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Awww, Eisuke did not waste our time! He was a really cool character, and his time in the series was time well spent. Haha, but I guess we all have our opinions. Getting back on topic though, I'm pretty darn sure that Sera is Akai's sister. That being said, her reason for being in Japan may be a scheme of Bourbon. He may have sent her some clues or details that prompted her to journey to Japan to get to the bottom of everything. And Bourbon could use Sera to find Akai.

Class room for learning Japanese! Japanese Classroom (Nihongo kyoshitsu) Koko ni nihongo wo benkyou shimashou! Help each other to improve their Japanese. Ask anything about Japanese language! Rules: When you post something in Japanese, please avoid translating it in English or at least put it in a Spoiler Box. So members would read the Japanese text rather than just reading the translated. It would be better if you type in Romanji, too. Some people doesn't have Japanese software installed in their computer and they see only squares. Tutor/Sensei: @Pr1me 101 Students: Member List: Officer Kaoko xXLeration blueberry Henny-chan Detective Gin topgun741 Hatsu Anrika Emy Ulfsdotter Cheesus Rom Yui Tantei Shinichi Kiel Stopwatch Southpaw Xcommando Tna Uchiha Orangeburst Conankoibito Parkur Kaitou1412 kirite alicetama Rye Koukou-sei Tantei Momoko-chan Denz001 IdentityUnknown Xenonkid Vermouth-chan PS. This thread has created for all who are fond of learning Japanese. Kenny-sensei will currently be our tutor for now on ANNOUNCEMENT: We just created a blog of our own! Here's the link -> http://japanese-ken.blogspot.com Lessons & Courses Japanese Characters - Hiragana: Introduction to Japanese Characters & Hiragana: Lesson 1 - 'あ' [a] Hiragana: Lesson 2 - 'い' Hiragana: Lesson 3 - 'う' Hiragana: Lesson 4 - 'え' [e] Hiragana: Lesson 5 - 'お' [o] Revision of Lesson 1 - 5 Hiragana: Lesson 6 - 'か' [ka] (and 'が' [ga]) Hiragana: Lesson 7 - 'き' [ki] (and 'ぎ' [gi]) Hiragana: Lesson 8 - 'く' [ku] (and 'ぐ' [gu]) Hiragana: Lesson 9 - 'け' [ke] (and 'げ' [ge]) Hiragana: Lesson 10 - 'こ' [ko] (and 'ご' [go]) -> Lesson 6 - 10 Review Hiragana: Lesson 11 - 'さ' [sa] (and 'ざ' [za]) Hiragana: Lesson 12 - 'し' [shi] (and 'じ' [ji]) (yo-on included) Hiragana: Lesson 13 - 'す' [su] (and 'ず' [zu]) Hiragana: Lesson 14 - 'せ' [se] (and 'ぜ' [ze]) Hiragana: Lesson 15 - 'そ' [so] (and 'ぞ' [zo])

Was it ever said why Ran chose (or was forced to) live with Kogoro rather than with Eri? It would seem that (before episode 1) living with Eri would have been a much wiser decision because Korogo is... well... in the nicest terms I think think of... a lazy, stupid, drunkard. In the timeline between their divorce and episode 1 it seems like Eri only became more popular as a lawyer whlie Kogoro became less popular as a detective. It would make more sense for Ran to live with Eri because she was, and probably still, more wealthy. Did I miss something in the series or was this never fully explained?

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1:34:09 need more 2nd try 1:36:66 3rd one and aaaaaaaaaaa im fainting 1:50:21

I checked the first post, KKLT san! Yes, there's something new there, but... I don't think she'll add the one pairing you want.

