Astro Boy/Lupin III

[Skymouth]

So I've been watching a compilation disc of the 80's version of Astro Boy and noticed a couple of the incidental music and sound affects were the very same used in Lupin III the second series. Now both were made right around the same time but I didn't think both were made in the same studios. Was it common back then to circulate some of the scores and sound affects between different studios? I also noticed how a gentleman in the crowd of the 2003 series during the episode Rocket Ball looked EXACTLY like Jigen from Lupin III.

Anyone's thoughts?

(Am turning into a classic anime fangirl! Though I've been a fan of Lupin III for about a decade now!)

[jeffbert]

I watched whatever Lupin III TV was available via Netflix, but as I used the English sound track, I may have missed something.

Can you be more specific about the crowd scene, which bit of action did it follow?

[Skymouth]

Gosh, am not remembering the actual action scene it follows but he is in the front of the crowd on the bottom right.

[jeffbert]

I looked though my collection of frames from that episode, & found nothing. I habitually step through the crowd scenes when capturing, just to ensure that I miss nothing. So, I need you to tell me in which 1/2 it occurs. Better, in which 1/4.

[Strange Wings]

It's cogitable indeed that some japanese studios used the same score/sound-effects for different series at the time. Creating new sound effects for each new series may have turned out as too expensive given the market in anime back then.

I think it's also common that different studios were working together for different series, which also means sharing sound scores already available to keep the production costs on the level.