YMMV / Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Fujiko's last scene with Aisha. Fujiko pulling her off of life-support and taking her to the beach where the girl get's to watch Fujiko play in the ocean before she dies. Some (like Lupin) see it as one of Fujiko's darkest Kick the Dog moments where she forces a girl beaten and abused all her life to the point of immobility to watch her enjoy the things Aisha cannot; all to get back at her for tampering with her memories and kickstarting the series. Others see it as a Pet the Dog moment where Fujiko let's Aisha experience her pleasure vicariously, which she'd been doing for the whole series, except this time it isn't against Fujiko's own will all in order to let her die happy and free; this interpretation does jive with her dismissal of Aisha's mother for leaving her in that trapped state. The series shows Fujiko capable of both kindness (her role as a governess did show she was genuinely affectionate, especially to children) and pointless cruelty (such as in episode 8 where she casually murders a pair of security guards), so both interpretations are valid.
• Awesome Art: Quite possibly the best-looking character designs for any Lupin anime, and yes that may even include Cagliostro. The shading effects even mimics the hatching from the original manga!
• Awesome Music: Most of the soundtrack, for fans of jazz and funk.
• Base-Breaking Character: Oscar. Some view him as a compelling and tragic antagonist, while others are completely turned off by his obsession with Zenigata.
• Bizarro Episode: There's a reason "Ghost Town" is labeled under Mushroom Samba.
• Broken Base: Funimation's dub, as usual. Michelle Ruff, Josh Grelle, and Richard Epcar were praised for their performances as Fujiko, Oscar and Zenigata respectively, but others, like Sonny Strait as Lupin, have lead to debates as to whether it fits the character. That said, even detractors admitted that, at the very least, 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.
• Character Rerailment: Lupin's personality is closer to the original manga than the other series. The same goes for many of the other characters. Of note, Zenigata is less of a clown and more of a competent detective and rival to Lupin.
• Complete Monster: Count Luis Yu Almeida, head of Glaucus Pharmaceuticals, spent the Cold War conducting cruel experimentation, violating the minds and bodies of his victims. Convincing his colleagues to give their daughter Aisha for his research, Almeida 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 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, Almeida's evil lives long after him, far worse even than any of the criminals who compose the main cast.
• Les Yay: Episode 6 has Fujiko seducing a female target. Then there's Oscar's makeshift posse that he controls under the guise of a schoolgirl.
• Moe: The tattooed lady in episode 9.
• Moral Event Horizon: Unlike Lupin, who steals as a form of thrill seeking, Fujiko steals purely for material gain. Also unlike Lupin, Fujiko is perfectly willing to kill people, and is rather cavalier about doing so. A good example would be in the first episode, when the Cult leader orders both of them executed by guillotine. They both escape, Lupin by using a papier-mache dummy in his place, Fujiko by seducing one of the guards and sending him out to die in her place.
• Nightmare Fuel: The first episode has Lupin and Fujiko being executed by guillotine. Even if it's obvious that it's not them, it's kinda jarring and sets the tone for this darker story. In episode 6, Fujiko has a Flashback Nightmare... with humanoid owls. The surreal imagery combined with what sounds like static noise makes it rather disturbing. To say nothing about episode 10...
• Paranoia Fuel: Every time the Owlmen are involved. The knowledge that your actions are not your own and that unseen forces have been conditioning you since a young age is horrifying to think about.
• Tear Jerker: Oscar's (possible) Dying Dream in episode 11.

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