I'd like to ask a question,
I know about the small 'tsu' you sometimes see and what it does but sometimes I see a samll 'a, i, u, e or o' beside a character. What do they do?
Sorry for butting in there, btw. May I join your class? I've been studying japanese for a year but you can only learn so much without a solid source to learn from...
Ore is generally used by older men but not too old. It would be wired to have a kid refer to himself using ore.
Boku would be more likely what a young boy would refer to himself as.
Watashi means 'I' and is used by both genders but men normally only use it when in a formal situation while women use it in casual situations.
I have a question about this:
Do you grow after taking it? So if Conan waits 10 years or so will he be the same Shinichi again?
If you do grow then if these characters keep growing while the series progresses Conan will become more and more like the Shinichi Ran knows...
Aoyama is a brilliant mystery writer and with any good mystery writer you need to leave little clues here and there. I don't think the boss will be a brand new character. I would be awesome if the boss was a member of the FBI or CIA.
I have a slight problem with the method of murder. The gymnast girl had to turn around and lean over Shinichi while in a pitch black tunnel. Surely the Meitantei Shinichi must have felt some woman leaning over him. The same goes with the gymnast's friend. She didn't notice her friend's legs moving around beside her face?