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===Newtype Magazine Interview===
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===Newtype Magazine "Comic Now" Interview===
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'''Date:''' September 1994<br>
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'''Date:''' August 9, 1994<br>
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'''Published in: '''Issue of the magazine "Newtype"
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'''Published in:''' ''Newtype'' Vol. 10, no. 9 (Cover date September 1994)
 
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『CN（Comic Now）第20回・漫画家最前線』
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'''小学生から女子中高生を中心に圧倒的な支持を得る良心浪漫画家！名作品に隠された意外な裏話とは！？「まじっく快斗」最新刊はもうすぐ！！'''
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<u>プロフィール</u></br>
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本名・青山剛昌（よしまさ‎）‎。1963年6月21日生まれ‎。B型‎。鳥取県出身。大学卒業の年に描いた「ちょっとまってて」が少年サンデーのコミック大賞入選‎。その後、「まじっく快斗」（増刊少年サンデー‎）でファンを着実に獲得。1988年から始まった週刊連載「YAIBA」で、その人気を不動のものとする。現在は同誌にて「名探偵コナン」を連載中！
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<u>快斗、週刊連載に取れる！？そしてコナンVS快斗？？</u>
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―漫画を描き始めたのは、いつごろからですか？</br>
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「大学生のときに、おもしろそうだからって漫研に入ったら漫画家の先輩（阿部ゆたか‎）がいて、彼から〝君は絵がうまいから漫画家になってみないか？〟と言われてその気になったんです（笑‎）。それで漫研の同人誌とかで何本か描いたんですけど、僕は筆が遅いのでひとりだけで仕上げたことってないんですよ。デビュー作ですらアシスタントを使っていたという（笑‎）。だから特に下積みとかそういうのはなくて、トントン拍子でここまで来たってうい感じなんですよね」
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―特に漫画家になるつもりはなかった？</br>
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「大学が美大だったので、美術の先生になるつもりだったんですよ。でも、いつのまにかにこんなことになってしまって（笑‎）。デビューしたのが大学を卒業した年の12月だったんですけど、それまでは『ひらけポンキッキ』の背景を描くバイトをしたりしてて。まあ、ここまできたらほかにすることもないし・・・・・・という感じでしたね」
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―それでその半年後には「まじっく快斗」の連載が始まったワクですよね？</br>
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「『快斗』はもともと単発モノだったのが人気があったので連載になったんですよね。でも最初は月に1本も描けないってました。それまではひとコマにこだわって描いたりしてて、2か月くらいかけてたんですから。だからそれこそ当時は週刊連載なんて神ワザじゃない！とか思ってましたね。」
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―現在「快斗」は中断していますが、今後の予定がどうなるか気になるところですか・・・・・・。</br>
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「今度、6年ぶりに新刊が出ます！昭和のときに出たコミックスの続きが（笑‎）。もう『快斗』は気長に待っていてくださいとしか言えませんねえ。実は今の連載「名探偵コナン」が始まるときも『快斗』はどかっていう話もあったんですけど、やっぱり毎週はつらいんですよね。もう『快斗』はライフワークと思ってますから。気長にちょこと描きつづけていきたいんです」
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<u>まじっく快斗</u></br>
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「『快斗』は掲載に間を空ける期間が長いですから、絵柄がすぐ変わっちゃって。どんな絵だったっけ？と、昔の自分の本を見ながら描いたりしてます。あと快斗の誕生日は僕と同じです。血液型もB型で。快斗ファンの子が誕生日にプレゼントを送ってきてくれるので・・・・・・（笑‎）」
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―「YAIBA」は〝神ワザ〟（笑‎）であるところの週刊連載となりましたが、いかがでした？</br>
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「もう絶対できないと思ってましたからね。それに週刊連載を始めたら好きな『快斗』も中断しなくちゃいけないし・・・・・・。でもせっかくのチャンスだから頑張ってみようかなということで。だから一生懸命描きましたよ。毎週毎週地獄のようにね（笑‎）。 最初は9回の予定だったんですよ。それが人気があったのでどんどん続いて・・・・・・」
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―アニメ化もされましたしね。</br>
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「ええ。とてもよくできてたので感謝しています。毎週放映時間には必ず見てましたよ。「あ、動いてら」とか言いながら（笑‎）。でも自分の描いたネームを続まれるのは恥ずかしいですけどね。『好きだよ』とかそういうのがくると、やめてくれ！みたいな（笑‎）。やっぱり書くのとしゃべるのでは違いますから。あと原作よりアニメのほうが熱かったですよね。僕が描くヤイバって、どなったり叫んだりはするんですけど、絶対泣かないんですよ。アニメ見たら『あ、泣いてる』（笑‎）。熱いなーって。基本的に男の子は泣いちゃいけないと思ってますから、ほかの作品でも絶対主人公キャラは泣きませんね。泣くことがあるとすれば、ヒロインの女の子とか親が死んだりするときくらいなんじゃないかな？逆に女の子はよく泣くけど（笑‎）」
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<u>仕事机はアシスタントたちと机を並べてある。アシスタントが渡された原稿を読んでいるときの反応を見るのが好きだとか。いちばん最初の読者層は男性は小中学生、女性は中高生が多いそうだ。</u></br>
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（text by Hideki Satomi‎）</br>
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<u>名探偵コナン登場！ヒロインは相変わらず（笑‎）</u>
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―現在連載中の「名探偵コナン」は「快斗」とは反対の探偵モノですが。</br>
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「泥棒も好きですけど、同じくらいに探偵も好きなんですよね。基本的にホームズとかルパンが好きですから。コロンボとか、最近では古畑任三郎みたいなヤツをやってみたくて。ただやるだけじゃつまらないので、主人公を小さくしてしまってね。高校生のままのほうが展開は楽なんですけど、子供の姿でどうやって推理を大人に伝えるのか・・・・・・とかそういうほうがおもしろいかな、と思いまして。最初のころに、ヒロインがコナン（少年‎姿の新一）にそれと知らずに、新一のことを好きだって言っちゃうシーンがあるんですよ。『大好き』って。それがやりたかった。意地っぱりだから普通なら絶対言えないんですけどね。まあ、基本的にはカエルになった王子様が元に戻る話ですから。それに推理をちょっとからめて」
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―でも推理を毎週考えるのは大変ですよね？</br>
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「すーっごく大変ですよ！（笑‎）それだけは言えます。いつも編集と知恵を絞ってるんですけど。毎回話が決まるまでにものすごい疲れる。『YAIBA』のころとはネームの量が違いますから。ほかの人が探偵モノをやらないのがよく分かりました（笑‎）」
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―どの作品もヒロインの性格がみんな似てるのは？</br>
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「最初は違うように描こうと思うんですけどだんだん似てきちゃう（笑‎）。けっこう姉さん女房的な、勝ち気で意地っぱりな女の子しか・・・描けないんですよ。なんかね。はっきり言って同じ役者の子がやってるんじゃないかというくらい（笑‎）。女の子はホントに同じですよねえ」
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<u>名探偵コナン</u></br>
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（週刊少年サンデー連載中）</br>
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「僕の弟が医者なんですよ。だから死亡隹定時刻とか、分からないことはよく電話をかけたりしで・・・・・・お世話になってます（笑‎）。強力なブレーンです。さすがに他人のカルテを見せてほしいと言ったとき断わられましたが（笑‎）」
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<u>YAIBA</u></br>
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（週刊少年サンデー連載）</br>
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「映画の「魔界転生」が好きで、ああいうのがやりたいなと思って。元気な男の子・・・・・・典型的な少年誌の主人公を、昔の剣豪とかと戦わせてみたらおもしろいんじゃないかなと。昔、ずっと剣道をやってたのでチャンバラは好きなんですよね。だから黒沢明の映画とかも大好きでよく見てます」
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<u>まじっく快斗</u></br>
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（週刊少年サンデー増刊号連載）</br>
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「今、探偵モノやってますよね？だからそのうち「コナン対快斗」をやりたいですね。どっちにしろ引き分けになるんでしょうけど。『マジンガーZ対デビルマン』とかいっても2人で共通の敵を倒すだけで、ちっも対決しないじゃないか！っていうのと同じようなものかな（笑‎）。あと「快斗」はぜひアニメ化して欲しいですね」
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<u>4番サード</u></br>
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（週刊少年サンデー増刊号連載）</br>
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「野球が好きで自分でチームももってますから、一回野球モノを措いてみようと思って。どの作品にも〝不思議な要素〟が入ってるのが共通してますよね、僕の場台。だからこれも普通野球モノではなくて、伝説のバットかが出てきたりしてます。長嶋茂雄が好きですから・・・ほとんど巨人ファンの本（笑‎）」
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―最後にこれからの抱負などありましたら。</br>
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「ありきたりですが・・・みんなをハラハラドキドキさせる漫画が描いていきたいですね」
 
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'''<u>Comic Now: The Manga-ka Front Line (No.20)</u>'''
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''(A gentleman! A romantic! A manga-ka who's captured hearts from grade-school boys to high-school girls! Just what '''is''' the secret behind his masterworks?)''</br>
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''(Keep an eye out for the new Magic Kaito, coming soon!)''
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<u>Aoyama Gosho: A Profile</u></br>
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'''Name:''' Gosho Aoyama</br>
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'''Born:''' 21 June 1963</br>
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'''Blood Type:''' B</br>
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'''Origin:''' Tottori</br>
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'''Works:'''</br>
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*''Chotto Matte'' (“Wait a Minute”), 1986. Completed in his senior year of college, to the tune of Grand Prize at the Shonen Sunday Comics Awards!</br>
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*''Magic Kaito'', 1987. The Special Edition Shonen Sunday feature that launched his fanbase!</br>
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*''Yaiba'', 1988. The Weekly Shonen Sunday feature that cemented his star!</br>
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*''Detective Conan'', Now. His current feature, for that very same magazine!
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<u>Kaito: Bound for the weeklies??! Plus: Conan vs. Kaito?</u>
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'''Q:''' When did you start drawing manga?</br>
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'''A:''' Well, I thought the Manga Society looked fun in undergrad, so I joined, and one of the seniors (Yutaka Abe) told me, “You draw pretty good, why don’t you take a shot at it?” Got me hooked. ''[Laughs]'' So I did a couple doujins for the Society, but I worked '''slow''', so I never finished any of them solo. Even my debut work needed assistants! ''[Laughs]''. So yeah, I didn’t really work my way up the trenches or anything. It was just like, poof and I was here.
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'''Q:''' So you '''weren’t''' specifically looking to be a manga pro?</br>
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'''A:''' Well, I was going to an Arts school, so I thought I’d wind up an art teacher. Somehow, I got this instead. ''[Laughs]'' My pro debut was December of the year I graduated; up till then I worked as a part-timer on backgrounds for ''Hirake Ponkiki''. Well, once I’d gotten that far… it didn’t seem like anything else was right, you know?
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'''Q:''' And in a half a year you were running ''Magic Kaito'', right?</br>
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'''A:''' Yeah, I started ''Kaito'' as a one-off, but enough people liked it for an ongoing. Back then… let me tell you, back then I couldn’t even finish one chapter a '''month'''. I was used to doing things one panel at a time, and it’d take at '''least''' two months. Weekly ongoings… that was the stuff of capital-M Miracles to me.
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'''Q:''' So ''Kaito''’s on hiatus right now, but '''if''' we were to ask what’s in store for him…</br>
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'''A:''' Right―he’s getting his first volume in six years. Come one, come all, see the story that’s been running since Showa! ''[Laughs]'' But really, “patience is a virtue” is all I can say when it comes to Kaito. You know, back when Conan was about to start there '''was''' talk of running ''Kaito'' as a weekly, but that would’ve been a tough order. I already consider ''Kaito'' my Life’s Work, so to speak―it’s something I’d like to keep working on hurry-free.
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<u>Magic Kaito</u></br>
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“''Kaito'' can go for a while between chapters, so the artstyle can change in a heartbeat. It’s like, ''who drew '''that?'''''― when I’m looking at my old volumes '''as''' I draw. By the way, Kaito’s birthday and blood-type (B)? All mine. Any Kaito fans out there want to send him a birthday present, feel free to leave it at my place… ''[Laughs]''”
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'''Q:''' So let’s talk about your capital-M MIracle: ''Yaiba''. ''[Laughs]'' What was it like, hitting the weeklies?</br>
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'''A:''' I thought I’d never pull it off. To start with, I knew a weekly meant putting good ol’ ''Kaito'' on hiatus… but it felt like a golden chance, so I took it. Gave it all I had, and you know what? Every last week was Hell on Earth. ''[Laughs]'' I was only planning on nine chapters at first, but it was so popular it kept going and going and going…
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'''Q:''' It got an anime, too.</br>
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'''A:''' Mm. That was a great show, and my heart still goes out to ‘em. I tuned in every single week, and I was always going, “Wow, it '''moves!'''” ''[Laughs]'' But to be honest, sometimes it was awkward seeing people go off my storyboards; whenever they were like, “I love you lots,” I was like “Please Stop,” y’know? ''[Laughs]'' Page dialogue is a different beast from ''dialogue'' dialogue. Speaking of which, the anime was a little more… '''open''' than my original concepts. My Yaiba yells and screams, but he '''never''' cries. Watching the anime, I couldn’t help but go, “Oh, he’s crying…” ''[Laughs]'' Really heart-on-his-sleeve. When you get down to it, I just don’t think boys should cry; you’ll never see any of my heroes crying, no matter what series. If there’s tears, either the hero’s a heroine or someone’s parents died. That’s the flipside to all this: girls cry a '''lot'''. ''[Laughs]''
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<u>The Master’s work desk, side-by-side with his assistants’. He likes watching their faces as they read his latest manuscripts. By his account, the first-wave readers are always elementary and middle-school boys, and middle- and high-school girls.</u></br>
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(text by Hideki Satomi‎)</br>
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(shot by Aiko Yamaguchi‎）
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<u>Enter: Detective Conan! Still Onstage: The Same Old Heroine ''[Laughs]''</u>
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'''Q:''' Now you’re running ''Detective Conan''―a detective series that’s like ''Kaito'' flipped inside-out.</br>
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'''A:''' I like thieves, but I don’t like sleuths any less. Basically, I’m on Team Holmes '''and''' Team Lupin. I wanted to do something like ''Columbo''―or ''Furuhata Ninzaburo'', if you want to get more topical―but a straight take wouldn’t have been much fun, so I made my hero a pipsqueak. It would’ve been easier to steer him along as a high-schooler, but I felt it was more interesting to see him have to spell out deductions for adults as a little kid. At the start of it all, there’s a scene where the heroine tells Conan (Shinichi-as-a-kid) about her crush, without knowing it’s him. ''“I love you.”'' She’s always wanted to say it, but she’s stubborn as a rock so she never would’ve in normal circumstances. At heart, this is basically the story of the prince turning into a frog and back again. I just added a little Mystery to the mix.
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'''Q:''' But isn’t it hard, coming up with a different mystery every week?</br>
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'''A:''' You couldn’t '''guess''' how hard! ''[Laughs]'' I can tell you that much. I’m always editing and wracking and just wringing out my brains. '''Every''' time we’re about done hammering out the plot, I’m dead on my feet. ''Yaiba'' never needed this many drafts. No wonder you’ve got all these people swearing off detective stuff. ''[Laughs]''
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'''Q:''' Why do all your heroines act so alike?”</br>
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'''A:''' Well, at first I always try to make them unique, but given enough time all of them go down the same track. ''[Laughs]'' I guess that’s the only kind of girl I '''can''' do: pretty in a wife or big sister-y kind of way, all feisty and stubborn. Really, it’s like there’s one actress behind all of them. These girls are that much of a feather.
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(Currently serialized in ''Weekly Shonen Sunday'')</br>
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“One of my younger brothers is a doctor, so I always call him up if I need to pinpoint a time of death or something like that… I owe him big time. ''[Laughs]'' His brain’s out of this world. One time I asked him for someone’s medical records, and he cut me off right there. ''[Laughs]''”
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<u>Yaiba</u></br>
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(Serialized in ''Weekly Shonen Sunday'')</br>
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“I always liked the movie ''Makai Tensho'', so I wanted to do something in that vein. Felt it’d be interesting to have a spunky little boy―your typical Shonen hero―going up against this veteran swordmaster. I used to do a lot of kendo myself, so I’m big into ''Chanbara''―you’d be hard-pressed to find a bigger Kurosawa fan than me.”
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<u>Magic Kaito</u></br>
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(Serialized in ''Weekly Shonen Sunday Special Edition'')</br>
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“Well, I’m in my Detective Period, aren’t I? So I’d like to do ''Conan vs. Kaito'' one of these days. It’d probably end in a no-score draw―even stuff like ''Mazinger Z vs. Devilman'', it’s not really about '''them''' fighting, just a team-up against the real villain. Oh, and I really want to see Kaito animated someday.”
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<u>3rd Base Fourth</u></br>
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(Serialized in ''Weekly Shonen Sunday Special Edition'')</br>
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“I’m a baseball guy―even played on a team―so I thought I’d try a baseball thing. You know how all my stuff has a touch of Impossible, right? So it goes with this one―we’re not doing regular ol’ ball, we’re doing a Bat of Legend… or something. Shigeo Nagashima’s my favorite, so… I guess you could say this book’s mostly for Giants fans. ''[Laughs]''”
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'''Q:''' And last, but not least… any big plans for the future?</br>
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'''A:''' No points for originality, but… I want to keep hearts pounding and seats shaking with my manga. That’s all.
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'''Date:''' April 14, 1999<br>
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'''Date:''' Shonen Sunday, #21 1999<br>
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'''Published in:''' ''Weekly Shonen Sunday'', Vol. 41, no. 21 (Cover date April 28, 1999)
 
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'''大好評！お楽しみ映画トーク、傑作特盛り特別編！'''<br/>
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『青山剛昌先生・コダワリ名画館（Vol.10）』<br/>
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''（″コナン″を産んだ頭の中をノゾきたいと思ってた人、お待ち！青山先生の脳内では、こんな多くの映画たちが、年中上映されてるんです！GWはコナン映画と、こんなビデオで退屈なし！）''
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<u>★館長あいさつ</u><br/>
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アニメ映画の『長靴をはいた猫/ペロの大冒険』（’69年/宮崎駿原画）を、幼稚園生の時大画面で観て、ただひたすら〝スゴイな～〟って感動しまくった。以来、映画が大好きになって。今でも、だ～い好きっ！！ジャンルは問わず、なんでも観るよ。ただ、ここ数年は、仕事が忙しくて、映画館はおろかビデオ店へも行けずじまい。誰かオレ専用の映画館でも作ってくれ～！！
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'''<u>プログラム１・映画で解明！！オレの漫画に潜む謎</u>'''<br/>
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ジャンルは問わないんだけど、オレが好きになる作品って、'''キャラクターに〝ひねり〟が加えられているものが多い'''んだ。これって、オレの漫画に通じてる部分でもあるんだけど・・・・・・だから、と言うか、やっぱり、と言うか、'''映画からインスピレーションみたいなもの受けて、完成した漫画、けっこうあるんだよね'''。<br/>
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例えば、40周年記念で今回描き上げた『まじっく快斗』は、大学生の頃に観た『マジック・ボーイ』（’82年/G・オニール主演）から始まってるって言ってもいいね。主人公は、16歳の天才マジシャンで、カッコいいなぁ・・・・・・って思ってて。映画の中の男のコはね、誰の力も借りずに、ひとりで悪い奴をやっつけて行くんだけど、それもまたカッコ良くてさ。〝こいつを怪盗にしたらどーだろう〟って思いを巡らせてたら、〝快斗〟の誕生となった訳。
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<u>『マジック・ボーイ』（’82・米）</u></br>
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亡くなった父親ゆずりの天才手品師ダニーが、たった一人で市長の陰謀に立ち向かう！青山先生、とにかくオススメの一本。
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デビュー作『ちょっとまって』は、あの大ヒット作『バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー』（’85年/M・J・フォックス主演）から来てます。あっ！！ あえて言わせてもらうけど、これシリーズ3作物だけど、オレが認めてるのは〝パート１〟だけ！！他はダメ！！(笑)
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<u>『バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー』（’85・米）</u></br>
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タイムマシン映画(？)の最高峰！続編には言いたいことある先生も、この第一作には「完璧！」の一言。
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'''コナンもいたぞ！！映画の中に・・・・・・！？'''</br>
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さて、ここまで来ると、みんなが気になるのは'''『名探偵コナン』を生んだ、映画は！？'''でしょ。はっきり言うけど、ないよ (笑)。でも、1アイテムだけ頂いた映画がある。毎週かかさず〝コナン〟を読んでくれてるコは、もう気づいてるかな！？〝めがねを取ったあなたは、スーパーマンて訳！？〟って、場面が出てきたの覚えてる？そう、コナンのめがねは、『スーパーマン』（’78年/C・リーブ主演）から頂いたの。正体隠すためのアイテムは〝めがね！！〟これっきゃない！って、決めてたんだ。
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<u>『スーパーマン』（’78・米）</u></br>
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元祖ヒーロー映像化決定版。主演C・リーブは、先生いわく「ホントにスーパーマンみたいな顔してる(笑)」
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〝コナン〟の前の作品に、『YAIBA』があるんだけど、これは『魔界転生』（’81年/沢田研二主演）的かも！？
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<u>『魔界転生』（’81・日）</u></br>
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魔力で蘇った剣豪たちが幕府転覆を謀る。剣道部だった先生の「二番目に好きかもしれない」映画がコレ。
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<u>'''ハミダシ名画館！！（迷っちゃうほど、どれも大好き！！）'''</u></br>
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<u>『テキサスの5人の仲間』（’65・米）</u></br>
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あの『スティング』の原型とも言われる映画。ポーカー勝負でのダマし合いがたまんない！</br>
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<u>『トップガン』（’86・米）</u></br>
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<u>『シャイニング』（’80・米）</u></br>
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<u>『トゥルー・ロマンス』（’93・米）</u></br>
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ここじゃバラせないけど、ラストが最高！殺伐としてるのにウキウキしちゃうんだよね。</br>
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<u>『ダーティハリー』（’71・米）</u></br>
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イーストウッド映画は無差別に好き。本物よりも本物らしい(？)山田康雄の声もコミでね！</br>
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今後、漫画に活用したいのは、『レベッカ』（'40年/R・オリビエ主演）。あの、怖～い女召し使い、いつか描きてぇ～！！
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'''<u>プログラム２・いつかは越すぞ！！黑澤監督&三十郎</u>'''<br/>
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'''映画と〝オレの漫画人生〟！'''
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―コナンのこのポーズは三十郎なのだ（笑）
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と、ここまではオレの漫画と密接な関係のある、映画の話ばかりしちゃったけど、最後に一本！！オレの人生'''〝最高の映画〟'''であり、オレの漫画の〝バイブル〟と呼ぶ'''傑作中の傑作'''を御紹介しま～す！！</br>
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それは、'''巨匠・黑澤明監督の『椿三十郎』'''（’62年/三船敏郎主演）です！！小学生の時に観て以来、今の今まで'''数十回'''てます。何度観ても、ちっとも飽きない。大迫力のチャンバラあり、笑いあり、感動ありで、'''もう最高！！最高！！'''</br>
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三船さん演じる〝三十郎〟が出てくる場面なんか、本当にスゴくてね。〝バァーン〟て扉を開いて、タンタンタンタンッて来るんですが、もう、それだけでひっくり返るほどカッコい～い。構図もライティング完璧だしね・・・・・・どにかく、'''何から、何まで完璧なのだ！！'''<br/>
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究極な漫画を描きたいって思ってる。'''ハリウッドもかなわない、世界最強のエンターテイメント作品をね！！'''
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<u>『椿三十郎』（’62・日）</u></br>
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同じ黑澤監督『用心棒』の続編。先生がどれだけ心酔してるかは、本文の通り！他を引き離して、ブッチギリの第１位！
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<u>'''❤このヒロインに、ラブをこめて！❤'''</u></br>
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<u>〝ガープ〟の奥さん</u></br>
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Wで浮気しても理解し合おうとする夫婦がイイ。人というより、役が可愛かった。</br>
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<u>ジョディ・フォスター</u></br>
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かわいいよね。かわいくない？あ、どっちかっていうとカッコいいか。でも好き。</br>
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<u>薬師丸ひろ子</u></br>
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内容よりも何よりも、『ねらわれた学園』の、髪切る前の彼女がとにかく最高！</br>
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1. Back to the Future (1985)<br>
 
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“My debut work Wait For Me sprang from the blockbuster Back to the Future (’85, starring Michael J. Fox). Ahh! Last I saw, it was at a whole trilogy – but I’ve only got eyes for Part 1! Sequels need not apply! 😛”<br>
 
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タイムマシン映画(？)の最高峰！続編には言いたいことある先生も、この第一作には『完璧！』の一言。<br>
 
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“The absolute peak of time-machine movies! Sensei may have Certain Things to say about the sequels, but Part 1 is, in a word, Perfect.”<br><br>
 
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2. Superman (1978)<br>
 
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"Well, now that we’ve come this far, you all want to know if Detective Conan popped out of a movie. Isn’t that right? Well, in a word: no 😛. But I did take one thing from a movie. Weekly Conan readers, do you know what it is? Do you remember that scene going, “What are you without the glasses? Superman?” Yep, Conan’s glasses are straight from Superman (’78, starring Chris Reeve!) If you need to hide a secret identity, nothing better than a pair of specs! I decided.”<br>
 
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“Still the definitive picture of the Original Hero. All Sensei can say about Chris Reeve is, “He’s really got that Superman face.” (😂)<br><br>
 
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3. A Big Hand For the Little Lady, aka Five Pals in Texas (1966)<br>
 
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"They say this movie was blueprint to The Sting. All I know is, I can’t get enough of all that card-sharping!”<br><br>
 
  
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このノリのよさがめちゃ好き。バイク乗ってウォーって叫ぶ後ろに戦闘機が飛ぶトコとかね。<br>
 
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“Absolute Vibes on this one. Like howling on a motorbike with fighter jets at your back.”<br><br>
 
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5. The Shinning (1980) <br>
 
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ホラーの1位はコレ！見せ方が怖いね。うまいね。J・ニコルソンは元々怖い顔だけど(笑)。<br>
 
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“First-place in horror! Every shot’s breathtakingly scary! And just plain breathtaking! Jack Nicholson’s one of those guys born with a nightmare face! 🤣”<br><rb>
 
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6. True Romance (1993)<br>
 
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ここじゃバラせないけど、ラストが最高！殺伐としてるのにウキウキしちゃうんだよね。<br>
 
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“Not gonna spoil it, but that last scene is Divine! Brutal and bleak, but it made my heart sing.”<br><br>
 
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7. Dirty Harry (1971)<br>
 
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イーストウッド映画は無差別に好き。本物よりも本物らしい(？)山田康雄の声もコミでね！<br>
 
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“I’ve always been wild about Eastwood movies. They seem realer than reality(?) And to think – Yasuo Yamada voices comedies, too!”<br><br>
 
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8. Rebecca (1940)<br>
 
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今後、漫画に活用したいのは、『レベッカ』（'40年/R・オリビエ主演）。あの、怖～い女召し使い、いつか描きてぇ～！<br>
 
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“I’d like to use Rebecca in some future manga. Someday, I’ll put that terrifying kept-woman to my pen…!”<br>
 
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大金持ちの再婚相手が、古い豪邸で出会う恐怖！ヒッチコックならコレ！最初退屈しても、早送り厳禁！<br>
 
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“A rich man’s remarriage; an old mansion of terror! Purest Hitchcock! Might seem slow at the start, but for the love of God don’t fast-forward!”<br><br>
 
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例えば、40周年記念で今回描き上げた『まじっく快斗』は、大学生の頃に観た『マジック・ボーイ』（'82年/G・オニール主演）から始まってるって言ってもいいね。主人公は、16歳の天才マジシャンで、カッコいいなぁ・・・・・・って思ってて。映画の中の男のコはね、誰の力も借りずに、ひとりで悪い奴をやっつけて行くんだけど、それもまたカッコ良くてさ。"こいつを怪盗にしたらどーだろう"って思いを巡らせてたら、"快斗"の誕生となった訳。<br>
 
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“For instance… this Magic Kaito I’m doing for the magazine’s 40th? You could say it all began with The Escape Artist ('82, starring Griffin O'Neal). Saw it in college. The main’s a 16-year-old magic prodigy: cool. He beats the bad guys without needing to ask anyone for help: even cooler. I thought to myself, 'What if I made this guy a phantom thief?’ - and that’s how Kaito was born.”<br>
 
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亡くなった父親ゆずりの天才手品師ダニーが、たった一人で市長の陰謀に立ち向かう！青山先生、とにかくオススメの一本。<br>
 
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“Danny Masters, a genius magician following in his late father’s footsteps, must face a crooked Mayor’s machinations alone! I’m Aoyama-sensei, and I give this my highest recommendation.”
 
  
 
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'''Date:''' December 04, 2013
 
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——　祝・画業３０周年ということで、今回は青山剛昌史上最長の３００００字インタビューをお願いできればと思っています。余談雑談もありで、いろいろとお話しください。
  
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青山　え？　雑談もありなの？
  
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——　はい。雑談という名のインタビューを、ぜひ。
  
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Since my debut in 1986, I cannot possibly remember the numbers of chapters I’ve drawn, however, when it was asked “the number one chapter,” I can answer it without any hesitation. There’s no other option, the one and only great chapter that need to exist in this world! That is!!!.... the hint is “hospital.”
 
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——　まずは、３０周年を振り返って、一番思い出深い年から教えてください。
  
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青山　思い出深い年？　最初に『コナン』が映画になった時かな（１９９７年）。これは、言っちゃっていいのかわかんないけど、その話がくる直前って、『コナン』を描くのが大変すぎて連載をおりようと思っていたんです。やっぱり、毎週毎週事件を考えるのって大変じゃないですか。しかも、編集部の上のほうの人からは、ああせいこうせいと、なんやかんや言われていたんです。そういうのが本当に嫌で、アシスタントたちと久しぶりに休みをとって、みんなでラスベガスへ行ったんですよ。いままでにみんなで稼いだ金を全部使っちゃえ！　みたいなノリで（笑）。その旅行から帰ってきたら『コナン』の連載をもうやめようと思っていたんです。そしたら、ラスベガスのホテルに当時の担当編集者のAさんから電話があって「『コナン』の映画化が決まったよ！」と。その言葉を聞いたら、これはもう帰ったらがんばらなければいけない。やめるのをやめなければいけないと思って。
  
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Info from @oooHYYo (no scan provided), English translation by Jiamin:
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——　『名探偵コナン』といえば、連載が始まった１９９４年当初から週刊少年サンデーで読者アンケート１位の人気作です。それでも、編集部からのダメがあったんですか？
  
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1. Aoyama sensei’s favorite movie: last year’s was good, so does movie 1 & movie 4<br>2. The Higo charm case, when Conan received Ran’s text, he’s probably thinking “I wanna reply ASAP! But I can’t” or something like that<br>3. Favorite chapter “Shinichi Boy” when Ran said “don’t call me crybaby” Shinichi’s thinking”why is she mad, she seems so cute/sweet”
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青山　ありましたよ。主人公のライバルなんだから（服部）平次の性格をもっと悪くしたらどうだとか。まぁ、内心で「うるせぇ」とか思って、ほぼ直しませんでしたけど（笑）。
  
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Additional info about the Panel of Shinichi and Ran's first meeting:
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——　当時の具体的な大変さとは？
  
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Aoyama: this is the panel I worked really hard on! The moment they met, which is a significant moment, but I just couldn’t get it right, I altered so many drafts for this scene
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青山　もう地獄でした。毎週毎週カラー、カラーで。カラーの作画作業って通常の倍ぐらい作業量が増えるんです。しかも、サンデーの連載以外にもカレンダーなどのグッズ系のカラー作画もあったから……。でも、なにより、事件とトリックを考えるのが大変でした。毎回ね、殺人殺人殺人で、事件とトリックを考えてる俺が死ぬわっていう（笑）。
  
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Aoyama: Ran was pleased to hear Shinichi’s “Thank you”, so she responded with a huge smile “There you go!” But we couldn’t see the smile, it didn’t show in “Ran Girl” either. The smile was revealed at the end of “Shinichi Boy(part 2)”, the kind of smile which moved Shinichi, and fell in love with Ran.
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——　漫画家が多忙になると、なにがボディーブローのように効いてくるのでしょう？
  
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青山　わかりやすく睡眠時間が削られていって、あとは忙しく働いているほかの職種の人と同じじゃないかなぁ。睡眠時間が削られて、体力が落ちていって、最後には気力もなくなっていくっていう。
  
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info provided by 米花快报; English translation by Jiamin
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——　でも、１位なわけですよね。そんな人気作を連載開始からわずか３年でやめようと思ったのは、ざっくり言うと「大変だったから」。そこで不思議なのが、青山さんは映画化にも深く関わっているわけで、よりいっそう大変になるのに「やめるのをやめようと思った」ことです。
  
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Q: Congratulations on the 30th anniversary for your career, is there a year that was most memorable to you?<br>A: it was the year that the production of first Conan movie was decided. Before that, I feel troubled on writing Conan, and thought it was probably time to end it. I had to come out of new ways to kill people every week, it was extremely difficult for me. And the editorial department went out of their ways to meddle in my creation, I hated that. So I decided to go to Las Vegas with my assistants, splurged all the moneys that I have earned at that time, and decided to end Conan when I come back home. But then I received a phone call in my hotel in Vegas, “The making of Conan movie was confirmed!” I changed my mind after that, maybe I shouldn’t give up, I need to work harder when I come beck.
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青山　本当だね（笑）。俺、１作目から脚本にも意見を言ってるし、映画の原画まで描いているしね（笑）。しかも描かせてって、自分のほうから頼んで。でもね、映画化というのは、夢のような出来事でしたから。……今回はいろんな話をしていいんでしたっけ？
  
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Q: Conan was really popular since the beginning, and the editors still wanted to intervene?<br>A: Yes, for example, they wanted Heiji’s personality to be more vile, I thought “to hell with them” and ignored their suggestion.
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——　お願いします。
  
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(TN: that was Chinese translation, didn’t see that part in the original text, it’s either covered or they might’ve added it to sound more dramatic)
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青山　俺が覚えている一番古い記憶って、映画を見て感動したことなんです。『長靴をはいた猫』という作品なんですけど、幼稚園の頃だったかなぁ。映画館じゃなくて、学校かなにかの施設で、児童たち向けに映画が上映されることがあるでしょ？　ああいう催しで子供たちがバーっといるなかのひとりとしてその作品を見たんだけど、すげぇと思って。大人すげぇと思って。だって、その頃にテレビでやっていたのは『ひみつのアッコちゃん』とかの完全に子供向けの作品でしたから。でも、『長靴をはいた猫』は寓話性があったりだとか、全然違うものだった。
  
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——　大人が見ても楽しめる深さがあったんですね。
  
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info provided by 米花快报; English translation by Jiamin
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青山　そうそう。そこにすげぇ感動したんです。その時以来、映画が大好きなんですよ。だから、大人になって、漫画家になって、ラスベガスのホテルで「映画化」という言葉を聞いた時なんて、うれしくて、うれしくて、ただもううれしくて。自分の絵が動いて、しかもあのでっかいスクリーンに映し出されるだなんて、すげぇことだなぁって。ただ、人間って、欲が出るなとも思ったけど。
  
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——　欲が出るとはどういうことでしょう？
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5. Shot: 22<br>
 
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6. Burned：21<br>
 
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(Yes, these are manga counts only; up to Volume 93.)
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青山　あのでっかいスクリーンに、怪盗キッドも出せないかなぁって。実際、『名探偵コナン　世紀末の魔術師』でキッドも劇場版に登場させられた時は、めちゃめちゃうれしかったです。だって俺、予告編が見たくて、ひとりで映画館に行きましたもんね。『ガメラ』の続編かなんかだったと思うんだけど、本編よりも全然真剣に『名探偵コナン　世紀末の魔術師』の予告編を見て、「うお、キッドがしゃべってる！　かっこいい！」って、ひとりで大興奮して（笑）。
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===Interview with Detective Conan Producer Michihiko Suwa===
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——　では、話を青山さんの少年時代へ。子供の頃から映画好きだった青山さんの実家は、自動車整備工場で、三男の方が家業を継がれて、長男が科学者、次男の青山さんが漫画家、四男が医者です。いったい、どうな育て方をすると、こんな漫画みたいなスーパー兄弟が育っちゃうんですか？
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'''Source:''' https://manga.tokyo/interview/interview-with-detective-conan-producer-michihiko-suwa-part-1/<br>
 
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Michihiko Suwa is the producer of the TV anime and movie series Detective Conan (Meitantei Conan), also known as Case Closed based on the manga by Gosho Aoyama. In part one of MANGA.TOKYO’s interview with Suwa, we learn about the beginnings of the anime as well as how the anime staff are careful not to slip up when adapting Aoyama’s manga.
 
  
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'''— Could you tell us how the plan for the anime adaptation of Detective Conan developed?'''
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青山　いや、それは俺に聞かれてもわかんない（笑）。ただ、４人兄弟のなかでは、俺が一番出来が悪かったです。勉強はまぁできたほうだったと思うけど、実は、国語が苦手でした。「作者の気持ちを答えなさい」と言われてもいろんなことが書けるでしょ？　答えがひとつじゃないのにテストされるあの感じが苦手だったんだと思う。難しい本とかも嫌いで、ホームズや二十面相なんかの探偵ものぐらいしか読んでなかったから。だから、少年時代はコナンくんみたいだった……って言いたいところだけど、光彦くんタイプでした。先頭に立って「お前らついてこい」という感じじゃなかったし、ガキ大将みたいなやつがいたから、そいつの参謀役というか。
  
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The first chapter of the original manga Detective Conan series, also known as Case Closed, was published in 1994 in Shonen Sunday. I guess it was a countermeasure against the rival manga magazine which had started a detective manga series The Kindaichi Case Files in 1992. I had a close connection with the editorial staff in Shonen Sunday, so I heard about a new detective manga before its publication. When I read the first chapter, I was instantly captured by its clever tricks. I kept reading it for 10 weeks and made up my mind to make an anime adaptation.
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——　子供時代の印象的なエピソードがあれば教えてください。
  
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Protagonist Shinichi Kudo was a 17-year-old detective but ends up having the body of a first-grade child because of a drug he was forced to swallow. I thought this setting was ‘a big lie’, and that was why it would nicely fit for anime. While discussing the anime adaptation plan, I convinced the editorial staff that I would respect the original which had an unrealistic setting, but otherwise was serious and a realistic mystery-solving story.
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青山　具体的には、どんな子供だったんだろうなぁ。あ、小学校３年生の時の学芸会で『一休さん』を演じたことがあるんですけど、当時は『一休さん』がまだアニメ化されていなくて、絵本とかで子供たちが知ってる存在だったんです。『一休さん』って、要はとんちが利いてるって話ですよね。でも俺は、あのおもしろさが全然わからなかった。
  
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At the time, Yomiuri Telecasting was airing the anime series Magic Knight Rayearth at 7:30 on Monday evening, but I wasn’t sure which TV block Detective Conan would be scheduled into. Although we didn’t know exactly when it would start airing, we began developing the plan aiming to air in January or February 1995.
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We asked TMS Entertainment, then called Tokyo Movie Shinsha, to take care of the anime production, because they had brilliant staff members. They created Magic Knight Rayearth and I appreciated their effort to create such great visuals. We also made an offer to Kenji Kodama for the director’s role. We had worked together on City Hunter before, so I told him it wasn’t an action but a mystery anime. He replied that he actually preferred mystery to action, and rather enjoyed creating mystery episodes more than the action ones while directing the Lupin III series. For the script, we wanted someone who was specialized in live-action dramas, so we invited Kanji Kashiwabara, who had been working on scripts for many detective dramas. He pulled some strings and Kazunari Kouchi, Junichi Miyashita, and Yuichi Higurashi joined us. We also asked script writers for anime to join our production team. For music, we asked Katsuo Ono, who was responsible for the music in a popular detective drama series called Taiyo ni Hoero, because we wanted the music of the anime to be comparable to suspense dramas for adults. Our idea was to create new mystery anime which is different from the others, and could be enjoyed by both children and adults.
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青山　たとえば、屏風の虎の話があるでしょ。将軍様が一休さんを呼びつけて、屏風の虎が夜中に悪さをするから、しばりあげてくれと頼む。そこで一休さんは、「虎が屏風から出てきませぬ。私を恐れて出てきませぬ。出してください」とやり返す。そのやりとりのなにがおもしろいのかが全然わからなくて、先生にかみついたんです。あのお話って、将軍的にはとんちで有名な一休さんをこらしめて自分が名をあげたいってことでしょ？　それがわからなかったから、「将軍様って大人でしょ？　大人のくせに子供にこんな意地悪なことを言ってなにが楽しいんですか？」とか、とちん自体のおもしろさもわからなかったから「出てくるはずのない虎を出てこさせろってなにがおもしろいんですか？　たとえば、仕掛けがあって、屏風に切れ目があって、うしろから虎が本当に出てきたほうがおもしろいと思います」とか。
  
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——　少年時代の青山さんのとんちが利いたおもしろいエピソードですけど、先生からすると嫌な子供です。
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青山　だよね（笑）。先生は「みんなが一休さん役に青山くんを選んだ理由がいまわかった」と笑ってましたけどね。ただ、その頃の自分としては、『一休さん』を演じることより、早く絵が描きたかったんです。
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——　やはり、絵が得意な子供でしたか？
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青山　うん。好きでした。赤塚不二夫先生のニャロメが好きで、そればっかり描いてた時期もあって。だから、『一休さん』の時も芝居の練習なんて早く終わってくれと思ってて、屏風に虎の絵が描きたかったんです。当時は『タイガーマスク』というアニメが人気で、作中に「虎の穴」という秘密組織が登場していて。その組織を象徴するモニュメントの虎に羽が生えてて、尻尾が蛇で、めちゃくちゃかっこよかったんです。だから、『一休さん』の学芸会の屏風にも虎の穴の虎を描きたくて描きたくて。実際に、がーって描いたら、先生にめちゃくちゃ怒られましたけど。
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We have some rules, like using the word ‘body’ instead of ‘corpse’, and have blood look ‘black’ not ‘red’. That’s because we wanted the anime to be a mystery-solving story from the first place. We avoid showing scenes of a knife stabbing somebody or a bullet hitting victims, as long as they aren’t related to the tricks of a mystery. It airs in the evening in Japan, so there might be viewers who are in the middle of their dinner. We take extra care not to offend anyone, especially people who aren’t anime fans. We used to use ‘murder case’ in its titles quite a lot at the beginning, but stopped using it two or three years later, because we want to show not the crime itself, but how Conan solves a mystery after the crime happens. Our priority lies in showing the genius mystery-solving skills of Shinichi Kudo under the name of Conan Edogawa.
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青山　島本先生との対談でも言ったけど、それはもう、モンキー・パンチ先生、ちばてつや先生、あだち充先生の３人です。ただ、父親は厳しいタイプで「漫画なんか読んでたらロクなもんにならん！」と怒る星一徹みたいな人でした。野球ではアンチ巨人でね。というか、高校野球が好きだった。家族は親父以外の全員が巨人ファンなんですけど、父親は「野球で金をもらうやつらなんて信用ならん！」なんてよく言ってました。そんな人だから、漫画やアニメは厳禁でしたけど、まぁ、そこは子供ですから。『おれは鉄兵』とかが大好きで、父親の目を盗んで、よく読んでいました。『ルパン三世』もそう。ルパンがかっこよくて好きだったんですけど、不二子ちゃんがエッチなところも好きで、親に内緒でコミックスを買って本棚に隠していたんです。ところがある時、それがごっそりなくなって「え？　なんで？」と思ったら、親父の枕元にこっそりと隠してあったりもしましたけど（笑）。
  
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While I believe Detective Conan is a superb mystery, the manga author Gosho Aoyama thinks of it as a comedy drama that focuses on its characters with an element of romantic comedy between Shinichi and Ran Mouri. I think that’s the strength of Detective Conan. It stands out from many other mystery stories. Furthermore, although we don’t know what type of characters will be popular, as everybody has their own tastes, our viewers can find their favorite among the varieties of characters in the anime. Aoyama creates many characters who have their individual charms, and we put them in the mystery solving stories. That’s why Detective Conan is different from any other mystery anime.
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——　お父さんも不二子ちゃんの魅力には勝てなかったと（笑）。厳格な父親だと母親はやさしいというのが、昭和の家庭のパターンですが？
  
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青山　うちもそんな感じでした。母親はやさしかった。あとね、とにかくカレーライスがおいしかった。俺のカレー好きは、確実におふくろの味から始まってると思う。俺の好きなテレビ番組のケンミンショー（『秘密のケンミンSHOW』）によると、鳥取県って日本で一番カレーライスの消費量が多いらしいんだけど、うちの母親は、牛肉だったり、ひき肉を使ったり、マトンカレーを作ってくれたりもして、バリエーションが豊富だったんです。
  
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In the anime’s timeline, it has been less than a year since the roller coaster murder case. Many incidents have happened in Beika Town during that time. Only about 250 days have passed in the anime world, but we’ve made about 880 episodes. The town must be in a mess, since, mathematically speaking, there are three to four incidents happening in a day. [laugh] We must welcome the situation because a long-running series means the anime has dedicated fans. Aoyama once said that there has been only one Christmas and one Valentine’s Day in the anime. That demonstrates things in the anime are in safe hands. We’ve seen Conan’s birthday, but not Ran’s yet. I presume he already has his plan for her birthday, so we won’t imply anything about hers in the anime. We don’t want to change anything about its setting.
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——　昭和な家庭で、マトンカレーはすごいです。
  
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At the beginning of the series, we didn’t have smartphones therefore the characters were using flip phones. We didn’t expect such technological advancements at that time. Conan likes new things, so he tries them without hesitation. If he had been in possession of a smartphone 20 years ago, some mysteries might been solved easily with it. Perhaps we are living in a difficult time for mystery stories.
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青山　だよね。ただ、母親の作るおでんはびっくりするぐらいまずかったんです（笑）。俺、大学進学で東京に行くまで、おでん＝まずいものと思ってたもん。だから、そんなに期待せずにコンビニでおでんを買って食べた時に「大根、うまっ！」と思って相当驚きましたから。あのまずさは、なんだったんだろう？　たぶん、出汁の作り方からして間違っていたんだと思う。
  
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In the manga, Conan and Ai Haibara make a remark about something which is seemingly unrelated at the end of each case. Later, it turns out to be something really significant in another episode. Aoyama’s use of such foreshadowing is increasing recently, so the current director, Yashuichiro Yamamoto, is careful about not to miss any minor details in the manga.
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——　おふくろの味の天国と地獄ですね。ところで、剣道を始めたのは『おれは鉄兵』の影響ですか？
  
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In short, there is a main storyline in the manga, which is like a big river flowing throughout the story, and the anime original parts we create are like floating leaves on the river. We know we shouldn’t obstruct the flow. Detective Conan has the major plot of Conan pursuing the Black Organization. Only Aoyama can deal with the plot, therefore we take extra care to include every single detail in the anime, as it might be related to the plot. I think we’ve done a good job in this regard so far.
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青山　いや、鉄兵より前です。俺、しもやけがひどかったから。冬に寒くなると足がパンパンに腫れちゃって。それで、小学校低学年の頃だったかなぁ。まわりの人から「逆に足を鍛えたらいいんじゃないか？」と剣道をすすめられたんですけど、冬の道場で冷たい板の上で稽古しているうちに、すっかり治りました。いまはもう、しもやけなんて絶対にならない。
  