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I feel like a fail :-(

You have this wrong. The manga is overtly pushing Okiya to be the most suspicious one. If you check the manga sidebars, the manga is busy assuming that Scar Akai is the real Akai and that Okiya wants to do something bad to him. I quote:700b: “The bomb case begins and Akai and Subaru are also involved! The tension rises in the next issue.” 701b: “Gin has started to work it out!! Will the assassin's bullet reach Akai again...!?” 702b: “Subaru has discovered Akai and wears an unbecoming smile. Could this situation get anymore dangerous?” 703a: “Gin and company are planning to ambush Akai in front of the department store...” 704b: “Is Okiya Subaru also searching for Akai!?” As for Gin's quote, the alternate (and I believe incorrect) interpretation is that he is referring to Subaru and he let "Akai" go because he's Subaru's target, and because "Akai" caught on that Chianti was there, and bystanders were beginning to notice. If you think about it a little and ignore all the smirking, dark expressions, and stuff that are designed to trick you on an emotional level, you can see the logic doesn't make sense, but you have to remember the existence of that layer of misleading stuff. …because he is Bourbon and because he is appearing in front of the FBI in disguise as Akai to gauge their reactions to him. This explains all his actions so far, everything from why he targets one FBI member at a time to why he appears in crowded places. I know I already explained this once before, but I'll elaborate even further this time. Gin and Vodka told us that Bourbon doesn't believe Akai is dead and also believes he is the only person who can kill Akai. We don't know why Bourbon thinks this way and whether his beliefs have any rationality behind them vs. just pure obsessive hatred, but that's the info we have been given and there isn't a good reason for Vodka or Gin to lie about it. If they thought Kir might pass info on that Bourbon might be hunting for Akai, they wouldn't have mentioned it at all. So now Akai seems to be dead, but Bourbon, given his personal beliefs, thinks Gin was duped which naturally means Kir was involved. The problem is finding Akai now because Bourbon wants to kill him properly. Unfortunately, Akai could be anywhere. More unfortunately, Kir isn't spilling and Gin thinks she did her job properly, and thus she is loyal so excessive interrogation is out of the question until he can come up with reasonable doubts the others will buy off on. He investigates Kir as best he can without upstarting the chain of command and gets ahold of her cellphone which was left in Gin’s car when Kir changed her clothes just before phase 2 of the Domon assassination. He looks at it, but doesn’t find anything especially interesting other than a text message from one Mouri Kogoro with his routing number. Bourbon notes the number anyway in case it has anything to do with finding Akai. So anyway, Bourbon has to find Akai. The problem is Akai is a smart b*****d and could be anywhere. And worse, Akai isn't going to just slink off and do nothing while pretending to be dead because that isn't Akai's character. No, Akai is going to be plotting or something. So how can Bourbon find Akai short of knocking on every door in Japan? The best chance of success is to probe his close friends of course. These friends may have helped him with his faking death. Vermouth may have told Bourbon that they seemed to have genuine mournful reactions, but maybe Akai dropped by later to clear things up with them and arrange for disguises, papers, or something while he stays in hiding. Another problem Bourbon faces is that Gin and Co. really believe Akai is dead, so they aren’t going to help with the plan. Vermouth is sympathetic because only she knows Conan is buddies with the FBI and may have manipulated affairs. (The reason why I am saying Vermouth is involved with Bourbon’s plan is because of the conversation with Gin) So with only Vermouth’s help, how is Bourbon going to figure out where Akai is? The best way to hunt Akai down is to find his contacts. From his contacts, Bourbon could try to get some evidence showing reasonable suspicion that Akai is alive, and then use it to convince the rest of the BO to investigate further and find Akai, or else he could try to find Akai himself via the contacts, by, say, threatening them and hoping Akai comes out of hiding to defend. Any contacts will know Akai is alive, versus everyone else who will think he’s dead. That’s when Bourbon gets a genius plan: disguise as Akai but with some obvious difference, like a big burn and fake amnesia, and show up suddenly in front of potential contacts. If they react like “WTF, you are alive!?” they are off the list. If they react with suspicion or aggression against Akai who suddenly has a large burn and fake amnesia, they are the targets. This disguise-as-Akai plan only requires one person, Bourbon himself, and Vermouth is willing to provide assistance to make a believable disguise. What exactly happens in order to get the boss’s approval is unclear. Maybe Bourbon complained to the boss directly and boss agreed just to get him off his back, or maybe Vermouth came forward with the proposal to placate Bourbon. It doesn’t matter. The boss agrees to tell everyone else the lie that Bourbon is looking for Sherry in case Kir gets wind of it and reports to the FBI. (This causes trouble later when