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jennariaDETECTIVE CONAN/CASE CLOSED
Genre: Kids and Family. Yes, in a show that regularly features murder mysteries. I'd just like to state clearly that I'm not the one who picked these genres.
How much seen: Er. At least a season's worth here and there, non-contiguously, possibly more.
What it's about: Teenage detective sees something he shouldn't, gets poisoned, but lo! the poison just shrinks him down ten years! So now he has to try to figure out how to get his life back, while concealing his identity (so the people who poisoned him won't figure out he's still alive and try again, this time with something that won't fail) and, of course, solving all the mysteries he runs into. Which are kind of a lot. I think he has a higher body count (of the 'people around him die' variety) than Jessica Fletcher from MURDER SHE WROTE.
Poor Conan. He's been trying to get back to Kudo Shinichi since 1996 (or, if you go by the manga, 1994). But it still works, which is probably why it's still going. The mangaka knows how to shake up the formula so there's more variety than just 'detective, mystery, solved': there's Kudo's teenage rival (who quickly figures out who 'Conan' really is); there's Kudo's girlfriend and her consulting detective father (who take in 'Conan' without knowing who he is, and still haven't officially figured it out); there's Conan's classmates who form the Junior Detective League, in part because of all the mysteries they get swept up in because, well, Conan; there's the kaitou who's fighting the same people as Conan/Kudo, but since he's a thief Conan can't just let him go... Sometimes there are one-off mysteries-of-the-week, but it's just as likely to be tied back into the overarching mythology somehow. And that's probably why this series has been going for fifteen years.
Overall opinion: I like a good mystery, yo. There isn't much re-watchability, but there's enough canon that it's not a problem to find new stuff. I'll keep watching.
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B emerges! And is helping Kay taunt Ziggy. Currently they have his ball hidden under a pillow, much to his frustration. Alas, poor dim Corgi.
Genre: Kids and Family. Yes, in a show that regularly features murder mysteries. I'd just like to state clearly that I'm not the one who picked these genres.
How much seen: Er. At least a season's worth here and there, non-contiguously, possibly more.
What it's about: Teenage detective sees something he shouldn't, gets poisoned, but lo! the poison just shrinks him down ten years! So now he has to try to figure out how to get his life back, while concealing his identity (so the people who poisoned him won't figure out he's still alive and try again, this time with something that won't fail) and, of course, solving all the mysteries he runs into. Which are kind of a lot. I think he has a higher body count (of the 'people around him die' variety) than Jessica Fletcher from MURDER SHE WROTE.
Poor Conan. He's been trying to get back to Kudo Shinichi since 1996 (or, if you go by the manga, 1994). But it still works, which is probably why it's still going. The mangaka knows how to shake up the formula so there's more variety than just 'detective, mystery, solved': there's Kudo's teenage rival (who quickly figures out who 'Conan' really is); there's Kudo's girlfriend and her consulting detective father (who take in 'Conan' without knowing who he is, and still haven't officially figured it out); there's Conan's classmates who form the Junior Detective League, in part because of all the mysteries they get swept up in because, well, Conan; there's the kaitou who's fighting the same people as Conan/Kudo, but since he's a thief Conan can't just let him go... Sometimes there are one-off mysteries-of-the-week, but it's just as likely to be tied back into the overarching mythology somehow. And that's probably why this series has been going for fifteen years.
Overall opinion: I like a good mystery, yo. There isn't much re-watchability, but there's enough canon that it's not a problem to find new stuff. I'll keep watching.
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B emerges! And is helping Kay taunt Ziggy. Currently they have his ball hidden under a pillow, much to his frustration. Alas, poor dim Corgi.
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Date: 2011-07-30 04:38 pm (UTC)Have you seen Vathara's or Ellen Brand's fic for this one? They're heavy on the thief/detective, which is lots of fun.
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Date: 2011-07-30 04:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-30 04:51 pm (UTC)