Chekhov MacGuffin

What the banana guy said. Translating looser means you don't have to spend time making everything semantically perfect. In one piece, it really won't make a difference to the overall plot whether Sanji got locked in a cabinet or a dresser and used "one-inch-kick" or a "super close range knee" to escape. (Blatantly made that up if you can't tell.) If it was Detective Conan, you might have to know the victim damaged his right big toe while attempting to break the hinges of the heavy pine dresser facing the kitchen. That's pretty much true. The translating team isn't that big, and most of the people working are adults with full-time university or jobs which cuts back on the free time quite a bit. Luckily they keep up better when something important is going on..

I have similar thinking to Rye except I think Vermouth may have been one of the original members - which means she is at least as old as the Black Organization. (See my theory for Vermouth being Sharon Vineyard's mother if you want to know more about that). Rather than being experimented on by Org scientists, I think there was an accident or something like that that stopped her aging, but the formula was lost. The Org has been trying to replicate it since, and that is why the Miyano's were brought in thirty years ago. Vermouth didn't like being a research subject/the ideals of the Org, so she came to hate the Miyanos.

She seems to be suspecting because Moroboshi Dai (the name she knew Akai as) and Okiya say similar things. She tried to take off Okiya's scarf presumably to see what was underneath (Voice changer? Scar? Tattoo? Unique jewelery? there are lots of theories). However, after the train case she demanded Conan tell her know who he was, but Conan only replied with he is an ally. Maybe she is guessing Okiya is Dai, but she isn't sure. Amuro seems to know Conan is the puppet master behind sleeping Kogoro, but it isn't clear that he knows Conan is Shinichi. No one has talked about Shinichi in front of him yet. He definitely doesn't know Haibara is Sherry. I am guessing that he doesn't know either identity yet, although he may figure out Shinichi's soon. I don't think there is more to Calvados' death. Copy pasta from DCTP: The pocket pistol Calvados used was small, so it would be easy to miss. I don't think the Org has undercover agents in the FBI. Remember they didn't know Kir was in a hospital until Vermouth questioned the child and even then they didn't know which one until they sent out agents. A spy in the FBI should be able to feed them that info. (Unless the spy was in a completely different branch of the FBI that had no idea what the Japan branch is doing - which would be pretty useless.) Same goes for which van Rena was in. At the strategy meeting, all the FBI learned Camel was going to drive the van with Rena but Gin still had to deduce which one was the right van. Lastly, Conan spoke in front of all the FBI during the strategy meeting, yet nothing bad seems to have happened to Conan later.

Any way you look at it, you pretty much were translating like you had your arse on fire. If you are a single person who is translating and writing it down, a normal rate would be 1-2 chapters a week for someone with normal time commitments, more if you are very fluent, and less if you are busy. If you are typesetting too, 1 chapter a week or less would be normal for a single person's work. If you are cleaning, translating, and typesetting as a single person, 1 chapter every two+ weeks seems like a decent pace. This is why people form teams to make fan translations of weekly manga. You need 3+ people on board to keep up. Those crazy guys who release a chapter of popular manga in a few hours literally have a mini-team for every one or two pages. Some manga have more writing and more difficult terms than others. Bleach will go faster than Kindaichi. All above mentioned rates should be adjusted for that. DC is one of the harder mangas to translate because it is text heavy and full of technical terms. Also you have to be really precise for DC because mysteries depend on it; You can be looser with something like One Piece.

I could be wrong, but I thought the scene of the shadowman jumping through the window was original animation and not from an episode.

That's damn good time. I'm impressed. 500 pages = 31 sixteen page chapters That's 2/3rds of a full chapter a day.

"Gold coins to a cat" is nearly identical to the English phrase "throwing pearls before swine". A cat has no interest in gold coins, so throwing gold coins to a cat is a futile action or a waste of resources.

The administrator of the DC wikia alerted us to the fact that our articles on Gosho Aoyama and the Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory contain sections copied verbatim from their wikia. While this is technically allowed because of the way wiki licenses work, it's annoying on principle because it makes us look bad and unoriginal. I would really appreciate anyone with time taking a look at those articles and helping us rewrite them to to make them pure Detective Conan World work. Thanks and any help is appreciated.

