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What are your thoughts on Nakamori Aoko? And about her role in MK?

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I'm torn, because her role as a character could be good, but it's insultingly underutilized.

Her personality is fine. Strong side being that she's known Kaito long enough to not get chased off by his real less than stellar personality, and she fiercely supports the police because her father is on the force, giving her an overall 'talk shit get hit' attitude towards criminals. Pretty loyal, too. Vulnerable side stemming from the fact that her father works too much and it seeming that none of the people close to her overtly support her -(which I say in a wordy way because Kaito does support her, but he'd die of embarrassment if he did it in an obvious way)- leaving her alone with some self esteem issues. ...Which may also have something to do with why she's friendly around new people, for better or worse. Altogether, she initially comes across as strong willed, but actually gets hurt easily. She could be a complex character to work with...

If she ever got any focus outside of being a convenient tool for Kaito in his heisting.

The Sun Halo chapters gave a lot of potentially good ideas, and then essentially tossed them into the trash because the writing had to stick to a three chapter format. KID and Aoko kidnapped together by another criminal, KID injured, Akako and Hakuba getting in contact to find them with magic and detective work, etc. But the biggest tease was the idea of Aoko realizing that Kaito might be KID. An idea that's been in MK fans minds for as long as the series has existed, build up by Ginzo suspecting Kaito while Aoko defended her friend, the knowledge that Aoko has a personal dislike of the thief and shows that anger every single time she sees KID, probably the most complex subject regarding Aoko that people like to mull over.

And it's just. Given half a chapter, a few frames of her questioning things in her thoughts, and then dropped. Given a handwave and implied to be ignored.

I could go into other details, but the best way to sum it all up at once is to say that Aoko is someone trying very hard to do and be good, and the narrative works even harder to just constantly cut her down behind her back. She 10000% deserves better than what she's being given in MK, moreso than pretty much any other character, because at the moment she's just a slow burn tragedy with her protag friend lying to her and using her as much as he can get away with, and that he will continue to get away with because of main character privilege.

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hiii. what are your thoughts on dc ending? will ran be able to be okay with knowing the fact that shinichi used to be conan? like, what is the aftermath of bringing down the bo?

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At the moment, I really don't know what to expect for the ending of DC as a whole. I've seen various imaginings on how it might all go down, but truthfully, there's just too much to juggle to try and figure out how it might all happen.

During the entire series, the confrontations with the BO have been covert by necessity. It's always been 'here's our known group of evil agents, how will our own hero and his allies foil them this time', and at the moment that's about all that could still happen. With the agents in play and the information Shinichi's team has, it would be really easy to make a scenario where the BO gets outplayed and taken down.

But the (presumably) last BO buildup for the boss needs to be setup first. He's the factor that decides how the BO could be taken down, and not just the agents. While Gin and co could be taken down with a proper dramatic spy showdown, the entire org would likely need even more information and receipts to tie all the crime together to hold everything accountable to the law, and all that. The detective drama side of cornering with inescapable logic to go with the flashy use of guns and bombs.

But right now, there's no clear way of how it'd all end. If it's taken care of properly, Amuro's section of the police will probably be taking care of the long term clean up of the group. If there's no dramatic moment of getting the data about APTX from computers during the confrontation(s), then there might be some strings pulled either by Amuro or by the FBI to get that information. Any outcome, I do see Gosho giving Shinichi the permanent antidote. Whether Haibara takes it or not is a toss up, but he's getting his old self back.

And whether Shinichi tells Ran the truth before or after getting the antidote, she'd be okay with it as long as he actually gets to explain. I personally am a fan of 'she already knows and has just stopped trying to pry', but even if she doesn't know, I don't think it'd surprise her. She'd probably have questions, but she's been close to figuring it out plenty of times. She was originally getting upset at the idea because of all the lies thrown around to divert her attention and the idea of 'if he's right there, why not just tell her instead of leaving her to worry', but after he told her his feelings in London, it's just not as big a deal as it used to be. He loves her, and as long as she knows that, Ran trusts Shinichi. When he finally tells her, she'll hear him out.

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Thank you for your answer... Um... What do you think Kaito gonna do if he know that his dad still alive? and chikage didn't tell him?

I think he'd ask if Chikage knew about it first before getting mad at her for not telling him about Toichi. And as bad as it is that Kaito's main motivation for being KID is meaningless, we don't actually know if Chikage knows Kaito's motives to begin with. ...Or even if Jii knows why.

...There's a solid chance that the only thing anyone really knows about why he decided to take up the mantle is that he said he'd become KID after learning that Toichi was indeed the original KID. They might not know that he intended to draw out Toichi's killer, much less that he succeeded in doing so.

And if that's the case, then I doubt he'd get too angry at Chikage, whether she knew Toichi was alive or not. The big question is whether or not she knew the circumstance surrounding Toichi's stage death and if she knew KID being in the public eye was more dangerous than just irritating the police.

