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I think Chikara Katsumata being Rum is a very huge possibility
Sorry but RUM has already been established to be one of the 3 suspects: Kuroda, Wakasa and Wakita.
Chikara Katsumata is but a pro shogi player used as a character for Shuuichi's shogi matches, someone who's up to his level. People over exaggerate his relevance.
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I think Chikara Katsumata is Rum. In chapter 1029 when Conan asks Bourbon whether he knows Rum...he tells that Rum is a person who is very impatient...In episode 785 during Yumi kidnapping case Shogi game is told to be game of impatience by Shukichi...also that was the introduction of Chikara Matsumata.
I think Gosho is playing with us by using the same 3 suspects ploy like in Bourbon arc to fool us. Kuroda is related to PSB, Wakita Kanenori is a black organisation member ( probably whiskey ) who despises Rum and Rumi Wakasa is probably Asaka/person who uploaded Haneda case on internet/Haneda girlfriend ( judging how she held the shogi piece in file 1034 ). What you guys think?
Going by the cover page of 1049, there seems to be a resemblance between Vermouth and Mary. Is it because that's how he draws foreign women or is this leading to another build up like Mary-Ai?
Spoiler pics for 1,050 are now out (albeit in low quality due to the small resolution), and there are also text spoilers, courtesy of Baka:
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"The culprit is Remi's manager, Mitomu Kushiyama. After the deduction, he suddenly lashes out with a chair, but is subdued by Ran.
Continuing the flashback, after Mary was drugged by Vermouth and returns to the hotel room, she and Masumi see Conan at Wimbledon and recall the beach case.
Mary says her coughing might be a secondary effect of the drug. But she does not want to go to the hospital because she thinks the BO will be waiting for her there if they're aware of what happened to her body.
Masumi manages to steal Conan's medicine container... but the antidote is not there."
2 weeks break after this—we can expect spoilers for 1,051 on around April the 3rd.
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I think this is the first time I feel compelled to do an Everything Wrong With... regarding a story written by Gosho. I will largely forego the actual case, it was too reminiscent of the Pisco case with the fluroescent object, the projector and the darkness, so I focus on the flashback. I'm actually sad, that little by little it becomes evident how Vermouth's arc was as well fleshed out as it was, because Gosho has a crush on his own creation. Even worse, he did not devise a game plan to integrate such important characters to the main plot.
Where should I begin? Yes, this is a show where a teenager was allowed to solve crimes before he was force fed a drug that shrunk him, so obviously in a lot of aspects this isn't real life, asking for quite a deal in suspending disbelief. However this is mitigated by the very real science used in the show, and it is generally understood beside the main plot, that people act lifelike. I can buy that he wanted to draw the Vauxhall Bridge, so he can show off the headquarters of the British Secret Service. What I don't buy is that in this universe the pandemic either never happened (and a few months ago it wasn't even a thing) or is yet to happen, thus the chance in broad daylight in a small town like London, there's nobody on the bridge, but them. I can't buy that MI-6 were allowed to operate on home soil, MI-5 is for that. If I had global fans, at bare minimum I'd bother to check. I can't buy that Mary would be as unprofessional as to part EYES ONLY information with her daughter, a minor in both countries, and she entrusts her to reach out to her bosses about her dead father she never met, and who was killed by an organization the Secret Service would deny knowing about. If you recall, he did remember this, when he wrote Eisuke. I can't buy that Sharon's kiss caught Mary that much off guard since she had already seen Sharon taking it out. It's incredibly hard to force-feed a person, she only held her chin for a regular kiss, her thumb wouldn't be enough to put pressure on her jaw, preventing her from shutting her teeth.
Meanwhile, this is supposed to be happening during Shinichi being in London as well. I've got a degree in tourism, I'm very good with names and faces, but even I need reoccurrence. Unless the person is super famous, I'd not recall a kid I met ONCE, TEN YEARS AGO. I can't but the Home Office would allow the Secret Service to access the flight manifest of a sovereign country based on a hunch, and the person in question is a minor. Any British fan could tell you about the sh*tstorm the Secret Service endured during their screw ups. This only served the purpose, of Vermouth being in the story and to justify how they've learned about Conan being Shinichi. Gosho placed emphasis on the fact, that in Japan drug busts are done by the Health Ministry, not cops, and how Rei works for the Japanese FBI so this wasn't oversight, rather I think, who cares, domestic fans wouldn't.