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——　脱しもやけはうれしいエピソードですが、ファンにとっては、青山さんの剣道体験が『YAIBA』にもつながってるのではと想像しそうです。
  
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We are extremely glad about that. It has been doing well, especially in Asia and South-East Asia where it’s nearing the No.1 place in anime genre. It used to be shown in the US under the title of Case Closed, but it struggled because we are not allowed to show someone getting shot in anime there. They are showing lots of violence in live-action drama, though. We have fans in some parts of Europe.
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青山　間違いなくつながりますね。剣道を始めたことがきっかけで侍とかを好きになったし、『おれは鉄兵』も読むようになったし。もし、少年時代に剣道をしてなかったら『YAIBA』は描けなかったですもん。漫画家にもいろいろな人がいると思うけど、俺の場合は「描きたい」「描けそう」がないと始められない。ただ、『YAIBA』でいうと、知っているが故に可能性が狭まった時期もありました。剣道を知らないアシスタントと必殺技について考えている時なんて、「竹刀の先についてるキャップみたいなのを外すと竹刀がばらばらになるでしょ？　その状態で突けばいいじゃん」「いや、それ、反則だから」みたいな（笑）。そういうのもあって、ふつうの剣道じゃ、これ以上は作品がハジけないと感じて、鬼丸が鬼になって魔剣が登場するような『YAIBA』の流れになったんですけど。
  
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I hope people abroad can directly know what Japanese anime want to deliver by watching anime. For that reason, I’m pleased anime can overcome boundaries and rules between countries. I’d love more people to watch this anime.
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'''— Have you heard comments from fans abroad?'''
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青山　いや、野球剣道少年でした。ただ、運動神経はそんなによくはなかった。だから、小学校の作文にもそういうことを書いたんですけど……そういえば、打ち合わせの時に話にでた俺の生まれ故郷の鳥取へは行ってきました？
  
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I’ve found many comments in English and other languages on Twitter. I’m delighted to know there are people who are watching Detective Conan abroad. Recently, more voice actors have traveled overseas to attend anime events. When Rikiya Koyama, who plays Kogoro Mouri, went to Taiwan, many people gathered to meet him. I like that fans abroad have fun with the characters of the anime. I’m glad that they enjoy the stories of the Detective Boys, love stories in the police force, and the romantic comedy between Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama, despite the fact that they have different cultures. They’ll say things like “I like Heiji”, “I like Kid.” I’d like the fans abroad to enjoy what their favorite characters do, and hope to hear what they think of the anime more in future.
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——　行ってきました。ファンの間では有名な、「青山剛昌ふるさと館」に展示されていた作文（P２４９掲載）が、それはもう感動的で。「前の時は、マンガ家になりたかったけど今は、私立探偵になりたいと思っています。けど運動神経が、にぶいのでなれないと思います。だから前の夢といっしょにして私立探偵専門のマンガ家になりたと思っています。もしなったら、おもしろくてスリルがあってなるべく値段もやすくしたいと思っています」と。
  
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'''— It’s a pity that Conan can’t go abroad because he doesn’t have his passport.'''
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青山　ふふふ。いやぁ、いいなぁ、こういうインタビュー。ちょっと照れくさいけど（笑）。あそこは行きました？　鳥取のお台場公園の隣りにある「由良台場跡」と、その下の日本海が見える海岸。
  
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He can’t use an antidote casually, can he? I’ll follow how Aoyama deals with it. [laugh]
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——　もちろん行きました（P６、P２５０、P２５１に掲載）。打ち合わせでの青山さんの言葉が印象的だったので。
  
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'''— What is an interesting point about the anime adaptation of Detective Conan'''
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青山　そのふたつの場所はものすごく思い出深いです。由良台場跡は、子供たちが野球をやるのに最高の場所だったし、海岸は剣道部のランニングコースだったんです。ある日……いつもの日本海は曇りがちで、どす黒くて、どちらかというと汚い印象なんだけど……、その日は、真っ青な海でめちゃくちゃきれいだったんですよ。剣道部のランニングだから胴とか着けてるのに「うわぁ、きれいだなぁ」と感動してしまって、これを絵に描きたいと思って、その場に座り込んで。剣道部の友達が「青山くん、行くよ？」と言ってくれるんだけど「ごめん。もうちょっと見てる」と、ずーっと、その青い海を見ていて。夕焼けじゃなくて、陽が残ってて、青い海で、波もきれいでかっこよくて。すごいきれいだった。もうめちゃめちゃきれいでした。で、結局、その日は部活をさぼってしまって、翌日に「すみません。剣道部をやめて美術部に入ります」と顧問に頭を下げたっていう（笑）。たぶん、中学生の時だったと思う。高校時代も剣道部をやめて美術部に入っているから記憶が定かじゃないけど。その海に感動したのは、たぶん中学生の時。
  
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At the end of the 18th theatrical movie Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper, Subaru Okiya reveals his true identity as Shuichi Akai. Anime can use voice to express identity, but manga can’t. Even Aoyama admitted the power of anime. Readers keep reading the original manga because it’s brilliant, however we create anime with images and sound. I’m proud of what we’ve done to bring 2-dimensional manga to 3-dimensional anime with movement and sound in an effective way. I think the original manga is a first-class sponge cake and what we do is to decorate it with cream and fruit. Just like decoration makes the sponge cake tastier, anime enhances the source material to make it more attractive to a wider audience. Obviously, the original manga has an astonishing amount of circulation, however anime has the power to attract even elderly people who happen to be in front of TV with its sound and visuals. For that sense, I feel the anime series appeals to a much wider audience.
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——　ということは、少年時代から絵に興味があって漫画家志望だったんですか？
  
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'''— You said that anime-original stories are like leaves floating on a river. What do you think about their own charms?'''
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青山　憧れはあったのかなぁ。でも、もうちょっと大人になって就職とか現実的な夢を探す頃って、アニメーターになりたかったんですよ。漫画家になるのは大変そうだから、アニメーターがいいなぁって。高校生の頃からアニメにもハマって『宇宙戦艦ヤマト』『機動戦士ガンダム』『ルパン三世』『銀河鉄道９９９』『無敵超人ザンボット３』とか大好きでしたから。それで、日大芸術学部に進んで漫研に入るんですけど、俺が監督でアニメを作ったりもしていました。
  
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Creating anime-original stories (stories that are not based on chapters of the manga) means a declaration of war against Aoyama for me. My goal for creating original stories is to hear him say “I enjoyed watching it.” I begin making a story by imagining what will happen if Conan and Ran travel together, or get involved in an incident while walking around the town with the Detective Boys. Then, I consider how I use characters effectively and build a story.
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——　その漫研の名前が、すごいっていう。
  
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I must say that we have partly contributed the 22-year history of the anime series, because, although between 60-75% of the anime series is based on the original manga, the rest is anime-original. I become ecstatic when Aoyama says he enjoyed the anime-original stories.
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青山　漫画研究部「熱血漫画根性会」ね。略して「ネマコン」っていうね（笑）。俺も熱血かぁとは思いましたけど、ほかに漫研がなかったから、すっと入ったんです。それで、なんで漫画家を目指したかったっていう話でいうと、ネマコンのOBには、矢野（博之）さんという方が東京ムービーというアニメ制作プロダクションに務めていたんです。ちなみに、矢野さんは『（それいけ！）アンパンマン』のアニメ監督をされている方なんですけど、そんな矢野さんに「東京ムービーに入れてくださいよ」と頼んだら、「アニメーターはしんどいからやめとけ。漫画家のほうがいいぞ」と言われまして。同じ時期に、日芸の先輩で漫画家の阿部（ゆたか）さんにも「漫画家のほうがいいぞ」と同じことを言われて。それで、ふたりの先輩がそんなに言うならって、漫画家を目指したんです。
  
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'''— Now, could you answer some questions from overseas? I have 6 questions here selected from more than 100 questions we’ve received.
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——　そもそも、高校３年で進路を決める時、なぜ日本大学芸術学部だったのでしょう？
  
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Karylle Enchinares Famero asks: What are some of your favorite murder tricks that you’ve encountered while producing the series?'''
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青山　最初は某国立大学の美術コースを推薦で受けたんです。その大学のそのコースを卒業すると美術の教師になれるようなところでした。実際、親には美術の先生になりたいなんて言ってたけど、自分の本当の夢は、東京に出てアニメーターになるということ。それでまぁ、某国立大学では実技のテストがあったんですけど、正直な話、「みんなへたくそだな」と思っちゃったんです。これは絶対に受かったと思って、面接で「どんな先生になりたいですか？」と聞かれた時に「あ、僕は先生になる気はありません。アニメーターになりたいんです」と、本当のことを言っちゃって。地元に帰って高校の担任にそう言ったら、すげぇ怒られて。あ、まずかったんだと思って。
  
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First of all, I like the trick from the episode The Sunfish Murder (File 56: Script by Kazunari Kouchi). It was an episode from one of the early seasons and I was thinking so hard with the director to come up with good tricks. Of course I still ponder over new tricks and sometimes they even see the light of day. The Man Who Was Killed Four Times (File 175: Script by Nobuo Ohgizawa) is another favorite of mine. It’s a story about a tough victim who is killed by multiple perpetrators, but each time he comes alive again. Therefore, it’s very difficult for Conan to get to the bottom of the case as the plot is quite complicated. Fortunately, we had a talented script writer who can wrap up the story within twenty-odd minutes. I really like The Entrance to the Maze: The Anger of Colossus (File 208: script by Chiaki Hashiba), especially the trick of the murder that happened during a ropeway ride through a tunnel.
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——　青山さん、それはまずいです。落としてくれって言っているようなもんです。で？
  
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'''Ruffa Marielle Aquino asks; What are the most memorable things you did for the series and is there any advice you can give to students like me who want to pursue the same path of animation production?'''
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青山　もちろん、落とされました（笑）。だから、日芸を受けた時はちゃんとしようと。面接もがんばろうと。といっても、実技テストの時から、某国立大学とは違って、「みんな、うめぇな！」という人ばかりでしたけどね。結局、その実技テストで５人だけ選ばれて「君らは合格すると思うよ」と言われて面接に進んだんだけど、某国立大学の時の失敗があるから〈これはなにかの罠なのか？〉と、ずっと不安でした。
  
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During the opening song ‘Koi wa thrill, shock, suspense’ (File 205 – 230: sang by Rina Aiuchi), Conan performs a ‘Para Para Dance’ which was on-trend at the time. He wasn’t allowed to smile while dancing, as it was a rule of the dance. I was worried how an opening without smiling would be received by viewers, but decided to follow the rule and let him dance the proper way. Masahito Yoshioka , a program director from TMS Entertainment, was doubtful at the beginning, but eventually made up his mind to create a proper dance routine which everyone can enjoy dancing. We asked a choreographer to teach us the moves, and we created Conan’s take on ‘Para Para Dance’.
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——　それで日大芸術学部美術学科絵画コースに進むと。
  
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The 20th anniversary special episode Conan and Ebizou’s Kabuki Juhachiban Mystery (File 804-805) is another memorable one. Famous Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizou actually provided the voice of Ebizou in the anime. The script was written after his appearance was confirmed. I was impressed by Kashiwabara’s skillful script centering on Ebizou.
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青山　大学生活は楽しかったですよ。というか、東京の生活が楽しかった。田舎から上京した人はみんなそうだと思うけど、山手線って寝坊してもそのまま乗ってれば、１周して目的の駅に着いちゃうよ！　とか、?野家の牛丼ってマジでうまいな！　とか。いまはなくなっちゃったけど、当時は新宿のコマ劇場周辺に映画館がいくつかとゲームセンターが密集していたんです。地元で映画を見たいなぁと思うと、電車にだいぶ揺られないとだめだったのに、東京すげぇな、しかも映画のはしごとかもできちゃうぞ！　って。ゲームセンターも、俺の地元にはなかったからね。だから、オールナイトのチケットをたくさん買って、映画を見て、休憩時間にゲーム、また映画を見るぞみたいな感じで超楽しかった。あと、これは漫画家になってからだけど、しゃぶしゃぶをはじめてごちそうになった時も、東京すげぇなと思いました。なんなんだ、このとろけるようなお肉はと。牛肉の枠を超えてるだろって。
  
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If I may advise students who want to get into the anime industry, make sure that you keep your eyes open, find something that interests you, and learn deeply. I think communication skills are vital for our job, and in order to communicate better, you need knowledge. Read newspapers and magazines regularly to know current affairs. What is important is to make the person who you are talking to understand what you are interested in. You must know what you are talking about. In other words, you must speak with deep-rooted knowledge. It’s like anchoring a ship, so you don’t waver from your assertions.
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——　でも、しゃぶしゃぶを経ても、青山さんが一番好きなごはんは？
  
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You must prepare to be able to explain clearly what sort of anime it is you want to make, what your favorite works in the past are, and why you like them. For me, they are Columbo, the late Osamu Tezuka (a creator known as the ‘God of Manga’ and was a pioneer of anime and manga as we know it), and Oretachi no Tabi (a Japanese coming-of-age drama aired in 1975). They made me what I am.
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青山　カレー。ほかのごはんは１位の座を奪えない。カレーに関しては、いまでも週に２、３回食べても、全然いける。おいしい。大好き。
  
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I watched Columbo when I was a junior high school student. I remember I felt excited when I watched the episode ‘Any Old Port in a Storm’ which takes place in a winery, even though I had never drunk alcohol at the time. It was as if I were watching adult lives through a window. I want to provide such excitement to viewers. Although that doesn’t actually have anything related to the Conan episodes with tricks related to wine, though. [laugh] I just want to tell you that finding interest in small things in the area you love will lead you to being a mystery fan.
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——　（笑）。さて、鳥取から上京したばかりの頃の話でした。下宿先はどの街を選んだんですか？
  
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'''Sana Hayama asks: What made you want to produce the series? Maybe you loved reading books which involved criminal action and mystery and tried to solve them? I’m sure this could be a reason for such an amazing and lively series!'''
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青山　それなんです！日芸は西武池袋線の江古田という駅から近いんですけど、上京する時に親が間違えて「中野区江古田」にアパートを探しちゃって（笑）。大学のある江古田駅は練馬区だから、全然遠いんです。もったいないから１年間は住んだんですけど、２時間はおおげさだけど、けっこうな距離を、はぁはぁ言いながら自転車で通って。貧乏学生だったから、電車賃がもったいなくて。
  
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When I watched the movie Murder on the Orient Express in 1974, I hadn’t actually read Agatha Christie’s novel at the time. However, I personally believe I was the one who solved the mystery first in the theater. A movie remake will be released soon, and I can’t wait watching it.
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——　やっぱり、貧乏でしたか？
  
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'''Mark Gabriel Acribal asks: What are some of the challenges or struggles you had to overcome before becoming a producer?'''
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青山　もちろんですよ！　貧乏でした。風呂なし共同トイレの四畳半。銭湯代を節約したくて、台所の流しで髪を洗ったりだとかもふつうだったし。１年後には大学の近くに引っ越したんですけど、そこでも同じような間取りの物件でした。そうそう。俺は、高橋留美子先生も大好きなんですけど『めぞん一刻』みたいな感じだった。俺は五代くんだとすると、先輩がうちに入り浸ってて、麻雀ばっかりやっていました。下宿生活はおもしろかったけど、悲しいかな、美人管理人の音無さんがいなかった（笑）。
  
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I was an assistant director for a midnight variety show called 11PM for two and a half years, and I struggled to death. It would have been almost classified as ‘power harassment’ (Japanese term describing psychological abuse and bullying at work) if it had happened today. [laugh] However, I learned what it takes during that time. The experience of confronting the difficulties, which was actually not as heroic as it sounds, made me what I am today. I always wanted to create something, but I didn’t know how difficult creating processes were.
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——　下宿生活以外の漫画家になるための「就職活動」は、どのような感じで？
  
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Making a decision on everything about the footage is hard work but fun. The format of Detective Conan is made by the accumulations of my experiences. From the first episode, it has an epilogue, an ending, and a bit of a bonus scene. I’m confident in the format which director Kodama, producer Yoshioka and I devised together. We’ve been using this format for the TV series for all these years, and almost the same one for the movies.
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青山　いまのアシスタントでもあるんですけど、漫研の同級生や後輩に手伝わせて、投稿作を描き始めてましたよ。
  
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'''Ieng Wong asks: Were you a big fan of Conan before producing it?'''
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——　青山伝説のひとつですが、やっぱり、投稿作からアシスタントがいるってすごい話です。
  
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As I said earlier, I knew about the manga before its serialization, and kept my eye on it. When I read the first chapter, I was so impressed by its tricks and depiction of situations. I was surprised how much it can do from the first episode.
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青山　そう？　なんだったら、プロの漫画家の阿部さんにも手伝ってもらってましたよ。
  
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I also liked The Kindaichi Case Files which had started running in a different magazine before Detective Conan. Luckily, I got an offer to produce The Kindaichi Case Files after I started Detective Conan. I feel exceptionally fortunate to be in charge of the two great detective anime series.
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——　それ、どうやったらプロに手伝ってもらえるんですか？
  
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'''Ryan Kun asks: What are your favorite detective movies and who are your favorite male and female characters in Detective Conan?'''
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青山　漫研の同級生や後輩には「飯おごるからさ」が口説き文句でしたけど、阿部さんには、なんて言ったんだっけな。そうそう。登場人物の名前で交渉したんだ。主人公が高井豊でヒロインが阿部麻巳子ってなったんですけど、逆にすると阿部ゆたかと高井麻巳子。高井麻巳子って、その当時、めちゃめちゃ人気のあったアイドルなんですけど、阿部さんが大ファンで、「ぜひそうしてほしい」と。すかさず「じゃ、手伝ってくれる？」って（笑）。
  
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I still watch many detective movies. Strictly speaking, it’s not a detective movie but I like Around the World in Eighty Days (premiered in 1957). It was based on the novel of the same name written by Jules Verne, and depicts a man who takes a bet to travel around the world in 80 days. He is disappointed in himself as he misses the deadline just one day. However, it turns out he actually won the bet, because he gained one day when he had crossed the International Date Line. I love such dramatic comeback wins. It’s a great bonus for viewers who are amazed by the trick at the last minute. I want to deliver such amazement to our viewers.
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——　なるほど。青山さんはさらっと言いますけど、一般的にプロの漫画家になる人でも、最初はひとりで描いて、持ち込むなり投稿するなりして、ようやくプロと認められた連載後にアシスタントを持つのが王道だと思います。
  
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My favorite character is always Kogoro Mouri. When the anime started airing, I was 37, the same age as Kogoro. He had a lovely high schooler daughter at that time, but I didn’t, though. [laugh] Although he has become crazier recently, he’s always lovable and no one can dislike him. I simply admire his personality.
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青山　だって、漫画を作るのって大変じゃないですか。こんなのひとりじゃ描けないよと思って手伝ってもらった（笑）。
  
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Among the female characters, I like Sonoko Suzuki. She was only meant to appear once according to the initial plan, but became a regular character because of the superb voice acting of Naoko Matsui who portrays her. She became a fixture of the anime, so much so that the character setting of Momiji Ohoka from the movie Crimson Love Letter was ‘Sonoko in the West’. Sonoko is incredible because she is such a down-to-earth person despite being a daughter of an extremely wealthy family.
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——　その頃のメンバーがいまも「チーム青山」なわけですよね？
  
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Thank you very much for sending me questions. It is much appreciated. I wish I could understand English more, so I could read all your questions and comments myself.
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青山　同じです。誰ひとり欠けることなく。
  
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'''— What’s your next goal?
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——　青山剛昌という才能ありきのことだと思いますが、現アシスタントの元同級生や後輩の方もいまの青山さんからの逆算ではなく、名もなき漫画家志望の大学生についていこうと思ったのがすごいです。
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Detective Conan has become a household name in Japan, and I’m quite satisfied with that. I’d like to crack the world market with Detective Conan. I can’t understand why only anime can’t show murder scenes in English-speaking countries, whereas other forms of mystery can. However, I feel optimistic because there are not so many murder scenes in the anime.
 
  
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For successful international market penetration, I must find why Japanese anime has become so popular and acclaimed worldwide. I also have to find a way to make foreign viewers understand the dramaturgy of the anime, otherwise they can’t remember every character.
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青山　なんなんだろうなぁ。不思議ですよね、この関係性って。たぶん、ビジネスの世界だと仲間同士というのは難しいのかもしれないけど、俺たちの関係性は幼馴染でコンビを組む芸人さんに近いのかもしれない。いまやもう家族みたいなものだから。とはいえ、俺も途中で思いましたよ。当時はまだちゃんとしたお金を払っているわけでもないのに、なんでみんな、こんなに一生懸命手伝ってくれるんだろうって。
  
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My ambition is to sail through the world with Detective Conan and make it a flagship anime on the globe.
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——　あ、青山さんも不思議だったんですね？
  
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'''— Could you give a comment for the fans?'''
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青山　不思議不思議。そういえば、アシスタントのNくんに「ガソリンスタンドのバイトに誘われてるんだけど、どうしよう？」と相談されたことがありました。
  
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It has been 24 years since the manga started, and 22 years since the anime’s first airing. One day, Detective Conan will reach its conclusion. We don’t know when and how it ends, however until that day I’ll create the anime with all my heart. I hope you enjoy the anime both based on the original manga and the anime originals, as well as the movies. We’ll keep working our hardest to meet your expectations. Please continue to watch and follow Detective Conan.
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——　その時、青山さんはなんと答えたんですか？
  
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— Thank you very much.
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青山　「大丈夫。俺が一生食わしてやるから」って。
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——　おぉ～、完全に〝兄貴〟じゃないですか！
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青山　いや、全然そんなんじゃなくて、単なる口からでまかせでした。ただ、プレッシャーのようなものはあって、絶対にプロになって連載を持つ。彼らにちゃんとお金を払えるようになりたいとは、最初の頃から強く思っていました。
  
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サンデー３・４合併号にて「あの方」の正体がついに判明。週刊誌での漫画連載は一旦お休みしつつ、映画第22弾のコンテ確認作業を進めている青山剛昌先生に現在の心境などを直撃した。
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今日はですね、「あの方」がついに指摘されたと言うことで、みんなが知りたいことをズバリ伺いさせて頂こうかなと思います。<br>青山　はいはい（笑）
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青山　それはもう「やったー！」しかなかったです。漫研のほかの先輩たちからは「写植が浮いているぞ！」と、からかわれましたけどね（笑）。写植って雑誌に印刷された時に使われるセリフなどの文字組みのことなんですけど、漫研の仲間のセリフは手書きですから、まだまだ拙い絵に対してセリフの書体だけがプロっぽいぞという意味でツッコまれて（笑）。でも、俺としては、アシスタントのこと以外にも、親へのプレッシャーもあったから、それはもううれしかった。
  
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ダメな質問は上手くボカして頂けてればと。ちなみに同日にこないだ撮影させて頂いた動画（「サンデーうえぶり」上にてアプリ限定公開）も解禁します。<br>青山　へー、そうなんだ（笑）はいはい。
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——　親へのプレッシャーとは？
  
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まずは、その動画でも伺ったのですが、青山さんの今の心境としてはいかがでしょうか。<br>青山　いやぁまぁ…いつか言わなきゃなぁと。ちょっと急ぎすぎるかなとは思ったけど、まぁいいかなぁと…結構ファンの間でも、アナグラムのヒント（90巻FILE 2）あたりから「＃＃じゃね」と言われていたし、これまでも年賀状で「＃＃ですか？」と聞いてくれる人がいてね。当たってるって返事書いちゃって良い？って、担当編集に聞いたんだけど「いや、それはちょっと…」と止められていてね（笑）あ、これインタビューにちゃんと書いといてね（笑）年賀状は他にも、早い段階で「領域外の妹」のこととか当ててる人がいて、その人たちには「当たってるよ、でも言わないでね（笑）」って書いたけど、＃＃に関しては全スルー。
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青山　日芸に通っている時に教員免許をとって、地元の母校で教育実習もしていたんです。あとは、教員採用試験にさえ受かれば先生になれるという感じだったから、そりゃあ親からしたら息子は美術教師になるもんだと思うじゃないですか。それがある日「俺、漫画家になるから」と言われた日には、そりゃあね、大反対ですよ。父親からは、「１年間だけ我慢してやる」と言われていたんです。漫画家デビューが決まったのが、大学を卒業してからはじめての秋だったから、なんとか間に合ったなぁって。……あれ？　違うか？
  
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ボスが「＃＃＃＃」って、決められたのはいつ頃ですか？<br>青山　いやぁもう…ちゃんと決めたのは３０巻だね。出てくるの30巻だから。ボス出してとかなきゃ（笑）思いまして…
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——　え？　なにが違うんですか？
  
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ネットではまさに、「あの方」についていろんな予想が立てられましたが。<br>青山　ほうほう。
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青山　自分で言ったのかな？　1年間で漫画家になるからって。いや、漫研の後輩たちが大学を卒業をする前になんとかしたかったんだっけかな？　まぁとにかく、親父は大反対でした。これはいまでもよく覚えているんですけど、こう言われたんです。「ワシはいまにも動き出しそうな蟹を描ける友人を知っている。そいつは画家になった。でもそいつは貧乏で死んだ」と。
  
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優作じゃないの、とか、光彦じゃないの、とか。<br>青山　えー、いやー（笑い）全然違いますよ、ぶぶぶって（笑）でもさすがに当ててくる人が増えてきたからね。
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——　その言葉は、大学生前後の青山さんにも、さすがにこたえますね？
  
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担当編集も、30巻頃では、別に聞かされていなかったと思うんですが。<br>青山　えー、その時、誰かな、担当。
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青山　いや、言い返した。
  
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4代目くらいですね。ちなみに、「あの方」という言葉が最初に出てきたのは24巻でジンが「あの方直々の命令だ…」というシーンです、その時から「組織にはボスがいる」と決められていたんですか？<br>青山　ぶっちゃけ1巻から決めてたよ（笑）でも実はボスが（ピー）は、この24巻からかなぁ…。でもホンとは（ピー）なんだけどね（笑）
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——　言い返した？　お父さんの言葉って、息子を思うが故の愛ある言葉ですよね？
  
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こないだ録らせて頂いた動画でも、＃＃にはまだ秘密があるとおっしゃってましたが。<br>青山　めっちゃありますね（笑）だって（ピー）はボスの（ピー）だから（ピーピー）されて（ピー）なわけじゃん。このへん全部、「ピー」だね（笑）
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青山　いや、「同じ絵の仕事でも、アニメーターなら食っていけるんじゃない？」とかなんとか。ほら、小学校の先生に『一休さん』のおもしろくないところにかみつくようなタイプだから（笑）。
  
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ですね（笑）<br>青山　それはそれで面白いかもね（笑）おお、すげーこと言ってるって（笑）
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——　なるほど。今回のインタビューを担当して感じたのですが、青山さんって、変に美談にされるようにことが苦手なのでしょうか。たとえば、アシスタントとの関係性や父親とのそれを、もし、「絆」とこちらがくくったとしたら、抵抗感があるというか。
  
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これからもいろいろなるんだーって、思えますからね。ちなみに、＃＃と決められてからは、作中にヒントを出されたと思うんですが。やっぱり最初は「七つの子」ですか？<br>青山　そうですね、まぁ、「七つの子」はカラスだしね…
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青山　あぁ……それはあるかもしれない。それはあるかもなぁ。ちょっと違う話なんですけど、たとえば、スタジオジブリの作品で『海がきこえる』と『耳をすませば』というタイトルだけ聞くと似たテイストのものがありますよね。俺は『海がきこえる』は大好きなんです。でも、『耳をすませば』はセリフがくさくてちょっと苦手なんです（笑）。
  
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あと、組織の正式名称と深い関わりが…と、インタビューでお答えになっていた…という情報を見たことがあり…　出典が定かではないですが（汗）<br>青山　なんだって？そんなの有ったっけ… 組織の名前？そんなこと言ったかな…
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——　セリフが「くさい」のが受け付けなかった？
  
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組織の名前って、決まってるんですか？<br>青山　うん（ピーピー）が（ピー）なんですよ。
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青山　いや、くさいのはいいんです。すぎるのが嫌なんです。俺だって、ここは決めなきゃという場面ではくさい言葉を登場人物に口にしてもらったりはしますから。たとえば、『まじっく快斗』でも、「まったく冷たいんだから……。アイスクリームみたい……」「でも、アイスクリームは……甘いんだぜ！！」というセリフがある。くさいといえばくさい。でも、俺のなかではセーフなんです。……って、すみません。説明が難しいし、あまりにも感覚的なんだけど、そのギリギリを模索するのがおもしろいと思う。セリフって、語尾だけでもまったく違うものになるから。そこはかなり気を遣っています。言葉選び、大切だから。うん。めちゃめちゃ大切ですから。だから、自分が迷った時は何パターンか考えて、アシスタントや担当編集者に「どっちがいいと思う？」と聞くこともあります。
  
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素敵な…<br>青山　うん、そう、でもボスの名前…？それはあまり関係ないかな。
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——　では、青山さんが本音を語ってくれたところで、こちらも率直な質問を。
  
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ちなみに、ネットでは、「やはり阿笠博士では」とか「FBIのジェイムズ・ブラックでは」といろいろな説が流れていましたが…<br>青山　めっちゃ違いますね（笑）
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青山　なになに？
  
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阿笠は青山さんが、以前に正式に否定されていて、それだと物語が美しくないと…<br>青山　美しくないというか、面白くないというか…それだといままでの博士のいい話が全部ダメになっちゃうじゃん。でもほら、ベルモットと対決するところで「いかん新一くん！」って言ってビートルで駆けつけたじゃん（笑）あれでボスじゃないってオレとしては描いたつもりだったんだけど…
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——　青山剛昌に挫折はありますか？
  
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たしかに。<br>青山　なのにみんな、まだまだ「ボスじゃね」って言ってたからね（笑）
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青山　挫折？　挫折かぁ。挫折？
  
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あとは、＃＃は作中では死んだはず、となっていますが…<br>青山　あー、そうね、それは言えませんね（笑）それはのちのち…
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——　少年時代のエピソードを交えつつ、プロデビューの頃までお話が聞けました。ここまでの青山さんは、一直線に漫画の世界に飛び込んでいる。冒頭の発言にしても、「『コナン』の連載をやめよう」と決めたのは青山さんなわけで、選択権が自分にある。他者なのか天運なのか、自分ではコントロールできないような「挫折」って、青山剛昌にはなかったのかなぁと。
  
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ですよね、聞いた限りでは、この先も大変壮大なお話ですから…<br>青山　まぁ、ボスの名前があきらかになっても、まだまだ「コナン」は謎が多いってことですよ（笑）
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青山　なるほど。たしかに、漫画家としてデビューする前にアシスタントとしての下積み生活があったわけでもないしなぁ。挫折。挫折。挫折。……あ、あった！
  
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「あの方」指摘直後
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——　ぜひ、教えてください！
  
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青山さんは、毎回担当者に伏線を説明をするのが大変とおっしゃいます…<br>青山　うん（笑）何か思い出したけど、ハッキリ言ったのは、9代目担当の時かも知れないな（笑）黒幕までは、それまではうすらぼんやり担当に伝えて「とにかくオレに任せとけよ」って思ってたような。担当が聞いて感動してて、「凄い良く出来てますね！」って言ってたから（笑）それを覚えてる。
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青山　『一休さん』。
  
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今回のお話では、ラムの正体や動きにも注目です。今回、安室さんに連絡してますし、それも大きな情報なので…<br>青山　ですね（笑）急展開だよね。
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——　え？　『一休さん』のいったいなにが挫折だったのでしょう？
  
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ちなみに、青山さんの近況としましては…<br>青山　「艦これ」イベント「甲」でクリアしました（笑）今回はいままでで一番大変だった（笑）
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青山　『一休さん』の芝居の練習をクラスのみんなに見てもらった時があったんです。すると先生が「青山くんのいまの演技はどうでしたか？」と聞いたんですけど、クラスで一番おとなしい子に「声が小さい」と言われて「よし、わかった」と。そう言ってくれたお前の声もめちゃくちゃ小さかったけどなと思いつつ、「よし、わかった」と。「本番をみてろよ」と思って、当日は、自分の声で自分の耳がキーンってなるぐらいのでっかい声で演じたら大好評だったんですよ。よしと。で、次の年が『舌切り雀』だったんですけど、主役のおじいさんに選ばれたんですね。さぁ今年もって気合いが入っていたんですけど、本番前日に遊んでいたらアキレス腱の近くを切っちゃって、おじいさん役はやれなくなってしまったんですよ。
  
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お気持ちとしては…<br>青山　そりゃ嬉しいよ（笑）「矢矧」も出たし！これでコンプリート！
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——　それが挫折？　小学校の頃のちょっと悔しいエピソードではなく？
  
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おめでとうございます！<br>青山　もうこのインタビュー早く終わらせて「矢矧」育てたい（笑）やっぱりセリフがいいんですよ、矢矧。大破したときにさ…「私を沈めたいなら、魚雷５，６本くらい撃ち込まないと、駄目よ」…って、みんな、持ってた人たちはこれ聞いてたんだなと、かっこいい！
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青山　いや、あれは、ものすごい挫折感でした。だって俺、もし2年連続で学芸会の自分の演技が大好評だったら、役者を目指していたかもしれないと真剣に思いますから。余談ですけど、「母ちゃん、すげぇな」ともその時に思いましたけどね。俺の『一休さん』をみんなが絶賛してくれたのに、母親だけは、「あんたのあれ、やけくそなだけだったね」って本当のことを見抜いてて（笑）。
  
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2年…3年ぐらい欲しがってらっしゃいましたよね。<br>青山　いやもっと長いだと思うけどな…ずーっと「矢矧」だけ出なかった。建造で出るんですけど、１００回以上チャンレンジしたけど出なかったからね。今回のイベント（2017年秋）で、ドロップしてビックリした。E-3…E-3の前半のボスかな…？
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——　なるほど。では、漫画家に絞っての挫折ならばどうですか？
  
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で、「艦これ」やりながらいまは「ツムツム」もなさってますが…<br>青山　あーそう！「ツムツム」夢中です。オレのお気に入りのツムは「ピターパン」です（笑）強いから（笑い）
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青山　ないかもしれない。ないなぁ。なんか、申し訳ないけど。
  
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ちなみにいま「ツムツム」では何万点くらい出されてますか。<br>青山　300万点いかなくらいだね、いまのところそれが限界です（笑）
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——　いや、逆にすごいです。それを言い切れるのは。
  
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あと、映画のコンテを例年通りか、それ以上にしっかりとご覧になっていますが…<br>青山　あーそう！がっつりやった！ちなみに次回の映画は、クライマックスでコナンくんが安室に「え！？」っていうことを聞くので、お見逃しなく（笑）安室ファンはみんな気になってることだろうからねぇ…それね、インタビューに書いてくれていいけど、高山さんにはもう言っちゃいました（笑）コナンくんのこういうセリフがあるよって（笑）「わかった」って言ってた（笑）
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青山　もしあるとしたら、さっき話した投稿作を描いている時期に最初はサンデーじゃなくて、「（週刊少年）マガジン」に持って行ったんですよ。佳作をもらって次回作を持って行った時に、担当編集者が「ウチの編集長が君の絵柄を好きじゃなくて絵柄を変えなきゃマガジンでは無理だよ」と言ってくれたんです。悔しかったけど、そういのって、さっきの俺のジブリの話じゃないけど、好みの問題だからしょうがないですよね。俺、マガジンでそう言ってもらったあとに、その足で、サンデー編集部に行きましたからね。講談社から出て、近くの本屋に行って、サンデー編集部の連絡先を見て、電話して。で、サンデーで担当してくれたOさんが気に入ってくれて、「じゃあ、次の漫画賞に出してみようか」と言ってくれたのが、デビュー作の『ちょっとまってて』ですから。うん。だからないな、挫折って。以後、漫画家・青山剛昌には挫折なしでお願いします（笑）。
  
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（笑）わかりました、ではファンの方へのメッセジーとしてはこれからも、漫画も映画も続いてくと言うことですよろしいでしょうか。<br>青山　そうですね、いまちょっと休んでますけど、充電を兼ねてますんで…
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——　かしこまりました（笑）。
  
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体調も万全になってからと言うことで…<br>青山　そうだね、今後はちょっと作画中の3時間睡眠はやめるかも（笑）なんで、ペースは遅くなっちゃうかもだけど、これならいけるかもとういうのがつかめたらはじめますんで、それまで待って下さい（笑）
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青山　ほんと申し訳ない。
  
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あと、今回、青山さんが「本当の原稿」を描いているところを動画で録らせて頂きましたが…ダミーではなく本物の原稿を描かれるのは珍しいと思いますが…<br>青山　あー！そうだね、NHKの番組で、カラーの原稿を描いたときは、本物だったけど漫画の原稿が初めてかもな。
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——　では、挫折ではなく、悔しさならばどうでしょうか。『名探偵コナン』は、マガジンで人気だった『金田一少年の事件簿』への対抗馬として始まっています。それは、編集部の狙いであって、当時『YAIBA』で人気を博していた青山さんなら、断るという選択肢もあったように感じます。
  
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丸ペンを使われましたけど…<br>青山 あー！そう！タッチの部分は丸ペン。あれはピグマだと出ないから…オレは元々Gペンや丸ペンを使ってたから、ミリペンを使っても強弱のついた線が描けるけど、いきなり最初からミリペンだと強弱のない、つるんとした絵になっちゃうんで、これから漫画家を目指す新人さんはホンとはGペンや丸ペンで絵を描き慣れといた方がいいよと、書いといてね（笑い）
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青山　まぁそうだよね。そうなのかな？
  
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はい（笑い）というわけで…大変貴重なインタビューをありがとうございました。あとなんか、青山さん的に近況の言い残しはありますか？<br>青山　あ、「ドラクエ１１」で、ボスを倒して最初のエンデイングまで見た。（現在、裏ボスを倒すべくレベル上げ中）
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——　そうですよ。そうじゃないですか？
  
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そういえば漫画では「3月のライオン」を再度読破されて、ドラマだと「刑事ゆがみ」にハマってらっしゃいますね。<br>青山　アニメだと「宝石の国」だな、あれいい！面白い！スタッフの中にオレと同じ大学のサークルでアニメ作ってたやつがいるし（笑）（泉津井陽一（センツイヨウイチ）さん）あのアニメ、声優さんもいい！主人公が「響け！ユーフォニアム」の黄前ちゃんなんだよね〜（黒沢ともよさん）
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青山　でも、人気を博すと言っても、『YAIBA』がアンケートの1位になったのって、最終回とその前の回でようやくですから。それはそうで、当時は（高橋）留美子先生の『らんま１／２』と藤田（和日郎）くんの『うしおととら』が、ぶっちぎりで強かったんです。そうそう。そういえばだけど、サンデー編集部の基本姿勢として、読者アンケートを漫画家に見せちゃダメなんですよ。でも、気になるじゃない？　それで担当者にすげぇ無理を言って「お願い。俺が過労死したら棺桶に入れたいから、お願いだから見せて」と頼んで見せてもらって。『YAIBA』はアニメ化も始まっていたというのと、最終回の1回前で「次号、最終回！」みたいなあおりを入れてくれたからか、ようやく1位で。だから、当時は人気を博すなんて感じじゃなくて、無我夢中で毎週毎週描いてましたよ、漫画を。
  
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いまはそのへんにハマってらっしゃるととういうことで…ありがとうございました！<br>青山　はいはい（笑）
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——　『うしおととら』の藤田さんは同世代なので別として、高橋留美子さんや、『タッチ』やその後の『H2』で、アンケート上位を独占するあだち充さんという２巨頭を「俺が倒してやるぜ！」といった思いはありませんでしたか？
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Mr. Aoyama Direct Interview
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青山　ゼロ。まったくなし。
  
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November 30th, 2017, Mr. Aoyama Gosho House.
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——　１ミリもない感じ？
  
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In the [Shonen] Sunday Combined Issue #3-4, the identity of “That Person” has been finally established. I directly asked Mr. Aoyama Gosho about his mental state as he temporarily takes breaks from serializing the manga in the weekly magazine and he works on checking the storyboards from the 22nd movie.
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青山　ゼロ。無理。絶対無理。
  
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Interviewer: Today “That person” was finally identified so I was thinking of asking you about things that everyone wants to know.<br>Aoyama: Yes, yes (laughs)
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——　クールですね、漫研は熱血なのに。
  
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Interviewer: If you could please blur the bad questions… By the way… On the same day, that video that I recorded will be made public (“Sunday Webry” App Limited Publishing).<br>Aoyama: Huh, is that so? (laughs) Yes, yes.
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青山　いやだって、無理でしょ、そんなの。まず、そのおふたりは大尊敬している先輩漫画家ですから。倒すだなんておこがましいにもほどがある。あと、雛人形でいうと、あだち先生はお内裏様で留美子先生はお雛様！　俺は五人囃子ぐらいの立ち位置が本当は好きなんです。だから、サンデーを背負うだなんて意識もまったくなかったし。
  
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Interviewer: First things first… We also asked in the video, but can we assume that is your mental state, Mr. Aoyama?<br>Aoyama: Oh, well… I did think that I’d have to say it at some point. I did think that I was rushing a bit too much but that it wasn’t a bad idea… A lot of fans said “It’s ##” since they the anagram hint (Volume 90, File 2) and others asked me “Is it ##?” in the New Year’s Postcards. I tried asking the editor in charge “Can I answer telling them they met the mark?” but they stopped me saying “No, that’s a bit [too revealing]…” (laughs) Ah, make sure to write this on the interview (laughs) There were also other persons who guessed the identity of the “sister outside the domain” at a very early stage in the New Year’s Postcards and I answered them “You’ve met the mark but keep it a secret (laughs)” but I ignore all questions about ##.
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——　では、当時のライバルならば？
  
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Interviewer: When did you decide that “####” was the Boss?<br>Aoyama: Oh, well… I properly decided that in Volume 30. Since it appears on Volume 30. They have to appear as the “Boss” (laughs) Or so I thought…
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青山　あの頃も散々聞かれたような気がするけど、「自分です」と答えるしかなかったなぁ。藤田さんは世代も近いし、『うしおととら』はものすごい人気だったからあれなんだけど、なんていうのかな。俺ごときとは言わないまでも、俺にライバル視なんてされたら嫌かもなぁと思っていました。もちろん、彼の漫画はすごいから尊敬しているけど、勝負しているところが違う。もし、俺とものすごく作風が近い若手とかが現れたら、「勝たなきゃ！」と思うかもしれないけど。
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——　青山さんの本意ではないにせよ、現実としてアンケートの1位を取るようになると、チーム青山の生活にも変化があったのでは？
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青山　変わった変わった。
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——　どんなところが変化しました？
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青山　夜食のカップラーメンが出前に出世しました。
  
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Interviewer: There’s a lot of conjectures on the net about “That Person”.<br>Aoyama: I see, I see
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——　あ、それはものすごい出世ですね。
  
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Interview: “Is it Yuusaku?”, “Is it Mitsuhiko?”, amongst others. <br>Aoyama: Eehh!? Nooo (laughs) They’re totally wrong. Beep (laughs) But there’s more people who’ve met the mark: it’s to be expected
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青山　うん。こういっちゃあれだけど、みんな海賊みたいでしたよ。その頃はまだ、アシスタントも俺も若かったから。食うわ食うわ、飲むわ飲むわ。出前にしても一番高いのから選んでいくわで（笑）。飲み食いだけじゃなくて漫画作りに関しても、デビューから間もない頃なんて、もう怖いもの知らずで。まぁそれは、俺も含めての話なんですけどね。
  
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Interviewer: I thought that the editor in charge at the time of Volume 30 would’ve been specially told, though…<br>Aoyama: Eeh? Who was the editor in charge back then…?
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——　青山さん自身は、稼げるようになって変化はありましたか？　たとえば、対談で島本さんも聞いてましたけど、車好きの漫画家さんが高級車をついに買っちゃうといった感覚とか？
  
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Interviewer: It was the 4th one. By the way, the first time that the word “That Person” appeared was in the scene of Volume 24 when he says “It’s a direct order from That Person”. You’d already decided then that “The Organization has a Boss”?”<br>Aoyama: To be frank, I’d decided that ever since Volume 1 (laughs) But, actually the Boss being (beep) was from Volume 24, I think… But, in truth, it’s (beep) (laughs)
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青山　ないない（笑）。サンデーのアンケートでも「いまほしいものは？」とか、たまに聞かれるんだけど、本当になくて困っちゃうんです。スタッフのこともあるから引っ越したけど、いまでも最初に描いてた四畳半一間とかが仕事場でも俺は全然いいもん。俺は漫画さえ描けていれば、それでいいなぁ。
  
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Interviewer: In the video you allowed me to record a while ago, you did say that ## has some secret to them, but…<br>Aoyama: They have tons of them (laughs) Because (beep) is the Boss’ (beep) so they were (beep beep) and they’re (beep). Put “beep” on all of this part (laughs)
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——　青山さん、もう一回言っていいですか？
  
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Interviewer: Obviously (laughs)<br>Aoyama: That’s pretty fun (laughs). Oh, he’s saying some spectacular! (laughs)
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青山　なになに？
  
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Interviewer: I do think that there’ll be a lot of those from now on, yes. By the way, ever since you decided it’d be ##, I think you’ve made some hints appear in the manga. Is “Seven Children” the first of them, like I thought?<br>Aoayama: True… Well, “Seven Children” is about crows, so…
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——　兄貴、かっこいいっす！
  
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Interviewer: Also, that it’s deeply related to the Organization’s official name… Or so you answered in an interview… I’ve seen such information… But the source isn’t clear (sweats)<br>Aoyama: What did you say? Was there such a thing…? The Organizations’ name? Did I say that..?
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青山　そうかなぁ。漫画家なんて、ふつうそうでしょ？
  
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Interviewer: Have you decided on the Organization’s name?<br>Aoyama: Yes (beep-beep) is (beep), see.
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——　いや、ふつうではないと思いますが話を戻して。『コナン』のはじまりについてでした。
  
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Interviewer: Fantastic…<br>Aoyama: Yes, true, but the boss’ name…? I think it’s not too related…
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青山　たしかに、編集部からオファーをもらった当初は、全然やる気がありませんでした。でも、しばらくして、子供の頃からホームズなどの探偵ものが好きだったということを思い出したんです。で、描けるなと。描いてみたいと。ほら俺、そういう気持ちのとっかかりがないと漫画が描けないから。逆に言うと、自分の描きたい探偵を描くというのは決めていたし、その結果として人気はでないと思っていました。コミックスで長くて３巻、短ければ1巻で終わると。いちおうね、『YAIBA』を描いてて、アクションシーンは得意かもなと感じていたんです。それが、『コナン』なんてセリフばっかりでしょ？　アクションという武器を封印しちゃっていいの？　とは思いました。まぁ、結局は、コナンくんがサッカーボールを蹴ったり、蘭の格闘シーンとかで使ってるけど、それは編集部の狙いというより、俺が描きたくて描いてるだけだから。
  
