April O'Neil's character design

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Gyt Kaliba

Sorry to bump this old thread (there's not a rule against it here, is there? I know of a few forums where it is is why I ask), but after I found out about this in another thread, I went poking around, and I found this.

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This is from that newer Lupin the 3rd show about Fujiko herself, but it kind of looks like a reference to that outfit as well doesn't it?

Found this one as well. She definitely looks April-ish here.

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Nice finds, Gyt Kaliba! Those yellow shirts really are a blast-from-the-past.

I've not yet figured out what episodes Wise must have watched to inspire April O'Neil's original look, but the closet thing I can identify is a late scene from the fantastic (seriously, I'm not even a Lupin fan and I love it) Castle of Cagliostro movie.

Fujiko masquerades as a number of different professions in order to pull off a theft from the Castle, but near the end of the movie she pretends to be a reporter in a pink jumpsuit.



After she takes off her pink jumpsuit disguise, she runs around in camo-pattern jumpsuit with some knee-high boots:





And... because I just happened to see this somewhere (can't remember the reference) and thought it might be more than just a coincidence:



I don't know much about the early broadcast history of Lupin III in America, but my guess would be that Wise wouldn't have had access to too many episodes. I don't even know that he saw Castle of Cagliostro before 1987. Maybe Fujiko wore a yellow jumpsuit in an early episode or maybe Wise just forgot the colors on the jumpsuit in Castle of Cagliostro?