Chekhov MacGuffin

I think Conan would know because of Akai's story --> he got into the Org by using Akemi to meet Sherry. Since he knows Sherry, and knows Vermouth was after Sherry, but Vermouth went after Ai instead, I'm sure he can put one and one together and figure out Haibara is Sherry, although he may not know how exactly that happened. I don't know if Conan knows that Akai knows he is Shinichi. (know x3) I bet Conan is keeping in mind that Akai is smart and could probably figure it out if given enough clues. The problem is all the clues Okiya received mostly occurred where Conan didn't hear about them, like Okiya's house search, and "Kinichi".

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She could be talking about how hard it is to delete a person in real life, which is kind of what happened to Akai.

That makes sense, and I noticed the gradation in the closeup when Kazuha looks at them. There is still the unresolved issue of how the long-haired-person managed to put the tiles in right side up in the dark, which I alluded to in my previous post.Unless of course, took them off and the tiles were double layered!

I'm inclined to agree with Parkur. I don't want people to spam just to increase post count for titles. Dealing with one user who did this kind of thing was bad enough. I don't want to encourage it.

Raven Chaser outsold movie 6, and may have still beat it even accounting for inflation rate which in Japan has been very low if not nearly flat. Phantom had a famous writer, likely got good reviews for being "deep" because of the social commentary, and most people don't care about it being the equivalent of a movie fanfic - it's detective enough for them and has the DC characters in it; basically most people don't care that all of a sudden someone comes along with super technology that doesn't fit into the established manga plot. Heck, a good chunk of the people who watched it probably never read/watched much of the manga or the anime.

I assume you mean "Why would Sera delete Haibara's picture if she didn't know about the Org...?" Sera may have deleted the picture because she didn't find out anything interesting about Ai. Ai was an investigation target, but she didn't pan out for Sera because Ai and the professor weren't harboring Akai. In any case, Sera hasn't otherwise given any indications that she knows anything more than basic appearances about Ai, unlike Conan where she suspects him of being the brains behind Kogoro.

The letter is likely not from Kouhei's murderer. I am guessing it is from someone who would want to drag the murderer out. "Distorted existence thoughtlessly conjured up by humans such as yourself. To see me directly is a dream that cannot be realized." put through my melodramatic metaphoric prose to plain English translator comes out as "The police detectives' original explanation is wrong. I want it fixed." This person may have been the one to poison Ikurou in revenge or was Ikurou himself who discovered the trick and was killed by Kouhei's murderer. Ikurou is such an ass though I doubt he would want anyone to discover the truth of the father’s murder, especially because it gives him the chance to become company president. Well maybe it would mean another competitor gets blamed, giving him greater chances to become pres? The post mark on the letter was from 10 days after the incident, so whoever sent it to Heiji figured out the crime quickly. The letter sender was most likely the one to appear in front of Kazuha in the bathroom judging by the similar melodramatic writing style. They used a wig to cover up their face and triggered the black out, perhaps by remote. They then used the same disappearing writing on the tile trick as the original murderer used. The long haired person then escaped. Unfortunately it isn’t clear how they left, either by walking past Kazuha and friends who had moved away from the bathroom entrance or by using a secret exit. Regarding the tile trick a few things can be deduced: • “Eerie rustling sounds” will be made in the course of the trick • The tile had to be replaced, switched or moved somehow because no luminol reaction was found and luminol reactions can’t be easily erased without leaving traces that something was used to erase it (bleach for instance). • When the tile is replaced/moved/switched in the dark, somehow it is possible to align them all properly so the colors are in proper position. There must be an easy way to remove and set the tiles in the right configuration or the tiles change color somehow to match (if they did change color someone would have mentioned that I think.). • The trick takes about 5 minutes, that’s how long the light was out for Kazuha. • The trick only replaced specific tiles rather than all of them. – Only the letters for “eye” disappeared and not the other scratched tiles. • The trick may involve replacing tiles as the adhesive had not dried. There should have also have been spare tiles convenient around because the guy was in the middle of retiling the bathroom. Kazuha’s long haired person had plenty of time to prepare ahead of time. Why did the culprit have to replace the tiles instead of just erasing the dying message by rubbing it off? Perhaps the dying message wasn’t something that wiping off could erase, like scratches along with blood writing. Or maybe the original culprit tiled over the dying message which was on the bare floor? Maybe Kazuha’s person put tiles on top of tiles which is sort of similar to the original trick and she didn’t notice because of having only a short time to look at it? Another possibility was the presence of a luminol reaction would be enough to make the dying message clear. In that case it would be less likely to be writing and more likely to be a shape or something not easily altered. It’s suspicious that the Karuizawa house was scheduled to be rebuilt right after someone died in the family. The only people with enough power in the house to do so would be the wife and son, with the wife taking precedence. The victim was a do-it-yourself person so he would be less likely to call in other people to do work for him. Perhaps this was arranged after the husband’s death by someone who needed to cover something up. The Karuizawa house was neatly maintained and the electricity was working as well, but it has only been a month since the original guy was murdered, so I doubt it would deteriorate. It may imply someone was in there taking care of it though. I wonder if Sera will follow Heiji and Conan. The place they are visiting is in Tokyo after all. Maybe we will get Sato on the case this time. Megure and Takagi are practically assured arrivals. Shiratori woulnd't be bad either. I wonder if Kansuke was on the case in Karuizawa because that's in Nagano (although really close to Gunma). What’s up with Conan’s unsure reaction to Heiji’s excluding of Sera “That's more convenient for our purposes.” Does Conan want Sera to be around so he could keep an eye on her? Did Okiya finally tell him to keep and eye on his sister?

