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=== Da Vinci Magazine 2024 Interview ===
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'''Date:''' April 6, 2024<br>
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'''Published in:''' Da Vinci Magazine, May 2024 issue
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'''Special Thanks to [https://x.com/zirish7?s=21 @ZIRISh7] for the help'''
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'''Page: 26'''<br>
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{{font color|red|Favorite character:}} Everyone / All of them<br>
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{{font color|red|[Trigger / Reason]}} Well… various things.<br>
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{{font color|red|[Appeal / Charm]}} Aoyama: Well, well… various things.<br>
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{{font color|red|Episode that left the strongest impression:}} Aoyama : “Ran GIRL” and “Shinichi BOY”<br>
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{{font color|red|(Example: Volume 1, Chapter 1: “Heisei no Holmes”) ※ Please specify using the original manga’s volume number, chapter number, and title.}}<br>
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{{font color|red|[Reason / Highlight]}} Aoyama: Because this is the one story I thought I wanted to leave behind in this world (Laugh).<br>
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{{font color|red|The appeal of Detective Conan}} Aoyama: Well… (laughs)<br>
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{{font color|red|Message to Gosho Aoyama-sensei}} Aoyama: Well, do your best. (laughs)<br>
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'''Page: 27'''<br>
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{{font color|red|Furigana:}} Aoyama Gōshō<br>
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{{font color|red|Pen name (for publication):}} Gosho Aoyama<br>
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{{font color|red|Age:}} Full (60) years old<br>
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{{font color|red|Gender*:}} Male<br>
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{| class="wikitable"
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! {{font color|red|Year}} !! {{font color|red|Detective Conan History}}
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| 1994 || Serialization begins! I thought it would end in 3 months…
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| 1996 || It became a TV anime, and I was shocked!
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| 1997 || It became a movie, and I was even more shocked!!
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| 2001 || I received the Shogakukan Manga Award for Conan ♪
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| 2006 || Live-action drama adaptation! Oguri-kun was smoking while dressed as Shinichi (Laughs)
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| 2007 || The Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory opened! The name is a bit embarrassing…
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| 2015 || “Tottori Airport” ended up becoming “Tottori Sand Dunes Conan Airport” lol
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| 2017 || In the 1000th-episode storyline, Ran kisses Shinichi ♥
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| 2021 || Finally reached Volume 100! The “Umizarujima island series” was tough… lol
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| 2024 || Reached the 30th anniversary of serialization! So long!!! (Laughs)
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'''Gosho Aoyama — Long Interview'''
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No matter when you interview him, Aoyama-san never changes. He smiles as if drawing manga is something he simply can’t get enough of, then starts to say something only to grin mischievously and add, “Ah—this is something I’m not allowed to say yet!”
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So even though we know it’s pointless just to ask, we decided to ask him again anyway.
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Now, as the series marks its 30th anniversary—and as you’ve spent half of your life running alongside Detective Conan—how do you feel at this moment?
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Interview & text: Momo Tachibana    Photography: Hiroyuki Yamaguchi<br>
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It has been 30 years since the first chapter was published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday Issue No. 5, released on January 5, 1994. Gosho Aoyama, who was 30 years old at the time, celebrated his 60th birthday last June—meaning he has spent exactly half of his life walking alongside Detective Conan.<br>
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“Honestly, in terms of how it feels to me, it’s only been about 8 years (laughs),” he said at the 15th anniversary. 5 years have passed since then. So how does it feel now, frankly?<br>
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“Hmm… maybe about 12 years, I guess (laughs). It feels like it suddenly turned into 30 years before I even realized it. It’s a strange feeling—like I’m moved, but also not, at the same time. When I tried to have Sonoko say a line like, ‘If you say that, I’ll sulk,’ and a young editor in charge told me, ‘I don’t understand what that means,’ that’s when I thought, ‘Wow, I’ve gotten old’ (laughs). the stance with which I face the work has really not changed at all since the very first chapter of the serialization.”<br>
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'''{{font color|red|‎”It’s nice to be recognized, but it doesn’t mean the work itself changes.”}}'''<br>
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What was expected to be a short run that would end in three months ended up drawing a far greater response than anticipated. Just when he was starting to feel like quitting, plans for an anime adaptation and then a film adaptation were decided, and he continued on, buoyed by that support. He has spoken about that episode in past interviews, so readers are referred to the reprinted version (from p.124). This time, drawing on the Detective Conan “résumé” that Aoyama-sensei filled out (p.26), we would like to ask about his memories of receiving the Shogakukan Manga Award.<br>