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Interview: By the way, there’s several theories flowing in the net like “Maybe it’s indeed the Professor?” or “James Black from the FBI?”…<br>Aoyama: They’re totally wrong (laughs)
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——　青山さんが描きたかった探偵像がどのようなものだったのかが気になりました。
  
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Interviewer: You officially denied Agasa before, but some say that then the story isn’t beautiful…<br>Aoyama: That’s it’s not beautiful, that it’s not interesting… Were it to be case, all the good episodes the Professor had would have been in vain. But, see… When [Conan] faced Vermouth, he said “No good, Shinichi-kun!” and rushed there with his Beetle (laughs). My intention when I drew that is that he wasn’t the Boss, but…
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青山　いとことで言えば、犯人を殺さずに、ちゃんと捕まえて罪を償わせる探偵。
  
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Interviewer: True.<br>Aoyama: But despite that they all kept saying “He’s the Boss”, so… (laughs)
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——　なるほど。唯一の例外が「ピアノソナタ『月光』殺人事件」です。
  
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Interviewer: Also, ## is supposed to be dead in the manga, but…<br>Aoayama: Ah, true… I can’t talk about that (laughs) In due time…
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青山　そうそう。あれだけ。あのエピソードだけは、意図的に例外を描きたかったんです。あの犯人の浅井成美先生は、いまでもファンレターをもらうことが多くて、読者の印象にも残ってるみたいで、よしよしと（笑）。その例外はあるにせよ、基本的にコナンくんは、必ず犯人を捕まえる俺の理想の探偵です。あとね、いま話ながら思い出したんだけど、ちょうどコナンを描き始めた頃だったかな。よし、がんばろうと思ったきっかけがありました。
  
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Interviewer: Obviously. From what you’ve told me, from now it’ll be a very grand story, so…<br>Aoyama: Well, even if the Boss’ name has become clear, there’s still a lot of mysteries in “Conan” (laughs)
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——　気になるそのきっかけとは？
  
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Page 2 header: After pointing “That Person”
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青山　フジテレビで『古畑任三郎』が始まったことです。すげぇおもしろかった。「ミステリー」とくくった時に、申し訳ないけど、それまでの日本のミステリーでおもしろいと思えるものが少なかったけど、あれはめちゃくちゃおもしろいと感じたんです。『コナン』のほうがちょっとだけ早く始まっていたから、「古畑に負けたくねぇ！」というのはすごく感じていて。それこそ、勝手にライバル視して(笑)。
  
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Interviewer: You say that it’s a lot of trouble to explain the foreshadowing to each editor in charge when they change…<br>Aoyama: Yes (laughs) I remember something, though… I clearly told one of them, I think the 9th one, for all I know (laughs) I dimly told him up to the mastermind and he seemingly thought “Just leave it up to me”. The editor in charge heard it, got emotional and said “it’s a wonderful work!” (laughs) That much I remember.
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——　『古畑任三郎』の脚本家である三谷幸喜さんも日芸出身ですね。
  
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Interviewer: Rum’s identity and movements are also a point to focus upon in this episode. They’ve contacted Amuro-san and it’s very big info, so…<br>Aoyama: Indeed (laughs) It’s a sudden development
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青山　そうなんです。余談だけど、三谷さんが手がけた大河ドラマの『真田丸』も、おもしろかったなぁ。あれはもう、やばいぐらいおもしろかった。最終回で、ふつうにしんみり終わらせてもいいのに、幸村が長年仕えた忍者の佐助に「いくつになった？」と聞いて「５５でございます」と答えるシーンなんて、爆笑しましたから。しかも、コメディ要素だけじゃなくて人間をちゃんと描くというか、秀吉の描写も素晴らしいし、その親方様のためにってがんばる幸村たちの描き方もすごかったし。三谷さんはドラマからギャグからなにからなにまですごいです。あえて言うと、ラブコメは苦手なのかなぁと想像したけど、それでも、ほかがおもしろすぎて気にならなかった。
  
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Interviewer: By the way, what about your recent status…?<br>Aoyama: I cleared the “Kan Colle” even with “Kou (Shell)” (laughs) It was the hardest insofar (laughs)
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——　余談ついでに、青山剛昌の「ラブコメ論」を教えてください。
  
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Interviewer: What about your feelings…?<br>Aoyama: I’m glad, of course (laughs) “Yahagi” also appeared! Now I’ve completed it!
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青山　論っていうほど、偉そうなものではないけど、ラブコメとラブギャグは違うぞ、というのは思っています。たとえば、女の子が男の子とぶつかって、こけて、パンチラしてしまったと。男の子が偶然それを見てそまう。で、女の子が「なに見てんのよ？」とパンっと叩くのがラブギャグ。でも、「いま見た？」って女の子が聞いて「ううん。見てない」と男の子が答えて、さらに女の子が「ウソ……ホントは見たでしょ？」とジト目になるのがラブコメ。そういう意味では、８０年代のドラマの『男女7人夏物語』と『男女7人秋物語』は、もうラブコメのお手本のような作品だと思う。
  
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Interviewer: Congratulations!<br>Aoyama: I want to finish this interview already and raise “Yahagi” (laughs) Yahagi’s lines are very good, indeed. When she gets seriously damaged… “If you want to sink me you’ll need to shoot 5-6 torpedoes at me, else you won’t be able to”… To think that all people who had her could hear to these… Cool!
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——　主演したさんまさんの「もう遅いねや」は、その当時の流行語にもなりました。
  
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Interviewer: You said that you’d wished to get her since 2-3 years ago.<br>Aoyama: No, I think it’s been longer… “Yahagi” never popped out. She pops out by construction but even though I did over 100 challenges she didn’t pop out. I was surprised that she was a “drop” in this event (Autumn 2017). E-3… Was is it the Boss of the E-3 first half…?
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青山　そそそ。流行ったよね。男女7人シリーズでいうと、女優の大竹しのぶさんの役作りで驚かされたことがあるのを覚えています。最初ね、視聴者は大竹しのぶを「いけすかない女」って思うんですよ。ところが、ドラマの回を重ねるごとにかわいくなっていくんですよ。その秘密って、実は、大竹さんがメイクを工夫していたんですって。最初は嫌な感じに見えるようにメイクして、徐々にメイクをかわいくしていって。それは、生身の人間が演じることのすごみだと思いました。漫画だったら、最初からかわいく描いちゃいますから。
  
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Interviewer: And you’re also playing “Tsum Tsum” alongside “Kan Colle”…<br>Aoyama: Ah, true! I’m crazy about “Tsum Tsum”. My favorite “Tsum” is “Peter Pan” (laughs) He’s strong (laughs)
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——　最近のドラマで気になった作品はありますか？
  
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Interviewer: By the way, how many 10000s of points do you have in “Tsum Tsum”?<br>Aoyama: I think it’s below 3,000,000 points. That’s my current limit (laughs)
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青山　『逃げ恥』（『逃げる恥だが役に立つ』）やアニメの『君の名は。』なんて、ラブコメくくりの大傑作だと思います。『君の名は。』は担当編集者たちと一緒に見に行ったんだけど、俺が作ったわけでもないのに、あの作品の素晴らしさについてものすげぇ解説してたもん。って、ぐらい好き（笑）。
  
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Interviewer: Also, I can see that the movie storyboards look like the usual ones but greater, even…<br>Aoyama: Ah, yes! I did them with all my might! By the way, in the next movie’s climax… Conan-kun is told something by Amuro that makes him reply “Huh!?” so don’t miss it (laughs) Amuro fans must be curious about that… You can write that in the interview, but I already told Takayama-san about it (laughs) That’s there this line by Conan, that is (laughs) And she said “Gotcha” (laughs)
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——　漫画に絞ると青山さんが影響を受けたラブコメとは？
  
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Interviewer: (laughs) Understood. Then should I say that your message towards the fan is that the manga and movies will still go on?<br>Aoyama: Indeed, I’m resting a bit now but I’m also recharging energies so…
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青山　それはもちろん、このジャンルの神様みたいな人である、あだち充先生ですよ。たとえば『タッチ』のこんな感じの描写がザ・ラブコメだと思うんです。南ちゃんの日記を達也が見たのではないかという事件がある。最終的に南ちゃんが屋上に達也を呼ぶ出す。南ちゃんが「あの日記に書いてあることは本当よ。昔からタッちゃんのことが好きだったの」と言う。うろたえる達也を見て「そっか。そっか。見てないんだ」と言って笑顔で去る南ちゃん。もうね、絶妙だと思いました。この回では南ちゃんの気持ちが、どっちなのかわからない、でも読者は気になって仕方がないという絶妙さ。天才だと思いました。俺が言うまでもなく当たり前の称号なんだけどね（笑）。
  
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Interviewer: This should be better said when one’s at top condition…<br>Aoyama: True. I might stop having 3-hour sleep during work (laughs). So the pace might slow down but until I begin to get a grip of “this works”: please wait until then (laughs)
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——　『名探偵コナン』は、「殺人ラブコメミステリー」とも評されます。なぜ、同作がここまで多くの人に支持されるのかその理由を想像すると、「ラブコメ」と「ミステリー」という人気の要素が盛り込まれているのも大きいのではないでしょうか？
  
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Interviewer: Also, Mr. Aoyama, you allowed me to record you while drawing the “true manuscript” but… I think it’s unusual for you to draw a true manuscript and not a dummy…<br>Aoyama: Ah! True, when I drew a color manuscript for the NHK program it was a true manuscript but I guess it’s the first time I do that with a manga manuscript.
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青山　わかんない（笑）。
  
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Interviewer: You used a mapping pen, though…<br>Aoyama: Ah! True! The touch section is a mapping pen. Pigmas don’t achieve that… I originally used G Pens and mapping pens, so even if I used a millipen I can draw lines with strength, yet… If I suddenly use a millipen from the start, it becomes smooth pictures without strength, so write that any newbies aiming to become mangaka should get used to drawing with G Pens or mapping pens (laughs)
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——　もう少しだけねばらせてください。
  
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Interviewer: Yes (laughs) And so… Thank you very much for this very important interview. Is there something else you want to say about your recent status, Mr. Aoyama?<br>Aoyama: Ah, I beat the boss in “Dragon Quest 11” and saw the first ending (now I’m leveling up to face the secret boss)
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青山　ふふふ。
  
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Interviewer: Speaking of which… You finished re-reading the manga “The March Lion” and you’re into the drama series “Policeman Yugami”, right?<br>Aoyama: As for anime, I like “Jewels Kingdom”, it’s good! It’s fun! Amongst the staff there’s a guy from the same college circle as me that made anime (laughs) (Mr. Sentsui Youichi) The anime and voice actors are good! The main protagonist is Oumae-chan from “Sound! Euphonium” (Ms. Kurosawa Tomoyo)
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——　連載開始時のコミックス３巻で終わるかもと感じていた時期はともかく、いまもまったくわからない？
  
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Interviewer: So that’s what you’re into lately, then… Thank you very much!<br>Aoyama: Yes, yes (laughs)
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青山　たしかに、ラブコメとミステリーのふたつの要素があるのは大きいし、世界で一番有名な探偵（シャーロック・ホームズ）の要素を作品に盛り込んだというのもあるとは思うんです。コナンくんなんて、その作者の名前だしね。だから、もし若い世代の漫画家が探偵ものを描こうとしても、コナンのせいで（笑）、シャーロック・ホームズが使いづらいですよね？　でもなぁ。本当によくわからないです。
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——　では、「売れたい」ならば？
  
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青山　ないです。ごめん（笑）。
  
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——　なぜ謝るんですか？
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===Shinichi and Ran Secret Archives VA interviews===
 
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'''Date:''' January 16, 2018
 
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'''Source:''' https://www.facebook.com/DCTheRedThread/photos/1722146851170594/ <br>
 
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'''Translated by:''' Jiamin<br>
 
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'''Info credits by:''' 游离之光
 
  
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YG = Yamaguchi (Shinichi)<br>
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青山　いや、なんか偉そうな言い方だなぁと思って。でも、その手の質問は、本当に困っちゃうんですよ。たまに、若手漫画家とかに「どうすれば売れるんですか？」と聞かれることがあるんだけど、俺自身は本当にそんなことを考えたことがないから、答えようがなくて。
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YG: Compared to coming as Kid, when I come as Shinichi, YZ-San is much nicer/gentle to me<br>
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——　少しわかった気がします。現実としてアシスタントの給料を払いたいとかの「食える」は考えたことがあるけど、「売れる」という野心のようなものは抱いたことがないのでは？
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YZ: Although YG-San is present, knowing him is here as Kid, I’ll be thinking “ちぇ—つ” (Not exactly sure what the expression is in English, but it’s like a scornful sound”
 
  
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YZ: Conan-Kun is cuter than childhood Shinichi <br>
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青山　そうそうそうそう。いや、そうでもないな。正直に言うと、『YAIBA』の頃は「売れたい」も少しだけありましたよ。
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Q- What do you think about Episode One<br>
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——　こちらが関西人だったら「あったんかい！」とツッコむところです。
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YG: It’s been a long time since I had a normal conversation with Ran, I’m really happy!<br>
 
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YZ: So that’s what it was like when Shinichi was still around. I also liked that whenever Shinichi shows up, the love comedy will always cover a bigger part.<br>
 
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TY: It told us what Shinichi went through after he turned to Conan and the time period before he ran back home. It’s like filling in blanks rather than retelling stories. <br>
 
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YZ: I’m surprised that they did the Karate tournament, they even gave me a real-life tournament as a reference before I record. Ran is becoming some sort of “superwoman” in the recent movies, so it’s nice to show that she can feel pain and be frustrated. <br>
 
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Q-What do you three feel about Shinran’s relationship?<br>
 
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YG: Shinichi fell for Ran when they’re in preschool... that’s so early!<br>
 
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TY: Maybe he started thinking Ran was cute when she was crying<br>
 
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YZ: Even though she said she started to have feelings for Shinichi after the NY case, but he’s still more of a childhood friend before he disappeared. She didn’t realize how much she loved him until he’s not around.<br>
 
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TY: The pain of being apart.<br>
 
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YG: I’ve always look forward to a childhood romance, I knew a couple who were my classmates in grade school, i thought it was amazing when they got married.<br>
 
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TY: I would be OK with it if it can last forever. In ep 472, Kudo Shinichi’s childhood adventure, there’s a part where Shinichi wanted to be address in last name..<br>
 
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YZ: I think he’s embarrassed that he was the only to be called in first name in grade school.<br>
 
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TY: Yes, i was thinking when I saw that part, “This child’s puberty kicked in early” I had similar experience in middle school, when you get teased like that by others, the relationship can be easily ruined. It’s nice that they patched things up soon quickly!<br>
 
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YG: And they’ve remained close ever since, so exclusive to each other.<br>
 
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YZ: But Shinichi gets cocky when receiving fan letters<br>
 
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TY: it’s just for the attention, he felt like he’s being acknowledged, but never consider them romantically <br>
 
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YG: It’s just fan letters<br>
 
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YZ: Ran will also go panic about some illusion, like Shinichi living with a young widow...(laugh)<br>
 
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YG: Watching too much soap operas? (Laugh)<br>
 
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TY: Ran was picked up a lot by guys. Maybe the guys in school are too afraid to because of Shinichi, but she’s definitely popular! And sometimes when Shinichi gets mad and jealous about “why is she so friendly with them”, he’s anger usually goes away if he sees her attitude towards that person, like Araide-sensei and Eisuke-kun.<br>
 
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YZ: Eisuke-Kun doesn’t feel like a love interest, he’s like a little brother!<br>
 
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YG: We recorded CM for the field trip arc!<br>
 
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YZ: Yes, a couple of lines, it’s amazing that we reached file 1000<br>
 
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TY: can’t wait for the animation, let their feelings for each other be heard!<br>
 
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===Movie 22 Guidebook Interview===
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青山　だって、ゲーム化してほしかったから（笑）。魔剣にいろんな玉を入れるとそれぞれの力が出せるという設定って、まるでゲームだから。ゲーム化だけじゃなくて、アニメ化もしてほしくて、アクション、アクション、またアクションってやってみたのに全然ダメだった。だから、「売れる」というのに近い夢が実現するのなんて、もうその夢をあきらめた頃だったんです。ましてや、『コナン』なんて、「こんな会話ばっかりの作品、アニメ化されるわけねえ。主人公が動かねぇし」と思っていたのにすぐにアニメ化されちゃうしで（笑）。つまり、全然狙ってなかったんです。
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'''Date:''' March 31, 2018
 
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File:M22_Guidebook_Interview_7.jpg|Takayama Minami interview
 
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——　あぁ、だから「売れる」「売れない」の境界線がわからない？
  
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'''New characters introduced'''<br>
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青山　そうそうそう。だから、よくわからないというのが本音だけど、描きたいものを描くというのが一番大切だと思う。読者ってすごいから、「このへんやっときゃ、ウケるんでしょ？」みたいな作り手側の作為なんて、一発で見抜きますからね。
  
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'''Sayoko Iwai''' -> Tokyo Regional Prosecutor, Public Safety Bureau<br>
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——　答えにくい質問をありがとうございました。では、はじまりについての流れでいうと、『まじっく快斗』はどのような発想だったのですか？
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VA: Tomigana Miina<br>
 
  
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Line: "This is a decision by the Public Safety Department, do you understand?"<br>
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青山　俺、コナン・ドイルも好きでしたけど、モーリス・ルブランもすっごい好きだったんで、泥棒ものを描きたいなと。
  
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Supervisor subservient to the Public Safety Police.<br>
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——　モーリス・ルブランはアルセーヌ・ルパンシリーズの作者として有名です。
  
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Supervisor Prosecutor part of the Tokyo Regional Public Prosecutor Office, Public Safety Department. Her subordinate, Kusakabe, in charge of Kogoro's case, suggests her to carry out additional investigation of the case, but Supervisor Iwai dismisses his suggestion. It'd seem she's very subservient to the National Police Agency's Public Safety Police.
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青山　うん。でもね。聞いた話だと、原書はすげぇ短編で、日本の翻訳家さんが付け足したらしいんです。それも、すげぇ付け足したっていう（笑）。その付け足しのおかげで、めちゃめちゃおもしろくなったらしくて。……いま思い出した余談をしてもいいですか？
  
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——　もちろんです。
  
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'''Kyouko Tachibana''' -> Lawyer<br>
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青山　そう言えばね、以前にフランスからインタビュアーがわざわざ来てくれてインタビューを受けたんですよ。「モーリス・ルブランがすっごい好きで、『まじっく快斗』を描いたんですよ」って言ったら、「モーリス・ルブラン？　あれは、子供の読み本ですよ」みたいなことを言われちゃって。「え？　そうなの？」と、すげえ驚いたのをいま思い出しました。だから、日本の翻訳家さんがすげぇがんばった説は、本当な気がする。「奇巌城」とか「８１３の謎」とか、おもしろいし、かっこいいから。
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VA: Ueno Aya<br>
 
  
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Line: "Please allow me, Kyouko Tachibana, to defend "the sleeping Kogoro"!"<br>
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——　さらっと話が展開していきましたけど、海外からも取材者が訪れるんですね？
  
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A "cell-lawyer" lawyer who always loses<br>
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青山　いや、でも、そのフランスの人ぐらいですよ。あ、中国からも来てくれたかもしれない（笑）。あとはまぁ、海外のイベントに参加した時に、シンガポールとかアメリカでは取材されたことがあるけど。それでね、フランスから来たその人は『YAIBA』に夢中で、その取材だったんですよ。だから、モーリス・ルブランが子供向きだって言われた時は、「あなたが取材に来てる『YAIBA』のほうがよっぽど子供向きだぞ！」と思ったけどね（笑）。それでまた、実はその時の裏話があるんですけど……あ、さすがに話がそれすぎ？
  
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A "cell-lawyer" is a lawyer that doesn't belong to a lawyer agency and take jobs over their cellphones, they're freelance lawyers. She's been in charge of many Public Safety cases in the past but cases with prosecution indictment only have a 0.1% chances of being won so she's lost in all the trials she's been at. She requests to defend Kogoro.
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——　いえいえ、そういうインタビューですから。
  
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青山　フランスでは、『YAIBA』がまだ完結していないタイミングで、ヤマタノオロチ編かなにかだったんだけど、日本では『コナン』が始まっていたんですよ。フランスのインタビュアーが、『YAIBA』って「このあとどうなるの？」と聞いてきたんだけど、「いや、もう終わりました」と言ったら、ものすごくビックリしちゃって。まるでこの世の終わりみたいな顔をするから、この人おもしろいと思って、『コナン』のコミックスの１巻だったかな？　コナンくんがホームズの格好をしている絵を見せて「いま描いているのはこれです」って喜んでもらおうと思ったんです。そしたら、全然リアクションが薄くて「ふん、なにそれ？コナン・ドイル？」みたいな。フランスの人だからか、イギリスのホームズがあんまり好きじゃないみたいで。それがもう、おかしくておかしくて。
  
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'''Fumikazu Haba''' -> Former Law Student<br>
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——　では、フランスにも大ファンがいる『YAIBA』のはじまり方をいま一度お願いします。
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VA: Hakata Daikichi
 
  
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Line:"I want you to explain why I wasn't appointed!"<br>
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青山　『おれは鉄兵』が好きだったから。剣道ものをとにかくやりたかったんです。探偵ものも描きたかったけど、『YAIBA』よりも前に『探偵ジョージのミニミニ大作戦』っていう、探偵ものっぽいやつを描いてましたから。で、始まったんだけど、さっきも話したように、なまじ自分が剣道をやってたから変なストッパーがかかっちゃうんです。
  
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He was a law student, but...<br>
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——　アシスタントさんが「竹刀の先についてるキャップみたいなのを外すと竹刀がばらばらになるでしょ？　その状態で突けばいいじゃん」と提案しても「いや、それ、反則だから」とか？
  
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A law student who aimed to be a judge. But he wasn't appointed a judge. Wanting to know the why, he talks directly to the coure's director, but...
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青山　そうです。それで、これ以上やってもおもしろくならないなぁと思って、じゃあ魔剣ものにしようと。で、鬼丸が本当に鬼になっちゃった（笑）。
  
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——　短編群のなかで、とくに思い出深い作品はありますか？
  
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'''Makoto Kusabake''' -> Tokyo Regional Prosecutor, Public Safety Department<br>
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青山　みんな思い出深いですよ。『夏のサンタクロース』はけっこう時間がかかったけど評判がよくてうれしかったし、映画の『椿三十郎』が好きで、あの作品に影響を受けて描いた『プレイ　イット　アゲイン』も思い出深いし。うん。全部が懐かしいです。
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VA: Kawashima Tokuyoshi
 
  
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Line: "It'd seem that you kept denying the charges in the police."<br>
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——　『椿三十郎』といえば、打ち合わせの時に青山さんが絶賛していたので、この間はじめて見たんですけど、めちゃくちゃおもしろかったです。古い映画というだけで敬遠していたんですけど、一分の隙もない超エンタメ作品でした。
  
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青山　よかったでしょ？　びっくりでしょ？　そうなんですよ。昔の映画って、みんなちょっとなぁってなるんだけど、『椿三十郎』だけは、いつ見てもいい感じなんですよ。笑いもあってしんみりするところもあって、いいセリフもある。物語のなかではなにもできない奥方が「あなたは、なんだかギラギラしすぎてますね。抜き身みたいに。あなたは鞘のない刀みたいな人。よく斬れます。でも、本当にいい刀は鞘に入っているものですよ」と椿三十郎にばしっと言ったりね。かっこいい。同じ黒澤明監督の『七人の侍』もおもしろいんだけど、ちょっと長いんです。もし、黒澤明が生きてて、いまの時代のスピード感みたいなものを感じていたら、たぶんいろいろとカットしていると思う。「３時間は長ぇか？」って（笑）。
  
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He's a prosecutor who's very serious about his job, and is in charge of Kogoro's case. He becomes concerned during the inquires that Kogoro has no motive for being the culprit of the bombing incident and suggests his superior, Supervisor Iwai, to carry out further investigation, but...
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——　青山さんのそういうところがすごいです。黒澤明といえば世界的な巨匠なのに、いまふうの言葉で言うと、さくっとディスりましたよね？
  
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青山　ディスってない、ディスってない(笑)。いやだって、本当に長いもん、『七人の侍』は。
  
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'''Gosho Interview'''<br>
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——　でも、巨匠だからどうのとか世間の評価が高いからという、肩書き的価値観は信じていないですよね？
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Profile:<br>Mangaka / Author of "Detective Conan"
 
  
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Originary from Tottori Prefecture. Mangaka debut in 1986. "YAIBA" and "Detective Conan" prized with Shogakukan Manga Award. Also serializing the "Magic Kaito" series.<br>In 2017, the total publication amount of "Detective Conan" overcame 200 million units.
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青山　あぁ、それはそうかもしれない。だって、一番大切なのは作品がおもしろいかどうかだから。もちろん、世間で流行っているというのは重要です。なにかを見たり知ったりするというきっかけにはなるから、世間の評判で映画を選んだりはするけど。
  
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Page 1<br>
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——　ではでは、『まじっく快斗』のはじまりについても教えてください。
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Q: "How did you decide that Amuro Tooru would be the main character in "Zero the Enforcer", this year's installment?"<br>A: "It all started from a suggestion by Sakurai-san, the scriptwriter, it wasn't my idea.<br>He said he wanted to do a tale about cyber-terrorism and he asked me "if it's cyber-terrorism, then the PSB will get involved, can I make Amuro appear?". It'd only been 1 film since "The Darkest Nightmare" so I did think it was a bit too early to do so but I also though that it would work. Amuro-kun's popular, after all (laughs)."
 
  
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Q: "What are the highlights of this move?"<br>A: "The final action scene, and the talk between Conan and Amuro in the climax!"
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青山　挫折の質問の流れで、マガジンの編集者に「絵柄を変えなきゃマガジンでは無理だよ」と言ってもらえた話をしたでしょ？　実はその人に「いま君が一番描きたいもの描いてみてよ」とも言ってもらえたんですよ。その時に、そうかそうだよなって真剣に考えたら「だったら、快斗の話かなぁ」と思ったんです。それよりも前に『まじっく快斗』の原形になっている『さりげなくルパン』という短編を描いていたんですけど、あのお話は、アシスタントも気に入っていて。それで、『まじっく快斗』のはじまりの話なんですけど、ある時、『今度、快斗くんの連載が決まったよ』と伝えたら、アシスタントが一斉に『おぉ～！　始まるんだ！』と盛り上がってくれて。だから、この話もしちゃっていいのかわからないですけど、俺が心の底から一番描きたい漫画は『まじっく快斗』なんです。……って、これはやっぱり言わないほうがいいのかな？　いやでも、実はファンの人はみんな知っていると思うんですけどね、意外に。
  
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Q: "In which parts were you involved?"<br>A: "In the story and a bit of storyboard fixes. I also helped a bit with the keyframes. The first version of the story it was very hard and led to heavy happenings. It turned into a "Amuro's become evil?" feeling, so we made it a bit softer. The first heavy story was interesting, too. Had a hard mystery feeling to it.  The culprit got caught but "the truth darkness hasn't been dispelled" feeling. But I thought that wasn't something we should in Conan.<br>So we made some things a bit light-hearted. Also, until we settled on using cyber-terrorism as theme we also though of tricks involving food poisoning but they were discarded very early. We felt that the motive was too small (laughs)<br>I also voiced my opinion on the climax and other scenes and had them add scenes I wanted to see. Also, the scene between Amuro and Kuroda, for example, has elements from the anime so I look forward to how it ends up looking."
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——　なるほど。そんな経緯から記念すべき連載デビュー作が生まれて、いまだに続いていると。
  
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Q: "What were your demands to the new director, Director Tachikawa?"<br>A: "We were very detailed when we met to talk about the action scenes planning, but we didn't go so over the details when we were in the storyboard stage. There wasn't much storyboard fixing this time around. But sometimes I sent him a photo over LINE telling him "we should fix this one".
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青山　続いていますね。終わんないですね。『まじっく快斗』は、俺が死ぬまで終わんないんじゃないかな。『コナン』は終わるかもしれないけど、これは終わんないかもしれない。……実はですね、『まじっく快斗』は、初期エピソードが解決したら快斗と青子が探偵事務所を開くという展開を考えていたんですよ。でも、そのあとに『コナン』を始めて、もうね、すでにいろんな事件をやっちゃってるからその展開案はもう無理なんですけど。
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——　『名探偵コナン』誕生前の時期のエピソードとはいえ、なぜ、『まじっく快斗』が一番描きたかったのでしょう？
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A: We didn't have too many long phone calls either. Talking over LINE was sufficient (laughs)."
 
  
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Q: "What kind of conversation you had with Furuya Tooru-san, Amuro Tooru's VA?"<br>A: "We didn't talk about the movie but I did have a meal with him in the past. Said his daughter is a great fan of Kaitou Kid. Also he did play the role of Tuxedo Mask (Sailor Moon), didn't he? I guess that he probably thinks that I used his character as model to draw Kaitou Kid. But it's actually the inverse, Kaitou Kid came before Tuxedo Mask. "Magic Kaito" is a old, Showa Period manga.<br>(See Note 1) When I told him that he was disappointed, I guess that he wanted to brag to his daughter "I'm the the model for Kaitou Kid", no? (laughs). Well, it's but my speculation so... I apologize if I'm mistaken (laughs)<br>I also told him that Amuro Tooru's true name is Furuya Rei and he replied "Sensei! That's overdoing it!" to which I replied "No, see, the "Rei" is actually "Zero" due to some reasons" and he was like "Huh!?"."
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青山　やっぱりアルセーヌ・ルパンが好きだからです。『ルパン三世』よりも先にアルセーヌ・ルパンが好きだったから。なんだったけかな？　そうだ。一回ね、小学館の謝恩会という編集者や漫画家や関係者が集まるパーティで、「サインください」って言われて「いいですよ」と答えたらガーッとすごい列になっちゃったことがあるんです。その行列のなかに『（美少女戦士）セーラームーン』の作者である武内（直子）さんが並んでて、「快斗を描いてください」「快斗がタキシード仮面のモデルなんですよ」と言ってもらえたことがあったなぁ。その時期は快斗がいまほど有名ではなかったから、うれしかったのを思い出しました。
  
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Q: "I want to ask about Kazami Yuuya, who's also appeared in the manga.<br>A: "He's very popular. There were a lot of fan letters after "The Darkest Nightmare" asking me to "Please make Kazami appear!" so I went like "fine, fine". "Let's make him show up!". Wondering if that would do (laughs)<br>I think that the anime staff decided on his name. He's a subordinate of Amuro so he was Camille. At first he had a long and crumpled hair but I didn't understand what they meant by Camille, so they said "he doesn't look like PSB", and that someone with a bad nature was better. And so his design was remade and ended up like that. I don't watch "Z Gundam" too often. The first [season] of Gundam is the best, in my opinion. Hence why I didn't make the connection. I'm really sorry (laughs)."
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——　快斗が『名探偵コナン』に登場する展開も当初から想定していたのですか？
  
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Q: "I want to ask about Kazami's and Amuro's roles"<br>A: "To make it clear that Amuro's the great one, Amuro is on the elite section of the NPA, and Kazami belongs to the Police HQ's PSB which is a lower rank. I think Sakurai-san was the one who suggested for Kazami to be older than Amuro.<br>As for Amuro's career, he was in the same class as Matsuda and Date. Scotch also was in the same class. They all died but they were cool types.<br>And Scotch was Amuro's childhood friend. Because, you see, he called him "Zero". And that was nickname of Amuro when he was a kid. I'll have to draw that, indeed."<br>Note 1: "The author of "Sailor Moon" , Takeuchi Naoko-sensei, was told that Tuxedo Mask's model was Kaitou Kid and was glad about it (From the "Aoyama Gosho 30th Anniversary Book").
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青山　いや、決めてなかったですね。実はですね、コナンくんにライバルキャラを出したいなぁと思った時があって、江戸川乱歩の明智小五郎に対する怪人二十面相みたいなやつがいいなぁと模索してたら、「あ、俺、前に描いてたわ」と思い出して（笑）。当時の編集長に「怪盗キッド、出していい？」と聞いたら「絶対におもしろくなるならいいですよ」って。もうね、小躍りですよ。「いいって言ったよね？」って、アシスタントとも盛り上がって、一気にわーって描いて。
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——　なるほど。それにしても青山さんって、漫画のことになるとすごく楽しそうに話しますよね。
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Q: "I wanted to ask about Conan's first spin-off, "Culprit Hanazawa-san"..."<br>A: "At first, the person in charge showed me the name and asked me "this is the name, will it be OK?". So I replied "Oh, sure. Perfectly OK.". Thought it was fun. I had a meal with Kanba-sensei after that. I told him "feel free to do anything you want to do". Kanba-sensei's hometown is Shimane Prefecture, which is next to Tottori so he's also close to my hometown.<br>The persons who appear are suspicious, Ran-chan's hairstyle, and her horn popping from the middle are fun. I thought it was good to give off a "imposter" feeling. It's pretty good, and fun."
 
  
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Q: "What about your health, and when will [the manga] resume?"<br>A: "Thank you for your concern, I feel very good. I get a feeling of "get to work already!". I think there'll be good news soon enough.<br>I want to write a long story about Detective Chiba and Naeko-chan as well after the manga resumes. With the feeling of "Bayside Shakedown", I'd say. Please look forward to it."
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青山　うん。あと、今日のインタビューは話がそれてもいいのが楽しいね。
  
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Q: "Please give us a message for Conan fans as conclusion of the interview."<br>A: "Both those who know Amuro and those who don't know him... Those who don't know him, they'll know what kind of man he is, and those who know him will get to know him a bit deeper. So please go see the movie.<br>Also, Amuro will be appearing a lot in the manga in the future. Since he was told to "Investigate about Kudo Shinichi", it's inevitable for him to get involved. Look forward to it, too!"
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——　実際の漫画制作ではどうですか？　一番楽しい瞬間というのは？
  
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Sign: "Detective Conan Cinema Magazine 2018. Aoyama Gosho."
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青山　アクションシーンを描いている時かなぁ。さっき言ったみたいに、編集部から頼まれたわけでもないのに、俺が描きたくて描いているから。
  
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——　では、「〇〇でなければ漫画じゃない」。この○○になにか言葉を埋めるとしたら？
  
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He jokingly said "If you make a blonde with squat eyes and dark-skinned there you have Amuro (laughs)"
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青山　なんだろ。逆なんじゃないですかね。ひとつの言葉でしばれないから、漫画はおもしろい。たとえば、「夢」という言葉をその○○に入れたとして、「夢がなければ漫画じゃない」って、ある意味では成立しているけど、でも、夢が一切なくてもおもしろい漫画って存在しているでしょ？　いろいろある。その豊かさが漫画の魅力のひとつかもしれない。しかも、日本の漫画はジャンル全体としてすごいですから。海外の人も『コナン』を好きでいてくれるけど、その感覚ってアメコミファンが世界中にいるとは、全然違う深度があると思うんですよ。行間を読んでくれるファンの豊かさは、絶対に日本の漫画とその読者のほうがすごい。だからもし、漫画家の団体戦で世界大会があったら、日本はまぁ負けないと思う。うん。いま、ちゃんと想像してみたけど、負けない負けない。それぐらい日本の漫画はすごいです。
  
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——　では、さきほどの楽しい瞬間の逆で、漫画を描いていて孤独を感じる瞬間とは？
  
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'''Furuya Toru Interview'''<br>
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青山　孤独？　俺、ひとりが好きだからなぁ。みんなとの作業が終わってアシスタントが帰ると、すげぇほっとするもん（笑）。それで、そのひとりの時間にネームを描くんです。もちろん、ずっとひとりだと寂しいけど、そういうタイミングでみんなが来るから、またほっとして。だから、孤独は好きなタイプだと思う。（明石家）さんまちゃんも言ってたしね。「俺、ひとりが好きやねん」って。
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Profile:<br>
 
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Amuro Tooru / Rei Furuya VA
 
  
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Originary from Kanazawa Prefecture. His representatives works are "Mobile Suit Gundam" as Amuro Ray, "Star of the Giants" as Hoshi Hyuuma, "Saint Seiya" as Pegasus Seiya, "Dragon Ball" as Yamcha, "Sailor Moon" as Tuxedo Mask amongst others.
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——　あ、さんまさんとは面識があるんですね？
  
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青山　ううん。まったくない。
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Q: "Will Amuro Tooru, in the 22nd movie "Zero the Enforcer" become a main character?"<br>A: "No way. It's 2 years after "The Darkest Nightmare" so I think it's too early to say that he's become a main character (laughs). Personally, I was very glad and surprised, I have both of those feelings.<br>I didn't know anything about the contents, and at first it was that trailer with the countdown included in "The Crimson Love Letter" so I thought it'd be a movie with hard content."
 
  
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Q: "What's your impression ever since you read the script?"<br>A: "It was a bit different from what I'd imagined. Amuro does his job as PSB officer to face organized terrorism against Japan and heads straight forward. And then Conan-kun would get involved. That's how I thought it'd be like.<br>But as I did the trailers and the teasers, that was before I got the script so I eventually began to understand the contents. I firstly though "Huh? He's going to be enemies with Conan?". Despite that in the main story we finally got to know he was an ally of Conan, so I thought that them being enemies now would draw Conan fans away... I felt a bit of danger, actually (laughs).<br>But I did think that that wouldn't be the end of things, and there women who feel attracted to bad guys so maybe it would be good for them to be enemies when seen from that perspective. <br>There are people who like Bourbon, so I expected that the charm of a cool Furuya Rei would further increase in this movie as well. I didn't think that it'd show details about the state of things within the police, though.
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——　本当に関西人でなくてよかったです。そうだったらのツッコミは、「ないんかい！」でした。
  
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Q: "What points do you have to respectively act his 3 faces of Amuro Tooru, Furuya Rei and Bourbon?"<br>A: "In the case of Amuro Tooru, working at the Poirot part-time, I take into account the image that he behaves like a kind guy and is an attractive young man. Conan knows his identity, but when there are other Detective Boys present, he acts as if he was but a strong and young detective. That's how I voice him like. I use a bit of a higher tone of voice, with a soft feeling.<br>In the case of Furuya Rei, he's a worker and a pro so I voice him in a sharp and edgy manner. To give out a dark feeling I make a lower tone of voice. There also times in which he gives out orders to Kazami, so there are parts in which he turns stricter. I add changes in scenes like those.<br>Speaking of voice tones, I use the lowest one when I voice him as Bourbon. Vermouth and he have a grip of each others' weaknesses so it's a bit special yet when he talks to Gin or similar scenes I use a very low tone.<br>Also, when it comes to Akai Shuichi, he's got a feud with him involving what happened with Scotch so he clearly hates him. His emotions get the best of him. When he faced Akai, he behaves like a kid. So when Akai is around he unusually brings out his emotions in a straightforward way. <br>When reading the movie's script, when he moves around as Furuya Rei, and when he talks to Conan...  I thought that it would be better to use Amuro's voice for those scenes. When I had to act scenes as Furuya Rei, I wrote the "Kou" kanji from "kouan (Public Safety)" on my copy of the script and when it was Amuro Tooru I wrote "an". So they overlapped with "kouan" and was hard to understand even for me, so I wrote the katakana "A". I distributed them in the script as much as I could.
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青山　ふふふ。勝手に俺が好きなだけ。『男女7人夏物語』の頃から好きだったけど、『明石家サンタ』ってあるでしょ？　クリスマスにやっているバラエティ番組。ある年に、さんまちゃんが３０分ぐらいがーって無駄話をして「あ、もう３０分や。コナンくんなら事件解決してるで」と言ってくれた時に、一緒に見てたアシスタントと「やったー！」ってガッツポーズしましたもん。「がんばろう！」って。あれは、相当うれしかった思い出ですね。
  
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Q: "What's the charm of Amuro Tooru, in your opinion?"
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——　では、質問の角度を変えて。取材者として、各ジャンルのスーパースターにしか聞いてこなかったのですが、その質問に対してサザンオールスターズの桑田佳祐さんは「１７歳の自分の感性をいまだに信じていること」と答え、ダウンタウンの松本人志さんは「サービス精神」と答えました。
  
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青山　なになに？　その質問自体はなんだったの？
  
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——　「他者との比較ではなく、自分のなかにある才能で一番信じられるものはなにか？」です。
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A: "Hmmm... He has 3 faces so I guess he's 3 times more handsome than normal people (laughs).
 
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His 3 faces are the first of his charms. So even though I'm acting a single character, I can experience being 3 persons at the same time and acting 3 persons. That's a charm yet it has difficult parts to it so I feel like it's worth doing it.<br>It was fun voicing the 3 of them but I really like Furuya Rei. He feels like a hero of justice. Apart from action, he's also good with his driving technique. He often has cool lines to him, and like in this occasion, I was able to voice him a lot in the movie, since he doesn't appear that often. So I'm very glad at it."
 
  
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Q:"Can you tell us anything that happened during the dubbing?"<br>A:"Takayama Minami-san (Conan) and Yamakazi Wakana-san (Ran) encouraged me a lot and were glad at Amuro's popularity, and Yamazaki-san said, about the movie, that "Amuro-san, you're sure to get a lot of new fans!".Minami-san did ask "This is about that person and that other person?", when checking uncertain lines and scenes...<br>In the interactions with Conan during the climax has a lot of action so ad-libbing becomes needed and it's hard to coordinate them but when we did the first test we matched things perfectly despite no previous meeting to coordinate things. Our sensibility as voice actors is similar, I guess. Weren't that the case, we wouldn't have been able to synchro the timing so perfectly. I was really surprised.<br>The climax scenes lines were also good, and so the Suzuki Sonoko VA Matsui Naoko-san was very happy at it, and said "Your pierced through my heart!" (laughs)"<br>I was a bit unsure how to voice Amuro's lines on the movie's climax, and unexpectedly enough, during the tests, I made a strong tone of voice that wasn't what I had on mind, and Naoko-san was very glad so I told my "Oh yeah, this is it" to convince myself it was good enough. I had the feeling to act along with Minami-san and that's the voice that came out during the dubbing.
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青山　あぁ、だったら俺は、「ラブコメ」と答えたいです。
  
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Q: "You've had a long career. Yet how do you feel about acting a popular character like Amuro Tooru?"<br>A: "I'm really happy at it. I've been a VA for over 50 years, but, for me, it's the first time that a lot of fans had gotten crazy about a character I voiced, crazy over Amuro Tooru. <br>Amuro Ray also has popularity, yeah, but he couldn't beat Char to it (laughs). I often voice the main protagonists of series and so the rival character often gets the attention drawn to him. Nowadays you can see the encouragement through SNS, I like how a lot of followers appear in Twitter, and I'm very surprised at his popularity.<br>Between the Amuro fans, there are some who bought a real white FX-7 (see Note 1). He also makes incredible driving in this film, but whenever the co-stars crash they get severely told "you're wasting the tax money!" (laughs).
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——　ラブコメですか？　ミステリーではなく？
  
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Q: "Amuro Tooru appeared on Volume 75 of the manga, he appears in the latter half of the story, but were you surprised by the naming at the time of this debut?"<br>A: "We were fans of "Detective Conan" to begin with. My daughter, especially. We often went to the theater to see the movie together.<br>I knew that Ikeda Shuichi-san voiced Akai Shuichi, so I did feel that "the author, Aoyama-sensei, really likes Gundam". I secretly hoped that "maybe one day I'll be offered a role". And when "it finally came" I was "Huh? Amuro Tooru?" when I heard his name. "There's barely any difference (with my name)!".<br>And later, when his real name of Furuya Rei was revealed, I went "Hey, sensei. Didn't you overdo it!?". I did really comment upon those. Around that time I also got a chance to have a lunch with Aoyama-sensei so we brought colored papers and we got each other's signatures, but then... "No, there's a proper meaning to the "Rei" in his name"... That it mean the "Zero" division in the Public Safety Police and things neatly linked together.<br>But he really loved "Mobile Suit Gundam", and seeing how he uses our names as VAs in his work, I feel very thankful to him. I feel very glad, he even added the car plate... (Note 2)
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青山　ラブコメ。あだち先生にはかなうわけもないけど、ラブコメです。コナンのミステリーは、事件やトリックを編集者と一緒に考えていて共同作業の部分もあるし、ミステリーも苦手ではないけど、やっぱり、ラブコメですね。
  
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Q: "Last question. What are the highlights of "Zero The Enforcer"?"<br>A: "In this movie, there's the "way adult men do things" plus "charm" as the themes I acted upon. There are several scenes that make you feel that, so I hope that you will savor them.<br>Anyway, there's "Numbers very dear to me which I must protect even if I bet my life on it" (laughs) so I hope you go to see it several times, and that you fully experience the charm of Amuro Tooru. There's also the lines in the car that Sonoko-san accmails as well and which I want you to focus on. Counting on you guys."
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——　ラブコメの才能を一番信じているって、サザンの桑田さんの「１７歳の感性」と似ているようで、実は微妙に違いますよね。恋愛観はものすごく時代に左右される。ということは、常に時代と寄り添っていないと遅れてしまう恐怖心のようなものはありませんか？
  
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Caption of pic: "Great driving by Furuya (Rei) that Furuya (Tooru) - san likes. In the "Darkest Nightmare" the car drifts in the beginning by Amuro (Furuya), Akai and Curacao are reality!"
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青山　その怖さは常にあります。もう、しょっちゅう考えている。だから、新しいものを取り入れようと思うし、『逃げ恥』や『君の名は。』を見て、自分が「おもしろい！」と感じて、それが世の中の多くの人に人気があると、ちょっと安心するというか。自分の作品目線でも、「俺の描くラブコメで、本当にいいんですか？」と、みんなに聞きたくなる瞬間もあるし。ただ、ラブコメではないけど、トレンドと言う意味では、ここにもギリギリがあるような気もします。
  
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Note 1: "A Matsuda RX-7 which isn't produced anymore at the present. The serial number of the Gundam, RX-78, comes from here."
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——　その場合のギリギリとは？
  
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Note 2: "Amuro's car number plate is 73-10, Mr. Furuya's birthday is July 31, and has a 0 to match the "Zero" nickname.
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青山　まず、言葉。流行りすぎている言葉を『コナン』で使うのは、危険ということ。「ガン黒」とかね。次にファッション。帝丹高校の女子のソックスをね、ルーズソックスにしようかどうか迷った時期があるんだけど、そうしなくて本当によかったと思う。一方で、蘭のスカートは時代にあわせて、コミックスの１巻といまとでは長さが全然違うんです。トレンドと普遍性のバランスは、本当にギリギリがあって、そこはとても難しい。ただね、原作漫画の毛利小五郎の電話は、黒電話のダイヤル式と決めているんです。これはもう絶対あれしかない。一生変えない。
  
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——　変えない理由がなにかあるんですか？
  
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'''Takayama Minami Interview'''<br>
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青山　なんとなく。
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Edogawa Conan VA
 
  
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Originary from Tokyo Metropolitan Area. Her representative works are "Kiki's Delivery Service" as Kiki / Ursula, "Rantaro" as Inadera Rantarou, "YAIBA" as Kurogane Yaiba, "Ranma 1/2" as Tendo Nabiki, "Moomin" as Moomintroll amongst others.
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——　流れ上、いちおう言っておきますね。「ないんかい！」。
  
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Q: "What's your first impression of the 22nd Detective Conan Movie, "Zero The Enforcer"?"<br>A: "Good point. When I firstly read the script, I did think "Ah, maybe this story is a bit too complicated". If you see a lot of police dramas like I do, I think one would understand the existence and roles of the "Public Safety Police" and "Prosecution" but for those who don't see them and for children, I was like "would they understand it?". That was my first impression. <br>But by when we finished the dubbing, the impression changed a bit. If you properly listen to what the characters say during the story, I think you'll be able to understand it."
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青山　ふふふ。まぁ、松田優作主演のドラマ『探偵物語』が好きで、劇中に登場する電話がそれだったからっていうきっかけはあるんだけどね。
  
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Q:"The movie's plot revolves around "Amuro is an enemy?". What did you think about Amuro Tooru or Furuya Rei? What are you impressions of Kazami Yuuya and Kuroda Hyoue?"<br>A: "I did think that I wanted to prove that Amuro-san "isn't the enemy". Kazami-san appeared 2 movies ago, in "The Darkest Nightmare" but in this movie you get to know his relationship in the PSB with Furuya-san. He'll also appeared in the TV series in the future as well, I think.<br>Superintendent Kuroda makes his movie debut in this movie. Whenever he appears in the TV series he's totally suspicious (laughs). He's as suspicious as always, but for some reason he doesn't feel dangerous. He probably is (exposes her deduction) ...or so i think. What I told you is still secret, though (laughs)."
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——　「あるんかい！」。いや、違うな。「どっちやねん！」。
  
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Q: "How about the dubbing work?"<br>A: "It went very smoothly, and we finished it on that day. We almost took until past the peak (12:00 AM) but human drama was the axis so we focused on each one's lines and the tempo was good."
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青山　あったあった。『探偵物語』の影響です。そういえば……全然関係ない話をしてもいい？
  
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Q: "How about your work together with Furuya Tooru-san?"<br>A: "We didn't do much consulting about how we would perform the dubbing so but there was a point that Furuy-san asked "it's **, right?". "Yes, I think this is **.", "Thought so!".  That was the confirmation we took with each other. We also check with each other the points that picked us in our lines.<br>Truth is, when I made my debut, since I was playing a boy, I used Furuya-san's acting as a boy as reference.  Of course, I can't act like he did but I did wonder what a "boy" is like? So I tried to get the gist from his voice acting. So, secretly, inside of my heart, I thought of him as my "teacher" (laughs). In the dubbing, I am always allowed to practice with my "teacher".  He's a big senior with whom I can work very well so it was very fun.
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——　もちろんです。この企画は雑談という名のインタビューですから。
  
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Q: "What's your impression of the new Director, Director Tachikawa?"<br>A: "We got friendly very soon and I called him "Tacchi" (laughs). After the dubbing, I asked him "What's the genre you're apt at?". And he replied "I am apt at action, but... I guess human drama is it.". That's shown in this movie, indeed! He's a young director, but he gouges out the deep parts of humans.<br>Since it involves deductions, I think that human dramas are very important. The deduction of the culprit, the actions of the cornered party, must be things that "humans do" or the whole thing will fail.<br>The way the action scenes are scattered is good, but, if you don't properly depict "the human part", the story feels dull... There's been a lot of similar human drama in Conan movies insofar but this time around it felt "really hot".  I think this is the director's tastes.<br>I act on it, so you feel that it's a character with "body heat, and feels related to", that's a must have creed. You can hear the heart's sound, they breathe, they're not limited to the 2-d of the screen or the scene, it feels "alive", that's how I like to voice characters. So I like hot dramas like this one."
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青山　あのですね、『探偵物語』の主人公を松田優作が演じているんですけど、劇中の名前が工藤俊作というんです。で、この間、ある書物を読んでいたら、工藤俊作と同姓同名の艦長がいたらしいんです。駆逐艦の艦長なんですけど、日本がまだ勝っている頃に、海戦で戦果をあげて「残存勢力を殲滅せよ」といった指令を受けると。ちょうどそんなタイミングに敵の潜水艦がぷかぁっと浮いてきたんですって。つまり、まだ生きている敵兵がいっぱいいるわけです。指令は殲滅せよ、ですよね？　ところが工藤艦長は、「スクリューを止めろ。彼らを巻き込んで死なせてはならない」と部下に命じて、第一砲塔の担当だけを残して全員に敵兵の救助にあたれって言ったらしいんです。結果、すでに２００人以上がいた船に４００人ほどを乗せて、「君たちは我々と戦った勇敢な兵士だ。そしていまや我が国の大切なゲストだ」と、食事も与えて病院船までちゃんと連れて行ったんですって。「うお、もうひとりの工藤俊作もめちゃくちゃかっこいいな！」……って、最近思ったんですよね。全然関係ないけど（笑）。
  
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Q: "The identity of "That Person" has been made public in the manga already, yet...?"<br>A: "True. Truth is, during the recording of "The Darkest Nightmare", we casting (about 20 of us, was it?) tried to predict "Who's That Person?". When looking at the answer sheet I'd kept sealed since then, it had an accuracy rate of 25%! It'd seem I checked a lot of things during breaks (laughs).<br>I also showed it to Aoyama-sensei, who'd come to see the dubbing. His reply was "What, they all know who it is!" (laughs).  By the way, my answer was wrong.<br>Sensei had let out hints before, and Karasuma Renya's name had considerably popped up but I ended up reading too much into the thing and wrote someone else as my reply to the question."
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——　そもそも、青山さんは、自分が大人という自覚はありますか？
  
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Q: "Last question: what are the movie's highlights?"<br>A: "In this 22nd movie, prosecution, police, and PSP... It's a story in which a lot of words you don't normally hear pop up.<br>Also, in the interactions between characters, there are some crucial points as well so pay close attention and enjoy it until the very end without taking your eyes off the screen. It's a very, very exciting human drama.<br>One last thing to finish, "Amuro-san is someone incredible."."
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青山　ないなぁ。子供っぽいと思う。
  
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——　その前提として、青山剛昌流・大人の定義とは？
  
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'''Staff Interview'''<br>
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青山　お酒が飲める。タバコが吸える。
  
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'''Director Tachikawa'''<br>
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——　え？　基準が法律ですか？
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Born in 1981. He revealed the "Death Billiards" which was his original idea, script and direction at the "Anime Mirai" of the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2013. It was made into an anime named "Death Parade". He also directed "Mob Psycho 100".
 