As far as how he'd react to the big bombshell... it'd depend on the actual news/circumstance. If Toichi just showed up and said 'hey son, surprise, I'm alive', I think Kaito would punch him on the grounds of thinking it's some messed up lie. And after realizing that it's really Toichi, would probably still be angry, hurt, maybe slightly happy somewhere under that, all those messy feelings of someone who got hit hard by a loss and then learned it was a big lie. Might distance himself/pull away from everything. And even if his motive for being KID wasn't tied into the 'his dad was murdered' story, I doubt he'd want to continue being KID. (Unless it could be written in a way that he claims the identity for himself entirely separate from his dad, maybe with things like Jirokichi's challenges, someone else trying to use KID's name when the thief seemed to have disappeared for a while, general fan response, maybe commentary from his classmates. It could be done well, though maybe not by Gosho.)

Of course, there's also the idea of Toichi being alive, but, say, kidnapped. Or comatose. Or other reason that it was easier to believe he was dead, even without proof, and maybe information about what happened only being found recently. Which would shift the motive from revenge to rescue, and have the bonus of Kaito probably being more okay with still moonlighting as Kid from time to time, especially if Pandora became less about Toichi and more Kaito's personal mission.

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What do you think Aoko gonna do if she know that Kaito is Kaitou KID?

If Sun Halo gave us anything, it gave us brief insight into just that. Because within the case, while highly suspecting Kaito of being Kid for a short time, she kept her suspicion entirely to herself and was quietly checking the similarities that she noticed between Kaito and KID.

Granted, suspicion isn't knowing, but it gives me the feeling that, had she quietly picked up enough clues to put it together, she'd have a more quiet reaction than people would expect. Probably asking herself why he might be KID, why not tell her, remember how he's reacted to when KID's been mentioned and understand why he wouldn't tell her. And after that, it's debatable if she'd simply wait and watch KID more closely/not react as violently about him, or if she'd drop hints of knowing to Kaito. I doubt she'd confront him about it right away, unless something came up. People tend to make her more reactionary, because of how she gets riled up in the moment by Kaito (or when her dad put Kaito down by insinuating he's a criminal), but she really does tend to take action without voicing her feelings. The 'please go on a date with me' to prove Kaito's innocence, the 'Kaito should ski with someone as good as him, so I'll pair up with someone else who's in the same boat as me', or just. Sun Halo slowly backing up from 'it's the thief who makes my dad work so hard and look stupid and will probably try tricking me too' to 'wait something's wrong, is he hurt' to 'he does feel a lot like Kaito', to the point that she keeps that thought afterwards and assumes Kaito would still be hurt after the heist, and instead of trying to poke and see if he is, she instead tries to be gentle with his suspected injury.

But. I suppose that would be more if she realized the truth for herself.

If we assume something more dramatic, like KID being outed as Kaito irrefutably... after the events of Sun Halo, I still think she'd protect him and basically say that they'll talk about it later. Or if he confesses, she wouldn't be surprised. Might still get emotional, he was hiding it because of how she'd react and it might mean a lot to her that he'd actually admit that he's KID to her directly, and she'd definitely want to know why. But I don't see her ever getting as angry as people think she will. She's angry at KID because she thinks he's just messing with the police, and more directly her own dad, but she has questioned his motives before and would more likely be concerned about her friend more than angry at this thief identity.

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Is it true that in canon, Kazuha mother and Aoko mother have died?

No, there hasn't been anything about their mothers being dead. With Aoko, anything about her mother is up for debate, though, since nothing has ever been mentioned aside from some advice about zabuton positioning. Whether her mom is dead or she and Ginzo simply divorced or such is completely unknown.

Kazuha's mother, however, is confirmed alive. She's just never been seen.

(From the missing charm case.)

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Do you think Gosho doesn't like ShinRan anymore? The couple is pretty much dead in the manga, and I can't remember ever going this long without the couple having a moment, even if it was about CoRan, Conan's thoughts, etc. which makes it even weirder considering they're dating now. The couple died, and lately I have noticed Gosho quite cold or indifferent in interviews when he is asked about them.

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Considering he's been gunning on the couple getting together for 20+ years, I'm going to say that he does still want them together. If them not getting any major focus or line referencing their feelings meant anything, it'd simply just be because they don't need as much focus anymore. They're official now, no need to keep hammering it.

But considering the current manga is juggling Heiji romance, Sera/Mary plans, Amuro in general, the Rum suspects and what their identities really are (even if we know who Rum is, the other two still pop up because they haven't been explained yet). And other small things, especially the cases that pop up to help with promoting the movies, because that still happens even if movies and manga aren't supposed to be connected by plot. Taking ShinRan moments out of the rotation doesn't mean he doesn't like the couple. Just that he can push them to the back while he works on other focuses.

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Forget Kogoro, how hard do you think Sonoko will beat Shinichi's ass if/when she finds out about The Secret

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Sonoko: You mean, you were that impudent and annoying brat? ...That makes a lot of sense, actually. The only thing that changed is that you were cuter as a brat.

Sonoko: Ran, honey, I know you’re an angel, but you could do so much better than a guy that pretended to be a 7 year old even after he confessed to you. Do you know how weird that is? I don’t care if he was a 7 year old because of reasons, I’m the one trying to process the mental image of the two of you kissing and him suddenly turning tiny. Wth. I’ll make an exception and let you have Kid-sama, they look the same, right?

She would not physically beat him up, Ran can do that on her own if she wanted to. But he would not escape her tongue for other reasons.