History YMMV / LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine

* CompleteMonster: [[AristocratsAreEvil Count Luis Yu Almeida]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive head of Glaucus Pharmaceuticals]], spent the UsefulNotes/ColdWar conducting [[PlayingWithSyringes cruel experimentation]], violating the minds and bodies of his victims. Convincing his colleagues to give their daughter Aisha for his research, Almedia murdered said colleagues and began tormenting Aisha by implanting the memories of his other victims into her mind. Driven completely insane by present time, Aisha [[VillainousLegacy continues the deceased Almeida's work]] by kidnapping people and brainwashing them to a cult-like devotion as they are used to keep the experiments going. Theorized by Lupin to be driven to create the perfect slave, Almedia's evil lives long after him, far worse even than any of the criminals who compose the main cast.

* CompleteMonster: [[AristocratsAreEvil Count Luis Yu Almeida]] stands out from the dark cast, which consists of thieves, murderers, seductresses, assassins, and gang bosses [[VillainProtagonist as the protagonists]]. The [[DiabolicalMastermind mastermind]] behind [[PlayingWithSyringes horrible human experimentation]] and the owner of Glaucus Pharmaceuticals, Count Almeida and his scientists conducted Cold War experiments, including mind control, hypnosis, memory and personality manipulation, sensory deprivation, physical abuse, and rape. During the course of these experiments, Almeida convinced two scientists, Dr. Fritz Kaiser and his wife, to include their young daughter in the experimental trials, before murdering Dr. Kaiser. Almeida [[FakeMemories adds the memories]] of the tortures he puts his other experimental subjects through to her memories. Thirteen years later, we see how insane this woman has gone from everything the Count has done to her. Glaucus Pharmaceuticals is now kidnapping children and adults, disguising human experimentation as cult fanatics, and keeping surveillance almost everywhere. Based on all the evidence Lupin compiles on Almeida's guilt, the Count's only desire was to create the perfect slave. The revelation that [[spoiler:Luis is already dead by the time the series takes place]] only drives in the injustice of all he has done.

* ShockingMoments: Prior to the series, the ''Anime/LupinIIIYearlySpecials'' were becoming more and more StrictlyFormula, and said formula was starting to wear out its welcome. The DarkerAndEdgier approach proved to be a big shock that, at the very least, kept things interesting.
* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Oscar's (possible) DyingDream in episode 11]].

* ShockingSwerve: The show was supposedly about deconstructing Fujiko's character. The last episode reveals that [[spoiler:not only were Fujiko's memories [[FakeMemories really the memories of someone else]], but the false childhood didn't change her personality at all.]] [[ShaggyDogStory Gee, thanks for rendering the whole series moot.]] On the positive side, throwing the character development of Fujiko out of the window can also be seen as a reconstruction of her character, because the entire point becomes [[spoiler: Fujiko is Fujiko because that's how she chooses to be, not because of what anyone might've done to her.]]

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Episode 9 has Jigen acting rather protective (in a fatherly way) around that tattooed woman, and it's pretty cute.

* CompleteMonster: [[TheChessmaster Count Luis Yu Almeida]] stands out from the dark cast, which consists of thieves, murderers, seductresses, assassins, and gang bosses [[VillainProtagonist as the protagonists]]. The [[DiabolicalMastermind mastermind]] behind [[PlayingWithSyringes horrible human experimentation]] and the owner of Glaucus Pharmaceuticals, Count Almeida and his scientists conducted Cold War experiments, including mind control, hypnosis, memory and personality manipulation, sensory deprivation, physical abuse, and rape. During the course of these experiments, Almeida convinced two scientists, Dr. Fritz Kaiser and his wife, to include their young daughter in the experimental trials, before murdering Dr. Kaiser. Almeida [[FakeMemories adds the memories]] of the tortures he puts his other experimental subjects through to her memories. Thirteen years later, we see how insane this woman has gone from everything the Count has done to her. Glaucus Pharmaceuticals is now kidnapping children and adults, disguising human experimentation as cult fanatics, and keeping surveillance almost everywhere. Based on all the evidence Lupin compiles on Almeida's guilt, the Count's only desire was to create the perfect slave. The revelation that [[spoiler:Luis is already dead by the time the series takes place]] only drives in the injustice of all he has done.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Count Luis Yu Almeida]] stands out from the dark cast, which consists of thieves, murderers, seductresses, assassins, and gang bosses [[VillainProtagonist as the protagonists]]. The [[DiabolicalMastermind mastermind]] behind [[PlayingWithSyringes horrible human experimentation]] and the owner of Glaucus Pharmaceuticals, Count Almeida and his scientists conducted Cold War experiments, including mind control, hypnosis, memory and personality manipulation, sensory deprivation, physical abuse, and rape. During the course of these experiments, Almeida convinced two scientists, Dr. Fritz Kaiser and his wife, to include their young daughter in the experimental trials, before murdering Dr. Kaiser. Almeida [[FakeMemories adds the memories]] of the tortures he puts his other experimental subjects through to her memories. Thirteen years later, we see how insane this woman has gone from everything the Count has done to her. Glaucus Pharmaceuticals is now kidnapping children and adults, disguising human experimentation as cult fanatics, and keeping surveillance almost everywhere. Based on all the evidence Lupin compiles on Almeida's guilt, the Count's only desire was to create the perfect slave. The revelation that [[spoiler:Luis is already dead by the time the series takes place]] only drives in the injustice of all he has done.

* HoYay: Oscar to Zenigata, big time.

* HolyShitQuotient: Prior to the series, the ''Anime/LupinIIIYearlySpecials'' were becoming more and more StrictlyFormula, and said formula was starting to wear out its welcome. The DarkerAndEdgier approach proved to be a big shock that, at the very least, kept things interesting.

%%* LesYay: Episode 6 has a lot of it.

%% * BaseBreakingCharacter: Oscar, and how.

%%* ParanoiaFuel: Every time the Owlmen are involved.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Oscar's (possible) DyingDream in episode 11]].
%%* TheWoobie:
%%** In episode 9, the tattooed woman.
%%** Aisha, just Aisha.
%%** Oscar, although he might border on WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.

* EarWorm:
** The new OP, ''Wuthering Heights''.
** The series ED theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekHQB-0u6dY "Duty Friend"]].

* BrokenBase: Creator/FUNimation's dub, as usual. Creator/MichelleRuff, Creator/JoshGrelle, and Creator/RichardEpcar were praised for their performances as Fujiko, Oscar and Zenigata respectively, but others, like Creator/SonnyStrait as Lupin, have lead to debates as to whether it fits the character. That said, even detractors admitted that, at the very least, Creator/FUNimation finally learned how to pronounce the character names right, when they had been mispronounced in all of their previous efforts with the franchise; at most, some initially felt weird when returning VAs from past dubs such as Sonny Strait's Lupin were actually pronouncing their own names properly.

* BrokenBase: Creator/FUNimation's dub, as usual. Creator/MichelleRuff, Creator/JoshGrelle, and Creator/RichardEpcar were praised for their performances as Fujiko, Oscar and Zenigata respectively, but others, like Creator/SonnyStrait as Lupin, have lead to debates as to whether it fits the character. That said, even detractors admitted that, at the very least, Creator/FUNimation finally learned how to pronounce the character names right, when they had been mispronounced in all of their previous efforts with the franchise.