Lupin the Third: Mine Fujiko to iu onna

TV Mini Series
2012
15
20m

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Lupin the Third: Mine Fujiko to iu onna (2012)

Anime Action Adventure Animation Thriller

The story of how the fashionable femme fatale Fujiko Mine first met Lupin III, her sometimes-lover and sometimes-rival, and the rest of his gang.The story of how the fashionable femme fatale Fujiko Mine first met Lupin III, her sometimes-lover and sometimes-rival, and the rest of his gang.The story of how the fashionable femme fatale Fujiko Mine first met Lupin III, her sometimes-lover and sometimes-rival, and the rest of his gang.

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7.7/10

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Awards
- 3 nominations total

Episodes13

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Michelle Ruff

Fujiko Mine

Miyuki Sawashiro

Fujiko Mine

Sonny Strait

Arsene Lupin III

Kan'ichi Kurita

Lupin III

Jessie James Grelle

Oscar

Yûki Kaji

Oscar

Richard Epcar

Inspector Zenigata

Kôichi Yamadera

Inspector Zenigata

Christopher Sabat

Daisuke Jigen

Kiyoshi Kobayashi

Daisuke Jigen

Daisuke Namikawa

Goemon Ishikawa

Mike McFarland

Goemon Ishikawa

Katsumi Chô

Owl Head

Bill Jenkins

Almeida

Kanji Furutachi

Almeida

Chuck Huber

Shitoto

Takashi Taniguchi

Shitoto

Binbin Takaoka

Dr. Fritz Kaiser

User reviews6

Featured review

6/10

The Funimation trailer for the show was better than the show itself.

Big Lupin III fan here. The first three seasons constitute some of my most beloved entertainment experiences in my life ! My tv is usually on PlutoTV with the Lupin the 3rd channel on every hour I'm home for years now.

Okay now on to this series. I saw the Funimation trailer which had this amazing track and like every guy who watched the series I love Fuji cakes also. So I watched this series a couple of times.

I'm no expert on women, but this Fujiko has a different personality to my beloved Fuji cakes from the long running TV series starting in the 70s. Fujiko in this series does things that are the opposite of the Tv series Fujiko. The Fujiko in this series being reviewed is the interpretation of Fujiko by a guy who does not know a Fujiko in his life. For those guys reading this who have had the amazing luck to spend time with a dime (a woman who is a 10) you know Fujiko's personality in the long running series is that of an actual woman.

There is a scene in this current series being reviewed with Zenigata and Fujiko which I suspect raised alarm bells with most viewers that this series got the main character wrong.

eborrego
Jan 13, 2025
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Trivia
Zenigata's Lieutenant Oscar is a parody of The Rose of Versailles (1979)'s female heroine Lady Oscar Francois de Jarjayes, who was a woman in military uniform; in the show Lt Oscar is a law officer with an effeminate look/behaviour. Lupin had earlier parodied the show in Berusaiyu wa ai ni moeta (1979).

In 2025, Miyuki Sawashiro would star as Oscar herself in Versailles no bara (2025).

Quotes
[opening sequence]
Fujiko Mine: Now, stop everything you are doing, allow your heart to race, and look at me. Theft is not to take something away or break something. It is a special crime, an elegant vice; it is an amalgam of secrets, felonies, mischief and fear. Just like Wuthering Heights' Heathcliff, I'm defined by my all-consuming passion. Stealing is a sexy prison from which there is no escape. Its psychological foundation is... unknown. Who is the slave? Who is the master? Is God watching her, has God abandoned her? The act of theft allows her to forget everything, even the distant traces of memory. Don't speak, but run. Don't run, but hide. When you find me, punish me. When you punish me, kill me. Save me. But you have nothing left for me to steal, silly boy. You are an empty shell, just like me. So if you want to look at me, then stop everything you are doing. Stop everything and let only the sound of your beating heart remain, and look at me.