First post of that thread where Texascoffeegirl posted her theory is dead. If a mod could fix it that would be nice. Here is the transcript just in case.kholoudsafir wrote:I just thought to give this link to this old topic for those who are new:
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It is a comprehensive discussion about the possibility of Yoko being the boss
Spoiler: first post
It's the first and probably last time, I open a thread. I am a fan of Detective Conan for over a decade now. Just a couple months ago, when we moved to our new home, I found my old DC mangas. Out of boredom and curiosity, I started reading the first Volumes again, caught the old “who is the big boss”-fever and ended up reading them all in a row. Yeah, all of them. Took me two weeks. Now I'm here, with a cup of coffee and in the mood, to share my funny and weird thoughts. No, I wont discuss what was discussed thousands of times in other forums.
I base my upcoming gibberish only on the mangas and the infamous interview Aoyama's in 2006 http://www.animey.net/specials/42 , where Aoyama said something that made me thinking. No, not the whole “Ai will be surprised'-whatever thing.
At some point, Aoyama was asked about the success of Detective Conan and whether he expected DC to last so many years.
No, of course, he didn't. How could he? Indeed, he thought DC will end after a couple of months or Volumes. So far, nothing unusual, but while reading the first chapters of DC, I realized: when those chapters were published, Aoyama had thought the story to end soon. Why is it important? Because that means Aoyama most likely dropped some important hints pointing to the BO very early. Actually, he dropped maybe 'one hint' within the first six chapters.
(BTW, reading all 700something chapters in a row, I have the impression, that maybe a year or a little bit more has passed in the story line. I know, sounds unbelievable, but that is the impression you get if you read everything in a row and not in a decade...)
We can assume, that Aoyama is a professional (lol, it's really late), meaning he had a rough story outline from the very beginning. The concept of Conan, Kogoro, the BO, them being an international organization leading at some point to the US. It helps that Shinichi's parents lived in the US and that being mentioned right away in the first chapter. It opened the international doors early. And before I go back to that maybe'hint', let me emphasize one of Aoyama's drawing styles: smoking. Certain characters or character-types smoke in the story. The cool (like Akai, Matsuda and some suspects) and the dangerous (like Akai and most of the BO, some other murderers). Well, and Kogoro. But he is another story. I think, we have seen pretty much all BO members smoking and drinking alcohol. In the DC universe, the purely innocent don't smoke and drink.
Which brings me to my key figure, my Irene Adler, so to say: Yoko Okino.
Yeah, keep laughing but keep on reading, I bet you will be a bit surprised.
It starts in chapter 6 Vol. 1, three days after the BO 'killed' Kudo Shinichi. Conan is eager to do something, but is advised by Prof. Agasa to keep his head down. Agasa: “If they find out, your body never showed up, they'll come looking for you. Just wait until then. You mustn't get impatient and make the first move.”
Well, if I learned one thing in the DC universe, it is when a case starts with a discussion about the BO, the case most likely is about the BO. So, Conan waits for their move – and meets Yoko Okino in Kogoro's office. I think it is amazing, that this woman/minor character was introduced so early, but than again it is not important. Something else is. Remember the first Yoko Okino case. The stalker who was killed/committed suicide in her apartment but turns out it was her former boyfriend from high school? So, short before Yoko, Kogoro, Conan and Co go to Yoko's apartment, Yoko's manager says to super-excited Kogoro to keep his voice down, cause nobody knows that Yoko Okino lives in that huge apartment complex. It is a secret. Indeed, Yoko states she moved to this apartment secretly cause she wanted to get away from the stalker. Since it was kept a secret, we can assume Yoko wasn't running around and telling people were she lives. We can assume, she didn't have many guests. The character of Yoko Okino seems to be the one of a beautiful, innocent (like Kogoro always states) young woman aka successful actress, scared, you know the story. The group enters her apartment, finds the murdered stalker and makes the first suspect, a female actress co-worker of Yoko, to come by to the apartment, too. She makes herself suspicious cause she uses that statue that was indeed a lighter and so on and so on. That is not the point. The point are three things that are not 'right' in Yoko Okino's apartment.
