[Italy] “Lupin III – Return of Pycal” & “Is Lupin still burning?” will be on air on 2nd September 2020 by Italia 2 (Mediaset) again

2002 OVA (“Lupin III – Return of Pycal”) are aired in Italy on Italia 2 (Mediaset) on 2nd September 2020 at 21:15 (Rome time) and also the day after in late evening at 23:55.  After it will be brodcasted the 2018 OVA: “Is Lupin still burning?” (italian title: “Lupin contro Tutti “) at 22:15 and also the day after in late night at 00:50 a.m. of 4th September.

 

Return of Pycal (at 21:15, 2nd September, 23:55, 3rd September)

Return ther Green Jacket Lupin together to a old villain from 2nd episode of 1st TV series: Pycal (or Paikal).

Original Title	“Rupan Sansei – Ikiteita majutsushi” “Lupin III – The Living Magician”
Author	Monkey Punch
Director	Mamoru Hamatsu
Script	Ryō Katsuragi
Music	Yuji Ohno
Studio	TMS Entertainment
1st World Premier (in japanese home video)	3rd April 2002
Aspect Ratio	16:9 (with short scenes in 4:3)
Running Time	45 minutes
1st Italian Channel	Italia 1
1st Italian Premier	in two parts: on 3rd and on 5th february 2004

 

Plot

Lupin steals a stone from a party on the Mediterraneo, but it will be stopped by Pycal, the magician is alive.  Now Pycal, with own magic powers, looks for his  revenge.

 

 

The OVA “Is Lupin still burning?” will be on air on 2nd September 2020 at 22:15  by Italia 2 (Mediaset) and on 4th September at 00:50 a.m.

Villain’s list:

• Mister X of Scorpions (from 1st episode of 1st TV series)
• Kyosuke Mamo (from 1st TV series)
• Pycal (from 3rd episode of 1st TV series)
• Poon (from 1st TV series)
• Stoneman (from 99th episode of 2nd TV series)

 

Synopsis

Lupin takes part in a automobile race that Mister X, presumably dead, invited him to. Lupin accepts the invitation, knowing that there’s a golden statue him and Jigen tried to steal in the past resting in his mansion.

As Lupin races, Fujiko seeks to steal the gold statue before him, only for it to be revealed as a trap made for Lupin. Mister X captures Fujiko by strapping her to a machine. He activates the machine, summoning several robotic arms to appear and tickle torture her for his sadistic pleasure. Fujiko assumes he wants information out of her, but he states that he only wants to watch Fujiko suffer while she watches Lupin and his friends disappear via Mamo Kyousuke’s time traveling machine, and all she can do is laugh and scream until the tickling kills her.

Mamo activates his machine and zaps Lupin as well as Zenigata during a car chase. Lupin expresses confusion as to what happened, realizing that his clothes are now green. Pycal jumps onto his car from a plane and holds him at gunpoint, demanding to hand over a film. Before he can shoot Lupin, he kicks Pycal out of the car, but he jumps back in again and holds a knife to his neck. Pycal attempts to blow fire at him, but Lupin had already took the flamethrower from his sleeve. He kicks Pycal out of the car and Zenigata behind him hits Pycal off the cliff and into the ocean below.

Lupin is then transported into another time period where his jacket is red. He encounters Jigen who attempts to steal his car, not knowing who Lupin is yet. Lupin offers to drive him to where he wants to do, where he meets a man to face off. Lupin waits in the car a distance away from them. They draw and Jigen is shot directly in the arm. This causes present day Jigen to disappear in front of Goemon. Mamo Kyousuke explains that when Lupin changes the past, the present does as well.

Lupin is thrown back through more past events by Mamo. Zenigata is injured in a car accident caused by Goemon slicing his car in half. Lupin kills Poon, Fujiko’s ex-partner in crime, which causes Fujiko to also disappear in the present time period as the machine starts tickling her with tongues, almost killing her. Lupin is then shot by Fujiko in vengeance. Mamo states that Lupin and Fujiko’s relationship has been changed due of the death of Poon. Mister X is saddened that he didn’t get to watch Fujiko die laughing.

Lupin wakes up in an apartment with the golden statue on a table nearby. He notices a recent bullet scar where Fujiko had shot him. He dismisses it and flops himself back onto his bed and unintentionally turns to the news via the TV remote. Lupin finds out from the news report that Goemon has become an assassin and Zenigata is the one employed catch him. Lupin later encounters Jigen, now a homeless man living on the streets. Lupin becomes aware of the reason why he was taken back in the past; so his relationships would change and he’d become unknown to the public.