Fujiko Mine
After a few years of working on storyboards and art for other projects, including movies "Redline" and "", she was approached by a producer to create a new Lupin III series, with full creative control. It was Yamamoto's own idea to have the series take place before the start of the 1971 Lupin series, directed by Masaaki Ōsumi, and to have character Fujiko Mine in the starring role.