1.First of all. The lighter statue is the Statue of Liberty. Why would an innocent person like Yoko Okino whom we never seen smoking have a lighter in the form of the statue of liberty? The lighter indeed looks like something people would buy as a souvenir, very specific. Was Yoko Okino in New York and brought herself a souvenir? Maybe, but bot likely, cause a non-smoker would buy something else. Unless, somebody else she knew was in New York and brought her the lighter souvenir. Somebody, who smokes, somebody who visits Yoko on a regular base and misses a lighter in her apartment... well, who do we know lived in New York at this time, smokes, comes to Japan every now and then and is a famous colleague of Yoko, by herself? Name it, you get it.
2.Which leads to me to point number two. Chapter 9, Vol. 1 page 3, there is an ashtray on the table, right in front of the couch, where the lighter was nearby. Somebody sits on the couch, using the lighter. BTW, it is the same ashtray, Conan uses to knock out Kogoro since he doesn't have the tranquilizer-watch yet.
3.When Conan uses the ashtray, it is seen, that there are three cigarettes in there. Kogoro smokes one cigarette, but he is still holding on to his cigarette. The other female suspect smokes too, but she lost her cigarette shortly after lightening it. You can see her long, unsmoked cigarette in the ashtray. That leaves two other cigarettes in the ashtray that must have been there before Kogoro, Conan and Co arrived. We can assume, that our suspicious “smoker” (hello X-files) visited Yoko Okino shortly before. Well, it might have been the female co-worker, but she was careful not to be seen in Yoko's apartment. Why would she smoke in Yoko's apartment and leaving traces that somebody was there? And Yoko didn't seem bothered at all with cigarettes in the ashtrey.
To summarize, there is this young charming and recurring actress Yoko Okino with a New York souvenir in her apartment, an astray, although she doesn't smoke or smokes secretly (which would make her even more suspicious in the DC-universe). She contacts Mouri three days after Kudo was murdered and no body was found. She comes well along with Ran. Too many coincidences come together in one case, if you ask me.
And it doesn't stop there.
In Vol. 10, chap. 5, Shinichi Kudo appears again after drinking the Chines. alcohol. Vol.11 chap. 4 Conan is in serious trouble because of Kogoro who suspects Conan, but Kogoro is suddenly distracted by Yoko Okino who pops up at the Nichiura TV studio to see Kogoro. It is not a big thing, I know, but I think it is worth mentioning that she pops up at Nichiura TV, saying she works there and wanted to see Kogoro.
Throughout the story, Yoko Okino pops up on TV, radio, poster and so on and so on.
Vol. 48, chap. 9 page 3. When Yoko Okino uses her cell phone in front of Conan, Conan has a flashback of Vermouth. He blames it on him getting paranoid. What if he's not?
Same Vol. Same chapter, it is Yoko Okino who introduces Rena Mizunashi to Kogoro Mori, saying they are friends/colleagues. For crying out load, it was her, who invited Kogoro to the TV studio in the first place and made it possible, that they ran into Rena Mizunashi. Page 4, she literary drags Rena to Kogoro. It was Yoko who suggested to Kogoro to stop by at Rena's apartment. And for some reason, she mentions that she wont tag along with them cause she has work to do. How convenient is that? And has anybody ever paid attention to the older guy on page 5, who shows obvious interest in the conversation on the next table? Older dude, black suit, smoking?
Vol.53 chap. 552 page 16, Kogoro states he got many requests from Yoko Okino.
Chap. 562 page 7, Kogoro calls Yoko … he has her phone number.
Chap. 591 page 3, Yoko Okino doesn't trigger Ai's BO sense.
Chap. 595, Kogoro is watching TV, Yoko Okino sings, while she sings, crows are noisy outside … Kogoro starts humming the seven children song... this really is just coincidence...
… but throw everything together and keep in mind that Irene Adler was a beautiful actress, somebody who tricked Holmes till the very last second of the case... .
Is there somebody else out there, who thinks that this is weird (I mean Yoko, not me writing a novel at two o'clock in the morning.)?
I base my upcoming gibberish only on the mangas and the infamous interview Aoyama's in 2006 http://www.animey.net/specials/42 , where Aoyama said something that made me thinking. No, not the whole “Ai will be surprised'-whatever thing.
At some point, Aoyama was asked about the success of Detective Conan and whether he expected DC to last so many years.
No, of course, he didn't. How could he? Indeed, he thought DC will end after a couple of months or Volumes. So far, nothing unusual, but while reading the first chapters of DC, I realized: when those chapters were published, Aoyama had thought the story to end soon. Why is it important? Because that means Aoyama most likely dropped some important hints pointing to the BO very early. Actually, he dropped maybe 'one hint' within the first six chapters.
