Fujiko Mine
Vivian Kudo, known in Japan as , is Jimmy Kudo's mother and wife of Booker Kudo. Her maiden name is . She was a former actress who was trained in the art of disguise by Toichi Kuroba but gave up her career at age twenty to marry Booker. She occasionally shows up in Japan to see her son. Because of her reputation as the wife of a famous mystery author and for involving herself in some criminal cases which she occasionally helps to solve, she has been given the nickname, "The Night Baroness" after the main character that her husband created for his mystery novels. Her Japanese voice actress is Sumi Shimamoto and her English voice actress is Laurie Steele for Funimation and Erika Harlacher for Bang Zoom. Vivian was inspired by Fujiko Mine from "Lupin III" and represents her good side, while Vermouth represents the bad. The Yukiko Fujimine name is a combination of Fujiko Mine and the first name of Fujiko's former voice actress, Yukiko Nikaido.