In recent years, she's revealed superb martial arts skills, capable of rendering an attacker twice her weight unconscious with a single blow. In the 1995 movie Farewell to Nostradamus, Lupin carefully treats the amnesiac Fujiko, hoping she gets better as he "looks forward to her betrayals".įujiko is an excellent shot, her favorite weapon being a Browning M1910, typically holstered in her garter. Although, Lupin easily forgives these betrayals. Frequently, she finds it necessary to betray Lupin to get close to the enemy, then after ingratiating herself into his trust will acquire the swag and escape (rarely, she will help to extricate Lupin, Goemon and Jigen for the trouble she put them into as if to atone). Her principal tactic is to stick with Lupin and company, and then double-cross them right as their goal is in sight. While Fujiko is not part of Lupin's gang, she often works with them or tries to beat them to a heist. Some manga and soundtrack covers feature her as a blonde or as a brunette as Monkey Punch was inconsistent when it came to her hair color.įujiko is occasionally shown to wear glasses however it is unknown whether she wears it for a fashion accessory or has vision problems where she swaps between glasses and contact lenses.įujiko's response when asked why she betrayed Lupin In Lupin the Third Part IV and Fujiko Mine's Lie, her hair has highlights where it is light at the top while being darker at the bottom. Outside of the manga, Fujiko usually appears to be a brunette however in The Castle of Cagliostro and The Secret of Twilight Gemini, she is a blonde as well as promotion materials and the second/third openings of Lupin the Third Part II despite being a brunette in the series.
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In some of the TV Specials and Daisuke Jigen's Gravestone, she wears a cat suit that she zips up, inspired by the one Marianne Faithfull wore in Girl on a Motorcycle.
Unlike the other characters where they wear the same clothes with only color changes between series, movies and TV Specials, Fujiko has a variety of outfits. Monkey Punch believes the characters of Lupin and Fujiko are similar to the characters of D'Artagnan and Milady de Winter, and describes them as "Not necessarily lovers, not necessarily husband and wife, but more just having fun as man and woman with each other". This concept was later changed to make Fujiko a single character who changes style frequently. At the beginning of the series, many of the women Lupin encounters are all named Fujiko but are treated as different characters from chapter to chapter. Originally meant to fill a 'Bond girl' role, Fujiko quickly became a bigger part of the series. Her name was inspired by a picture of Mount Fuji, Monkey Punch added the -ko female suffix to create her first name, and chose "Mine" for her family name because of its meaning as "summit".
Fujiko Mine was created to add more of a female presence to Lupin III.