(BTW, reading all 700something chapters in a row, I have the impression, that maybe a year or a little bit more has passed in the story line. I know, sounds unbelievable, but that is the impression you get if you read everything in a row and not in a decade...)
We can assume, that Aoyama is a professional (lol, it's really late), meaning he had a rough story outline from the very beginning. The concept of Conan, Kogoro, the BO, them being an international organization leading at some point to the US. It helps that Shinichi's parents lived in the US and that being mentioned right away in the first chapter. It opened the international doors early. And before I go back to that maybe'hint', let me emphasize one of Aoyama's drawing styles: smoking. Certain characters or character-types smoke in the story. The cool (like Akai, Matsuda and some suspects) and the dangerous (like Akai and most of the BO, some other murderers). Well, and Kogoro. But he is another story. I think, we have seen pretty much all BO members smoking and drinking alcohol. In the DC universe, the purely innocent don't smoke and drink.
Which brings me to my key figure, my Irene Adler, so to say: Yoko Okino.
Yeah, keep laughing but keep on reading, I bet you will be a bit surprised.
It starts in chapter 6 Vol. 1, three days after the BO 'killed' Kudo Shinichi. Conan is eager to do something, but is advised by Prof. Agasa to keep his head down. Agasa: “If they find out, your body never showed up, they'll come looking for you. Just wait until then. You mustn't get impatient and make the first move.”
Well, if I learned one thing in the DC universe, it is when a case starts with a discussion about the BO, the case most likely is about the BO. So, Conan waits for their move – and meets Yoko Okino in Kogoro's office. I think it is amazing, that this woman/minor character was introduced so early, but than again it is not important. Something else is. Remember the first Yoko Okino case. The stalker who was killed/committed suicide in her apartment but turns out it was her former boyfriend from high school? So, short before Yoko, Kogoro, Conan and Co go to Yoko's apartment, Yoko's manager says to super-excited Kogoro to keep his voice down, cause nobody knows that Yoko Okino lives in that huge apartment complex. It is a secret. Indeed, Yoko states she moved to this apartment secretly cause she wanted to get away from the stalker. Since it was kept a secret, we can assume Yoko wasn't running around and telling people were she lives. We can assume, she didn't have many guests. The character of Yoko Okino seems to be the one of a beautiful, innocent (like Kogoro always states) young woman aka successful actress, scared, you know the story. The group enters her apartment, finds the murdered stalker and makes the first suspect, a female actress co-worker of Yoko, to come by to the apartment, too. She makes herself suspicious cause she uses that statue that was indeed a lighter and so on and so on. That is not the point. The point are three things that are not 'right' in Yoko Okino's apartment.
1.First of all. The lighter statue is the Statue of Liberty. Why would an innocent person like Yoko Okino whom we never seen smoking have a lighter in the form of the statue of liberty? The lighter indeed looks like something people would buy as a souvenir, very specific. Was Yoko Okino in New York and brought herself a souvenir? Maybe, but bot likely, cause a non-smoker would buy something else. Unless, somebody else she knew was in New York and brought her the lighter souvenir. Somebody, who smokes, somebody who visits Yoko on a regular base and misses a lighter in her apartment... well, who do we know lived in New York at this time, smokes, comes to Japan every now and then and is a famous colleague of Yoko, by herself? Name it, you get it.
2.Which leads to me to point number two. Chapter 9, Vol. 1 page 3, there is an ashtray on the table, right in front of the couch, where the lighter was nearby. Somebody sits on the couch, using the lighter. BTW, it is the same ashtray, Conan uses to knock out Kogoro since he doesn't have the tranquilizer-watch yet.
3.When Conan uses the ashtray, it is seen, that there are three cigarettes in there. Kogoro smokes one cigarette, but he is still holding on to his cigarette. The other female suspect smokes too, but she lost her cigarette shortly after lightening it. You can see her long, unsmoked cigarette in the ashtray. That leaves two other cigarettes in the ashtray that must have been there before Kogoro, Conan and Co arrived. We can assume, that our suspicious “smoker” (hello X-files) visited Yoko Okino shortly before. Well, it might have been the female co-worker, but she was careful not to be seen in Yoko's apartment. Why would she smoke in Yoko's apartment and leaving traces that somebody was there? And Yoko didn't seem bothered at all with cigarettes in the ashtrey.