Movie 6. It's too out-of-genre, not-Detective Conan for me to enjoy it. Come on, a sentient AI coded by an angry dispossessed child genius threatens to erase children's brains if they don't beat him in a game? - it's like a fanfiction or something. Early on in my Detective Conan career, I watched it because everyone was talking about how great it was. I temporarily stopped reading DC because I thought it meant the series was going to turn into something like it. Chekhov MacGuffin came very close to never existing because of Movie 6. Luckily I gave DC another chance.

MI9 is/was the resistance aid division as in like helping POW's rebel. I think MI6 would be more appropriate for sending people to other countries to do various activities.That said, I'm not sure Sera knows about the Org.

I moved a bunch of posts related to justwantanaccount's post to the Sera's identity speculation topic because they were unrelated to this case. Please see these posts for further replies. If you want to speculate about Sera's identity beyond the East vs. West case, please go to the Sera's identity speculation thread.

Moonlight Sonata was a manga case that Gosho wrote, and one of the most popular at that.

No one important. I think the boss is a not yet introduced character. It may not be an exciting option, but I think it's the most likely.

I've seen the Chinese, and it's not as creepy as I would have hoped. There are five suspects though, so either this case is going to get serial or Gosho is going to break tradition. It's too early to tell about the cake murder because not enough info is available. We are going to need to know where the poison was found (on his hands or in the cake?) because the guy may have had his hands poisoned before touching the cake. It's possible some progress will be made on the riddle - which incidentally reminds me of something Kaitou Kid would have wrote. Eye and the homophonous letter "I" may be related. Maybe the wordplay won't be so bad this time around. *crosses fingers* The maid reminded me of the disguise Kaito Kid used in the Iron Tanuki case.

Yoko Okino is unlikely to be the boss because she has not made any effort to avoid Kogoro who is thought to be a renowned detective. Yoko Okino also introduced Mizunashi Rena to Mouri Kogoro in order to have Mizunashi's stalker problem solved. Even of the boss was sure of his/her own ability to fool others, the boss would want to avoid interactions between Black Organization operatives and renowned detectives if possible should the detective notice something amiss.If Yoko Okino was the boss, she should be smart, yet she failed to identify who was stalking and harassing her (that's what she originally went to Kogoro's office for) and deal with them. If she had taken appropriate measures she could have avoided bringing police and a detective to her home. (Copied from the not the boss list)

Bourbon wants to find Akai, but his only lead is that he knows who Akai's friends are. He doesn't know if Akai is in contact with them, or even if they know that Akai is alive. Furthermore Bourbon doesn't have anyone else helping him except Vermouth who can make masks but has otherwise been reigned in by the boss following the ghost ship. Can you think of any other plan that would let Bourbon find Akai other than the one he is using already - appearing in front of the FBI to gauge their reactions? He's already been stalking and spying on the FBI in order to pick good locations to appear. If that worked, Bourbon wouldn't have bothered appearing in front of the FBI. It's not an ideal strategy, but in terms of what Bourbon has to work with, it's the only one he can easily accomplish by himself that has a likelihood of working. Vermouth wasn't explaining her suspicions. She was telling Gin that Bourbon was dressed as Akai and don't shoot him please. Gin already knows about Bourbon's personality; he doesn't believe Akai is dead. Vermouth doesn;t have to explain to Gin why Bourbon is doing this. If he acted like Akai, or still had his memories, or he would speak in front of people who knew him, or used his left hand instead of his right to fire a gun, and didn't run away from the FBI after appearing, then he would be a lot less suspicious. Your above two quotes are like a contradiction. You are looking for something deeper that isn't there. Gosho's cases work out that way; you uncovered the tricks and that's it. Gosho is not one of those authors who piles up layers upon layers of obfuscation to misdirect the reader. Gosho does a trick, you see through it, and the solution is straightforward from there. All the regular cases, the Vermouth arc, and Kir arc were the same way. Sometimes the trick is difficult, but once you have it solved, you've done the main job, and the only thing left is loose ends like motives.