  
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Q:"How were you appointed to direct this movie?"<br>A:"In a raising program from the Agency for Cultural Affairs aimed at young animators I directed a serious film named "Death Billiards" and the judge in charge at the time was the "Detective Conan" Producer, Suwa (Michihiko) - san. He bought a lot of the stuff I made. And he asked me to "Direct the 22nd Movie". "
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青山　ふふふ。あとはなんだろう？『仮面ライダー』と『ウルトラマン』を夢中になって見なくなった時、それが大人。まあ、大人になってもマニアな人は『仮面ライダー』も『ウルトラマン』も大好きだけど、ふつうの子供は卒業すると思いますから。
  
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Q: "What's your impression of "Detective Conan"?"<br>A: "I first came into contact with Conan around Elementary... Or High... Or Middle. I loved to read it as a normal reader but there was 1 time I stopped reading. I came into contact with it again once I became a producer. When I got told to be the director of this movie, I re-read again from the part I'd seen years before."
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——　なるほど。ちなみに、青山さんはそのふたつは？
  
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Q: "What are the parts you put most detail or attention to as the movie's director?"<br>A: "To not to omit any of the good points that Conan had had insofar. The relations between characters are very interesting. So I took especially care and detail in character depiction. And this movie was more suspense-touch than the usual. The PSB is a main actor and the feeling's more serious. It's made so that if people who like mystery dramas see it then I think they will enjoy it."
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青山　いつの頃からか、見なくなったね。あ、ってことは、俺、大人だ！
  
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Q:"What's your favorite character?"<br>A: "Haibara Ai, Professor Agasa, Mouri Kogoro, Hattori Heiji and Detective Takagi... I'd say. To avoid coming off as faulty, I also like Conan as well. But I rather like the famed side-characters who support the work. As well as the actual actors. So my preferences aim over there."
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——　大人ですね！　あれ？　大人なんですかね？
  
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Q: "What's your vision of Amuro Tooru as as director?"<br>A: "I thought that fans would like his mysterious parts so we paid a lot of attention when depicting those. But I also wanted to show Amuro's house as well. I like those parts that reveal one's true nature. I think that it shouldn't be done, but, I also wanted to do a scene of him bathing in the bath."
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青山　いや、でもダメだと思います。いわゆる一般的な価値観でいえば、全然大人じゃないと思う。
  
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Q:"What's your favorite film?"<br>A: "The first films remain in my memory... "The Time-bombed Skyscraper", "Countdown to Heaven", "The Phantom of Baker Street". I was by Producer Ishiyama (Keichi) -san that "it really looks like the balance in Director Kodama Kenji's (see note 1) works". I didn't have it on mind, truth to be told, but I do like the initial Conan so that's why it ended up like that, or so I think.
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——　失礼ながら、今回のインタビューを通してそう感じました。でも、そこが青山さんの魅力のひとつだとも。そうでなければ、いまだに少年誌のどまんなかで連載ができていないんじゃないかと。
  
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Q: "Last question. What are the highlights of the movie?"<br>A: "This movie mainly focuses on Amuro Tooru so there's a lot of cool scenes. Also, his gestures of combing up his hair or after he gets hurt... There's a lot of scenes showing aspects of him one normally doesn't see. So I hope you have a good look at the film while enjoying those day-to-day scenes."
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青山　そうかなぁ。そうだとうれしいけど、たしかに、少年の心みたいなものを忘れちゃうと、少年漫画は描けないとは思う。描いても、嘘くさくなってしまうから。あとね、これも余談になっちゃうかもしれないけど、少年漫画の一線で活躍している漫画家の得意・不得意みたいなことは考えたことがあります。
  
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Note 1: "Director Kodama Kenji directed Conan Movie 1 to 7"
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——　青山剛昌の「少年漫画ヒットの法則」ですね。ぜひ、教えてください。
  
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青山　だから、そんなに偉そうなもんじゃないけど(笑)。まず、少年漫画で人気の三大要素に「ラブコメ」「冒険」「友情」というのがあると思ったんですね。
  
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——　ミステリーは？
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Born in 1970. Scriptwriter. He also was a movie producer at Toho. While he was in office, he received the 1st Yomiuri TV Scenario Great Award. He then became a freelancer scriptwriter. His representative works are the "Aibou (Pal)" TV series and the "Forensic Researcher Woman" TV series.
 
  
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Q:"This is the 4th movie the script of which you write up after the 17th movie "Private Eye in the Distant Seas", the 19th movie "Sunflowers of Inferno" and the 20th movie, "The Darkest Nightmare". How did you begin to get involved with Conan and how did you receive the offer for this project?"<br>A: "At the time of "Private Eye in the Distant Seas", I think it was Producer Suwa (Michihiko) -san who contacted me, and I accepted the offer. It was an anime, so I thought of writing a story that couldn't be done in a normal film. After "The Darkest Nightmare", I was asked "When can you make a new script?" and I replied "I'm free in 1 year's time", that was how the offer came.
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青山　ミステリーは少年漫画では「冒険」に含まれるとしましょう。で、３つを備えている人はたぶんいないんですよ。留美子先生は「ラブコメ」と「冒険」が得意。あだち先生は「ラブコメ」と「友情」が得意。『ワンピース』の尾田（栄一郎）くんは、「冒険」と「友情」が得意。で、ここからは想像だけど、留美子先生は、「友情」が苦手で、あだち先生は「冒険」が苦手、尾田くんは「ラブコメ」が苦手だと思うんですよ。もちろん、みなさん、漫画界のスーパースターだから苦手といってもその辺の人たちよりはずっとすごいはずなんだけど、少なくとも得意分野よりは苦手。
  
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Q: "What are the requests from Aoyama-sensei?"<br>A: "There weren't many. But regarding Amuro's view of love I was told to "please add this line". As well as "Add this scene with Azusa" or "Add this at the end". Not more than that. Most of it I wrote it up myself but I directly asked him if there were parts I didn't understand. How Amuro would interact with Conan, for example. I hadn't gotten a grasp of it yet...
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——　逆に言えば、ふたつの要素で超越していればスーパースターになれると？
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Amuro doesn't yet know that Conan is Shinichi. But despite that, he supports him a lot and relies on him. I wanted to ask Sensei about what kind of distance feeling I should use."
 
  
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Q: "And what were the requests from Director Tachikawa?"<br>A: "It was a harder story at the beginning but he changed it from a hard story to a softer Conan episode. It was a bit more severe and nerve-wrecking world. But that wasn't the first Conan story that the director wanted to do. There were several conflicts with that."
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青山　そうそう。３つ揃っている人なんて、偉大な先人を含めてもいないかもしれない。
  
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Q: "What are Amuro's charms, in your opinion?"<br>A: "He has a wide mental capacity. If it's not someone with a lot of room in their heart then it's hard to live in 3 different world-views. You'll get crushed. Even as Furuya, even as Amuro and even as Bourbon, I think that his base is always the same. His feeling of justice as well, he just changes his form of expressing things. I guess that both shooting a gun and brewing coffee stem from the same feeling of justice.
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——　気になるのは、青山さん自身の分析です。
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Also, I personally like Furuya a lot, and being chose to, as a charge commander, write a story about Furuya and the PSB which hasn't appeared in the manga often was very exciting. I think it derives from him, even as Amuro, even as Bourbon and eaven as Furuya."
 
  
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Q: "Last question. What are the highlights of the movie?"<br>A:"At first you see through the viewpoint of Conan, the main protagonist, and then you see through Furuya's PoV, and if you see it from a 3rd PoV that'd be the culprit's... And they all look like different stories. And, also, there might be a 4th PoV...
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青山　俺は留美子先生と同じ「ラブコメ」と「冒険」が得意かもしれない。「友情」は苦手。
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Also, when you see it the first time, as a hint to guess the culprit, I wish that you pay attention to the "screen within the screen". A TV screen or a PC screen might appear but pay attention to that "screen within the screen" which one normally oversees. We're using a lot of screens this time, so there might be news announced there or investigation materials, there are hints rolling in several "screens"."
 
  
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——　え？　平次とコナンの関係性など、苦手という感じはしないですが？
  
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青山　そう言ってもらえるとうれしいけど、「友情」がスーパー得意な人ほどは描けていないんです。たとえば、あだち先生の『タッチ』での達也と孝太郎の友情なんて、ものすごくいいでしょ？　ぐっとくる。ああいうのは俺には描けない。
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===Interview on News Zero===
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——　お聞きして思ったのは、弱点を俯瞰できていることのすごみでした。漫画の神様・手塚治虫氏も、ちばてつや氏の『あしたのジョー』を引き合いに出して、「キャラクターで引っ張る漫画は描けない」から、自分はストーリーで漫画を描くと自己分析されていたそうです。
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'''Date:''' April 11, 2018<br>
 
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===Takarakuzu College Interview===
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青山　なるほど。でも、俺が一番好きな手塚さんの漫画って『ブラック・ジャック』なんだけど、あの作品は、主人公のキャラクターでちゃんと引っ張ってると思うな。あと、いまその話を聞いて思ったのは、やっぱり俺は、手塚さんいわくのちばてつや系譜の漫画が大好きなんだなということ。たしかに、ちば先生の漫画って全部が主人公ありきですもんね。『おれは鉄兵』だって鉄兵ありきだし、それを子供の頃から読んできて大好きだった俺は、コナンが必ず絡んでくるでしょう。あ、時々、新一だけど（笑）。
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'''Date:''' April 15, 2018<br>
 
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Q1) "Why did you change the manga style to the current one, compared to how it was on the beginnings?"<br>A1) "I wasn't conscious of that (laughs) I drew things like that!?"
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——　では、「哀愁」というキーワードならばどうでしょう？
  
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Q2) "What about Ran-chan's head?"<br>A2) "Everyone points that out to me (laughs). It happened to turn into that (laughs). I wanted a symbol-like thing, to be able to tell who it was from the silhouette. Like how I thought that my dad was wearing a hat the whole time (laughs)"
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青山　哀愁？　切ないなぁとかの哀愁？
  
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Q3) "Shinichi and Ran have begun to date, but will there be a boyfriend-girlfriend-like interaction in the future?"<br>A3) "There'll be (laughs) Maybe they'll become a couple by next year's movie? Oh? (laughs)"
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——　個人的に青山作品が好きなのは、読後感に切なさがあるというか、「哀愁」があるのも大きいと感じています。
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青山　哀愁かぁ。そのキーワードで自分の漫画を考えたことはなかったけど、自分の好きなものには、哀愁があるなぁといま思いました。映画では黒澤明の『用心棒』なんて、めちゃくちゃ切ないし、好きだったアニメの『銀河鉄道９９９』や『無敵超人ザンボット３』も哀愁があった。『無敵超人ザンボット３』なんて、タイトル通りに主要な登場人物が３人いるのに、最後は主人公のひとりだけが生き残るっていう切なさだったし、『タイガーマスク』もそうだし。
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——　若い読者は知らないかもですが、『タイガーマスク』はエンディング曲までもが哀愁感満載でした。
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青山　そうなんだよね。たしかに、いまの若い世代は知らないと思うけど、『タイガーマスク』って、覆面レスラーなんです。でも、ちびっこハウスの孤児たちを見守っているんだけど、覆面を脱いで遊びに行くと、「キザ兄ちゃん」なんて言われてからかわれてしまう。海に行っても「泳げないから一緒に入れない」なんて言うんだけど、本当は、子供たちのために覆面レスラーとして稼いでいるから身体中が傷だらけで、それを子供たちに見せられないから海に入れないんですよ。うわ、切ない！　いま、思い出しても切なくなってきた。うん。「哀愁」というキーワードにも、たしかに影響を受けているかもしれないです。でも、そのキーワードにひとつ足すとしたら、「ハッピーエンド」にはこだわりがあるかもしれない。
  
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Q4) "How's the chronology between the movies and the manga organized like? Is the "Crimson School Trip" after "The Crimson Love Letter"?"<br>A4) "I was troubled by that, actually. I did consult with the editor if I should depict it as Momiji firstly meeting Sonoko... Well, it came out well enough, no? (laughs) I don't think much about the chronology with the movies"
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——　どういうことでしょう？
  
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Q5) "What's the tone of coloring you use for Amuro-san's and Heiji's skin color?"<br>A5) "The same! Number 51! (laughs) Everyone else uses Number 61, but I use Number 51 because it has a bigger grain! It doesn't get crushed, hence why Number 51 is the best!"
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青山　これは自慢話みたいになってしまうかもしれないけど、『君の名は。』の新海（誠）さんが、僕は以前から大好きだったんですね。『秒速５センチメートル』の第１話なんて本当に大好きなんですけど、新海さんの作品のラストって悲しかったでしょ。いまのインタビューの流れで言うと切なくて哀愁がある。だから、新海さんがもし、ハッピーエンドを作ったら絶対にもっと売れるのにと、当時の担当編集に口をすっぱくして言ってたんですよ。「この人、もったいねぇなぁ」って。ところが『君の名は。』って、ハッピーエンドでしょ？　めちゃくちゃ売れたでしょ？　ほら見ろ！　と。いや、これは『君の名は。』が売れる前になにかしらのオフィシャルなインタビューで言いたかった。すみません、自慢話みたいに聞こえたら（笑）。
  
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Q6) "Shinichi said he wanted to become the Heisei (Note 1) Sherlock Holmes, but will Conan end during the Heisei Period?"<br>A6) "No, if the period name changes then I'll nonchalantly change it to the new period's Holmes (laughs) I should also nonchalantly insert a line about that (laughs)"<br>Note 1: Heisei - Period from 1989 to the present, indicating rule of current Emperor, Akihito
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——　青山さんのその感覚って、日芸時代からそうだったんですか？　芸術系の大学だと、仲間はもっとカルトよりの「わかるやつだけわかればいい」といった映画などが好きそうな気もしますが？
  
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Q7) "Did you intend to make Amuro Tooru appear when you made Akai Shuuichi debut?"<br>A7) "Well, I did have the idea in a corner of my head! I did think of making a rival character or worthy opponent! I actually thought of naming him "Shiroi" (laughs). But I thought it might be a bit odd so I went for Amuro (laughs)"
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青山　あぁ、いたなぁ、そういう人も。
  
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Q8) "Amuro-san asked Azusa-san about her plans for Christmas before the break, though?"<br>A8) "Amuro was saying "Not really", Azusa might've said (laughs) then you could switch work shifts with me? (laughs)"
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——　当時でいえば、単館系の映画館で上映されていたジム・ジャームッシュ監督作品とか？
  
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Q9) There was a scene featuring them in "Zero the Enforcer," though?"<br>A9) I did draw that scene!
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青山　誰それ？（汗）
  
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Q10) "A normal Conan cases is 3 chapters, but do you decide the length beforehand?"<br>A10) "I always have the rough idea that a case will be 3 chapters long. But long cases like the "Crimson School Trip" are 5-6 chapters long... At times like that I go... "Well, this'll be a serial murder, then!" (laughs)
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——　いや、『ストレンジャー・ザン・パラダイス』とかのモノクロ映画がカルト的な人気で。
  
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Q11) "Why is Amuro-san so popular?"<br>A11) "Well... I dunno (laughs). Why, I wonder (laughs). Maybe the fact that he can't beat Akai makes him popular (laughs) That might be it (laughs)."
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青山　なにそれ？（大汗）
  
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Q12) "The last question in "Zero the Enforcer" was a great!"<br>A12) "Glad to know (laughs) I told them to add that one (laughs)!"
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——　あ、もうこの話は大丈夫です。とにかく、青山さんはエンターテインメント作品が好きだったと。
  
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Q13) "What were the good things of becoming a mangaka?"<br>A13) "You earn a lot of money (laughs) You can eat juicy stuff (laughs). But you get less sleeping time... But now I sleep a lot! (laughs)"
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青山　そうそう。俺は、大学生の時も黒澤明の超絶エンターテインメント作品とかが好きだったし、いまでもエンタメでかつハッピーエンドなものが好きですね。あんまりこういうことを言うと、『コナン』のラストを深読みしそうな読者が現れそうだけど（笑）。
  
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Q14) "If Conan goes back to being Shinichi, how will he relate to those around him?"<br>A14) "I can't tell you that (laughs) I almost made a slip (laughs)"
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——　いえ、そもそもなにを持ってハッピーエンドとするのかが深いテーマだと思います。
  
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Q15) "Are you planning on drawing that?"<br>A15) "Well, let's see... I do (laughs)"
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青山　そうそうそう。それも、人によるしね。もしかしたら、哀愁とハッピーエンドの関係って、苦手なセリフのところで話した「くさい」と「くさすぎる」と同じで、ギリギリを模索するのが難しいし、やりがいなのかもしれないです。
  
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Q16) "How do you decide the codenames of the BO members?"<br>A16) "Gin was an idea by an assistant, he said he looked Gin... I was like "really?" (laughs). As for Vermouth, I was told to use Vermouth (laughs) I get directed a lot by my assistants, although not that much (laughs)"
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——　この３０年間で、そのギリギリを模索した絶妙感がベストなご自身の作品を１作だけを選べと言われたら、どれになりますか？
  
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Q17) "Why did you make Hattori Heiji dark-skinned?"<br>A17) "I wanted to make him the complete inverse of Shinichi (laughs)! I thought that'd be a dark-skinned character, then (laughs). But my assistants disliked the idea. They said it was annoying to draw! (laughs)"
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青山　（即答して）「×××××」。
  
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Q18) "I think the best part about your work, Sensei, is that you don't kill the criminals and have them live to atone for their sins but why did you make the culprit of Moonlight Sonata die?"<br>A18) "I thought that an occasional exception would do fine (laughs) It was a necessary victim so that Conan could tell Hattori that he's not perfect and that he actually "killed" someone (laughs)"
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——　即答でした。担当編集者との事前打ち合わせでは、青山さんが悩まれるのでは？　との意見が多かったのですが、即決でしたね。
  
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Q19) "All the movies always have some scenes drawn by you, Sensei, but do you decide which ones you want to draw?"<br>A19) "Yes! I put a circle in the storyboard that Director Tachikawa gave me to indicate I'd draw those! (laughs) I generally draw the scenes which have lines that I thought of (laughs)!"
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青山　これはもう、「×××××」しかない。あれって、２０１５年に入院した時に描いたんですよ。入院して、今後はもう漫画が描けなくなるかもしれないと感じたから、これだけは絶対に描きたいって。
  
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Q20) "What's the origin of Conan's "there's only one truth" amongst the famous lines of the manga?"<br>A20) "It was actually a coincidence, in the chapter of Heiji's debut Shinichi said "because there's only one truth", and at about the same time the anime came up with "there's always one truth", so it really was a coincidence (laughs)."
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——　いまの青山さんの答えは伏字にしておきますので、気になった読者のみなさまはP１９３からの「３０年分の１話」企画をチェックしてみてください。では、３０年を振り返って、漫画になにかを捧げている感覚はありますか？
  
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Q21) "What works did you use as reference when making up the character of Amuro Tooru?"<br>A21) "I often say that Akai looks like Char, but Amuro is Amuro (laughs). Amuro's an original character (laughs)"
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Q22) "What are the characters that are easier to draw and harder to draw within your works?"<br>A22) "Kaitou Kid is hard to draw, yes... And Amuro is easy to draw (laughs). Akai is hard, but Amuro has a special feeling to him (laughs)"
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——　捧げましたか？
  
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Q23) "What are the origins of Kaitou Kid?"<br>A23) "At first he was unpopular with the chief editor (laughs). Saying he wasn't fashionable at all (laughs).
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青山　若さは捧げたかなぁ、『コナン』に（笑）。
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There was "Cats Eye" (see note) as high school thiefs at the time. the youngest sister was a high school student. Yet there wasn't a guy thief so I thought I could come up with one of my own (laughs). I was faster so I won (laughs)."<br>Note: "Cat's Eye", manga about a group of 3 sisters who steal works from a fictional European artist.
 
  
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Q24) "Why did you think of making the heroine strong instead of weak?"<br>A24) "I guess it's because I wanted to draw karate scenes (laughs). Thought that a strong heroine would be fun (laughs). Conan-kun shrunk so he needed someone strong next to him else he'd be in trouble... Or so I thought (laughs)
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——　『名探偵コナン』だけでも連載２３年です。
  
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Q25) "What scenes were fun to draw and which were hard to draw?"<br>A25) "A fun one was that final two-page spread of the Kiyomizu Temple (laughs). The background was drawn by a Takarazuka college alumni, and they spent about 1 day to draw it up. (laughs) I only drew Shinichi and Ran (laughs). That scene was fun.
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青山　そうなんだよ！　モンキー・パンチ先生が「ルパン三世に言いたいことは？」という質問で「俺の若さを返せ！」っておっしゃってたけど、あのお気持ちが、すごいよくわかるもん。ただ、最近はね、年齢を重ねての変化もおもしろいなぁとも思ってるんです。納豆の話をしていいですか？
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Q26) "Why is it that the characters' clothing is so fashionable?"<br>A26) "I used to buy a lot of clothes at Anan or Non-no or CanCam (laughs). Amuro often appears in the latest cases so they asked me to think up Amuro's clothing (laughs). I have them think of making files about the clothes in every case."
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——　納豆？　この流れで納豆？
  
