for it... Miyazaki directed movie. Of course it fits. Miyuzaki picked it for his first movie ever. He must have liked it!
It's hard to believe this was being made during the same time Hanna Barbara was giving their animators a budget of two paperclips and a dead mouse to work with. XD
It is great to see his old stuff I love miyazaki' s work so and I thought I would never ever reach him but this shows how much work he has done to get where he is
If you idolize someone, you're not striving to be exactlly like them, you will strive to be better than them. There's no fun copying somone else, why dont you be someone you could be. Be your own artist, learn something from the pro a thing or two, implement it into your work. Then it'll become yours. Take the idea that people had been formulated for a very long time in their lives and make it yours so that their ideas becane useful for someones life.
A. Bagas M. i mean "better than them" sounds a lot weird ngl. i don't want to be better than anyone necessarily, i just want to be able to put out my ideas
It's great to see Miyazaki's old stuff. It shows that he has come a long way and that if you're lucky you might be as good as him 50 years ago hindered by inferior tech by the time you're dead
60s and 70s Western Animation went into a deep slump. Japan in that time: Let's learn everything from their Golden Age and go few decades beyond while we're at it.
Ikr Jigen is so cool! His swagger as he just casually falls from a roof shows how he has 100% confidence in Lupin to catch him. I honestly love their bromance so much 🥰😍
I can thank Adult Swim back in the 2000's for turning me onto part II. I couldn't get enough, and I kept seeing snippets of part I all over google, so I took the dive into subtitled anime territory and have zero regrets. Part I feels way better than part II in a lot of ways. Also going to go out on a limb and say part III even feels more true to the manga's style/aesthetic. In 2004 I couldn't find a DVD print of Castle of Cagliostro anywhere, and ended up finding an old VHS copy where they drop Lupin from the title, and the dub just calls him wolf. Still have that VHS.
@@TheYoungVulnerableAnimeGirls i think in all cagliostro dubs hes called wolf the whole time, only saying his name when its on the front of the calling card
Nagagutsu and Lupin still hold up incredibly well. Soratabu has the best animation I've seen from the whole decade, not just anime, but from the whole world
I personally feel this shows what a n entertaining animation is (not a good animation) As Miyazaki has done, you create an environment with art, create motions and the reactions, spectrum of emotions, and fun colors. There are many animes with beautifully drawn animations but so boring to watch. That’s why Miyazaki is a good director. He directs the story and its execution to be entertaining and the beautiful art is a plus that add more value. I’m no expert. I’m just a novice who dreams to be able to create amazing animations as he does one day. I wonder if anyone can relate
0:34 Miyazaki can talk about all the characters with movement. The reason for the genius is to bring the position of Zenigata's arm here even if he comes up with the action of going down from the escalator.
Staples of personally handcrafted Miyazaki animation: *Big expressive character movements, especially with the arms *Lots of running *Consequently, lots of chase sequences *Big splashy action sequences *Large crowds that pretty much always stay in motion *Steely looks of determination from the heroes and big toothy glares from the villains *The laws of physics only applying when it's funny
The Bob Bergen dub of Lupin the Third The Castle of Cagliostro is what got me into the franchise, and I don’t regret it. I do hope to watch the 2001 dub of Akira before this year is over.
I refuse to believe that this beyond stellar animation was made in the 1960s and the early 70s. We got a fucking moose and squirrel that's budgeted on girl scout cookies and yet Japan gets what Disney has been missing at that time... zany characters and fast paced action and adventure. Miyazaki never made anime. He made perfection.
Some of that early Mickey Mouse was great! You say that with these scenes, but have clearly not seen the rougher animations from those same anime. Miyazaki is good. But the work he didn't do looks no where near as good from the same shows.
Tell me about it. Disney's modern quality has been declining with their tasteless remakes and Pixar bombarding us with unnecessary sequels to boast their attempt at winning the Best Animated Feature award year-after-year.
Man! The animations are impressive for this time! :O Lupin's theme is fitting almost every scene or am I imagine this? :D I need to say, Lupin is my favorite series there, but still: The others are looking really good too. ^^
For this time? Animation was historically more virtuosic than today. Especially and even in America, students study Disney and more and can't come close to what those guys did
@@ahvidharris3732 Today it’s much easier to make animation, Anime before 2000 with very good animation its an exception does not represent what was the media
@@kal_bewe1837 What do you mean it did not represent the media? Most of the shit from mid 80s to late 90s looks better and has better animation than what comes today. Even some some stuff from the 70s and early 80s has more artistic value than most of the shit that comes out these days.