Spoilers about the upcoming chapter were originally posted on DCTP by Fujiwara. They have been copied here for your convenience. Prior poll votes: How creepy do you think this case is? Creepy (3 votes [30.00%]) Somewhat creepy (3 votes [30.00%]) Tame (1 votes [10.00%]) I'm totally immune (3 votes [30.00%]) Who was the culprit behind Wakamatsu Kouhei's death? Wakamatsu Ikurou (25): Kouhei's son (5 votes [45.45%]) Wakamatsu Serika (43) : Kouhei's wife (1 votes [9.09%]) Shiina Masashige (56): Design company senior managing director (0 votes [0.00%]) Fujinami Sumio (30): Design company chief designer and football head (1 votes [9.09%]) Satake Yoshimi (32): Victim's Secretary (2 votes [18.18%]) Yonehara Sakurako (23): Housekeeper (0 votes [0.00%]) Someone else (0 votes [0.00%]) It was an accident (0 votes [0.00%]) It was really a suicide (0 votes [0.00%]) I am not ready to vote yet (2 votes [18.18%]) More than one person (0 votes [0.00%])

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.

But there are a lot more similarities and clues in Subaru and Akai's case than there were for Jodie and Vermouth. It goes further than appearance and mysteriousness. Okiya and Akai share name puns, Black Org auras, and Conan's trust, and a bunch of other things I have listed. The differences can be explained by acting and habit change in order to disguise himself. What is important to note is that none of the differences are too extreme such that a dedicated Akai couldn't handle. Quit smoking, use nicotine patches for instance. Also, Akai has shown hand to hand skills- he was going to take out a busjacker before Conan got him. Also, Okiya hasn't had the opportunity to shoot, so it doesn't make sense to assume Okiya can't. I disagree. When has Akai been on a mission where disguise would have significantly helped? Most of the time, Akai simply appeared unexpectedly or stayed out of sight of the party he was tailing. On the bus jack case, the FBI weren't trying to capture Vermouth. The bus is a public location with lots of people around. They couldn't. What they were doing was looking for Shiho in order to protect her, which is why Akai mentions the target at the end of the case into his recording device. By the same token Vermouth couldn't attack Jodie. Also, the FBI didn't know Vermouth knew Jodie was an FBI agent. Even if Vermouth saw Akai on the bus, that doesn't make Jodie Akai's ally. The problem is Conan and Agasa haven't talked about the glasses and how they relate to the badges as far as we have seen anytime recently. Between Okiya's first appearance and the 252 rescue case where Okiya demonstrated his knowledge, I am pretty sure Conan hasn't used the tracking function of his glasses in any case in Beika (or even elsewhere anywhere possibly), nor have the detective boys used the badges for anything other than communication (unless I'm forgetting something they may not have used them at all until the 252 case ignoring the haunted warehouse where they were merely props). If they haven't been used recently, then why would anyone in Agasa's house need to talk a out loud about them? They already know how they work, and listening devices don't let you see how to use them properly, something which Subaru knew how to do. The mechanism to operate Conan's glasses isn't obvious, so only someone who knows about their existence beforehand could recognize the glasses at Agasa's and figure out how to activate the tracking function. Akai Shuuichi could have heard about the glasses in several ways. The first source is when James Black was kidnapped while he had Ayumi's detective badge. Conan used the badge to track down James Black. James was waiting to meet with Akai before he was kidnapped and drove away with Akai after he was rescued. Akai could have also heard about the tracking function from Jodie when Conan chased after Kir to prevent an assassination. Finally, Akai may also know about them from when Haibara borrowed the glasses to find Conan at the shipping yards in climax of the Vermouth arc. He was present at the time and would have seen Haibara wearing them even though she has never worn glasses when Akai had seen her previously.

We had similar "reader omniscience" in the Vermouth arc. We got to see Jodie's thoughts and phone conversations, Vermouth thinking to herself in her office with targets, and Akai lurking around and his communications with people like James Black, all of which Conan did not know about. Also, Gosho never lies to us, that is when he shows us something, it always fits in with the final plot although it may be deceptive at first like you pointed out.

