Chekhov MacGuffin

787-789 are likely going to be the only chapters to be tied up with the Kogoro case. (Note: this case is totally a fake Kogoro lookalike, fake Akai lookalike hint drop) Assuming Gosho will start on the 00, that leaves 790-799, which may break down into three three parters or a three parter and a six parter, and a singlet for 799 (a singlet has happened before two major showdown arcs now - 594 and 699). I think we are likely to get at least one more Sera case because we still need clues about what specifically tipped Sera off that Shinichi, Conan, and Haibara are important. We are also going to need a pretty heavy Ran's suspicion themed case in order to build the proper "Save Sera from Bourbon while keeping Ran from suspecting!" double header that has been hinted at for a while now. (Shiragami, Sports bar, Sera's questions) The Sera and suspicion may be combined into one case with the suspicion spilling over into the next case. I think Gosho needs to drop a reminder about Scar Akai before 800 hits because his last appearance was ~100 chaps before 800 which will equate to about 2.5 years of not appearing - then again after this long, maybe it's better to wait until the main plot. We still don't know why he hates Akai yet. Gosho has yet to drop any hints in that direction which is a bit aggravating. It would be nice if there was one scar Akai case before the main fall, but with Sera and suspicion there may not be room before 800 hits unless Gosho somehow decides that three plots in a row is a good thing. Perhaps we will have a minor Okiya appearance shoved in to clarify how he feels about Sera and just to remind the readers who everyone is before the big 00.

I pretty much agree with all of the above.I think Akai never told James what he was up to because of the exchange between James and Akai right before Akai went to meet Rena; however, James has been shown to be a decent reader of people. James is usually the one informing other characters about why the various FBI members act the way they do, like Akai becoming more closed off because of Akemi's death, and Jodie being sensitive about Akai's death because they were a pair. I think he knows Akai well enough to suspect his strange behavior at the time indicated that he had a plan and James hasn't lost all trust in Akai yet. Bonus points if James noticed Rikumichi's body was gone because someone should be keeping track of stuff like that, and as leader of the FBI action, James would be first to hear that the body went missing.

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She said her age at the end of the soccer stadium hostage case - 18. (V20-1-last page) Of course you could assume she is lying.

Gosho did give them his notes. See JustWantAnAccount's translation below. Q：長期連載で辛いと感じたことは？ What felt tough from the long serialization? A：昔書いた伏線を忘れてしまうところ（笑）。ベルモットの伏線を明かした時はすごく大変でした（本記事＃35）。あれもこれも入れなきゃみたいな感じで。前に複線をすべてメモした紙をアニメのスタッフに渡したんだけど、返してほしい（笑）。それを見れば、”あの方”の正体がわかるかも？ When I forget about the foreshadows I wrote a long time ago (laughs). It was a lot of work when I clarified Vermouth's foreshadows. I felt like I needed to include everything. I noted down all the foreshadows on a paper before and I handed it to the anime staff – I wish they'd return it (laughs). Maybe anokata's identity will be understood if the paper is seen?

Don't forget to give your theories about how Conan knows it was a murder. I wonder if Megure/whatever officers show up will play along? I have been super busy lately, so I promise to say something about the case later.

He's had failures. Getting shot on the rooftop by Conan was a minor one, because he failed to consider Sherry had an assistant, which is the most likely rational explanation for how Sherry escaped the cell in the first place. From Gin's perspective, Vodka had to hold off the mysterious guy (Shinichi) because neither Org member had any idea of how many shots he had. Then of course there was Akai's hello in Org vs. FBI. Gin ran away from that fight. Akai's fake death is going to be a serious blunder on his part, regardless of who you think Akai is at the moment.The Black Org as a whole has the exact opposite problem of the one you claim them to have. They get their arses handed to them most times they appear and basically Gosho has to work overtime to make them not appear weak. Black Org failures include: their bombs stopped, they lost their 10 billion yen, Sherry escapes and Gin and Vodka can't do anything about it because Gin has to take out Pisco who got caught, they don't get any data from Itakura's CD, Vermouth gets messed up and almost captured and Calvados commits suicide, the boss's number gets uncovered, their assassination gets thwarted, Kir gets captured, and Gin acquires some internal bleeding courtesy of Akai, their agent who finds Kir has to commit suicide, and Akai, Kir, and Conan basically completely manipulate them with their plan to return Rena and fake Akai's death. You could complain the situations they get in always allow a somewhat dignified path of retreat that preserves some of their appearance of danger, but the truth is they fail. A lot. I don't think money is the primary reason why Gosho is continuing. He is a well regarded writer; if he was truly burned out or out of ideas, he could write something else and still get a good contract. He said in an interview that it's especially hard to write the BO chapters. They are even more work because they are going to be microanalyzed by the readers too, so no mistakes or contradictions with prior or future material are acceptable. By dealing with the BO in chunks at a time (which naturally means they are going to be spaced out) rather than evenly spread, he is setting up the structure of the plot so that it is less likely to run into problems. Dealing with the BO in chunks also means that he has more "free" cases that he doesn't have to force into the overarching plotline which gives him extra flexibility to use a greater variety of tricks and settings. Personally I like it when more of the weekly cases tie in with the greater plot, but I can understand why it is easier to write when you aren't forcing a case. I agree that it's always been about the weekly cases from the start, not the BO; however saying that "He wants to end the BO stuff." makes no sense. It's the overarching plotline that ties together the series. Getting rid of it destroys the direction of the series: Conan defeating the guys who shrunk him so he can get his body back and return to the light with a better personality. I think the root of the problem here is that plot cases have been a lot more spaced out in the Bourbon arc than they have been since the start of the Vermouth arc, and people don't like that.

