Discussion thread: Detective Conan 987-989

[Tantei San]

From the look at Rumi's expression, It's unlikely that she and Kuroda are apprentice but they definitely know each other. Conan's real identity is at risk because almost everyone connected to the BO know he is not a normal child and they are likely to deduce that he is not a child. I mean Sera and her family, Bourbon, Kir, Vermouth, Kansuke, the FBI and now Kuroda and Rumi. They're going to find out eventually but why still Ran doesn't know. Gosho made all these characters know or at least suspect but yet Ran doesn't know. perhaps it's because she's kogoro's daughter and she inherited his stupidity ahahah.

Yes they definitely know each other.
I don't think conan's identity is at risk, all they know that this kid is highly advanced etc. Only people to know about him are his parents, agasa, haibara, heiji, akai, vermouth.
They might find out but i can't see it happening until the end of rum arc. nope!
Also, why ran didn't deduce conan's identity, well, she is aware that conan is not ordinary and resembles a lot to shinichi so sooner or later she may or in the end eventually.

[ring_do]

Conan may be in danger of becoming a target, but still, his identity is not really at stake. The only person who might deduce it at this point are Bourbon and Jodie, but well, they are allies anyway, so that doesn't change much. Don't forget, shrinking is not really a concept that a person would think and even if they might, their first reaction will probably be like Heiji's - "Nah, that's nonsense." So, unless Kuroda or Kansuke suddenly have a reason to believe in shrinking like Akai or Masumi, I doubt they would make the connection. There isn't even anything to indicate that they know who Shinichi Kudo is.

Kuroda as a Superintendent in the HQ, I think he might heard about Shinichi as he helped the police so often before he was shrunken. It's easy as long as they investigate the sounding of the Mouri family specifically Ran as she is Shinichi's classmate and always with him. But you are right about your point about the reality of him being shrunken into a child.

[Tantei San]

Conan may be in danger of becoming a target, but still, his identity is not really at stake. The only person who might deduce it at this point are Bourbon and Jodie, but well, they are allies anyway, so that doesn't change much. Don't forget, shrinking is not really a concept that a person would think and even if they might, their first reaction will probably be like Heiji's - "Nah, that's nonsense." So, unless Kuroda or Kansuke suddenly have a reason to believe in shrinking like Akai or Masumi, I doubt they would make the connection. There isn't even anything to indicate that they know who Shinichi Kudo is.

Kuroda as a Superintendent in the HQ, I think he might heard about Shinichi as he helped the police so often before he was shrunken. It's easy as long as they investigate the sounding of the Mouri family specifically Ran as she is Shinichi's classmate and always with him. But you are right about your point about the reality of him being shrunken into a child.

Kuroda came back some time back and I don't think he would suddenly think about shinichi just like that, though he is after both conan and rumi.

[Themaninarmor]

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does shiratori seem suspicious here or it is just me !!

me too... somehow he just want to tell about rumi and conan in the first place.

[dccd]

Spoiler:

Looking at the cover... Gosho will make Conan finally realize which handicaps (judging distance and stuff) an one eyed person has
and which behaviour we should expect.
Judging by the spoilerpics, he´s using Rumi do demonstrate this behaviour.

I might be wrong but:
To me this is a well planed red herring by Gosho.
The reader has to think "This is how a one eyed person behave" -> being sloppy due to lack of judging distance.
But the key point is, that a one eyed person gets used to his situation after time.

The prove to this statement is everybodys statement in the real world: Just ask some one eyed people.
The prove to this statement in the manga is even simpler: Kuroda.
Kuroda obviously has only one functionable eye - and he isnt slopply or shows lack of judging disctances at all.
He acts completely normal.

So imo this chapter is there to show us - since I doubt that either one of them is Rum - exactly this:
Look for someone who acts as normal as others.
So anybody besides Rumi might be Rum. Nice!

[Kor]

@DCU

Reminder for the third (fourth?) time to not link to a place with pics if it includes so many pics.

[DCUniverseAficionado]

@DCU

Reminder for the third (fourth?) time to not link to a place with pics if it includes so many pics.

ABBC3_OFFTOPIC

Ah, so 7 is too much? I did so because I thought that less than half a file/8 pages was fine... my mistake, then. I do recall linking to 5 spoiler pics and this not happening, so I'll just stick with linking to 5, maximum—if it's anything over that, I'll avoid actual linking and just stick with a mention.

On a note more relevant to the file, itself (as opposed to what probably comes off as continual incompetence, on my part, in relation to linking to the spoiler pics of files)...

Spoiler:

After 364 Files, let's welcome back Inspector Yuminaga!

[Unlucky Devil]

Spoiler:

Looking at the cover... Gosho will make Conan finally realize which handicaps (judging distance and stuff) an one eyed person has
and which behaviour we should expect.
Judging by the spoilerpics, he´s using Rumi do demonstrate this behaviour.

I might be wrong but:
To me this is a well planed red herring by Gosho.
The reader has to think "This is how a one eyed person behave" -> being sloppy due to lack of judging distance.
But the key point is, that a one eyed person gets used to his situation after time.

