I start off the new year with a review, on a new computer no less so we begin with a review on Lupin the 3rd Woman named Fujiko Mine.

Lupin as most people know is anime's master thief while Fujiko Mine is the only decent rival he has; in this stylish art version of Lupin, we get into the background of Fujiko Mine along with the rest of the cast of Lupin, Jigen, Goemon and Zenigata; we cover what is Fujiko's past along with how she met the rest of the cast and for the first half, it's really good, we get some great plots, the characters are amazing, even Zenigata who is normally a butt monkey in the main show takes an upgrade in badass. Its also very sexy; Fujiko manages to go naked at least once per episode and it doesn't feel like a hentai, it's just sexy; so with all that in this show it can't possibly go wrong; That is until the second half of the anime when the main plot thickens; suddenly Fujiko starts losing her mind and we spend alot of time seeing owl men as we discover that Fujiko's memories are false.
This gets worst when Zenigata's over effeminate misogynist Oscar starts playing dirty in trying to catch Fujiko all the while the owl men keep making more hallucinations to the point where you can no longer follow the story and the art style really doesn't help, and that's a real shame, it started so well only for the story to go AWOL halfway. Overall we don't even get Fujiko's backstory which is what I subscribed to when I started and I feel cheated by that.
Final Verdict: The art style is on a different level and the stuff it does well, it does really well but I think they tried too hard to go all arthouse on the anime when really the stuff it started with was good enough to support 13 episodes.