The anime company TMS Entertainment began streaming the first promotional video for Lupin III – Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna (Lupin III – The Woman Called Fujiko Mine). The same promotional video playedduring the 40th anniversary Lupin III anime event on March 18.
Lupin III will premiere on April 4, 2012.
Sayo Yamamoto is directing the 13-episode series, Takeshi Koike is the animation director and character designer, and Mari Okada handles the scripts. There have been some changes in the voice cast (for the fisrt time in 16 years, as ANN reports):
- Kanichi Kurita as Lupin,
- Kiyoshi Kobayashi as Daisuke Jigen,
- Daisuke Namikawa as Goemon Ishikawa,
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Fujiko Mine and
- Kouichi Yamadera as Inspector Zenigata.