Bye Bye, Lady Liberty

Bye Bye, Lady Liberty
North American cover artwork by Discotek Media
バイバイ·リバティー危機一発! (Baibai Ribatī – Kiki Ippatsu!)
Genre	Adventure, Comedy-drama, Kaitō
Anime television film
Directed by	Osamu Dezaki
Produced by	Hidehiko Takei Motoyoshi Tokunaga Yutaka Yasuda
Written by	Hiroshi Kashiwabara
Music by	Yuji Ohno
Studio	TMS Entertainment
Licensed by	NA Discotek Media
Original network	NTV
Released	April 1, 1989
Runtime	97 minutes

Bye Bye, Lady liberty (ルパン三世 バイバイ·リバティー危機一発!, Rupan Sansei Baibai Ribatī – Kiki Ippatsu!, Lupin III: Bye-Bye Liberty – Close Call!) was the first television special in the Lupin III franchise. Directed by veteran director Osamu Dezaki, it was broadcast by NTV on April 4, 1989. A number of Lupin III television specials have followed with a total of 23 airing as of December 2012, as well as an additional crossover special with Detective Conan.

Lupin is forced to give up his life of crime when he discovers police computers are able to predict his every move. His retirement is short-lived when his colleague Jigen inherits the secret location of a stolen giant diamond called the "Super Egg", which is hidden in the Statue of Liberty; Lupin helps recover the diamond by stealing the entire Statue. Meanwhile, Goemon becomes bodyguard to a beautiful woman who is on the run from a sinister secret society which is also seeking the Super Egg.

The special was directed by Osamu Dezaki, an experienced anime director who had previously storyboarded several episodes of Lupin The Third Part I. In addition Dezaki created the storyboards under the pseudonym Makura Saki, something he commonly did despite being well known for creating his own storyboards.

During his career Dezaki created many animation techniques that became standard in the Japanese animation industry and are used throughout the special. One of his best known techniques "Postcard memories", also commonly known as "Harmony" involved adding painted lines to a cel to give the appearance of a watercolor effect and provide visual impact with minimal animation. While this technique is normally used to end a scene, during the special it is also used during action scenes. Another signature technique used during the special is the "triple take" where a cel is moved quickly across the camera multiple times to produce a sense of speed. The name comes from its typical usage of 3 passes of the cel. Lighting techniques used techniques include backlit backgrounds, gel effects, lighting bloom in the corner of a scene and diagonal spotlights across heavily shadowed images to produce a sense of darkness. other techniques include Parallax scrolling to give depth to city scenes, split screens and dutch angle.