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“I had already received an award for YAIBA, so it wasn’t like I was jumping for joy. Still, being recognized is, after all, something that made me happy. But you see, when a work is nominated, on the day the results are announced all the editors gather at my house and wait. We sit there eating convenience-store rice balls, and then a call comes in saying, ‘We missed it this time,’ and everyone quickly heads home (laughs). I’ve got deadlines, so I have to get back to work, and everyone’s busy too, so there’s no special ‘consolation party’ or anything. That went on for about three years, so I finally said, ‘That’s enough—come over after I actually win.’”<br>
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Certainly, being left behind in that situation sounds rather heartbreaking.<br>
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“It’s not so much about being left behind—it was that I didn’t like watching everyone sit there waiting at my place. And having them look disappointed made me feel bad, too. For me, if anything, the anime adaptation and the film adaptation were much bigger turning points. In the early days, the editorial department often made all sorts of requests—like ‘you should do this more,’ or ‘we want you to introduce this kind of character.’ But after it was made into a movie, they stopped saying anything, and they let me draw the way I wanted to draw. Of course, even now I still consult with them when necessary. But perhaps they came to trust me. When I say that I haven’t changed at all, I think it’s from around that time.”<br>
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That is why, when it came to manga awards, while he would be happy to receive one, it was not something he felt he had to obtain at any cost. The result—<br>
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In terms of how it feels, it’s only about twelve years at last (laughs). It doesn’t feel like anything has changed.”
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'''That’s because he knows that such things don’t determine the work itself.'''<br>
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“Just like the fact that even after 30 years, nothing has really changed. After I told them they didn’t need to wait anymore, no one actually came at all, so even when I won the award in 2001, I just kept drawing my manuscript without paying it any mind. When the editor-in-chief at the time suddenly came to visit me and said, ‘Aoyama-san, you won it!’ my response was, ‘Won what?’”<br>
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'''{{font color|red|‎Even to the airport’s name… Conan became a national work}}'''<br>
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Requiem Prologue<br>
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In contrast to Aoyama-sensei’s unchanging nature, the Detective Conan phenomenon continued to grow larger with each passing year. In the autumn of 2006, when the theatrical film Detectives’ Requiem surpassed 3 billion yen at the box office, the live-action drama Challenge to Shinichi Kudo Prologue to Farewell was broadcast. Set before Conan’s birth, during Shinichi’s days as a high-school detective, it was an original story starring Shun Oguri as Shinichi and Tomoka Kurokawa as Ran.<br>
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“The production team came to me saying they couldn’t find an actor who could play Shinichi, so I recommended Oguri-kun.<br>
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When I watched the movie Robocon, I thought, ‘That’s it—I’ve found him!’ He’s tall, has a sharp, refined presence, looks intelligent—he was exactly Shinichi.<br>
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He probably wasn’t trying to look cool himself, but just standing there, he naturally had the right look. It fit the image perfectly.<br>
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Apparently he had played baseball before, but had never played soccer. Even so, when I heard that he practiced juggling tirelessly for the drama, that made me really happy.<br>
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Come to think of it, before the drama adaptation, the four of us once went out to eat together—Takayama Minami-san, Yamazaki Wakana-san, Oguri-kun, and me. While we were eating tai-meshi, Oguri-kun suddenly said, ‘Honestly, I wanted to play Kaito!’ And afterward I thought… yeah, maybe he is even more Kaito-like than Shinichi.”<br>
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The drama was well received, and the following year a second installment was broadcast with the same cast.<br>
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“Yuu Kashii-san played Haibara, and apparently she’d wanted to play the role for a long time. Thinking that she was able to make her dream come true through my work was honestly a bit moving.<br>
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Then in 2011, there was another version with Junpei Mizobata-kun and Shiori Kutsuna-san. That brings back memories.<br>
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If there’s another live-action adaptation someday, I’d like Kazuya Kamenashi-kun to play Akai. I told him that myself in a previous discussion—I think he really resembles him.”<br>
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Then in 2007, in Hokuei Town, Tōhaku District, Tottori Prefecture—Aoyama-sensei’s hometown—the Gosho Aoyama Manga Museum opened. In his résumé, he wrote: “The name is a bit embarrassing…”<br>
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“It is embarrassing (laughs). At first it was supposed to be called ‘Conan Village,’ but I asked them to scrap that—Conan Village being in Tokyo instead of Tottori wouldn’t make sense.<br>
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Then they went with my name instead, which… well, it’s fine, but it makes you feel kind of itchy, you know?<br>
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When it first opened, I was too busy to visit, and it wasn’t until ten years later that I finally went. A talk event called Hanashō Day started being held every year, and that finally gave me a work-related excuse to make time.<br>
