Chekhov MacGuffin

I really don't think she would blackmail someone to be her husband. Like you said it's too risky. The guy on the ship was blackmailed for a "good" reason (not that blackmail is good, but it wasn't just random). She needed a case to be there so Shinichi would come, leaving Haibara exposed and alone. She mailed an invitation to Mouri too which gives Conan an excuse to come to the party if he wanted to. Conan didn't take the bait, instead he told Hattori to go.Maybe most of the time, the husband was simply another costume of Vermouth, so basically the entire Vineyard family is Vermouth. /most boring family reunion ever

They weren't watching with a telescope. Kir had a camera around her neck. Akai and Kir's plan was pretty good. It works well on a dark night watching through a camera. He'd kill Kir if he thought she played a trick on him. He almost did so when he heard about scar Akai. Lucky for Kir, it was Gin's mistake and scar Akai wasn't who he thought it would be.

Merged the three signature help threads.

It's just like Kaitou Kid disguising as Doito Katsuki in the Magic Lover's Murder Case. He make look like the Pillsbury Doughboy and flirt with Sonoko, but he is still Kaitou Kid underneath which makes it all cool. Not that I think Kaitou Kid is cool, but most other people do, so you get my drift. Okiya may act all domestic now, but he's still the same badass underneath, and even when he is Okiya he is plenty capable of interesting shenanigans as his hand to hand skills (Jeet kun do maybe?) have shown. Besides Akai was always a bit of a creeper anyway, staking out the detective agency, watching Haibara, tailing Vermouth, saying mysterious threatening-sounding stuff that didn't get explained until 100+ chapters later...

I'm not sure Phoenixtears and Abs. would like to hear you say that. I also made a second part with more options, including your beloved Minerva.Also Spectra, if you are still here, I botched your vote. Sorry. You should revote again.

I really wish we knew more about this guy. I don't think the boss is in any kind of exclusive relationship with Vermouth (note the exclusive, "shared" is possible) because Vermouth was pretty forward about propositioning Gin right in front of Vodka, but maybe the boss (in disguise) and Vermouth pretended to be husband and wife occasionally as part of her Sharon act. This might make sense if the boss likes Vermouth's company (for personality reasons .. and maybe also other things); he did tell her to "come back to my side". They also share some of the same ideas, Akai being the "silver bullet", and all. If the boss uses the term "silver bullet" as well, and it wasn't just a paraphrase by Vermouth, that would be more evidence they could hang out together often.Sometimes I wonder if Gin is in the same wonky aging boat as Vermouth and they "got married" with Gin in disguise as the husband. I doubt it, because they don't seem to have any affection for one another, unless the marriage was just entirely for occasional public appearances and they actually didn't even live together (or even like each other beyond the occasional casual encounter). Also Vermouth was in America most of the time previously by the sound of it, and Gin has only had Japanese appearances in the past, although he can read English.

Anokata is a gender neutral term. Exactly. Trying to assign a gender to it is like saying "it" or "they" in English sounds male instead of female.

I think it was more of a Heiji gets to enjoy mocking Conan again moment. It would be HeijixShinichi (blegh...) if he was jealous. If anything Heiji was excited Ran confessed to Shinichi.@User 4869 Sera means plot so yes, please. I really would like more scar Akai though. If Gosho doesn't drop clues about why Bourbon hates Akai before the clash, I'll be pissed. Maybe it will work out like Jodie's reason for hunting Vermouth --an 11th hour tease before the finale.

To be fair, that clue is so vague as to be completely useless. Unless you are severely Ai-myopic, Shinichi and Ran are obviously going to get together and what series doesn't have (or try to have) a dramatic finisher? I mean, Gosho could not know what the end is yet and that would still fit.

There isn't enough room. 20 people are up already.

So I was wrong about Yonehara being the one who called Heiji out. I'm kind of annoyed though because Gosho never gave a good reason why Satake would want to call Heiji in the first place. The solution indicates she already knew why Kouhei was murdered, so there was no reason to bring detectives into it because she knows the answers. She may have gotten away with it if she didn't invite them over, and there weren't any indications that Satake wanted to be stopped or caught. Was there enough evidence to differentiate between Satake and Yonehara in that regard? @Aeyra, It probably wasn't that difficult, more so if he was keeping up to date on case theories because those things were mentioned. There is a Japanese wikipage for the phenomenon which Justwantanaccount mentioned earlier in this thread. Also, three weeks of no Conan. This was issue 36/37 which means no Conan next week, and then no Conan in issues 38 and 39. We'll get Magic Kaito for 38 and 39, but... blegh.

I think main thing holding Shinichi back from telling Ran is that he doesn't want to get her involved. Shinichi thinks Ran would want to help him and put herself in danger if she knew what he was doing. One other thing worth mentioning is that one of Shinichi's consistent character flaws is that he doesn't trust others and he doesn't like to tell them what his plans are. This caused several serious problems, perhaps most notably when he didn't tell Agasa that he was suspicious of Jodie and Araide, so Agasa let them in his house which enabled them to plant bugs and trap Conan. In the original Japanese, there was a special note that in English "boy" could mean teen or child. Also there was no live broadcast, Shinichi made that up on the spot.Conan probably could have been okay if he stayed put, and when Ran found him he lied and said "Shinichi went off that-a-way!" However, he made a poor decision by running which made people notice him. Ran is expecting to find Shinichi, but if she found Conan in the police box instead, she will wonder why he was running away from Big Ben, which is where Shinichi was supposed to be. As Conan said it might make Ran suspicious. Conan also could have tried for the lie that he was chasing after Shinichi, but that might make Ran wonder why the people she asked didn't say they saw two Japanese boys. In short, Conan screwed up doubly, first the gaffe on the phone, and second by running away.

Pretty close to yes. Quoted from the Okiya is Akai theory wiki article.

"Ano kata" isn't a name. It's a respectful way to refer to someone meaning "that person". While it would be awkward to call someone "that person" in English in most speech, it has about same no-gender-implied feeling as calling someone "the boss".

I have looked into both because I have heard both of them before. The 1st has been attributed to the Volume 19: The Case Closed Casebook, but unlike the "boss's name is somewhere in the manga" interview, I never got a quoted source for it. For 2. I first saw it here, but never got a source for it, but maybe this should narrow down places it could come from? At this point it seems like a dropped plot unless Gosho wants to use it after the Bourbon arc.

Just letting ya'll know if this thread goes more offtopic, I'm going to move it there.

They're trying to revive Voldemort!?... In an effort to make my post ontopic, I'm going to say the boss isn't Agasa because the plot would be utterly stupid if he was. There just isn't any even half-good excuse Agasa could have to justify the fact that he had been hiding Haibara and Conan from the Org while ordering them to look for and kill Sherry. I was testing you - asinine. I was researching the effects of APTX - why not haul them off to an Org lab somewhere to be studied?

He happily went along with Akai's plan despite the risk to himself, nearly was murdered by Chianti on Gin's orders, and has a Gundam pun name based on a character (Lieutenant Dren) who is an ally to Char Aznable (who is Akai's namesake). He also knows Kir is a traitor and that Conan is helping the FBI, yet the Black Org has done nothing about either of them. He would also have to trick Akai.Camel would have to be a really convincing spy whose infiltration is secret even from other operatives like Gin and Vermouth (who didn't stop Chianti from shooting) and is also willing to help the FBI seriously damage the Org to build confidence. I don't think Camel is a spy.

He did. V24,F10,Pg 6.