I am responsible for yellow jacket Lupin
If you are a Lupin the Third enthusiast and active online, you might have already encountered the hashtag #yellowpin or #yellowjacketlupin, with fanarts or edits featuring Lupin the Third wearing a yellow jacket, often coupled with a red tie and black shirt and pants.
This distinct color scheme does not come from the feverish imagination of an amateur but is directly lifted from a color page of the original manga by Monkey Punch. Such color pages are rare and Lupin’s clothes’s color was not as settled as it is now. He was also sometimes seen wearing a white jacket or the more “traditional” red.
Still, that scan was shared a few years ago on Twitter by a Japanese user, SYIN. I retweeted it back in 2016, and even shared the scan here on Tumblr back on my old blog.
I went one step further and drew some fanart of the yellow jacket Lupin. I didn’t wait long for the ripples to come and many other fans jumped on the bandwagon, with some fanartists basing their own recurring color scheme on that discovery.
So yeah, if you see a lot of fanart featuring Lupin in a yellow jacket, it’s because of me, who introduced that color scheme to the Western side of social media.