To summarize, there is this young charming and recurring actress Yoko Okino with a New York souvenir in her apartment, an astray, although she doesn't smoke or smokes secretly (which would make her even more suspicious in the DC-universe). She contacts Mouri three days after Kudo was murdered and no body was found. She comes well along with Ran. Too many coincidences come together in one case, if you ask me.
And it doesn't stop there.
In Vol. 10, chap. 5, Shinichi Kudo appears again after drinking the Chines. alcohol. Vol.11 chap. 4 Conan is in serious trouble because of Kogoro who suspects Conan, but Kogoro is suddenly distracted by Yoko Okino who pops up at the Nichiura TV studio to see Kogoro. It is not a big thing, I know, but I think it is worth mentioning that she pops up at Nichiura TV, saying she works there and wanted to see Kogoro.
Throughout the story, Yoko Okino pops up on TV, radio, poster and so on and so on.
Vol. 48, chap. 9 page 3. When Yoko Okino uses her cell phone in front of Conan, Conan has a flashback of Vermouth. He blames it on him getting paranoid. What if he's not?
Same Vol. Same chapter, it is Yoko Okino who introduces Rena Mizunashi to Kogoro Mori, saying they are friends/colleagues. For crying out load, it was her, who invited Kogoro to the TV studio in the first place and made it possible, that they ran into Rena Mizunashi. Page 4, she literary drags Rena to Kogoro. It was Yoko who suggested to Kogoro to stop by at Rena's apartment. And for some reason, she mentions that she wont tag along with them cause she has work to do. How convenient is that? And has anybody ever paid attention to the older guy on page 5, who shows obvious interest in the conversation on the next table? Older dude, black suit, smoking?
Vol.53 chap. 552 page 16, Kogoro states he got many requests from Yoko Okino.
Chap. 562 page 7, Kogoro calls Yoko … he has her phone number.
Chap. 591 page 3, Yoko Okino doesn't trigger Ai's BO sense.
Chap. 595, Kogoro is watching TV, Yoko Okino sings, while she sings, crows are noisy outside … Kogoro starts humming the seven children song... this really is just coincidence...
… but throw everything together and keep in mind that Irene Adler was a beautiful actress, somebody who tricked Holmes till the very last second of the case... .
Is there somebody else out there, who thinks that this is weird (I mean Yoko, not me writing a novel at two o'clock in the morning.)?
Spoiler: second post
Well, I'm glad I found some people who think the first Yoko Okino Arc is as suspicious as I do :-). It really seems to point to our little Miss actress being a BO-member, however there might be another possibility too, which is, I admit extremely far fetched and solely based on a few biography datas and a single snapshot.
The following words are just spiderwebs of my brain which is on vacation right now and likes to come up with some funny ideas so don't take me too serious on that one ;-)))
First of all, I don't think, Yoko Okino is the Boss :-), though I start to believe, she is somebody else than she pretends to be.
There is a really far fetched possibility of an Okino-Akai connection.
Akai had a thing for Akemi, a young, beautiful, innocent and yet strong woman. Ai Haibara stated that there are lots of similarities between her older sister Akemi and Ran, not just the outward appearance but the character. In Vol. 37, chapt. 7, Ran and Conan met Shuichi Akai (Conan didn't know at this point who Akai was, but Ran tells him after their little encounter she thinks he might be an FBI agent). At this time, Akai and Jodie had an eye on the Mouri agency. They kept their distance to the Mouris, the observations were happening to be undercover. Yet, Akai talks to Ran, not denying they have met before. The conversation was like this:
“You are crying again.”
Ran: “Eh?”
Akai: “You are always crying.”
Ran: “Is it wrong?”
Akai: “No... I was just remembering... You remind me of a woman... a stupid woman that was always crying in the dark while trying to sound casual...”
That was unnecessary and Akai isn't that type of guy who does unnecessary things. Ran just reminded him on Akemi – and he loved Akemi. And yeah, he assumed Ran isn't that stupid either and able to do the connections between him and the FBI hunt back in New York.
Well, lets go a step further. When Akai arrived in Japan in Vol. 32 chap. XX and the following, he says he wants to make his girlfriend who dumped him cry (with tears of blood). Yeah I know, the infamous quote, that was taking apart by fans thousands of times.
