Trivia / Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine

• The series marks the first time either Michelle Ruff or Richard Epcar lent their voices to a Texas production.
• B-Team Sequel: It was the first Lupin III series to be directed by Sayo Yamamoto, written by Mari Okada and composed by Naruyoshi Kikuchi.
• Cross-Regional Voice Acting: The English dub's cast used voice actors from the DFW Metroplex area. Fujiko and Zenigata were respectively voiced by Los Angeles-based Michelle Ruff and Richard Epcar.
• Directed by Cast Member: As with most of Funimation's Lupin III productions, Christopher Sabat was the English dub's ADR director as well as Daisuke Jigen's voice actor.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Rescued. Funimation's license with the series expired in August of 2018, meaning the series went out of print for a period of time. In 2020, Discotek Media announced that they had acquired the license to the series with a reissue scheduled for 2021, bringing the series out of limbo.
• Milestone Celebration: This series premiered in 2012, the 45th anniversary of the Lupin III manga series.
• The Other Darrin:
  • As mentioned on the main page, the Japanese voice actors for Fujiko, Goemon, and Zenigata (Miyuki Sawashiro, Daisuke Namikawa, and Kōichi Yamadera) were recent replacements for the longtime original actors (Eiko Masuyama, Makio Inoue, and Gorō Naya) who had been retired by TMS. Both Naya and Inoue have since died.
  • On the English side too, in a way. Funimation's actors for Fujiko and Zenigata (Meredith McCoy and Philip Wilburn) had retired, so actors from the "Red Jacket" cast were used instead — Michelle Ruff reprised Fujiko, and Richard Epcar took over for Zenigata.
    • Zenigata's an especially notable case. They were trying to find voice actors already familiar with the franchise. While having Ruff take up Fujiko again was a fairly simple matter, most of Zenigata's old voice actors weren't even in the industry anymore, either having retired or moved on to other things. Christopher Sabat, who voices Jigen in all of Funimation's Lupin dubs, admitted that it felt a bit odd calling up Richard Epcar, seeing how he played Jigen in "Red Jacket" (and directed it). Fortunately, Epcar likes the franchise and was happy to be involved in any capacity.
  • In the Italian dub, Alessandro D'Errico voiced Daisuke Jigen instead of Sandro Pellegrini, who died in 2013. D'Errico has since become the de facto voice of Jigen.
• Role Reprise: In the English dub:
  • Sonny Strait, Christopher Sabat and Mike McFarland reprise their respective roles of Arsene Lupin III, Daisuke Jigen and Goemon Ishikawa XIII from the Funimation releases.
  • Michelle Ruff reprises her role as Fujiko Mine from the "Red Jacket" series.
• What Could Have Been: The production crew behind Toonami on [adult swim] were eyeing this show as a potential replacement for Michiko & Hatchin, also directed by Sayo Yamamoto. However, because there was too much nudity that would've had to be edited out, they instead went for Samurai Champloo.
• You Sound Familiar: In the English dub, Zenigata is voiced by Richard Epcar, who previously played Jigen in the "Red Jacket" series.