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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
Start of the series and of what the fandom calls the "Conan Arc".
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.
Callbacks
FILE.1: Considering this is the direct continuation of the first chapter, there are several mentions of events that happened in it, like the shrunken Shinichi Kudo trying to tell about his encounter with Gin and Vodka in the medical room and the former one explaining about the drug is briefly retold in a panel background of Shinichi's memory, as well as Ran Mouri explaining to her father how Shinichi ran away.
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?
This chapter is a direct continuation of the previous ones, FILE.1 and 2
Plot
Conan Edogawa, Kogoro and Ran Mouri arrive at the mansion of the wealthy Tani family, the daughter of which, Akiko Tani, was kidnapped. The servant Mr. Asou quickly incriminates himself, actually being the "kidnapper". But then another, real kidnapper calls Mr. Tani, keeping Akiko hostage and demanding his money...
General stuff
This traditional Samurai house of the Tani family strongly resembles the one the Mine family owns in Yaiba... Maybe Gosho Aoyama reused some reference model here?
The (fictional) rival companies of Mr. Tani mentioned are "Kadobeni" and "Yotsui", which later get bigger roles: Kadobeni is mentioned later this Volume in the Case with Yoko Okino, the Yotsui plays a signicant part in a case in Volume 9.
The fact about the guard dog not barking creating a contradiction in the culprit's explanation is taken directly from a Sherlock Holmes short story, The Adventure of Silver Blaze.
The unnamed hotel Akiko Tani stays at is mentioned as "nearby", so probably in the Yayoi District, too?
The kidnapper demands 3,000,000, Yen, this would currently be ~28,000 US-$ (May 2020).
Callbacks
Considering this is the direct continuation of the first and second chapter(s), there are several mentions and connections to events from those.
FILE.1:Conan Edogawa thinks about Gin and Vodka and them shrinking him, which occured in the first chapter.
FILE.2: The current case is the one Kogoro Mouri got at the end of the second chapter.
It's still the same evening/night as the one in FILE.1-3 (on Thursday, January 13th, 1994)
This chapter is a direct continuation of the previous ones, FILE.1-3
Plot
The real kidnapper calls Mr. Tani and makes his demands, while Akiko Tani interrupts and tells about a "chimney" she can see from the window of the school she is held at. Conan Edogawa catches the Tani's guard dog Jumbo and manages to narrow down the place the two are at, identifying the supposed chimney to actually be the side of a skyscraper. But despite his intellect intact as proven by this, Shinichi's/Conan's new body is no match for the kidnapper, who beats him up badly...
General stuff
There are five schools in the vicinity of the Tani residence - I wonder whether the maps in Conan Edogawa's mind are based on real ones or made up?
Why does he even know all that rather trivial stuff about from which schools in Yayoi and surroundings you can see chimneys...? This seems to imply he has one absurdly good visual memory and thinking, even for a detective and especially for his age.
One of the schools Conan in checking out it the "Busamaru High School".
The first moment of the series in which Ran Mouri uses her almost superhuman Karate skills when innocent people are in danger. She also still isn't afraid about almost anything happening around her...
The Sunshine 60-like building is seen as part of the cityscape again at the end when Conan Edogawa, Ran and Kogoro Mouri take the taxi back home.
Callbacks
FILE.1:Conan Edogawa again thinks about the moment from the first chapter Gin fed him the poison, which is also visible in the panel background.
FILE.2-4: The current case is the one Kogoro Mouri got at the end of the second chapter, which started in the third and continued in the fourth, getting resolved in this chapter.
Yaiba Kurogane and Sayaka Mine walk in a row, doing identical peculiar poses, in front of a background drawn with crayons containing elements of a typical children's drawing: A house with a fence, trees on a plain and the sky with clouds.
The re-release version has both in a more modern drawing doing the same thing on the front cover, sans the background.
Yaiba Kurogane is a young boy living in an unnamed jungle, together with his father Kenjuro, who instructs him about things like survival training and martial arts - especially Kendo. One day they kill and eat a Gorilla, with a tiger trying to steal a bit of the grilled goods, but the Gorilla's next of kin try to retaliate - so Yaiba, his father and the tiger have to flee. They hide in a wooden box, which unfortunately gets closed that very moment and loaded onto a plane to be sent to Narita Airport near Tokyo.
After their arrival, Kenjuro meets an old rival of his, Raizo Mine, and his daughter, Sayaka - who completely fascinates Yaiba, never having seen a girl before. But they are still on the run: Kenjuro grabs Raizo, Sayaka, his son and the tiger to flee again - this time from the airport police - and dumps this group in a taxi, asking the driver to bring them to the Mine residence...
General stuff
Start of the series and of what the fandom calls the "Yaiba Arc" (Manga: Chapters 1-5, Anime: Episode 1).
This chapter had the first few pages colored with water colors in its original release
Yaiba Kurogane's name is one of the less creative ilk: "yaiba" just means "blade" and "kurogane" translates to "iron".
The unnamed jungle (meaningfully described as "This is a jungle") Yaiba and his father live in seems to be (intentionally) highly ambiguous about what jungle or even where it could remotely be. Besides the rather generous surroundings, animals like Gorillas (from Sub-Saharan Africa), Tigers (having their habitat in continental Asia) and - as we will see later on - Jaguars (who usually live in Central and South America) and Vultures also seem to have their habitat there. It also grows pineapples who are reaped there - and the wooden boxes of which just have generic, stylized "PINE APPLE" logo.
Yaiba doesn't even really seem to understand what a "law" is...
The (real) Narita Airport, located on the border between the towns of Narita and Shibayama in the Chiba Prefecture (Greater Tokyo Area), appears several times in Gosho's works, probably because it was the most important international airport of Japan back in the day. It also served as the place of arrival of Princess Anne of Sublina in Magic Kaito and the location where the showdown between Conan Edogawa and Yutaka Abe happened. It was replaced in this function by Haneda Airport in 2013, which is mirrored in Gosho's works, where this one appears since then instead.
They also have to arrive in what is Terminal 1 nowadays, since Terminal 2 and 3 opened in 1992 and 2015 respectively, long after the release of this chapter.
The plane Yaiba and his father arrive with is "flight #704" with a machine of Japan Airlines (JAL), a real airway company. JAL's crescent-shaped logo also was the template for the brand of the (fictional) LUNA airline company in Detective Conan. I wonder whether the flight number JAL 704 was also real back in 1988 and where it came from?
Raizo Mine just returned from a Kendo tournament he won in (continental) Asia.
Kenjuro accidentally boarded some random plane to some random place and just as he arrives at the airport, his vitriolic best bud, who he hasn't met in ages, arrives there, too? What are the chances? Gosho's penchant for absurd coincidences aren't all that new, aren't they? :p
The taxi cab shows an interesting company name: "OX"
