- He cites mystery/adventure writers Agatha Christie, Robert Louis Stevenson ("Treasure Island") and Alexandre Dumas ("The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Three Musketeers"), the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the crime capers shows Mission: Impossible (1966) and Columbo (1971), and MAD Magazine artists Mort Drucker and Sergio Aragonés as an influence on his work.
- The name "Monkey Punch" was not his idea, nor does he particularly like the name. It came about when his editor and publisher both noticed the somewhat Western-style drawing in his artwork, and decided, along with him, to create an name that would keep Japanese audiences guessing about his nationality. The name that the editor and publisher jointly came up with, much to his chagrin, was "Monkey Punch."
- According to interviews, he is a fan of MAD Magazine.
- He prefers Lupin III to wear a red jacket since he feels red is a flashy and sexy colour. Lupin has worn a red, green, pink and blue jacket throughout his animated history.
- He formed the Japanese Manga Artists Club (J-Mac), a group of artists who specialize in digital manga. He originally hadn't planned on it becoming a king-size guild; he just called together a couple of digital artists to work on a project, and thanks to word of mouth the club had expended to about 1500 members.
- Lupin III was voted in a 2009 poll by Mania.com as the 8th most iconic anime hero of all time. The same site voted Fujiko Mine as the 2nd most iconic anime heroine of all time, and Inspector Koichi Zenigata as the 8th greatest anime supporting character, as well as voting Zenigata the 9th greatest anime detective.
- Monkey Punch has said that he believes the "Lupin III" story can never end but that if it had to, both Zenigata and Lupin would have to end it as equals. They would either both fail, both win or both get very old.
- He said in an interview that he killed off Lupin and his gang in the ending of the second manga because he got tired of drawing these characters. So in his official run, Zenigata wins.
- His most famous manga, "Lupin III" made its debut in 1967, in the first issue of the Japanese magazine "Weekly Manga Action.".
- He formed the Digital Manga Group, a society of professional manga creators which includes Leiji Matsumoto, Gô Nagai, Buichi Terasawa, Tsukasa Hôjô and Sato Naka.
- He said in a 2003 interview that Milady from 'The Three Musketeers' might be similar to Fujiko. Eiko Masuyama, the voice of Fujiko, voiced her in the 1981 series 'Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds'.
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