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 rape her!”) the creator couldn t stop Lupin s gradual himbo-fication.
This isn’t the first time greater Los Angeles has taken hits during the pandemic for its widely perceived obsession with youth and beauty.
In late April, the city of Beverly Hills rescinded a pandemic moratorium on elective surgery, allowing for colonoscopies, heart valve replacements, angioplasties and other potentially life-saving procedures to begin again. However, a New York Times story led with the fact that the ruling would also allow cosmetic procedures to resume. Of the 281 members of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons practicing in Los Angeles County, about 100 are located in Beverly Hills.
“No one needs Botox during a pandemic,” The New York Times quoted the one dissenting member of the Beverly Hills City Council saying, worried that the city’s high concentration of plastic surgeons combined with a reputation for extreme narcissism would cause the public to assume the ruling was intended to reinstate “boob and butt jobs” in the face of an unprecedented