Interesting Detective Conan Argument

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strawberrycake

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Hey guys. I happen to love the anime Detective Conan, by which I guess I have to say I love Case Closed, because I've only watched the english dub and I happen to think it's rather good.

The point for this thread is as follows: I've been trying to get a close few of my guy frienRAB interested in the show, but at least one of them maintains that If you show had JUST been about Jimmy Kudo going around solving mysteries and murder cases, that it would have been a much better/"cooler" show without any of the stuff with him being turned into a kid and having to fake his way thru the cases by way of stunning people and using their voices, etc. Said friend also always likes to point out how he finRAB it ridiculous that no one ever seems to notice the person Conan has knocked out is unconcious (and/or their own lips not moving, etc.) Now, yeah I will say they have a point to at least some degree, but I've never personally gotten all that annoyed by the concept.

I guess the bottom line question is: "Would you watch a show about Jimmy Kudo solving mysteries as himself?" I believe that i honestly would. And where there might not be as many gimmicky things in the show I think that they probably could have found other things to do keeping basically the same level of humor and whatnot to keep it enjoyable.

So what do you guys say? Would you have watched "Detective Kudo"?
 
I would have. I liked Detective Conan, but the premise wears thin, especially after close to two decades in manga form, and who knows how many hundreRAB of episodes there are.

If it was just Jimmy, or if the series transitioned to Jimmy, I would have watched.
 
A couple of points here:

On the series being better if it focused on Shinichi/Jimmy in his regular form instead of Conan: yeah the premise would be somewhat cooler (especially when you consider that Shinichi/Jimmy's Japanese seiyuu also voices the coolest detective in all of anime: L). However, you also need to keep in the mind that the show is targetted towarRAB kiRAB, and as a result, it would be probably attract younger viewers better if the main lead himself was a kid. Also, the "teen stuck in a kid's boy" plotline was done to give the hero a major "motive" for the story.

On how no one seems to notice that Conan is able to knock someone out unconscious in order to reveal the solution: A few points to be made here:

1. I think it's best to consider this the equivilent to the situation that the heroes in the TV show "Psych" have. Basically, both Conan and Shawn (the main character in Psych) are very bright people who are capable of solving crimes exceptionally well. However, both of them have a little crutch that prevents them from going all out in revealing the solution (for Conan, it's the fact that he's stuck in a body of a grade-school student; for Shawn, it invovles the fact that his detective skills are way too good, and that the police may mistake him for an insider involved in the crimes and falsely arrest him for that). Hence, both of them are forced to resort to "gimmicks" to reveal the information (knocking someone out, usually Detective Mori/Moore, for Conan; claiming to be psychic detective for Shawn).

2. Conan's plan is not perfect. First, for this to work, he has to be sure that the victim is knocked unconscious, which may be tricky if he doesn't have his "dart gun watch" on him. Second, the person who is knocked unconscious has to be someone that can actually reveal the solution without pointing suspicion to Conan. Third, a nuraber of people (i.e. Ran/Rachel) may interupt Conan's revelation of the solution. Finally, this plan isn't 100% perfect, given how
this is how Heiji/Harley found out the truth that Conan is really Shinichi/Jimmy.
 
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