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 261: Poolside Murder Previous case:>>287811628
File 903: The Body in the Pool
>Sera chapter
File 904: The Sunken Shards
>>287872442/ss/era
File 905: The Truth Rises
Done. Funny how she just happened to have an oxygen tank lying around.There is always only one truth! See you tomorrow!
>>287872493sera vagina bones
>>287872463>Conan brought some friends>>287872508>No charge for them (thanks to Sonoko)>>287872628>The leg cramp was extremely painful>>287872863The *** rises>>287872895Megure is not in charge>>287872965>He pulled her mask off, she diedIt can't be a cohincidence
>>287872463>inviting a little kid alone to her apartment then acting disappointed when he comes with his guardianscould she act any more like a predator
>>287872493Huh, I was honestly kind of expecting her to be completely flat, as rare as it may be for non-loli girls.
>>287872469my same feelings.
>>287872785>The killer is just some random hotel workerBullshit
>>287872493itty bitty titties
Okay, Sera is starting to wear out her welcome
>>287872989can they really? and the line was in a pool, is there really still signs of fingerprints on it? sounds unplausible. also the pool was full of people, and it's not a deep pool, no way nobody noticed a fish tank because muh light refraction.
>>287873033ok ran, you can stop flirting with sera AGAIN.thanks op.
>>287874933Doesnt matter how many new characters Gosho introduces Sonoko will forever be the best supporting
>>287872965Am I reading Detective Conan or Detective Sera, what the fuck is this shit
>>287872592Is it normal to dive in to see what caused a would like that, especially at a murder scene? If I got that, I'd want out of the pool as fast as possible.
>>287874868 >can they really? and the line was in a pool, is there really still signs of fingerprints on it? You're underestimating forensics, anon. Chlorinated water isn't some magical acid that erases all prints the second it touches them. If the line was synthetic and relatively smooth, and especially if it wasn't submerged for long, partials are totally plausible. We've had cases IRL where prints survived rain and even brief submersion. It's not CSI nonsense-tier.>also the pool was full of people, and it's not a deep pool, no way nobody noticed a fish tank because muh light refraction. Have you ever been in a crowded pool? Kids splashing, reflections all over the surface, sun glare, people bumping into each other - you could drop a whole body and half the crowd would assume it's a prank until they trip over it. Add distortion from water + tiles + movement and something like a glass tank sitting low could absolutely go unnoticed for a bit, especially if everyone assumes it's pool equipment.Conan cases run on "no one was paying attention at the exact right second," and honestly? That's the most realistic part. People are oblivious.
>>287872476If this were early series Conan we'd get a few panels dedicated to cheesecake. This series so so sterile now
Eisuke disappeared but you get BOTH Sera and Amuro hogging screentime.
>>287876675anyone has Ran butt pic?
>>287872493Cute boy.
>>287872493Sera seems like the type to swim topless.She's flat enough to get away with it.
>>287872545You'd think people would know better than to be an asshole in Beika. Especially when accompanied by exactly 3 people.
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>>287872731>>287872744Were the information desk ladies drawn by an assistant?
When did Ran got so stacked?
>>287880002Always was.
>>287880002from the start
>>287872815>Sneakers with a suit
>>287872943Now Jimmy is gaslighting Rachel!
>>287880747Conan is too rebellious for fancy shoes, even when cosplaying Komei.
Unpopular opinionI think sera is cute but she can never win against Ran
>>287881394It's a popular opinion with me. Sera is the true tomboy that could be replaced with a boy and not much would change, Ran is that sweet balance between a door kicking tomboy and pretty girl.
Today, May 4th is official birthday of Shinichi Kudo.Happy birthday, Shinichi/Conan!
>>287877111Dammit, Conan, you need to stop leaving your phone around Detective Boys.
