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The new ending theme will start on August 6th and according to Off the Lock's twitter will be so for one month. It appears to be a tie-in with the album, but hey, it is the B'z and the B'z are awesome. More B'z in Detective Conan is always welcome! This is also the likely reason for OP #31 to be changed on that very same day. They probably figured that B'z for the OP AND ED would make the TV explode due to too much awesomeness. We will have the full version of the song before it appears in the anime as well as the album it is on releases 27 July 2011. I just wonder if they'll insert live footage of the B'z in the ED as they have been known to do with the OPs. Sources: Off the Lock and B'z Official

mewmew... Gosho has NOTHING to do with any of the movies EVER! I shall stand by my assessment that 9-11 were all horrible, getting worse and worse as they continued. 7 and 8 were bad but still enjoyable (relatively). I'm putting them on the list just to state why I didn't like it. For those curious here are my reasoning for each movie and my hatred towards them. 7 - Simply put there was more talk about relationships than there was about the actual mystery. This would have been FINE if it was made by Gosho and was thus canon. Seeing as it wasn't it was tripe in my eyes. As I said though... It wasn't all bad, but I still didn't like it. 8 - Where was the mystery?! The actual mystery encompassed an entirety of about 30 minutes. The rest was action, and there was no mystery to whom Kaitou Kid was. This KILLED it for me. You want to make KK and Shinichi looking similar into a joke? Fine! But don't make it into a movie, it takes most of the fun out of KK's character! Use that in OVAs don't base movies off of it... Kid was enjoyable though in his character... But really it should have been done so much better.... 9 - I actually would have enjoyed this more if it wasn't so contrived and forced. I did like how Kogorou out did Conan... But still the negatives out weigh the positives... Like Kogorou's motivation... Conan's epic failure... And all the contrivances that drove the plot (though they were far worse in 14, to be discussed later) 10- Again... ACTION MOVIE! There was no mystery! And what they passed off as a mystery was SO FORCED it was painful. Not to mention the fact that every character appearance felt forced in and of themselves. There was NO NEED to put EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER into this movie. There were better ways to celebrate the 10th anniversary of anime than to do it this way. Also, Kaitou Kid's appearance was wasted. Though at least that was done better than movie 8. Though still the fact that there was no mystery and a forced plot make it one of the worst movies in my opinion. Though the Movie theme was good (I do love the B'z) 11 - I honestly have no idea what to say... PIRATES?! REALLY???? Where was the mystery? THERE WAS NONE! It was a movie about friendships if anything, but that doesn't belong in a movie where a mystery is expected. This was a treasure hunt movie. And honestly Conan... you need to leave that to Indiana Jones! (Worst Movie Ever in detective conan at least) 13 - What was the point of... what was it...? Irish?! Irish is Bourbon that was killed! I mean really... They used a macguffin too! several.... the chip and Irish figuring out his identity... I'm really against MacGuffins... Especially when they lead ABSOLUTELY NO WHERE! Oh right and this had possibly the most ridiculous scene EVER! Conan destroying a helicopter like that? Ran dodging a bullet? ARG! I want to see alternative scenes where the characters die when they do stupid things like that! 14 - Where to begin... First off the entire plot was based off of a MacGuffin and wasn't really a mystery... They made it into a mystery which in and of itself was ridiculous. Know what? the only good thing I can really say about this movie is Conan's defenestration scene. He totally deserved it too! I realize that I hate HALF of the movies... Wow... Btw, if I watched them recently I might be able to say more, but I refuse to watch them again.... Each of these movies were watched only once where as 3-6 were watched several times... 3-5 especially.

Here's the list of interviews I could dig up through Japanese anime news and blogs. I've managed to get the raws of a few of them on the list and I've translated them, but to get more I'd have to buy some of the magazines listed on there, which I'm willing to do once I start earning my own money (but not now). Of the ones I've read or heard about through the Japanese blogs, none of them talked about what puns were used to come up with the characters' names - so the puns are fan speculation for the most part, I think, unless someone can give me evidence to the contrary. Oh man, I'm getting off-topic - anyways, it's a cool idea that Shiho's name might come from Sherlock Holmes! Although, I'd have to say that Shiho is a fairly common name in Japan, but - who knows, right?

That's the first I've heard of this. I assume you mean it comes from taking the first kana of "Sherlock" and "Holmes"? Hell's Angel makes more sense English-wise. Haibara's Japanese translation of the nickname was literally "the angel which fell into hell".(V41-11 pg 12) Gosho's English is iffy, so it is better to use the Japanese sense. Basically instead of implying evilness, the nickname implies Elena is an angel, basically a good person, who fell into hell, The Black Organization. Her behavior on the tapes, all around nice, friendly, and loving, corroborates this. She probably earned the nickname because her goodness seemed out of place among the criminality and darkness or the rest of the Organization.Also copied from my speculation section about the Miyanos (For the most up to date version see this link.)

First, welcome. Second, wrong section. This is the "Introduce yourself" section.