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- Audio Commentary: LupintheThird.com founder Reed Nelson is featured in a surprisingly worthwhile audio commentary overflowing with information about the film and its history. I wasn't sure what to expect from this one, as it's essentially delivered by a super fan rather than someone directly involved in the production, but Nelson roars passes super fan and proves himself an expert, offering so many well-researched details, factoids and sequence overviews that the track remains engaging and extensive throughout. No stone is left unturned, and while it gets a bit dry at times, Nelson never runs out of material to share.
- Introduction by David Hayter (HD, 1 minute): Hayter, the voice of Lupin, introduces the film.
- Full Film Original Storyboards (HD, 100 minutes): Watch the entire film with its original Hayao Miyazaki storyboards. The storyboards fill the largest portion of the screen, while the final film plays in a small window at the bottom right.
- Alternate Openings and Closings (HD/SD, 25 minutes): Several alternate credit and title sequences are available, including "Creditless Opening," "International Opening," "US Home Video Openings & Endings" and "Closing Credits."
- Interviews (HD/SD, 73 minutes): Up next are five interviews, featuring David Hayter (English voice actor, Lupin), Bob Bergen (English voice actor, Wolf), Yasuo Ohtsuka (animation director, character designer, design supervisor), Kazuhide Tomonaga (design supervisor, key animator) and Monkey Punch (manga author).
- Imageboards (HD, 13 minutes): A collection of Hayao Miyazaki watercolor and pencil design sketches (circa 1979) that feature unrealized scene concepts and early renditions of major characters.
- Model Sheets (HD, 11 minutes): This second art gallery focuses on character and mechanical model sheets by Yasuo Ohtsuka that were used as guides to unify the art style among the animators.
- Promotional Art (HD, 11 minutes): The disc's third and final art gallery, this one offering a collection of key art and promotional stills used to promote the film. The promotional stills feature artwork that never made it into the final film. Each is either a scene from the movie that differs from the final film, or a scene reimagined completely with art that never appear in the movie proper.
- A Brief History (HD, 9 minutes): A text-based overview of the film's development, production and release.
- Translation Notes (HD, 6 minutes): Text-based notes about translation odds and ends.
- Trailers (HD, 9 minutes): Two Japanese trailers are presented both with 1980 and 2014 subtitles.
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