>>287879879Yeah, I remember this distracting me when I first read it too.You can always tell which characters are drawn by Gosho and which by the assistants but usually they blend just fine, here the lineart of the desk ladies is noticeably thinner than the one on the main characters so it looks like a Roger Rabbit setting where some of them are human and others are toons or something.
>"Elementary, my dear Watson!">Conan goes to elementary school
>>287879708When you think about it, anyone feeling suicidal has easy job in beika, just need to kick someone's dog and insult their mother, and they will do the hard job for them.
>>287851156Yey, this guy again! I liked him
I fell behind a bit but I really don't wanna read the shogi case...
>>287884329it's not that good anyway.
>>287884329Do it anon, I'm reading it right now too.>>287851570Beika really revolves around Conan kek
Finally got this done up to current case in daily, hopefully it's easy to read. Most of it is guessed based on weather, clothing and some logic, I marked actually confirmed ones.
Shogi, despite looking like chess but three times more obtuse (or maybe because of it), feels way more cool than Mahjong.Also I was going to say that Yumi owes Shukichi sex for the rescue, but it looks like she already knows >>287852015
>>287884480>feels way more cool than Mahjong.An opinion shared by the japanese themselves, they still think it's a game for degenerate gamblers. There was some study for what are turn-off hobbies for Japanese men to have for women and Mahjong was in the top 5Westerners only think it's cool because they only know it from Akagi and about it having a reputably obtuse learning curve.
>>287872704Screw you brat. It is cute!
>>287884352>>287884375Aight I finished it. The case was weak but Yumi's relationship is already the best of the police department simply because she isn't acting around like a little girl.
>>287884477Nicely done, anon. Now sell it to the wiki.The confirmed dates especially are interesting. You could argue that the seasons could technically be misleading and not offer a reliable timeline, but going by the confirmed dates alone we already have several years.
>>287884477>White day was the great reset>334 to 725That's a lot of cases into the trash bin in terms of canon. Outside of the ones that advance the story of course.
>>287872518>>287872508The pool is inside, isn't it? What does she need sun lotion for?
>>287885863Massive windows
>>287884477>go to beika>get trapped in a timeloop where in a single year, 6+ years pass
>>287872545>I had a hunch you'd want your scuba tank>at an indoor public swimming pool
>>287872895>Sonoko keeps going with the honorific I wonder what's her endgame.
>>287885874It's hard enough to get a sunburn through normal window glass, let alone the windows in a fancy hotel pool.
>>287879879>>287882675The policeman here looks weird, too.>>287872910
>>287872932It's called indices, Sera, not indexes.
>>287886220Alas, her brother must have been away from phone when she tried to check.
>>287884477>2 years after Camel ruined Akai's infiltration into BORight. And at this point it has been, even with the reset, 5 years since Ai's sister died.
>>287876675For me, the decline in drawings came exactly with digital. In particular you can see it with food : DC had always had incredible care depicting food and nature, but now it's not always like that. Given the assistants stayed the same for all those years I can understand, but it's not as soulful. Same goes with the moon: since digital we've yet to see a single hand-drawn moon, and once there was serious care about it. If you paid attention you've realized n DC there's always two types of moon and no other phases. THe first full moons with KK cases has actual clouds and details. Nowadays it's a copypasted crescent of a circle in the sky :(Fashion keeps staying consistent (but that one is on Gosho, not his team), and it doesn't surprise me at all: no matter the writing, especially about the new recurring characters, Gosho Aoyama stays the #1 specialist in character design. His dresses are always on point, always consistent, always 100%. Except shoes, unless it's COnan we're talking about. But he never cared about them, so...
>>287881394>>287881430Tomboys are more about attitude than just looks. Look/attitude wise Sera is... fine, but nothing more.
>>287881677>4>The number of deathOf course.
>>287884477Much, much respect sir.
>>287886755It's obvious Gosho made no plans about timeline and was just stuffing cases in between, until overarching secret agent plot asked for more details. And that's how we got around half a year of Conan and, as funny side-effect, Japan being a hellhole under shinigami's rule.
