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. Release Bye, Bye Lady Liberty was broadcast on April 4, 1989. VAP have published several home releases of the special in Japan. At first the special was released as both a VHS and a Laserdisc edition. They then released the special on DVD on December 22, 1999 and again in April 2006. A DVD containing both Liberty and the next special, Hemingway Papers was released by Futabasha on July 4, 2014. The soundtrack was released on October 21, 2000. Manga Entertainment UK released an English dubbed VHS as Goodbye Lady Liberty in the United Kingdom on 9 September 1996. Discotek Media released the special on DVD in North America as Bye Bye Lady Liberty on March 25, 2014. Reception In 500 Essential Anime Movies, Helen McCarthy called Liberty her personal favourite of the Lupin TV specials. She describes it as "light, funny and entertaining" and "terrific entertainment". Reviewing Liberty for Manga Mania, John Spencer felt it was a "rather routine television movie, with none of the flair and style of the previous films". He compares the secrecy of one of the characters to Scooby-Doo and in summary describes the film as "not classic Lupin...but good enough". Lupin expert Reed Nelson expressed that although Liberty is superior to several of the specials that followed it, it suffers from uneven pacing and a climax comparable to The Mystery of Mamo. Writing for The Fandom Post, Darius Washington noted the techniques used by Dezaki on Golgo 13: The Professional worked well with the special. He called the UK dub "solid" with the exception of one scene and highlighted the special as one of the better feature length entries in the series. Notes References External links Lupin III Encyclopedia Anime television films Lupin the Third TMS Entertainment Discotek Media Films set in 1989 Films set in New York City 1989 anime films Films directed by Osamu Dezaki