Chekhov MacGuffin

Either way, it makes sense. Probably a reference to Iron Chef's Chairman. Your translation looks correct. It's this guy. I think you are on the right track with the history reference. I forgot who Shuukichi Haneda (羽田 秀吉) was named after, but wasn't it a general or something like that? 太閤; 大閤 【たいこう】 (n) (hon) (esp. refers to Toyotomi Hideyoshi) (See 関白・かんぱく) taiko; title for a regent, later for the grand chancellor, also for the father of an Imperial adviser (advisor) who passed the role to his son

So the boss is allowing the best killers in the Organization to try to murder her beloved spouse and possibly her daughter, because she is hoping her unreliable favorite will stop it in time by acting out of line? That's a pretty big error. It also goes against what Vermouth said about the boss being overly cautious. Why would the boss be so reckless with the ones she loves? The boss didn't know that Conan or Akai would be there, so they don't count. That leaves the questionably reliable Vermouth. The boss is not omniscient. Gin isn't known for lying. I can't think of a single instance where something Gin said has been proven untrue, ignoring things where Gin may have been lied to himself. The boss could say Kogoro is being mined for information, or is under watch because of involvement in past cases. Both of those are believable. Gin let Kogoro go when Vermouth lied and said she was using Kogoro for some purpose. If he listens to Vermouth, whom he does not trust after the Haunted Ship incident, surely the person that Gin works for is more trustworthy. Or, if Gin is insubordinate, have him killed. This is purely hypothetical so it can't be used as valid evidence. There is no evidence that Eri planned to force Kogoro or Ran out of the house on such short notice.

Jodie was extremely out of character stupid in this case. While she was never Conan or Akai level, Gosho basically made her into an idiot to force the plot forward in an extremely awkward way. Jodie was never this bad in the Vermouth or Kir arc. I'm not impressed with the plot right now. Just had to get that off my chest. I can tolerate slow plot and plot without much action as long it is plausible and the logic works, but this is character sacrifice for badly done plot progression. Jodie is a half decent law enforcement type character who even Vermouth respected for being persistent and smart enough to piece together her whacked up aging. It sucks to see her degraded to Yamamura level.

Gin received permission from boss to kill Kogoro in FBI vs. Org. The boss could have easily refused, claiming Kogoro is part of a plan or something. Gin is pretty loyal. Also, Eri did not know Ran went over to Agasa's. She could have been killed as well. Don't you think the boss would think it is risky to rely on Vermouth to defy Gin rather than take the simple route and tell Gin to stand down for now? Also Midori is an anime original character who appeared late in the manga as a cameo. Gosho would not have written her into the main plot without setting her up as a serious character in the manga first. Ditto goes with the movie 2 plot. It has to be in the manga to be considered canon.

Seems like an appropriate thread to note that Knightus mentioned that DCTP's regular weekly chapter translation might be ending sometime soon. No official announcements but in his words: "I'll be honest - after over 250 chapters, I think the group may have finally reached the point where weekly translation is no longer sustainable. Sorry if this news causes a panic. In the future, I imagine, we probably won't be able to do every single case. But, anyways, we're not announcing anything yet... might have more info in May (when the anime operation ends)."

What the banana guy said. Translating looser means you don't have to spend time making everything semantically perfect. In one piece, it really won't make a difference to the overall plot whether Sanji got locked in a cabinet or a dresser and used "one-inch-kick" or a "super close range knee" to escape. (Blatantly made that up if you can't tell.) If it was Detective Conan, you might have to know the victim damaged his right big toe while attempting to break the hinges of the heavy pine dresser facing the kitchen. That's pretty much true. The translating team isn't that big, and most of the people working are adults with full-time university or jobs which cuts back on the free time quite a bit. Luckily they keep up better when something important is going on..

I have similar thinking to Rye except I think Vermouth may have been one of the original members - which means she is at least as old as the Black Organization. (See my theory for Vermouth being Sharon Vineyard's mother if you want to know more about that). Rather than being experimented on by Org scientists, I think there was an accident or something like that that stopped her aging, but the formula was lost. The Org has been trying to replicate it since, and that is why the Miyano's were brought in thirty years ago. Vermouth didn't like being a research subject/the ideals of the Org, so she came to hate the Miyanos.