Next case gives some important hints. Not like they were much needed, the solution was pretty easy to guess.
>>287887951>It's obvious Gosho made no plans about timeline and was just stuffing cases in betweenAKA Eiichiro Oda creating the seven warlords, then the supernovas, then whatever organization when all he wanted from the get go was the four emperors.Money rules the shonen format. Actually it rules everything in general, but the shounen format in particular.
>>287890073Conan from the start seemed to be episodic. Kinda obvious the main storyline was really just put in to justify the kid gimmick. I don’t think anyone still reading Conan this deep in is even invested in the main BO plot anymore. If we do ever get a conclusion, it would feel kind of unnatural cause you know it’s just Gosho choosing to accelerate everything without proper build up
>>287890481Not necessarily. Actually, the opposite. If anything can be considered "filler", it means all the main pieces are already on the chessboard. Everything Gosho is adding is side pieces.The only issue is that he should plan a big conclusive case (assuming he hasn't already - fwiw I don't consider his interviews absolute gospel, so I don't know what he has in his notebooks) for whether he decides to pull the plug.But since after his emergency hospital trip nothing happened (and he considers BOY/GIRL The Case, but again I don't trust his interviews 100%), we're going to have another Togashi situation.I'm putting the blame exclusively on his editors, btw. It's the perks of being 1 the breadwinner of Shonen Sunday 2 a yearly movie franchise. That's what will block the ending.Unless Gosho outlined something, or he flat out decides to retire within an explicit timeframe, editor kun will force him into side cases until he dies. Not saying the overall main storyline should be something mindblowing, as you say it's first and foremost context for the kid premise, but overall there are recurring themes that hint towards an actual plot outline.It's all the new characters that water the soup. Because they all overlap the roles of Eisuke, Shuichi and to some extent, Vermouth.
Does Takagi cums inside or Sato leglocks him?
Why does Gosho choose to bring in new characters like Sera and Amuro(I know they’re not the last) to show off and wank instead of just upscaling the characters that have long been part of the series? Takagi has worked so closely with Conan he deserves to reach deductions on his own
>>287872493Hey, she isn't as flat as you would think after how much everyone makes fun of her. Specially if you consider they're Japanese.Also Ran using her usual bikini, nice
>>287872508Who sunbathes in a indoor pool? Also the pool is small even for an indoor pool. Ran, you're kinda easy to impress
>>287893160Takagi is too busy getting milked by Sato, he can't concentrate enough to step up his deduction game.That being said, character development just isn't really Gosho's thing I suppose. It's difficult to do when you are restricted to be in an eternal loop of nothing ever happens.
>>287873636Honest kek
>>287892379sex with Sonoko
>>287890481I think it's kinda the opposite. Yes, it was somewhat episodic from the start, but early on there was clearly more focus on the BO being involved in things and Conan slowly trying to find info.Now their involvement is usually tied to the sub-cases of "who's the BO member" who sure, is constantly present, but not much actually happens with them.
>>287872910Pretty sure that a pool of this size would take several hours to both drain and refill
>>287872932They should really raise Takagi's pay
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>>287893160I'm actually more surprised about how little Megure does. Takagi gets most of Conan hints when Kogoro or Sato aren't around, helps set up possible murder methods and is put in danger very often. Also he knows WAY MORE pop culture and current Japanese popular things than almost any other character, maybe other than Ran and Conan. It's starting to feel like Takagi should be the boss of the two.
>>287891043I'm just surprised that someone so successful and that probably has tons of money by now doesn't just go "Hey, I'm kinda old and tired, I think I will be ending things now". Maybe it's because I'm terrible at drawing, but having to both plan and draw a (previously) weekly manga sounds like living hell.
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Where the FUCK is OP
Case 262: Scriptwriter Hanging File 906: A Kind Lady
>>287894992no tits, no ass.