Gin mistakes Bourbon for the real Akai and doesn’t know the real plan until Vermouth pulls up on her bike to tell him about it.) So naturally Bourbon goes to target the person closest to Akai first – Jodie Starling. Of course, this is a risky business. If Jodie is in contact with Akai, she might try to kill Bourbon or sic her friends on him. So Bourbon tails her and picks a location to appear that is both public and highly populated so Jodie can’t try to kill or capture him all of a sudden without getting noticed or stopped by random bystanders. He also times it so he appears when Jodie is separated from her friends. Jodie takes the bait and runs after him, but suddenly stops at an alley. Bourbon doesn’t quite know what to make of the reaction so he approaches her again in Teito bank to make sure that she is reacting like “WTF, you are alive!?” and thus is not Akai’s contact. Then a coincidental robbery happens and Bourbon gets trapped in the bank with Jodie. Bad luck, because Jodie’s reactions tell him that she definitely is not a contact of Akai’s. Worse luck is the robbers have people duct tape his eyes and face, which means his mask is going to get destroyed when the duct tape comes off. Bourbon therefore needs to book it out of the bank before Jodie finds out he isn’t the real Akai and can warn her friends, who may be Akai’s contacts without her knowing, that there is a fake Akai wandering around. Bourbon salvages the rotten situation as best as he is able to by firing a gun at Conan’s attacker and escaping. It provides a distraction where people will run around in confusion (think Conan’s plan at the dept store!) and then the police will come in while everyone is still duct-taped and Bourbon can remove/fix his disguise in the confusion and escape without Jodie finding out. The plan coincidentally also has the side benefit of tricking Jodie some more into thinking he is the real Akai. Bourbon aims for Camel next. Why Camel? Remember this guy? This guy administered Akai’s final loyalty test. While he could be just anyone, maybe he was Bourbon in disguise (got to admit the clothes look alike!) who hated Akai even back then and was hoping to catch Akai out at the very end. Anyway, Bourbon does the same thing he did to Jodie with Camel; he follows Camel to a public place with lots of people around generally, and catches Camel all by his lonesome in the bathroom. Camel has the “WTF, you are alive!?” reaction so Bourbon doesn’t bother with a repeat check. While making sure he loses Camel and any other FBI by wandering around, Bourbon heads to the sports floor and… gets caught up in another case where he can’t leave. Lucky him. Fortunately, this one doesn’t involve duct-tape. He doesn’t know that someone in the BO (out on a shopping lark?) saw him, informed Vodka/Gin, and so Gin and friends have set up assassins for Bourbon by mistake. I am going to ignore this for now because Bourbon doesn’t know about it. As the case draws on, people are using cellphones to take movies and stuff, at least one of which gets Bourbon on screen which he notices (you can see him looking back at the video taker). Bourbon really wants out of the dept store because the FBI might also see said footage if it gets broadcasted or posted online somewhere, then bring friends, and confront him. Adding to Bourbon’s woes is that Great Detective Mouri Kogoro is on the case!!!!!… and is failing miserably. Bourbon, who figured out the case as best as he could without an internet, decides to speed the case solving process along by pickpocketing someone’s phone so as not to compromise his own phone number, dredging up Kogoro’s cellphone number from when he stole it from Rena’s phone, and texting him the answer with the end-note to hurry it up already so we can leave! It works, and Bourbon heads for the front door. Whether he heard Jodie screaming from behind him or he just felt eyes on him, he looks up to see Chianti. He smirks at her because he is amused his disguise worked well enough to drag the other BO members out. He does take the opportunity to disappear because he doesn’t want to be shot. Meanwhile Vermouth comes up to talk to Gin and correct his misconceptions. Gin asks Vermouth if the boss agreed to this plan because he is pissed Bourbon has been jacking him around for the past few hours, then calls off the snipers and complains about Bourbon running around doing things on his own. Incidentally, Okiya stopping Jodie but merrily letting scar Akai go on his way resembles the practical philosophy about getting rid of bad guys that Sera showed when she tried to lure the hostage taker at the detective agency into police sniper sights. It runs in the family I guess. Conan just doesn't like dead people as the fox, elephant, and rat case revealed. Even if Conan strongly suspects Scar Akai might be Bourbon, there isn't any harm in screwing up the BO's plans anyway because Conan is an idealist who doesn't even want to see a bad person killed. There is additional benefit of covering one's bases on the offchance scar Akai is just some unfortunate lookalike citizen with a burn or the BO was targeting someone else at the department store. If Subaru did leave it, it could also be a matter of his investigation revealing (what did Okiya ask that lady anyway?) that someone was targeting them, and they shouldn't be out in public places like this because of what happened last time. Scar Akai could have left it as well. I'm still not sure.