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"Time is Money" Takaaki Morofushi AKA Rum

Takaaki morofushi he is Rum,and i mentioned why i think he IS rum back in 2016 (He is the only one there who's never met Haibara yet, is it a coincidence?)

Okay he is officially Scotch's brother as confirmed in file 1021 Rei and Scotch were confirmed to have met each other in childhood.I also take it for serious when Gosho said that Rum has "Already" appeared before file 906 and before all those others were introduced (kuroda,iori muga,wakita ,rumi) Chikara is a possible candidate but i don't see anything suspicious about him till now and we don't have much focus on him,i.e. Takaaki has technically appeared in more cases and with more screentime than Chikara See you when Takaaki gets confirmed to be Rum

He is the only Rum candidate that still hasn't met Haibara to this day in any case. And yes he IS a Rum candidate as of his feminine appearance is one of Rum's claimed appearances.Plus Gosho or anyone in the manga has ever denied him being Rum,we don't have an official sentence that each BO member arc we are fixed to 3 suspects only,it could be more or less than 3 Him being Scotch's brother involves him automatically with the BO ,which means he is not one of those filler characters with a trivial side story like many others.

Just reminding you guys that i called it 2 years ago that Koumei is getting involved with the Rum case, and i still Believe that Koumei IS Rum and he has something to do witht he murder of Scotch. I also belive that Koumei IS scotch's brother and Kuroda is actually Akai's father whose physical appearance changed in the last 17 years. Finally i did mention before that Dai Morobushi has something to do with "Morofushi" and i am sure that if Scotch is Rum's brother then Akai chose that name on purpose to infiltrate the BO. The 2 surnames (if Scotch is confirmed to be a Morofushi brother) were not chosen just for coincidence,there could be some reason behind the choices

Even if Gosho didn't say that in the interview. This is the 2nd Friday 13th in the manga! If you check the calendar back to 1994~1995 you'll find that 1st friday 13th was in May 1994 (Clash of Black and Red arc) 2nd one is Friday 13th january 1995 (Current arc) And the shrinking incidence happened on 13th of jan. 1994 as you can see in the 1st chapter (Thanks to Spimer's translation) is it a coincidence?

If this chapter is taking place on Friday 13th Gosho said in his latest interview that it has been a year since the shrinking incident took place (13th jan. 1994) So this means that it's Friday 13th of january 1995! I wonder if he is planning to make chapter 1000 happen on the same day (Friday 13th jan 1995)

Before you get your hopes too high That ?? guy could be Vermouth in disguise

Some feeling tells me that we are in another Detective Nocturne arc Rum will be revealed soon if that's true I think RUM is one of the 3 suspects,but he is in disquise as a female

I don't care if Rumi is a red herring or not i just care about numbers! 2 of 3 now 1 more new character to go and we can say that RUM has already appeared Being a red herring doesn't deny she IS a Rum candidate,just like Subaru was a strong red herring but still a candidate to be Bourbon. I'm just comparing Rum's arc to Bourbon's,we had 3 candidates too (I'm not saying Gosho is going to repeat himself,at the end have 3 candidates and NONE of them is the real RUM,which means the theory that RUM is an old character is still valid)

For Taka'ai's suspicion of conan ,it was not mentioned that he knew he puts Kogoro to sleep or has weird toys that he uses like the bug he used on Kir's door in 425. What i want to say is that Takaa'i himself used to be super intelligent and played the detective game at the age of Conan,so Conan's intelligence is no susprise for him. i think he admires conan Takaa'i ignores/doesn't trusts everyone and usually works alone

He must be the strongest BO member i guess. away from that RUM discussion the pre-story episode for the movie includes some silly conversation between conan and amuro at the begining. I know Conan knows about amuro's identity,but is it normal to ask him about the BO & his work as Police and amuro answers normally? I guess that Gosho didn't notice that,he should get mad at the anime staff when he watches that