File 907: Suspicious Witnesses
>>287895201lol they have more glowies under cover than actual agents
File 908: Bet Your Life
>>287895201>>287895217>>287895231I love Ai.
>>287895217i guess we are in the endgame now right?
Done. Been a while since we got a straight up suicide. There is always only one truth! See you tomorrow!
>>287875245just let her have thisshe barely gets to have right deductions as it is
>>287895252Aw come on
>>287895201Ok, maybe I speedread the Scarlet Showdown too much, but when did Conan learn that Amuro was from the Public Security Intelligence Agency? Didn't only Akai know that? We must assume that Akai told Conan off-screen, or did Conan actually learned about it on-screen?
>>287895267>>287895278>woman wants to spare the boy from seeing her dead body and getting traumatized>Conan doesn't give a fuck and just opens it anyway
>>287895454Rare cool Megure moment. Shiratori briefly possessed him.
>>287895703a bit too contrived to be believable. thanks op.
>>287895765i dont remember the page or case but it happened on screen, check when amuro was trolling jodie, it should be around there or in that case.
Why didn't she just go to the police instead of all that shit. She had names and evidence.Is it a Beika thing?
>>287894331Class 1963, different mentaliy. And he's japanese.Oh, and some people just love their job. Why should a multigenerational millionaire like Stephen King keep churning novels, even if he lost it decades ago? You don't stumble on a manga career, unless you're Oh!Great. And even Oh!G is no exception, since he had evident talent for drawing since day zero it's near impossible. Maybe you can stumble on it as a writer, but not as an artist. You gotta love it. You're betting your life on it as if you were an athlete, knowing that if you don't make bank the backup plan is a job without education titles.
>>287895765I don't think he confirmed it just assumed based on the zero thing
>>287896085Think of Togashi: back pain memes aside, you think he needs money? Think he's locked by some contract? Shueisha is the locked one. There's only one reason why he keeps drawing HxH: he likes it.If it was money he could just say "someone else go draw, I'mma write or some shit", without even the need for writing. He could just pretend, people would gulp it down.He roughly does one volume a year or two. He even gave a sort of ending, both in the manga and as outside comments. He just likes to continue it at his own page.It's the same reason, Takehiko Inoue can't finish Vagabond. He could, if he wanted. But he fell out of love, or simply found an empasse he cant/won't work around it. But he kept going with Real, who earns him... dunno, 1/100 of what a new Vagabond volume would earn?Artistic jobs aren't regular jobs.
>>287896217Yeah, but I mean, Togashi is actually advancing the story. Same as Oda. Yeah, they could do it faster, but there's some progress going on at least. With Detective Conan, the stalling is reaching worrysome levels.
>>287895660God I'm so sick and tired of this stupid cop-out. I noticed in this case how Conan (again) didn't make any effort to use someone else to solve the case or even act childish with his hints. He straight up solves the cases in front of the police and then follows up with the Jimmychi text excuse. It's just so lazy.
>>287880517>this is considered big in 90ssad!
>>287895703Thanks OPI think she could have found a better solution than to kill herself but I guess the Beikan way to solve any problem is still murder, even if you target yourself.
I miss when the manga had edge, kills used to be bloody and violent nowadays is just cyanide or suffocation
>>287895703So we will be getting characters with fake eyes left and right now, won't we
>>287895703oh that explains why the corpse's expression looked rather peaceful
>>287894251How good do you think Kid's tuck game is?Has he ever anticipated someone patting him on the crotch when in disguise as a woman?
>>287895201>I wasn't much of a drinker even before I de-aged myself.You were only 18 and the drinking age in Japan is 20, so I sure fucking hope you weren't a drinker.
>>287895217>>287895252He's a one-man complete Hanzawa kekBeing in his presence always fulfilled the 3 suspects shinigami condition
>>287895803The kid just moved to Beika. He'll need to get used to seeing dead bodies eventually.