That 'girlfriend' , he is talking about, is most likely not Akemi – who is 1. dead for a year now and 2. they ended the contact in the first place to not harm her. The 'girlfriend' is somebody else than Akemi. In Vol. 29 chap. 5 page 18, after the bus-hijacking-case, Akai states that their target didn't show up, although Vermouth was right in front of them. Vermouth aka Araide was supposed to meet somebody in the bus who didn't show up because of the hijack. Who is that other person, Akai and Jodie were waiting for? Is it Gin or the 'girlfriend', Akai mentioned to James Black? I mean, they (Akai and Jodie) expected the target to show up, that means it rules Sherry as the target completely out, cause at this time, they had no idea where Sherry is. Akai most likely got a tip, that the target will show up there. And what about chap. 677, where Jodie has a flashback of Akai telling her that he loves two woman at the same time. Well, many people assume, that the other woman is Jodie, since she seems to have some feelings for Akai too, but than again that other woman could be the so said 'girlfriend', who dumped him.
Akai came from the US to look for this 'girlfriend', or so he stated. We can assume, that this 'girlfriend' (which can be just a metaphor for his female enemy?) was at some point in the US and than took off to Japan, where Akai followed her later. It was 2 years ago in the story line, when Akemi and Akai broke up. A year ago, at the “golden apple case', Akai was still in New York. Could Akai have another girlfriend there? I mean within the two years after he broke up with Akemi and while he was in the US? Possible. Possibly in New York. Do we know somebody, a woman around Akemi's age, beautiful, kind of innocent but yet strong (quote Ran, Vol. 1 chapt. 9 page12: “She's so strong, already back on her feet after what happened to her!” )... you know, Akai's type of woman? A woman, that can be thrown in one tin can with Akemi and Ran? A woman with a New York connection? I admit, Yoko Okino is reaaaally far fetched and most likely a very impossible theory, but then again, there is something else that is bothering me. I cant really find it anymore, but at one point Jodie stated that Akai's information about the BO are always true and correct, though they (Jodie) don't know where he got his information from.
No wait, I found it: chapt. 595 page 11, Jodie: “I mean Akai-kun. He found conclusive evidence that Ethan Hondou is a CIA agent actually... I don't know how he got that, but the evidence that he produces has never been wrong, not even once.”
That sounds like he has an anonymous informant, or at least another way to get his information that is worth being protected even from Jodie.
Back to the first Yoko Okino case. Her former boyfriend was 22 years old. The age of Yoko Okino is never mentioned, but since they went to High School together, we can assume Yoko is around that age too (which would put her with Akemi in one age group). The boyfriend dumped her in High School (forced by the manager), cause she was a raising star-idol, meaning she was about 17 or 18 years old back then.
In Vol. 32 chapt. 5 page 5 we can see Yoko wearing glasses (woman wearing glasses are always a handful in the DC universe: Vermouth/Araide, Jodie, Eri ).
In Vol. 32 chapt. 5 and the following: It is said that a while ago Yoko was a member of a very successful girl band, who broke up though. The girls are all together not very old (at the beginning of their 20s). Meaning, between Yoko becoming successful most likely while she was still in High School and where she is now (with 22), there seem to be a few years, where she easily could have spent some time in New York.
Just for fun, let's assume, Okino is the mysterious girlfriend who dumped Akai and went back to Japan, then it would makes sense what Akai and Black said (him tying to get the girlfriend back and making her suffer and so). Akai and Jodie mention on several occasions, that they are aiming for another target to show up who is not Vermouth or Gin.
It would make sense, why it is so important for Akai to pretend to be dead, because if Yoko and him really had a 'thing' for each other one or two years ago, which ended when she went back to Japan and continued being a famous star and being always in public, she must know that Shuichi Akai sooner or later will come after her. So she would be very, very careful with what she is doing.
However, with Akai being dead, she doesn't have to be that careful.
Chap. 678 (the bank robbery case, where the dead Akai pops up again) page 11, check out the female hostage, who received the honor by Gosho, to get her own little picture without facial details. If this is our little Yoko in the bank (in disguise), it would explain why Akai was in the bank in the first place.
It would explain what Akai/Okiya (if they are the same person )said in chapt 704 page 16: “Unfortunately, he wasn't who I thought he was, so I didn't talk to him. I've known his face for a very long time … there is no way, I could be mistaken.”
