English Dub Review: Lupin III Part VI “An Untold Tale”

Overview

Ever since the tragedy of Watson’s death, the mental state of Holmes has changed. The come-back of Holmes has settled all the unsolved cases of the last few years, and London’s underworld has been shaken. Lily feels a bit of loneliness in the state of such a bloodcurdling Holmes. In the meantime, information about a man jumps into Lupin’s ears and Lupin re-enters London to chase him. Zenigata, who was burning with Lupin’s arrest, was waiting there…

Our Take

Back to the main story, we go and Lupin returns to London to check on Holmes and Lily. I was hoping for more of a chase scene when Lupin and “Zenigata” were chasing the assassin in the cemetery but then it cuts to the church right away. There are a few other moments like that in the episode and I wasn’t much of a fan of that aspect.

While I still think it felt a bit early, I did like how they came to terms with one another given the twist that threw me off on Zenigata near the end. I still wanted to see Lupin & Holmes clash some more, but this could happen along with some episodes showing them cooperating, which seems more likely as it is.

Overall I liked this episode. It felt like a return to form after the previous gunfight episode and that two-part Isekai storyline which threw me off with its weird “Simulation” twist that felt like a Rick & Morty episode. As most fans expected, Lupin did not kill Watson and Holmes was trying to protect Lily from being another target for Raven. The answer to this mystery lies in Lily’s repressed memories which she will have to come to terms with at some point in the story and remains to be seen what else she actually remembers…