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At the museum, my old work desk has been recreated exactly as it was, so I think visitors enjoy seeing it and thinking, ‘So this is the kind of place where Conan is drawn.’<br>
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But like I wrote in the résumé, ever since 2015, every time I get on a plane and hear, ‘We will soon arrive at Tottori Sand Dunes Conan Airport,’ it makes me embarrassed (laughs). I still haven’t gotten used to it.<br>
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That said, Tottori also has Yonago Kitaro Airport, right?<br>
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In one TV drama, the heroine and the man she’s with realize they’re both from Tottori, and they go, So which airport?<br>
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‘I’m Kitaro!’<br>
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‘I’m Conan!’<br>
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When I saw that, I was really happy!”<br>
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'''{{font color|red|‎A Theatrical Film Worthy of the 30th Anniversary, Crossing Three Works}}'''<br>
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For Aoyama-sensei, the most memorable episode is Volume 87’s “Ran GIRL / Shinichi BOY.”
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It is the story of the two characters’ first meeting: young Ran tears her kindergarten name tag, desperately tries to fix it while crying, and Shinichi reaches out his hand to her.<br>
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“I’ve said this in the 30th anniversary book as well, but this is one episode I felt I absolutely had to draw.<br>
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These days Shinichi can come across as cocky and a bit slick, but he wasn’t born that way. He learned that skipping the reasoning process and jumping straight to the conclusion may be cheap, but it does have the effect of surprising people—and he tried putting that into practice, though at first it didn’t go the way he expected.<br>
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Still, I wanted to properly depict how, by using his powers of observation and desperately reasoning things through in his own way, he gradually blossomed into someone with the makings of a great detective. If people can think that’s cool too, taking all of that into account, I’d be happy.”<br>
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For Ran, it was a memorable day when she encountered the awkward kindness of a boy she hadn’t liked from the very first meeting.<br>
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For Shinichi, it was the first day he put his deductive abilities to use in order to protect Ran.<br>
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By shifting perspectives, not only do the personalities and relationship that lead to their present selves come into focus, but the fact that the story also delivers a proper mystery twist works very well.<br>
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“It’s good, right? (laughs)<br>
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I like this episode, including the fact that it also shows how Ran and Sonoko’s friendship begins around this time.<br>
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And of course, you can’t leave out the 1,000th-episode storyline where Ran kisses Shinichi. It took twenty years of serialization to finally get there.<br>
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More recently, I’m also fond of the episode scheduled to be included in Volume 105. You think it’s going to be a confrontation between Hakuba and Kid, but it turns out to be a romantic comedy about Shinichi and Ran—that structure worked out nicely, I think.”<br>
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Aoyama-sensei often says that his strength lies in being able to balance mystery and romantic comedy.<br>
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“Normally, if there’s been a murder, it’s not really the time for rom-com,”<br>
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he says with a laugh. During a commemorative dialogue with Eiichiro Oda for the publication of Volume 100, he also remarked that “on the other hand, it’s difficult to depict friendship dramas.”<br>
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“It’s not that I can’t draw them,” he said, “but they don’t quite reach that ‘this is intense’ feeling.”<br>
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And yet, the mutual trust between Shinichi and Heiji often conveys a strong sense of heated friendship.<br>
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The same can be said of the relationships between the female characters as well—Ran and Sonoko, Ran and Kazuha, and others.<br>
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That’s true—I do draw them (laughs). So I’ll take back that comment. I’d feel bad toward readers who say they like the way I portray friendships.<br>
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Still, it’s definitely embarrassing to draw. I love stories about friendship—of course the ones Mitsuru Adachi-sensei draws, and Yowamushi Pedal really gets to me too. There are tons of works I love reading. But when it comes to drawing it myself, I start to feel awkward and self-conscious.<br>
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I’ve never once felt embarrassed drawing romantic comedy, though, which makes it a bit strange even to me.”<br>
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The theatrical film Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram, opening this month, is a dense and ambitious story that, in addition to romance and friendship, incorporates elements of a historical mystery revolving around Hijikata Toshizō’s Japanese sword. Alongside Kaito Kid, who targets the blade, Sōji Okita, the young swordsman, also appears, and the story intertwines with Magic Kaito and YAIBA as well—making it a work truly worthy of the 30th anniversary.<br>
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“Now that you mention it, I guess that’s true. It actually started when I suddenly thought, ‘Maybe it’s time to have Kid and Heiji face off directly.’ I wasn’t consciously thinking about the anniversary at all.”<br>
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While not to the same extent as Conan,<br>
