Got Any Fives?

I recently rediscovered a sketchbook and want to try to fill the rest of the book with some sketches and doodles.

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.

which I won‘t be able to attend BUT I recently discovered that they had amazing merch??

At some point during development, KID became more and more integrated into the main plot. Originally, he was just fanservice — a part of the series that wasn’t supposed to affect the story much. But ever since Kaito helped Conan save Haibara, the rest of his heists have involved him interacting more and more with the Detective Conan cast and learning more about them. Even the Gathering of Detectives case was later retconned into a major part of the series.

This turns Magic Kaito into a Detective Conan’s spin-off. I'll elaborate about this further on how this could be a good thing in the conclusion.

a broken and cracked doll that still yearns to play

Ladies and Gentleman, welcome back to week 17 of the Case Closed Movie Ranking! This week, I bring forth the ranking of the next Kaito Kid film on my list with movie 8: Magician of the Silver Sky!

Spoilers ahead, so proceed with caution!

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.

I decided to redesign/modify the uniforms in DCMK for a project I'm working on, so I made these little guides for myself in the future

Akai Shuuichi

The fact that this man is considered the standard of coolness within the DCMK universe should be considered a crime against humanity. His biggest talents are shooting guns and looking perpetually sleep-deprived while drinking bourbon and/or ragebaiting his one-sided mortal enemy. As for everything else? Complete and utter failure. Cooking? This man tried to serve RAW vegetables to the grandpa next door and his questionably adopted daughter. He is part British, which should be considered one of the seven deadly sins, and he voluntarily went to the United States of America, which I'm pretty sure IS one of the seven deadly sins. He gets told what to do by a child who could reasonably fit into a carry-on bag at the airport. He even managed to be the world's first deadbeat brother by FORGETTING he had a sister. This man needs to change out of the all-black attire immediately so people can appreciate him for the loser he is. Except the knit cap. Keep that on you bald motherfucker.

2. Furuya Rei

You know how everyone says "you can't run away from your problems"? Well, apparently, this bastard decided that just because he can't run from his problems doesn't mean he can't outwork them. Rei collects jobs the way some people collect Pokémon cards because lord forbid he go to therapy. Why talk about your own trauma when you can just traumatize everyone else, amirite? Let's not mention the fact that he supposedly hates a man so much that he quite literally dressed up as him and went out as him in public for some unknown period of time. Just kiss already, you know you want to. But seriously, I have no idea how this man has enough time in the day for all the jobs he has to do. At this point I'm convinced that his foreign parent is actually a magical being capable of bending space and time because what the actual fuck? Also, someone tell him to stop LARPing as your local friendly neighborhood barista because it is doing nothing for his aura.

3. Gin

Imagine the most boring, basic ass villain you know, and I can almost guarantee this guy will somehow be even MORE dull. In the old days, this man was genuinely someone to fear, but now? The only thing he's done in recent memory is kill off a few FBI agents whose names I can't be bothered to remember because they were invented purely for the purpose of being killed. And somehow, despite all that, he still isn't capable of finishing off their most incompetent agent, who I'll get to in a moment. His only redeeming quality is his amazing hair, but I'm not fooled. I know in my heart that man has the worst split ends known to mankind.

4. Andre Camel

We know nothing of this man's family or history, but I can only assume he must have some insane blackmail material on the FBI with how he constantly fumbles the most basic of tasks and yet somehow is allowed to keep his job. If you told him that his job was to stand in the middle of a circle and stare at a single spot for twenty minutes, he would find a way to screw that up, too. The fact that he was actively hunted by the biggest criminal organization in the series, yet the only "disguise" Akai could come up with for him was a haircut despite Camel having a...rather memorable physique, makes me think he's secretly hoping this useless bastard will finally be finished off next time.

5. Hattori Heiji

Someone tell this boy that it's the 21st century and he doesn't have to pretend he isn't gay for his rival anymore. He wants us to believe that he's in love with the girl he's known since he was but a wee child, but his confession was delayed for over five centuries because...his detective rival "confessed" in front of Big Ben (more like he and his childhood girl best friend got into a fight and he yelled out his feelings for her when she was about to run away crying, but I digress), and he wanted to make sure his own confession was aesthetically pleasing enough. Because, you know, having a pretty background is definitely the most important part when you're telling the supposed love of your life how you feel about them. Yeah, you're not fooling anyone, buddy. The closet is made of glass at this point. Oh, and when he finally did confess, he didn't even do it to the right person because apparently, he doesn't know his childhood friend well enough to notice when someone is disguised as her.

6. Sera Masumi

Nothing. This is best girl right here. No, I will not be taking constructive criticism at this time.

