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Regardless of what you claim is the emotional norm in the ME office, I know even experienced cops run up against stuff where they just can't help themselves emotionally. They don’t let it out on the scene, or even talk about it with their coworkers for the sake of the stoic culture (probably what you have been picking up), but it comes home with them. You only need to look as far as police marriage counselors to see some of the real picture. That emotion doesn't stop them from doing what they need to do, but pretending that somehow all negative emotions can be cleanly burned away like kerosene to make work is naive. The people who try to do that get burnt out or change personality for the worse. The reality is that there is a time and place for everything, including emotions like sorrow and even crying, and one copes by allotting one’s emotional time well, so to speak. I don't mind those who fail to control their emotions at times because it shows they are emotionally functioning, it's those who fail to have emotions I worry about; do they have no empathy, no emotional connections, are are they so traumatized and worn out they have trouble feeling anymore? The second order of business is that you are pretty badly mischaracterizing Ran’s emotional reactions. First, the dead body/case-based emotional reactions and the Shinichi emotional reactions come from two different sources, so conflating them as you seem to have implied in your response is wrong. The dead body reaction is fear, disgust, and empathy. Edit: The DB react similar to Ran when there is a dead body. Flipping through a few chapters, Ran doesn't act worse than the DB, except when there is a ghost involved. Sure Conan or Mouri usually recover faster to declare that it's time to call the ambulance and the police, but Ran's delay isn't noteworthy compared to other characters. Shinichi’s emotional stuff is related to romantic hardship. You are misunderstanding why Ran is crying about Shinichi. Although I don't necessarily like how Gosho has been portraying Ran’s recent emotional state, it makes sense. Ran cries because she knows she must let Shinichi go. This decision making process has recently become extremely overt: see the post-Shiragami car case in the dialogue with Kazuha. Ran is aware Shinichi is on an important case, yet she is deliberately avoiding forcing him to choose between her and his case/sense of justice. She also knows from repeated romance plot developments that Shinichi would rather be with her if he wasn't doing the case. Although Ran occasionally frivolously comments on Shinichi’s deduction-prioritizing behavior, Ran does not think Shinichi is being selfish by valuing justice as highly as he does. This leads to the point of pain: the more you love someone, the more painful it is to separate. Shinichi is not just a romantic interest to Ran, he is someone she has grown up closely with for most of her life, and furthermore, Ran has been repeatedly letting Shinichi go with no sign of stopping in sight. If it became less painful for her over time, that would mean she would be losing her emotional connection with him. I wouldn’t be against this sort of development, but the way Gosho has been going, Ran and Shinichi have been getting romantically closer. As would be expected, the separation gets emotionally worse every time: more crying. Ran has always been pretty aggressive with her karate so I don’t see the Sera thing as her losing it more than any other time. I recall Ran intentionally stopping short of putting a foot in a waiter’s face when she thought he was going to throw the Mouris out of the restaurant. Then there was the whole veterinarian Eri incident… Ran gets aggressive when she feels someone has been wronged or taken advantage of, and she definitely does get ahead of herself. It’s one of her character flaws, and one I’d rather not see go because we don’t need a perfect heroine who always acts just so appropriately. I do think the lavender locked mansion redux case highlighted how this sort of behavior makes things more interesting.

Posts fixed Hi! I dug around the Internet to see if I could get a full list of interviews Gosho has ever given so far, and this is the fruit of my work. (Lol you can see that Gosho usually gives interviews around April, probably for hyping up the movies.) Of these, I have the raws for Conan Drill, Detective Conan & Kindaichi Case Files, and the Monkey Punch & Aoyama Gosho talk from Endless Youth & Co. I'm thinking about translating them, but I want to make sure they're not translated already - so, I'm wondering if these three interviews are translated already or not? Interviews from other people EDIT: Copy & pasting some older posts I've made:

I'm editing the topic title. This is no longer breaking news. :V

How someone can get a rep for saying he's bored?! I do that all the time and I have gotten no rep for it!

bored

I'm a Gin fan through and through. Call me creepy, I don't care. Can I join?

Me too. I'll join.

*blink* http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Games :|

Can I join?