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Heiji, too, has a past connection with Kid. In Volume 96, “Kid vs. Takaaki: The Targeted Lips,” Heiji—without realizing Kid was disguised as Kazuha—cornered him against a wall and nearly kissed him.<br>
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When Kazuha is involved, Heiji tends to lose his composure a bit, but will he be able to corner Kid this time?<br>
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Expectations are high, especially since screenwriter Takahiro Ōkura also handled The Fist of Blue Sapphire, which depicted Kid’s showdown in Singapore, as well as The Crimson Love Letter, which focused on Heiji and Kazuha’s romance.<br>
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“As usual, I left the overall story framework to Ōkura-san, and I handled the romantic-comedy parts. Honestly, it made me laugh. When the script came in, Heiji’s lines were completely blank—there were just instructions saying, ‘Write something for this situation’ (laughs).<br>
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The trick involving the Japanese sword was also my idea. And after the first draft of the script was done, I even asked to have a certain character from one of my other manga be more deeply woven into the story.
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I really hope people enjoy every last detail.”<br>
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Not only does the film revisit material from Volume 96, but it also resolves many long-laid plot threads from the original manga. Before watching, viewers would do well to reread—thoroughly—the episodes related to the characters whose appearances have already been revealed.<br>
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'''“The final chapter’s storyboard—want to see it?<br>Shall I show it to you?”'''<br>
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'''{{font color|red|‎The storyboard for the final chapter is already done}}<br>
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In his résumé, the message Aoyama-sensei wrote to himself was, “Well, hang in there (laughs).”<br>
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To close, we asked about what he really meant by that.<br>
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“All you can do is hang in there without killing yourself (laughs). I said earlier that nothing has changed, but these days, after finishing a single episode, I make sure to take a certain amount of time off.<br>
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If I could time-slip back, I’d tell my younger self: after drawing one case, take at least a week off. That’s how strongly I feel rest is necessary. Time for input is important too.”<br>
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Aoyama-sensei is known for thoroughly keeping up not only with manga, but also novels and TV dramas. What has he found particularly interesting lately?<br>
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“For dramas, Ishiko and Haneo. You think it’s a legal drama, and then it turns out to be a full-on romantic comedy—that’s what makes it great. I still rewatch it over and over, and I never get tired of it.<br>
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For manga, Isekai Ojisan stands out as exceptionally entertaining among reincarnation stories. And I was really struck by Power-chan from Chainsaw Man. When she’s asked how she felt after a companion was killed, she just answers, ‘I thought, “They died!”’—that’s all.<br>
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There wasn’t even a hint of emotional padding in that line. It was incredible. I could never draw something like that. Having the mental space to enjoy all kinds of works like that is absolutely essential if you want to keep going for a long time.”<br>
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“By the way, this magazine also reaches its 30th anniversary this April. As a fellow of the same age, please give us a few words of encouragement.”<br>
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“Huh—long, huh? (laughs) But I guess it’s the same as what I wrote in the résumé. Let’s keep at it. From here on out too, for the fans.<br>
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I still want to write about Akai’s father, and in the April 10 issue of Weekly Shōnen Sunday, I’ll be resuming Magic Kaito after a seven-year break. There’s still a lot I have to do.<br>
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Readers might start wondering, ‘Does he really plan to end it at all?’ But the storyboard for the final chapter is already done, so I’ll keep moving forward little by little.<br>
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・・・・・・Want to see the storyboard for the final chapter? Should I show it to you?”<br>
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As for that, we absolutely must decline!<br>
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“Heh heh heh. Well then, until that day someday comes, everyone, please wait while looking forward to it.”
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===1100 Chapters Comemorative Q&A ===
 
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'''Date:''' October 2022; April 10, 2024<br>
 
'''Date:''' October 2022; April 10, 2024<br>

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This page lists interviews in 2024.

From Gosho Aoyama To All Readers - DC 30th Anniversary

Date: January 10th, 2024
Published in: Weekly Shonen Sunday Issue 7/2024

Da Vinci Magazine 2024 Interview

Date: April 6, 2024
Published in: Da Vinci Magazine, May 2024 issue

1100 Chapters Comemorative Q&A

Date: October 2022; April 10, 2024
Published in: Twitter; republished in Detective Conan Volume 105

Gosho Aoyama Documentary 2024

Date: April 28, 2024
Published in: NHK General

1983 Romantic Comedy Youth Interview

Date: July 25, 2024
Published in: 1983 “Romantic Comedy Youth” — Shonen Sunday’s Bookshelf

Sunday Culture Festival 2024 Conan x YAIBA Special Talk

Date: September 25, 2024
Published in: Weekly Shonen Sunday TV Official Youtube Channel

Celebrating 30 Years of Detective Conan with Fans! A Message from Gosho Aoyama

Date: November 27, 2024
Published in: On the official Weekly Shōnen Sunday website


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