7. Rum

His entire arc was just the reheated nachos version of the Bourbon arc. More specifically, reheated nachos that have been left in the fridge about two weeks after they should have been discarded. The only difference is that Bourbon was a NOC while this guy is actually evil. Allegedly. Who knows, we might get a reveal ten years from now that he too is undercover with how the author likes to pull things out of his ass these days. For now, though, he's supposedly the second-in-command of the Black Organization, which you would think would mean this man would be an actual threat, yet the only thing ever threatened by him is my stomach when I try not to laugh looking at his ridiculous disguise.

8. Jodie Starling

Arguably the worst victim to date of Gosho's inability to write compelling women characters without tying them to a love interest of some sort. That whole arc with her and Vermouth? Yeah, we're just never getting a resolution to that, apparently. Her entire character now is staring admirably at her ex-boyfriend while occasionally doing things for the FBI, except said ex-boyfriend will inevitably have to come and fix whatever mess was made because god forbid a woman be allowed to be competent. I know there's a badass in there somewhere, but I fear it will never see the light of day again.

9. Morofushi Hiromitsu/Scotch

Look, I know having your cover blown was terrible and all, but was it really necessary to handle it like that, you dramatic ass bitch? You were thirty seconds from safety. Now you've given your best friend insatiable rage and the world's worst coping mechanisms. It's always the people you trust the most, smh...

10. Enomoto Azusa

Ignoring the elephant in the room (aka the bread comment), this woman is literally an NPC with speaking lines. Every single thing about her is the personified version of vanilla ice cream if whoever made the vanilla ice cream forgot to add quite literally everything that makes it taste good. Her defining character traits are "nice" and "gets flustered when people tease her about liking her male coworker". She works at a coffee shop and her favorite food is apparently strawberries because of fucking course it is. She looks like she would tell you that her favorite color is red and her favorite singer is Taylor Swift. Yet somehow, we keep having to see her because her entire purpose is being ship bait. Not that I think she deserves more, but can she go back to the land of nobodies where she belongs so we can move forward with the actual plot and maybe finish the story before all of us have gray hairs and grandchildren?

Akai Shuuichi

The fact that this man is considered the standard of coolness within the DCMK universe should be considered a crime against humanity. His biggest talents are shooting guns and looking perpetually sleep-deprived while drinking bourbon and/or ragebaiting his one-sided mortal enemy. As for everything else? Complete and utter failure. Cooking? This man tried to serve RAW vegetables to the grandpa next door and his questionably adopted daughter. He is part British, which should be considered one of the seven deadly sins, and he voluntarily went to the United States of America, which I'm pretty sure IS one of the seven deadly sins. He gets told what to do by a child who could reasonably fit into a carry-on bag at the airport. He even managed to be the world's first deadbeat brother by FORGETTING he had a sister. This man needs to change out of the all-black attire immediately so people can appreciate him for the loser he is. Except the knit cap. Keep that on you bald motherfucker.

2. Furuya Rei

You know how everyone says "you can't run away from your problems"? Well, apparently, this bastard decided that just because he can't run from his problems doesn't mean he can't outwork them. Rei collects jobs the way some people collect Pokémon cards because lord forbid he go to therapy. Why talk about your own trauma when you can just traumatize everyone else, amirite? Let's not mention the fact that he supposedly hates a man so much that he quite literally dressed up as him and went out as him in public for some unknown period of time. Just kiss already, you know you want to. But seriously, I have no idea how this man has enough time in the day for all the jobs he has to do. At this point I'm convinced that his foreign parent is actually a magical being capable of bending space and time because what the actual fuck? Also, someone tell him to stop LARPing as your local friendly neighborhood barista because it is doing nothing for his aura.

3. Gin

Imagine the most boring, basic ass villain you know, and I can almost guarantee this guy will somehow be even MORE dull. In the old days, this man was genuinely someone to fear, but now? The only thing he's done in recent memory is kill off a few FBI agents whose names I can't be bothered to remember because they were invented purely for the purpose of being killed. And somehow, despite all that, he still isn't capable of finishing off their most incompetent agent, who I'll get to in a moment. His only redeeming quality is his amazing hair, but I'm not fooled. I know in my heart that man has the worst split ends known to mankind.

4. Andre Camel

We know nothing of this man's family or history, but I can only assume he must have some insane blackmail material on the FBI with how he constantly fumbles the most basic of tasks and yet somehow is allowed to keep his job. If you told him that his job was to stand in the middle of a circle and stare at a single spot for twenty minutes, he would find a way to screw that up, too. The fact that he was actively hunted by the biggest criminal organization in the series, yet the only "disguise" Akai could come up with for him was a haircut despite Camel having a...rather memorable physique, makes me think he's secretly hoping this useless bastard will finally be finished off next time.