If we throw Yoko in this picture, we might ask ourselves, if Akai thought that the fake Akai and the person he followed to the bank before are both Yoko Okino in disguise. The idea is: Did Akai believe that Okino is Bourbon? And if Okino is a high BO member and therefore equipped with some brain and therefore being extremely suspicious after the bank-robbery video footage shows up with a very lively Akai, would she just simply disguise as Akai himself to lure him and his colleagues out? Apropos colleague. Don't you think it is weird, that the warning letter given to Jodie (by the fake Akai to lure her out?) in chap. 700 page 13 has a weird hand writing for a grown up man (or was it done by the scanlators?).
So, Is Okino BO?
Is Okino maybe even Bourbon?
Or is Okino just another member of the BO and the secret informant of Akai? Would that make Akai the mysterious smoker in Okino's apartment?
As an actress, she might be able to disguise like Vermouth and Yukiko. Possible, she learned it from Vermouth herself. I just say, that her young age shouldn't rule her out for being a high BO member. Let's not forget that Sherry herself was barely 19... taking into consideration that she grew up with the BO.
Well, let's just say, I have a way too much time on my hands right now :-))) So please don't take my “Okino is Akai's other girlfriend” babble way too serious.
I do believe though, Okino has connections to the BO.
PS: Irene Adler was an opera singer first and then an actress. Keep that in mind.
Oh, geez... I wrote a novel AGAIN.
PPS: English is not my mother language, please don't mind my mistakes...
The following words are just spiderwebs of my brain which is on vacation right now and likes to come up with some funny ideas so don't take me too serious on that one ;-)))
First of all, I don't think, Yoko Okino is the Boss :-), though I start to believe, she is somebody else than she pretends to be.
There is a really far fetched possibility of an Okino-Akai connection.
Akai had a thing for Akemi, a young, beautiful, innocent and yet strong woman. Ai Haibara stated that there are lots of similarities between her older sister Akemi and Ran, not just the outward appearance but the character. In Vol. 37, chapt. 7, Ran and Conan met Shuichi Akai (Conan didn't know at this point who Akai was, but Ran tells him after their little encounter she thinks he might be an FBI agent). At this time, Akai and Jodie had an eye on the Mouri agency. They kept their distance to the Mouris, the observations were happening to be undercover. Yet, Akai talks to Ran, not denying they have met before. The conversation was like this:
“You are crying again.”
Ran: “Eh?”
Akai: “You are always crying.”
Ran: “Is it wrong?”
Akai: “No... I was just remembering... You remind me of a woman... a stupid woman that was always crying in the dark while trying to sound casual...”
That was unnecessary and Akai isn't that type of guy who does unnecessary things. Ran just reminded him on Akemi – and he loved Akemi. And yeah, he assumed Ran isn't that stupid either and able to do the connections between him and the FBI hunt back in New York.
Well, lets go a step further. When Akai arrived in Japan in Vol. 32 chap. XX and the following, he says he wants to make his girlfriend who dumped him cry (with tears of blood). Yeah I know, the infamous quote, that was taking apart by fans thousands of times.
That 'girlfriend' , he is talking about, is most likely not Akemi – who is 1. dead for a year now and 2. they ended the contact in the first place to not harm her. The 'girlfriend' is somebody else than Akemi. In Vol. 29 chap. 5 page 18, after the bus-hijacking-case, Akai states that their target didn't show up, although Vermouth was right in front of them. Vermouth aka Araide was supposed to meet somebody in the bus who didn't show up because of the hijack. Who is that other person, Akai and Jodie were waiting for? Is it Gin or the 'girlfriend', Akai mentioned to James Black? I mean, they (Akai and Jodie) expected the target to show up, that means it rules Sherry as the target completely out, cause at this time, they had no idea where Sherry is. Akai most likely got a tip, that the target will show up there. And what about chap. 677, where Jodie has a flashback of Akai telling her that he loves two woman at the same time. Well, many people assume, that the other woman is Jodie, since she seems to have some feelings for Akai too, but than again that other woman could be the so said 'girlfriend', who dumped him.
Akai came from the US to look for this 'girlfriend', or so he stated. We can assume, that this 'girlfriend' (which can be just a metaphor for his female enemy?) was at some point in the US and than took off to Japan, where Akai followed her later. It was 2 years ago in the story line, when Akemi and Akai broke up. A year ago, at the “golden apple case', Akai was still in New York. Could Akai have another girlfriend there? I mean within the two years after he broke up with Akemi and while he was in the US? Possible. Possibly in New York. Do we know somebody, a woman around Akemi's age, beautiful, kind of innocent but yet strong (quote Ran, Vol. 1 chapt. 9 page12: “She's so strong, already back on her feet after what happened to her!” )... you know, Akai's type of woman? A woman, that can be thrown in one tin can with Akemi and Ran? A woman with a New York connection? I admit, Yoko Okino is reaaaally far fetched and most likely a very impossible theory, but then again, there is something else that is bothering me. I cant really find it anymore, but at one point Jodie stated that Akai's information about the BO are always true and correct, though they (Jodie) don't know where he got his information from.