@@dogus4728 You say damn shit, we still have artists from the 80s 90s in the industry today, animes from 70s are not full sakuga like the video. Generally the old anime with good animation quality are the movies and the oav, While today we have TV anime with animation comparable to that of movies (mob psycho, violet evergarden) Regarding artistic direction and staging, we always have gorgeous work. You better watch recent anime
@@dogus4728 tbh most of the from 80 were trash and it still is now cause market is so big if youre talking about things like akira its a diffrent story but you can make same argument for violet evergarden the only diffrence is tecnology in my opinion lots of meh animation and some really fuking good ones now and than
@@Gencoil Yeah Animal treasure island has some damn good animation, I really wish it could get more of a following here in the states. If something as good as Clone High, or something that's absolute crap like Fanboy and Chum Chum can have a following, than some as good and High quality like Animal Treasure Island deserve attention too. Also: Discotek needs to re release toei's older movies on Blu Ray or dvd.
@@cptdalek1711 it looks like some big budget Disney animation of the time. Watch this and watch Robin Hood(1973 if I'm not mistaken) and tell me they aren't comparable. Amazing stuff
Then again film preservation matters as well. Some of the less popular anime only have footage with such low preservation qualities that look like they came from a bootleg Polish VHS
The man knows how to compose a scene with movement, cinematic scale, imagination, color palette, and humor! I love how much kinetic energy there is with the great extreme poses. AND he treats the vehicle animation with as much expression as the characters! Also, his explosions have always been my favorite of all effects animation anywhere!
It's incredibly dynamic, vibrant with life and colourful. Just look at the scene where the antagonist fights the protagonist with a tiny sword... Amazing. The sheer amount of work necessary to animate like this, in freaking 1969 btw, is frightening.
I think it's really fascinating how his movies for Studio Ghibli are usually very serene and overall animated in a grounded way, but his stuff for other studios usually looks very wacky and Looney Tunesy.
aahh, there's something really special about the Lupin III scenes animated by Miyazaki. They have a charming different touch compared to the rest of the show
Hayao Miyazaki is Japan's finest animator and director and he give us movies like My neighbor Totoro, Ponyo, Howl's moving castle and Spirited away and he shall forever be remembered as Japan's finest animator and director and inspiring influence
Most Japanese animation seemed so vibrant and full of character back then and didn't have to rely on fanservice or tropes. Wish we could see more Miyazaki inspired anime in modern adaptations.
Then look no farther than Drifting Dragons on Netflix. It’s highly influenced by Miyazaki and Moby-Dick, but with sea creature-like dragons in the sky and humans on zeppelins hunt them for food, oil and other goods like real-world whalers.
The piece of animation that blew my mind the most would be a pretty mundane scene, but how glorious it looks makes it worth it: Ashitaka mounting Yakuru in Mononoke Hime, and going up a hill in the woods, at the beggining of the movie, with all the foliage casting shadow on the two
Miyazaki did Lupin when it was starting out, incredible. Even though it was the 70s, it Animated so well back then. Goes to show you that Anime has such incredible Animation no matter the time period. A lot of people are also saying that how can there be great Animation for 1970s Anime? Keep in mind that all Anime today got their Animated roots somewhere. A lot of the Animators of Japan like Miyazaki were influenced by the likes of Disney Animation of the 20s and beyond and we're influenced by Osamu Tezuka's style from early Manga days and it transferred to Animation with the early adaptions of Tezuka's work and other Mangaka. Thank the Animators that were the root of Japanese cinema and even the Animators from around the world like America, Chinese, French, for giving the Animation we see today.
Ricardo Cantoral I think u'r just pointing out the visual image and not about the movement, that said I cant deny that almost all animation series/movies are stylized. Btw Miyazaki hated other mainstream series like naruto and such, only for the fact of animation and delivering of the stories are just not in his "lane". So dude I know a lot of different animation styles and it just depends of all kind of factors how the end result would look like think about money/schedule etc, nowadays only a few scenes of anime series have fluid animation and thats just for only a few minutes. It just purely the pressure that is bringing down the animation quality in Japan. But to only say that miyazaki's old stuff are the best seems a bit hypocritical to me anyways. Try animating, its interesting but takes a lot of fucks and time . ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Gimon Debebe That stuff is a lot of work for nothing. It's just camera angles and forced perspective. This Miyazaki animation, and the animation of his contemporaries, was not just stylish. There was a heart, a creativity to it. That classic character animation cam only be done in animation. This modern stuff is just completing with live action. It's pointless. Also, I am aware of the tedium of the animation process and that's why I wonder why you would waste all this time produce this mess.
This is the first video about Miyazaki's animation style I've seen which doesn't try to pretend that Lupin does not exist lol. Also amazing footage from older anime I never knew he worked on.
