This will be a LIVE-READ of chapter 1000.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000! The legends were true!
We start with a color cover, Conan wearing the clothes of Sherlock in London, the cover confirms a long case! Let's see.. Actually before that I just want to say that this will probably be Gosho's take-on on the school trip murder mystery story... I can't wait to read this...
Lol what are those balls on the first panel? Anyway, the first page... Sonoko teasing Ran and Shinichi walks from behind her?
HOLY BONKERS I actually asked for Ran to be in the color pages and it happens. This is cool as hell. The art looks really clean and beautiful, it's not a generic color spread at all. The background detail is heavy to the right while the character detail is in the middle and to the left. There's some kind of comedic looking haibara-skull-cloud at the very top? Lol. Also it has the fall-theme going on.. So... The Crimson School Trip arc?
GOSHO AOYAMA PRESENTS!
*heavy breathing* let's see... I can't believe this, chapter 1000. It's actually THE 1000th chapter of DC...
Oh? The cold-theory seems to be turning out to be true? That's weird. It's maybe either about the antidote working more effectively when body's immunity system is weak, or the antidote causes the body's immunity system to become weaker and the rest are coincidences.
Wow this first post-color page has some pretty strong ShinRan moments, I actually got a chilling feel on my arms when I saw this panel.
Masumi appears. This is funny... Without Conan remembering the flashback we would still most likely get this very page as Shinichi saying the same thing (perfect memory yadayada) but I find it much funnier now when Shinichi goes "Yeah.. Sure..." because we know how much Masumi pushed Conan to remember him. Anyway Masumi puts a pretty strong impression here, her appearance and this moment taking place seems to be of some importance. Next up... Some kind of secret popularity contest of "best" girls in the school. Best as in how? It could be hottest but Masumi? Maybe her personality...
So who is this kid trolling Shinichi anyway... I don't remember him but it seems that he's an old friend of Shinichi so this being Gosho's original take on on the school trip case seems to be the case still. Oh yes, I really like that Sonoko is so damn carefree.
Okay now we flashback back to how he actually turned Shinichi. So Haibara is most likely going to have a change of heart going on. So the cold is from him jumping in the water, interesting...
LOL! "I suppose it'd be bad for the world to know that Kudo Shinichi is alive" - the very next moment when Haibara says he can have the antidote he goes back to not caring and getting hyped.
Oh the art is amazing here the next page after the recap. God damn, LOOK AT THAT DETAIL ON THE TERRACE. There are people taking selfies and some guy leaning over the ceiling. Oh, this must be their and some other classes filling up the place.
Okay, so the terrace is about 20 metres tall.. Is that really the case though? Seems too tall realistically. Coincidentally: 1. Masumi seems to be leaning too there, 2. Ran says it's dangerous to lean like that and 3. someone jumped to their death from that very building recently...
Sonoko is the one pushing Ran to go to Shinichi. Well done but it doesn't seem to be working on her, too bad.
Hmm. So is it called the Kiyomizu stage.. And now some creepy woman appears. She seems to be a tourist maybe, or some local who just likes going there. She has a flower inside a notebook which reminds me of something, can't recall what exactly, and the Dekuri"-kun".. Perhaps the person who died, and she wishes to die too to get to that person? ("wait for me").
Ok next page, yeah, that's a pretty damn tall building there. She looks pretty normal in this page, dropping the flower. So she's called Keiko Kurachi and she won the macademy awards for acting huh... And ofcourse she claims that she came there in secret.
So the girls will be taking a group photo with the famous actress. Shinichi's friend is Nakamura, right.. Lol, what is this? She says she used to change Shinichi's diapers. Lmao. Wow. I was first thinking how damn cool it is to have Shinichi around again but this turned hilarious really quick.
Anyway. The actress knows Yukiko from her past, Shinichi tells her they stay at Nakagyoku inn, she says she and some people she knows from her childhood stay there too. And she invites Shinichi to her room, lol! "Something to show," huh.