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Q27) "Are there plans for a movie focused on Shinichi and Ran?"<br>A27) "I wonder about that (laughs) I dunno but I can't say too much into this (laughs) oh well, look forward to it (laughs)"
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青山　鳥取って、納豆を食わないんですよ。でも、NHKの連続テレビ小説なんかだと、ネバネバ状態でごはんにかけておいしそうに食べてるから、「うまそうだな。どんな味なんだろう？」って想像するじゃないですか。それで、東京に来て食べたら、腐ってんじゃんと思って。めっちゃ腐ってんじゃんと思って。だから嫌いだったんだけど、最近テレビの情報バラエティ番組かなにかで、ひきわり納豆と細切り豚肉をあわせて炒めて食べるとおいしいと言っていたんですよ。それで試してみたら、これがまぁやたらとうまくて。そうこうしているうちに、納豆が大好きになって。最近大好きなんです。味覚って変わるのかなぁと思ったけど、まあ、体にもいいしね。
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青山　アニメと漫画の好きな、漫画のうまい美術の先生。
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青山　そっか。ただ、逆に思ったのは、俺って夢を叶えているんだなぁということでした。漫画家になれて、アニメ化もされて、それが子供の頃から大好きな映画のでっかいスクリーンでも自分のキャラクターたちが動いてくれて。それは本当にありがたいことだなぁと思いました。
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——　では最後に。青山剛昌が考える漫画家としてのプロフェッショナルとは？
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青山　え～。ないなぁ。
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——　ないってことはなくないですか？　画業３０周年ですよ？
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青山　自分をプロフェッショナルだなんて思ってないしなぁ。……ただ、どこかで、学園祭がずっと続いているような感覚はあります。
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——　学園祭感覚とは、どういうことでしょう？
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青山　なんていうのかな。俺は漫画のはじまりが漫研の後輩や同級生を誘ってスタートしているでしょ？　投稿作の頃なんて、もろに学園祭の延長線上で、ひたすら楽しかったんです。海賊ノリでね。そりゃあ、一時期は『コナン』をやめようと思っていたぐらいですから、漫画を生みだすのは大変だし、ストレスを感じることもあるけど、でも基本は、いまでも学園祭がずっと続いているようで楽しいんですよ。あとは、やっぱり、ファンのみんなの存在が大きいです。いまでもね、ファンレターを読む瞬間が、俺にとって、なにものにも代え難い至福の時間だから。シンプルに「この回のここがよかったです」という言葉だけでもニヤニヤが止まらなくて励まされる。時には「もうそろそろ、『コナン』の連載は終わったほうがいいと思います」なんて辛辣なお便りをいただくこともあるんだけどね（笑）。でも、そういう意見も含めて、すべてのファンレターがありがたいんです。……って、最後の最後の「プロフェッショナルってなんぞや？」という質問でこういうことを答える俺って、くさすぎますかね？​​​​
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译：赤木ダブル
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</spoiler>
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Some Translation info
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<spoiler>
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from The Red Thread Facebook Group
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Info by 頭脳明晰天真爛漫; English translation by Jiamin
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Hi there! This is Aoyama, it’s a little sudden, but I am going to announce my “favorite chapter in my 30-year career”
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Since my debut in 1986, I cannot possibly remember the numbers of chapters I’ve drawn, however, when it was asked “the number one chapter,” I can answer it without any hesitation. There’s no other option, the one and only great chapter that need to exist in this world! That is!!!.... the hint is “hospital.”
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[the next page reveals: Shinichi Boy(part one, 923), and the book shows rough draft of the chapter and Aoyama sensei’s page by page notes/comments]
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(TN: Shinichi boy was drawn while Aoyama was hospitalized in 2015, in SDB 90+ he also mentioned he created the chapter with the feeling that “this great chapter needs to exist in the world”)
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Info from @oooHYYo (no scan provided), English translation by Jiamin:
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1. Aoyama sensei’s favorite movie: last year’s was good, so does movie 1 & movie 4<br>2. The Higo charm case, when Conan received Ran’s text, he’s probably thinking “I wanna reply ASAP! But I can’t” or something like that<br>3. Favorite chapter “Shinichi Boy” when Ran said “don’t call me crybaby” Shinichi’s thinking”why is she mad, she seems so cute/sweet”
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Additional info about the Panel of Shinichi and Ran's first meeting:
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Aoyama: this is the panel I worked really hard on! The moment they met, which is a significant moment, but I just couldn’t get it right, I altered so many drafts for this scene
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Aoyama: Ran was pleased to hear Shinichi’s “Thank you”, so she responded with a huge smile “There you go!” But we couldn’t see the smile, it didn’t show in “Ran Girl” either. The smile was revealed at the end of “Shinichi Boy(part 2)”, the kind of smile which moved Shinichi, and fell in love with Ran.
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info provided by 米花快报; English translation by Jiamin
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Q: Congratulations on the 30th anniversary for your career, is there a year that was most memorable to you?<br>A: it was the year that the production of first Conan movie was decided. Before that, I feel troubled on writing Conan, and thought it was probably time to end it. I had to come out of new ways to kill people every week, it was extremely difficult for me. And the editorial department went out of their ways to meddle in my creation, I hated that. So I decided to go to Las Vegas with my assistants, splurged all the moneys that I have earned at that time, and decided to end Conan when I come back home. But then I received a phone call in my hotel in Vegas, “The making of Conan movie was confirmed!” I changed my mind after that, maybe I shouldn’t give up, I need to work harder when I come beck.
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Q: Conan was really popular since the beginning, and the editors still wanted to intervene?<br>A: Yes, for example, they wanted Heiji’s personality to be more vile, I thought “to hell with them” and ignored their suggestion.
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(TN: that was Chinese translation, didn’t see that part in the original text, it’s either covered or they might’ve added it to sound more dramatic)
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info provided by 米花快报; English translation by Jiamin
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Death count: 247<br>
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Different causes of death:<br>
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1. Striked: 40<br>
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2. Strangled: 34<br>
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3. Stabbed: 25<br>
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4. Poisoned: 24<br>
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5. Shot: 22<br>
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6. Burned：21<br>
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7. Beheaded：19<br>
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8. Fallen：13<br>
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9. Suicide：13<br>
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10. Drown：9<br>
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(Yes, these are manga counts only; up to Volume 93.)
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</spoiler>
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===Interview with Detective Conan Producer Michihiko Suwa===
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'''Date:''' November 11, 2017<br>
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<spoiler>
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'''Source:''' https://manga.tokyo/interview/interview-with-detective-conan-producer-michihiko-suwa-part-1/<br>
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Michihiko Suwa is the producer of the TV anime and movie series Detective Conan (Meitantei Conan), also known as Case Closed based on the manga by Gosho Aoyama. In part one of MANGA.TOKYO’s interview with Suwa, we learn about the beginnings of the anime as well as how the anime staff are careful not to slip up when adapting Aoyama’s manga.
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'''— Could you tell us how the plan for the anime adaptation of Detective Conan developed?'''
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The first chapter of the original manga Detective Conan series, also known as Case Closed, was published in 1994 in Shonen Sunday. I guess it was a countermeasure against the rival manga magazine which had started a detective manga series The Kindaichi Case Files in 1992. I had a close connection with the editorial staff in Shonen Sunday, so I heard about a new detective manga before its publication. When I read the first chapter, I was instantly captured by its clever tricks. I kept reading it for 10 weeks and made up my mind to make an anime adaptation.
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Protagonist Shinichi Kudo was a 17-year-old detective but ends up having the body of a first-grade child because of a drug he was forced to swallow. I thought this setting was ‘a big lie’, and that was why it would nicely fit for anime. While discussing the anime adaptation plan, I convinced the editorial staff that I would respect the original which had an unrealistic setting, but otherwise was serious and a realistic mystery-solving story.
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At the time, Yomiuri Telecasting was airing the anime series Magic Knight Rayearth at 7:30 on Monday evening, but I wasn’t sure which TV block Detective Conan would be scheduled into. Although we didn’t know exactly when it would start airing, we began developing the plan aiming to air in January or February 1995.
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We asked TMS Entertainment, then called Tokyo Movie Shinsha, to take care of the anime production, because they had brilliant staff members. They created Magic Knight Rayearth and I appreciated their effort to create such great visuals. We also made an offer to Kenji Kodama for the director’s role. We had worked together on City Hunter before, so I told him it wasn’t an action but a mystery anime. He replied that he actually preferred mystery to action, and rather enjoyed creating mystery episodes more than the action ones while directing the Lupin III series. For the script, we wanted someone who was specialized in live-action dramas, so we invited Kanji Kashiwabara, who had been working on scripts for many detective dramas. He pulled some strings and Kazunari Kouchi, Junichi Miyashita, and Yuichi Higurashi joined us. We also asked script writers for anime to join our production team. For music, we asked Katsuo Ono, who was responsible for the music in a popular detective drama series called Taiyo ni Hoero, because we wanted the music of the anime to be comparable to suspense dramas for adults. Our idea was to create new mystery anime which is different from the others, and could be enjoyed by both children and adults.
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'''— What do you pay attention to when creating the anime?'''
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We have some rules, like using the word ‘body’ instead of ‘corpse’, and have blood look ‘black’ not ‘red’. That’s because we wanted the anime to be a mystery-solving story from the first place. We avoid showing scenes of a knife stabbing somebody or a bullet hitting victims, as long as they aren’t related to the tricks of a mystery. It airs in the evening in Japan, so there might be viewers who are in the middle of their dinner. We take extra care not to offend anyone, especially people who aren’t anime fans. We used to use ‘murder case’ in its titles quite a lot at the beginning, but stopped using it two or three years later, because we want to show not the crime itself, but how Conan solves a mystery after the crime happens. Our priority lies in showing the genius mystery-solving skills of Shinichi Kudo under the name of Conan Edogawa.
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While I believe Detective Conan is a superb mystery, the manga author Gosho Aoyama thinks of it as a comedy drama that focuses on its characters with an element of romantic comedy between Shinichi and Ran Mouri. I think that’s the strength of Detective Conan. It stands out from many other mystery stories. Furthermore, although we don’t know what type of characters will be popular, as everybody has their own tastes, our viewers can find their favorite among the varieties of characters in the anime. Aoyama creates many characters who have their individual charms, and we put them in the mystery solving stories. That’s why Detective Conan is different from any other mystery anime.
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'''— Is there anything you didn’t expect because the series has become such a long-runner?'''
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In the anime’s timeline, it has been less than a year since the roller coaster murder case. Many incidents have happened in Beika Town during that time. Only about 250 days have passed in the anime world, but we’ve made about 880 episodes. The town must be in a mess, since, mathematically speaking, there are three to four incidents happening in a day. [laugh] We must welcome the situation because a long-running series means the anime has dedicated fans. Aoyama once said that there has been only one [[Christmas]] and one Valentine’s Day in the anime. That demonstrates things in the anime are in safe hands. We’ve seen Conan’s birthday, but not Ran’s yet. I presume he already has his plan for her birthday, so we won’t imply anything about hers in the anime. We don’t want to change anything about its setting.
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At the beginning of the series, we didn’t have smartphones therefore the characters were using flip phones. We didn’t expect such technological advancements at that time. Conan likes new things, so he tries them without hesitation. If he had been in possession of a smartphone 20 years ago, some mysteries might been solved easily with it. Perhaps we are living in a difficult time for mystery stories.
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In the manga, Conan and Ai Haibara make a remark about something which is seemingly unrelated at the end of each case. Later, it turns out to be something really significant in another episode. Aoyama’s use of such foreshadowing is increasing recently, so the current director, Yashuichiro Yamamoto, is careful about not to miss any minor details in the manga.
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In short, there is a main storyline in the manga, which is like a big river flowing throughout the story, and the anime original parts we create are like floating leaves on the river. We know we shouldn’t obstruct the flow. Detective Conan has the major plot of Conan pursuing the Black Organization. Only Aoyama can deal with the plot, therefore we take extra care to include every single detail in the anime, as it might be related to the plot. I think we’ve done a good job in this regard so far.
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'''— Detective Conan is showing overseas now.'''
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We are extremely glad about that. It has been doing well, especially in Asia and South-East Asia where it’s nearing the No.1 place in anime genre. It used to be shown in the US under the title of Case Closed, but it struggled because we are not allowed to show someone getting shot in anime there. They are showing lots of violence in live-action drama, though. We have fans in some parts of Europe.
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I hope people abroad can directly know what Japanese anime want to deliver by watching anime. For that reason, I’m pleased anime can overcome boundaries and rules between countries. I’d love more people to watch this anime.
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'''— Have you heard comments from fans abroad?'''
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I’ve found many comments in English and other languages on Twitter. I’m delighted to know there are people who are watching Detective Conan abroad. Recently, more voice actors have traveled overseas to attend anime events. When Rikiya Koyama, who plays Kogoro Mouri, went to Taiwan, many people gathered to meet him. I like that fans abroad have fun with the characters of the anime. I’m glad that they enjoy the stories of the Detective Boys, love stories in the police force, and the romantic comedy between Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama, despite the fact that they have different cultures. They’ll say things like “I like Heiji”, “I like Kid.” I’d like the fans abroad to enjoy what their favorite characters do, and hope to hear what they think of the anime more in future.
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'''— It’s a pity that Conan can’t go abroad because he doesn’t have his passport.'''
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He can’t use an antidote casually, can he? I’ll follow how Aoyama deals with it. [laugh]
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'''— What is an interesting point about the anime adaptation of Detective Conan'''
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At the end of the 18th theatrical movie Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper, Subaru Okiya reveals his true identity as Shuichi Akai. Anime can use voice to express identity, but manga can’t. Even Aoyama admitted the power of anime. Readers keep reading the original manga because it’s brilliant, however we create anime with images and sound. I’m proud of what we’ve done to bring 2-dimensional manga to 3-dimensional anime with movement and sound in an effective way. I think the original manga is a first-class sponge cake and what we do is to decorate it with cream and fruit. Just like decoration makes the sponge cake tastier, anime enhances the source material to make it more attractive to a wider audience. Obviously, the original manga has an astonishing amount of circulation, however anime has the power to attract even elderly people who happen to be in front of TV with its sound and visuals. For that sense, I feel the anime series appeals to a much wider audience.
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'''— You said that anime-original stories are like leaves floating on a river. What do you think about their own charms?'''
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Creating anime-original stories (stories that are not based on chapters of the manga) means a declaration of war against Aoyama for me. My goal for creating original stories is to hear him say “I enjoyed watching it.” I begin making a story by imagining what will happen if Conan and Ran travel together, or get involved in an incident while walking around the town with the Detective Boys. Then, I consider how I use characters effectively and build a story.
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I must say that we have partly contributed the 22-year history of the anime series, because, although between 60-75% of the anime series is based on the original manga, the rest is anime-original. I become ecstatic when Aoyama says he enjoyed the anime-original stories.
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'''— Now, could you answer some questions from overseas? I have 6 questions here selected from more than 100 questions we’ve received.
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Karylle Enchinares Famero asks: What are some of your favorite murder tricks that you’ve encountered while producing the series?'''
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First of all, I like the trick from the episode The Sunfish Murder (File 56: Script by Kazunari Kouchi). It was an episode from one of the early seasons and I was thinking so hard with the director to come up with good tricks. Of course I still ponder over new tricks and sometimes they even see the light of day. The Man Who Was Killed Four Times (File 175: Script by Nobuo Ohgizawa) is another favorite of mine. It’s a story about a tough victim who is killed by multiple perpetrators, but each time he comes alive again. Therefore, it’s very difficult for Conan to get to the bottom of the case as the plot is quite complicated. Fortunately, we had a talented script writer who can wrap up the story within twenty-odd minutes. I really like The Entrance to the Maze: The Anger of Colossus (File 208: script by Chiaki Hashiba), especially the trick of the murder that happened during a ropeway ride through a tunnel.
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'''Ruffa Marielle Aquino asks; What are the most memorable things you did for the series and is there any advice you can give to students like me who want to pursue the same path of animation production?'''
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During the opening song ‘Koi wa thrill, shock, suspense’ (File 205 – 230: sang by Rina Aiuchi), Conan performs a ‘Para Para Dance’ which was on-trend at the time. He wasn’t allowed to smile while dancing, as it was a rule of the dance. I was worried how an opening without smiling would be received by viewers, but decided to follow the rule and let him dance the proper way. Masahito Yoshioka , a program director from TMS Entertainment, was doubtful at the beginning, but eventually made up his mind to create a proper dance routine which everyone can enjoy dancing. We asked a choreographer to teach us the moves, and we created Conan’s take on ‘Para Para Dance’.
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The 20th anniversary special episode Conan and Ebizou’s Kabuki Juhachiban Mystery (File 804-805) is another memorable one. Famous Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizou actually provided the voice of Ebizou in the anime. The script was written after his appearance was confirmed. I was impressed by Kashiwabara’s skillful script centering on Ebizou.
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If I may advise students who want to get into the anime industry, make sure that you keep your eyes open, find something that interests you, and learn deeply. I think communication skills are vital for our job, and in order to communicate better, you need knowledge. Read newspapers and magazines regularly to know current affairs. What is important is to make the person who you are talking to understand what you are interested in. You must know what you are talking about. In other words, you must speak with deep-rooted knowledge. It’s like anchoring a ship, so you don’t waver from your assertions.
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You must prepare to be able to explain clearly what sort of anime it is you want to make, what your favorite works in the past are, and why you like them. For me, they are Columbo, the late Osamu Tezuka (a creator known as the ‘God of Manga’ and was a pioneer of anime and manga as we know it), and Oretachi no Tabi (a Japanese coming-of-age drama aired in 1975). They made me what I am.
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I watched Columbo when I was a junior high school student. I remember I felt excited when I watched the episode ‘Any Old Port in a Storm’ which takes place in a winery, even though I had never drunk alcohol at the time. It was as if I were watching adult lives through a window. I want to provide such excitement to viewers. Although that doesn’t actually have anything related to the Conan episodes with tricks related to wine, though. [laugh] I just want to tell you that finding interest in small things in the area you love will lead you to being a mystery fan.
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'''Sana Hayama asks: What made you want to produce the series? Maybe you loved reading books which involved criminal action and mystery and tried to solve them? I’m sure this could be a reason for such an amazing and lively series!'''
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When I watched the movie Murder on the Orient Express in 1974, I hadn’t actually read Agatha Christie’s novel at the time. However, I personally believe I was the one who solved the mystery first in the theater. A movie remake will be released soon, and I can’t wait watching it.
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'''Mark Gabriel Acribal asks: What are some of the challenges or struggles you had to overcome before becoming a producer?'''
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I was an assistant director for a midnight variety show called 11PM for two and a half years, and I struggled to death. It would have been almost classified as ‘power harassment’ (Japanese term describing psychological abuse and bullying at work) if it had happened today. [laugh] However, I learned what it takes during that time. The experience of confronting the difficulties, which was actually not as heroic as it sounds, made me what I am today. I always wanted to create something, but I didn’t know how difficult creating processes were.
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Making a decision on everything about the footage is hard work but fun. The format of Detective Conan is made by the accumulations of my experiences. From the first episode, it has an epilogue, an ending, and a bit of a bonus scene. I’m confident in the format which director Kodama, producer Yoshioka and I devised together. We’ve been using this format for the TV series for all these years, and almost the same one for the movies.
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'''Ieng Wong asks: Were you a big fan of Conan before producing it?'''
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As I said earlier, I knew about the manga before its serialization, and kept my eye on it. When I read the first chapter, I was so impressed by its tricks and depiction of situations. I was surprised how much it can do from the first episode.
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I also liked The Kindaichi Case Files which had started running in a different magazine before Detective Conan. Luckily, I got an offer to produce The Kindaichi Case Files after I started Detective Conan. I feel exceptionally fortunate to be in charge of the two great detective anime series.
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'''Ryan Kun asks: What are your favorite detective movies and who are your favorite male and female characters in Detective Conan?'''
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I still watch many detective movies. Strictly speaking, it’s not a detective movie but I like Around the World in Eighty Days (premiered in 1957). It was based on the novel of the same name written by Jules Verne, and depicts a man who takes a bet to travel around the world in 80 days. He is disappointed in himself as he misses the deadline just one day. However, it turns out he actually won the bet, because he gained one day when he had crossed the International Date Line. I love such dramatic comeback wins. It’s a great bonus for viewers who are amazed by the trick at the last minute. I want to deliver such amazement to our viewers.
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My favorite character is always Kogoro Mouri. When the anime started airing, I was 37, the same age as Kogoro. He had a lovely high schooler daughter at that time, but I didn’t, though. [laugh] Although he has become crazier recently, he’s always lovable and no one can dislike him. I simply admire his personality.
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Among the female characters, I like Sonoko Suzuki. She was only meant to appear once according to the initial plan, but became a regular character because of the superb voice acting of Naoko Matsui who portrays her. She became a fixture of the anime, so much so that the character setting of Momiji Ohoka from the movie Crimson Love Letter was ‘Sonoko in the West’. Sonoko is incredible because she is such a down-to-earth person despite being a daughter of an extremely wealthy family.
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Thank you very much for sending me questions. It is much appreciated. I wish I could understand English more, so I could read all your questions and comments myself.
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'''— What’s your next goal?
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Detective Conan has become a household name in Japan, and I’m quite satisfied with that. I’d like to crack the world market with Detective Conan. I can’t understand why only anime can’t show murder scenes in English-speaking countries, whereas other forms of mystery can. However, I feel optimistic because there are not so many murder scenes in the anime.
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For successful international market penetration, I must find why Japanese anime has become so popular and acclaimed worldwide. I also have to find a way to make foreign viewers understand the dramaturgy of the anime, otherwise they can’t remember every character.
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My ambition is to sail through the world with Detective Conan and make it a flagship anime on the globe.
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'''— Could you give a comment for the fans?'''
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It has been 24 years since the manga started, and 22 years since the anime’s first airing. One day, Detective Conan will reach its conclusion. We don’t know when and how it ends, however until that day I’ll create the anime with all my heart. I hope you enjoy the anime both based on the original manga and the anime originals, as well as the movies. We’ll keep working our hardest to meet your expectations. Please continue to watch and follow Detective Conan.
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— Thank you very much.
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</spoiler>
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===Gosho Aoyama Interview about the Boss===
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'''Date:''' November 30, 2017<br>
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'''Published in:''' Shonen Sunday Webry <!--this is not in the physical SS Issue 3-4-->
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<spoiler>
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'''Source:''' https://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13430&sid=616cd36dc775283463d2b3ae591ca2a2 <br>
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青山先生直撃インタビュー
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2017年11月30日青山剛昌先生宅にて。
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サンデー３・４合併号にて「あの方」の正体がついに判明。週刊誌での漫画連載は一旦お休みしつつ、映画第22弾のコンテ確認作業を進めている青山剛昌先生に現在の心境などを直撃した。
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今日はですね、「あの方」がついに指摘されたと言うことで、みんなが知りたいことをズバリ伺いさせて頂こうかなと思います。<br>青山　はいはい（笑）
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ダメな質問は上手くボカして頂けてればと。ちなみに同日にこないだ撮影させて頂いた動画（「サンデーうえぶり」上にてアプリ限定公開）も解禁します。<br>青山　へー、そうなんだ（笑）はいはい。
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まずは、その動画でも伺ったのですが、青山さんの今の心境としてはいかがでしょうか。<br>青山　いやぁまぁ…いつか言わなきゃなぁと。ちょっと急ぎすぎるかなとは思ったけど、まぁいいかなぁと…結構ファンの間でも、アナグラムのヒント（90巻FILE 2）あたりから「＃＃じゃね」と言われていたし、これまでも年賀状で「＃＃ですか？」と聞いてくれる人がいてね。当たってるって返事書いちゃって良い？って、担当編集に聞いたんだけど「いや、それはちょっと…」と止められていてね（笑）あ、これインタビューにちゃんと書いといてね（笑）年賀状は他にも、早い段階で「領域外の妹」のこととか当ててる人がいて、その人たちには「当たってるよ、でも言わないでね（笑）」って書いたけど、＃＃に関しては全スルー。
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ボスが「＃＃＃＃」って、決められたのはいつ頃ですか？<br>青山　いやぁもう…ちゃんと決めたのは３０巻だね。出てくるの30巻だから。ボス出してとかなきゃ（笑）思いまして…
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ネットではまさに、「あの方」についていろんな予想が立てられましたが。<br>青山　ほうほう。
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優作じゃないの、とか、光彦じゃないの、とか。<br>青山　えー、いやー（笑い）全然違いますよ、ぶぶぶって（笑）でもさすがに当ててくる人が増えてきたからね。
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担当編集も、30巻頃では、別に聞かされていなかったと思うんですが。<br>青山　えー、その時、誰かな、担当。
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4代目くらいですね。ちなみに、「あの方」という言葉が最初に出てきたのは24巻でジンが「あの方直々の命令だ…」というシーンです、その時から「組織にはボスがいる」と決められていたんですか？<br>青山　ぶっちゃけ1巻から決めてたよ（笑）でも実はボスが（ピー）は、この24巻からかなぁ…。でもホンとは（ピー）なんだけどね（笑）
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こないだ録らせて頂いた動画でも、＃＃にはまだ秘密があるとおっしゃってましたが。<br>青山　めっちゃありますね（笑）だって（ピー）はボスの（ピー）だから（ピーピー）されて（ピー）なわけじゃん。このへん全部、「ピー」だね（笑）
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ですね（笑）<br>青山　それはそれで面白いかもね（笑）おお、すげーこと言ってるって（笑）
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これからもいろいろなるんだーって、思えますからね。ちなみに、＃＃と決められてからは、作中にヒントを出されたと思うんですが。やっぱり最初は「七つの子」ですか？<br>青山　そうですね、まぁ、「七つの子」はカラスだしね…
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あと、組織の正式名称と深い関わりが…と、インタビューでお答えになっていた…という情報を見たことがあり…　出典が定かではないですが（汗）<br>青山　なんだって？そんなの有ったっけ… 組織の名前？そんなこと言ったかな…
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組織の名前って、決まってるんですか？<br>青山　うん（ピーピー）が（ピー）なんですよ。
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素敵な…<br>青山　うん、そう、でもボスの名前…？それはあまり関係ないかな。
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ちなみに、ネットでは、「やはり阿笠博士では」とか「FBIのジェイムズ・ブラックでは」といろいろな説が流れていましたが…<br>青山　めっちゃ違いますね（笑）
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阿笠は青山さんが、以前に正式に否定されていて、それだと物語が美しくないと…<br>青山　美しくないというか、面白くないというか…それだといままでの博士のいい話が全部ダメになっちゃうじゃん。でもほら、ベルモットと対決するところで「いかん新一くん！」って言ってビートルで駆けつけたじゃん（笑）あれでボスじゃないってオレとしては描いたつもりだったんだけど…
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たしかに。<br>青山　なのにみんな、まだまだ「ボスじゃね」って言ってたからね（笑）
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あとは、＃＃は作中では死んだはず、となっていますが…<br>青山　あー、そうね、それは言えませんね（笑）それはのちのち…
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ですよね、聞いた限りでは、この先も大変壮大なお話ですから…<br>青山　まぁ、ボスの名前があきらかになっても、まだまだ「コナン」は謎が多いってことですよ（笑）
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「あの方」指摘直後
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青山さんは、毎回担当者に伏線を説明をするのが大変とおっしゃいます…<br>青山　うん（笑）何か思い出したけど、ハッキリ言ったのは、9代目担当の時かも知れないな（笑）黒幕までは、それまではうすらぼんやり担当に伝えて「とにかくオレに任せとけよ」って思ってたような。担当が聞いて感動してて、「凄い良く出来てますね！」って言ってたから（笑）それを覚えてる。
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今回のお話では、ラムの正体や動きにも注目です。今回、安室さんに連絡してますし、それも大きな情報なので…<br>青山　ですね（笑）急展開だよね。
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ちなみに、青山さんの近況としましては…<br>青山　「艦これ」イベント「甲」でクリアしました（笑）今回はいままでで一番大変だった（笑）
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お気持ちとしては…<br>青山　そりゃ嬉しいよ（笑）「矢矧」も出たし！これでコンプリート！
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おめでとうございます！<br>青山　もうこのインタビュー早く終わらせて「矢矧」育てたい（笑）やっぱりセリフがいいんですよ、矢矧。大破したときにさ…「私を沈めたいなら、魚雷５，６本くらい撃ち込まないと、駄目よ」…って、みんな、持ってた人たちはこれ聞いてたんだなと、かっこいい！
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2年…3年ぐらい欲しがってらっしゃいましたよね。<br>青山　いやもっと長いだと思うけどな…ずーっと「矢矧」だけ出なかった。建造で出るんですけど、１００回以上チャンレンジしたけど出なかったからね。今回のイベント（2017年秋）で、ドロップしてビックリした。E-3…E-3の前半のボスかな…？
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で、「艦これ」やりながらいまは「ツムツム」もなさってますが…<br>青山　あーそう！「ツムツム」夢中です。オレのお気に入りのツムは「ピターパン」です（笑）強いから（笑い）
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ちなみにいま「ツムツム」では何万点くらい出されてますか。<br>青山　300万点いかなくらいだね、いまのところそれが限界です（笑）
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あと、映画のコンテを例年通りか、それ以上にしっかりとご覧になっていますが…<br>青山　あーそう！がっつりやった！ちなみに次回の映画は、クライマックスでコナンくんが安室に「え！？」っていうことを聞くので、お見逃しなく（笑）安室ファンはみんな気になってることだろうからねぇ…それね、インタビューに書いてくれていいけど、高山さんにはもう言っちゃいました（笑）コナンくんのこういうセリフがあるよって（笑）「わかった」って言ってた（笑）
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（笑）わかりました、ではファンの方へのメッセジーとしてはこれからも、漫画も映画も続いてくと言うことですよろしいでしょうか。<br>青山　そうですね、いまちょっと休んでますけど、充電を兼ねてますんで…
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体調も万全になってからと言うことで…<br>青山　そうだね、今後はちょっと作画中の3時間睡眠はやめるかも（笑）なんで、ペースは遅くなっちゃうかもだけど、これならいけるかもとういうのがつかめたらはじめますんで、それまで待って下さい（笑）
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あと、今回、青山さんが「本当の原稿」を描いているところを動画で録らせて頂きましたが…ダミーではなく本物の原稿を描かれるのは珍しいと思いますが…<br>青山　あー！そうだね、NHKの番組で、カラーの原稿を描いたときは、本物だったけど漫画の原稿が初めてかもな。
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丸ペンを使われましたけど…<br>青山 あー！そう！タッチの部分は丸ペン。あれはピグマだと出ないから…オレは元々Gペンや丸ペンを使ってたから、ミリペンを使っても強弱のついた線が描けるけど、いきなり最初からミリペンだと強弱のない、つるんとした絵になっちゃうんで、これから漫画家を目指す新人さんはホンとはGペンや丸ペンで絵を描き慣れといた方がいいよと、書いといてね（笑い）
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はい（笑い）というわけで…大変貴重なインタビューをありがとうございました。あとなんか、青山さん的に近況の言い残しはありますか？<br>青山　あ、「ドラクエ１１」で、ボスを倒して最初のエンデイングまで見た。（現在、裏ボスを倒すべくレベル上げ中）
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そういえば漫画では「3月のライオン」を再度読破されて、ドラマだと「刑事ゆがみ」にハマってらっしゃいますね。<br>青山　アニメだと「宝石の国」だな、あれいい！面白い！スタッフの中にオレと同じ大学のサークルでアニメ作ってたやつがいるし（笑）（泉津井陽一（センツイヨウイチ）さん）あのアニメ、声優さんもいい！主人公が「響け！ユーフォニアム」の黄前ちゃんなんだよね〜（黒沢ともよさん）
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いまはそのへんにハマってらっしゃるととういうことで…ありがとうございました！<br>青山　はいはい（笑）
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</div>
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</div>
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'''Translated by:''' Spimer
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Mr. Aoyama Direct Interview
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November 30th, 2017, Mr. Aoyama Gosho House.
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In the [Shonen] Sunday Combined Issue #3-4, the identity of “That Person” has been finally established. I directly asked Mr. Aoyama Gosho about his mental state as he temporarily takes breaks from serializing the manga in the weekly magazine and he works on checking the storyboards from the 22nd movie.
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Interviewer: Today “That person” was finally identified so I was thinking of asking you about things that everyone wants to know.<br>Aoyama: Yes, yes (laughs)
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Interviewer: If you could please blur the bad questions… By the way… On the same day, that video that I recorded will be made public (“Sunday Webry” App Limited Publishing).<br>Aoyama: Huh, is that so? (laughs) Yes, yes.
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Interviewer: First things first… We also asked in the video, but can we assume that is your mental state, Mr. Aoyama?<br>Aoyama: Oh, well… I did think that I’d have to say it at some point. I did think that I was rushing a bit too much but that it wasn’t a bad idea… A lot of fans said “It’s ##” since they the anagram hint (Volume 90, File 2) and others asked me “Is it ##?” in the New Year’s Postcards. I tried asking the editor in charge “Can I answer telling them they met the mark?” but they stopped me saying “No, that’s a bit [too revealing]…” (laughs) Ah, make sure to write this on the interview (laughs) There were also other persons who guessed the identity of the “sister outside the domain” at a very early stage in the New Year’s Postcards and I answered them “You’ve met the mark but keep it a secret (laughs)” but I ignore all questions about ##.
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Interviewer: When did you decide that “####” was the Boss?<br>Aoyama: Oh, well… I properly decided that in Volume 30. Since it appears on Volume 30. They have to appear as the “Boss” (laughs) Or so I thought…
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Interviewer: There’s a lot of conjectures on the net about “That Person”.<br>Aoyama: I see, I see
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Interview: “Is it Yuusaku?”, “Is it Mitsuhiko?”, amongst others. <br>Aoyama: Eehh!? Nooo (laughs) They’re totally wrong. Beep (laughs) But there’s more people who’ve met the mark: it’s to be expected
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Interviewer: I thought that the editor in charge at the time of Volume 30 would’ve been specially told, though…<br>Aoyama: Eeh? Who was the editor in charge back then…?
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Interviewer: It was the 4th one. By the way, the first time that the word “That Person” appeared was in the scene of Volume 24 when he says “It’s a direct order from That Person”. You’d already decided then that “The Organization has a Boss”?”<br>Aoyama: To be frank, I’d decided that ever since Volume 1 (laughs) But, actually the Boss being (beep) was from Volume 24, I think… But, in truth, it’s (beep) (laughs)
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Interviewer: In the video you allowed me to record a while ago, you did say that ## has some secret to them, but…<br>Aoyama: They have tons of them (laughs) Because (beep) is the Boss’ (beep) so they were (beep beep) and they’re (beep). Put “beep” on all of this part (laughs)
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Interviewer: Obviously (laughs)<br>Aoyama: That’s pretty fun (laughs). Oh, he’s saying some spectacular! (laughs)
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Interviewer: I do think that there’ll be a lot of those from now on, yes. By the way, ever since you decided it’d be ##, I think you’ve made some hints appear in the manga. Is “Seven Children” the first of them, like I thought?<br>Aoayama: True… Well, “Seven Children” is about crows, so…
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Interviewer: Also, that it’s deeply related to the Organization’s official name… Or so you answered in an interview… I’ve seen such information… But the source isn’t clear (sweats)<br>Aoyama: What did you say? Was there such a thing…? The Organizations’ name? Did I say that..?
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Interviewer: Have you decided on the Organization’s name?<br>Aoyama: Yes (beep-beep) is (beep), see.
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Interviewer: Fantastic…<br>Aoyama: Yes, true, but the boss’ name…? I think it’s not too related…
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Interview: By the way, there’s several theories flowing in the net like “Maybe it’s indeed the Professor?” or “James Black from the FBI?”…<br>Aoyama: They’re totally wrong (laughs)
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Interviewer: You officially denied Agasa before, but some say that then the story isn’t beautiful…<br>Aoyama: That’s it’s not beautiful, that it’s not interesting… Were it to be case, all the good episodes the Professor had would have been in vain. But, see… When [Conan] faced Vermouth, he said “No good, Shinichi-kun!” and rushed there with his Beetle (laughs). My intention when I drew that is that he wasn’t the Boss, but…
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Interviewer: True.<br>Aoyama: But despite that they all kept saying “He’s the Boss”, so… (laughs)
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Interviewer: Also, ## is supposed to be dead in the manga, but…<br>Aoayama: Ah, true… I can’t talk about that (laughs) In due time…
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Interviewer: Obviously. From what you’ve told me, from now it’ll be a very grand story, so…<br>Aoyama: Well, even if the Boss’ name has become clear, there’s still a lot of mysteries in “Conan” (laughs)
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Page 2 header: After pointing “That Person”
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Interviewer: You say that it’s a lot of trouble to explain the foreshadowing to each editor in charge when they change…<br>Aoyama: Yes (laughs) I remember something, though… I clearly told one of them, I think the 9th one, for all I know (laughs) I dimly told him up to the mastermind and he seemingly thought “Just leave it up to me”. The editor in charge heard it, got emotional and said “it’s a wonderful work!” (laughs) That much I remember.
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Interviewer: Rum’s identity and movements are also a point to focus upon in this episode. They’ve contacted Amuro-san and it’s very big info, so…<br>Aoyama: Indeed (laughs) It’s a sudden development
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Interviewer: By the way, what about your recent status…?<br>Aoyama: I cleared the “Kan Colle” even with “Kou (Shell)” (laughs) It was the hardest insofar (laughs)
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Interviewer: What about your feelings…?<br>Aoyama: I’m glad, of course (laughs) “Yahagi” also appeared! Now I’ve completed it!
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Interviewer: Congratulations!<br>Aoyama: I want to finish this interview already and raise “Yahagi” (laughs) Yahagi’s lines are very good, indeed. When she gets seriously damaged… “If you want to sink me you’ll need to shoot 5-6 torpedoes at me, else you won’t be able to”… To think that all people who had her could hear to these… Cool!
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Interviewer: You said that you’d wished to get her since 2-3 years ago.<br>Aoyama: No, I think it’s been longer… “Yahagi” never popped out. She pops out by construction but even though I did over 100 challenges she didn’t pop out. I was surprised that she was a “drop” in this event (Autumn 2017). E-3… Was is it the Boss of the E-3 first half…?
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Interviewer: And you’re also playing “Tsum Tsum” alongside “Kan Colle”…<br>Aoyama: Ah, true! I’m crazy about “Tsum Tsum”. My favorite “Tsum” is “Peter Pan” (laughs) He’s strong (laughs)
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Interviewer: By the way, how many 10000s of points do you have in “Tsum Tsum”?<br>Aoyama: I think it’s below 3,000,000 points. That’s my current limit (laughs)
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Interviewer: Also, I can see that the movie storyboards look like the usual ones but greater, even…<br>Aoyama: Ah, yes! I did them with all my might! By the way, in the next movie’s climax… Conan-kun is told something by Amuro that makes him reply “Huh!?” so don’t miss it (laughs) Amuro fans must be curious about that… You can write that in the interview, but I already told Takayama-san about it (laughs) That’s there this line by Conan, that is (laughs) And she said “Gotcha” (laughs)
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Interviewer: (laughs) Understood. Then should I say that your message towards the fan is that the manga and movies will still go on?<br>Aoyama: Indeed, I’m resting a bit now but I’m also recharging energies so…
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Interviewer: This should be better said when one’s at top condition…<br>Aoyama: True. I might stop having 3-hour sleep during work (laughs). So the pace might slow down but until I begin to get a grip of “this works”: please wait until then (laughs)
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Interviewer: Also, Mr. Aoyama, you allowed me to record you while drawing the “true manuscript” but… I think it’s unusual for you to draw a true manuscript and not a dummy…<br>Aoyama: Ah! True, when I drew a color manuscript for the NHK program it was a true manuscript but I guess it’s the first time I do that with a manga manuscript.
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Interviewer: You used a mapping pen, though…<br>Aoyama: Ah! True! The touch section is a mapping pen. Pigmas don’t achieve that… I originally used G Pens and mapping pens, so even if I used a millipen I can draw lines with strength, yet… If I suddenly use a millipen from the start, it becomes smooth pictures without strength, so write that any newbies aiming to become mangaka should get used to drawing with G Pens or mapping pens (laughs)
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Interviewer: Yes (laughs) And so… Thank you very much for this very important interview. Is there something else you want to say about your recent status, Mr. Aoyama?<br>Aoyama: Ah, I beat the boss in “Dragon Quest 11” and saw the first ending (now I’m leveling up to face the secret boss)
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Interviewer: Speaking of which… You finished re-reading the manga “The March Lion” and you’re into the drama series “Policeman Yugami”, right?<br>Aoyama: As for anime, I like “Jewels Kingdom”, it’s good! It’s fun! Amongst the staff there’s a guy from the same college circle as me that made anime (laughs) (Mr. Sentsui Youichi) The anime and voice actors are good! The main protagonist is Oumae-chan from “Sound! Euphonium” (Ms. Kurosawa Tomoyo)
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Interviewer: So that’s what you’re into lately, then… Thank you very much!<br>Aoyama: Yes, yes (laughs)
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=2018=
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===Shinichi and Ran Secret Archives VA interviews===
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'''Date:''' January 16, 2018
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<spoiler>
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'''Source:''' https://www.facebook.com/DCTheRedThread/photos/1722146851170594/ <br>
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'''Translated by:''' Jiamin<br>
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'''Info credits by:''' 游离之光
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YG = Yamaguchi (Shinichi)<br>
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YZ = Yamazaki (Ran)<br>
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TY = Takayama (Conan)<br>
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YG: Compared to coming as Kid, when I come as Shinichi, YZ-San is much nicer/gentle to me<br>
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YZ: Although YG-San is present, knowing him is here as Kid, I’ll be thinking “ちぇ—つ” (Not exactly sure what the expression is in English, but it’s like a scornful sound”
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YZ: Conan-Kun is cuter than childhood Shinichi <br>
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TY: That’s because he’s “pretending to be cute”, that’s the difference between him and childhood Shinichi, one is a fake child the other is a real child.
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Q- What do you think about Episode One<br>
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YG: It’s been a long time since I had a normal conversation with Ran, I’m really happy!<br>
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YZ: So that’s what it was like when Shinichi was still around. I also liked that whenever Shinichi shows up, the love comedy will always cover a bigger part.<br>
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TY: It told us what Shinichi went through after he turned to Conan and the time period before he ran back home. It’s like filling in blanks rather than retelling stories. <br>
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YZ: I’m surprised that they did the Karate tournament, they even gave me a real-life tournament as a reference before I record. Ran is becoming some sort of “superwoman” in the recent movies, so it’s nice to show that she can feel pain and be frustrated. <br>
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Q-What do you three feel about Shinran’s relationship?<br>
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YG: Shinichi fell for Ran when they’re in preschool... that’s so early!<br>
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TY: Maybe he started thinking Ran was cute when she was crying<br>
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YZ: Even though she said she started to have feelings for Shinichi after the NY case, but he’s still more of a childhood friend before he disappeared. She didn’t realize how much she loved him until he’s not around.<br>
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TY: The pain of being apart.<br>
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Q-Ever look forward to a childhood sweetheart romance?<br>
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YG: I’ve always look forward to a childhood romance, I knew a couple who were my classmates in grade school, i thought it was amazing when they got married.<br>
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TY: I would be OK with it if it can last forever. In ep 472, Kudo Shinichi’s childhood adventure, there’s a part where Shinichi wanted to be address in last name..<br>
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YZ: I think he’s embarrassed that he was the only to be called in first name in grade school.<br>
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TY: Yes, i was thinking when I saw that part, “This child’s puberty kicked in early” I had similar experience in middle school, when you get teased like that by others, the relationship can be easily ruined. It’s nice that they patched things up soon quickly!<br>
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YG: And they’ve remained close ever since, so exclusive to each other.<br>
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YZ: But Shinichi gets cocky when receiving fan letters<br>
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TY: it’s just for the attention, he felt like he’s being acknowledged, but never consider them romantically <br>
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YG: It’s just fan letters<br>
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YZ: Ran will also go panic about some illusion, like Shinichi living with a young widow...(laugh)<br>
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YG: Watching too much soap operas? (Laugh)<br>
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TY: Ran was picked up a lot by guys. Maybe the guys in school are too afraid to because of Shinichi, but she’s definitely popular! And sometimes when Shinichi gets mad and jealous about “why is she so friendly with them”, he’s anger usually goes away if he sees her attitude towards that person, like Araide-sensei and Eisuke-kun.<br>
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YZ: Eisuke-Kun doesn’t feel like a love interest, he’s like a little brother!<br>
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Q- thoughts about recent development?<br>
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YG: We recorded CM for the field trip arc!<br>
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YZ: Yes, a couple of lines, it’s amazing that we reached file 1000<br>
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TY: can’t wait for the animation, let their feelings for each other be heard!<br>
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</spoiler>
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===Movie 22 Guidebook Interview===
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'''Date:''' March 31, 2018
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'''Source:''' https://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13475<br>
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File:M22_Guidebook_Interview_1.jpg|New characters introduced
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File:M22_Guidebook_Interview_2.jpg|Gosho interview
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File:M22_Guidebook_Interview_3.jpg|Gosho interview
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File:M22_Guidebook_Interview_4.jpg|Gosho interview
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File:M22_Guidebook_Interview_5.jpg|Furuya Toru interview
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File:M22_Guidebook_Interview_6.jpg|Furuya Toru interview
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File:M22_Guidebook_Interview_7.jpg|Takayama Minami interview
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File:M22_Guidebook_Interview_8.jpg|Staff interview
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File:M22_Guidebook_Interview_9.jpg|Police Hierarchy
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File:M22_Guidebook_Interview_10.jpg|Police Hierarchy
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'''Translated by:''' Spimer<br>
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'''New characters introduced'''<br>
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'''Sayoko Iwai''' -> Tokyo Regional Prosecutor, Public Safety Bureau<br>
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VA: Tomigana Miina<br>
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Line: "This is a decision by the Public Safety Department, do you understand?"<br>
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Supervisor subservient to the Public Safety Police.<br>
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Supervisor Prosecutor part of the Tokyo Regional Public Prosecutor Office, Public Safety Department. Her subordinate, Kusakabe, in charge of Kogoro's case, suggests her to carry out additional investigation of the case, but Supervisor Iwai dismisses his suggestion. It'd seem she's very subservient to the National Police Agency's Public Safety Police.
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'''Kyouko Tachibana''' -> Lawyer<br>
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VA: Ueno Aya<br>
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Line: "Please allow me, Kyouko Tachibana, to defend "the sleeping Kogoro"!"<br>
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A "cell-lawyer" lawyer who always loses<br>
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A "cell-lawyer" is a lawyer that doesn't belong to a lawyer agency and take jobs over their cellphones, they're freelance lawyers. She's been in charge of many Public Safety cases in the past but cases with prosecution indictment only have a 0.1% chances of being won so she's lost in all the trials she's been at. She requests to defend Kogoro.
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'''Fumikazu Haba''' -> Former Law Student<br>
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VA: Hakata Daikichi
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Line:"I want you to explain why I wasn't appointed!"<br>
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He was a law student, but...<br>
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A law student who aimed to be a judge. But he wasn't appointed a judge. Wanting to know the why, he talks directly to the coure's director, but...
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'''Makoto Kusabake''' -> Tokyo Regional Prosecutor, Public Safety Department<br>
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VA: Kawashima Tokuyoshi
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Line: "It'd seem that you kept denying the charges in the police."<br>
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Prosecutor in charge of the bombing incident<br>
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He's a prosecutor who's very serious about his job, and is in charge of Kogoro's case. He becomes concerned during the inquires that Kogoro has no motive for being the culprit of the bombing incident and suggests his superior, Supervisor Iwai, to carry out further investigation, but...
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'''Gosho Interview'''<br>
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Profile:<br>Mangaka / Author of "Detective Conan"
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Originary from Tottori Prefecture. Mangaka debut in 1986. "YAIBA" and "Detective Conan" prized with Shogakukan Manga Award. Also serializing the "Magic Kaito" series.<br>In 2017, the total publication amount of "Detective Conan" overcame 200 million units.
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Page 1<br>
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Q: "How did you decide that Amuro Tooru would be the main character in "Zero the Enforcer", this year's installment?"<br>A: "It all started from a suggestion by Sakurai-san, the scriptwriter, it wasn't my idea.<br>He said he wanted to do a tale about cyber-terrorism and he asked me "if it's cyber-terrorism, then the PSB will get involved, can I make Amuro appear?". It'd only been 1 film since "The Darkest Nightmare" so I did think it was a bit too early to do so but I also though that it would work. Amuro-kun's popular, after all (laughs)."
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Q: "What are the highlights of this move?"<br>A: "The final action scene, and the talk between Conan and Amuro in the climax!"
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Q: "In which parts were you involved?"<br>A: "In the story and a bit of storyboard fixes. I also helped a bit with the keyframes. The first version of the story it was very hard and led to heavy happenings. It turned into a "Amuro's become evil?" feeling, so we made it a bit softer. The first heavy story was interesting, too. Had a hard mystery feeling to it.  The culprit got caught but "the truth darkness hasn't been dispelled" feeling. But I thought that wasn't something we should in Conan.<br>So we made some things a bit light-hearted. Also, until we settled on using cyber-terrorism as theme we also though of tricks involving food poisoning but they were discarded very early. We felt that the motive was too small (laughs)<br>I also voiced my opinion on the climax and other scenes and had them add scenes I wanted to see. Also, the scene between Amuro and Kuroda, for example, has elements from the anime so I look forward to how it ends up looking."
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Q: "What were your demands to the new director, Director Tachikawa?"<br>A: "We were very detailed when we met to talk about the action scenes planning, but we didn't go so over the details when we were in the storyboard stage. There wasn't much storyboard fixing this time around. But sometimes I sent him a photo over LINE telling him "we should fix this one".
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A: We didn't have too many long phone calls either. Talking over LINE was sufficient (laughs)."
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Q: "What kind of conversation you had with Furuya Tooru-san, Amuro Tooru's VA?"<br>A: "We didn't talk about the movie but I did have a meal with him in the past. Said his daughter is a great fan of Kaitou Kid. Also he did play the role of Tuxedo Mask (Sailor Moon), didn't he? I guess that he probably thinks that I used his character as model to draw Kaitou Kid. But it's actually the inverse, Kaitou Kid came before Tuxedo Mask. "Magic Kaito" is a old, Showa Period manga.<br>(See Note 1) When I told him that he was disappointed, I guess that he wanted to brag to his daughter "I'm the the model for Kaitou Kid", no? (laughs). Well, it's but my speculation so... I apologize if I'm mistaken (laughs)<br>I also told him that Amuro Tooru's true name is Furuya Rei and he replied "Sensei! That's overdoing it!" to which I replied "No, see, the "Rei" is actually "Zero" due to some reasons" and he was like "Huh!?"."
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Q: "I want to ask about Kazami Yuuya, who's also appeared in the manga.<br>A: "He's very popular. There were a lot of fan letters after "The Darkest Nightmare" asking me to "Please make Kazami appear!" so I went like "fine, fine". "Let's make him show up!". Wondering if that would do (laughs)<br>I think that the anime staff decided on his name. He's a subordinate of Amuro so he was Camille. At first he had a long and crumpled hair but I didn't understand what they meant by Camille, so they said "he doesn't look like PSB", and that someone with a bad nature was better. And so his design was remade and ended up like that. I don't watch "Z Gundam" too often. The first [season] of Gundam is the best, in my opinion. Hence why I didn't make the connection. I'm really sorry (laughs)."
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Q: "I want to ask about Kazami's and Amuro's roles"<br>A: "To make it clear that Amuro's the great one, Amuro is on the elite section of the NPA, and Kazami belongs to the Police HQ's PSB which is a lower rank. I think Sakurai-san was the one who suggested for Kazami to be older than Amuro.<br>As for Amuro's career, he was in the same class as Matsuda and Date. Scotch also was in the same class. They all died but they were cool types.<br>And Scotch was Amuro's childhood friend. Because, you see, he called him "Zero". And that was nickname of Amuro when he was a kid. I'll have to draw that, indeed."<br>Note 1: "The author of "Sailor Moon" , Takeuchi Naoko-sensei, was told that Tuxedo Mask's model was Kaitou Kid and was glad about it (From the "Aoyama Gosho 30th Anniversary Book").
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Q: "I wanted to ask about Conan's first spin-off, "Culprit Hanazawa-san"..."<br>A: "At first, the person in charge showed me the name and asked me "this is the name, will it be OK?". So I replied "Oh, sure. Perfectly OK.". Thought it was fun. I had a meal with Kanba-sensei after that. I told him "feel free to do anything you want to do". Kanba-sensei's hometown is Shimane Prefecture, which is next to Tottori so he's also close to my hometown.<br>The persons who appear are suspicious, Ran-chan's hairstyle, and her horn popping from the middle are fun. I thought it was good to give off a "imposter" feeling. It's pretty good, and fun."
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Q: "What about your health, and when will [the manga] resume?"<br>A: "Thank you for your concern, I feel very good. I get a feeling of "get to work already!". I think there'll be good news soon enough.<br>I want to write a long story about Detective Chiba and Naeko-chan as well after the manga resumes. With the feeling of "Bayside Shakedown", I'd say. Please look forward to it."
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Q: "Please give us a message for Conan fans as conclusion of the interview."<br>A: "Both those who know Amuro and those who don't know him... Those who don't know him, they'll know what kind of man he is, and those who know him will get to know him a bit deeper. So please go see the movie.<br>Also, Amuro will be appearing a lot in the manga in the future. Since he was told to "Investigate about Kudo Shinichi", it's inevitable for him to get involved. Look forward to it, too!"
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Sign: "Detective Conan Cinema Magazine 2018. Aoyama Gosho."
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Bottomost right note: "Sensei drew Conan & Amuro for the magazine. He quickly makes a sketch with pencils, and adds a magic pen without any hesitation. It'd seem he's drawing a lot of cuts of Amuro often.
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He jokingly said "If you make a blonde with squat eyes and dark-skinned there you have Amuro (laughs)"
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'''Furuya Toru Interview'''<br>
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Profile:<br>
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Amuro Tooru / Rei Furuya VA
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Originary from Kanazawa Prefecture. His representatives works are "Mobile Suit Gundam" as Amuro Ray, "Star of the Giants" as Hoshi Hyuuma, "Saint Seiya" as Pegasus Seiya, "Dragon Ball" as Yamcha, "Sailor Moon" as Tuxedo Mask amongst others.
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Q: "Will Amuro Tooru, in the 22nd movie "Zero the Enforcer" become a main character?"<br>A: "No way. It's 2 years after "The Darkest Nightmare" so I think it's too early to say that he's become a main character (laughs). Personally, I was very glad and surprised, I have both of those feelings.<br>I didn't know anything about the contents, and at first it was that trailer with the countdown included in "The Crimson Love Letter" so I thought it'd be a movie with hard content."
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Q: "What's your impression ever since you read the script?"<br>A: "It was a bit different from what I'd imagined. Amuro does his job as PSB officer to face organized terrorism against Japan and heads straight forward. And then Conan-kun would get involved. That's how I thought it'd be like.<br>But as I did the trailers and the teasers, that was before I got the script so I eventually began to understand the contents. I firstly though "Huh? He's going to be enemies with Conan?". Despite that in the main story we finally got to know he was an ally of Conan, so I thought that them being enemies now would draw Conan fans away... I felt a bit of danger, actually (laughs).<br>But I did think that that wouldn't be the end of things, and there women who feel attracted to bad guys so maybe it would be good for them to be enemies when seen from that perspective. <br>There are people who like Bourbon, so I expected that the charm of a cool Furuya Rei would further increase in this movie as well. I didn't think that it'd show details about the state of things within the police, though.
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Q: "What points do you have to respectively act his 3 faces of Amuro Tooru, Furuya Rei and Bourbon?"<br>A: "In the case of Amuro Tooru, working at the Poirot part-time, I take into account the image that he behaves like a kind guy and is an attractive young man. Conan knows his identity, but when there are other Detective Boys present, he acts as if he was but a strong and young detective. That's how I voice him like. I use a bit of a higher tone of voice, with a soft feeling.<br>In the case of Furuya Rei, he's a worker and a pro so I voice him in a sharp and edgy manner. To give out a dark feeling I make a lower tone of voice. There also times in which he gives out orders to Kazami, so there are parts in which he turns stricter. I add changes in scenes like those.<br>Speaking of voice tones, I use the lowest one when I voice him as Bourbon. Vermouth and he have a grip of each others' weaknesses so it's a bit special yet when he talks to Gin or similar scenes I use a very low tone.<br>Also, when it comes to Akai Shuichi, he's got a feud with him involving what happened with Scotch so he clearly hates him. His emotions get the best of him. When he faced Akai, he behaves like a kid. So when Akai is around he unusually brings out his emotions in a straightforward way. <br>When reading the movie's script, when he moves around as Furuya Rei, and when he talks to Conan...  I thought that it would be better to use Amuro's voice for those scenes. When I had to act scenes as Furuya Rei, I wrote the "Kou" kanji from "kouan (Public Safety)" on my copy of the script and when it was Amuro Tooru I wrote "an". So they overlapped with "kouan" and was hard to understand even for me, so I wrote the katakana "A". I distributed them in the script as much as I could.
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Q: "What's the charm of Amuro Tooru, in your opinion?"
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A: "Hmmm... He has 3 faces so I guess he's 3 times more handsome than normal people (laughs).
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His 3 faces are the first of his charms. So even though I'm acting a single character, I can experience being 3 persons at the same time and acting 3 persons. That's a charm yet it has difficult parts to it so I feel like it's worth doing it.<br>It was fun voicing the 3 of them but I really like Furuya Rei. He feels like a hero of justice. Apart from action, he's also good with his driving technique. He often has cool lines to him, and like in this occasion, I was able to voice him a lot in the movie, since he doesn't appear that often. So I'm very glad at it."
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Q:"Can you tell us anything that happened during the dubbing?"<br>A:"Takayama Minami-san (Conan) and Yamakazi Wakana-san (Ran) encouraged me a lot and were glad at Amuro's popularity, and Yamazaki-san said, about the movie, that "Amuro-san, you're sure to get a lot of new fans!".Minami-san did ask "This is about that person and that other person?", when checking uncertain lines and scenes...<br>In the interactions with Conan during the climax has a lot of action so ad-libbing becomes needed and it's hard to coordinate them but when we did the first test we matched things perfectly despite no previous meeting to coordinate things. Our sensibility as voice actors is similar, I guess. Weren't that the case, we wouldn't have been able to synchro the timing so perfectly. I was really surprised.<br>The climax scenes lines were also good, and so the Suzuki Sonoko VA Matsui Naoko-san was very happy at it, and said "Your pierced through my heart!" (laughs)"<br>I was a bit unsure how to voice Amuro's lines on the movie's climax, and unexpectedly enough, during the tests, I made a strong tone of voice that wasn't what I had on mind, and Naoko-san was very glad so I told my "Oh yeah, this is it" to convince myself it was good enough. I had the feeling to act along with Minami-san and that's the voice that came out during the dubbing.
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Q: "You've had a long career. Yet how do you feel about acting a popular character like Amuro Tooru?"<br>A: "I'm really happy at it. I've been a VA for over 50 years, but, for me, it's the first time that a lot of fans had gotten crazy about a character I voiced, crazy over Amuro Tooru. <br>Amuro Ray also has popularity, yeah, but he couldn't beat Char to it (laughs). I often voice the main protagonists of series and so the rival character often gets the attention drawn to him. Nowadays you can see the encouragement through SNS, I like how a lot of followers appear in Twitter, and I'm very surprised at his popularity.<br>Between the Amuro fans, there are some who bought a real white FX-7 (see Note 1). He also makes incredible driving in this film, but whenever the co-stars crash they get severely told "you're wasting the tax money!" (laughs).
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Q: "Amuro Tooru appeared on Volume 75 of the manga, he appears in the latter half of the story, but were you surprised by the naming at the time of this debut?"<br>A: "We were fans of "Detective Conan" to begin with. My daughter, especially. We often went to the theater to see the movie together.<br>I knew that Ikeda Shuichi-san voiced Akai Shuichi, so I did feel that "the author, Aoyama-sensei, really likes Gundam". I secretly hoped that "maybe one day I'll be offered a role". And when "it finally came" I was "Huh? Amuro Tooru?" when I heard his name. "There's barely any difference (with my name)!".<br>And later, when his real name of Furuya Rei was revealed, I went "Hey, sensei. Didn't you overdo it!?". I did really comment upon those. Around that time I also got a chance to have a lunch with Aoyama-sensei so we brought colored papers and we got each other's signatures, but then... "No, there's a proper meaning to the "Rei" in his name"... That it mean the "Zero" division in the Public Safety Police and things neatly linked together.<br>But he really loved "Mobile Suit Gundam", and seeing how he uses our names as VAs in his work, I feel very thankful to him. I feel very glad, he even added the car plate... (Note 2)
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Q: "Last question. What are the highlights of "Zero The Enforcer"?"<br>A: "In this movie, there's the "way adult men do things" plus "charm" as the themes I acted upon. There are several scenes that make you feel that, so I hope that you will savor them.<br>Anyway, there's "Numbers very dear to me which I must protect even if I bet my life on it" (laughs) so I hope you go to see it several times, and that you fully experience the charm of Amuro Tooru. There's also the lines in the car that Sonoko-san accmails as well and which I want you to focus on. Counting on you guys."
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Caption of pic: "Great driving by Furuya (Rei) that Furuya (Tooru) - san likes. In the "Darkest Nightmare" the car drifts in the beginning by Amuro (Furuya), Akai and Curacao are reality!"
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Note 1: "A Matsuda RX-7 which isn't produced anymore at the present. The serial number of the Gundam, RX-78, comes from here."
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Note 2: "Amuro's car number plate is 73-10, Mr. Furuya's birthday is July 31, and has a 0 to match the "Zero" nickname.
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'''Takayama Minami Interview'''<br>
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Profile:<br>
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Edogawa Conan VA
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Originary from Tokyo Metropolitan Area. Her representative works are "Kiki's Delivery Service" as Kiki / Ursula, "Rantaro" as Inadera Rantarou, "YAIBA" as Kurogane Yaiba, "Ranma 1/2" as Tendo Nabiki, "Moomin" as Moomintroll amongst others.
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Q: "What's your first impression of the 22nd Detective Conan Movie, "Zero The Enforcer"?"<br>A: "Good point. When I firstly read the script, I did think "Ah, maybe this story is a bit too complicated". If you see a lot of police dramas like I do, I think one would understand the existence and roles of the "Public Safety Police" and "Prosecution" but for those who don't see them and for children, I was like "would they understand it?". That was my first impression. <br>But by when we finished the dubbing, the impression changed a bit. If you properly listen to what the characters say during the story, I think you'll be able to understand it."
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Q:"The movie's plot revolves around "Amuro is an enemy?". What did you think about Amuro Tooru or Furuya Rei? What are you impressions of Kazami Yuuya and Kuroda Hyoue?"<br>A: "I did think that I wanted to prove that Amuro-san "isn't the enemy". Kazami-san appeared 2 movies ago, in "The Darkest Nightmare" but in this movie you get to know his relationship in the PSB with Furuya-san. He'll also appeared in the TV series in the future as well, I think.<br>Superintendent Kuroda makes his movie debut in this movie. Whenever he appears in the TV series he's totally suspicious (laughs). He's as suspicious as always, but for some reason he doesn't feel dangerous. He probably is (exposes her deduction) ...or so i think. What I told you is still secret, though (laughs)."
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Q: "How about the dubbing work?"<br>A: "It went very smoothly, and we finished it on that day. We almost took until past the peak (12:00 AM) but human drama was the axis so we focused on each one's lines and the tempo was good."
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Q: "How about your work together with Furuya Tooru-san?"<br>A: "We didn't do much consulting about how we would perform the dubbing so but there was a point that Furuy-san asked "it's **, right?". "Yes, I think this is **.", "Thought so!".  That was the confirmation we took with each other. We also check with each other the points that picked us in our lines.<br>Truth is, when I made my debut, since I was playing a boy, I used Furuya-san's acting as a boy as reference.  Of course, I can't act like he did but I did wonder what a "boy" is like? So I tried to get the gist from his voice acting. So, secretly, inside of my heart, I thought of him as my "teacher" (laughs). In the dubbing, I am always allowed to practice with my "teacher".  He's a big senior with whom I can work very well so it was very fun.
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Q: "What's your impression of the new Director, Director Tachikawa?"<br>A: "We got friendly very soon and I called him "Tacchi" (laughs). After the dubbing, I asked him "What's the genre you're apt at?". And he replied "I am apt at action, but... I guess human drama is it.". That's shown in this movie, indeed! He's a young director, but he gouges out the deep parts of humans.<br>Since it involves deductions, I think that human dramas are very important. The deduction of the culprit, the actions of the cornered party, must be things that "humans do" or the whole thing will fail.<br>The way the action scenes are scattered is good, but, if you don't properly depict "the human part", the story feels dull... There's been a lot of similar human drama in Conan movies insofar but this time around it felt "really hot".  I think this is the director's tastes.<br>I act on it, so you feel that it's a character with "body heat, and feels related to", that's a must have creed. You can hear the heart's sound, they breathe, they're not limited to the 2-d of the screen or the scene, it feels "alive", that's how I like to voice characters. So I like hot dramas like this one."
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Q: "The identity of "That Person" has been made public in the manga already, yet...?"<br>A: "True. Truth is, during the recording of "The Darkest Nightmare", we casting (about 20 of us, was it?) tried to predict "Who's That Person?". When looking at the answer sheet I'd kept sealed since then, it had an accuracy rate of 25%! It'd seem I checked a lot of things during breaks (laughs).<br>I also showed it to Aoyama-sensei, who'd come to see the dubbing. His reply was "What, they all know who it is!" (laughs).  By the way, my answer was wrong.<br>Sensei had let out hints before, and Karasuma Renya's name had considerably popped up but I ended up reading too much into the thing and wrote someone else as my reply to the question."
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Q: "Last question: what are the movie's highlights?"<br>A: "In this 22nd movie, prosecution, police, and PSP... It's a story in which a lot of words you don't normally hear pop up.<br>Also, in the interactions between characters, there are some crucial points as well so pay close attention and enjoy it until the very end without taking your eyes off the screen. It's a very, very exciting human drama.<br>One last thing to finish, "Amuro-san is someone incredible."."
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'''Staff Interview'''<br>
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'''Director Tachikawa'''<br>
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Profile:<br>
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Born in 1981. He revealed the "Death Billiards" which was his original idea, script and direction at the "Anime Mirai" of the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2013. It was made into an anime named "Death Parade". He also directed "Mob Psycho 100".
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Q:"How were you appointed to direct this movie?"<br>A:"In a raising program from the Agency for Cultural Affairs aimed at young animators I directed a serious film named "Death Billiards" and the judge in charge at the time was the "Detective Conan" Producer, Suwa (Michihiko) - san. He bought a lot of the stuff I made. And he asked me to "Direct the 22nd Movie". "
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Q: "What's your impression of "Detective Conan"?"<br>A: "I first came into contact with Conan around Elementary... Or High... Or Middle. I loved to read it as a normal reader but there was 1 time I stopped reading. I came into contact with it again once I became a producer. When I got told to be the director of this movie, I re-read again from the part I'd seen years before."
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Q: "What are the parts you put most detail or attention to as the movie's director?"<br>A: "To not to omit any of the good points that Conan had had insofar. The relations between characters are very interesting. So I took especially care and detail in character depiction. And this movie was more suspense-touch than the usual. The PSB is a main actor and the feeling's more serious. It's made so that if people who like mystery dramas see it then I think they will enjoy it."
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Q:"What's your favorite character?"<br>A: "Haibara Ai, Professor Agasa, Mouri Kogoro, Hattori Heiji and Detective Takagi... I'd say. To avoid coming off as faulty, I also like Conan as well. But I rather like the famed side-characters who support the work. As well as the actual actors. So my preferences aim over there."
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Q: "What's your vision of Amuro Tooru as as director?"<br>A: "I thought that fans would like his mysterious parts so we paid a lot of attention when depicting those. But I also wanted to show Amuro's house as well. I like those parts that reveal one's true nature. I think that it shouldn't be done, but, I also wanted to do a scene of him bathing in the bath."
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Q:"What's your favorite film?"<br>A: "The first films remain in my memory... "The Time-bombed Skyscraper", "Countdown to Heaven", "The Phantom of Baker Street". I was by Producer Ishiyama (Keichi) -san that "it really looks like the balance in Director Kodama Kenji's (see note 1) works". I didn't have it on mind, truth to be told, but I do like the initial Conan so that's why it ended up like that, or so I think.
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Q: "Last question. What are the highlights of the movie?"<br>A: "This movie mainly focuses on Amuro Tooru so there's a lot of cool scenes. Also, his gestures of combing up his hair or after he gets hurt... There's a lot of scenes showing aspects of him one normally doesn't see. So I hope you have a good look at the film while enjoying those day-to-day scenes."
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Note 1: "Director Kodama Kenji directed Conan Movie 1 to 7"
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'''Scriptwriter Sakurai'''<br>
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Profile:<br>
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Born in 1970. Scriptwriter. He also was a movie producer at Toho. While he was in office, he received the 1st Yomiuri TV Scenario Great Award. He then became a freelancer scriptwriter. His representative works are the "Aibou (Pal)" TV series and the "Forensic Researcher Woman" TV series.
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Q:"This is the 4th movie the script of which you write up after the 17th movie "Private Eye in the Distant Seas", the 19th movie "Sunflowers of Inferno" and the 20th movie, "The Darkest Nightmare". How did you begin to get involved with Conan and how did you receive the offer for this project?"<br>A: "At the time of "Private Eye in the Distant Seas", I think it was Producer Suwa (Michihiko) -san who contacted me, and I accepted the offer. It was an anime, so I thought of writing a story that couldn't be done in a normal film. After "The Darkest Nightmare", I was asked "When can you make a new script?" and I replied "I'm free in 1 year's time", that was how the offer came.
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Q: "What are the requests from Aoyama-sensei?"<br>A: "There weren't many. But regarding Amuro's view of love I was told to "please add this line". As well as "Add this scene with Azusa" or "Add this at the end". Not more than that. Most of it I wrote it up myself but I directly asked him if there were parts I didn't understand. How Amuro would interact with Conan, for example. I hadn't gotten a grasp of it yet...
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Amuro doesn't yet know that Conan is Shinichi. But despite that, he supports him a lot and relies on him. I wanted to ask Sensei about what kind of distance feeling I should use."
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Q: "And what were the requests from Director Tachikawa?"<br>A: "It was a harder story at the beginning but he changed it from a hard story to a softer Conan episode. It was a bit more severe and nerve-wrecking world. But that wasn't the first Conan story that the director wanted to do. There were several conflicts with that."
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Q: "What are Amuro's charms, in your opinion?"<br>A: "He has a wide mental capacity. If it's not someone with a lot of room in their heart then it's hard to live in 3 different world-views. You'll get crushed. Even as Furuya, even as Amuro and even as Bourbon, I think that his base is always the same. His feeling of justice as well, he just changes his form of expressing things. I guess that both shooting a gun and brewing coffee stem from the same feeling of justice.
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Also, I personally like Furuya a lot, and being chose to, as a charge commander, write a story about Furuya and the PSB which hasn't appeared in the manga often was very exciting. I think it derives from him, even as Amuro, even as Bourbon and eaven as Furuya."
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Q: "Last question. What are the highlights of the movie?"<br>A:"At first you see through the viewpoint of Conan, the main protagonist, and then you see through Furuya's PoV, and if you see it from a 3rd PoV that'd be the culprit's... And they all look like different stories. And, also, there might be a 4th PoV...
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Also, when you see it the first time, as a hint to guess the culprit, I wish that you pay attention to the "screen within the screen". A TV screen or a PC screen might appear but pay attention to that "screen within the screen" which one normally oversees. We're using a lot of screens this time, so there might be news announced there or investigation materials, there are hints rolling in several "screens"."
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'''Guidebook Explanation of Police Hierarchy'''<br>
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===Interview on News Zero===
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'''Date:''' April 11, 2018<br>
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'''Source:''' https://www.facebook.com/DCTheRedThread/videos/1813261475392464/?v=1813261475392464 <br>
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===Takarakuzu College Interview===
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'''Date:''' April 15, 2018<br>
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'''Held at:''' Takarakuza College
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<spoiler>
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'''Source:''' https://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13477&sid=616cd36dc775283463d2b3ae591ca2a2<br>
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Q1) "Why did you change the manga style to the current one, compared to how it was on the beginnings?"<br>A1) "I wasn't conscious of that (laughs) I drew things like that!?"
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Q2) "What about Ran-chan's head?"<br>A2) "Everyone points that out to me (laughs). It happened to turn into that (laughs). I wanted a symbol-like thing, to be able to tell who it was from the silhouette. Like how I thought that my dad was wearing a hat the whole time (laughs)"
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Q3) "Shinichi and Ran have begun to date, but will there be a boyfriend-girlfriend-like interaction in the future?"<br>A3) "There'll be (laughs) Maybe they'll become a couple by next year's movie? Oh? (laughs)"
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Q4) "How's the chronology between the movies and the manga organized like? Is the "Crimson School Trip" after "The Crimson Love Letter"?"<br>A4) "I was troubled by that, actually. I did consult with the editor if I should depict it as Momiji firstly meeting Sonoko... Well, it came out well enough, no? (laughs) I don't think much about the chronology with the movies"
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Q5) "What's the tone of coloring you use for Amuro-san's and Heiji's skin color?"<br>A5) "The same! Number 51! (laughs) Everyone else uses Number 61, but I use Number 51 because it has a bigger grain! It doesn't get crushed, hence why Number 51 is the best!"
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Q6) "Shinichi said he wanted to become the Heisei (Note 1) Sherlock Holmes, but will Conan end during the Heisei Period?"<br>A6) "No, if the period name changes then I'll nonchalantly change it to the new period's Holmes (laughs) I should also nonchalantly insert a line about that (laughs)"<br>Note 1: Heisei - Period from 1989 to the present, indicating rule of current Emperor, Akihito
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Q7) "Did you intend to make Amuro Tooru appear when you made Akai Shuuichi debut?"<br>A7) "Well, I did have the idea in a corner of my head! I did think of making a rival character or worthy opponent! I actually thought of naming him "Shiroi" (laughs). But I thought it might be a bit odd so I went for Amuro (laughs)"
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Q8) "Amuro-san asked Azusa-san about her plans for [[Christmas]] before the break, though?"<br>A8) "Amuro was saying "Not really", Azusa might've said (laughs) then you could switch work shifts with me? (laughs)"
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Q9) There was a scene featuring them in "Zero the Enforcer," though?"<br>A9) I did draw that scene!
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Q10) "A normal Conan cases is 3 chapters, but do you decide the length beforehand?"<br>A10) "I always have the rough idea that a case will be 3 chapters long. But long cases like the "Crimson School Trip" are 5-6 chapters long... At times like that I go... "Well, this'll be a serial murder, then!" (laughs)
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Q11) "Why is Amuro-san so popular?"<br>A11) "Well... I dunno (laughs). Why, I wonder (laughs). Maybe the fact that he can't beat Akai makes him popular (laughs) That might be it (laughs)."
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Q12) "The last question in "Zero the Enforcer" was a great!"<br>A12) "Glad to know (laughs) I told them to add that one (laughs)!"
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Q13) "What were the good things of becoming a mangaka?"<br>A13) "You earn a lot of money (laughs) You can eat juicy stuff (laughs). But you get less sleeping time... But now I sleep a lot! (laughs)"
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Q14) "If Conan goes back to being Shinichi, how will he relate to those around him?"<br>A14) "I can't tell you that (laughs) I almost made a slip (laughs)"
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Q15) "Are you planning on drawing that?"<br>A15) "Well, let's see... I do (laughs)"
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Q16) "How do you decide the codenames of the BO members?"<br>A16) "Gin was an idea by an assistant, he said he looked Gin... I was like "really?" (laughs). As for Vermouth, I was told to use Vermouth (laughs) I get directed a lot by my assistants, although not that much (laughs)"
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Q17) "Why did you make Hattori Heiji dark-skinned?"<br>A17) "I wanted to make him the complete inverse of Shinichi (laughs)! I thought that'd be a dark-skinned character, then (laughs). But my assistants disliked the idea. They said it was annoying to draw! (laughs)"
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Q18) "I think the best part about your work, Sensei, is that you don't kill the criminals and have them live to atone for their sins but why did you make the culprit of Moonlight Sonata die?"<br>A18) "I thought that an occasional exception would do fine (laughs) It was a necessary victim so that Conan could tell Hattori that he's not perfect and that he actually "killed" someone (laughs)"
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Q19) "All the movies always have some scenes drawn by you, Sensei, but do you decide which ones you want to draw?"<br>A19) "Yes! I put a circle in the storyboard that Director Tachikawa gave me to indicate I'd draw those! (laughs) I generally draw the scenes which have lines that I thought of (laughs)!"
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Q20) "What's the origin of Conan's "there's only one truth" amongst the famous lines of the manga?"<br>A20) "It was actually a coincidence, in the chapter of Heiji's debut Shinichi said "because there's only one truth", and at about the same time the anime came up with "there's always one truth", so it really was a coincidence (laughs)."
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Q21) "What works did you use as reference when making up the character of Amuro Tooru?"<br>A21) "I often say that Akai looks like Char, but Amuro is Amuro (laughs). Amuro's an original character (laughs)"
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Q22) "What are the characters that are easier to draw and harder to draw within your works?"<br>A22) "Kaitou Kid is hard to draw, yes... And Amuro is easy to draw (laughs). Akai is hard, but Amuro has a special feeling to him (laughs)"
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Q23) "What are the origins of Kaitou Kid?"<br>A23) "At first he was unpopular with the chief editor (laughs). Saying he wasn't fashionable at all (laughs).
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There was "Cats Eye" (see note) as high school thiefs at the time. the youngest sister was a high school student. Yet there wasn't a guy thief so I thought I could come up with one of my own (laughs). I was faster so I won (laughs)."<br>Note: "Cat's Eye", manga about a group of 3 sisters who steal works from a fictional European artist.
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Q24) "Why did you think of making the heroine strong instead of weak?"<br>A24) "I guess it's because I wanted to draw karate scenes (laughs). Thought that a strong heroine would be fun (laughs). Conan-kun shrunk so he needed someone strong next to him else he'd be in trouble... Or so I thought (laughs)
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Q25) "What scenes were fun to draw and which were hard to draw?"<br>A25) "A fun one was that final two-page spread of the Kiyomizu Temple (laughs). The background was drawn by a Takarazuka college alumni, and they spent about 1 day to draw it up. (laughs) I only drew Shinichi and Ran (laughs). That scene was fun.
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The Bell Tree Express scenes were hard to draw (laughs)"
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Q26) "Why is it that the characters' clothing is so fashionable?"<br>A26) "I used to buy a lot of clothes at Anan or Non-no or CanCam (laughs). Amuro often appears in the latest cases so they asked me to think up Amuro's clothing (laughs). I have them think of making files about the clothes in every case."
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Q27) "Are there plans for a movie focused on Shinichi and Ran?"<br>A27) "I wonder about that (laughs) I dunno but I can't say too much into this (laughs) oh well, look forward to it (laughs)"
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=== "Truth in Zero" Booklet ===
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'''Date:''' April 24, 2018
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'''Source:''' [https://imgur.com/a/6Nmms9v Raw]
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===Amuro Toru/Bourbon/Furuya Rei Secret Archives PLUS===
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'''Date:''' May 7, 2018
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'''Source:''' [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1m_ZJZPPPiAgmUFdNVSyq0eErBWaXvZRD Raw]  [https://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13485&sid=96a6ac5d2f0559501c0debf19559942f Translation]<br>
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Takayama Minami & Guest VAs [Ueno Aya + Hakata Daikichi]
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Nobuo Tobita (Kazami VA) + Yukimasa Kishino (Kuroda VA)
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Tachikawa Yuzuru (Movie Director)
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Sakurai Takeharu (M22 scriptwriter)
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'''Gosho Aoyama interview'''<br>
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Gosho Aoyama Special Interview
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We interview the creator of "Detective Conan", Aoyama Gousho-sensei. We will ask about secrets of the 22nd movie, about the birth of Amuro Tooru and important details.
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Q: "How was the theme of "Zero the enforcer" decided?" <br>
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A: "Sakurai Takeharu-san, the scriptwriter, made a draft about cyber terrorism.  And we talked about that Amuro from the Public Safety Bureau would get involved if that was the topic. I did think it was fast, since it hasn't been long since "The darkest nightmare". But, oh well, Amuro is popular so... (laughs)"
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Q: "What are the portions in this film that you yourself suggested?"<br>
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A: "There's many. In drawing terms, I asked to change Amuro's glances depending on when he was Bourbon or when he was Furuya. "That question" at the end was added because I asked them to do so. Everyone was wondering about it so I thought of adding it on the movie. Sakurai-san said "eeeehh!?" when I told him, though (laughs). But Amuro talks to Conan and Conan asks him about that... That natural flow of things was made by Sakurai-san. Despite that it was unreasonable request. As expected of him."
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Q: "Looks like there'll be a lot of people who'll be going to theaters to know the answer to "that question"..."<br>
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A: "Ah-hah-hah-hah (laughs) Really? There's also the talk between Amuro and Azusa at the supermarket... I thought of the whole idea myself. They added it word by word. Since their combination is very popular, too!"
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Q: "What scenes did you draw the keyframes of?"<br>
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A: "The scene with the answer to "that question", and I've got to draw the final scene between Amuro and Conan. Since Director Tachikawa Yuzuru said he can't tell what kind of face Conan is making at the end. So I told him that I'd draw it (laughs). Compared to previous films, I haven't drawn that many this year. So that's why I also look forward to its completion."
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Q: "What do you think of the developments leading Conan and Amuro to clash with each other?"<br>
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A: "I didn't make any requests about that. They said that it felt interesting if Amuro acted like a foe. And the balance of his relationship with Conan is good, too. The line of "I... I have two men who are scarier me." was written by Sakurai-san. He means Conan and Akai.  I thought it was well-played (laughed). Ah. But he doesn't dislike Conan, though. What he dislikes is Akai and what he likes is celery (laughs)"
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Q: "What are the scenes you want the public to pay attention to?"<br>
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A: "I guess that'd be the final action scene. And, also... Kuroda (laughs). It's a performance that can only be done in anime, so I want you to focus on Kuroda!"
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Q: "Please tell us about Kazami Yuuya, who's appeared both in the movies and in the manga."<br>
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A: "His initial design was with crumpled hair, but since he was PSB I thought a crew cut and an ill-behaved face would work better, and so I redid his design. Also, I had to write his age when I made him appear in Volume 94 of the manga. I talked about it with Sakurai-san, Amuro would indeed push someone older than him around... That's the kind of conversation we had. So we settled on him being 30 years old. Regarding his position, Kazami works in the MPD's PSB. Amuro is from the NPA so he's in a more privileged position. "
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Q: "Is there something that leaves an impression in any of the episodes in which Amuro appears?"<br>
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A: "In the "Girls Band" (see Note 1) case, when he plays a guitar... I guess. He asks Sonoko to lend it to him and then plays it. Amuro can do anything... If Akai didn't exist then he'd be number one, though (laughs)."
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Q: "So he can't defeat Akai?"<br>
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A: "I think Amuro is better at many things than Akai is. But he can't beat Akai. He might have a chance if it was a cooking contest, though... But if he has to match Akai, he might get nervous and fail."
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Q: "Amuro, Bourbon and Furuya. Which of the triple faces do you like the most?"<br>
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A: "Hmmm... All of them... I guess? Readers ask me to "make Shinichi-kun appear more often!" but I think that he's always appearing, though. Because Conan-kun is Shinichi. Same as that. Amuro is Amuro, regardless of his "face". Ah. The way I draw his eyes when he's Bourbon is a bit different, though. But despite that Amuro is easy to draw. I just need to make the eyes into drooping eyes and he already looks like Amuro. Special drooping eyes and hair... I guess? Hmmm... That's easy (laughs)"
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Q: "Please tell us about Amuro's debut."<br>
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A: "Truth to be told, Amuro wasn't from the Public Safety (PS) when he made his debut. He was actually a very bad guy. But when I was drawing the conclusion part of his debut episode (see Note 2) I thought that he was a cool guy, that I wanted him to be one of the good guys. So I suddenly changed that mid-way and turned him a PS guy. Since I was thinking of making a PS character appear. I wanted to make the case be something Amuro had set up to lure Kogorou out into the open but I gave up on that, too. "
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Q: "If you hadn't changed his background then maybe this year's movie wouldn't have come to happen?"<br>
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A: "Good point. When I talked with Ikeda (Shuuichi) - san, I told him a character named Amuro would appear. And he answered "So you must've decided his voice by now...". Ah. It's obvious, then (laughs). So when I drew him having Furuya (Tooru) - san's voice in mind I thought that he was cool and ended up being PS. Glad that I did so.  His enmity with Akai was planned from the start. There was a lot of phases, like when I thought of naming him "Shiroi" (laughs)"
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Q: "If you'd kept the initial background then we wouldn't have his real name of "Furuya Rei", then?"<br>
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A: "Maybe... When you say "Amuro", then "Ray (Rei)" comes to mind. Added the "Zero" from the PS and I thought "this is it!". Actually, that name is a bit old and the PS isn't named "Zero" nowadays. There's another, different name that we don't know. But that fanning of "a non-existent organization" is cool, and using Zero and Rei was good enough in my opinion hence why I used them."
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Q: "I'd like of you to give a message to the fans who expect Amuro to have a lot of activity in the manga"<br>
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A: "The manga will resume with Amuro and Akai so look forward to it (see Note 3). Kid Amuro will appear, and you'll know more about Elena-san. Coming soon! (laughs)"
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Note 1: Volume 88 & Anime Episode 836 "The Unfriendly Girls Band (Part 1)"<br>
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Note 2: Volume 75 & Anime Episodes 667-668 "Weeding Eve"<br>
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Note 3: File 1009 of the manga, to be published in Issue #20, 2018 of Shonen Sunday
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Caution: "SPOILERS"<br>
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We were show the draft of the first page of the new manga chapter to published with the resuming of the manga in 2018! Amuro and Akai facing each other with guns and their faces exposed... What happened here!?
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'''Furuya Tooru Interview'''<br>
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Furuya Tooru-san acts the role of a triple-faced man. He told us a lot of about the greatest parts of "Zero the enforcer" and the charms of each face!
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Q: "When you knew that Amuro Tooru would be the main character of "Zero the enforcer", how did you feel like?"<br>
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A: "I was surprised that Amuro would get a big role in a movie again. I was happy about it, of course, but I thought it was fast. This time it's not a story with Akai so that's great! (laughs). When I said the word "Zero" in the teaser at the end of the "Crimson love letter", I did think that the face of Furuya Rei, from the PS would be the main protagonist. I like police stories, novels and series so I read "Metropolitan Police Department Public Safety J" novel by Suzumine Kouya-san. And I built up the mood as I waited for the script to be done.
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Q: "What was your impression from reading the script?"<br>
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A: "The plot of this movie feels like a live-action series. It shows a lot of details about Japanese police and prosecution, so it was very interesting. And when the climax comes, it turns into an unprecedented calamity which Conan and Amuro solve together... I thought that very typical of "Detective Conan". And it was also to be expected that they'd involve a modern item similar to IoT (Internet of Things) appliances... It was a very timely and interesting story.  And he doesn't care what he has to do to protect the peace in Japan... The attitude of Furuya Rei, Public Safety Officer, makes you feel excited."
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Q: "This movie's structure was about Amuro and Conan confronting each other, yet..."<br>
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A: "I got to work together with Conan-kun in "The darkest nightmare" so I was open to do so. But in the trailers and teasers it has an atmosphere of a confrontation with Conan-kun... Thought this might be a bit troublesome (laughs). To begin with, having Mouri-sensei arrested, Amuro, his best disciple, should work to clear out the suspicions on him. Now's not the time to be cleansing the Poirot café (laughs). Conan-kun immediately sees through Amuro's backstage actions. It's pointed out in the cleansing scene towards the beginning of the movie. He really thinks that he's a incredible kid. Of course, Amuro forsakes Conan-kun without answering his questions. Afterwards, he monitors Conan's actions but at some point Kazami ends up being stalked by Conan... That flow of events is also very interesting, too."
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Q: "Both of them have the same level of strength hence why the story moves into that direction."<br>
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A: "Amuro recognizes Conan-kun's potential, and has total confidence on him. He feels that Conan is not a normal kid, but I guess he's closing into his true identity. Maybe he's realized 80% of the full picture..."
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Q: "Please tell us about the answer to "that question" towards the end of the film."<br>
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A: "When I read the script, I did realize that this would be the part that would make the fans excited. But I had doubts about how I should deliver that line. I did dig down the script while looking at the placeholder footage but I hesitated again. At first I thought of a softer and sweeter feeling... And in the rehearsals on the dubbing day I spoke with a different tone of strength, different to what I had in mind. It had a serious atmosphere to it and a feeling of newfound strength, "now I'm going to go for it"...  Shifting the gear while gripping the handle and make the engine roar... It was acting that emerged from within that flow of events."
  