No wait, I found it: chapt. 595 page 11, Jodie: “I mean Akai-kun. He found conclusive evidence that Ethan Hondou is a CIA agent actually... I don't know how he got that, but the evidence that he produces has never been wrong, not even once.”
That sounds like he has an anonymous informant, or at least another way to get his information that is worth being protected even from Jodie.
Back to the first Yoko Okino case. Her former boyfriend was 22 years old. The age of Yoko Okino is never mentioned, but since they went to High School together, we can assume Yoko is around that age too (which would put her with Akemi in one age group). The boyfriend dumped her in High School (forced by the manager), cause she was a raising star-idol, meaning she was about 17 or 18 years old back then.
In Vol. 32 chapt. 5 page 5 we can see Yoko wearing glasses (woman wearing glasses are always a handful in the DC universe: Vermouth/Araide, Jodie, Eri ).
In Vol. 32 chapt. 5 and the following: It is said that a while ago Yoko was a member of a very successful girl band, who broke up though. The girls are all together not very old (at the beginning of their 20s). Meaning, between Yoko becoming successful most likely while she was still in High School and where she is now (with 22), there seem to be a few years, where she easily could have spent some time in New York.
Just for fun, let's assume, Okino is the mysterious girlfriend who dumped Akai and went back to Japan, then it would makes sense what Akai and Black said (him tying to get the girlfriend back and making her suffer and so). Akai and Jodie mention on several occasions, that they are aiming for another target to show up who is not Vermouth or Gin.
It would make sense, why it is so important for Akai to pretend to be dead, because if Yoko and him really had a 'thing' for each other one or two years ago, which ended when she went back to Japan and continued being a famous star and being always in public, she must know that Shuichi Akai sooner or later will come after her. So she would be very, very careful with what she is doing.
However, with Akai being dead, she doesn't have to be that careful.
Chap. 678 (the bank robbery case, where the dead Akai pops up again) page 11, check out the female hostage, who received the honor by Gosho, to get her own little picture without facial details. If this is our little Yoko in the bank (in disguise), it would explain why Akai was in the bank in the first place.
It would explain what Akai/Okiya (if they are the same person )said in chapt 704 page 16: “Unfortunately, he wasn't who I thought he was, so I didn't talk to him. I've known his face for a very long time … there is no way, I could be mistaken.”
If we throw Yoko in this picture, we might ask ourselves, if Akai thought that the fake Akai and the person he followed to the bank before are both Yoko Okino in disguise. The idea is: Did Akai believe that Okino is Bourbon? And if Okino is a high BO member and therefore equipped with some brain and therefore being extremely suspicious after the bank-robbery video footage shows up with a very lively Akai, would she just simply disguise as Akai himself to lure him and his colleagues out? Apropos colleague. Don't you think it is weird, that the warning letter given to Jodie (by the fake Akai to lure her out?) in chap. 700 page 13 has a weird hand writing for a grown up man (or was it done by the scanlators?).
So, Is Okino BO?
Is Okino maybe even Bourbon?
Or is Okino just another member of the BO and the secret informant of Akai? Would that make Akai the mysterious smoker in Okino's apartment?
As an actress, she might be able to disguise like Vermouth and Yukiko. Possible, she learned it from Vermouth herself. I just say, that her young age shouldn't rule her out for being a high BO member. Let's not forget that Sherry herself was barely 19... taking into consideration that she grew up with the BO.
Well, let's just say, I have a way too much time on my hands right now :-))) So please don't take my “Okino is Akai's other girlfriend” babble way too serious.
I do believe though, Okino has connections to the BO.
PS: Irene Adler was an opera singer first and then an actress. Keep that in mind.
Oh, geez... I wrote a novel AGAIN.
PPS: English is not my mother language, please don't mind my mistakes...
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), then maybe the boss didn't do anything, because Shinichi is now in the same situation as them, so they might actually enjoying that they are not the only one.