BakaThief - Diary Of The Talented Idiot

An array of artwork I found in my DS manuals, I never saw these around online before so I decided to try to post them in the highest quality I could. The grain is due to them being so teensy tiny in the manuals... Aren't they just the sweetest!

These are from the original trilogy (Curious Village, Pandora's Box and Lost Future), the other games had no art that I hadn't seen before in their respective manuals

I assume the manuals are different depending on regions, apologies if I'm incorrect

I've always interpreted this scene as Kaito being aware that his choice to become KID was a mistake, and that he's clinging to a false idealized image of Toichi. He could have moved on and lived in ignorance, but instead he decided that his own life was less valuable than the life his father could have had.

I wonder how the author views Kaitou KID, because he has written numerous characters driven by vengeance, and most of them ultimately meet unfortunate fates.

Sometimes I think Kaito isn't an exception to the narrative. Just because he doesn't kill doesn't mean the characters in Gosho's universe would simply let him go, at least from what I've seen.

Episode 1: Sunset

@lmeg9 and I are collabing for the "One Summer With You" Season that @invispot created :3c So here's the art for the first fic/"episode", A Thief's End

I went a little crazy with this because from the Sunset prompt, we went with these ideas: relief, seeing each other again, and post-Conan/Black Org takedown, so for their re-meeting I decided why not recreate their first meeting from the manga? 🤭

The manga page under cut :3

I like the idea that the reason Kaito can’t do detective work is because he’s too emotional and biased. He lets his initial opinions of people prevent him from considering that they could be doing — or could have done — something wrong. My father can't be bad, he's my hero.

These chapters debuted in 1998, and Kaito was making a reference to them meeting again before the year 2000. However, in 1999, Magic Kaito got an update with the Clock Tower Heist, where KID and Shinichi met for the first time. So this could possibly the author teasing for that update.