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Hmm . . . So I take it that none of you guys think that the whole "OMG you can switch your slippers in the bathroom!" thing is significant? Meh, I dunno.

Thank you for your effort! It was a good read. ^^

That would be an awesome plot, even if it doesn't turn out to be canon. Any chance you're a fanfiction writer? *hint hint nudge nudge*

Oh my, I got the credit for the "collapse of gestaltism" idea? The idea goes to this guy/gal on 2chan, though I do agree with his/her idea, especially because Conan seemed to be sure that an optical illusion was involved in Serika's murder. Hmm, I thought that someone was trying to frame that Serika tried to murder Ikurou, with the whole fiasco about switching slippers in the bathroom? I dunno . . . EDIT: *Idea hopped into my head* I wonder if Ikurou was trying to frame Serika? So that he'd end up being the CEO? Maybe he was going to brag later on about how glad he was that he'd washed his hands carefully? I wonder . . . *Hopes to be right, crosses fingers*

^ I know, I thought that it was silly to forget how to write your own name, but the explanation fits *shrug*. Gosho has done weird, unlikely tricks before.

^ Because she's the one who insisted on cutting the baumkuchen into eight pieces, and she also had access to arrange the baumkuchen pieces in such a way to make one piece look bigger than the other (Jastrow illusion). On Serika's death, I've just read about ゲシュタルト崩壊 ("collapse of gestaltism") in 2chan - gestaltism is where you see an object as a whole rather than a collection of its constituent pieces, but when you look at that object long enough, gestaltism "collapses" and you start seeing the object as a collection of pieces, and you end up wondering about how what that object looks like. Unfortunately, there's no English version of the Wikipedia article for "collapse of gestaltism", so I don't know what the English term is, but apparently it's well known in Japan. See this Japanese YouTube video collapsing your gestaltism - this video essentially explains that, when you look at one character for a long time, you start wondering about how to write that character. That explains a lot! The secretary also made the wife look at all those logos for a long time, so much so that the wife started doubting how to write her own name. Interesting . . .

I tried to post this on News and Updates, but I couldn't. ^^; From here If you can think of a better translation, let me know . . . 特別ふろく：特製ポストカード！！ Special supplement: specially-made postcard! 第１話リバイバル掲載！ The first chapter will be re-run! 見逃せない「まじっく快斗」関連情報も！！ Can't-be-ignored Magic-Kaito-related news also included! 青山剛昌 Aoyama Gosho まじっく快斗 Magic Kaito 「名探偵コナン」の作者・青山剛昌の初期傑作「まじっく快斗」のリバイバル掲載！！今、なぜ「まじっく快斗」なのか・・・！？その詳細は巻頭カラー記事にて情報盛りだくさん！そして、ワクワクが止まらないDVDつき特別版コミックス発売情報もあるぞ！！！ Detective Conan's creator, Aoyama Gosho's early masterpiece, Magic Kaito will re-run! Why now, and why Magic Kaito? Those details are present in the opening colored article, in great quantity! Exciting information about DVD-included, special comics release also included! That colored, opening article certainly sounds interesting, no?

@Chekhov: Ha ha that's okay, you're not a pro at Japanese. EDIT: Also, the way Serika wrote her name isn't technically cursive, but it is handwritten. I mean, see, for example, the cursives here: The cursives look quite different. Serika's handwriting doesn't look that different - the small difference comes from the fact that, in Japanese/Chinese, you have a specific order in which you write the kanji. For example, see the kanji for mouth (口): As you can see, it's not just a square - not only do you write in that order, you're also supposed to slant the vertical lines toward the middle, and slant the horizontal lines slightly upward in handwriting. When you see Serika's handwriting, you can see what order she wrote the little square in. I think that that's what made you think that it was a different character. /EDIT @Wakarimashita: Ooh! Brb translating . . . Done! First chapter of Kaito Kid will re-run on Weekly Shonen Sunday Super Extra Edition, August Issue (sold 7/25/2011), will contain Kaito Kid news

^ *Looks at scan* Hmm? It looks like the same "waka" (若) to me.

File 785 is out! DCTP, you are fast, as always <3 Hmm, the typography designs that the wife was looking at - the ones that say "Sake for the Young" - are read "Wakabito no Sake" or "Wakoudo no Sake", or even "Wakaudo no Sake" in Japanese, so the phrase starts with "wa". I have no clue if this has anything to do with the case, but I'll just throw that out there . . . I mean, the wife must have died by licking her finger and trying to turn the page in that dictionary, right? If she touched poison beforehand, then it would have showed up on that bronze fountain pen, right? But what would she need to open a dictionary for, when she's a pro at reading kanji's? Where does the optical illusion come in? Hmm. EDIT: Huh. I just looked at my printed Japanese dictionary, and it only listed "wakoudo" for pronouncing 若人, though this online dictionary lists all three pronounciations that I mentioned. My intuition was to read this as "wakabito", but apparently "wakoudo" is the more standard reading. Tricky. I wonder if the wife was looking that up? I don't know that people who scored first tier in the kanji skills test can and can't read, though . . . hmm.

Chekhov, obviously.

File 785 spoilers for those who care~ Source: 2chan's Shonen Sunday Spoiler Thread

Hello! Just wanted to add the titles of the Kid-centric episodes . . . From a press release: I thought that you guys would like to know. ^^ They're really hyping Kid in August, aren't they? Does that mean that the will happen in August, so the animators changed their schedule to fit that? I wonder.