I don't understand why being enemies means you would be more similar than you would be otherwise.================================================================== Version 1 Common Objections to Okiya being Akai and their rebuttals (1) Objections that Okiya is not Akai because... 1a. Akai is dead. 1b. Okiya is Bourbon. 1c. Okiya and Akai appeared at the same time so they can't be the same person. 1d. Scar Akai is the real Akai. 1e. Okiya is the shadow guy in glasses driving in files 417-419 so he can’t be Akai. (anime spoilers) 1f. What about Okiya being a brother of Akai or something like that? (2) Objections that Akai couldn't have the time to prepare the Okiya disguise and other logistics. Generally, the passage of time in DC is difficult to tell because of the floating timeline; it isn't clear how much time elapsed between Raiha pass and the Kuroshiro case where Okiya first appeared. In the Suspicious Eisuke case which occurred right before Okiya's introductory case, it was stated that Eisuke returned to school finally after being "absent for quite a while" according to Conan. (619 pg 3) Even then, how much time elapsed between "Suspicious Eisuke" and Okiya's introductory case? 2a. Now that Akai is cut off from the FBI, how could he have the resources and get his identity together as Okiya fast enough? (Like a buying a car and renting an apartment...) 2a1. Then who were these assistants? 2b. Akai couldn't have learned all the things Okiya knows fast enough 2c. If Okiya was Akai he couldn't have been at the apartments for long enough. 2c1. Okiya can't be Akai because the child Kaito from the Kuroshiro case had to have known him for a long time in order to observe him enough to invent a nickname for him. 2c2. Okiya couldn't have been there long enough because the garden looked too nice. 2d. It is too difficult to fake a job as a graduate student in engineering. (3) Objections regarding Akai's acting and disguising abilities or lack thereof 3a. Akai doesn't have any acting skills as far as we know. He couldn't do a good enough job to be Okiya. 3b. Akai has no experience with disguise. 3c. Akai can't disguise his voice. 3d. If Jodie wasn't able to recognize Okiya as Akai, then how did Ran? 3e. If Okiya is Akai, and Ran, after only seeing him three times, thinks he seems familiar, doesn't that mean Okiya's disguise is bad? If so, isn't he stupid for appearing around the Org or the FBI who might recognize them? 3f. If Okiya is Akai, why doesn't Akai behave more like himself when he is alone or only good guys are around? (4) Objections based on motives 4a. If Okiya is Akai and trying to keep his identity secret, why is he risking himself by staying close to Haibara and Conan and getting involved in situations where the FBI and the Black Org are present? 4a1. He doesn't seem to be protecting Haibara and Conan (anime spoilers) 4a2. He doesn't seem to be protecting the FBI 4b. If Akai is unwilling to face Haibara, why would he try to move in with her? 4c. If Okiya is Akai, why is he spying on Conan and Haibara? (5) Objections based on personality differences between Okiya and Akai 5a. Akai isn't the type of character who would disguise as a domestic and friendly person like Okiya. Their personalities are too different for them to be each other 5b. Okiya smiles more than Akai 5c. Conan acts differently around Okiya than when he was around Akai (6) Objections on physical differences between Okiya and Akai 6a. Okiya doesn't look like Akai 6a1. Then where did the line under his eyes go? 6a2. Then where cheekbones go? 6b. Okiya/Akai is ambidextrous unlike the other. 6c. Many of people look alike because of Gosho's art style. Also other characters like Gin are left handed. Okiya and Akai being alike is just a coincidence. (7) Objections based on behavioral differences 7a. Akai smokes, Okiya doesn’t. 7b. Okiya is a better detective than Akai (8) Objections based on quotes 8a. If Okiya is Akai, and he knows scar Akai is Bourbon, why would he say that Scar Akai wasn't who he thought he was? 8b. Okiya seems to be threatening Haibara during the Ikkaku rock case. (9) Objection based on literary devices 9a. Okiya is Akai is too easy; there has to be something more complicated. 9b. If Okiya is Akai, why is he is disguise all the time? Even Vermouth took off her disguises once in a while. 9c. Several times we get to eavesdrop on Okiya's thoughts. That only happens for characters not in disguise. 9d. There is a trick to the Char Aznable name: Char Aznable and Casval Rem Deikun used to be strangers, so this implies Okiya isn't Akai. (10) Miscellaneous 10a. Okiya can't be Akai because Okiya was the only one who could have informed the Black Organization that scar Akai was in the Beika Department Store. 10b. Why did Conan panic when he heard Ran was going to Shinichi's house? 10b1. Then why didn't Conan warn Subaru that Ran was coming? 10b2. The timing of Subaru getting that phone message doesn't make sense! 10b3. Why didn't Ran and Sonoko hear his phone if Conan contacted him first as they came in? Everything below this line is not finalized. They are in need of serious cleanup like proper grammar and such. Please don't quote them, they are only here to give you an idea of what will eventually be posted. ========================

Stork Mystery Tour eps 554-555Found via searching for Araide's appearances in the wiki.

Movie 10 had Conan with a broken leg, are you positive you are thinking of an episode?

He didn't know Shiho was Ai. The moment he found out was after Ai bailed Conan out from the locker after Black Footprint. He saw her with Conan and thought to himself "No way!" if I remember correctly.