Heliotropic

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Well, first off welcome to the site! (I'm relatively "new" to DCW as well, but not DC). I'm sure everyone here is willing to talk about Detective Conan, at least a little bit As for music, I really enjoy bands like Failure, Oceansize, HUM, Mogwai, and mewithoutYou. More into the "indie and alternative" bands, but I can appreciate some mainstream pop as well!

File 924 (Chinese) - http://tieba.baidu.com/photo/p?kw=%C3%D7%BB%A8%D1%A7%D4%B0&tid=3801011886&pic_id=50315236acaf2edd83b16872881001e9380193a4&pn=1&see_lz=1

It simply says there was one mouse that shrunk during animal testing.(If you're referring to Episode 129, or File 179). No specific number of tests were mentioned.

Everyone? I'm just saying that it was canonically revealed that he faked his death, and how he did it in the Scarlet chapters. That was your question, wasn't it? James Black and Kir are the only ones who knew for certain if I'm not mistaken, and Shinichi probably has known for some time before the Scarlet files. Amuro certainly had his suspicions as well (or the whole Scar Akai thing would have never happened). Maybe I'm missing someone else in the mix... As for us? Well most people have known that Subaru was Akai before the Scarlet arc anyways...(704 and Movie 18 both gave it away)

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Well we don't know for certain either of their ages do we? Haibara is most likely 18 or so though (as she said so herself, and I think the audio tape left by her mother mentioned her upcoming birthday was 19. Rei's age is more of a gamble isn't it? In any case, I doubt they are close in age anyways given Rei's involvement with the Secret Police. Even if 29 is a lie, it probably isn't far off.

She called out to Calvados to stop firing because he was shooting at Ran (Angel), and Vermouth has a sentimental attachment to both Shinichi and Ran because they saved her in New York when she was disguised as a serial killer to lure out Akai Shuichi. The "Silver Bullet" is a reference to a person who can destroy the organization, but it's unclear if we can link it to the drug (or if it's even the same one as APTX4869, probably the same project though) I'm not talking about Atsushi Miyano's appearance in the anime, I'm talking about the manga (although he was mentioned by name in the manga, obviously). I believe when Gosho said that the boss had appeared, it was partial to the manga, and it was quite some time ago as well, towards the beginning of the series. After all, Detective Conan wasn't expected to last that long, let alone 20+ years. "Maybe" is the key word there. It could be awhile until we know for certain why it is that she doesn't age. Where does it say that APTX has a 1% chance as well, as far as I know, shrinking was just a rare side effect...

It was revealed that he faked his death and how he did it in the Scarlet files.

As for Vermouth, I find it extremely unlikely that she would be Elena Miyano. Vermouth tried and probably would have killed Haibara had Ran not intervened in 345, as well as in the Mystery Train with the explosives (unbeknownst to Bourbon). She clearly has a grudge towards the Miyano family in general (for what reason we don't know, but maybe due to their involvement with the "Silver Bullet"). The audio tapes also show that Elena cares for her daughter in demeanor and enough to leave messages behind for her. She's the former actress Sharon/Chris Vineyard. We already know her real identity. We've never seen Elena's eyes, but I'd say they don't look alike (Elena is also British). Rei's former relationship with Elena is unclear. She could be the reason he was brought into the organization. They could be related somehow, or Elena could have taken care of him when he was younger, who knows. Bourbon's plan on the Mystery Train originally could have devised to help Haibara fake her death, which is also a theory. Given we know he is a spy, is there anything "really" tying him down to the organization? (He does seem to have a deep interest in Akai Shuichi though, but that's probably due to Scotch) As for Atsushi, there really isn't much to go on, but didn't Gosho also say that the boss had already appeared in the manga? (I don't think Atsushi has made any appearance in the manga that we know about, not sure if this is relevant at all in the first place) I'm not sure why Akemi would be Rum, it goes against the code-name "policy" that Gosho uses. Rum should definitely be a man. She's also dead, and we know that Rum now is apparently "on the move". She wasn't important enough to the organization to even receive a code-name. I'm not discounting the possibility that Atsushi could be the boss, but I think both of Haibara's parents are dead. I don't really have much of a reason to believe otherwise.

