I would hate to hear a voice that is not Kiyoshi-san from Daisuke Jigen, maybe even more than anyone else.
When the franchise’s first 3DCG feature film Lupin The Third: The First was released in December 2019, he expressed his strong will to keep playing the character for a little more, but the time has finally come.
The official portal site for the Lupin the Third franchise announced today that 61-year-old Akio Otsuka (Batou in the Ghost in The Shell series) is newly cast as Daisuke Jigen in its new TV anime series Lupin the Third PART 6, in place of 88-year-old Kiyoshi Kobayashi, who has voiced the character for 53 years since the first pilot film made in 1968 and is the last reaming original voice cast of the franchise.