For decades a tight‑knit team of Lupin III has been on screen, relentlessly pursued but unsuccessfully chased by Inspector Zenigata. Lupin remains as elegant and creative as ever, Jigen is silent and precise, Goemon"s sword speaks for him, and the dazzling Fujiko spins around, sometimes helping, sometimes selling everyone wholesale and retail. Only the "girls in distress" change, while the main quintet has frozen in time like a Buddha statue. But was it always this way? After all, once the heroes were slightly younger and worked separately, and then fate brought them together. Fate in the form of a woman! The new series transports us to the early history of Lupin and his company. A young, but already famous thief in a green jacket has long grown tired of ordinary thefts and now seeks something new, some miracle that will free him from the dragging boredom of everyday life. During a risky visit to the island of a totalitarian sect, the hero meets Fujiko Mine – a beautiful, calculating and absolutely principle‑less colleague, one of the few women who can challenge Lupin himself. The meeting turned out to be fateful and guaranteed us, the viewers, many pleasant minutes of touching the roots of Monkey Punch"s creativity.