Komei might not have been no.2 17 yaers ago,also Koumei is 35 so he might have joined the BO at 18 years For Kuroda i believe he was involved with the BO which caused the accident that happened to him 10 years ago The Previous no.2 was killed by Kuroda,the BO Infiltirated the police through RUM (i remember Gosho refusing to answer a uestion about BO infiltrating the police in this Year's interview) They got info about the one who killed no.2 and made their hit on Kuroda that caused him to lose his right eye.They thought he was dead,but he woke up after a coma ,with his appearance changed and his name also.RUM was promoted at that time so Kuroda is actually not RUM,but he is after RUM. For Koumei,his background story doesn't contradict with him being RUM,he could possible be leading a Double-life.His long-time friendship with Kan-chan could be more thrilling when Kansuke discovers his identity,we might see a showdown between the two friends.maybe one of them kills the other. It's more exciting than just a cute friendship that doesn't enrich the plot

I am not even supporting the theory that RUM is a female.Just answering his uestion about the possible existing characters that could turn to be RUM. For Yonehara she could possibly have stopped aging as Vermouth.But i am not supporting that . For Elena everything is possible,even Vermouth sometimes sounds wierd, and the only one who could accept akemi into the BO is anokata ,maybe she couldn't gain their trust eventhough RUM is her mother. again i am not supporting this,but just telling that it's possible. For more female suspects we have got Fusae,Minerva,etc but these are just minor recurring characters who could possibly be RUM. I've already discussed before who i believe is RUM (Koumei)

for the suspicious Mary For the unused characters there are so many but the most popular suspects :Yonehara & Elena

That's correct only if you believe that RUM is a new character.Which is not my opinion. I personally believe that RUM is either a woman (we already have plenty of suspicious & unused female characters),or a feminine man.

It's possible,but not their habit Now we should wait to watch the movie to get an answer to the uestion "why RUM used thier voice",they could simply deliver their message through text or any other way. The setting might explain this as well

i have already read these,nothing about RUM's voice My understanding to the computer voice thing is that it's the same as the high-pitched voice they usually use in the anime for any culprit before they are revealed After all we still need to watch the movie to know how the setting was.

BTW the computer voice is not feminine and noone confirmed that Asaca is Rum

My point is,the fact that they have already made a contract with a voice actor to do RUM's role,it's not their habit to make a random voice actor do a major character role temporarily ,they choose VA's carefully base on the personality of each character You cannot give a voice actor a role of a new character that haven't even appeared in the manga,Their physical appearance and personality are important for the VA Thus ,either RUM is an pre-existing character ,or let's assume it's a new character that have been drawn and designed by Gosho to be revealed within the next few chapters. But again there is a question,why go through all of this and make a contract with a VA to say a single line in a movie,while you can replace them with a "text message" or a "dark silouhette" and by this Gosho will have his promise kept that "RUM will be in the movie"

There could be so many reasons to make RUM make a "voice" call in this movie not a "text" message like many have predicted,the most clear reason for me is to tell us that he's already appeared. I don't find this information similar to what we got in the case of Movie 18 which was a direct confirmation of Okiya's identity.This case is different and it doesn't affect the manga ,as you still have got a long list of pre-existing characters being suspects

I understand your point,but there is a 1 year time gap between manga and Anime,so by the time we reach the current chapter in the anime we will have already known RUM's identity. For me it's the same because audience can't recognize the new voice actor as well as a computer voice. As for the gender reveal,i guess we already have a huge suspect list so making it male only/female only doesn't make it easier to know RUM's identity

Yes,another thing is about RUM. This movie confirms that he is not a new character,Otherwise why would they hide his/her voice actor. But this doesn't mean that Gosho's AC hint was related to RUM,he still could have been trolling about LUM. which means Kuroda is also a suspect (though very low possibility)

They wouldn't understand what?! My guess is that he was afraid they include the Boss in the movie plot without understanding that it would cause trouble in the plot.So......this "might" be a confirmation that the Boss has already appeared?? We still need to watch the movie to understand what he means by "setting" Also,why there is no Private screening Spoilers thread on this forum?

I don't think that's completely true,maybe ASACA is not RUM but She is related to RUM ,All these chapters would be a waste of time and We return to Zero point. At the worst case they will reach ASACA and know from her about RUM's identity (i highly suspect Mary to be ASACA in that case)