Thread #287402679
I'll be storytiming the manga, one complete case per day. Most cases are around 3-6 chapters long.
Feel free to drop in at any time, since it's mostly episodic.
Case 239: Kaitou Kid and the Blush Mermaid
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File 830: Molting
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>>287403062
Gee, and I thought the bottom right panel >>287403026 looked like something out of a silly BL doujin.
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Just how flat is she supposed to be?
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This is Beika city, all right.
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>>287403278
Thx mate.
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>>287403200
Surely these officers >>287402797 on the balcony would have seen what he was doing, right? No? okay.
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conan is even smaller than expected
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>>287409144
He is very clearly bigger in this page
>>287402719
Guess the rhinofaces aren't the only thing the anime fucked up
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>>287402972
Cute shirt on girl
>>287403475
Those are boy shorts which, despite the name, are female underwear.
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>>287407426
No, but it's socially unacceptable cause of old prudish mentality. That said, back when I was in high school girls in my class would regularly use the men's room if they had to go during class, cause the building was designed so stupidly the men's and women's was on different parts of hallway and the men's was closer to our classroom.
If anything, Sonoko should be happy that Sera gave her an opportunity to fondle Kid.
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>>287403256
Not even the plot armored KK can get away from Poochie's favoritism powers.
Anons weren't joking, she's a million time worse than Eisuke. I get why she keeps appearing on and on and on and on, given she's part of a still unresolved plotline, and I get that Gosho needs to have some character exposition, but holy fuck she's unsufferable.
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Nips cannot into western mythology. Same thing as COnan cases having obvious nods to Romance of the Three Kingdoms / Buddhism that here nobody gets unless they are into that stuff.
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>>287414385
Gosho just really likes his flat tomboy jokes, there will be more of that. I hardly even notice her sometimes, it's not like she is front and center and the one to win, the plot still goes normally, Sera is just like flavor on the side, like another Sonoko.
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>Kaitou Kid
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>>287415864
It apparently has to do with honorifics.
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>>287416332
I guess you could check the anime to answer that, I don't read raws or know japanese beyond few words. But if people get confused, and she is a total tomboy type, it's safe to assume that is the case.
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>>287409144
Sometimes aptx works harder than usual.
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When was the last time he acted like a little kid like that apart from "ah le le" moments?
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>>287420019
His child act usually happens around Kogoro or Sonoko, but considering the former got first sidelined by FBI shotacons, and then Amuro (and Sera, andShukichi, and their mom...), and somewhere in between stopped bothering, Conan started being more free in his deductions and just says "it was on tv" or "Shinichi said so", and often some of the genius detectives picks up his cue to cover for him.
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conan the gnome
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>>287423117
Scanlation's problems lie in the fact not everything can be smoothly translated, and sometimes their interpretation really shows it, while Viz's problems are they leave out information and create wrong impression. Ideal translation would be these two getting together in a very loving relationship.
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Case 240: Elevator Murder
File 831: The Unlocked Locked-Room Murder
Locked Room Mystery! Have a drink!
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>Heiji case
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File 832: The Other Half
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lmao OP is so dumb and stupid
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File 833: The Teacher's Trick
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I don't know why Viz loves changing shit so much. In this version Ran offers an exit but Heiji still makes a dumb excuse, where as in the scanlation he has to make the dumb excuse because he's being questioned about what he said. It makes Heiji look like an idiot (more than what he is for still saying Kudo)
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>Heiji case
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Hot. Also, I think it's the first time Conan has shown some "interest" in Kazuha
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I just don't think it's a reasonable course of action when you have an easy justification in front of you and you don't take it. The normal thing for him to say in the Viz version was "oh, okay, I thought he was here".
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The vacuum cleaner was the culprit!
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>Heiji is upset because no case
>Shinigami brat promptly summons a cruel shooting in front of them to cheer up his boyfriend
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I can tolerate it when the characters are introduced beforehand, you can't have too many people on a short case. But this stupid "we narrowed it down from possibly tens or hundreds to these three suspects" is aggravating
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Remember this is a weekly manga and part of the fun for a mystery manga is to figure out the case yourself.
There are two common patterns(among other less used patterns) Gosho uses.
There is a single suspect who is the obvious culprit. The case is to figure out how the culprit committed the crime.
There are multiple suspects and it's not clear who the culprit is. This is your traditional whodunnit case. With multiple suspects, the more of them you add the more difficult it becomes for the reader to reason out the case on their own. Three suspects is a happy medium for a short case that allows for enough ambiguity for readers to participate while not being overwhelming. True, it does result in cases being a little formulaic. However that's a necessary tradeoff for a long running mystery manga centered around short cases.