>>287895261/ss/
>>287895765The tea party at the hospital, the case before the showdown
>>287898478She was member of a criminal organization, underage drinking would have hardly be the worst thing she has done.
>>287898451Doubt he bothers. Considering I've never seen Nakamori having a female subordinate, then they don't have anyone who can pat a woman's crotch without being accused of sexual harassment in case it really is a woman.
>>2878975553 main suspects, and at least one red herring, but we've already met that one.
>>287895977She was one of the robber, so going to the police also basically a death sentence for her
>>287897439The story pointed out that Conan nearly got caught. He has always been too cocky for his own good, and with him being more around agents that treat him as equal, as opposed to needing to hide around Kogoro and Ran, it's easy for him to forget and get too comfortable with the detective role.
>>287895693Now I'm curious can her plan still success if conan wasn't here, maybe it will take sometime to arrest them
>>287902921Conan only really solved the murder/suicide dilemma, her plan hinged entirely on the confession in the script being read by someone who wasn't part of the gang, so they would definitely be outed as criminals on that same day, but without Conan stalling them they would probably have an opportunity to skip town after seeing the news.
>>287901366she literally killed herself, how could a death sentence be worse?
>>287903115I think he might have meant the other robbers would have killed her before she managed to prove anything? It would also put the boy in danger of being murdered, just in case she told him something.
>>287895664AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
>>287895664Rum was first mentioned in chapter that came out in 2014, it took until 2025 for Conan to figure out which of the three suspects is Rum, and they have yet to do something about it.
>>287903377Did he figure out? I thought Gosho just revealed him to us reader, maybe I missed some chapters
>>287903400It was the two consecutive cases in same building (talk about cursed property), Camel crossed paths with Rum and recognized him as the old man from the flashback with Akai, then in chapter 1150 Subaru met with Conan and the kid explained how he deduced it.
>>287895660Conan is literally known to the public as the kaito kid catcher, there’s no reason for him to play dumb so much as often. Everyone knows he’s super smart for his age
>>287904656Everyone except BO.When one remembers how at the beginning of the series he invented Sleeping Kogoro precisely because he was terrified of ending up in newspaper... turns out his fears were completely unsubstantiated, Gin suffers from amnesia, every other agent is a mole, and the rest are worse at detective work than Genta.
>>287887175Actually, I've seen a fan point out that Gosho himself said the date was picked cause that was when Holmes defeated Moriarty. By pure coincidence, it also happens to be one day before Conan's VA celebrates her birthday, hence why the explanation.
I jumped on this daily right around the middle of the series, so now I'm finally reading it from the start, and man does it feel weird when a character I know from the later chapters is introduced for the first time.
>>287905839It does feel weird to compare what basically looked like a random thug back then to the James Bond of recent cases.
>>287907326I don't like this picture. Its smug aura mocks me.
>>287907767I love the smug aura, it goes well with a gentleman type.
>>287896609HxH doesn't actually have a main story. The closest thing is Kurapika's revenge against the Ryodan. Except even that is false, because if you read with attention you've realized it's not even a revenge but just a mistake.Gon's storyline is already concluded. Killua is a cool character defined by his relationship, there's no story. Leorio: kek. Hisoka: no story, pure random factor. The Ryodan has his own story.None of them will conclude or find resolution, they are pure escamotages for whatever the current arc is doing. Nothing wrong with that, btw. But there's no real main story. Oda's advancing is fake as fuck: there's always THAT PERSON in THAT PLACE who could do... THAT THING... he's being repeating the exact same arc format since volume 20 (actually from way before, but it was less obvious). Princess to be saved, timebomb or some equivalent, random infodump about the new setting that turns out to be 99% trivial.It's fake progress, you just haven't noticed yet. All Oda does is creating new groups of characters, and thanks to retroactive confirmation people think it was all planned.Meanwhile there's very few elements planned: Blackbeard, Joyboy, sea monsters/weapons and whatever caused the continents/islands to shift. That's it.
