Detective Conan Re-read Blog

So, from Shinichi's perspective: My parents told me I'm not good enough to accomplish my goal, are saying they'll take care of it for me, and it makes me feel ashamed and angry.

He might have been thrust into a small body, and views obtaining the cure/beating the organization to be a necessity... but he also views it in general as something he was in the middle of working on. For a lower stakes example, it's like you're trying to work a difficult jigsaw puzzle, and someone comes in and says 'oh, I know how to work this and can finish it for you if you want'. It's his long term project, and he doesn't want it just 'taken care of'. With Shinchi's early manga ego, even if it worked out, he'd never be able to shake the feeling of not being good enough, danger be damned. He just needs to get good enough to deal with every potential problem.

His parents are the ones logically in the right. The way he acts right now will get him killed, and he hasn't honed his detective mindset enough to take in all the information he needs when in a tense situation. But, for his emotions and mental state, he needs to keep working on his own problem. (Even if he probably doesn't think of it that way, he's just comfortable enough shouting out what he can feel he wants.)

The whole problem with Shinichi (at this point) is how he responds to clearly dangerous situations without thinking things over. He's good at leaping into action, but not stopping to think about the full situation, nor does he have any contingencies. There were many points in this scenario where he was forced to wait, and he could have directed some thought at the details. 'That dude is dressed so weird, why do that when it's so attention grabbing? Even if your face is covered, people would be taking note of where you go... maybe there is a reason?' or even 'Actually, how did they come to connect Kudo Shinichi to Edogawa Conan? Sure, there's a chance they found out I wasn't dead, but how would they connect a case I solved with my own voice to old man Kogoro? Shouldn't they have assumed I just hadn't died? It doesn't sound like they know other people have shrunk, so how did they figure out I'm Kudo Shinichi?'

I can concede that, there is a point where you just have to accept that what's happening is happening, even if you don't know how. But when you're sitting in a small space under the floor waiting for two people to wake up and think you escaped, maybe that would have been a good time to try and logic some stuff out? There were so many points that shouldn't have made sense, and there was a distinct choice to just keep blindly rushing along. He's a protagonist, so of course he'd be fine, but as a detective? Yeah, no wonder he barely passes, he essentially just followed the trail without looking around to take in the full picture.

'Of course, I was intending to make a more intimidating entrance once Yukiko had you safely captured in the temporary hideout, but then she called me and said you'd almost caused a major traffic accident, so we had to change our information dumping for after the recapture when you woke up from being drugged. That was daring, but really tactless and dangerous, you know.'

'Hey, I'd just been told someone suspicious knew my identity and then had a gun shoved in my face, I had to do something.'

If I have one gripe with Yuusaku's plan, it's this. He knows full well that the only reason he would have taken note of the watch was because Agasa was there for insider information. It wouldn't have even changed much about the situation, except that Yuusaku may have gotten hit with the needle before revealing the truth, and I guess he wanted to make sure he could see Shinichi's shock and confusion. As per this scenario, Shinichi still would have 'died', though - he only has one needle. Let him pull up the watch and then get 'shot' before he could use it, it'd make the message about how helpless he is more effective if you let him have access to everything he can and he still loses.

The fun thing is the gum didn't come out of nowhere this time. Not just in the panel right before Shinichi needs it, but when the boy is saying goodbye to his mother.

It's unlikely that having Yukiko come in after Agasa was in the plan, but whether it was or not, this is the second big moment where Shinichi was saved from impulsive actions by pure luck. In the house, he hadn't actually checked out/thought about the room he was in before deciding the refrigerator was the only hiding place, and only found the hidden storage space because the bottle he broke still had liquid in it and it dripped inside. He picked wrong, and would have been 'shot' when he was found. Here, he's only not seen because the only door in view opens at the right time.

I don't know enough physics to answer my question on whether or not a child who can barely maneuver himself to hold a wine bottle could possibly have the strength to shatter it into sharp, rope-cutting pieces...

However I can point out that this place is extremely run down and wood is broken everywhere and possibly rotting, and therefore doubt that this bottle should be breaking so easily regardless. There was a cup in the same cupboard that probably would have been easier to break and less noisy.

"A spooky rascal"? Spooky instead of creepy is one thing, but the idea of a character going around saying he's gonna kill some rando, a child, and possibly their own co-worker being called a 'rascal' is just-