Detective Conan 25
Posted: January 17, 2009 Filed under: Case Closed 4 Comments »George was singing “Mune ga Doki Doki” at one point during a car ride, and now I’m going to have that song stuck in my head for, like, a week. Thanks, Case Closed.
Otherwise, this volume was surprisingly good. The second case was a little weak, unfortunately. It was about a puppetmaker, but all the awesome situations I imagined that involved puppets were unfortunately not to be. There was a weird drug angle that not much was made of. The end was really, really creepy in that everyone was sort of smiling and joking in the last panel. I liked the way the grandma stepped in to save the feelings of the two little girls, but the light mood was sort of… not a good fit, even though I know that’s how all the cases end, and almost all the other cases involve murder, too. For some reason, I wasn’t having the logic of the way the murders were committed, either. That stuff is always over-the-top, but… yeah, I don’t know why it bothered me a little this time. This one also had Harley in it, and I still don’t really like him.
What else… the first case was a pretty cut-and-dry murder at an ice skating rink. You could see the motive a mile away, and it wasn’t all that surprising when the murderer was revealed at the end, but it had all those things that make a Case Closed mystery, etc. It had Sonoko in it, but for once I didn’t actually mind her that much.
The last story is the best, and is one of those rare stories that has a little bit of plot. Conan starts to suspect that Ran knows his identity (once again), but before he has time to think very much about it, he goes on a camping trip with his friends, runs across some murdering bank robbers, and is shot. There is a cliffhanger. Spoiler – I think he makes it. I also think that Ran doesn’t find out he’s Shinichi.
Yeah. I still like it. I’ll probably like it for as long as it feels like running, which may be indefinitely.
This was the first Case Closed volume I ever read, so I can actually comment on this one! :)
“For some reason, I wasn’t having the logic of the way the murders were committed, either.”
Me either! What an unnecessarily elaborate way to go about it! To figure it all out with the presence of a single thumbtack is rather unbelievable.
Yeah, normally they make a little more sense than that. The one with the girl at the skating rink is a pretty good example of how most of them go, it makes a bit more sense when the evidence comes from observing the suspects like that. I read the next volume today too, it had another case like that where they figured it out by watching the suspect. Sort of. Except that one involved cyanide-laced ice that was maybe a little too much, but pretty clever.
I seem to’ve forgotten the cases from v26, but I just read my own review which talks about some similarities with v25. One similar culprit and one sounds of celebration covering up gunshot.
Yeah… the fireworks festival in volume 25 was a slightly more plausible explanation for covering up a gunshot than the party poppers in volume 26. The “sound covering up a gunshot” explanation doesn’t happen as often as these two volumes would have you believe.