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Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
LUPIN the Third ～峰不二子という女～
2012 · TV series · 23 min episodes · 1 season
ActionAdventureAnimationComedyDramaCrime
She's a thief. A killer. A saint and a scandal. She's whatever you need her to be to get the job done. She takes your breath away to get what she wants. She takes everything else just because she can. It's all in a night's work for the woman called Fujiko Mine. She's the slinky, sultry thread that holds Lupin III's crew together—and this is the heist that started it all.
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The early episodes of Lupin III, especially the first ones, are something of an acquired taste. 1970s animation is so much more sparse than the bubble economy anime later on. The Woman Called Fujiko Mine captures a lot of the feel of the early episodes but with modern animation and themes.
It is a great show, it’s just… variable. Some of this is by design, as a Jigen plot is going to be darker than a Fujiko focused episode. Every once in a while there will be an episode that’s pitch perfect and has a Spruce Goose (I wonder who directed that one?) but then the next episode is a bit lame.
Or there’s the version with better music, Cowboy Bepop. The tone is a bit darker because the Lupin analogue is age twelve but it’s still fun.
I liked the episode of lupin the third where they melt down the gold and apply it the body of a truck and then paint it and drive it over the border. the guards search the truck, but the gold IS the truck.