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Namako re-reads the Manga by Gosho Aoyama and makes some quick notes about a lot of things. Characters and locations are listed by order of appearance for every chapter. You are welcome to bore the heck out of yourself. :D
I actually started this re-read a long while ago and wrote down these things, which I will just dump on this page. Feel free to put anything you might find useful into the Wiki proper.
The day after exposing Sewa, Shinichi reads a newspaper dated "January 12th, 1994" (a Wednesday)
Fittingly, students of Teitan High School wear their Winter uniforms (October 1st-May 31st)
The next day after that in turn, Shinichi and Ran meet to go to Tropical Land at 10 am (which hence should be January 13th, 1994, a Thursday)
Aiko had a date with Kishida herself an undefined time before this chapter (in her university days)
After the sunset at the end of the chapter, there's a Waning Crescent Moon 🌘
There will be a direct prequel to the events of this chapter in FILE.882-884 (Volume 84, File 10-Volume 85, File 2) later on.
Plot
Shinichi Kudo is a well known high school detective solving case after case, already acknowledged as a great help for the Japanese police. On a date with his secret love Ran Mouri, the daughter of an unsuccessful private detective, he gets to clear up another murder and follows two mysterious guys on their way to an illegal weapons deal afterwards, where he gets beaten up and fed some new kind of poison, allegedly killing someone without leaving a trance. To his own (but probably not the reader's) surprise, he "just" shrinks to the height of an elementary school student...
General stuff
This chapter had the first few pages colored with water colors in its original release
Gin's hair seems relatively short (down to his shoulder blades) in comparison to later on
The first time a crow appears in relation to an appearance by the Black Organization
"These kind of things happen a lot..." - "NO, THEY DON'T!" <- lol, considering everything Ran chronologically experienced before this chapter alone, as we learn later down the line...
The first explanations about the APTX, courtesy of Gin: "We will use this... The new poison that the organization developed... You can't find any traces of poison in the body with this stuff... The perfect crime!! We haven't tested it on humans yet, so this will be our little guinea pig..."
Interesting, so that means the list of the poisoned victims was started after Shinichi? But Koji Haneda is listed on it too, so it also contains the names of victims of Silver Bullet and/or other poison(s)? Why are the names of victims of different kinds of poisons on one and the same list, what is the purpose of it exactly?
This chapter is a direct continuation of the previous one, FILE.1.
Plot
After being found by the security guards in his shrunken form and mistaking him for a kid, Shinichi Kudo escapes the Tropical Land's medical room to get back to his own home. After a troublesome way back to his house, he meets his family's neighbour and old friend Professor Hiroshi Agasa, who he quickly convinces about his real identity. Unfortunately, Ran Mouri also arrives shortly after, looking for Shinichi out of concern since he's missing since their date at the amusement park. Agasa and Shinichi quickly invent the persona of Conan Edogawa, moving him in with Ran and her father, Kogoro Mouri, in the Mouri Detective Agency. After arriving there, Kogoro literally crashes into them, telling about the first case he got in a long time...
General stuff
This chapter had a watercolor drawing as a cover in its original release
This chapter was in real life released on the exact date Shinichi Kudo was reading the newspaper after school in FILE.1
What does the piece of paper at the table in the Mouri Detective Agency say? In the German translation it kinds looks like "Romance series 'China Wok'", but it isn't really decipherable either.
The shrunken Shinichi got from Tropical Land to his home pretty quickly, considering his new body and that he went by foot. This seems to imply that his residential street and the amusement park aren't very far apart.
Hiroshi Agasa is described by Shinichi as a "lousy inventor" or that he thinks he's "a genius", but "everything [he] invents is utter crap" (depending on the translation) - either Gosho changed/retconned his characterization quickly (considering the indeed working gadgets he already starts creating only 4 chapters later) or Shinichi was just being salty because of his current situation?
Some of the books in the Kudo residence:
At least three volumes (or copies?) of "Ranpo Edogawa: Collected Works"
Ran: "Wow! I'm always amazed at how many books there are!! And they're all mystery novels..." <- This means Alice in Wonderland, The Road to Oz and Magic Kaito are mystery novels too? :D Well, at least his inspiration Arsène Lupin is considered mystery...
Ran: "How old are you?" - Conan: "Sixte... I mean... Six!!" <- First confirmation of Shinichi's age being 16
Ran is actually already making a pretty unambiguous love confession to Shinichi, unconsciously of course, if one doesn't count that short moment in the Mystery Coaster.
The Mouri Detective Agency in turn doesn't really seem far away from the Kudo residence, considering that Ran could quickly run to it and return with Conan in the span of a presumably short walk and talk.
"DRINKING AND MAHJONG AGAIN?!" <- He really seems to do this a lot, lol
The street in front of the Mouri Detective Agency is remarkably wider and the surroundings aren't as high-rise and densely built-up than later on.
In contrary to the settings before, the (real) Yayoi District Mr. Tani lives in seems to be a bit farther away, judging by the fact that they have to use a taxi to reach it.
Mistakes
Gin knocked out Shinichi right in front of the concrete base of the Tropical Land's ferris wheel in the previous chapter, but now, woken up in his shrunken form, he is lying a good distance away from it. Did those two drag him away from it a bit so his corpse wouldn't be found immediately or is it really an oversight?