The prove to this statement is everybodys statement in the real world: Just ask some one eyed people.
The prove to this statement in the manga is even simpler: Kuroda.
Kuroda obviously has only one functionable eye - and he isnt slopply or shows lack of judging disctances at all.
He acts completely normal.

So imo this chapter is there to show us - since I doubt that either one of them is Rum - exactly this:
Look for someone who acts as normal as others.
So anybody besides Rumi might be Rum. Nice!

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If misjudging distances is a handicap of a one eyed person, I'd say Rumi sure comes to mind. Her always being so clumsy may be due to a damaged or prosthetic eye. Even in the flashbacks that Conan had, he remembered one of Rumi banging her head on the table. So, this may be a valid reason behind her gripping her trousers in that scene - she was annoyed at the person who damaged another one's eye for such a reason. So, is it safe to assume Rumi has a fake eye, or is it another red herring?

Kuroda wants to investigate the Robbery Case, and the only one from "a few weeks ago" was the one with our third Rum suspect - Wakita.
About Kuroda's words - "That's not like that person at all.", I can see how it may sound like he was talking about Rumi. But, assuming he wanted someone (Wakita?) to investigate Rumi and since it wasn't like that person who he would normally send for this, he had to go himself.

Also, Shiho's BO sense was triggered with Gosho directly indicating to Rumi. So, that clear her off the BO (Rum) list IMO. Because Gosho is cryptic about BO sense clues.

[Themaninarmor]

Shiho's BO sense... Well we still don't know how exactly that thing works... Maybe she just fell some kind of pressure behind her...

[estuputri]

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Well, I still didn't think that Rumi is BO.
Since Conan think Rumi always make him get into the case, maybe she only need help to resolve the case.
And I don't think BO will do the thing like that.

[MeiTanteixX]

Spoiler:

After 364 Files, let's welcome back Inspector Yuminaga!

Spoiler:

Of all the things I saw in the spoilers, only Yuminaga managed to make me excited outloud.

[Stopwatch]

Spoiler:

Well, I still didn't think that Rumi is BO.
Since Conan think Rumi always make him get into the case, maybe she only need help to resolve the case.
And I don't think BO will do the thing like that.

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Rumi has been dropping hints to help solve the case. I don't think the issue is that she can't figure it out. Seems more like she's gathering data or something based on the murders and/or who/how they're solved tbh.

[DCUniverseAficionado]

Spoiler:

After 364 Files, let's welcome back Inspector Yuminaga!

Spoiler:

Of all the things I saw in the spoilers, only Yuminaga managed to make me excited outloud.

Spoiler:

I really hope he'll continue to bring in characters who've gone 100s of Files without of an appearance, since we're so close to File 1000.

Spoiler:

Well, I still didn't think that Rumi is BO.
Since Conan think Rumi always make him get into the case, maybe she only need help to resolve the case.
And I don't think BO will do the thing like that.

Spoiler:

Rumi has been dropping hints to help solve the case. I don't think the issue is that she can't figure it out. Seems more like she's gathering data or something based on the murders and/or who/how they're solved tbh.

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She must be checking Shinichi/Conan out for a pretty specific purpose if she's capable of not only figuring out cases before him, but will then drop hints.

With her and Momiji, we suddenly have two really smart female characters who are more out for their own interests than to do good/right or to do bad/wronh, and are capable of beating Shinichi/Conan to the punch and then dropping hints for him.

[Tantei San]

Spoiler:

She must be checking Shinichi/Conan out for a pretty specific purpose if she's capable of not only figuring out cases before him, but will then drop hints.

With her and Momiji, we suddenly have two really smart female characters who are more out for their own interests than to do good/right or to do bad/wronh, and are capable of beating Shinichi/Conan to the punch and then dropping hints for him.

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Hence to conclude, Rumi knows who real Shinichi is and is therefore seeking his help. Otherwise, I can't see a reason as to why would a 33 year old woman have an interest in a 7 year old kid just like that.
Whether you would argue that she may have seen him in the news quite a lot, but the matter of fact it, was Kogoro and not Conan who was blabbering.

[Themaninarmor]

Spoiler:

She must be checking Shinichi/Conan out for a pretty specific purpose if she's capable of not only figuring out cases before him, but will then drop hints.

With her and Momiji, we suddenly have two really smart female characters who are more out for their own interests than to do good/right or to do bad/wronh, and are capable of beating Shinichi/Conan to the punch and then dropping hints for him.

Spoiler:

Hence to conclude, Rumi knows who real Shinichi is and is therefore seeking his help. Otherwise, I can't see a reason as to why would a 33 year old woman have an interest in a 7 year old kid just like that.
Whether you would argue that she may have seen him in the news quite a lot, but the matter of fact it, was Kogoro and not Conan who was blabbering.

nope i think she still don't know conan is shinichi cause she made a lot of mistake in front of conan which mean she was lowering her guard in front of conan and thought he just only smart kid.

Then why not kogoro? Because she don't want whoever her target which we know must be someone involved in the case 17 years ago have impression that she got help from a detective.