It was written by Ichirō Ōkouchi alongside Gō Zappa, Daisuke Sakō, Kazushige Nojima, Takahiro Okura, Yuniko Ayana, Keiichi Sigsawa and Shatner Nishida,[1] and featured character designs by Hisao Yokobori.

The series was announced at Japan Expo in Paris in 2017,[2] and aired for 24 episodes from April 4, 2018[a] to September 18, 2018 on Nippon TV, Nittele Plus, KNB, STV, CTV, FBS, SDT, ytv, TSB, and NKT.

[6] In the United States, Adult Swim's Toonami programming block premiered the series on June 16, 2019.

The episode was directed by Jun Kawagoe, with Monkey Punch as general director and character designs by Hisao Horikoshi and Satoshi Hirayama.

Its title is a reference to the debut episode of the first Lupin the Third anime series and effectively acts as a remake, but features other enemies such as Kyosuke Mamo, Sandayu Momochi, Pycal, and Stoneman.