So basically, because Ran does things like most other normal people when they hear that someone tried to be a pervert to their friend or loved one, that one example (and let's note that it's only one example, an example by Gosho done merely to keep the "Is Sera a male or female?" illusion going). I don't know about you, but if my friend tells me that some person just tried feeling them up in a public place, I'm not exactly going to ask the attacker to explain his/herself. Once again, everyone lets their emotions get the best of them. No matter how much of a martial arts expert they are, how much they can control their anger. No one is saying that it is right. You are the only person here who is saying that because people are defending Ran for what she does that it somehow means it is right. No, of course it's not "right" to just whack some random stranger in the face, but does that mean that we're going to blame Ran whatsoever for sticking up for her friend? A friend that doesn't exactly have all that many great means to defend herself? Seriously, this is Sonoko we're talking about. She couldn't even defend herself against dust. Of course Ran is going to get very protective over Sonoko of all people. And not even just Sonoko. Ran will protect her friends at all cost. I'd rather have Ran on my side instead of you, to be frank, if this is the attitude you have if someone goes after your friend. Fact of the matter is, 8 or 9 out of 10 people are going to help their friend defend his/herself when faced with an actually physical attacker. End of story. I don't care how many personal experiences that you have that are against the norm. This is how things work. It goes back to our caveman/cavewoman instincts. We protect those we love, even with physical violence. Once again, just because you know people that are different from the norm doesn't mean that it's the norm. I explained this to you a long time ago on another subject, but I guess you didn't listen then either, unfortunately. Not everyone is like you. Not everyone is as strong as you. Everyone is different and we all have different breaking points. You are NOT the norm in this situation, yet you keep posting in here as-if you are. Millions of people perform less than adequate because of certain things going on in their lives. I had a depressive period last year from February to May where I stopped going to school and stopped caring about my entire life. I persevered on my own with the help of friends and friends alone. No counseling. I am an incredibly strong person who can handle these kinds of things and CAN get back on my feet. Kyuu, NOT EVERYONE CAN DO THIS. The fact that Ran is hanging in there for so long with all of the shit going on in her life, and has barely broken down at ALL, shows off to me how incredibly strong and strong-willed she is. Everyone breaks. Everyone cries. It happens. Which makes her no different from most other people in this world. Not everyone is stable enough when they're emotionally upset to call the police. Your mistake here, and a mistake that you keep making, is thinking that because you handle something the way you do means that A. everyone else should handle it the same way B. everyone else DOES handle it the same way. I've got news for you, the list of people that can handle things the way you do is a very, very short list. This is a television series and manga franchise about murder and death, it's not the Ice Capades. No matter how many times someone sees a dead body it's going to affect some people.

Again, that is not why I dislike her. I was pointing out that she lets her emotions get the best of her. It is fine to cry if it doesn't prevent you from doing what is needed. People can cry and have head enough to call the police without being told. And it is CONNECTED to a negative emotion ... usually. Sadness, as natural as it is, is a negative emotion (considering Ran, how many times has she cried out of happiness (yes it has happened, but more less often than something negative like over Shinichi or a death)). I never said it is bad, just as anger is not bad, but still negative. It depends on how you use that energy, and both while negative can be directed to something positive. You can either do something beneficial, nothing or something negative with any emotion. With Ran and crying it is USUALLY the "do nothing." Yes, she has in the past kicked a culprit, but that is not right when she is crying, and is usually after she has come to terms with what is happened. Ran also doesn't get seriously angry lately either, she is usually just annoyed at her father for drinking, but nothing more. Oh and... Perhaps not always breaking something, but she has let her anger lead to attacking someone who was innocent recently. You know... Attacking Sera was not cool. She did that because she was angry for her friend, but instead of surveying the situation like Conan did, she chose to IMMEDIATELY attack her. EVEN WHEN SERA SAID "WAIT" BECAUSE IT WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING! In Martial Arts, fighting is NEVER the first course of action, especially not for revenge for a friend. Martial arts is SELF-DEFENSE, the only person who had any right to throw a kick or punch in that situation was Sera who was fighting Ran in SELF-DEFENSE. Sonoko had a right to slap the guy or knock him away, but Ran was out of line attacking like that. Call the police if anything, it IS illegal. Ran clearly let her emotions get the best of her, and if she had attacked ANYONE else, they likely would have ended up in the hospital with the level of her attacks. Are you saying that is right? Please say you aren't, because that is considered ASSAULT and is illegal. Two wrongs don't make a right. (And that, to be honest, WOULD be a reason for me to dislike her) And I know people in the ME Office. They all have their ways of dealing with the amount of death they see, but none of them break down and cry and allow their sadness prevent them from doing their jobs. Does it bother them? Certainly, but not to the point where they can't do their job. Each of them direct it to something positive, or at least try to whenever possible. If they didn't they probably wouldn't be able to handle the job. Oh and for the record, I have lost more than the average amount of people in my life for various reasons, and I never broke down and cried or allowed my emotions from preventing me from doing what I needed to do. I talked out my emotions, went to counseling for one death in particular, but never once allowed that sadness to stop me from performing what I needed. I usually directed that emotion into martial arts teaching and practice, or my studies. And I never said she ONLY cries, but when she does, it is the only thing she does do. You can cry, but at least call the police while you are crying. Have the frame of mind for that at least.

It's not really that hard to do.

I Completed it somehow but my cheeks are in pain @___@.

i did it. but now i'm laughing.

wrong position. again. again.

CarpetCrawler and Skye ...surprise! but anyway, I hope more of you think of me as a friend than an enemy... it's icky having to reprimand people, and I hate being "the bad guy"