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Lupin, aka the Gentleman Thief, remains one of the longest-running anime characters, first introduced under the pen of creator Monkey Punch, and it seems as if fans of the decades-long franchise will be receiving some new adventures for Arsene and his crew with an upcoming series. Though details [...]
Monkey Punch is credited for the original work. Monkey Punch's manga about the titular thief's escapades inspired five previous main television anime series, the Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine television anime series, several theatrical anime films, and a near-annual string of television anime specials. Lupin the Third: Part 5 is the most recent television anime in the franchise. The anime premiered on NTV's AnichU programming block in Japan in April 2018. Crunchyrollstreamed the series in Japanese with English subtitles as it aired in Japan. TMS Entertainment USAoffered the s...
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Lupin III: Part Two, the thief was a goofier and objectively less evil character; by 1979's The Castle of Cagliostro, he was practically a gentleman like his great-grandfather. Lupin's signature stupidity and goofy kindness won him a massive following which has endured in the decades since, and as the series continued, more writers leaned into those parts of his characterization to make him into the himbo we know today. Even if Monkey Punch himself wasn't a fan of the character's changes, (“I wouldn't have had him save the girl,” he notoriously said of Cagliostro, “I would've had him...