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A: "Yes. I did think it was a bit too powerful, but Matsui Naoko-san, Sonoko's VA, sitting next to me, told me "You pierced through my heart!". She was looking at me with a glance typical of Sonoko (laughs). I thought "Ah. This is how I should do it" and acted on the real dubbing with that feeling. "
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A: "The climax, but of course. It's a scale that can't happen in reality, and it has incredible force to it. Speaking of which, the RX-7 might break again... Everyone said it was such a waste of tax money (laughs). The RX-7 is a very stylish and cool car, and I'm glad that the plate number is my birthday, yet... Thinking in real terms, I guess that not being obsessed with the RX-7 would make Amuro better (laughs)"
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Q: "What left you an impression during the dubbing?"<br>
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A: "The acting in the car action scenes was hard. You must feel a very strong shock on your body so there was a lot of ad-lib. But despite that we had no meeting previous to the rehearsals, (Takayama) Minami-san and I added our ad-lib with perfect timing. I was surprised. It was so perfect, to the point I thought "I want this one to be used"! I thought that I and Minami-san had the same sensibility so I was glad. Also, Amuro had faces I'd never seen on him during the car chases. Nevertheless, Matsui-san told me "No, this is good enough!"... So I thought "is that so?" (laughs). I tried to add a bit of an aberrant ad-lib matching the scene but it didn't seem necessary so I didn't do so when the actual dubbing."
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Q: "Are there some points in the acting which you were particular about?<br>
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A: "The "Bourbon" facet of Amuro doesn't appear on this film, but there are 2 acting patterns for Amuro and Furuya so I wrote some big marks on the script's lines. For example, the supermarket scene... When he's talking with Azusa-san he's Amuro so I wrote the katakana "A"... When he begins to talk to Kazami he turns into Furuya so I wrote the "kou (public)" from "kouan (public safety)"... Almost all scenes had such marks on them, I thought I had to change my tone depending on the position and who he's talking to. I didn't use "an (safety)" from "kouan" for Amuro because that'd make it very confusing."
  
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'''Gosho Aoyama interview'''<br>
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Caption: "Amuro's face during the car action which surprised Furuya-san. There were descriptions in the script. "Has a drive technique like that of a demon". "Drive technique that's like aided by the divine."
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We interview the creator of "Detective Conan", Aoyama Gousho-sensei. We will ask about secrets of the 22nd movie, about the birth of Amuro Tooru and important details.
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Q: "Please tell us about Amuro's right-hand man, Kazami Yuuya."<br>
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A: "In "The darkest nightmare" I thought of Kazami as someone with whom he always shared information. But it'd seem that's not the case. Furuya works in the NPA, Kazami in the MPD. Their ranks are different. I also had in mind the distance during acting. And to begin with, the "Zero" organization is shrouded in mysteries. I'd like of them to make a film that goes into more detail into that (laughs). I guess that holding strength is a new charm of Amuro. Kazami understands the power the PS has and thinks that all means must be used to solve cases. On the other hand, Amuro doesn't use it and readies other means. Amuro has a strong belief that that's how the PS should be like. There might be scenes with him telling that to Kazami. Kazami often refers to him as "Furuya-san"... It feels exciting whenever he does so (laughs). I'm used to being called "Amuro" but I've still not got used to being called "Furuya"... "
  
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Q: "How was the theme of "Zero the enforcer" decided?" <br>
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Caption: "Scotch's death, which was the start of his feud with Akai. Amuro thinks that Akai gave Scotch a gun and drove him to suicide, but the truth is... (Episode 867)
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A: "Sakurai Takeharu-san, the scriptwriter, made a draft about cyber terrorism. And we talked about that Amuro from the Public Safety Bureau would get involved if that was the topic. I did think it was fast, since it hasn't been long since "The darkest nightmare". But, oh well, Amuro is popular so... (laughs)"
 
  
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Q: "What are the portions in this film that you yourself suggested?"<br>
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Q: "Please tell us about recent dubbing for the TV anime episodes."<br>
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A: "There's many. In drawing terms, I asked to change Amuro's glances depending on when he was Bourbon or when he was Furuya. "That question" at the end was added because I asked them to do so. Everyone was wondering about it so I thought of adding it on the movie. Sakurai-san said "eeeehh!?" when I told him, though (laughs). But Amuro talks to Conan and Conan asks him about that... That natural flow of things was made by Sakurai-san. Despite that it was unreasonable request. As expected of him."
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A: "What I most clearly remember was a meeting after the dubbing. Ikeda (Shuuichi)-san, Koyama (Momi)-san. I had drinks with them, it was fun (laughs). I thought it was something typical of "Conan". I put care in the acting in the flashback scenes of the 866-867 episodes "The stage of betrayal". The enmity with Akai steams from that point. He's caught in the idea of "A man of Akai's level should've been able to help Scotch flee without having him suicide"... But he himself was actually to blame. Maybe he'll realize that truth one day? How will I act his mental state when that happens...? I actually think it's a bit scary. Building my own feelings while acting is the hardest part. The role of Amuro must be worked out while hesitating. There's a worth in doing it."  
  
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Q: "Looks like there'll be a lot of people who'll be going to theaters to know the answer to "that question"..."<br>
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Q: "Which of Amuro's triple faces do you specially like?"<br>
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A: "Ah-hah-hah-hah (laughs) Really? There's also the talk between Amuro and Azusa at the supermarket... I thought of the whole idea myself. They added it word by word. Since their combination is very popular, too!"
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A: "My favorite one is that one which bets his life in protecting the nation of Japan, the face of Furuya Rei. He's a hero of justice. He has a lot of actions to show his skills, and he's got a lot of cool lines. I've been working as an anime voice actor because I wanted to become a hero. With Furuya's role, I can fully enjoy that. But when he has to deal with Akai, he suddenly turns child-like. There's also what happened with Scotch, and his emotions jump forward. That also can be called a charm of him, but..."
  
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Q: "What scenes did you draw the keyframes of?"<br>
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Q:"What about his face as Bourbon?"<br>
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A: "The scene with the answer to "that question", and I've got to draw the final scene between Amuro and Conan. Since Director Tachikawa Yuzuru said he can't tell what kind of face Conan is making at the end. So I told him that I'd draw it (laughs). Compared to previous films, I haven't drawn that many this year. So that's why I also look forward to its completion."
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A: "Bourbon has a hold of Vermouth's secret so these two have an interesting relationship. I've known Koyama-san for a long time, and we both admit our job as actors, so it's a very easy thing to do and very fun as well."
  
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Q: "What do you think of the developments leading Conan and Amuro to clash with each other?"<br>
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Q: "What about his face as Amuro Tooru?"<br>
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A: "I didn't make any requests about that. They said that it felt interesting if Amuro acted like a foe. And the balance of his relationship with Conan is good, too. The line of "I... I have two men who are scarier me." was written by Sakurai-san. He means Conan and Akai. I thought it was well-played (laughed). Ah. But he doesn't dislike Conan, though. What he dislikes is Akai and what he likes is celery (laughs)"
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A: "He's strong at boxing, he's good at the guitar, he can cook... It's very fun to become a character who has many parts that you yourself don't have. Amuro is very popular among the girls, isn't he? I was told during this work "He's popular among the JK (high school girls)" which made me very happy. I feel like I've gone back to my young days (laughs). Amuro has 3 faces to him, so he alone can have 3 different experiences. He's a very charming character."
  
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Q: "What are the scenes you want the public to pay attention to?"<br>
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Q: "What kind of activity can we expect from Amuro in the future stories?"<br>
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A: "I guess that'd be the final action scene. And, also... Kuroda (laughs). It's a performance that can only be done in anime, so I want you to focus on Kuroda!"
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A: "He solves cases using his erudition and deductive abilities, but I'd also wish of him to use his physical abilities to shine as well. Because, you know, heroes are made through battling. I'd also like of him to close into the core of the organization's mysteries. I'd like of his child look to appear, too, but I don't wish to do his voice acting again (laughs). "
  
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Q: "Please tell us about Kazami Yuuya, who's appeared both in the movies and in the manga."<br>
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Q: "Please give a message to the fans!"<br>
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A: "His initial design was with crumpled hair, but since he was PSB I thought a crew cut and an ill-behaved face would work better, and so I redid his design. Also, I had to write his age when I made him appear in Volume 94 of the manga. I talked about it with Sakurai-san, Amuro would indeed push someone older than him around... That's the kind of conversation we had. So we settled on him being 30 years old. Regarding his position, Kazami works in the MPD's PSB. Amuro is from the NPA so he's in a more privileged position. "
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A: "In "Zero the enforcer" I acted with Amuro, the though and adult man, as the theme. I'd like of you to come to the theaters. And to savor his charm many, many times in the big screen. There are some "numbers" I must protect even if I stake my life on it (laughs). So I'm counting on you all!"
  
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Q: "Is there something that leaves an impression in any of the episodes in which Amuro appears?"<br>
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A: "In the "Girls Band" (see Note 1) case, when he plays a guitar... I guess. He asks Sonoko to lend it to him and then plays it. Amuro can do anything... If Akai didn't exist then he'd be number one, though (laughs)."
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Born July 31. From Kanazawa Prefecture. Affiliated to Aoni Productions. Representative titles are "Star of the Giants" as Hoshi Hyuuma. "Mobile Suit Gundam" as Amuro Ray. "Saint Seiya" as Pegasus Seiya. "ONE PIECE" as Sabo. Among others. In "Detective Conan" he acted in various roles such as in "The Private Eyes' Requiem" before becoming Amuro Tooru.
  
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Q: "So he can't defeat Akai?"<br>
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A: "I think Amuro is better at many things than Akai is. But he can't beat Akai. He might have a chance if it was a cooking contest, though... But if he has to match Akai, he might get nervous and fail."
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Q: "Amuro, Bourbon and Furuya. Which of the triple faces do you like the most?"<br>
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A: "Hmmm... All of them... I guess? Readers ask me to "make Shinichi-kun appear more often!" but I think that he's always appearing, though. Because Conan-kun is Shinichi. Same as that. Amuro is Amuro, regardless of his "face". Ah. The way I draw his eyes when he's Bourbon is a bit different, though. But despite that Amuro is easy to draw. I just need to make the eyes into drooping eyes and he already looks like Amuro. Special drooping eyes and hair... I guess? Hmmm... That's easy (laughs)"
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Born May 5th. From Tokyo Prefecture. Representative titles are "Kiki's Delivery Service" as Kiki. "Rantaro" as Inatera Rantaro. "YAIBA" as Kurogane Yaiba. And others. Narrator, western movies dubbing. She continues to work in recitations.
  
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Q: "Please tell us about Amuro's debut."<br>
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Q: "What was your impression when you read the script of "Zero the enforcer"?"<br>
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A: "Truth to be told, Amuro wasn't from the Public Safety (PS) when he made his debut. He was actually a very bad guy. But when I was drawing the conclusion part of his debut episode (see Note 2) I thought that he was a cool guy, that I wanted him to be one of the good guys. So I suddenly changed that mid-way and turned him a PS guy. Since I was thinking of making a PS character appear. I wanted to make the case be something Amuro had set up to lure Kogorou out into the open but I gave up on that, too. "
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A: "I felt like it was a human drama TV series. Truth and justice, and the exciting clash between humans. That was my impression. Regardless of the main axis being Amuro VS Conan. I felt excitement in many parts. Director Tachikawa hadn't been involved in "Detective Conan" before but the displays of natural phenomena and emotions were splendid. A new door was opened."
  
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Q: "If you hadn't changed his background then maybe this year's movie wouldn't have come to happen?"<br>
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Q: "Please tell us the best spots of the film."<br>
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A: "Good point. When I talked with Ikeda (Shuuichi) - san, I told him a character named Amuro would appear. And he answered "So you must've decided his voice by now...". Ah. It's obvious, then (laughs). So when I drew him having Furuya (Tooru) - san's voice in mind I thought that he was cool and ended up being PS. Glad that I did so.  His enmity with Akai was planned from the start. There was a lot of phases, like when I thought of naming him "Shiroi" (laughs)"
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A: "The interactions between persons are full of good spots. When the climax grows close, listening to them feels better. And, of course, Amuro-san's charm. I think you'll get to know a lot more about him in this film. The interactions, which feel like a speech play, are very exciting. What part of it it's lies, what part of it it's true... "Amuro-san might be the enemy this time around". But one wants to figure out if he really is the enemy. To prove that he's not a bad person. You suspect him to believe him, and while earning evidence and confidence one by one, you go on crushing your doubts about him.
  
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Q: "If you'd kept the initial background then we wouldn't have his real name of "Furuya Rei", then?"<br>
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That's how I felt once we finished the dubbing, and I got the impression that he was an innocent person. A very pure, innocent, and pure white person. That was my impression of him. Of course, he has many faces to him but there's a very strong belief to the point all of those get removed. A strong feeling, that past "truth" and "justice" there's the feeling of "protecting". You seek the truth to protect, and you seek the justice because you want to protect. Both fight to protect what's dear to each one of them. The biggest theme in this film is "protecting", or so I thought. All of the characters have that feeling on them.  
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A: "Maybe... When you say "Amuro", then "Ray (Rei)" comes to mind. Added the "Zero" from the PS and I thought "this is it!". Actually, that name is a bit old and the PS isn't named "Zero" nowadays. There's another, different name that we don't know. But that fanning of "a non-existent organization" is cool, and using Zero and Rei was good enough in my opinion hence why I used them."
 
  
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Q: "I'd like of you to give a message to the fans who expect Amuro to have a lot of activity in the manga"<br>
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I think that Fukuyama Masuharu-san's main vocal song was made in order to make you feel that. So I'm very thankful to him for that."
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A: "The manga will resume with Amuro and Akai so look forward to it (see Note 3). Kid Amuro will appear, and you'll know more about Elena-san. Coming soon! (laughs)"
 
  
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Note 1: Volume 88 & Anime Episode 836 "The Unfriendly Girls Band (Part 1)"<br>
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Q: "Did it feel good to act as Conan, the one who confronts Amuro?"<br>
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Note 2: Volume 75 & Anime Episodes 667-668 "Weeding Eve"<br>
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A: "Uncle Kogorou is suddenly arrested, and behind that incident, Amuro, whom he fought together with in "The darkest nightmare", is involved. So he can't be as cool and rational as he always is. So he's unable to properly control his emotions, and he might speak louder than he usually does... There was a part in the dubbing in which he reflects upon that muttering "Crap. I gotta chill it..."."
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Note 3: File 1009 of the manga, to be published in Issue #20, 2018 of Shonen Sunday
 
  
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Caution: "SPOILERS"<br>
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Q: "Kuroda Hyoue, one of the RUM candidates, has also appeared on this film, yet..."<br>
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We were show the draft of the first page of the new manga chapter to published with the resuming of the manga in 2018! Amuro and Akai facing each other with guns and their faces exposed... What happened here!?
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A: "I was surprised when I first saw the poster at how Superintendent Kuroda was drawn in such a big size. But I actually don't think he's a bad person. I was excited during the film, but he's probably..."
  
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'''Furuya Tooru Interview'''<br>
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Q: "Please give us a message to the readers to wrap up."<br>
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Furuya Tooru-san acts the role of a triple-faced man. He told us a lot of about the greatest parts of "Zero the enforcer" and the charms of each face!
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A: "Please watch the film while paying attention to all that's said. Police, prosecution, Public Safety... Even if hard to understand words appear, I think you'll eventually understand them as you go on watching the film. For the difficult parts, research on them and go see the film again. I think that that'll make you enjoy it way further. Including the guests (characters), all characters' breathing and pulsations can be felt. It's a very exciting film! Please enjoy it!"
  
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Q: "When you knew that Amuro Tooru would be the main character of "Zero the enforcer", how did you feel like?"<br>
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'''Ueto Aya Comments'''<br>
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A: "I was surprised that Amuro would get a big role in a movie again. I was happy about it, of course, but I thought it was fast. This time it's not a story with Akai so that's great! (laughs). When I said the word "Zero" in the teaser at the end of the "Crimson love letter", I did think that the face of Furuya Rei, from the PS would be the main protagonist. I like police stories, novels and series so I read "Metropolitan Police Department Public Safety J" novel by Suzumine Kouya-san. And I built up the mood as I waited for the script to be done.
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Tachibana Kyouko Role
  
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Q: "What was your impression from reading the script?"<br>
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A: "The plot of this movie feels like a live-action series. It shows a lot of details about Japanese police and prosecution, so it was very interesting. And when the climax comes, it turns into an unprecedented calamity which Conan and Amuro solve together... I thought that very typical of "Detective Conan". And it was also to be expected that they'd involve a modern item similar to IoT (Internet of Things) appliances... It was a very timely and interesting story.  And he doesn't care what he has to do to protect the peace in Japan... The attitude of Furuya Rei, Public Safety Officer, makes you feel excited."
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Born September 14th. From Tokyo Prefecture. TV series, movies, western movie dubbing, CMs. Works in many genres. It's been 12 years since her previous role in "Detective Conan".
  
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Q: "This movie's structure was about Amuro and Conan confronting each other, yet..."<br>
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"Kyouko is a role with breadth, so at first I acted naturally without creating too much of a character. Towards the end, I made voices that even I was surprised at. I like the relationship between Conan-kun and Ran-chan in "Detective Conan" since a long time ago. It's lonely to be unable to meet them, but having the one you like be there next to you to protect you is very beautiful, or so I think."
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A: "I got to work together with Conan-kun in "The darkest nightmare" so I was open to do so. But in the trailers and teasers it has an atmosphere of a confrontation with Conan-kun... Thought this might be a bit troublesome (laughs). To begin with, having Mouri-sensei arrested, Amuro, his best disciple, should work to clear out the suspicions on him. Now's not the time to be cleansing the Poirot café (laughs). Conan-kun immediately sees through Amuro's backstage actions. It's pointed out in the cleansing scene towards the beginning of the movie. He really thinks that he's a incredible kid. Of course, Amuro forsakes Conan-kun without answering his questions. Afterwards, he monitors Conan's actions but at some point Kazami ends up being stalked by Conan... That flow of events is also very interesting, too."
 
  
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Q: "Both of them have the same level of strength hence why the story moves into that direction."<br>
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A: "Amuro recognizes Conan-kun's potential, and has total confidence on him. He feels that Conan is not a normal kid, but I guess he's closing into his true identity. Maybe he's realized 80% of the full picture..."
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Haba Fumikazu role
  
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Q: "Please tell us about the answer to "that question" towards the end of the film."<br>
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A: "When I read the script, I did realize that this would be the part that would make the fans excited. But I had doubts about how I should deliver that line. I did dig down the script while looking at the placeholder footage but I hesitated again. At first I thought of a softer and sweeter feeling... And in the rehearsals on the dubbing day I spoke with a different tone of strength, different to what I had in mind. It had a serious atmosphere to it and a feeling of newfound strength, "now I'm going to go for it"...  Shifting the gear while gripping the handle and make the engine roar... It was acting that emerged from within that flow of events."
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Born October 3rd. From Fukuoka Prefecture. He's appeared in many variety shows as a comedian, is a regular participant in info programs.
  
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Q: "It became a powerful acting indeed."<br>
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"I thought that Haba was the stubborn type so I prepared thoroughly for the role. I'd like of you to see him without having "Daikichi!" on mind (laughs). I think it's amazing that "Detective Conan" has gone through with the same style for over 20 years' time. The movie "Magician of the Silver Sky" where they make a plane land dumbfounded me indeed!"
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A: "Yes. I did think it was a bit too powerful, but Matsui Naoko-san, Sonoko's VA, sitting next to me, told me "You pierced through my heart!". She was looking at me with a glance typical of Sonoko (laughs). I thought "Ah. This is how I should do it" and acted on the real dubbing with that feeling. "
 
  
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Q: "What scenes would you like the audience to specially focus on?"<br>
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'''Tobita Nobuo Interview'''<br>
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A: "The climax, but of course. It's a scale that can't happen in reality, and it has incredible force to it. Speaking of which, the RX-7 might break again... Everyone said it was such a waste of tax money (laughs). The RX-7 is a very stylish and cool car, and I'm glad that the plate number is my birthday, yet... Thinking in real terms, I guess that not being obsessed with the RX-7 would make Amuro better (laughs)"
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Kazami Yuuya Role
  
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Caption: "Towards the end. Amuro answers "that question" from Conan while gazing to the front. An acting in which Furuya-san devoted his whole body to. Check it out in the theaters!
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Born November 6th. From Ibaraki Prefecture. Representative titles: "Mobile Suit Gundam Z" as Camille Bidan. "Chibi Maruko-chan" as Maruo-kun. Mr. Osamatsu as Dayon. Others. Has also done dubbing of several western movies.
  
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Q: "Please tell us about how you acted the role of Kazami in "The darkest nightmare"."<br>
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A: "The acting in the car action scenes was hard. You must feel a very strong shock on your body so there was a lot of ad-lib. But despite that we had no meeting previous to the rehearsals, (Takayama) Minami-san and I added our ad-lib with perfect timing. I was surprised. It was so perfect, to the point I thought "I want this one to be used"! I thought that I and Minami-san had the same sensibility so I was glad. Also, Amuro had faces I'd never seen on him during the car chases. Nevertheless, Matsui-san told me "No, this is good enough!"... So I thought "is that so?" (laughs). I tried to add a bit of an aberrant ad-lib matching the scene but it didn't seem necessary so I didn't do so when the actual dubbing."
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A: "It was the first time I took part in an [animated] film. The role's name was Kazami Yuuya so I made the connection at once (laughs). It was a position similar to an subordinate to Amuro-san, so it had a feeling that your body tightened. My biggest impression was when he did a handshake with Inspector Megure at the end of the movie. He's an elite, but a good person who has normal feelings."
  
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Q: "Are there some points in the acting which you were particular about?<br>
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Q: "And Kazami appears again in this new movie, "Zero the enforcer"."<br>
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A: "The "Bourbon" facet of Amuro doesn't appear on this film, but there are 2 acting patterns for Amuro and Furuya so I wrote some big marks on the script's lines. For example, the supermarket scene... When he's talking with Azusa-san he's Amuro so I wrote the katakana "A"... When he begins to talk to Kazami he turns into Furuya so I wrote the "kou (public)" from "kouan (public safety)"... Almost all scenes had such marks on them, I thought I had to change my tone depending on the position and who he's talking to. I didn't use "an (safety)" from "kouan" for Amuro because that'd make it very confusing."  
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A: "What I had on mind was his relation with Amuro-san. How much feeling of a distance there is. It was certain that he had respect for Amuro, but there was hesitation too. As if I was but one of many men in reserve (laughs). Furuya-san, who voices Amuro, is my senpai (senior) as well so I acted the role as if my actual relationship was being projected in the film."
  
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Caption: "Amuro's face during the car action which surprised Furuya-san. There were descriptions in the script. "Has a drive technique like that of a demon". "Drive technique that's like aided by the divine."
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A: "His boldness and his high abilities... And the mysterious air he has. He feels like a gentle man but is very deep in character, you might think he's hard but that's not the case. He seems to be talkative but it'd seem he doesn't show his true portions at all."
  
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A: "In "The darkest nightmare" I thought of Kazami as someone with whom he always shared information. But it'd seem that's not the case. Furuya works in the NPA, Kazami in the MPD. Their ranks are different. I also had in mind the distance during acting. And to begin with, the "Zero" organization is shrouded in mysteries. I'd like of them to make a film that goes into more detail into that (laughs). I guess that holding strength is a new charm of Amuro. Kazami understands the power the PS has and thinks that all means must be used to solve cases. On the other hand, Amuro doesn't use it and readies other means. Amuro has a strong belief that that's how the PS should be like. There might be scenes with him telling that to Kazami. Kazami often refers to him as "Furuya-san"... It feels exciting whenever he does so (laughs). I'm used to being called "Amuro" but I've still not got used to being called "Furuya"... "
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A: "From his looks, he brings on the mood of someone capable (laughs). Looks like he could do fighting sports. He still doesn't show a smile from his heart and he's not frank but hints of that are depicted in the movie, and I think he gives out a realistic feeling of existence."
  
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Caption: "Scotch's death, which was the start of his feud with Akai. Amuro thinks that Akai gave Scotch a gun and drove him to suicide, but the truth is... (Episode 867)
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Q: "Please give a message to the readers to wrap up."<br>
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A: "I think it's a movie that you want to see again with someone else after you see it. It's a must-see for Conan fans, and people new to the series will like it too!"[/spoiler]
  
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Q: "Please tell us about recent dubbing for the TV anime episodes."<br>
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'''Kishino Yukimasa Interview'''<br>
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A: "What I most clearly remember was a meeting after the dubbing. Ikeda (Shuuichi)-san, Koyama (Momi)-san. I had drinks with them, it was fun (laughs). I thought it was something typical of "Conan". I put care in the acting in the flashback scenes of the 866-867 episodes "The stage of betrayal".  The enmity with Akai steams from that point. He's caught in the idea of "A man of Akai's level should've been able to help Scotch flee without having him suicide"... But he himself was actually to blame. Maybe he'll realize that truth one day? How will I act his mental state when that happens...? I actually think it's a bit scary. Building my own feelings while acting is the hardest part. The role of Amuro must be worked out while hesitating. There's a worth in doing it."
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Kuroda Hyoue Role
  
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Q: "Which of Amuro's triple faces do you specially like?"<br>
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A: "My favorite one is that one which bets his life in protecting the nation of Japan, the face of Furuya Rei. He's a hero of justice. He has a lot of actions to show his skills, and he's got a lot of cool lines. I've been working as an anime voice actor because I wanted to become a hero. With Furuya's role, I can fully enjoy that. But when he has to deal with Akai, he suddenly turns child-like. There's also what happened with Scotch, and his emotions jump forward. That also can be called a charm of him, but..."
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Born October 21st. From Tokyo Prefecture. Representatives works. "ONE PIECE" as Higuma. "Dragon Ball Z" as Burter. "SLAM DUNK" as Uozomi Jun. Others. Dubbing of western movies, narration roles, plays.
  
