Detective Conan

... While I do agree on this to one degree or the other w.r.t. the BO, I don't see how that would have any bearing on countering Kid's impersonations of Shinichi by the methods that I suggested (seriously, is it farfetched to have Conan call Ran as Shinichi, berate her for continually falling for the ploy, and then leave her with instructions on how to tell an impersonator from the real him^note Of course, I'd expect him to make sure that "permitted" impersonators (i.e. those who impersonate him with his own knowledge) would be told this little fact to avoid the plan backfiring on him.?).

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Viz Media inc is off the wagon again and is cracking down fansub scanners (And failing at attracting fans to their *cough* *cough* fail *cough* *cough* translated Detective Conan Americanized piece of shit). Files 901-902 were released though not translated though they would have been had the main issuer of the Detective Conan chapters not told to stop by Viz Media. So yeah, expect a delay on later chapters folks. Viz is being incredibly anal and retarded about this.

Sadly, Viz this isn't going to do anything and I'm not going to read your shit unless you change Jimmy's name back to Shinichi (The actual name). Until then sorry but fuck you guys.

"I don't give a rat's ass about going to hell. I guess it's because I feel like I'm already there." -Mugen

... Wait, Viz is actually using the Case Closed names instead of Detective Conan's original names? WTF, Viz?! Really, who are Viz and other companies trying to fool with their Dub Name Change practices anyway? You can't seriously tell me that the average Western reader is so xenophobic/nationalistic that s/he seriously prefers renaming the characters so that they fit their (the reader's) respective culture's dominant name norms instead of their real names, right?

edited 22nd Jul '14 11:56:03 AM by MarqFJA

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It's a contractual obligation thing. Back when they negotiated the rights for the manga,the Case Closed TV showings were supposedly the next big thing, and they were afraid the kiddies might be confused if the manga version had different names. And Viz is stuck with that until such time as they can renegotiate the contracts in a decade or so.

... In a decade?!! Of all the... <Face Palm> What are they thinking??

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(drumrolls)

And even despite this sad attempt at shutting down the online manga scanlations another group picked up Detective Conan.

Redo all the Detective Conan graphic novels viz and maybe I'll pick it up. Until then I don't give a shit about your Detective Conan.

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Guess who's getting his spiffy White Suit animated.

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Regsrding the current story...I wonder if Aoyama is watching Leverage, given who the victim was writing for

(probably not, it jst popped in my mind first))

edited 17th Sep '14 7:41:33 AM by 3of4

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You know what I'd like to see in this manga? Having Shin'ichi face a murder case where 1) the victim was an Asshole Victim who turns out to be a murderer himself (and an unrepentant one at that) who managed to hide his crime all these years, and 2) the vengeful culprit of the Asshole Victim's murder proceeded to commit suicide after his crime as self-punishment while orchestrating the whole thing to look like both deaths were purely accidental, because he still believes that what he did was wrong even though he was too angry/vengeful to not do it, and does not want a Cycle of Revenge to result from what he did between the Asshole Victim's family and his own. It would pose a serious moral dilemma for Shin'ichi: Should he follow his creed of standing by the truth no matter what, and risk starting the Cycle of Revenge that the culprit had hoped to prevent? Or should he admit that sometimes, telling the truth may not be worth the malice and bloodshed that it may inevitably generate?

edited 12th Oct '14 10:41:58 PM by MarqFJA

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For some reason, Crunchyroll starts to livestream DC from episode 754. Limited to US and Canada.

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So I just happened to look up the plot of the crossover movie with Lupin III after seeing pics of certain scenes from it.

Let me get this straight: There's a European fictional kingdom in this setting that not only was its late ruler possessing a Japanese name (Sakura), but her daughter with a suspiciously Japanese-like name (Mira) is the splitting image of Ran (though that's where the similarities end). As if Aoko being her veritable twin (save for her naturally shaggier hair) wasn't enough.

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Low and behold: the Conan Edogawa and the Hanin Figma!

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It's "Hannin"... and I am amazed that they made a figure specifically for this stock ambiguous silhouette stand-in for unidentified/unrevealed characters (not necessarily criminal culprits, mind you; I remember that it was used once in a scene that implied that it was the culprit stalking another character, but then they were quickly revealed to be one of the good guys who was sneaking around to find said culprit without rousing the other characters' suspicions/worries/irritation^note I think it was Conan, with Haibara being the one who found him out.).

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Guys, can you check this TRS post of mine and see if I got Sonoko's character right? Thanks in advance.

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This — or rather, the latter half of it — has got to be the funniest scene in the entire anime that I've ever seen. Seriously, props to whoever on the animation studio got the idea (assuming that it's an anime-exclusive filler episode/OVA and not something that Aoyama-sensei came up with in the manga).

