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None taken Of course, just like you said, the end result is bound to be shinichi and ran ending up together, otherwise gosho's work on them would be a total waste of time. And I agree with you that people need traits that complement one another. For Haibara, i think she would either end up alone, die, or find a new person. But if it was the latter, I would want her to end with Rei, or akai

Rei furuya and Shiho miyano. I ship it

This is kind of confusing, youre saying that Shinichi and Ai are basically fire and ice, and Ran and Shinichi are fire and fire. But there's some questionable points in this argument. First of all, if anything, Haibara is more like Shinichi than Ran. Haibara and Shinichi both like the same sport (soccer) they're smart, have interesting lives, both grounded each other, both understand each other, both attracts opposite genders, both know Sherlock Holmes (Ran does too, but she gets tired of Shinichis constant blabbering of him) and others things. Whilst Ran and Shinichi, have the same ethical thoughts, attracts opposite genders, but that's about it, there may be others that i haven't covered but it still not as much as haibaras. I admit that Shinran is 99.99% the end result, but I'm just stating the flaws of your statement. Sometimes, I even find opposite attractions my sweet, but ok.

I pick shiho/haibara bc 1. She is creator of the drug 2. She'll be better help on a case (what @VVN2004 said) 3. The two learn from each other I also think shiho and shinichi would be the legit couple of the show. I personally don't favor childhood sweetheart too much, it makes people think that two is destined to be together. Shiho and shinichi is, as people on the forum has said, the more realistic couple

Shiho and Shinichi personally, should totally be together, seeing Ran and shinichi for me, doesn't really fit as much as seeing Shiho and Shinichi. It's really weird that shinichi even likes Ran since they're childhood friends while Shiho is such a perfect match for him. there's no one more perfect to Shiho than Shinichi

I would say haibara, especially in terms of solving cases. In many instances, she was the one who gave Conan an approach, or clue to a case (even though it might have been an accident and she didn't even know how she helped out) which helped Conan deduce who the culprit was. Moreover, Conan could actually discuss the case to her and he'd end up solving the case. For ran, he'd probably just waste all of his time explaining his theory and getting her to understand it instead of concluding the case. I'm not saying ran isn't smart, she is a pretty smart lady, but compared to haibara, I think she's pretty far off. Of course, I must admit that Ran's bad ass karate skills are on point, and could be much help when fighting against criminals. But there aren't a lot of times when the criminal is so aggressive and plus ran gets scared easily so... Haibara may lack in physical strength (except for knowing how to use a gun) but she can win in a battle of wits. Shinichi isn't a bad fighter so she could be the one who distracts the criminal while Shinichi goes from behind and take him down or sth like that. Another thing is that haibara knows how to 'ground' Conan, by poking holes in his huge ego and making him learn to accept that other peoples opinion may be different to his. Whilst ran just keeps on making Shinichis heart race and face blush, which isn't much help for him to become a grounded detective. The detective boys treat Conan and Ai like their little parents. Conan can rely on haibara to take care of them when he needs to solve cases in private, which suggests that Conan trusts Haibara and that she isn't just some sort of useless girl who depends on others. Of course, if ran was in haibaras position, she would do a good job in caring for the detective boys so I'm not dissing ran in this argument. I understand why some people would choose ran for this, and I'm not saying that haibara is the 'right' respond to this question, I'm just putting my own opinion out there.