Ok. The moment, starting with the 3rd to last panel, with Shinichi starting to ask questions enters us to a short case-mode. Wow. I can practically hear this playing right now. Time to actually make the hallucination a reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxFFhUvlRiM
This is so cool. I wonder if the person she and her now-famous acquaintances from childhood knew, who died, is the one Sonoko mentioned earlier. Where will this lead to? Let's see...
Ah. A cipher... She got that from someone? Or... She clearly has her own plans after all. However we haven't met the other people yet.
What is she implying is impossible for Shinichi? Is this something she (maybe even we) needs Yusaku for..? A real challenge... Usually we get the hired private eyes on the case, for file 1000 it's Yusaku. Interesting indeed.
So, the meeting time is 9PM for Shinichi and Ran to go on a quest and we have a mysterious figure that somehow does not emanate the presence of Heiji there, despite the color of his skin, looking at his watch. Who's this mysterious person I wonder...
Oh wow. I can't believe we're actually getting these bonding moments in DC. Gosho actually has that Nakamura there too. Lol. They go to a temple and take photos I think that pose is maybe of the 1000 armed Kannon-god. This is so beautiful. CHANGE THE SONG, CHANGE THE SONG!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZd41NMBM4s
Okay so how back in times we must go for that crime scene, Masumi shows interest on the crime scene from like centuries ago. This page is mostly about being in-character, with Ran being scared and Shinichi showing off his knowledge but this time being able to actually say comforting things. Facts that bring a peace of mind even from something like murder. That's some very strong dialogue there from Shinichi.
And last thing is that Yougen-in blood ceiling. Will this case perhaps copy the murder?
Next page we arrive at the hotel. This hotel looks like a casino from outside, it says Hotel Gion on the plate so I guess that's the actual name of the inn itself... So all Masumi, Shinichi, Ran and Sonoko arrived after all. Lol. They're all wearing school gym clothes or something like that.
Mostly important information to remember: Keiko is wearing a hat, claims she got a small bump on her head while shooting for the soon to premier fantasy-historical Crimson Shura Tengu-movie.
It seems that this group of people are all very competitive, the actor, musician and director all want to claim that the movie will be a hit because of their input and no one else's.
'Partners in crime since university' part gave me a chuckle. They all do look like some kind of slimes. Next up we head to the scriptwriter's room, will the man be alive or not? Next page tells.
So the scriptwriter is in room 1502 with the cipher. Dry leaves of the japanese aralia plant enclosed, huh... So it's confirmed that Dekuri is the one who jumped down the 20 metres.
Haha, they're basically asking Shinichi to come drink some alcohol. And Shinichi and Keiko exchange addresses. This is perfect example of a case that is only possible to progress this way because he's Shinichi and not Conan.
Shinichi and the squad are trying to solve the case but already we got a case on our hands and run back possibly to find the body. Did the man spill the beans or what after Shinichi arrived to get the cipher?
Oh that's one way to kill someone. The man got just straight up thrown over the chair and stabbed? Wait blood is dripping on Shinichi.. Could this really be as I said, the culprit is copying a murder from the past for some reason (it hides a trick) oh, that actually shows signs of someone walking on the wall... Actually it almost like shows a murder scene happening upside down, and the body falling down? That's ridicilous...
This chapter was packed with so much I can't help but be pleased. This is actually a way better way to celebrate file 1000 than what I had in mind. This is more than a case, and the trick itself seems pretty darning ridicilous. The pacing itself was fast and covered alot of ground, the case is moving fast and freely making it very adventurous and large. I wonder how long this case will be...
Great job Gosho and once again, congrats Detective Conan for reaching file 1000.
OH BONKERS! Why didn't I get it. That dark-skinned man WAS Heiji, he's following Shinichi. That's why we got him looking at his watch. He's dressed up so that no one notices him. I wonder if it all will go down as smooth now.
Shinichi is there after being away for who-knows-how-long and everyone is just like "yo!"; he is not worrying about attracting attention; Sera, who has been observing him for so long, is not very impressed either it seems...
