Super Digest Book 70+ : Gosho Aoyama's Interview (containing manga spoilers)

[Spimer]

@MrDetective: maybe he's referring to "Kudo Yuusaku's Cold Case"? When Sera, Conan and the girls go over the files of the "cold case" and read that the witness who found the victim 10 years before was a kindergarten kid, after all.

[Kudo Shinchi]

My biggest problem isn't with how they're written, it's with how often they are. 90% of the couples in DC are childhood friend pairings. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind them (my parents are childhood friends and they've been married for over 2 decades), but seriously, it's getting a little old. >_>

I know this is petty, but I still have to say it: I've done the math, and the actual percentage of childhood friends in DC is roughly 50%, not 90%
That the majority are childhood friends is a misconception that refuses to go away.

Anyways, thanks Checkhov for the convenient compilation. Honestly, I wish people from DCTP asked the questions in these kind of things, most of these are kind of trivial or downright silly (like the one asking about Ran being the boss or not.....)

[Mario2000]

Anyways, thanks Checkhov for the convenient compilation. Honestly, I wish people from DCTP asked the questions in these kind of things, most of these are kind of trivial or downright silly (like the one asking about Ran being the boss or not.....)

That's not even the worst one. I remember reading an interview where somebody asked whether Ran's triangular piece of hair was actually a "horn" made of bone or just hair.
Really, wasting like that an opportunity to ask the author a question...

[MrDetective]

"Q 42: Why do you draw fingernails for you characters? Since volume 60, we can see their fingernails."

What kind of question is that? Just who was in charge of the interview???

[Jecka]

My biggest problem isn't with how they're written, it's with how often they are. 90% of the couples in DC are childhood friend pairings. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind them (my parents are childhood friends and they've been married for over 2 decades), but seriously, it's getting a little old. >_>

I know this is petty, but I still have to say it: I've done the math, and the actual percentage of childhood friends in DC is roughly 50%, not 90%
That the majority are childhood friends is a misconception that refuses to go away.

I'm known for [jokenly] exaggerating a lot

[Jd-]

I know this is petty, but I still have to say it: I've done the math, and the actual percentage of childhood friends in DC is roughly 50%, not 90%
That the majority are childhood friends is a misconception that refuses to go away.

I'd like to see who was counted on what side of the fence there. Be mindful that if even 50.1% of the couples are childhood friend couples, the criticism you take issue with ("The majority of couples in Conan are childhood friend couples") is actually validated.

Personally, I don't really mind how many of each there are in percentages. Having so many of the core characters forever tied to those relationships limits the scope of what stories are available for those characters; in each and every case, it's only a matter of time before they begin to appear as slightly tweaked permutations of things we've seen before.

[bluesun]

What kind of question is that? Just who was in charge of the interview???

The questions were all sent in by fans.

[red.orchid]

Not really related to the topic itself, but I recalled some of Gosho's assistants kept saying he was going to purchase a villa on an island in the South in one of the early Super Digest Book (20+ I think). No doubt Conan has brought him a lot of money ^^

(They also said Gosho often locked the door and slept soundly inside knowing his assistants were coming, which bothered them to no end, lol)

[Okiyakaivan]

2020 have olympic games at japan right?

[Spimer]

@Okiyakaivan: That's correct, but I don't see how that's related to anything in Conan's plot.

[Startold]

Gosho said he didn't want the Olympic Games to take place in Japan.

[Startold]

I've updated the questions. It looks like whe had forgotten many questions when we first translated the SDB (such as "Are Sera and Shinichi cousins", "Did Sera and Shinichi meet in Hawaii", "What will be Shinichi's job", etc..)
I'm not skilled enough in Japanese to translate some questions, and some of the untranslated questions could be important. If you can translate them, go ahead. ^^

[Nemomon]

I've updated the questions. It looks like whe had forgotten many questions when we first translated the SDB (such as "Are Sera and Shinichi cousins", "Did Sera and Shinichi meet in Hawaii", "What will be Shinichi's job", etc..)
I'm not skilled enough in Japanese to translate some questions, and some of the untranslated questions could be important. If you can translate them, go ahead. ^^

A stupid idea .

Could You each time add a colour to the newely added questions, so we won't have to read this wall of text again to find what we have missed?

[Startold]

Gee dude, no need to be rude.
I've added the color. It's really useful, as you can see. :p

[Nemomon]

Not trying to be rude at all!

Anyway, according to this:

Q135: Has Ran noticed Conan's identity?
A: I will draw it. Stay tuned.

Ran someday will find out that Conan is Shinichi, but probably not so soon... And then she will slap Conan for seeing her naked...