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Q:"What about his face as Bourbon?"<br>
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Q: "Please tell us about when you were chosen to voice Kuroda Hyoue."<br>
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A: "Bourbon has a hold of Vermouth's secret so these two have an interesting relationship. I've known Koyama-san for a long time, and we both admit our job as actors, so it's a very easy thing to do and very fun as well."
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A: "Kuroda firstly appeared in Episode 810 of the anime "The darkness of the prefecture police (part 1)". The case involving the woodpeckers. When I read the script, I did think he was scary and hesitated if I could do it (laughs). He's a cop but has many mysteries to him, you can't tell if he's a good a guy or a bad guy... I did fumble a bit with my acting.
  
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Q: "What about his face as Amuro Tooru?"<br>
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Q: "How did you feel when you knew that he would be featured in a movie?"<br>
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A: "He's strong at boxing, he's good at the guitar, he can cook... It's very fun to become a character who has many parts that you yourself don't have. Amuro is very popular among the girls, isn't he? I was told during this work "He's popular among the JK (high school girls)" which made me very happy. I feel like I've gone back to my young days (laughs). Amuro has 3 faces to him, so he alone can have 3 different experiences. He's a very charming character."
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A: "I was surprised when seeing the poster. Seeing how big he was in there, I wondered what he'd do in the movie (laughs)"
  
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Q: "What kind of activity can we expect from Amuro in the future stories?"<br>
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Q: "What's the scene in this movie that left a biggest impression on you?"<br>
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A: "He solves cases using his erudition and deductive abilities, but I'd also wish of him to use his physical abilities to shine as well. Because, you know, heroes are made through battling. I'd also like of him to close into the core of the organization's mysteries. I'd like of his child look to appear, too, but I don't wish to do his voice acting again (laughs). "
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A: "That word he uttered (laughs). I can't give out details, but it's a scene which I'd like of you to see many times and check out. It's a scene that will link to future [happenings] in "Detective Conan". Aoyama-sensei sure thinks up of interesting things."
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Q: "What are the charm of points of Amuro, who'll be very active?"<br>
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A: "It's interesting to see how he has 3 faces to him. Not only as an actor. I also want to follow his activities as a reader."
  
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Q: "Please give a message to the fans!"<br>
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Q: "How about Kuroda, whom you voice?"<br>
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A: "In "Zero the enforcer" I acted with Amuro, the though and adult man, as the theme. I'd like of you to come to the theaters. And to savor his charm many, many times in the big screen. There are some "numbers" I must protect even if I stake my life on it (laughs). So I'm counting on you all!"
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A: "I think that the best about him is that he's shrouded in mysteries. I'd like to do a gag-like scene with Kuroda, but... I guess they won't allow me to do so (laughs). I'd like to voice him as a fun old guy someday."
  
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Q: "Please give a message to the readers to wrap up."<br>
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Born July 31. From Kanazawa Prefecture. Affiliated to Aoni Productions. Representative titles are "Star of the Giants" as Hoshi Hyuuma. "Mobile Suit Gundam" as Amuro Ray. "Saint Seiya" as Pegasus Seiya. "ONE PIECE" as Sabo. Among others. In "Detective Conan" he acted in various roles such as in "The Private Eyes' Requiem" before becoming Amuro Tooru.
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A: "I'm really looking forward to future developments. Please, make sure to come see the movie!"
  
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'''Takaya Minami Interview'''<br>
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'''Tachikawa Yuzuru Interview'''<br>
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Edogawa Conan Role
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Movie "Zero the enforcer" Director
  
 
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Born May 5th. From Tokyo Prefecture. Representative titles are "Kiki's Delivery Service" as Kiki. "Rantaro" as Inatera Rantaro. "YAIBA" as Kurogane Yaiba. And others. Narrator, western movies dubbing. She continues to work in recitations.
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Animation director, theatre director, "Death Billiard" movie on 2013 (original idea, script, direction), worked on TV series based on it on 2015 (original idea, direction, series structuring). Representative works: "Terror in Resonance" (Assitant Director), "Mob Psycho" (Director), and others.
  
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Q: "What was your impression when you read the script of "Zero the enforcer"?"<br>
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Q: "Please tell us how you were appointed director of this move."<br>
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A: "I felt like it was a human drama TV series. Truth and justice, and the exciting clash between humans. That was my impression. Regardless of the main axis being Amuro VS Conan. I felt excitement in many parts. Director Tachikawa hadn't been involved in "Detective Conan" before but the displays of natural phenomena and emotions were splendid. A new door was opened."
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A: "As part of a Ministry of Culture project, I made an anime movie named "Death Billiard". Then, the Conan Chief Producer, Suwa Michihiko-san, liked my work at lot. A few years later, he contacted me and asked me to direct an anime film. I'd never worked as director of a movie from a long series so I thought I might as well try it out. I joined the project since the plot was completed."
  
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Q: "Please tell us the best spots of the film."<br>
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Q: "Had you read the manga of "Detective Conan" before?"<br>
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A: "The interactions between persons are full of good spots. When the climax grows close, listening to them feels better. And, of course, Amuro-san's charm. I think you'll get to know a lot more about him in this film. The interactions, which feel like a speech play, are very exciting. What part of it it's lies, what part of it it's true...  "Amuro-san might be the enemy this time around". But one wants to figure out if he really is the enemy. To prove that he's not a bad person. You suspect him to believe him, and while earning evidence and confidence one by one, you go on crushing your doubts about him.  
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A: "When I was in elementary school, I read it on the "Shonen Sunday" magazine. In terms of generations, his previous work "YAIBA" was right on. Young elementary students love sword play, don't they (laughs). I made the "Wind God Ball" and "Thunder God Ball" from "YAIBA" and played with them. So I really liked his works. I had fun with them.  
  
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That's how I felt once we finished the dubbing, and I got the impression that he was an innocent person. A very pure, innocent, and pure white person. That was my impression of him. Of course, he has many faces to him but there's a very strong belief to the point all of those get removed. A strong feeling, that past "truth" and "justice" there's the feeling of "protecting". You seek the truth to protect, and you seek the justice because you want to protect. Both fight to protect what's dear to each one of them. The biggest theme in this film is "protecting", or so I thought. All of the characters have that feeling on them.  
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When I was appointed director, I checked out the manga again and I re-confirmed that it was something that could be enjoyed even from the point of view of an adult. The way the foreshadowing is revealed is great. What really impressed me was the "Scarlet" series when Akai returned, Volumes 84 to 85. I went back to re-read Volumes 58-59 when Akai died (laughs). The "Scarlet" series also excited me with the Amuro episodes. Two men with double faces investigating each other, Conan is involved, and they problem is dodged skillfully."
  
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I think that Fukuyama Masuharu-san's main vocal song was made in order to make you feel that. So I'm very thankful to him for that."
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Q: "It's the first time you're involved with the "Detective Conan" movies. What things did you have in mind?"<br>
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A: "I thought of making use of the established portions of the series. I did hesitate on how much freedom I had to leave my own imprint. I think that what makes "Conan" attractive is its characters. So I wanted to make more depictions of the characters' personalities. I did purposely have in mind to make action and movements which brought out the flavor of the characters.  
  
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Q: "Did it feel good to act as Conan, the one who confronts Amuro?"<br>
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Of course, Conan and Amuro are the core, and I also took care in the sub-characters supporting them. I like Professor Agasa and the Detective Boys so I think I put a lot of strength on them (laughs). There are additional scenes added from suggestions by Aoyama-sensei. We added scenes showing the daily life of the characters, which I'm glad of. When I talked with Takayama Minami-san after the dubbing, she told me that instead of having the scenario make them act, put focus on making the characters feel alive. That's what I also thought so I felt relaxed when she told me."
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A: "Uncle Kogorou is suddenly arrested, and behind that incident, Amuro, whom he fought together with in "The darkest nightmare", is involved. So he can't be as cool and rational as he always is. So he's unable to properly control his emotions, and he might speak louder than he usually does... There was a part in the dubbing in which he reflects upon that muttering "Crap. I gotta chill it..."."
 
  
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Q: "Kuroda Hyoue, one of the RUM candidates, has also appeared on this film, yet..."<br>
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Q: "It'd seem that you made the image boards following your inclinations as director. Right?"<br>
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A: "I was surprised when I first saw the poster at how Superintendent Kuroda was drawn in such a big size. But I actually don't think he's a bad person. I was excited during the film, but he's probably..."
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A: "It's an adult-like story, so creating a realistic atmosphere in the screen makes it easier to blend with the story, or so I thought. We hired the illustrator Loundware and they made the space. And they created some grand and colorful image boards. During the making, we put a lot of emphasis in sunset and rainy scenes. In terms of beauty direction, we gave them photos to tell them the colors we wanted.  
  
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Q: "Please give us a message to the readers to wrap up."<br>
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We asked them to swing color with force in those spots that are supposed to leave a strong impression. For example, the scene when Amuro is called a murderer, it it were expression of anger shining in the faces, then it wouldn't create an atmosphere (laughs). Rain falling from cloud skies, evening and the night... There's a lot of darkened scenes. "
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A: "Please watch the film while paying attention to all that's said. Police, prosecution, Public Safety... Even if hard to understand words appear, I think you'll eventually understand them as you go on watching the film. For the difficult parts, research on them and go see the film again. I think that that'll make you enjoy it way further. Including the guests (characters), all characters' breathing and pulsations can be felt. It's a very exciting film! Please enjoy it!"
 
  
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'''Ueto Aya Comments'''<br>
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Caption: When Kazami mutters "That Amuro man you speak of is a murderer", rain falls from the cloudy skies... The gloomy skies leave an impression. (Movie 22)
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Tachibana Kyouko Role
 
  
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Born September 14th. From Tokyo Prefecture. TV series, movies, western movie dubbing, CMs. Works in many genres. It's been 12 years since her previous role in "Detective Conan".
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A: "Actually, darkened scenes are easier to make. Sunsets are hard. The light from the side is strong, so the shadows are harder to make. Entering in the shadows and in the light, calculations are needed. There are evening action scenes too. Conan slides beneath a truck, comes into the shadow, and comes out into a bright spot... We use light and shadow as concepts in the whole of this movie. Conan is light and Amuro is shadow. So light hits Conan and Amuro has shadows on him. There are lot of scenes like that."
  
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"Kyouko is a role with breadth, so at first I acted naturally without creating too much of a character. Towards the end, I made voices that even I was surprised at. I like the relationship between Conan-kun and Ran-chan in "Detective Conan" since a long time ago. It's lonely to be unable to meet them, but having the one you like be there next to you to protect you is very beautiful, or so I think."
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Q: "Please tell us about Conan and Amuro, who clash in the film."<br>
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A: "Conan is always straight to the point, and is moved by the feeling that there shouldn't be sacrifices for the sake of justice. From the point of view of Amuro, who's going to do anything to protect Japan, Conan might seem immature in his opinion.  But from a point of view of the movie, Conan wants to make justice prevail without ever having to sacrifice anyone to achieve it.
  
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'''Hakata Daikichi Comments'''<br>
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Amuro, though, has some inconsistencies within him. We focus on the darkest portions that he has. But if we bring out too much of it, the feeling of "Detective Conan" will be lost, so that made it hard on how to depict him.Since there are many portions of him that we still don't know. What kind of past he had, what kind of family was it, what kind of life he lived... There also moments in which you dunno what he's thinking of."
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Haba Fumikazu role
 
  
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Caption:"Amuro enters in the Poirot, wrapped in shadows, while Conan is illuminated by the sunset which feels like it's burning. The concept of light and shadows can be felt here, too. (Movie 22)"
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Born October 3rd. From Fukuoka Prefecture. He's appeared in many variety shows as a comedian, is a regular participant in info programs.
 
  
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"I thought that Haba was the stubborn type so I prepared thoroughly for the role. I'd like of you to see him without having "Daikichi!" on mind (laughs). I think it's amazing that "Detective Conan" has gone through with the same style for over 20 years' time. The movie "Magician of the Silver Sky" where they make a plane land dumbfounded me indeed!"
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Q: "Please tell us about the charm of Amuro's triple face and how you depict each one."<br>
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A: "I personally like his position of undercover investigator, hence why I like Furuya's face a lot. As for the depictions, Furuya has a rather serious face. Amuro, who works in the Poirot, is cute in a cool way, or more like we had him have a peaceful expression. During the movie's car action, you can see his rare expressions. We wanted to show a facet of being a dangerous man, appearing at the last minute (laughs). Thought that it was important to show that even the cool Amuro might show such a face by accident."
  
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'''Tobita Nobuo Interview'''<br>
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Q:"Please tell us about Kazami Yuuya from the Public Safety Police. Amuro's right-hand man."<br>
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Kazami Yuuya Role
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A: "Kazami is a rather key character. He asks Conan who he is, and Conan replies "Edogawa Conan. A detective." to him (laughs). Amuro sometimes feels shrouded in mysteries and like he's a superman. So I thought that, as a counter, I wanted to make Kazami more human-like, so that's how we depicted him.
  
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He makes mistakes, and gets scolded by Amuro. He feels like the type to beat up his mattress at home when he fails a job and might yell "shit!" (laughs). Kazami does his best at the job, yet Amuro treats that very lightly. Kazami might constrict his arms... And feel mortified at that (laughs). These two are interesting. Also is the fact that Kazami is older."
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Born November 6th. From Ibaraki Prefecture. Representative titles: "Mobile Suit Gundam Z" as Camille Bidan. "Chibi Maruko-chan" as Maruo-kun. Mr. Osamatsu as Dayon. Others. Has also done dubbing of several western movies.
 
  
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Q: "Please tell us about how you acted the role of Kazami in "The darkest nightmare"."<br>
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Q: "What about Kuroda Hyoue?"<br>
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A: "It was the first time I took part in an [animated] film. The role's name was Kazami Yuuya so I made the connection at once (laughs). It was a position similar to an subordinate to Amuro-san, so it had a feeling that your body tightened. My biggest impression was when he did a handshake with Inspector Megure at the end of the movie. He's an elite, but a good person who has normal feelings."
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A: "I did think of asking Aoyama-sensei through-and-through about this, but... But I thought it'd be better for me not to know too much. I only asked him about aspects I was curious about (laughs). He's a character with dreadfulness so we were careful not to treat him too lightly. "
  
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Q: "And Kazami appears again in this new movie, "Zero the enforcer"."<br>
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Q: "What do you think are the best spots of the film?"<br>
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A: "What I had on mind was his relation with Amuro-san. How much feeling of a distance there is. It was certain that he had respect for Amuro, but there was hesitation too. As if I was but one of many men in reserve (laughs). Furuya-san, who voices Amuro, is my senpai (senior) as well so I acted the role as if my actual relationship was being projected in the film."
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A: "The complicated settings of the characters. I wanted to draw a human drama. They all have the same intention, yet, depending on how they do it the gears might crumble...  On the other hand, Conan wants to make the justice inside of him prevail. The way the hearts of the characters move, how the differences between them feel like... I'd like of you to check that out. Of course, we also made good action scenes, so I think you'll be very excited at it!"
  
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Q: "What are the charm points of Amuro?"<br>
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A: "His boldness and his high abilities... And the mysterious air he has. He feels like a gentle man but is very deep in character, you might think he's hard but that's not the case. He seems to be talkative but it'd seem he doesn't show his true portions at all."
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A: "In this movie, the expressions of the characters and the display of their true natures... We put a lot of attention to those during making. We've also drawn everyday situations in a courteous way so that children can enjoy it as well. First you follow the case, then you follow the characters... We'd like of you to enjoy it many times with a different way of seeing things on each time.  
  
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And, in the end, the feeling of justice each character has as well as the dark parts that Amuro himself has, echo and give out a good feeling. Our intention was to show the movie's thematic in the last cut before the end roll so we'd be glad if you can feel from that scene what we wanted to depict."
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A: "From his looks, he brings on the mood of someone capable (laughs). Looks like he could do fighting sports. He still doesn't show a smile from his heart and he's not frank but hints of that are depicted in the movie, and I think he gives out a realistic feeling of existence."
 
  
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A: "I think it's a movie that you want to see again with someone else after you see it. It's a must-see for Conan fans, and people new to the series will like it too!"[/spoiler]
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'''Sakurai Takeharu Interview'''<br>
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Scriptwriter for the movie "Zero the enforcer"
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'''Kishino Yukimasa Interview'''<br>
 
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Kuroda Hyoue Role
 
  
 
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Born October 21st. From Tokyo Prefecture. Representatives works. "ONE PIECE" as Higuma. "Dragon Ball Z" as Burter. "SLAM DUNK" as Uozomi Jun. Others. Dubbing of western movies, narration roles, plays.
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Scriptwriter. He also works with the alias "Iida Takeshi". TV series "Aibou", "Yamegoku: Yakuza Yamete Itadakimasu", "The forensic woman". Films "ATARU The Movie", "Aibou Series X Day", and others. Has written scripts for movies 17, 19 and 20 of "Detective Conan" as well as scripts for the TV series episodes 813 and 898.
  
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Q: "Please tell us about when you were chosen to voice Kuroda Hyoue."<br>
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Q: "How did you feel like when it was decided that Amuro would be the key man of this film?"<br>
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A: "Kuroda firstly appeared in Episode 810 of the anime "The darkness of the prefecture police (part 1)". The case involving the woodpeckers. When I read the script, I did think he was scary and hesitated if I could do it (laughs). He's a cop but has many mysteries to him, you can't tell if he's a good a guy or a bad guy... I did fumble a bit with my acting.
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A: "It's only been 2 years since "The darkest nightmare" so I did go "huh?" at the news (laughs). It might've been better if it'd been made before the feeling of having written Amuro had vanished from me. I wrote his face as Bourbon in "The darkest nightmare", but due to the topic in this movie I specialized in Furuya, his face as PS (public safety)."
  
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Q: "Is there anything you particularly focused on during the writing of this installment?"<br>
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A: "The differences with the PS (Public Safety) depicted in live action. In live action, the PS often is the opposite of the situation shown to the spectators, and the psychology of what the characters in the episodes think of. Despite saying some is guilty, they might be innocent within their hearts. The actual Public Safety Police Officers, no matter what they do, they are always psychologically "right"... I avoided complicated depictions like these in this movie's script. It's already a story involving a judiciary process , the setting is already complex, it would be asking too much calories from the spectators."
  
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Q: "What's the scene in this movie that left a biggest impression on you?"<br>
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Q: "How about the developments in the Conan VS Amuro clash?"<br>
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A: "That word he uttered (laughs). I can't give out details, but it's a scene which I'd like of you to see many times and check out. It's a scene that will link to future [happenings] in "Detective Conan". Aoyama-sensei sure thinks up of interesting things."
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A: "It was decided to depict Furuya from the PSP so I did think that he and Conan would clash. Actually, the "justice" that Conan has on him is also carried by Amuro, and the one that Amuro has is also being carried by Conan. They only differ in how they express it. I don't think neither is above the other one. If you think of it as each one taking action upon the info given to each of them, they take action in a very natural manner. I wrote it thinking that it would be good for Amuro to seem "bad". But he doesn't actually give much of such an impression. If you listen to his conversation with Kazami, you don't think of him as someone evil. He also takes action based on his beliefs.The only issue is the means employed. They are illegal and ruthless, so it's whether you can approve of them or not. I did think that Furuya, as a PSP officer, would normally do things way harsher than this...  
  
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The first draft of the story was a harder type of story. And Director Tachikawa pushed it back into a softer and kinder direction. He also likes hard stories, and he's good at staging them. But since it was the first time he was in charge of directing a Conan film, he said he wanted it to be something entertaining and dream-like. He had it very clear about what he wanted to do in the first Conan work he was in charge of.  
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A: "It's interesting to see how he has 3 faces to him. Not only as an actor. I also want to follow his activities as a reader."
 
  
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Q: "Are there portions suggested by Aoyama-sensei?"<br>
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A: "I think that the best about him is that he's shrouded in mysteries. I'd like to do a gag-like scene with Kuroda, but... I guess they won't allow me to do so (laughs). I'd like to voice him as a fun old guy someday."
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A: "The conversation between Amuro and Azusa, and Amuro answering Conan's question... Those scenes were added, and they were impressive. The latter made me think "what are they talking about now of all times", it sure did (laughs). But if you add those lines in a tense situation, then I think they make the film more lovable. If it was about Shinichi and Ran, I would have my own interpretation of things, but it's harder when it comes to Amuro. So I left the suggested portions in the hands of [Aoyama] sensei."  
  
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Q: "Please tell us about Kazami Yuuya who debuted in "The darkest nightmare"."<br>
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A: "When "The darkest nightmare", we needed a person that could publicly act as member of the PS. So we made the Kazami Yuuya character. Amuro works on his own, so it was hard to see the situation of the police divisions from his viewpoint. And Kazami in this movie is the "right-handed man" of Amuro, who belongs to the "Zero" organization..."
  
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'''Tachikawa Yuzuru Interview'''<br>
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Caption:"Kazami, one of the very few that contact "Zero". Sakurai-san and Aoyama-sensei consulted each other, and they decided he'd be older than Amuro, 30 years old. (Movie 22)"
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Movie "Zero the enforcer" Director
 
  
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A (continued from above question): "That's how he's depicted. The "right hand man" is thing that exists, I was told about it from an ex-PS person who I used as reference. Since officers currently on duty in the PS wouldn't tell us anything. This man, who can contact "Zero", is apparently chosen through someone's selection. It'd seem their skillfulness and personality are checked out so I guess that Kazami was evaluated to have the right kind of personality.  
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Animation director, theatre director, "Death Billiard" movie on 2013 (original idea, script, direction), worked on TV series based on it on 2015 (original idea, direction, series structuring). Representative works: "Terror in Resonance" (Assitant Director), "Mob Psycho" (Director), and others.
 
  
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Since he became that role, on paper it says he's an officer in the training and is sent to the National Police Agency once, so he should have a period of enrollment in the NPA as well. There he makes his connection with the "Zero" organization. And the final decision of directing him towards Amuro is carried out by the "backstage administrator". Kazami can't tell his colleagues about him being in contact with "Zero". The only one who knows about the "right hand man" of each investigator and the collaborators is the "backstage administrator".  
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A: "As part of a Ministry of Culture project, I made an anime movie named "Death Billiard". Then, the Conan Chief Producer, Suwa Michihiko-san, liked my work at lot. A few years later, he contacted me and asked me to direct an anime film. I'd never worked as director of a movie from a long series so I thought I might as well try it out. I joined the project since the plot was completed."
 
  
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Q: "Had you read the manga of "Detective Conan" before?"<br>
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Q: "What do you think are the best spots and points to focus upon of this movie?"<br>
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A: "When I was in elementary school, I read it on the "Shonen Sunday" magazine. In terms of generations, his previous work "YAIBA" was right on. Young elementary students love sword play, don't they (laughs). I made the "Wind God Ball" and "Thunder God Ball" from "YAIBA" and played with them. So I really liked his works. I had fun with them.  
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A: "The relations between characters are also one of those "best spots". That's the usual citation. The "collaborators" of the PS aren't simple informers. They're like climbing partners connecting their lives to each other through a life rope, as if they were mountain-climbing. They have their field of work's "justice" and life beyond logic. They share those with each other. Regardless of being "good" or bad", I think they are some of the best spots.
  
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When I was appointed director, I checked out the manga again and I re-confirmed that it was something that could be enjoyed even from the point of view of an adult. The way the foreshadowing is revealed is great. What really impressed me was the "Scarlet" series when Akai returned, Volumes 84 to 85. I went back to re-read Volumes 58-59 when Akai died (laughs). The "Scarlet" series also excited me with the Amuro episodes. Two men with double faces investigating each other, Conan is involved, and they problem is dodged skillfully."
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Also, it's about the guest characters, but, they all have fond memories... But if I talk about this, you'll realize the truth of the case so it's hard to converse about this topic... (laughs). "
  
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Q: "It's the first time you're involved with the "Detective Conan" movies. What things did you have in mind?"<br>
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Caption: "The recipe of the ham sandwiches that Amuro exposed and became a topic, was a suggestion by Sakurai-san. Also, the PSP is called "ham" in jargon. (Episode 813)"
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A: "I thought of making use of the established portions of the series. I did hesitate on how much freedom I had to leave my own imprint. I think that what makes "Conan" attractive is its characters. So I wanted to make more depictions of the characters' personalities. I did purposely have in mind to make action and movements which brought out the flavor of the characters.
 
  
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Of course, Conan and Amuro are the core, and I also took care in the sub-characters supporting them. I like Professor Agasa and the Detective Boys so I think I put a lot of strength on them (laughs). There are additional scenes added from suggestions by Aoyama-sensei. We added scenes showing the daily life of the characters, which I'm glad of.  When I talked with Takayama Minami-san after the dubbing, she told me that instead of having the scenario make them act, put focus on making the characters feel alive. That's what I also thought so I felt relaxed when she told me."
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Q: "Did you have in mind depicting each's of Amuro's triple faces separately?"<br>
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A: "He has the same feeling of justice at all times, whether he's being Furuya or he's being Bourbon. So I took into mind that they are the same at the bottom of their hearts, when writing them. Even if he gets a gun pointed at him during his covert investigation and is about to be exposed as a NOC, or even if he's working part-time at the Poirot. At the bottom of his heart he's the same Furuya Rei. It's not like he's working at the Poirot to relax, I think he does that to assimilate with society.  
  
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Q: "It'd seem that you made the image boards following your inclinations as director. Right?"<br>
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But his aspect of mingling with society as "a man about to turn 30, working part-time in a café while learning to be a detective" is something that I do think that it's not very reasonable (laughs). If there's someone with some age to them who work part-time at a café while learning how to be a detective, I would feel anxious.  
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A: "It's an adult-like story, so creating a realistic atmosphere in the screen makes it easier to blend with the story, or so I thought. We hired the illustrator Loundware and they made the space. And they created some grand and colorful image boards. During the making, we put a lot of emphasis in sunset and rainy scenes. In terms of beauty direction, we gave them photos to tell them the colors we wanted.  
 
  
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We asked them to swing color with force in those spots that are supposed to leave a strong impression. For example, the scene when Amuro is called a murderer, it it were expression of anger shining in the faces, then it wouldn't create an atmosphere (laughs).  Rain falling from cloud skies, evening and the night... There's a lot of darkened scenes. "
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However, he's good at acting, has a wide capacity, and his information processing ability must be very high as well. Don't they ask him "Amuro-san, what are you doing at your age?"...? There must be something on him that doesn't make you think about that (laughs).
  
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Caption: When Kazami mutters "That Amuro man you speak of is a murderer", rain falls from the cloudy skies... The gloomy skies leave an impression. (Movie 22)
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If you asked about which of his faces is most charming, then I'd say all of them are. The vectors of charm are different, each of them are precious and cool. But, well, I haven't written much of his "Bourbon" face so if I get to write about him on the future I guess I'd write about Bourbon. He has a belief of justice yet carries out evil... Normally, one would puncture at that. But Amuro can do it. I think that that's why he was promoted to working the "Zero" organization.
  
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Q: "Please tell us about episodes of the TV series you wrote the script of."<br>
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A: "Actually, darkened scenes are easier to make. Sunsets are hard. The light from the side is strong, so the shadows are harder to make. Entering in the shadows and in the light, calculations are needed. There are evening action scenes too. Conan slides beneath a truck, comes into the shadow, and comes out into a bright spot... We use light and shadow as concepts in the whole of this movie. Conan is light and Amuro is shadow. So light hits Conan and Amuro has shadows on him. There are lot of scenes like that."
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A: "I was ordered that, in the spin-offs linking to the movies, no-one could die. If it had to be a mystery in the café where no-one died, it would have to be a story about food or drinks. The reason I used ham sandwiches in Episode 813 "The shadow creeping on Amuro", was due to the perception of "He's public safety (公安 / kouan) so cheap (安い / yasui) ham (ハム) (combined make 公 (kou)) will do" (laughs).  
  
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Q: "Please tell us about Conan and Amuro, who clash in the film."<br>
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That recipe was something I had on mind, and, of course I've sometimes made those sandwiches. But I was told that eventually they would be served at cafés... If I had known that, then I wouldn't have used a steamer to make them (laughs). That way of making them is hard, actually.  
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A: "Conan is always straight to the point, and is moved by the feeling that there shouldn't be sacrifices for the sake of justice. From the point of view of Amuro, who's going to do anything to protect Japan, Conan might seem immature in his opinion. But from a point of view of the movie, Conan wants to make justice prevail without ever having to sacrifice anyone to achieve it.
 
  
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Amuro, though, has some inconsistencies within him. We focus on the darkest portions that he has. But if we bring out too much of it, the feeling of "Detective Conan" will be lost, so that made it hard on how to depict him.Since there are many portions of him that we still don't know. What kind of past he had, what kind of family was it, what kind of life he lived... There also moments in which you dunno what he's thinking of."
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And episode 898, the spin-off of "Zero the enforcer", titled "The cake melted", had me taking that aspect into account. Apart from cakes, I made stews with a good-looking pink color. Nowadays they call those "being instagrammable" (laughs). If you take lycopene at the morning, it's good for the body so I use tomatoes, and added milk so that they would match the set drinks of coffee or black tea."
  
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Caption:"Amuro enters in the Poirot, wrapped in shadows, while Conan is illuminated by the sunset which feels like it's burning. The concept of light and shadows can be felt here, too. (Movie 22)"
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Q: "Please give us a message to the readers to wrap up."<br>
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A: "I think that, in the 1st time viewing, you will empathize with Conan, the protagonist, and see things from his PoV, but... If you switch your PoV to Amuro in your 2nd viewing, you become the culprit in the 3rd viewing. There's actually a 4th PoV, but... If I give out details about it you'll figure out the culprit (laughs). Anyway, I think that it'd be good if you can enjoy it at least for 4 times."
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Q: "Please tell us about the charm of Amuro's triple face and how you depict each one."<br>
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===Special Conan Movie Staff interview===
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A: "I personally like his position of undercover investigator, hence why I like Furuya's face a lot. As for the depictions, Furuya has a rather serious face. Amuro, who works in the Poirot, is cute in a cool way, or more like we had him have a peaceful expression. During the movie's car action, you can see his rare expressions. We wanted to show a facet of being a dangerous man, appearing at the last minute (laughs). Thought that it was important to show that even the cool Amuro might show such a face by accident."
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'''Date:''' May 23, 2018<br>
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Q:"Please tell us about Kazami Yuuya from the Public Safety Police. Amuro's right-hand man."<br>
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A: "Kazami is a rather key character. He asks Conan who he is, and Conan replies "Edogawa Conan. A detective." to him (laughs). Amuro sometimes feels shrouded in mysteries and like he's a superman. So I thought that, as a counter, I wanted to make Kazami more human-like, so that's how we depicted him.  
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He makes mistakes, and gets scolded by Amuro. He feels like the type to beat up his mattress at home when he fails a job and might yell "shit!" (laughs). Kazami does his best at the job, yet Amuro treats that very lightly. Kazami might constrict his arms... And feel mortified at that (laughs). These two are interesting. Also is the fact that Kazami is older."
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A: "I did think of asking Aoyama-sensei through-and-through about this, but... But I thought it'd be better for me not to know too much. I only asked him about aspects I was curious about (laughs). He's a character with dreadfulness so we were careful not to treat him too lightly. "
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Q: "What do you think are the best spots of the film?"<br>
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===Da Vinci Magazine 2018 interview===
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A: "The complicated settings of the characters. I wanted to draw a human drama. They all have the same intention, yet, depending on how they do it the gears might crumble... On the other hand, Conan wants to make the justice inside of him prevail. The way the hearts of the characters move, how the differences between them feel like... I'd like of you to check that out. Of course, we also made good action scenes, so I think you'll be very excited at it!"
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'''Date:''' December 6, 2018<br>
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'''Published in:''' Da Vinci Magazine, January 2019 issue
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'''Translation information by:''' Mycroft<br>
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1-Gosho confirms that Carasuma is the boss<br>
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2-the end of Haibara gonna surprise everyone<br>
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3-look forward to Vol 96<br>
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More details:<br>
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-about Vol 96:<br>
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Gosho : i drew a sad story in Vol 96 (file  1015-1017) and disappointment of Heiji (file 1018-1021) and please look forward to more tricks and the relation between characters (file 1022-1026)<br>
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-about Reneya:<br>
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Gosho hinted that revealing of Carasuma being the boss at that time was planned carefully<br>
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-about Haibara:<br>
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Gosho: everyone is wondering how things gonna develop with Haibara and How gonna be her end ?....i guess her end gonna surprise everyone.... because she is .... Aaaaah i can't say that (laugh)<br>
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Q: "Please give us a message to the readers to wrap up."<br>
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A: "In this movie, the expressions of the characters and the display of their true natures... We put a lot of attention to those during making. We've also drawn everyday situations in a courteous way so that children can enjoy it as well. First you follow the case, then you follow the characters... We'd like of you to enjoy it many times with a different way of seeing things on each time.
 
  
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And, in the end, the feeling of justice each character has as well as the dark parts that Amuro himself has, echo and give out a good feeling. Our intention was to show the movie's thematic in the last cut before the end roll so we'd be glad if you can feel from that scene what we wanted to depict."
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===Nagasaki Newspaper New Years short interview===
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'''Date:''' January 1, 2019
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'''Source 2:''' https://www.nagasaki-np.co.jp/business/project/conan-npaper/ <br>
  
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'''Translated by:''' Holmes [Gingle Bells] (from Discord)
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Scriptwriter. He also works with the alias "Iida Takeshi". TV series "Aibou", "Yamegoku: Yakuza Yamete Itadakimasu", "The forensic woman". Films "ATARU The Movie", "Aibou Series X Day", and others. Has written scripts for movies 17, 19 and 20 of "Detective Conan" as well as scripts for the TV series episodes 813 and 898.
 
  
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Q: "How did you feel like when it was decided that Amuro would be the key man of this film?"<br>
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A: "It's only been 2 years since "The darkest nightmare" so I did go "huh?" at the news (laughs). It might've been better if it'd been made before the feeling of having written Amuro had vanished from me. I wrote his face as Bourbon in "The darkest nightmare", but due to the topic in this movie I specialized in Furuya, his face as PS (public safety)."
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Q: What has 2018 been like?<br>
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A: It's been an Amuro year! (laughs)
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Q: What will this year be like?<br>
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A: A police academy year? (laughs)
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Q: Between the other mangakas, which ones inspired you the most to pursue your objectives?<br>
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A: Tetsuya Chiba-sensei, Monkey Punch-sensei and Mitsuru Adachi-sensei.
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Q: In 1987, Magic Kaito; in 1988 Yaiba; in 1994 Detective Conan... Such important works have been published one after another. What do you think about Conan's popularity?<br>
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A: Really, is that "popular"?
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Q: How many staff people are there at [your] workplace? What is the atmosphere like?<br>
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A: Six people. The atmosphere is friendly!
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Q: What is the most impressive scene in the manga?<br>
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A: The pages where the boss was exposed!
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Q: in Conan's world, what is the character that particularly matches your personality?<br>
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A: Kogoro! (laughs)
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Q: Conan movies broke the franchise record for the sixth time in a row at the box office. The popularity is rapidly raising!<br>
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A: I am amazed too! (laughs)
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Q: Have you ever visited Nagasaki? It's such an impressive place.<br>
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A: I once went to Huis Ten Bosch* during a company outing with Aoyama Prod.<br>
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Q: This summer, in addition to the Forensic Division Exhibition, there will be events and talk shows with Conan's voice actors. Finally, please tell something brief [a few words] to Nagasaki people.<br>
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A: Speaking about Nagasaki, for the main theme song of "Zero the Enforcer" I am much obliged to Masaharu Fukuyama! I really enjoyed Huis Ten Bosch, and I would like to go there again. I wanna try authentic Nagasaki Vegetable Salad! (laughs)<br>
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Q: "Is there anything you particularly focused on during the writing of this installment?"<br>
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A: "The differences with the PS (Public Safety) depicted in live action. In live action, the PS often is the opposite of the situation shown to the spectators, and the psychology of what the characters in the episodes think of. Despite saying some is guilty, they might be innocent within their hearts. The actual Public Safety Police Officers, no matter what they do, they are always psychologically "right"... I avoided complicated depictions like these in this movie's script. It's already a story involving a judiciary process , the setting is already complex, it would be asking too much calories from the spectators."
 
  
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Q: "How about the developments in the Conan VS Amuro clash?"<br>
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A: "It was decided to depict Furuya from the PSP so I did think that he and Conan would clash. Actually, the "justice" that Conan has on him is also carried by Amuro, and the one that Amuro has is also being carried by Conan. They only differ in how they express it. I don't think neither is above the other one. If you think of it as each one taking action upon the info given to each of them, they take action in a very natural manner. I wrote it thinking that it would be good for Amuro to seem "bad". But he doesn't actually give much of such an impression. If you listen to his conversation with Kazami, you don't think of him as someone evil. He also takes action based on his beliefs.The only issue is the means employed. They are illegal and ruthless, so it's whether you can approve of them or not. I did think that Furuya, as a PSP officer, would normally do things way harsher than this...  
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Q: "Are there portions suggested by Aoyama-sensei?"<br>
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A: "The conversation between Amuro and Azusa, and Amuro answering Conan's question... Those scenes were added, and they were impressive. The latter made me think "what are they talking about now of all times", it sure did (laughs). But if you add those lines in a tense situation, then I think they make the film more lovable. If it was about Shinichi and Ran, I would have my own interpretation of things, but it's harder when it comes to Amuro. So I left the suggested portions in the hands of [Aoyama] sensei."
 
  
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Q: "Please tell us about Kazami Yuuya who debuted in "The darkest nightmare"."<br>
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A: "When "The darkest nightmare", we needed a person that could publicly act as member of the PS. So we made the Kazami Yuuya character. Amuro works on his own, so it was hard to see the situation of the police divisions from his viewpoint. And Kazami in this movie is the "right-handed man" of Amuro, who belongs to the "Zero" organization..."
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Q: Haibara made her debut in the anime in January, 1999. This year is the 20th anniversary of that debut.<br>
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A: Her debut was the end of the century, yes. The age fits that occasion, yes. I was familiar with the cast of the “Conan” characters so I had no resistance in joining them. I’d often acted together with Ogata Kenichi (Agasa VA), and Takayama Minami (Conan VA) also politely taught me many things.<br>
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The tale about (Takayama’s) debut did impress me a lot. You could say that she showed a general outlook in the 1st episode (of the series) and the guidelines were established upon that. I was confident that I would do well with her.
  
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A (continued from above question): "That's how he's depicted. The "right hand man" is thing that exists, I was told about it from an ex-PS person who I used as reference. Since officers currently on duty in the PS wouldn't tell us anything. This man, who can contact "Zero", is apparently chosen through someone's selection. It'd seem their skillfulness and personality are checked out so I guess that Kazami was evaluated to have the right kind of personality.
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Q: How have you felt Haibara’s changes and growth over these 20 years?<br>
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A: At first, she was shutting everything within her heart, but…  The Professor’s warmth, and his lack of concern gradually heals her and allows her to regain a human flavor-like aspect to her. The Detective Boys also try to cheer her and it’s not like they force themselves to do so. The casual everyday convos make her shed tears, too.<br>
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Also, sharing her secret with Kudo, who’s in the same situation as her, she gains the feeling that she’s not the only one (in that state). In episodes 822-823 (“The suspects are a devoted couple”), she went to great extremes… Yes! (laughs)<br>
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She did support Higo, but to think she’d butt into the issue of (his) girlfriend… Her scene in which she syncs with Uncle (Kogoro). I was like “Huh? What’s gotten into her?” (laughs).<br>
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I was “Ai-chan can now make these faces”. It’s perplexing but I’m also happy at it. Even if she’s told “you’re pretty nervous”, I guess she’d reply “that’s not the case”. But it’s not like the issues with the organization have been solved, so she can’t lower the guard!
  
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Since he became that role, on paper it says he's an officer in the training and is sent to the National Police Agency once, so he should have a period of enrollment in the NPA as well. There he makes his connection with the "Zero" organization. And the final decision of directing him towards Amuro is carried out by the "backstage administrator". Kazami can't tell his colleagues about him being in contact with "Zero". The only one who knows about the "right hand man" of each investigator and the collaborators is the "backstage administrator".  
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Q: Is there something you take into account when acting in such scenes?<br>
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A: I stop to think at how much her heart must have moved. Trying to examine the max values of how to express emotions… I guess? She’s a girl who doesn’t express gratitude with her face or words so I do (think) about how to express her human side.<br>
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Also, the acting doesn’t change much regardless of her size. When she’s being rough with Conan, I act in a way that doesn’t feel much different from her adult state. My voice cords are thin so I increase the tone a bit when she’s in her child form.
  
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Q: "What do you think are the best spots and points to focus upon of this movie?"<br>
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A: "The relations between characters are also one of those "best spots". That's the usual citation. The "collaborators" of the PS aren't simple informers. They're like climbing partners connecting their lives to each other through a life rope, as if they were mountain-climbing. They have their field of work's "justice" and life beyond logic. They share those with each other. Regardless of being "good" or bad", I think they are some of the best spots.
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A: I am sorry, but I didn’t see it when it aired. It was very harsh to re-confirm that her sister existed after hearing her voice… When I met with (Tamagawa) Sakiko (Akemi VA) in the studio (continues in next page)
  
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Also, it's about the guest characters, but, they all have fond memories... But if I talk about this, you'll realize the truth of the case so it's hard to converse about this topic... (laughs). "
 
  
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Q: "Did you have in mind depicting each's of Amuro's triple faces separately?"<br>
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A: (continues from previous page) it was very fun. We talked about recent status and so. But when her part in the dubbing ended, I felt like “Ah… I can’t hear to her voice anymore”... I guess that the episode of the answering machine in the film “Countdown to Heaven” stuck a nail on me. I loved hearing to her voice during the pre-screening (of the movie).<br>
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A: "He has the same feeling of justice at all times, whether he's being Furuya or he's being Bourbon. So I took into mind that they are the same at the bottom of their hearts, when writing them. Even if he gets a gun pointed at him during his covert investigation and is about to be exposed as a NOC, or even if he's working part-time at the Poirot. At the bottom of his heart he's the same Furuya Rei. It's not like he's working at the Poirot to relax, I think he does that to assimilate with society.
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Now you have SNS and videos amongst other seals to feel the traces of that person, but you could say that, back in those times, the answering machine was the only one. The voice alone brings a lot of memories, it does. I think she does care about her big sister.<br>
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Those feelings revive so that’s why I avoided “Episode ONE”... But I did face it. And it was harsh, indeed. And once again I felt that I’d done something terrible. The drug that I (Haibara) had made tore apart two people who were happy. I guess that back then (Episode ONE) improving the results of her research was the only meaningful (thing) in her life. If it’d been used for treating diseases or so, had been given a correct use, it might’ve been a great drug but…
  
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But his aspect of mingling with society as "a man about to turn 30, working part-time in a café while learning to be a detective" is something that I do think that it's not very reasonable (laughs). If there's someone with some age to them who work part-time at a café while learning how to be a detective, I would feel anxious.  
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A: Lately, it feels harmonizing, as if they were an old couple married to each other! There were periods in which (the relationship) sways, too. It doesn’t go to the point of love, but I think they believe and rely on each other.<br>
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As of now, you could say it’s a tie… You (Conan) move, and I (Haibara) investigate… It feels like those roles have been established and thus their feelings aren’t too disrupted, I guess. I myself have changed, too.<br>
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I lately sit next to Minami during dubbing. She doesn’t get to interact (often) with Ran so I don’t get to met her (VA) in the dubbings… And I got shocked when I saw Wakana (Ran VA) sitting next to Minami during the movie dubbings!  I was like “ah? That’s not my seat?”. I did think “oh??” while choosing a seat from where I could have a good look at both (laughs).<br>
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And that seat is the one next to the professor’s (Agasa’s) and is my current location. At some point, Micchan (Ootani Ikue, Mitsuhiko VA) comes next to us too… There’s a battle over the seats inside of me and I was in an ill mood for a while. But as time passes, and even more when seeing “Episode ONE”... I feel like “sorry for that” (laughs).
  
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However, he's good at acting, has a wide capacity, and his information processing ability must be very high as well. Don't they ask him "Amuro-san, what are you doing at your age?"...? There must be something on him that doesn't make you think about that (laughs).
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Q: (Conan) told (her) she was (his) “pal” in the movies, too.<br>
 +
A: Hmmm… “Pal, huh? (For now)”. I think it’s just in relation as the “pal” to solve a case. Each movie has a different way to depict their relationships. In the “Sunflowers of inferno”, for example, she was shown swaying from time to time. So I guess she must have those feelings. She must be shutting them within her depths.
  
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If you asked about which of his faces is most charming, then I'd say all of them are. The vectors of charm are different, each of them are precious and cool. But, well, I haven't written much of his "Bourbon" face so if I get to write about him on the future I guess I'd write about Bourbon. He has a belief of justice yet carries out evil... Normally, one would puncture at that. But Amuro can do it. I think that that's why he was promoted to working the "Zero" organization.  
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Q: How does she feel about Ran?<br>
 +
A: Wow. Now that’s a difficult (question). I guess that the (feeling) within her depths is a feeling of guilt. She likes her cute spots and feels a bit envious. And she sees her sister on her… She feels healed, but she probably thinks “it’s not like you’re the one who made me remember about my sis” afterwards. She’s indecise.
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Q: So it’s more complicated than what she feels about Conan, yes?<br>
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A: She can lash out at Conan, so… She talks about 70% of the feelings and falsifies the remaining 30%, but… There’s many things about Ran that she can’t express in words. She briefly thinks “let’s tell her all I want to say” but then erases that line of thought (laughs).<br>
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But she does want Ran to laugh, and feels sorry when she sees her cry when she (Ran) thinks of Shinichi. Yes, it’s the most complicated feeling she has.
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Q: What do you think about the progress in Ran and Shinichi’s relationship in the school trip episodes?<br>
 +
A: She can accept their relationship, but feels rough when it’s about Conan and Ran. Maybe she’ll make a drug to split (Conan and Shinichi) into two… Kidding (laughs)<br>
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I do clearly switch the switches when calling him either “Edogawa-kun” or “Kudou-kun” in the dubbing (sessions). The premise is that she’s an elementary student but has a bit of adult feeling to her.
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Q: Professor Agasa and the DBs, who healed her heart. Tell us about them.<br>
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A: I love them! (laughs). The Professor is hiding her, but she’s strict to him about food and he lowers his eyebrows, overwhelmed. How cute she is! She’s also curious about the (relationship) with Fusae, too. She wishes for him to be happy… “Ah! It’s the person of the Fusae brand which you like, Ai-chan!” “Marry her, Professor… I’ll be able to get tons of bag samples!” (laughs)<br>
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Kidding. Well, her desire to possess is linked to life-force too! (continues next page)
  
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Q: "Please tell us about episodes of the TV series you wrote the script of."<br>
 
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A: "I was ordered that, in the spin-offs linking to the movies, no-one could die. If it had to be a mystery in the café where no-one died, it would have to be a story about food or drinks. The reason I used ham sandwiches in Episode 813 "The shadow creeping on Amuro", was due to the perception of "He's public safety (公安 / kouan) so cheap (安い / yasui) ham (ハム) (combined make 公 (kou)) will do" (laughs).
 
