Haha I never process ShinRan in my adult brain. Him always gaslighting her is so true LMAO To tell you the truth, I dislike the whole childhood friends to lovers theme, so I don't have much care for many canon relationships in the manga. I gravitate towards the more fun (thus CoAi; BO is a fun plot and it's the centre plot of theirs) or even toxic (like Kogoro and Eri, but omg Kogoro is a POS who doesn't deserve her).
I don't know if my opinion is unpopular but I prefer Conan to Shinichi, even if they are the same person, so I haven't the idea of ShinShi. In an AU, if ShinShi somehow met (without the APTX 4869), how and what would it be like in your opinion?
ShinRan just seems so childish to me now compared to back when I was a kid🤣. Same, I don't really care for that trope, but especially in Detective Conan because it's so damn overused😭. I think the only couple that isn't childhood friends to lovers is Takagi and Sato. Oddly enough, the only canon couple that I actually like with that trope is HeijixKazuha (who are FINALLY canon after all these years.) Idk why but they've just always felt like the better version of ShinRan to me.
On the one hand I want Kogoro and Eri to get back together, but on the other hand I think that she deserves so much better than him, even though it's plainly obvious that they still love each other.
It.... Might be an unpopular opinion? But I definitely understand that feeling, lol. Conan and Shinichi honestly feel like they're two different people when they aren't, and it's because Shinichi has changed a lot during his time as Conan. Also because of the fact that whenever he's thinking to himself, he still sounds like Conan, whereas in the English dub (which is what introduced me to this series) he sounds like his teenage self. Which makes it easier to remember that Conan and Shinichi are the same person.
Without APTX 4869? They wouldn't get along AT ALL at first🤣. Shinichi would still be an arrogant dumbass who thinks he knows everything and is the greatest thing to ever happen, and Shiho would not want to entertain nor tolerate his bs. So she would find him extremely annoying. With Shinichi I feel like he would find her interesting since she's the only girl (other than Sonoko, but she hardly counts) who doesn't seem interested in him at all and doesn't act like one of his fangirls. So basically, he'd see her as a mystery he needs to solve.