5. Hattori Heiji

Someone tell this boy that it's the 21st century and he doesn't have to pretend he isn't gay for his rival anymore. He wants us to believe that he's in love with the girl he's known since he was but a wee child, but his confession was delayed for over five centuries because...his detective rival "confessed" in front of Big Ben (more like he and his childhood girl best friend got into a fight and he yelled out his feelings for her when she was about to run away crying, but I digress), and he wanted to make sure his own confession was aesthetically pleasing enough. Because, you know, having a pretty background is definitely the most important part when you're telling the supposed love of your life how you feel about them. Yeah, you're not fooling anyone, buddy. The closet is made of glass at this point. Oh, and when he finally did confess, he didn't even do it to the right person because apparently, he doesn't know his childhood friend well enough to notice when someone is disguised as her.

6. Sera Masumi

Nothing. This is best girl right here. No, I will not be taking constructive criticism at this time.

7. Rum

His entire arc was just the reheated nachos version of the Bourbon arc. More specifically, reheated nachos that have been left in the fridge about two weeks after they should have been discarded. The only difference is that Bourbon was a NOC while this guy is actually evil. Allegedly. Who knows, we might get a reveal ten years from now that he too is undercover with how the author likes to pull things out of his ass these days. For now, though, he's supposedly the second-in-command of the Black Organization, which you would think would mean this man would be an actual threat, yet the only thing ever threatened by him is my stomach when I try not to laugh looking at his ridiculous disguise.

8. Jodie Starling

Arguably the worst victim to date of Gosho's inability to write compelling women characters without tying them to a love interest of some sort. That whole arc with her and Vermouth? Yeah, we're just never getting a resolution to that, apparently. Her entire character now is staring admirably at her ex-boyfriend while occasionally doing things for the FBI, except said ex-boyfriend will inevitably have to come and fix whatever mess was made because god forbid a woman be allowed to be competent. I know there's a badass in there somewhere, but I fear it will never see the light of day again.

9. Morofushi Hiromitsu/Scotch

Look, I know having your cover blown was terrible and all, but was it really necessary to handle it like that, you dramatic ass bitch? You were thirty seconds from safety. Now you've given your best friend insatiable rage and the world's worst coping mechanisms. It's always the people you trust the most, smh...

10. Enomoto Azusa

Ignoring the elephant in the room (aka the bread comment), this woman is literally an NPC with speaking lines. Every single thing about her is the personified version of vanilla ice cream if whoever made the vanilla ice cream forgot to add quite literally everything that makes it taste good. Her defining character traits are "nice" and "gets flustered when people tease her about liking her male coworker". She works at a coffee shop and her favorite food is apparently strawberries because of fucking course it is. She looks like she would tell you that her favorite color is red and her favorite singer is Taylor Swift. Yet somehow, we keep having to see her because her entire purpose is being ship bait. Not that I think she deserves more, but can she go back to the land of nobodies where she belongs so we can move forward with the actual plot and maybe finish the story before all of us have gray hairs and grandchildren?

Yusaku: “It’s nice to finally meet again after all these years, brother. So, what have you been up to?”

Toichi: “Well… I joined a circus in my late teens, met the love of my life — who was a wanted criminal — in Paris, became an internationally wanted phantom thief, faked my death, abandoned my son, and then returned to being a phantom thief again. How about you?”

Honestly this one is mostly just canon.

The drugs Miyano Shiho made for Morofushi to cure all the damages from the organization research lab has some side effects, making him feel numb, losing sensations in certain parts of the body. With Furuya's help, they navigate this new situation together.

~8.4k. post org take down. Morofushi Hiromitsu / Furuya Rei

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Sherry, nowadays just Miyano Shiho, has warned them about the side effects before she administered the mixture drugs to Morofushi, which while neither Morofushi nor Furuya have ignored exactly, they also thought the side effects were acceptable, a minor enough thing in the overall process. Especially if the drugs worked as Miyano promised them they will, curing Morofushi of what's been done to his body after Scotch had been found out to be a NOC and thrown into the organization lab. The fact that he was able to survive that and came out on the other side relatively alright and not permanently damaged was miracle enough, they both thought. Some minor side effects were almost irrelevant in the grander scheme of things.

It helped somewhat that for quite a long time the lab was focused on affecting his mind instead of directly damaging his body, since Scotch had been competent at his job and turning him into a loyal organization member was a tempting goal. But due to the lack of effectiveness at the brainwashing approach, there were inevitably still times he got used as just another body for the experiments the organization is running.

The batch of highly classified data belonging to the lab that they managed to salvage provided valuable information for Miyano, especially on past experiments being done on Scotch, which was crucial to Miyano developing drugs to address the effects and damages done. Some of those effects are more subtle and long-term, not immediately recognizable, and Miyano caught them as well, after deep-diving into the research notes. (The salvaging of the notes, surprisingly enough, came with the help of Vermouth, who had always stated her hatred for the organization's research lab and desire to burn it all down. But she came to an agreement with them in the end, both negotiating for her freedom and somehow ensuring Miyano Shiho has obligation to tend to her health issues in the future. Miyano has accepted the latter half of the condition without any argument. To this day she's fairly tightlipped about discussing whatever happened between her mother and Vermouth.)