 Additionally, he and his famous gang, beautiful Fujiko Mine, cool triggerman Daisuke Jigen and samurai Goemon Ishikawa XIII, rarely work together in the manga version, but are nonetheless an inseparable team in various anime productions.The aim of the "Lupin III" series was to produce a comedy adventure series that reflected the traits of Leblanc's Arsène Lupin character.Originally the intention was to keep the blood ties between the two fictional characters secret, however Monkey Punch was convinced by others not to do so.