Just to let you know, we have a thread on this topic already. Be sure to check the thread reference guide before making a new topic to see if it already exists. http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/4288-how-detective-conan-will-end/

I am not sure what you are trying to say. Spamming people is bad. Please don't message 50 random people to read your fanfic. That said, if 15 people commented on someone's last fanfic thread, and that writer wanted to tell those 15 people there is a new fic they posted at a fanfiction site, that is probably okay. In general, the moderators don't go around looking for things that might be problems (except for things that could get the site sued or are disruptive). People report problems to us, and then we take action. If someone spams people fanfiction ads and you report to us you have been spammed, we'll take a look. Otherwise we assumed that you were okay with being told about a fanfiction.

There seems to be some bizarre things going on with the links after the switch to the new forum. I tried to edit the first post and some things appeared to have been deleted. If you recall something that has been deleted, please let me know.

Gosho has never revealed Ran's birthday and gave a very recent interview (which you can read on the manga spoilers board) basically saying he was withholding it until the right time - probably a love story.蘭の誕生日教えて！→差し支えあるので今は言えない。でもまだ誕生日来ていないので蘭は現在16歳。 Tell me Ran's birthday! → Since there's an obstacle can't tell for now. But since the birthday hasn't passed Ran is 16 right now.

It's Maurice who decides stuff like adding new subforums. I don't know if he monitors most of threads. You'll probably have to get his attention to ask about it.

Edit my profile --> Settings --> Notification options Scroll down to the tic boxes to limit the incoming notifications you recieve. To delete all notifications, you will probably have to check the select all ticbox and delete the page. It's pretty fast. Just do 20 pages at a time spread out over several days and it won't be too bad.

This reminds me of a cryptography puzzle I think this one is the asymmetric key version with a three pass protocol. Gosho seems to have set the trick up so we can assume the locks are unpickable and there are no spare keys for the locks. (That doesn't mean there are no extra lock and key sets though!) Even so, there are a whole bunch of attack routes available assuming the box is not authenticated. For the sake of explaining, the sender Kasuga who puts the fruit in will be called K. Takeki, the critic with the other lock is the receiver and will be called T. The man in the middle attacker will be M. 1) The attacker could swap out the box if both sender and receiver can't instantly recognize they were sent a different box or locks than normal. If M has two spare locks, fruitlike objects, and a spare box, he could intercept the box coming from K and put his own lock on it and send it back to K, making K think T received it. K takes off his own lock thinking the lock on there currently is Ts and sends to box back where M intercepts it, opens his own lock and peeks inside the box. Meanwhile M sends his own box with his lock and fruits to T, so T thinks it is from K. The three pass is carried out with M in the middle and T winds up with M's box, thinking it is from K. If this is what happened when T opened the box to publicly reveal the contents, K would find out he had been tricked, but T wouldn't know unless K told him. The trick would not be discovered if M could fully complete the exchange with K first, so M could put the same fruits in his box to T. 2) The contents of the box don't seem to be authenticated either -- if the sender did not include a special secret item in the box that the receiver is expecting then the receiver can't tell if an attacker tampered with the contents of the box. M, using the second version the attack described above, could completely get away with it. 3) Trick box: if the box can open any other way, anyone could fiddle with it. 4) A non-trustworthy receiver or sender could collaborate with M to fix the final contents. I'm going to guess K is likely trustworthy because he will feel the brunt of the blame if cheating occurs. T's side though seems to have holes even though T himself was probably trustworthy. To review the security details known so far, the security of the sender Kasuga's lock and key are unknown, but the receiving Takeki thinks the lock is in good working order. I think we can assume the receiver's lock is completely open to swapping because it was plonked in an easily accessible drawer. The receiver's key is locked up in a bank vault until the show and seems to have been escorted to the premises by assumed trustworthy bankers. Anyone who could tamper with the vault or direct the bankers could switch the receiver's key. There is a brief window during the key hand-off where the person passing the key to Osamu Kenzaki could pull a sleight of hand to swap the keys. I think we can assume Osamu is trustworthy as an unlocker because he is a recurring character. The three-pass exchange itself seems to be fairly lax, suggesting that M messing with the exchanges is a viable option. The sender Kasuga will likely take the brunt of the suspicion for the murder given the situation so far, and seeing how his reputation was already being doubted, I think he wouldn't have chosen this method as long as this crime was premeditated. Taruoka, as the one doing the handoff and directing the others (maybe even the bankers?) is in the best manipulator position. I think I'm most suspicious of him for now. Furuya had access to the receiver's lock and was not watched, so he had opportunity, just not quite as much as Taruoka who handled the key too.

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