Detective Conan 19
December 6, 2007
A quick update tonight. I would have liked to do three entries, but I only have time to do a short one for Case Closed. I’m a little behind, I just got the newest volume last week.
We get the wrapup of the case from last volume in one chapter, which wasn’t too spectacular, unfortunately. The case immediately afterwards is of the style where readers can kind of figure things out, but unfortunately the clues are all in the kanji characters in a mystery novel, so it’s not something I personally would have been able to solve. The mystery is left in Japanese, so the characters puzzle it out, then explain to you what they just did, which is awkward, but handled well.
There’s a case which brings Heiji back in grand style by having him take the three main characters on a tour of Osaka. It actually reads like a tour of Osaka for awhile, it takes a few pages for the mystery to kick in. People are being stabbed through their wallet into their heart, and the characters are brought into the fray when one of the victims hits the hood of their car. Shinichi and Heiji work together, and there’s actually some really nice scenes of them being buddy-buddy which I’m sure spawned hundreds of doujinshi in Japan.
The last story is a Detective Boys mystery, so I’m not pleased with that, but it’s a pretty good one so far. A soccer stadium full of people is being held hostage by a man with a gun, and Conan, the Detective Boys (including Ai), and the police do their best to flush the terrorist out of the crowd, who turns out to be two men, actually.
I liked the Osaka case a lot, actually, though it’s not the kind of thing readers could easily figure out. The character stuff in it was good. The one with the Japanese wordplay was probably the best in the volume, but as I said, it was a bit lost on me because of the very Japanese-language riddle.
So yes, more Detective Conan for anyone who’s plugging away at it like I am. I still like it, and that’s good enough for me.
December 7, 2007 at 3:00 pm
[...] Manga Recon blog. Connie is busy at Slightly Biased Manga, with new reviews of vol. 19 of Detective Conan, vol. 5 of 3×3 Eyes, vol. 6 of Dokebi Bride, vol. 1 of Skip Beat, and vol. 9 of Lupin III. [...]