There was no reason for the BO to play act shooting Kogoro. If we start with the assumption the Black Org was pretending to try to kill Kogoro, their boss, in order to fool the FBI into thinking he was unrelated to them, then it would be weird for them not to follow through with the murder. It would create more suspicion than it is worth to fail in front of the FBI (even if they didn't know Akai was watching), especially since it's possible the FBI might try to shelter Kogoro or watch him in order to protect him or something like that. Also Ai has met with Kogoro (first that comes to mind is the "Hunted Kogoro case" just before Red vs Black) and has had no "Black org reaction." Also if the boss was Kogoro, he should be really intelligent. That means he should have caught on to Conan's and Ai's situation, yet isn't helping the Black Org find them which doesn't make any sense, a la reasons why Agasa isn't the boss.

That scene is definitely not in the manga at V24. I checked Sherry's Return before asking the question here because that's where I thought it was too. I though for sure it was ep176 but actually it was Movie 5 "Countdown to Heaven" about 44 minutes mark.

Because not spoiling the ending and not wanting to prematurely end the story are signs of author greed.Gosho has said in a recent interview that he wants to retire eventually which I am sure equates to finishing Detective Conan. He has also said that he has the ending in mind. The guy is going to tell the story at his own pace and he will will reach the conclusion eventually. If you can't stand the pacing, don't read DC for a few months, then read all the chapters all at once, rinse, repeat.

I have the feeling Sera's going to get put on a boat back to America or else become as rare as the FBI after the Bourbon arc is over. Gosho can't have a detective as good as she is competing with Conan regularly and "the rival" is already filled by Hattori.

Definitely file by file. Case by case causes description splits over the pages, and makes it less precise to describe what occurs in each file. Episode cases are okay because we combine all the episodes necessary into a coherent case. We can't do that for the the volumes, which leads to half on page and half on another in many scenarios. File by File looks like this

Yes it does. I was trying to find it earlier so I could merge. Links anyone?

My impression is that wolves are a personality type which Haibara and Sera share. Both are somewhat cold in certain aspects. Sera happily lead a man into the range of snipers hoping his head will become a fine red mist, while Haibara is just cold all around and is also somewhat less idealistic, sometimes more worried about being safe than stopping the BO from killing someone. I assume you refer to the following dialogue... Mitsuhiko: Oh! Now that you mention it, when we woke up in the morning, the Professor said that a high-school detective he knew stopped by and helped solved the case… Ah, but Haibara-san reminded us to keep that a secret, so… ... Sera: But how come you have to keep the thing about Kudou-kun a secret? That’s his house right next door, isn’t it? Mitsuhiko: Dunno… He’s always away from home but that day it seems he came back to pick up something he forgot, and stopped by at the Professor’s house… Sera: But isn’t there someone in there even now? I just saw the curtain shift slightly… Mitsuhiko: Oh, that’s likely… Genta: That Subaru guy! Mitsuhiko: His apartment burned down, so he was allowed to stay there! Sera: "Hmmm… And here I though someone had just settled in without permission, but it seems I was just getting worked up over nothing." I think that interpretation is overreaching. There is no evidence Sera knows about Subaru any more than he is occupying the place. She wondered how he landed the spot at Kudo manor, but then again, if Sera is looking for Akai and suspects ties along the lines of Kudo --> Conan ---> Akai, she may wonder if Akai moved into Kudo manor on his own volition in order to hide which is convenient because Kudo is out all the time which her explains her words perfectly.

Akai was actually pretty good at deduction. (Link to DCTP list of Akai's detective skills)

I am pretty sure Akemi is dead. If she faked her death that means she had to do it in Conan's arms and Conan is generally shown to be pretty good at telling when people are really dead. Akai had an easier time because he only had to trick someone looking on from a camera in the dark. There is also the problem of why Gin would cooperate with Akemi to fake her death when she has known ties to Akai Shuuichi. Gin would probably have to cooperate because assuming he is about on the same level as Akai, could tell by Akemi's movements if she was wearing a bullet proof vest. Assuming Also, Akai's death had contradictions, Akemi's unfortunately didn't.

The anime makes tons of mistakes that make solving the arc mystery (Vermouth, Kir, Bourbon) impossible or really hard. There is no getting around the fact that the manga is the only solution for someone serious about mystery solving. In my experiences talking to people, trying to figure out any of the Black Org related plot using the anime only is pretty much a sure fail.

It was explicitly confirmed in an official guidebook as well. Check around page 7 of this thread.

The search box is terrible to the point of being unusable in about 75% of the cases I want to use it. That three letter word restriction is really annoying. Even if you use uncommon words or quoted phrases it fails. I'd rather see it replaced with a google/other search function site search instead.

This is definitely one of the reasons I prefer DCW's fanbase to DCTP's. You aren't going to stop haters from hating, but for the most part the haters over here are a lot more congenial and participate in far less bashing and whining which makes for much nicer threads when the issues are contentious (like pairings) or like vs. dislike. I hope it stays that way. Just keep the "coolness" to DCTP please.

You know, Ran has never once complained about her parents being separated. Sure she tries to get them back together, but she is emotionally balanced in that regard. There are at least a dozen places where she cries annoyingly, you don't have to go making one up to make a point about it. There was a case about how Ran actually purposefully avoids doing this. She doesn't go with Sonoko when she can't pay for everything herself. (V39-8 pg 17)Also tone down the character bashing Parkur.