BeforeTheStormRises

Another batch of DetCo sketches! …Lotta shoujo sparkles in this set. XD

Chapters 96-98

Deaths: 1

Days: The kids reference Conan being off from school for three days. In the spirit of minimalism, I'm counting Cold Day 1 as the day of the Diplomat Case. Which makes the days passed over the course of chapter 96 to be 3.

day 2: selfie!!

What can I say about the moonlight sonata murder case that hasn't been said already?

In place of saying something original, have this:

What can I say about the moonlight sonata murder case that hasn't been said already?

In place of saying something original, have this:

Ankha and Daisy

Right now, this project has parsed through 14 cases. 12 are 100% essential, 1 is 100% non essential, and 1 is still up in the air (the "Once-A-Month Present Threat Case", otherwise known as the "Ran is suspicious of Shinichi for the first time" case).

Assuming that that up-in-the-air case isn't canonical, our current statistics are quite interesting:

A minimum of 34 days have passed over the course of the story.

Over that time, Conan has encountered 13 deaths.

Which works out to approximately one body every three days on average.

(If we include the case I'm uncertain about, those numbers become 65 days, 13 deaths, for an average of one body every five days.)

Out of those 14 cases, a whole five-- that's over a third!-- feature 0 deaths!

Finally, I want to end this year wrap up with some fun facts.

When Detective Conan began its run in January 1994, a lot of things didn't exist that exist now. In the spirit of the memorable case about the guy locked in a room writing novels with plots that could have been solved easily by a cell phone, a classic and memorable Conan case, let's talk about things introduced to the world over the past year of Conan cases that we've looked at.

Right now, this project has parsed through 14 cases. 12 are 100% essential, 1 is 100% non essential, and 1 is still up in the air (the "Once-A-Month Present Threat Case", otherwise known as the "Ran is suspicious of Shinichi for the first time" case).

Assuming that that up-in-the-air case isn't canonical, our current statistics are quite interesting:

A minimum of 34 days have passed over the course of the story.

Over that time, Conan has encountered 13 deaths.

Which works out to approximately one body every three days on average.

(If we include the case I'm uncertain about, those numbers become 65 days, 13 deaths, for an average of one body every five days.)

Out of those 14 cases, a whole five-- that's over a third!-- feature 0 deaths!

Finally, I want to end this year wrap up with some fun facts.

When Detective Conan began its run in January 1994, a lot of things didn't exist that exist now. In the spirit of the memorable case about the guy locked in a room writing novels with plots that could have been solved easily by a cell phone, a classic and memorable Conan case, let's talk about things introduced to the world over the past year of Conan cases that we've looked at.

So I have been following @conanmythbusting ‘s reread for a while and they brought up the fact that Conan’s classic outfit is actually his old school uniform, which really adds a whole new level of creepiness to this boy when you think about it. Anyways, keep up the wonderful work I have been enjoying the ride!

SOOO. more dogs from that au x’d

Some explanations/thoughts and bonus sketches under the spoiler (sorry for my attempts to write smth adequate in english, I’m.. not good at it……)

Chapters 45-48

Days: 1 over the course of the story itself, 7 minimum referenced to have happened since the previous case

Deaths: 1

Essential? Okay... so about that...

... you know Imma write an essay when I don't want to consider something essential. You know it's because I came into this project with the intent of being as generous as possible in the shortness of the timeline, and defiantly am hoping to write off any cases with a huge timeskip from the start.

So that aside...

Things that make me want to call this essential:

Sonoko's character is established, the fallout of using her as a detective is shown.

And

Shinichi solves a case as himself, via phone call, for the first time.

And this is heartbreaking, and I do think that the early Shinichi bullshit is sort of essential to her character? And Shinichi's "there for just a moment and then disappears" does need to be established in the essential timeline at some point. That said... I think the later scene that does a similar thing with Conan in the headlights in the alleyway does it much better? Do we need both scenes establishing the same thing in the bare essential canon?

because I don't buy this.

So you've heard my arguments for both including it or discluding it... right now I'm going to mark it as a "maybe", like the first Ran-suspicion case, and wait to see if this scene gets references in an essential case down the line.

With the absolute disdain this man is showing for my goal here-- I say, as if Chapter 48 of serialization Gosho Aoyama knew his series timeline would get so fucked up-- I have no doubt that this argument will all be moot and this scene will be referenced.

Kaito has many scars

From bullets, knives, rubble, broken bones, explosions- you name it, he probably has it somewhere on his body

But there's one scar that marked his body long before he became KID and that's the burn mark on his back. It's big enough that it flares out like a pair of wings, as if they were seared right off his back

Or onto him

It's the scar that haunts him the most, received when he was nothing but a desperate, wailing child trying to drag his father's body out of the burning stage