She seems to be suspecting because Moroboshi Dai (the name she knew Akai as) and Okiya say similar things. She tried to take off Okiya's scarf presumably to see what was underneath (Voice changer? Scar? Tattoo? Unique jewelery? there are lots of theories). However, after the train case she demanded Conan tell her know who he was, but Conan only replied with he is an ally. Maybe she is guessing Okiya is Dai, but she isn't sure. Amuro seems to know Conan is the puppet master behind sleeping Kogoro, but it isn't clear that he knows Conan is Shinichi. No one has talked about Shinichi in front of him yet. He definitely doesn't know Haibara is Sherry. I am guessing that he doesn't know either identity yet, although he may figure out Shinichi's soon. I don't think there is more to Calvados' death. Copy pasta from DCTP: The pocket pistol Calvados used was small, so it would be easy to miss. I don't think the Org has undercover agents in the FBI. Remember they didn't know Kir was in a hospital until Vermouth questioned the child and even then they didn't know which one until they sent out agents. A spy in the FBI should be able to feed them that info. (Unless the spy was in a completely different branch of the FBI that had no idea what the Japan branch is doing - which would be pretty useless.) Same goes for which van Rena was in. At the strategy meeting, all the FBI learned Camel was going to drive the van with Rena but Gin still had to deduce which one was the right van. Lastly, Conan spoke in front of all the FBI during the strategy meeting, yet nothing bad seems to have happened to Conan later.

Any way you look at it, you pretty much were translating like you had your arse on fire. If you are a single person who is translating and writing it down, a normal rate would be 1-2 chapters a week for someone with normal time commitments, more if you are very fluent, and less if you are busy. If you are typesetting too, 1 chapter a week or less would be normal for a single person's work. If you are cleaning, translating, and typesetting as a single person, 1 chapter every two+ weeks seems like a decent pace. This is why people form teams to make fan translations of weekly manga. You need 3+ people on board to keep up. Those crazy guys who release a chapter of popular manga in a few hours literally have a mini-team for every one or two pages. Some manga have more writing and more difficult terms than others. Bleach will go faster than Kindaichi. All above mentioned rates should be adjusted for that. DC is one of the harder mangas to translate because it is text heavy and full of technical terms. Also you have to be really precise for DC because mysteries depend on it; You can be looser with something like One Piece.

I could be wrong, but I thought the scene of the shadowman jumping through the window was original animation and not from an episode.

That's damn good time. I'm impressed. 500 pages = 31 sixteen page chapters That's 2/3rds of a full chapter a day.

"Gold coins to a cat" is nearly identical to the English phrase "throwing pearls before swine". A cat has no interest in gold coins, so throwing gold coins to a cat is a futile action or a waste of resources.

The administrator of the DC wikia alerted us to the fact that our articles on Gosho Aoyama and the Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory contain sections copied verbatim from their wikia. While this is technically allowed because of the way wiki licenses work, it's annoying on principle because it makes us look bad and unoriginal. I would really appreciate anyone with time taking a look at those articles and helping us rewrite them to to make them pure Detective Conan World work. Thanks and any help is appreciated.

Just to let you know, we have a thread on this topic already. Be sure to check the thread reference guide before making a new topic to see if it already exists. http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/4288-how-detective-conan-will-end/

I am not sure what you are trying to say. Spamming people is bad. Please don't message 50 random people to read your fanfic. That said, if 15 people commented on someone's last fanfic thread, and that writer wanted to tell those 15 people there is a new fic they posted at a fanfiction site, that is probably okay. In general, the moderators don't go around looking for things that might be problems (except for things that could get the site sued or are disruptive). People report problems to us, and then we take action. If someone spams people fanfiction ads and you report to us you have been spammed, we'll take a look. Otherwise we assumed that you were okay with being told about a fanfiction.

There seems to be some bizarre things going on with the links after the switch to the new forum. I tried to edit the first post and some things appeared to have been deleted. If you recall something that has been deleted, please let me know.