^ Well, hey, immortality isn't impossible. See: immortal jellyfish :geek:

I agree - and to be clear, I think that the murders are pretty unrealistic, too. ^^; People in DC seem to want to murder people for the silliest reasons (ex. because someone disagreed with your view that Irene Adler was romantically interested in Holmes), and I will never truly understand or buy most of their excuses for murdering people. What I do accept is that real people do plenty of bad things that aren't murder for self-survival, and that DC is realistic in the sense that the bad guys are ambiguous. Personally, I take the murders as metaphors to said non-murderous crimes - I mean, murder usually doesn't happen very often in real life, outside of violent neighborhoods or a third world country - but non-murderous crimes (often involving greed) happens a lot, and I understand that a realistic solution is not to throw them all into jail (since there are so many and the jails/prisons can only handle so many people), but rather to engineer a social structure such that such behaviors will no longer be advantageous somehow. On the BO, to be honest with you they sound like they could be like the CIA. If you look at history, you realize that the CIA's been so paranoid during the Cold War that they've replaced fairly socialist, but democratically-elected political leaders with right-wing, pro-US-business dictators in the Middle East and in South America, as well as Africa. For example, see Congo (Lumumba was the guy assasinated, and Mobutu was the dictator): Also see what a former CIA agent said on what happened: Here are other countries that the CIA messed with, if you're curious. The CIA also did research on how to control people's minds. As you can see, the CIA did some evil sh**, and a lot of people are upset about it (hence the terrorists), but the CIA thought that they were doing the right thing. Maybe the BO will be similar - Japanese people don't usually believe in the existence of ~pure evil~, so maybe the BO will have some excuse for what they do, too (though that's not to say that I condone this behavior, I just understand it and accept that this is real life). You learn that, in real life, what really drives 'evil' is ignorance, pessimism, and pride - but in the end, if you upset a vast number of people, those people will usually fight back and eventually win, since people do want to enjoy their lives (see: Arab Spring and countless other revolutions during history). In that aspect, the 'dark, cruel world' has some hope. Kinda like Conan, I guess. /Rants about real life Anyways, I feel like I pay too much attention to news/history sometimes - they're usually quite depressing, ha ha. ^^;

Beautiful! I never particularly looked at DC from a moral point of view, so this is refreshing to read. I know that we (particularly in the West) are raised to think that bad guys are ~pure evil~ and it's unrealistic to have ambiguously bad people, but the real world doesn't quite work like that. Sure, there's the occasional psychopaths here and there, but normal people outnumber them significantly. Take, for example, the Best Buy Digital Subscription Scam - because the general public wants cheap products and Best Buy is losing money from selling their products at their original price, Best Buy forces customers to sign up to services they didn't ask for. See: And employees who would refuse to force customers to sign up would get into trouble and ultimately lose their jobs, and might even get falsely blamed for stealing products (since the company doesn't want to pay unemployment insurance). See this Internet confession (it's up to you if you believe this or not): As you can see, these are perfectly normal, non-sociopathic people doing immoral things. You realize when you grow up that most people are ultimately interested in self-survival, and that they will do anything to do so - so if you have an ecology where immoral behavior is needed for survival, you get immoral people. DC has their culprits committing murders all the time (I do wish that DC did something more corporate- or government-related from time to time, though I admit that this is too much for their intended audience), and though I admit that this is rather extreme, this doesn't change what you said about how the series is, in a way, about Conan fighting against the "dark, cruel word". This is what I love about DC, and Japanese anime's as a whole - Japanese people seem to understand that the world is usually not black and white, and I love that they teach that value to their children. I always thought that having a good understanding of reality is important in life, so I really appreciate this.

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Ah, I completely forgot about that. Silly me! *Looks hard* Aha! Shiina met Kouhei in college, and Shiina is 56 so Kouhei should be around the same age. . . . Which means that Kouhei and Serika are ~13 years apart in age. Daaang. Also, how can the previous wife be jealous of Satake, when Satake is ~24 years younger than Kouhei? Crazy! . . . Although, if Satake really is Kouhei's legitimate daughter, then why would she hide it? Hm.

^ Makes a lot of sense, as always.

Sakurako is the CEO's daughter, isn't she? (My inner plot-obsessed self wishes that she was Sera, but that's unlikely, considering how much she knows about the company employees and the CEO's family...) I don't know, the wife's ~evil laugh~ from the last chapter gave me the impression that she was happy that she's next in line for the CEO and that she got away with the murder, rather than that she wanted to avenge her husband's murder. :\ I thought that she helped the son kill the father, then killed the son herself or something, and was laughing in that everything-went-according-to-my-evil-plans way - I dunno. *shrug* I was surprised that the son didn't pick the cake based on an optical illusion. I thought for sure that an optical illusion was used, like Chekhov mentioned in her theory, but you never know, I guess. *Looks back at File 783* Oh man, the maid, the two company employees, and the secretary all gave something to the wife - a cup of tea from the maid, a pen from the manager, a newly-bought eye-drop from the designer, and paperwork from the secretary. I guess we can't figure out who killed the wife until we get more clues in the next chapter.

Here's the list of interviews I could dig up through Japanese anime news and blogs. I've managed to get the raws of a few of them on the list and I've translated them, but to get more I'd have to buy some of the magazines listed on there, which I'm willing to do once I start earning my own money (but not now). Of the ones I've read or heard about through the Japanese blogs, none of them talked about what puns were used to come up with the characters' names - so the puns are fan speculation for the most part, I think, unless someone can give me evidence to the contrary. Oh man, I'm getting off-topic - anyways, it's a cool idea that Shiho's name might come from Sherlock Holmes! Although, I'd have to say that Shiho is a fairly common name in Japan, but - who knows, right?

I think I'll be a teenage, female-version of Mitsuhiko. ^^;