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That episode was based on Chapter 674 - Chapter 676 of the manga.

Well, props go to Aoyama-sensei, then. I genuinely never expected to see Conan and Kid do anything close to forming an alliance (however temporary) outside of fanfics. I wonder what would Hakuba's reaction be if Kid decided to rub this unusual incident in his face. "Why can't you be like the little kid detective, Hakuba-kun? You wound my heart!"

edited 26th Jan '15 6:06:25 AM by MarqFJA

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Just found a little typo in one of the old Case Closed Manga. They wrote it as 5.98 times 104 Pascals of pressure. Pretty sure it should be 10 to the power of 4.

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I've been reading some of the articles on this Detective Conan wiki, and while reading the article on Takagi and Satou's relationship, I came across this very interesting fact that comes about 200 chapters/episodes after the couple's first kiss (and about a 100 chapters/episodes after their second and third kiss, incidentally).

Namely, "Takagi misunderstands and believes Sato is pregnant with his child, and he says he'll take full responsibility, and envisions them married◊."

... Takagi, Satou, is there something that you wish to share with the rest of us? Because I'm pretty sure there's no way Takagi would make such a misunderstanding if a certain something has been done by you two yet.

edited 27th Jul '15 5:53:22 PM by MarqFJA

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The strips make it pretty clear that they have been having sex. They just never actually say it because it is supposed to be for kids.

... Really, now? Wait, how on earth is a comic that regularly features grisly murders/suicides (with largely uncensored bloody corpses) and other such crime-related stuff is suitable for kids? I would've pegged this with a Teens-and-above-only rating.

edited 28th Jul '15 3:04:12 PM by MarqFJA

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That's certainly the rating it got on the back of my books.

I guess what was intended isn't the same as what the ESRB guys gave it.

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In which case they are as much idiots as the Arabic dubbers, who went as far as to heavily censor a lot of the more grisly scenes — to the detriment of the crime analysis the viewer is supposed to do alongside Conan/Shin'ichi/Heiji/whoever is in the limelight today. To say nothing of the other kinds of censorship, which I believe I have mentioned back when the topic came up in the "Anime in Arabia" thread (with help from a Detective Conan fan-made article that was tackling this very topic).

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"Wait, how on earth is a comic that regularly features grisly murders/suicides (with largely uncensored bloody corpses) and other such crime-related stuff is suitable for kids? I would've pegged this with a Teens-and-above-only rating."

Probably the same reason the a series for 8-12 year olds describes ancient Roman execution techniques and blood sports in great detail and strongly implies adulterous relations but never actually comes out and says anything more specific then "very kissy" to refer to two characters actually having sex.

To be honest I'm not sure exactly what age group Japanese marketers have the series pegged for, beyond "Shonen". Making Conan and the Detective Boys first graders suggest that they are trying to include kids as young as that age in the target audience, and that really comes across in the Detective Boy focuses filler episodes. Especially the Anime originals. At the same time, I think they are trying to make it appealing to older detective novel fans as well.

Side tangent: I've been reading a number "Young Adult" [ie written for teenagers] novels lately and have been surprised at how many actual semi-explicit sex scenes there are, especially featuring unmarried teenage female protagonists under the age of 18. Maybe things have gotten more racy since I was a kid, and maybe things were always so racy but I never noticed because I pretty much went straight from kids books to adult books without so much time on Young Adult books when I was actually in the target audience range.

EDIT PS:

I found this discussion at DCTP on the viewing demographic.

Initial Comment:

"However.. more to the point.. straight up.. Do CHILDREN in Japan watch DC? If so.. exactly how young are we talking here? I'm guessing like the 10-14 year old range maybe.. but even so.. it's still such a violent show.. though it goes hard on the point of showing that crime does not pay.. "

Response: DC is one of the very few anime considered good family viewing in Japan (hence it's timeslot). I doubt the show is considered exceptionally violent by Japanese audiences (I don't see how it's possible to catagorized Conan as "such a violent show" anyway, considering how much more violence is readily available). So, children younger than your guess are probably watching weekly.

Anime fans always seem to make the same wrong assumptions, that somehow anime that's clearly targetted to children (which 99.999% of anime is) somehow isn't. Go figure.

edited 29th Jul '15 8:44:40 AM by Catbert

Weird Japan is weird.

On another note, a funny fic about Ran's struggles with summer jobs. Apparently, the only place that wouldn't take offense at her Action Girl auto-response to any threatening situation ^note seriously, bank prodecure is to give the criminal the money /he's asking for and call the police after s/he leaves?! Fuck that, I'd take a quick-thinking defiant person like Ran over any other idiot who thinks that's a good idea! is the Tokyo Metropolitan Police HQ.

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