Lupin III

"Thieves are in the shadows, all's right with the world."

"Lupin the Third is James Bond meets Charlie's Angels with Scooby-Doo sensibilities."

"Interviewer: Lupin’s charming isn’t he…"

"The world's richest man isn't a Rothchild or a Rockefeller. It's Lupin!"

"[A] crazy, groovy 1960s world of dynamite and backstabbing, hippies and gangsters."

"[A] fascinating homage to Mad magazine and a four star example of comics as pure comedy."

"Lupin He's a nice man But he's cool You know, he uses Walther Yeah The machine cries, "Bang bang." Yeah, he's the Lupin the Third. Nice man Yeah, he smiles And he gets angry... sometimes. But... he's a groovy guy."

"Actually, it's kind of interesting. I think men and women in general as... rather than saying tease, say they enjoy each other. They use their attributes; Fujiko uses her beautiful body and her sex appeal as a weapon and Lupin uses his cunning and his wit as a weapon and they like going at it with each other in a fun sense. Not necessarily lovers, not necessarily husband and wife, but more just having fun as man and woman with each other and using their weapons against each other, but in an enjoyable way. That's how I think of that."

"When I started drawing Lupin thirty-six years ago, I was really only supposed to draw him for 3 months. It was more of only a contract project. At the end of that 3 months, it became popular and I continued drawing it for 10 years. And over that time, I never expected that I'd be invited to America multiple times, to attend these conventions, have so many fans and people that have read my works and have come to talk to me and express their gratitude. It's really an amazing feeling and at the same time it's bizarre in a way. I don't understand the popularity. I'm happy for it, but I don't understand it."

"I would probably have to say as far as inspirations are concerned, maybe some of the more famous mystery works, just worldly mystery works. I think they probably helped me out creating my stories quite a bit. Even things like, you know, Treasure Island or Monte Crisco, I think even those works influenced me quite a bit. I even enjoyed reading about D'Artagnan from the Three Musketeers. It might be my own analysis, but I even feel that Lupin might be very similar to D'Artagnan. M'lady the character that comes out from the D'Artagnan stories, I think that person might even be similar to Fujiko. So, those kinds of works I really think they did affect me at an early age."