Chekhov MacGuffin

I don't think that makes sense.

It hasn't been outright stated that Yoko is not in love with Kogoro, or that Ran doesn't romantically love Sonoko. I'm sorry but "has never outright stated that he does not have romantic feelings for Ayumi" does not imply the opposite. It would be completely accurate to state that: "Conan likes and cares about Ayumi as a fellow Detective Boy and friend. He is kind to her, worries about her safety and general well-being, and is protective of her in danger." However, there is absolutely zero evidence showing that Conan likes Ayumi ROMANTICALLY. As a friend yes, as a teammate yes, but that's all completely platonic. Revise all the article all you want, but if you start trying to imply Conan has romantic feelings for Ayumi, that is going to get taken out.

Kichiemon most of all, and Kaito Kid by association with him. I'm cool with everyone else.

Shinichi has flaws. He is arrogant, overconfident, and doesn't tell his allies what he is thinking and in doing so hurts them and ruins his own plans. Haibara commented how he was choking others. His silence has backfired more than once. The most glaring was when he did not tell Agasa his suspicions about Vermouth, which resulted in Agasa inviting over Vermouth to treat Ai. If Jodie wasn't there, Vermouth may have tried to kill Haibara because Conan was out at the time and Vermouth had the opportunity. He never apologized either if I remember correctly. I still think Shinichi/Conan is annoying, especially because he never seems to learn from these mistakes (still not telling anyone about Scar Akai in the Bourbon arc!), but flawless he is not. I don't like Kaito much however, although that's mostly because I have disliked most of Kaitou Kid's recent cases (Pretty much all but the first three or so) rather than his character. Either they were stupid (GLASS pistols tricking people, WTH?), too easy (Kaito's teleportation), or g-ddamn wordplay (anything with thrice damned Kichiemon).

It's not undetermined. Ayumi likes Conan. Conan treats Ayumi like a friend and teammate, and he worries and cares about her wellbeing, but has no romantic attraction for her. This is not an assumption. I looked at all the evidence presented and decided that is the most reasonable conclusion that can be drawn and trying to reach for the conclusion that Conan likes Ayumi romantically is twisting and overextending the evidence. You are free to say what you want in the forums, but there is a standard of presentation and truth to uphold on the wiki.I have no problem with restating how things are said on the Ayumi Conan page however. It's fine to highlight that Conan certainly cares about her as long as it doesn't imply he likes her romantically.

Please do not, I'd rather not get in an edit war with you. There is no canon evidence that Conan likes Ayumi. There is no canon evidence Conan likes Haibara either. I'm AiCon so I don't want to hear any whining about bias. That's all.

Very nice analysis. I don't think Sera knows much about Amuro except what she has been told, but is trying to investigate him as part of a potential chain of connections looking for the one that links to Akai. I don't think Sera knows Haibara originally eithr, but early in her investigation whatever it was that tipped her off that Conan was important to Akai also tipped her off that Haibara was important too. This would explain the interest and deep investigation into both of them. I think Sera was tipped of by the pictures Akai had of Conan and Haibara from when he was following them in the Vermouth arc, which were accidentally sent back home to the Akais when the FBI sent the rest of his stuff home.

I saw a lot of people asking about this, but since there is a break in Shounen Sunday next week I think file 802 will be on Jan 4th, not Dec 28. (The file this week is Dec 21st, it came out early)

There are. Head on over to the manga section to find they are both stickied. Thread locked.

Is there no way you could paste the text? I want to read it, but I'm a bit leery of downloads...

English is out! No more spoiler boxes! Huzzah! *Despoilers everyone's comments in celebration*

Sure, but it means you are assuming people are in disguise without evidence in order to make the facts suit your theory. Also only Sharon Vineyard would recognize Conan as young Shinichi unless Chris has been disguising as Sharon for 10 or so years.

The first clue was that Sharon was clutching her side in the exact same place where the serial killer was shot while talking to Yukiko on the phone at the end of the NY case. Sharon also mentioned there was an angel for her, referring to Ran. For Conan's part of the deduction, he suspected the serial killer may have been someone in disguise when he heard later that the serial killer’s blood and fingerprints on the stair rails were cleaned up, an action uncharacteristic for someone intending to commit suicide. Sharon was the only person Conan knew about in the local area with high disguise abilities, so suspicion naturally fell onto her. Conan's deduction was explicitly confirmed for the readers when Gin talked to Vermouth about when she disguised as a serial killer in New York to try to lure out Akai because she thought Akai would be off guard if he thought he was only dealing with a normal serial killer. Vermouth then said Akai managed to get the best of her anyway.

We know that's not the case though. Remember the serial killer was shot in the side? If you look at Yukiko talking to Sharon at the end of the case, she mentions there was an angel for her, while clutching her side where the serial killer was shot.

Be a cop.

He's probably thinking of Scar Akai.