Manjiro moves through Edo like a man who knows exactly which threads to pull, stealing back what was never meant to be lost in the first place. Monkey Punch's character work gives every frame that unmistakable Lupin energy, a thief's grace applied to a whole city of small wrongs. The show loses steam by the finale, but those early episodes nail something rare: historical comedy that trusts you to catch the references while the heist itself actually matters to the people it's stealing for.

At the end of the Edo period, disasters both natural and caused by people have thrown the capital into turmoil. Manjiro earns his living by helping the city's troubled residents. He also leads a hidden second life, secretly recovering valuables that corrupt authorities and scheming villains have taken from ordinary citizens. The people of the city know him as Get-backer Roman. The twelve episodes set this story in a historical Japan touched by fantasy.