  
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That recipe was something I had on mind, and, of course I've sometimes made those sandwiches. But I was told that eventually they would be served at cafés... If I had known that, then I wouldn't have used a steamer to make them (laughs). That way of making them is hard, actually.
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And episode 898, the spin-off of "Zero the enforcer", titled "The cake melted", had me taking that aspect into account. Apart from cakes, I made stews with a good-looking pink color. Nowadays they call those "being instagrammable" (laughs). If you take lycopene at the morning, it's good for the body so I use tomatoes, and added milk so that they would match the set drinks of coffee or black tea."
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A: The 3 DBs are very cute and attractive. I feel like a mother to them. I’d rather keep them out of danger than solve a case… Since Kudou-kun will solve it, anyway.  
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Q: She sometimes cooperates with the DB to face big crises.<br>
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A: She’s pretty cool-headed. Since she’s actually driven herself to the point of dying. And she still feels, sometimes, that she should die… And that’s why she can be cool. I think she earned her strength by leaving the organization. Not because she experienced a frightening organization, but because she’s still alive after running from there.
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Q: What about Akai Shuichi / Okiya Subaru?<br>
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A: Sheesh! It’s a complicated topic, and it’s hard to answer! (laughs)<br>
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How much suspicion she puts in her words and how much of it she lashes out at him...She’s very good at considering those, yes. Voicing them aloud and avoiding lying… That’s Ai-chan for you (laughs)<br>
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Also, Ikeda Shuichi’s voice is, for me, a “peaceful trauma”. In “Tico of the 7 seas”, the protagonist I voice is kidnapped, his father, played by Ikeda, comes to rescue him and says “it’s alright!”, but… When I heard that, I broke into tears.<br>
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“Ah, it’s really alright”... I felt incredibly relieved. That imprinting made me feel that Akai wasn’t a bad guy ever since he made his debut. There’s a kind of link between the actors and the roles they play.<br>
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A: When it’s an episode involving them, I don’t feel like going to the studio. I don’t want to bump into Gin… When Gin thinks of Sherry, she was (shown) half-nude, but… Why? (laughs) I don’t want to know the reason of (his) obsession (with her), either. Because I’ll have to take it in if I got to know it.<br>
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Bun Gin also makes mistakes, and gives a “snap” feeling. Vermouth’s confidence is scary. Feels like she (Vermouth) would betray the org, too. Also… I don’t want to get involved with Amuro (laughs).<br>
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Q: It’s possible that he was shocked at being unable to protect the daughter of Elena, whom he revered.<br>
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A; Feel it, then, feel it! (laughs)<br>
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Thinking of it from the PoV of him being in the org, his skills at infiltrating and his ability to fascinate others, he’s quite the outstanding type. I really don’t want to end up liking him so I feel like not getting close to him (laughs). I think that I’ll waver if I have some odd emotion going on.<br>
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Q: The org’s pursuit has cooled down, but what kind of developments do you expect to happen?<br>
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A: “Oh, no! Because Vermouth knows that (Haibara) is alive, you know? But that’s why… Aoyama-sensei is drawing a brighter Ai-chan. She’s becoming a normal girl. I’d like to say “it’s alright”. But if that happens then the work will end so (laughs)<br>
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Development in which she faces the regrets and self-condemnation within her, and involvements with the org that’ll make me skip a heartbeat… I predict that that’s what’ll happen. But until then I want to enjoy the everyday routine.<br>
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I was very shocked at seeing her family, who were recently shown in the manga!
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Caption: Episode 231, the bus hijack. And the line in episode 280 “you’ll protect me, won’t you?” was a topic during the interview.
  
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Born March 30th. Tokyo Province. Main works: “Ranma ½” as female Ranma, “Slayers” as Lina Inverse, “Evangelion” as Ayanami Ray, “Cowboy Bebop” as Fey, etc.
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Q: What has 2018 been like?<br>
 
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A: It's been an Amuro year! (laughs)
 
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Q: What will this year be like?<br>
 
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A: A police academy year? (laughs)
 
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Q: Between the other mangakas, which ones inspired you the most to pursue your objectives?<br>
 
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A: Tetsuya Chiba-sensei, Monkey Punch-sensei and Mitsuru Adachi-sensei.
 
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Q: In 1987, Magic Kaito; in 1988 Yaiba; in 1994 Detective Conan... Such important works have been published one after another. What do you think about Conan's popularity?<br>
 
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Q: How many staff people are there at [your] workplace? What is the atmosphere like?<br>
 
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A: I once went to Huis Ten Bosch* during a company outing with Aoyama Prod.<br>
 
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A: Speaking about Nagasaki, for the main theme song of "Zero the Enforcer" I am much obliged to Masaharu Fukuyama! I really enjoyed Huis Ten Bosch, and I would like to go there again. I wanna try authentic Nagasaki Vegetable Salad! (laughs)<br>
 
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Yasuichiro Yamamoto
  
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TV Anime & Movie Director
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Megumi Hayashibara:
 
  
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Q: Haibara made her debut in the anime in January, 1999. This year is the 20th anniversary of that debut.<br>
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Q: When you assumed your role as the director of the TV series, it was around the time Haibara made her debut.<br>
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A: Her debut was the end of the century, yes. The age fits that occasion, yes. I was familiar with the cast of the “Conan” characters so I had no resistance in joining them. I’d often acted together with Ogata Kenichi (Agasa VA), and Takayama Minami (Conan VA) also politely taught me many things.<br>
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A: Truth to be told, her debut episode, 129… I saw most of it for the first time when it aired. It’d been worked on before I became director, so…
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The tale about (Takayama’s) debut did impress me a lot. You could say that she showed a general outlook in the 1st episode (of the series) and the guidelines were established upon that. I was confident that I would do well with her.
 
  
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Q: How have you felt Haibara’s changes and growth over these 20 years?<br>
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Q: And then you directed the 2004 movie, “Magician of the silver wings”.<br>
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A: At first, she was shutting everything within her heart, but…  The Professor’s warmth, and his lack of concern gradually heals her and allows her to regain a human flavor-like aspect to her. The Detective Boys also try to cheer her and it’s not like they force themselves to do so. The casual everyday convos make her shed tears, too.<br>
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A: I think that the first time Conan called Haibara “pal” was in the script of the 2007 movie, “Azure Jolly Roger”. The script was by Kawashibara. I thought that Aoyama-sensei would correct it but it went sans a hitch. I was “ah, then it’s fine!”. And that’s when I feel like that Haibara’s directionaly was set, with her being his “pal”.  
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Also, sharing her secret with Kudo, who’s in the same situation as her, she gains the feeling that she’s not the only one (in that state). In episodes 822-823 (“The suspects are a devoted couple”), she went to great extremes… Yes! (laughs)<br>
 
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She did support Higo, but to think she’d butt into the issue of (his) girlfriend… Her scene in which she syncs with Uncle (Kogoro). I was like “Huh? What’s gotten into her?” (laughs).<br>
 
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I was “Ai-chan can now make these faces”. It’s perplexing but I’m also happy at it. Even if she’s told “you’re pretty nervous”, I guess she’d reply “that’s not the case”. But it’s not like the issues with the organization have been solved, so she can’t lower the guard!
 
  
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Q: You returned to being TV series director in 2012.<br>
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A: I stop to think at how much her heart must have moved. Trying to examine the max values of how to express emotions… I guess? She’s a girl who doesn’t express gratitude with her face or words so I do (think) about how to express her human side.<br>
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A: In episode 684, “Bubbles, steam and smoke (1st part)”, I had Okiya say something uncalled for, and Aoyama-sensei did scold me (laughs).<br>
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“A pretty unreliable knight, aren’t you?”<br>
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“I’ll protect you even if I stake my life on it, princess”<br>
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I added that conversation because we had some length of the episode to fill in. Since it wasn’t clear that Okiya = Akai then I thought it’d be fine but… (laughs). Haibara’s character has changed a lot lately, compared to her debut.<br>
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Q: Please tell us about “Episode ONE”, which aired on December 2016<br>
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A: I am sorry, but I didn’t see it when it aired. It was very harsh to re-confirm that her sister existed after hearing her voice… When I met with (Tamagawa) Sakiko (Akemi VA) in the studio (continues in next page)
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A: We had to swell the story of the 1st episode so the first ideas were the initial and last Sherry scenes. I had Aoyama-sensei check as well. The coffee beans and the satou being in a drug vial was an homage to a SF novel named “Inherit the stars”. I thought it’d be neat, since it’d feel like (what a) scientist (would do).<br>
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Her crossing paths with Shinichi and leading her to realize he’s shrunk was something that I thought during the making, was like “ah, this’ll do fine” and I decided on it.
  
  
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A: (continues from previous page) it was very fun. We talked about recent status and so. But when her part in the dubbing ended, I felt like “Ah… I can’t hear to her voice anymore”... I guess that the episode of the answering machine in the film “Countdown to Heaven” stuck a nail on me. I loved hearing to her voice during the pre-screening (of the movie).<br>
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Animation director, director, animator. Has been in “Detective Conan” when it began airing in 1996, and began directing when episode 119. He’s been working in the movies since the 1st one and has been director from the 8th one to the 14th one. In 2012 he went back to being TV series director and has also been in charge of special programs and so.
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Now you have SNS and videos amongst other seals to feel the traces of that person, but you could say that, back in those times, the answering machine was the only one. The voice alone brings a lot of memories, it does. I think she does care about her big sister.<br>
 
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Those feelings revive so that’s why I avoided “Episode ONE”... But I did face it. And it was harsh, indeed. And once again I felt that I’d done something terrible. The drug that I (Haibara) had made tore apart two people who were happy. I guess that back then (Episode ONE) improving the results of her research was the only meaningful (thing) in her life. If it’d been used for treating diseases or so, had been given a correct use, it might’ve been a great drug but…
 
  
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A: Lately, it feels harmonizing, as if they were an old couple married to each other! There were periods in which (the relationship) sways, too. It doesn’t go to the point of love, but I think they believe and rely on each other.<br>
 
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As of now, you could say it’s a tie… You (Conan) move, and I (Haibara) investigate… It feels like those roles have been established and thus their feelings aren’t too disrupted, I guess. I myself have changed, too.<br>
 
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I lately sit next to Minami during dubbing. She doesn’t get to interact (often) with Ran so I don’t get to met her (VA) in the dubbings… And I got shocked when I saw Wakana (Ran VA) sitting next to Minami during the movie dubbings!  I was like “ah? That’s not my seat?”. I did think “oh??” while choosing a seat from where I could have a good look at both (laughs).<br>
 
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And that seat is the one next to the professor’s (Agasa’s) and is my current location. At some point, Micchan (Ootani Ikue, Mitsuhiko VA) comes next to us too… There’s a battle over the seats inside of me and I was in an ill mood for a while. But as time passes, and even more when seeing “Episode ONE”... I feel like “sorry for that” (laughs).
 
  
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Q: What episode left an impression in you?<br>
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A: Hmmm… “Pal, huh? (For now)”. I think it’s just in relation as the “pal” to solve a case. Each movie has a different way to depict their relationships. In the “Sunflowers of inferno”, for example, she was shown swaying from time to time. So I guess she must have those feelings. She must be shutting them within her depths.
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A: I guess it’s episode 247 “The mystery caught in the net (2nd part)”, when she (Haibara) introduces herself to Ran. Looks like there are some in the streets who take it as a declaration of war, but is it the case…? (laughs)<br>
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She feels like she’s blown it away…? Or so I think…<br>
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In “The disappearance of Edogawa Conan”, the scriptwriter Uchida Kenji got to like Haibara so he got very excited (laughs)<br>
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But after the dubbing ended, Hayashibara told us “she blew it away, so why are you making this?” (laughs).<br>
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In some of the movies… In “The Detectives’ Requiem”, she acted like an uneasy child or how she got beaten up by one of the culprits in “The Lost Ship of the Skies”. The gap between cute and cool is fun to make.
  
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Q: That gap is her charm, yes?<br>
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A: Wow. Now that’s a difficult (question). I guess that the (feeling) within her depths is a feeling of guilt. She likes her cute spots and feels a bit envious. And she sees her sister on her… She feels healed, but she probably thinks “it’s not like you’re the one who made me remember about my sis” afterwards. She’s indecise.
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A: The answer isn’t that simple. She originally was a grown up girl, but when she’s with the kids she feels like she’s their big sis. I think I like it most when she’s with the DBs. But the animation is hard given how there’s so many characters (onscreen) (laughs)
  
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A: She can lash out at Conan, so… She talks about 70% of the feelings and falsifies the remaining 30%, but… There’s many things about Ran that she can’t express in words. She briefly thinks “let’s tell her all I want to say” but then erases that line of thought (laughs).<br>
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A: Hard to say… Even if Conan puts distance with Haibara and beats the org, I’m not sure whether she’ll agree with him on that. If she doesn’t get involved, she might feel like the issue hasn’t been solved…<br>
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I hope it ends up in peace. But it depends on Aoyama-sensei, though (laughs)
  
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Q: What do you think about the progress in Ran and Shinichi’s relationship in the school trip episodes?<br>
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A: She can accept their relationship, but feels rough when it’s about Conan and Ran. Maybe she’ll make a drug to split (Conan and Shinichi) into two… Kidding (laughs)<br>
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A: We’re doing our best while thinking about her, so please watch on with warmth to what’s coming next. By the way, I recently use a Tanita weight scale and she scolds me “don’t neglect exercise” (laughs)<br>
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I do clearly switch the switches when calling him either “Edogawa-kun” or “Kudou-kun” in the dubbing (sessions). The premise is that she’s an elementary student but has a bit of adult feeling to her.
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At some point I’ve become older than Professor Agasa (laughs).
  
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Caption: the “I’ll show you something interesting” line is one spot where Aoyama-sensei intervened. It’d seem it originally was different words but with similar contents.
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A: I love them! (laughs). The Professor is hiding her, but she’s strict to him about food and he lowers his eyebrows, overwhelmed. How cute she is! She’s also curious about the (relationship) with Fusae, too. She wishes for him to be happy… “Ah! It’s the person of the Fusae brand which you like, Ai-chan!” “Marry her, Professor… I’ll be able to get tons of bag samples!” (laughs)<br>
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Kidding. Well, her desire to possess is linked to life-force too! (continues next page)
 
  
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===Kappei Yamaguchi M23 interview===
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'''Date:''' April 2, 2019
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'''Source:'''<br>
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[https://natalie.mu/comic/pp/conan-movie2019 Raw]<br>
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[https://wsstalkback.blogspot.com/2019/04/detective-conan-fist-of-blue-sapphire.html Translation]
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──今日、初めて「紺青の拳」の試写をご覧になったんですよね（取材は4月2日の完成披露舞台挨拶の前に行われた）。
  
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観てきました。面白かったですよ！ 収録のときはまだ画が完成していないのと、音楽や効果音も入っていない状態なので、全体が見えるわけじゃないんです。なので改めて完成したものを観て、これはみんなワクワクする作品になったんじゃないかと思いました。それにしてもかなりスケールの大きな作品になったなという感じはしましたね。なかなかね、人間離れした人たちがたくさん出てくるから（笑）。
  
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A: The 3 DBs are very cute and attractive. I feel like a mother to them. I’d rather keep them out of danger than solve a case… Since Kudou-kun will solve it, anyway.
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──はい。後半は驚きの連続で、1回観ただけでは処理しきれない感じがありました（笑）。
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I guess she shows her meaning of existence by protecting the kids. She does wish to be protected, too, but doing nothing but that would be stiff and harsh.
 
  
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Q: She sometimes cooperates with the DB to face big crises.<br>
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そうなんですよ。収録のときも画面がどうなっているかわからないから、「えっ、これってどうなってるの？ まさかこうなってるの？」なんてみんなで話していて。あそこまで突き抜けた作品になったら、これはこれで楽しいなって思います。なんかもう、「ダイ・ハード」みたいになってましたよね（笑）。
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A: She’s pretty cool-headed. Since she’s actually driven herself to the point of dying. And she still feels, sometimes, that she should die… And that’s why she can be cool. I think she earned her strength by leaving the organization. Not because she experienced a frightening organization, but because she’s still alive after running from there.
 
  
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──そうですね（笑）。推理シーンに勝るぐらい、アクションのインパクトがすごいことになっているなと。
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A: Sheesh! It’s a complicated topic, and it’s hard to answer! (laughs)<br>
 
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How much suspicion she puts in her words and how much of it she lashes out at him...She’s very good at considering those, yes. Voicing them aloud and avoiding lying… That’s Ai-chan for you (laughs)<br>
 
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Also, Ikeda Shuichi’s voice is, for me, a “peaceful trauma”. In “Tico of the 7 seas”, the protagonist I voice is kidnapped, his father, played by Ikeda, comes to rescue him and says “it’s alright!”, but… When I heard that, I broke into tears.<br>
 
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“Ah, it’s really alright”... I felt incredibly relieved. That imprinting made me feel that Akai wasn’t a bad guy ever since he made his debut. There’s a kind of link between the actors and the roles they play.<br>
 
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But I didn’t feel that from Subaru so I was on the watchout when he firstly appeared (laughs). Okiayu’s (Subaru VA) oozing voice and mysterious feeling (?).... <br>
 
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Eating curry or adding litmus paper to the stew… Inspector Ayanokouji, also voiced by him, is charming, but… When he becomes Subaru you can’t trust him. I think it’s wonderful (laughs)
 
  
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Q: What about the org chasing Haibara?<br>
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もちろん謎解きも見どころなんですが、その印象を上回る派手さがありますよね。でも今回は怪盗キッドが出てくる話なので、これくらい派手でいいのかなと思います。
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A: When it’s an episode involving them, I don’t feel like going to the studio. I don’t want to bump into Gin… When Gin thinks of Sherry, she was (shown) half-nude, but… Why? (laughs) I don’t want to know the reason of (his) obsession (with her), either. Because I’ll have to take it in if I got to know it.<br>
 
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Bun Gin also makes mistakes, and gives a “snap” feeling. Vermouth’s confidence is scary. Feels like she (Vermouth) would betray the org, too. Also… I don’t want to get involved with Amuro (laughs).<br>
 
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He’s 120% cool on the outside, but his “on-off switch” is quite baffling. Since he also intended to kill Sherry… Huh? That he might’ve been intending to protect her as a PSB officer?
 
  
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Q: It’s possible that he was shocked at being unable to protect the daughter of Elena, whom he revered.<br>
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──怪盗キッドが劇場版に登場するのは、2015年に公開された「名探偵コナン 業火の向日葵」以来、4年ぶりとなります。メインキャラクターとして劇場版に登場することが決まったときはどう感じられましたか？
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A; Feel it, then, feel it! (laughs)<br>
 
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Thinking of it from the PoV of him being in the org, his skills at infiltrating and his ability to fascinate others, he’s quite the outstanding type. I really don’t want to end up liking him so I feel like not getting close to him (laughs). I think that I’ll waver if I have some odd emotion going on.<br>
 
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I, as Ai-chan, I don’t want to make any more “dear persons”. Because I’ll be unable to let go of them.
 
  
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Q: The org’s pursuit has cooled down, but what kind of developments do you expect to happen?<br>
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案外早かったなという印象でした。毎年本編の最後に来年の劇場版の告知があるので、（昨年公開された）「ゼロの執行人」の収録のときはもう次回作のメインキャラクターがキッドになることは聞いていたんです。それがもう1年半くらい前になるんですかね。もう少し空くかなと思っていたのですが。
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A: “Oh, no! Because Vermouth knows that (Haibara) is alive, you know? But that’s why… Aoyama-sensei is drawing a brighter Ai-chan. She’s becoming a normal girl. I’d like to say “it’s alright”. But if that happens then the work will end so (laughs)<br>
 
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Development in which she faces the regrets and self-condemnation within her, and involvements with the org that’ll make me skip a heartbeat… I predict that that’s what’ll happen. But until then I want to enjoy the everyday routine.<br>
 
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I was very shocked at seeing her family, who were recently shown in the manga!
 
  
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Q: Please give us a message for the fans. <br>
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──「名探偵コナン」は長らく国民的アニメとして愛されていますが、2013年から6年連続で劇場版の興行収入を更新するなど、近年ますます注目が集まっていると感じます。そんなタイミングで、怪盗キッドがメインとなる劇場版が公開されるわけですが……。
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A: The swing width of “Ai-chan likeness” has expanded but her unmelting ice is within me so… She looks cute but scary at the same time… I hope you love her with a broad sight.
 
  
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Caption: Episode 231, the bus hijack. And the line in episode 280 “you’ll protect me, won’t you?” was a topic during the interview.
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興行収入を更新しているというのも、スタッフ一同としては、一生懸命作ったものに対してのご褒美のようなものと捉えていて、なので今回もいつも通り楽しく収録させていただきました。
  
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──本編の内容を思い返してみても、収録現場はとても楽しそうです。
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Born March 30th. Tokyo Province. Main works: “Ranma ½” as female Ranma, “Slayers” as Lina Inverse, “Evangelion” as Ayanami Ray, “Cowboy Bebop” as Fey, etc.
 
  
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「コナン」はいろいろな事件が起こる作品ではあるんですが、収録自体はいたって和気あいあいと進むんです。劇場版は1日で録るので、今年も朝から夜の0時過ぎまで収録していました。その間はずっと集中していたわけですけど、すごく楽しい収録だったなという印象が残っていますね。
  
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<u>'''京極さんは、安室さんとは真逆のタイプの人'''</u>
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──今回の劇場版では、京極真もキーパーソンとして活躍しています。劇場版で京極にスポットが当たるのは今回が初めてとなりますが。
  
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TV Anime & Movie Director
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京極さんはカッコいいですよね。僕は京極さんの不器用なところ嫌いじゃないです。園子に一途で、きっと空手と園子があればほかにはなんにもいらないんだろうなこの人は、みたいな感じがあって。でもその一途さが故に、愛情表現が不器用になってしまうところがある。去年の（「ゼロの執行人」にメインキャラクターとして登場した）安室さんとは真逆にいるようなタイプの人ですよね。
  
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Q: When you assumed your role as the director of the TV series, it was around the time Haibara made her debut.<br>
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──純朴でちょっと天然な一面があったり、安室透とはまた違った魅力を持っていますよね。
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A: Truth to be told, her debut episode, 129… I saw most of it for the first time when it aired. It’d been worked on before I became director, so…
 
  
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あとは“漢”と書いて“おとこ”と読むみたいな部分もある（笑）。この劇場版を通して、京極さんのことを好きになる人はきっと多いんじゃないかなと思います。ただ、彼はもはや人間ではなくなってきているなって（笑）。クライマックスでも1人だけオーラが立ち昇って、もう別ジャンルのキャラクターになってましたからね。キッド個人としては、あまり関わりたくないです（笑）。
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A: I think that the first time Conan called Haibara “pal” was in the script of the 2007 movie, “Azure Jolly Roger”. The script was by Kawashibara. I thought that Aoyama-sensei would correct it but it went sans a hitch. I was “ah, then it’s fine!”. And that’s when I feel like that Haibara’s directionaly was set, with her being his “pal”.
 
  
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Q: You returned to being TV series director in 2012.<br>
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──園子はキッドのことになるとつい「キッド様」と目を輝かせてしまうので、京極の嫉妬の矛先はそのままキッドに向いてしまいます。
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A: In episode 684, “Bubbles, steam and smoke (1st part)”, I had Okiya say something uncalled for, and Aoyama-sensei did scold me (laughs).<br>
 
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“A pretty unreliable knight, aren’t you?”<br>
 
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“I’ll protect you even if I stake my life on it, princess”<br>
 
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I added that conversation because we had some length of the episode to fill in. Since it wasn’t clear that Okiya = Akai then I thought it’d be fine but… (laughs). Haibara’s character has changed a lot lately, compared to her debut.<br>
 
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It’s fun to make episodes in which she bounces, thinking that she doesn’t need to be so tense and can have it easier.
 
  
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Q: Please tell us about “Episode ONE”, which aired on December 2016<br>
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そうなんですよ。だから園子にはもう少し静かにしていてほしいですね（笑）。でも今回の劇場版の中で、キッドが京極さんとやり合うシーンがありますけど、なかなかに攻撃をかわしてますからね。キッドも相当じゃない？と。
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A: We had to swell the story of the 1st episode so the first ideas were the initial and last Sherry scenes. I had Aoyama-sensei check as well. The coffee beans and the satou being in a drug vial was an homage to a SF novel named “Inherit the stars”. I thought it’d be neat, since it’d feel like (what a) scientist (would do).<br>
 
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Her crossing paths with Shinichi and leading her to realize he’s shrunk was something that I thought during the making, was like “ah, this’ll do fine” and I decided on it.
 
  
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──かわすほうが技術が必要だったりしますもんね。
  
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そうそう、だからキッドは身体能力が高いんだなと思いました。
  
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Animation director, director, animator. Has been in “Detective Conan” when it began airing in 1996, and began directing when episode 119. He’s been working in the movies since the 1st one and has been director from the 8th one to the 14th one. In 2012 he went back to being TV series director and has also been in charge of special programs and so.
 
  
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<u>'''キッドからコナンに対する信頼'''</u>
  
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Q: What episode left an impression in you?<br>
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──今回はキッドとコナンが共闘するシーンも見どころの1つだと思います。「天空の難破船（ロスト・シップ）」の収録の際は、コナン役の高山みなみさんと「コナンとキッドの距離が近づきすぎているかもしれないから、もう少し離れてみようか」というお話をされたそうですが、今回の劇場版でのキッドとコナンの距離感はいかがでしょうか？
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A: I guess it’s episode 247 “The mystery caught in the net (2nd part)”, when she (Haibara) introduces herself to Ran. Looks like there are some in the streets who take it as a declaration of war, but is it the case…? (laughs)<br>
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She feels like she’s blown it away…? Or so I think…<br>
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いい距離感だと思いますよ。決して近からず、遠からずというか。やっぱりお互い信頼はおいていると思うんですけれど、根本にある“怪盗”と“探偵”という距離感は保っている。完成した映像を観て、改めていい距離感だなと思いました。
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In “The disappearance of Edogawa Conan”, the scriptwriter Uchida Kenji got to like Haibara so he got very excited (laughs)<br>
 
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But after the dubbing ended, Hayashibara told us “she blew it away, so why are you making this?” (laughs).<br>
 
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In some of the movies… In “The Detectives’ Requiem”, she acted like an uneasy child or how she got beaten up by one of the culprits in “The Lost Ship of the Skies”. The gap between cute and cool is fun to make.
 
  
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Q: That gap is her charm, yes?<br>
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──収録中、そのあたりについて高山さんとはお話しされたんですか。
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A: The answer isn’t that simple. She originally was a grown up girl, but when she’s with the kids she feels like she’s their big sis. I think I like it most when she’s with the DBs. But the animation is hard given how there’s so many characters (onscreen) (laughs)
 
  
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今回の劇場版では、コナンくんとキッドが、お互いに集めてきた情報をまとめていくような会話のシーンが多い。なので「これは説明としてどうだろう？」とか、そういったことは話しましたね。キャラクターそのものについてはお互い信頼しているし、言わずもがなの部分ではあるので。そういったことよりも、台本上でキッドがコナンに頼りすぎているかなと感じた部分があれば、セリフの捉え方やニュアンスで変化をつけたり、ちょっと言葉を入れ替えてみようかとか、そういったことについてよく話し合っていました。
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A: Hard to say… Even if Conan puts distance with Haibara and beats the org, I’m not sure whether she’ll agree with him on that. If she doesn’t get involved, she might feel like the issue hasn’t been solved…<br>
 
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I hope it ends up in peace. But it depends on Aoyama-sensei, though (laughs)
 
  
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Q: Please give us a message for the fans!<br>
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──コナンに頼らずとも、キッドはキッドで考えて動いていると。
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A: We’re doing our best while thinking about her, so please watch on with warmth to what’s coming next. By the way, I recently use a Tanita weight scale and she scolds me “don’t neglect exercise” (laughs)<br>
 
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At some point I’ve become older than Professor Agasa (laughs).
 
  
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Caption: the “I’ll show you something interesting” line is one spot where Aoyama-sensei intervened. It’d seem it originally was different words but with similar contents.
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キッドもそれなりに切れ者なので。これぐらいの真実だったらキッド個人でも辿り着くことができるんじゃないかなと思う部分があれば、そういったところのニュアンスを相談したりします。ただ、推理はコナンくんのお家芸なので。そこはキッドもコナンを信頼しているところではあると思うんです。
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===Kappei Yamaguchi M23 interview===
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──これまでのシリーズでもキッドとコナンが共闘するシーンはありましたが、今作は今まで以上に2人が一緒にいる時間が長かったですよね。
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'''Date:''' April 2, 2019
 
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[https://wsstalkback.blogspot.com/2019/04/detective-conan-fist-of-blue-sapphire.html Translation]
 
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<u>'''なんかもう、「ダイ・ハード」みたいになっていた'''</u>
 
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──今日、初めて「紺青の拳」の試写をご覧になったんですよね（取材は4月2日の完成披露舞台挨拶の前に行われた）。
 
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観てきました。面白かったですよ！ 収録のときはまだ画が完成していないのと、音楽や効果音も入っていない状態なので、全体が見えるわけじゃないんです。なので改めて完成したものを観て、これはみんなワクワクする作品になったんじゃないかと思いました。それにしてもかなりスケールの大きな作品になったなという感じはしましたね。なかなかね、人間離れした人たちがたくさん出てくるから（笑）。
 
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──はい。後半は驚きの連続で、1回観ただけでは処理しきれない感じがありました（笑）。
 
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そうなんですよ。収録のときも画面がどうなっているかわからないから、「えっ、これってどうなってるの？ まさかこうなってるの？」なんてみんなで話していて。あそこまで突き抜けた作品になったら、これはこれで楽しいなって思います。なんかもう、「ダイ・ハード」みたいになってましたよね（笑）。
 
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──そうですね（笑）。推理シーンに勝るぐらい、アクションのインパクトがすごいことになっているなと。
 
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もちろん謎解きも見どころなんですが、その印象を上回る派手さがありますよね。でも今回は怪盗キッドが出てくる話なので、これくらい派手でいいのかなと思います。
 
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──怪盗キッドが劇場版に登場するのは、2015年に公開された「名探偵コナン 業火の向日葵」以来、4年ぶりとなります。メインキャラクターとして劇場版に登場することが決まったときはどう感じられましたか？
 
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案外早かったなという印象でした。毎年本編の最後に来年の劇場版の告知があるので、（昨年公開された）「ゼロの執行人」の収録のときはもう次回作のメインキャラクターがキッドになることは聞いていたんです。それがもう1年半くらい前になるんですかね。もう少し空くかなと思っていたのですが。
 
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──「名探偵コナン」は長らく国民的アニメとして愛されていますが、2013年から6年連続で劇場版の興行収入を更新するなど、近年ますます注目が集まっていると感じます。そんなタイミングで、怪盗キッドがメインとなる劇場版が公開されるわけですが……。
 
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興行収入を更新しているというのも、スタッフ一同としては、一生懸命作ったものに対してのご褒美のようなものと捉えていて、なので今回もいつも通り楽しく収録させていただきました。
 
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──本編の内容を思い返してみても、収録現場はとても楽しそうです。
 
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「コナン」はいろいろな事件が起こる作品ではあるんですが、収録自体はいたって和気あいあいと進むんです。劇場版は1日で録るので、今年も朝から夜の0時過ぎまで収録していました。その間はずっと集中していたわけですけど、すごく楽しい収録だったなという印象が残っていますね。
 
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<u>'''京極さんは、安室さんとは真逆のタイプの人'''</u>
 
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──今回の劇場版では、京極真もキーパーソンとして活躍しています。劇場版で京極にスポットが当たるのは今回が初めてとなりますが。
 
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京極さんはカッコいいですよね。僕は京極さんの不器用なところ嫌いじゃないです。園子に一途で、きっと空手と園子があればほかにはなんにもいらないんだろうなこの人は、みたいな感じがあって。でもその一途さが故に、愛情表現が不器用になってしまうところがある。去年の（「ゼロの執行人」にメインキャラクターとして登場した）安室さんとは真逆にいるようなタイプの人ですよね。
 
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──純朴でちょっと天然な一面があったり、安室透とはまた違った魅力を持っていますよね。
 
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あとは“漢”と書いて“おとこ”と読むみたいな部分もある（笑）。この劇場版を通して、京極さんのことを好きになる人はきっと多いんじゃないかなと思います。ただ、彼はもはや人間ではなくなってきているなって（笑）。クライマックスでも1人だけオーラが立ち昇って、もう別ジャンルのキャラクターになってましたからね。キッド個人としては、あまり関わりたくないです（笑）。
 
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──園子はキッドのことになるとつい「キッド様」と目を輝かせてしまうので、京極の嫉妬の矛先はそのままキッドに向いてしまいます。
 
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そうなんですよ。だから園子にはもう少し静かにしていてほしいですね（笑）。でも今回の劇場版の中で、キッドが京極さんとやり合うシーンがありますけど、なかなかに攻撃をかわしてますからね。キッドも相当じゃない？と。
 
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──かわすほうが技術が必要だったりしますもんね。
 
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そうそう、だからキッドは身体能力が高いんだなと思いました。
 
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<u>'''キッドからコナンに対する信頼'''</u>
 
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──今回はキッドとコナンが共闘するシーンも見どころの1つだと思います。「天空の難破船（ロスト・シップ）」の収録の際は、コナン役の高山みなみさんと「コナンとキッドの距離が近づきすぎているかもしれないから、もう少し離れてみようか」というお話をされたそうですが、今回の劇場版でのキッドとコナンの距離感はいかがでしょうか？
 
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いい距離感だと思いますよ。決して近からず、遠からずというか。やっぱりお互い信頼はおいていると思うんですけれど、根本にある“怪盗”と“探偵”という距離感は保っている。完成した映像を観て、改めていい距離感だなと思いました。
 
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──収録中、そのあたりについて高山さんとはお話しされたんですか。
 
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今回の劇場版では、コナンくんとキッドが、お互いに集めてきた情報をまとめていくような会話のシーンが多い。なので「これは説明としてどうだろう？」とか、そういったことは話しましたね。キャラクターそのものについてはお互い信頼しているし、言わずもがなの部分ではあるので。そういったことよりも、台本上でキッドがコナンに頼りすぎているかなと感じた部分があれば、セリフの捉え方やニュアンスで変化をつけたり、ちょっと言葉を入れ替えてみようかとか、そういったことについてよく話し合っていました。
 
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──コナンに頼らずとも、キッドはキッドで考えて動いていると。
 
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キッドもそれなりに切れ者なので。これぐらいの真実だったらキッド個人でも辿り着くことができるんじゃないかなと思う部分があれば、そういったところのニュアンスを相談したりします。ただ、推理はコナンくんのお家芸なので。そこはキッドもコナンを信頼しているところではあると思うんです。
 
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──これまでのシリーズでもキッドとコナンが共闘するシーンはありましたが、今作は今まで以上に2人が一緒にいる時間が長かったですよね。
 
  
 
そうですね。ずーっと一緒にいますからね。コナンくんをシンガポールに連れてきたのもキッドですし。でもひどいですよね、スーツケースに入れて連れてくるなんて（笑）。
 
そうですね。ずーっと一緒にいますからね。コナンくんをシンガポールに連れてきたのもキッドですし。でもひどいですよね、スーツケースに入れて連れてくるなんて（笑）。
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=== Gosho Aoyama x Eiichiro Oda OVER 100 Miracle Talk ===
 
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=== Gosho Aoyama x Yoshiharu Habu Special Conversation ===
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Hints and Extras
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From Gosho
  Interviews with Gosho
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  Super Digest Book Questions
  Let's Talk Day Events
  "Truth in ..." Keyframe Booklets
  Questions from Shonen Sunday
From others
  Next Conan's Hint
  Joke Card
  Staff's Secret Talk

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Contents

1994

Newtype Magazine "Comic Now" Interview

Date: August 9, 1994
Published in: Newtype Vol. 10, no. 9 (Cover date September 1994)


1997

Detective Conan's Mystery Museum Interview

Date: June 10, 1997


Detective Conan's Mystery Academy Interview

Date: September 10, 1997


1999

Gosho Aoyama's Masterpiece Theatre (Favorite Movies)

Date: April 14, 1999
Published in: Weekly Shonen Sunday, Vol. 41, no. 21 (Cover date April 28, 1999)


2003

Complete Color Works Interview Aoyama x Takayama

Date: May 1, 2003

Conan Drill Official Book Interview

Date: May 1, 2003
Published in: Conan Drill Official Book


2004

Love Conan Interview

Date: March 31, 2004

Conan Vs Kaitou Kid Perfect Edition

Date: April 2, 2004
Published in: Detective Conan vs. Kaitou Kid: Perfect Edition (p. 169)


2005

Unknown Fan Gathering

Note: In a later interview (Gosho Aoyama Interview about the Boss 2017), Gosho denied ever saying this and his editor too said that such an interview never happened. This turned out to be a hoax.


2006

Anime 10 Year Anniversary Interview #1

Date: January 6, 2006
Published in: NTV's website

Asahi Newspaper Interview

Date: January 13, 2006
Published in: Asahi Evening Newspaper
Key Plot Point: Boss's name has already appeared.

Comic-Salon Erlangen, Germany Interview

Date: June 17, 2006
Held at: Press conference at Comic-Salon in Erlangen, Germany

Anime 10 Year Anniversary Interview #2

Date: ?? ,2006
Published in: Yomiuri Television (YTV) website

10 Year Cinema Guide interview

Date: ??, 2006
Published in: ??

Mini Documentary: Secret of Creation

Date: December, 2006


2007

Magic Kaito Volume 4 Interview

Date: March 15, 2007
Published in: Magic Kaito Volume 4

Urusei Yatsura Interview

Date: September 18, 2007
Published in: Urusei Yatsura Volume 21

Akigoro Interview

Date: ??, 2007
Published in: ??


2008

Conan and Kindaichi Files Interview #1

Date: April 10, 2008
Published in: Detective Conan & Kindaichi Case files #1

Otona Fami Interview #1

Date: April 21, 2008
Published in: Otona Fami(Adult Family), June issue


2009

Shonen Sunday Interview #1

Date: March 27, 2009
Published in: Weekly Shonen Sunday #17
no script available

Shonen Sunday 50th Anniversary Interview

Date: July 15, 2009
Published in: Shonen Sunday 1983 (A special issue commemorating Sunday's 50 years of publishing.)

Conan and Lupin Interview #1

Date: ??, 2009
Published in: ??


2010

Gundam Ace Interview

Date: January 26, 2010
Published in: Gundam Ace March issue

Otona Fami Interview #2

Date: April 20, 2010
Published in: Otona Fami (Adult Family), June issue

Masters Of Manga Interview

Date: July 6, 2010
Published in: Masters of Manga


2011

Otona Fami Interview #3

Date: April 20, 2011
Published in: Otona Fami (Adult Family), June issue

Mystery Magazine Interview

Date: April 25, 2011
Published in: Mystery Magazine, June issue

Nihon Uiversity College of Art Lecture Interview

Date: 26 June, 2011

Club Sunday Interview

Date: October 28, 2011

Magic Kaitou Treasured Editions: Playback Episode Interviews

Published in: Magic Kaitou Treasured Editions released throughout 2011


2012

Monthly BLT Interview

Date April 24, 2012
Published in: Monthly BLT, June issue

Sankei News Interview

Date: June 23, 2012

Gosho's True Intentions Interview

Date: November, 2012


2013

Movie 17 Interview with Aoyama Gosho and Shibasaki Kou

Date: April, 2013

Otona Fami Interview #4

Date: June 2013

Shonen Sunday Special Booklet

Date: July 17, 2013

Shonen Sunday Lupin Vs Conan Secret Report

Date: November 20, 2013

Lupin the Third VS Detective Conan: Money Punch and Aoyama Gosho Interview

Date: December 04, 2013

Monkey Punch and Gosho Aoyama Special Talk

Date: ???, 2013
Published in: Official website of "Lupin the Third VS Detective Conan The Movie"


2014

Monthly Conan Newspaper 2014

Date: March, 2014 (Part 1) and April, 2014 (Part 2)
Published in: Monthly Conan Newspaper, March and April edition

AnimeAnime Interview

Date: (before) April 18, 2014

Da Vinci Interviews

Date: May, 2014
Published in: da Vinci magazine, May issue

Detective Conan Character Visual Book Interviews

Date: September, 2014

Otona Fami Interview #5

Date: November 20, 2013
Published in: Otona Fami (Adult Family), January issue of 2014


2016

Gosho Aoyama X Yomuri Giants' Hayato Sakamoto

Date: March 16, 2016
Published in: Shonen Sunday #16

CimemaToday Movie 20 interview

Date: April 14, 2016

Animedia Interview

Date: May 10, 2016
Published in: Animedia, June issue

Asahi Newspaper Interview

Date: July 16, 2016

Gosho Singapore visit Interview

Date: November 12-13, 2016
Held at: Singapore Writers Festival, Singapore

Akai and Amuro Secret Files Voice Actors Interview

Date: November 29, 2016

20th Anniversary DVD collection guidebook interviews

Complete Color Works Interview

20 Year Cinema Guide interviews



2017

Movie 21 Guidebook Interviews

Date: April 12, 2017
Published in: Movie 21 Guidebook

News Zero Interview

Date: Mid April, 2017

Heiji and Kazuha Secret Archives Interviews

Date: May 9, 2017
Published in:

Gosho NHK Interview

Date: June, 2017
Published in:

Magic Kaito Vol 5 Playback Episode

Date: July 18, 2017
Published in:

Gosho Aoyama 30 Years Anniversary Book

Date: October 16, 2017
Raw Images

Raw Text
Source: https://www.sbsub.com/posts/aoyama-30years/

Some Translation info

Interview with Detective Conan Producer Michihiko Suwa

Date: November 11, 2017

Gosho Aoyama Interview about the Boss

Date: November 30, 2017
Published in: Shonen Sunday Webry



2018

Shinichi and Ran Secret Archives VA interviews

Date: January 16, 2018

Movie 22 Guidebook Interview

Date: March 31, 2018

Interview on News Zero

Date: April 11, 2018

Takarakuzu College Interview

Date: April 15, 2018
Held at: Takarakuza College

"Truth in Zero" Booklet

Date: April 24, 2018

Amuro Toru/Bourbon/Furuya Rei Secret Archives PLUS

Date: May 7, 2018

Special Conan Movie Staff interview

Date: May 23, 2018
Published in: Shonen Sunday Super

Da Vinci Magazine 2018 interview

Date: December 6, 2018
Published in: Da Vinci Magazine, January 2019 issue


2019

Nagasaki Newspaper New Years short interview

Date: January 1, 2019

Ai Haibara Secret Archives Interview

Date: January 18, 2019

Kappei Yamaguchi M23 interview

Date: April 2, 2019

Aoyama Gosho x Mitsuru Adachi Interview

The interview was split into 3 parts and published in 3 magazines.
Date: April 3, April 11, April 12, 2019

Da Vinci Magazine Cross Talk and Interviews

Date: April 5, 2019

NTV Interview

Date: Filmed March 13, Aired April 6, 2019

Cinema Guide 2019 Interview

Date: April 10, 2019

CUT Magazine Interviews

Date: April 19, 2019

Gosho Interview on 1周回って知らない話 (Tv Show)

Date: April 24, 2019

Anime Style Magazine Interview

Date: April 30th, 2019

Animedia Movie staff and character Interviews June issue

Date: May 10th, 2019

2020

Da Vinci Magazine 2020 Interview

Date: May 7, 2020
Published in: Da Vinci magazine, June 2020 issue

"This mystery is amazing!" Interview

Date: December 2020
Published in: "This mystery is amazing" magazine, 2021 edition

2021

ZIP Interview

Date: Aired on March 25, 2021

Da Vinci Magazine 2021 Interview

Date: April 6, 2021
Published in: Da Vinci Magazine, May 2021 issue

Movie 24 Production Staff Interview Collection

Date: April 22, 2021
Published in: https://www.kitkat-nelfei.com/2021/04/detective-conan-movie-scarlet-bullet.html

Shuichi, Masumi, Shukichi, and Mary Secret Archieves Interview

Date: May 18, 2021

Kappei Yamaguchi Volume 100 Interview

Date: October 13, 2021
Published in: Weekly Shonen Sunday issue 46/2021

Wakana Yamazaki Volume 100 Interview

Date: October 20, 2021
Published in: Weekly Shonen Sunday issue 47/2021

Megumi Hayashibara Volume 100 Interview

Date: October 25, 2021
Published in: Weekly Shonen Sunday S issue 12/2021

Minami Takayama Volume 100 Interview

Date: October 27, 2021
Published in: Weekly Shonen Sunday issue 48/2021

[世界はまんがで出来ている]Tokyo FM Volume 100 Special Interview - Featuring Detective Conan's Editor-In Charge, Gosho Aoyama, Takahiro Arai, and Mayuko Kanba

Date: October 23, 2021 and October 30, 2021

2022

Gosho Aoyama x Takahiro Arai Special Talk

Date: April 1, 2022 & April 7, 2022
Published in: Weekly Shonen Sunday issue 18/2022 & issue 19/2022

Gosho Aoyama x Eiichiro Oda OVER 100 Miracle Talk

Date: July 25, 2022 & July 27, 2022
Published in: Weekly Shonen Jump issue 34/2022 & Weekly Shonen Sunday issue 35/2022

Gosho Aoyama x Mayuko Kanba Special Talk

Date: September 28, 2022
Published in: Weekly Shonen Sunday issue 44/2022

2023

Gosho Aoyama x Yoshiharu Habu Special Conversation

Date: June 21, 2023
Published in: Weekly Shonen Sunday issue 30/2023

Gosho Aoyama x Keigo Higashino Special Talk

Date: December 5, 2023
Published in: "This mystery is amazing" magazine, 2024 edition

Gosho Aoyama Nippon TV Interview

Date: December 27, 2023
Published in: Nippon TV News Culture Youtube Channel

See Also

References

  1. ^ https://yesyunniechan.tumblr.com/post/149893527591/mystery-museum-interview-97-english-123 Part 1
  2. ^ https://yesyunniechan.tumblr.com/post/149940982821/end-mystery-museum-interview-97-english-4-5
  3. ^ https://yesyunniechan.tumblr.com/post/150147160606/love-conan-interview-2004-english
  4. ^ https://yesyunniechan.tumblr.com/post/150232943761/conan-vs-kaito-kid-perfect-edition-interview
  5. ^ https://yesyunniechan.tumblr.com/post/150234936186/urusei-yatsura-volume-21-interview-2007
  6. ^ https://yesyunniechan.tumblr.com/post/150517368956/2007s-autumn-interview-english-translation
  7. ^ https://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13033&start=15
  8. ^ https://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13033&start=15
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