I didn't watch 777 more than once, and most AOs, never more than twice, not recent ones anyways. In 777's case, it was just a bad episode and there really wasn't anything to miss. The only "interesting" tid-bit in 777 was the way they compared themselves to the DB, and really that's just grasping at straws. 778 went by a little fast to me, and I thought the evidence in question seemed relatively weak. I felt it deserved a re-watch. It's definitely not necessary by any means. I tend to look over silly things, and more than not, I don't catch everything on the first time through.

Well, I'm really not big on anime in general. Detective Conan is really the only one I follow, so I suppose it's not really too big of a deal to make time for it. I didn't really consider 778 to be "bad", not on the same level as 777 anyways, just a bit formulaic. I might get a different impression from sitting down and watching it again tonight (but I doubt it).

Yep.. I usually revisit an episode at least twice. Dunno my reasoning for it, just in case I miss something the first time around I guess.

I think 778 is better than the last episode (that's not really saying much), but I pretty much summed it up as generic filler. Nothing too exciting about it. Going to watch it again later tonight.

Hope this helps!

It's speculation, but I highly doubt that they are linked. They are most likely entirely separate from one another (and I thought Gosho had already confirmed this at some point) Detective Conan's main plot definitely doesn't "need" Kid's involvement either.

English subs are still the same, but another G+ user picked it up from me and improved the timings in general as well as subbed the intro. Hope you enjoy it!

Although I did like the Bourbon arc, and I normally don't care much at all for fan-fiction, I think this is really well written. Great job, looking forward to the next one!

Imo, it's a really good special. I think Moonlighters will get to it, eventually. It is subbed in English now though.

Really? That's quite a narrow view, and I wouldn't recommend the show to such a young demographic. Not even for violence or mature themes, but I know I would have had a hard time trying to comprehend what was going on at such a young age. Not to mention there's even a dismembered corpse in one of the earlier episodes. It's toned down quite a bit, but when it aired in the U.S it carried a TV-14 rating, and I think a few episodes were marked as TV-MA. I suppose I can see why someone might say that, had they never seen the show before.

I don't think it's been overwhelmingly mainstream or anything like that, not outside of Japan, but it's always been a fairly popular series. It even had a very short run on television in the U.S, even if it were at a crappy time-slot. It's my favorite, and really the only anime I watch, but I wouldn't say that it *needs* to be more popular than what it is. It obviously has massive success in Japan, and I think there is a pretty solid following in other countries. I mean we haven't really seen "Case Closed" in 10 years in the U.S (not counting Crunchyroll), and even then it had a really short run. It's a completely subjective matter, but obviously the length has something to do with it. VIZ's manga releases are incredibly far behind Japan, and even though Crunchyroll recently picked up "Case Closed", it picked it up right at 754. That's not exactly a good spot for newcomers to pick up the series, and the amount of legal content available to foreign viewers is minimal. Just in the way it's been marketed and distributed, I can't see any reason why it should be as popular as it is outside of Japan. I feel it's in a good spot for what it's worth.

I don't particularly care who people ship, but my argument would be basically because it's canon. Obviously plenty of people might like a different outcome, such as AI x Conan/Shiho x Shinichi, but outside of fan-fiction, it's likely not going to become more than a friendship between the two. Gosho obviously wants it to be this way, so I support that, and personally I think Ai's character is interesting enough (or used to be) without a love interest. I'm not a Shin/Ran fan, nor am I a Ai/Conan fan, I just consider myself to be a Detective Conan fan. There really is no proof that Shinichi has any romantic implications towards Shiho. He's already "confessed", and albeit a bit dodgy, there's been quite a bit of development for Shinichi and Ran as love interests. So again, because it's canon. Do you have to like it? No, certainly not. I actually don't like a majority of the romance throughout the series. What's the argument for Shiho/Shinichi? Just curious (although I don't really want to open that can of worms). There seems to be a lot less of a basis for supporting a non-canon relationship where only Ai has made very subtle remarks in regards to her feelings towards Shinichi. From what I gather, it's because people think it would be interesting and not as cliche as the canon pairing. But really, would that be the case? I don't really like dabbling too much into fan-fiction, but maybe because I'm not a "fun" individual. Don't force yourself to like something, that's never a solution. (Being a Shin/Shiho fan really doesn't have anything to do with this though, there are several "problems" throughout DC with romance in particular)