Fujiko Mine

Fujiko Mine
Lupin III character
Fujiko drawn by Monkey Punch
First appearance	Lupin III chapter 3: "Death Blues"
Created by	Monkey Punch
Voiced by	See Voice actresses
Portrayed by	Eiko Ezaki (1974) Meisa Kuroki (2014)
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Nickname(s)	Fujicakes (English anime)
Aliases	Margo (Toho/Frontier dub of The Mystery of Mamo) Rosarie (TMS subtitled print of The Castle of Cagliostro)
Nationality	Japanese

Fujiko Mine (Japanese: 峰 不二子, Hepburn: Mine Fujiko^?) is a fictional character created by Monkey Punch for his manga series Lupin III, which debuted in Weekly Manga Action on August 10, 1967. She is a professional criminal and burglar that regularly uses her attractiveness to fool her targets. Unlike the rest of the Lupin III cast, Fujiko's physical appearance changes for most installments in the franchise. Her name means "mountain peaks of Fuji" in Japanese, a pun on the size of her breasts, which is usually the only thing consistent in her various designs.

She is the star of the fourth Lupin III TV anime, The Woman Called Fujiko Mine which aired from April to June 2012, making it the first not to star Arsène Lupin III as the protagonist.

As the Lupin III series was to be published in a magazine targeted at adults, Fujiko Mine was created to add a female presence. 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". She was developed from the intention to fulfill a "Bond girl" role. Creating a new female each week was too difficult for Monkey Punch so she evolved into a single character. 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. This concept was later changed to make Fujiko a single character who changes style frequently. 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".