Like I said, it's not the main mystery, why Akai is Okiya, as for reference see the extensive work of Chekhov's and Kyuu's on that subject, and as a little rant of mine, why he chose to be him after Shiho refused FBI protection. Speaking of which, that sentence you quoted exactly states (was possibly overlooked) that he had no knowledge of what happened between Shinichi and Vermouth in the forest, but did know that Shiho refused protection, and was going with the idea, that Vermouth will strike again at a later point. Gosho always uses similar plot devices not because of boredom, but rather for the fact, that it makes it easier, only the characters and roles change.acerola21 wrote:That's what I've been trying to argue against, though - I'm not saying that it's impossible, it's in fact likely, it's just that it's also possible and likely that Okiya =/= Akai. And if Okiya = Akai then I'll be disappointed in Gosho for using such a similar plot for the third time. :-\shinichi1977 wrote:Aside from the very compelling case why Akai is Okiya
. . . Although, why else would Gosho name Okiya, Akai, and Moroboshi Dai after Char Aznable? And apparently Camel was named after Char Aznable's second-in-command's ship, or something . . . but then who the hell's the Glasses Man? I thought at first that he was Akai as Okiya, but noooo, Gosho had to show that scene where Akai is calling the Glasses Man / Hat Lady (File 419 p.18) . . . and I still have no idea who the Hat Lady could be . . .
Would you kindly point me to the proof?shinichi1977 wrote:Akai Shuichi had no knowledge of what happened between Vermouth and Shinichi in the forest, but he did know
As I've pointed out, James has been known to work with Akai about a hundred chapters beforehand, so it wouldn't be strange for Gosho to draw those figures as James and Jodie instead of shadowy figures. Besides, Haibara reacted to their presence (File 419 p.15), while she never reacted to Jodie or James - there's a good chance those figures were in the B.O. somehow.shinichi1977 wrote:That aside we can assume it is Jodie and James
Plus, the glasses dude's car doesn't look anything like James' or Jodie's. It's black (File 417 p.3, Conan says he knew the car was trailing him even though his mom stopped her car in the middle of the road but the car didn't complain or anything at all, so it's safe to say that the car at the bottom left is the glasses dude's car), and if anything it looks like Sato's car (File 436 p.4), but Jodie's car isn't black (File 431 p.3), and James rents cars (File 325 p.11), and like you said most rent cars in Japan have the wheel on the right side, not the left.
And the car isn't Sato's, since Sato's car's driver's seat is on the right side (File 370 p.8), while the Glasses Man's car's driver's seat is on the left side (File 418 p.16 - see the Glasses Man's hands on the wheel?) - and yeah, I'm very sure that the driver's seat is on the left side in Glasses Man's car. I've thought about Sato and Takagi being the Hat Lady and the Glasses Man, but neither smoke (because we've been exposed to them for over seven hundred chapters and we've never seen them smoke), and Takagi was with Conan, inside the building, when Ai saw the Glasses Man outside the building (File 418). No way Takagi can be in two places at once. Although, I guess that it doesn't exclude Sato from being the Hat Lady . . . but nothing points to her being the Hat Lady, either.
. . . Maybe they're really Korn and Chianti and they're actually good people, LOL! I've excluded that possibility because we can see the face huge and up close but the facial features resembled Okiya more than Korn, but they are shadows, after all . . . but . . . hmm, I dunno.
Okay - I couldn't exactly remember what Vermouth's relation was to the party, anyway - but my main question is, who's the Werewolf Man that you speak of?shinichi1977 wrote:Last but not least: the party per se was not hosted by her she just included a written invitation to Mouri Kogoro and Kudo Shinichi
He had drawn Jodie and James vaguely on purpose, so that we are made to think, they are B.O. He purposely did not show Jodie because at a later point he revealed Vermouth killed an FBI agent, about which Jodie was dreaming, so the trick that they really aren't B.O. wouldn't have worked.
The Werewolf Man is the second character aside from Calvados to be introduced, but his face never seen, and his case was never later investigated in detail. That of course, has dramaturgy reasons. Gosho spoke through Conan when he stated no progress will be made if they don't make a move, so instead of explaining further how Vermouth had pressed that man to commit murder he played in the e-mail address of the boss, to level one up in the game.
Last but not least, along the plot device of Silver Bullet, Jekyll and Hyde was introduced to represent duality, not just in general, but as to a character who is a civil person by day and has a really dark side in the "night self"