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At some point I stopped thinking because some of the evidence can only be acknowledged if you're the author, or sometimes you don't even know what it is since conan just goes "I see so this is the thing"
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Same, but for cases with fishing lines involved, kanji or a lot of chemical reactions. I don't know very much about chemistry but even then, Conan likes to take things into the limit, with the fewer possible amount always being used (specially egregious with cyanide)
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Is Komei gay for Yamato? He's 35, never shows any interest in women, fucked up his career chances to find Yamato in hospital (meanwhile Yui just signed him off as dead), and is now constantly a third wheel for Yui and him.
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My honest reaction when I hear someone has been murdered in cold blood.
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>>287430778
Does Conan actually have a proper libido?
He's physically 6 years old, so can he even get horny in the post-pubescent way?
Or does it excite him more in the sense that it's forbidden and he's getting away with something naughty?
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Gosho's idea of kids at that age is a bit too advanced, Ayumi is obsessed with romance, Mitsuhiko can get a serious crush on girls, Genta had a crush on Ayumi before he decided eel on rice is his whole world, and Conan has already got a proper anime nosebleed from seeing Ran naked. Those are all things that should really happen during or at least really close to puberty, than at age 6.
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Is 2010's tablet that good?
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From what I can tell, kansai-ben has far more differences than an occasional "y'all" would convey, which is really just street speak anywhere regardless of its origin, so he'd just look like a typical teen, and not Osakan.
At this point I've gotten pretty good at reading his terrible talk, he irritates me for other things.
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Think you can be Conan for real?
Now's your chance.
https://x.com/i/status/2043553091019260213
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Chiyahamust be an industry plant
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People should be SO glad Conan and Heiji decided to channel their absolute psychopathy in solving crimes instead of committing them
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Case 241: Vampire Mansion Murder
File 834: The House of the Vampire
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It's alright. I liked Frankenstein better.
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File 835: Count Dracula
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File 836: Spirit Photography
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File 837: The Western Room
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And suddenly, it's Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein
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File 838: Half of a Haunting
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File 839: Their Motives
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File 840: The Killer's Plan
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Done. This is probably the case with the most elaborate (and goofiest) series of murders. All I can say is that fanged girls are the best.
There is always only one truth! See you tomorrow!
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so that page was just them casually finding a head
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This is a rare VIZ-exclusive fujobait. In the original, Kogoro smugly says that it takes the two of them to make a 一人前 which can mean an adult, a qualified (detective, in context), or one portion. As in, it takes the two of them to measure up to one of him.
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Forgot pic.
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>mountain manor
>road cut off
>(presumably) dead body at the window to scare everyone
It's the axe mummy case all over again.I like it
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Yep, I really liked it. Definitely a recommended read.
>>287452216
I enjoyed Dracula a bit more because Victor felt too hypocritical and his rantings went on a bit too long in Frankenstein. But I also still really liked Frankenstein.
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You missed a page
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Thanks OP
The ending was a little silly and slightly rushed, but this has honestly been the best case for a long while in my opinion. Compared to the last longer "supernatural" case with the burning hound, it had a lot more going for it. Some surprising red herrings, nice cast of characters, decent art. Gosho can still do it if he wants to.
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I can't imagine how bad is this to the old man's back
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There's actually a really old anime filler case that already used the vampire setting before this one.
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>>287456692
Between a big case and Kudo so close to him, Heiji has no time to think of some silly girls.
If it weren't for the perpetual joke how girls are afraid of supernatural, it would be the killer that needs protection against karate champion and 2.dan aikido.
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>>287460462
I guess it could be either since this is not a cooking manga, gyoza are really just japanese version of chinese potstickers, supposedly they feature a more garlic-heavy filling. They are also smaller and bite-sized.
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The ice wheels would be actually hilarious and a good answer for any other case, but this one requires so much planning and good execution, both by the designer of the murders and the actual executioner, that it just comes off as ridiculous.
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Thanks OP. I have to stop reading late at night, at first I thought the old maid was the mother of the new maid and that the new maid was the biological daughter of the count.Turns out I was right despite reading wrong
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Pictured: Two sensitive young girls praying that their boyfriends aren't gay for each other
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Math professor sent his wife an e-mail:
>My dear wife, I am sure you realize you are 54, and I have certain needs that you simply cannot fulfill properly anymore. In all other aspects our marriage is ideal, I am satisfied with you as my wife and I hope this mail will not hurt you too much. After work I am going to a hotel with my 18 year old assistant, but I will be home before midnight - your husband.
When he arrived to hotel reception, he noticed he received a mail from his wife:
>Dear husband, you are also 54, and by the time you will be reading this I will be in another hotel with an 18 year old waiter from nearby bar, and since you are such a good mathematician, I am sure you will have no trouble realizing that 18 goes into 54 more times than 54 into 18. Don't wait up for me - your wife.
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>>287463337
>detectives are either not interested in anything but crime solving or potentially gay
>meanwhile Kaito Kid peeks under skirts and complaints to his childhood friend that she is too flat
No wonder girls love bad boys.
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