All Lupin III References.

[Jigen's Magnum]

Does she act like Lupin or Fujiko?

From what I can dig up, it's a mix of both. She plays a bubbly facade, and if needed, she also has a darker side, just like her dad. But most tactics she uses to get the upper hand is seduction, like her mom.

 

[GATSU]

The way the car gets split open is very Lupin-esque.

 

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Spider-Noir gets fried similarly to the way Lupin does in Mr. X in the first and second show.

 

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Apparently, the Lycoris Recoil and Kill Blue people really like that Lupin Part VI drone prequel.

 

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The roof from Cagliostro.

 

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One of the Jojo Steel Ball Run characters has Mamo hair.

 

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Looks like Musashi from Baki is a fan of Goemon.

 

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Another Cagliostro roof reference.

 

[Leomard Sportsinterviews]

Two American cartoon references, one mainstream and well-remembered and one more oddball:

"The Clock King" episode of Batman: The Animated Series features a showdown on a clock tower that is very reminiscent of Castle of Cagliostro: the villainous Clock King plans to crush the mayor between the hour and minute hands (recalling the Count's fate) and Batman's battle among the gears of the clock tower is very Cagliostro as well:

The episode was written by David Wise (who also worked on the '87 TMNT show mentioned earlier in this thread; I'm not sure I believe his story that '87 April is based on Fujiko, but that's a post for another time) who brought up the Cagliostro inspiration in a pair of tweets in 2016:

When [story editor] Martin Pasko said "Clock King" I was all like... seriously? Then I remembered the clock tower fight at the end of Miyazaki's Castle of Cagliostro and I was like... consider it done.

This fondness for Cagliostro was also shared by the episode's storyboarder Brad Rader and director Kevin Altieri. In a 1994 issue of Cinefantastique (PDF, page 78) that included an episode guide for BTAS, Altieri name-drops Miyazaki:

The Clocktower battles, storyboarded by Brad Rader, is [sic] director Kevin Altieri’s homage to CASTLE CAGLIOSTRO, a Japanese feature animated by Miyazaki. “That movie is what got me into animation,” said Altieri. “I was happy doing special effects in films, until I saw Miyazaki’s work. It’s limited animation, but he’s telling a real story with real emotion.”

Rader and Altieri also provided a 2024 commentary on and discussion of "The Clock King", again bringing up Cagliostro (and acknowledging that the script drove their decision to homage it in the visuals):

Altieri: Board-wise this is kind of Brad's tour de force.
Rader: One of many. Well, it was a lot of fun.
[...]
Altieri: Then, of course, the homage to Miyazaki. Castle Cagliostro! It was just too perfect for this. And also it was a bit of animation that I could actually send to Sunrise to show them to help them figure out how to make this work. Because this was a tough one! It really would have been great if TMS could've gotten this episode.

Host: Well, when I asked you about episodes you'd like to talk about you said "Oh yeah, let's talk about 'The Clock King'!" So, what made you want talk about Clock King?
Rader: I guess because of the Miyazaki influence. [...] I don't know that I even had to go back and look at the storyboard or the video for it... I don't think so, I think I had basically internalized it.
Altieri: No, yeah at this point... [...] I just remember talking to you, Brad [...] we read the script and we're like "Yeah, this is the only option, really, is to do Castle Cagliostro, it's just the clock tower." It's clear, the script obviously intended that, it was the script that dictated that we do Castle Cagliostro. [...] I know you didn't you didn't go and, like, reference the movie, it's just that we've already seen it so much and it's so much part of us.

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During the "Clock King" discussion, Rader and Altieri also offhandedly mentioned another cartoon where they drew influence from Cagliostro - an episode of ALF: The Animated Series!?

Rader: The Miyazaki influence also reminds me of an ALF episode we did. Which was, basically, we ripped off the mountain car chase from Castle Cagliostro, too. Only it was ALF's parents, uh...
Altieri: In a Winnebago.
Rader: In a Melmackian Winnebago being harassed by a farm machine with giant cartoon hands.
Altieri: [laughs]

The episode in question is "Salad Wars", in a scene beginning around the 8-minute mark:

As Rader alludes to, he tended to work off his memory of and familiarity with Cagliostro sequences rather than pulling out the video and recreating shots exactly. So even if there's not direct parallels (e.g. ALF doesn't drive up the cliffside like Lupin), I can very easily see the resemblance to Cagliostro's animation with the way the pursuing car forces its target against the railing or how the cliff wall "scrolls" alongside the drivers.

 

[Seroster]

Re the Clock King (one of the best early episodes of BtaS in my opinion) I was honestly thinking, as I read your post, "oh it must be a coincidence, I mean how many ways ARE there to have a fight on a clock face" and then you went and showed the receipts. Great work, please keep it up!

 

[Leomard Sportsinterviews]

I was honestly thinking, as I read your post, "oh it must be a coincidence, I mean how many ways ARE there to have a fight on a clock face" and then you went and showed the receipts.

I can be a bit of a "behind-the-scenes" junkie so I always get a bit suspicious when I see a fanwiki offer "[x] is a reference to [y]" without a citation. The flip side to this suspicion is that I love reading/listening to interviews and digging through old scans of industry/fan magazines - so finding the screencap of Miyazaki getting name-dropped was a treat! So cool to learn that writer, storyboard artist, and director were all on the same page of "clock tower showdown = Cagliostro". I got a kick out of the director wishing that TMS could've brought things full circle - now that's the kind of ultra-specific industry talk I'm here for!

Interesting that the Cinefantastique article simply refers to Miyazaki mononymously (it's my understanding that, though he was known in animation/film circles in the 80s, he wasn't as much of a recognizable "name" stateside until later in the 90s). It's fun that Altieri & Rader consistently call it Castle Cagliostro, which presumably was one of the names it was going by before Streamline sort of "canonized" The Castle of Cagliostro with their release (which wasn't yet out on video at the time "The Clock King" was being produced).

 

[GATSU]

This scene from JJK swipes the Lupin running against the spotlight motif.