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As an admitted fan of Ran Mouri, I appreciate your criticisms. The way I see it, however, there is no intrinsic purpose to the story—only intended purpose. What one would see as intrinsic purpose would only be a pattern-based illusion projected—that is to say, superimposed—onto the story by a thinking and judging entity. So Ran's (intended) purpose is whatever purpose her creator (Gosho Aoyama) intends her to have. You might say that my view is an inversion of the postmodern “death of the author” perspective. You claim that “essence, necessity, and significance” can all be measured through “relatively objective methods.” I am highly skeptical of the notion that such values are existent, let alone measurable, at least as far as a work of fiction is concerned. Perhaps we could measure intelligence, but one runs into difficulties in this area as well. I don't recall hearing about the philosophical beliefs that you speak of. It's been years since I've watched the relevant episodes—perhaps you can jog my memory? I think that depends on how you define “genuine purpose.” For my part, I don't think there are intrinsic purposes in a story--only patterns that emerge from the convergence of various elements. Also, it's unclear to me that Ai’s intellect is superior to Shinichi's—or, for that matter, inferior. The two are arguably comparable, but I don't think their respective capabilities have been juxtaposed clearly enough for an accurate assessment to be made. We only see a character’s actions and reactions in a limited number of situations. One encounters the same problem in real life when one tries to conclusively weigh, measure, and compare the intellectual capabilities of individuals. The data acquired from observation is often insufficient for anything approaching a precise analysis, and so one often falls back on intuition. As a side note, Ran may be no genius, but she's far from stupid. Ordinariness in itself doesn't entail mediocrity. One might say that Ran is ordinary in the best possible sense of the word. This is somewhat off-topic, but given your strong opinions about the characterizations, I'd be interested in reading about your opinion of Gin, and whether the Ran x Gin pairing might have any merit. I know that you prefer Ran to be killed off, but could pairing her up with one of the villains possibly redeem her character (assuming that the difficulty of creating a credible impetus for such an unorthodox pairing can be overcome)?

Yeah, I figured. You think Aoiyama skipped the Soliloquy for file 901? I’m pretty sure it was never online. Also guys… I found an archive of old Soliloquies!!! https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.conatsu.com/ I have no idea why no one ever thought of checking archive.org. I’ll work on uploading and translating all I can find.

(Is currently looking at latest chapter of Detective Conan) Hahahahah Well telling DCTP to Cease and desist certainly did a lot Viz.

There is a Japanese > Chinese > German > English () translation of file 900 here that you can read while waiting for the full scanlation: https://www.paste.to/EkGArwlD