The 40th anniversary definitive collection — chronicling every major version of the Lupin III theme from 1967 through 2007. TV-size versions with and without sound effects, single versions, full versions — every format preserved for completionist documentation.
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"Lupin Ondo" is a delightful deep cut — an "ondo" is a traditional Japanese folk dance, meaning someone arranged the Lupin theme as a festival dance number. "Zenigata March" gives the inspector his own marching anthem. The compilation spans four decades of one melody's evolution through jazz, funk, disco, and beyond.
Forty years of Lupin III distilled into a best-of collection. The meticulous version notation — TV size with SE, TV size without SE, single version, first out song edition — reflects the obsessive completionism that Lupin's fanbase brings to cataloging Yuji Ohno's vast body of work.
This is as close to a complete Lupin musical reference as a single disc can achieve.