Finally, good news: The extremely stylish new Lupin III movie will get a U.S. release

We don’t hear about Japanese anime movies very often here at The A.V. Club (though if you want to hear about Gundam, we’ve got you covered), but it’s somewhat rare that an anime movie comes along that looks as amazing as Lupin III: The First—and we don’t mean that it seems like it’ll be an amazing movie, we mean it literally looks amazing. The movie is coming to Japanese theaters later this year, but it’s newly relevant to us in the U.S. because Gkids has just picked up the distribution rights for North America. That means it’ll get released here, and Deadline says Lupin III: The First will even get an English dub (if you’re the sort of person who prefers dubs, which is a completely acceptable way to enjoy anime and anyone who says otherwise is wrong). The movie, as Deadline explains, is about the world’s greatest gentleman thief trying to solve a mystery tied to a secret organization’s attempt to “resurrect the Third Reich”—all while goofing around with his thief buddies and dodging a hapless detective.

But seriously, just look at what director Takashi Yamazaki has done here: