Detective Conan 10
Posted: January 28, 2007 Filed under: Case Closed Leave a comment »I haven’t read this series in FOREVER, which is weird because it is one of my absolute favorites. It’s like I forgot about it for almost a year while ordering new volumes, and when I’ve now got 10-15 which I haven’t read, I suddenly remember how good it was.
I think one of my problems was that I read the first half of 10 then shelved it before finishing the volume. There is no reason to read the second half, despite the fact it contains two decent cases, after reading the first. As Gosho Aoyama mentions in his author notes, there is someone from the first volume which reappears in celebration of the tenth volume. This person: SHINICHI KUDO.
Yes. Yes, yes, yes. He turns up for the express purpose of absolutely schooling Heiji Hatori, who turns up for the express purpose of absolutely schooling Shinichi. Obviously Conan was there instead of Shinichi, but luckily a case popped up so that they could have a youth detective style showdown. Conan turned into Shinichi just long enough to pull the wool off everyone’s eyes. Of course, he tried to have a romantic moment with Ran too, but that was unfortunately cut short. Shinichi: 1, Heiji: 0.
BEST VOLUME EVER. Well, so far anyway. And that was only the first half. Like I said, the second half’s pretty decent, but it just can’t compare to Shinichi. There’s a Detective Boys case, which typically I don’t like, but the way that this one was structured was quite good. They have to figure out where and what went on in the library going on little other than the fact that one of the employees was missing.
Also, there’s a case which I remember from the anime where Ran, Kogoro, and Conan are confined to a cabin full of doctors during a snowstorm and one of the doctors is murdered. All the other doctors are suspects, so they have to figure out who did it. It’s a cliffhanger, but unfortunately I remember the ending from the anime. Fortunately, this was the last episode of the anime that aired on Cartoon Network, so I think all the cases will be new to me from here on out.
