Glass Heart

Well, for my part, I really disliked the movie. I respect other opinion, but my review will be quite... negative. The story is a mess with the last act being a big joke. To make a movie of 1h42 with a microscopic story, they filled the movie with almost one hour of action scenes and a permanent overuse of Conan gadgets. The story doesn't work, the atmosphere doesn't work either (there wasn't a single moment the direction allowed me to be afraid for the characters), some moments of the movie were useless and the fan-service is over-present the whole movie. At least the music score was good and I love the ending song Overdrive. I love most of Conan's movies but, to me, this one is the only one I think of as bad, really bad (movies 1, 6 and 11, even if I don't really like them, have their moments). There's almost nothing in it.

As the shooting of the movie is set to next year, we could have a little topic to discuss about this much anticipated sequel. Some official news: -The title of the movie will be "The Dark Knight Rises". It will be released in 2012. -Tom Hardy (Bronson, Inception) joins the cast in a role still unknown. -The Riddler is not the movie vilain. -Christopher Nolan will direct the movie which will entirely be filmed in I-MAX (but not in 3D). It will be his third (and probably last) Batman movie. He will also produce Zack Snyder's Superman movie (a new version, not a sequel to Superman Returns). -The script was written as the end of a trilogy. It was written by Jonathan Nolan (scriptwriter of The Dark Knight) from a story conceived with Christopher Nolan and David Goyer (who is the scriptwriter of Batman Begins and who also helped conceiving the story of The Dark Knight with the Nolan brothers). -Hans Zimmer will compose the score of the movie. -Nolan and the producers are currently searching for the female lead. For the moment, it doesn't seem like they are searching for a famous actress but more an unknown name.

After you have finished watching/reading them, we could exchange theories if you want. I've just thought of some elements of the series I didn't give much attention before and I think I might have an idea of who the culprit could be now. Thinking of that person as the culprit could explain a few things in chapter 1, but I'm still clueless for other chapters (but it still could fill some holes). If you want, we can discuss about this later. I'd like to know what theories you will thought of for your part.

In case you'll watch it and try to guess the tricks behind the murders, the "realistic perspective" of the story (which is still mostly unknown) was created according to "Van Dine's Commandments for Detective Stories". http://gadetection.pbworks.com/Van-Dine%27s-Twenty-Rules-for-Writing-Detective-Stories All red and blue truths enumerated in the first season are also absolute but they can easily hide more important facts which would be closer to the real truth. I've tried to understand the tricks but they seem really elaborated and, so far, I have only found a plausible explanation to only one of many murders.

I just search on Wikipedia and there are 5 manga adaptations adapting the first 5 parts of the visual-novel (first part completed, the next four in progress). But, for my part, I only know the anime and some videos of the original visual-novel I've seen on Youtube. 7 of the 8 parts of the visual-novel have been released, with the 8th being released in next December, so I think the second and last season of the anime (adapting the last four parts) will follow soon after (the same happened before for the anime adaptation of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, with Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai being the second season and completing the main story).

Thanks !

Well, I thought the boss could be Yusaku Kudo, but no longer. It is explicitly stated that the organization has a strong knowledge of Holmes' stories (the password in the Pisco case). With that and the virus named Night Baron, Yusaku would be the perfect suspect. So I doubt it's him. Is there a character in Detective Conan which shows some important knowledge about Holmes from time to time and, at the same time, remains discret enough about it (so much that we wouldn't really guess he is a Holmes fan without paying attention) ?

Well, for a person like her, it's a miracle that she has a chance to live a normal childhood that she was deprived of. She conceives the antidot for Shinichi but I don't think either that she is thinking of taking it herself. For the person she'll end up with, I don't think it's that important considering the character. She has other, more serious, trouble.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSKXThy8Rew&feature=related The Story October 1986. With the head of the Ushiromiya family, Kinzo Ushiromiya, dying, the children are reunited to discuss plans of heritance of the commercial empire. The grand-children, however, aren't interested in their parents business and are happy to be together again. During the dinner, the legendary witch Beatrice manifests to Maria, the younger of the grand-children, who announces the witch's claim. Long ago, she offered a mountain of gold to Kinzo, allowing the family business to prosper for decades. Now that their accord is coming to its term, she will reclaim everything Kinzo has built, including the lives of his children and his grand-children. However, if one of the descendant resolves the riddle on a epitath and discover where the gold is hidden, Beatrice will renounce to her claim to the gold and the murders will stop. The Ushiromiyas must now survive to a series of supernatural murders. But in the end, all of the island residents are slaughtered. However, in purgatory, one of the grand-children, Battler Ushiromiya, refuses to believe that surnatural has anything to do with the killing and believes that someone uses the name of Beatrice to murder everyone. Beatrice appears to Battler and challenges him: the massive murder case will be replayed several times from the perspective that the witch killed everyone (with very different developpements). Battler must prove that each murder could have been committed by one or several humans despite the strange circumstances and that therefore witches and magic had nothing to do with that. To confront themselves, Battler and Beatrice have both a weapon: the blue and the red truth. The blue truth presents concrets facts that can't be denied and which tend to prove that humans did the killing. The red truth presents concrets facts that can't be denied and which tend to prove that witches did the killing. Battler must find the "facts" of what he has seen (despite the magical perspective) and establish and submit theories, according to every information he has gathered, to explain how the murders could have been performed from a human perspective. This game will last as long as Battler as the will to oppose the idea that witches are real. Comments In the first season (26 episodes), the opening plot and three more games are played, adapting the first four parts of the famous visual-novel (there will be eight parts at the end). A second season should follow later and conclude the story. For those who know Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni (an anime adapted from another eight-parts visual-novel by the same creator and writer), Umineko follows the same concept of many alternatives to the same event, allowing the main character and the spectator to gather puzzle pieces little by little and, in the end, to solve the mystery and discover the real murderer who hids himself behind the legend. But Umineko is FAR less violent than Higurashi, despite some creepy moments. It's more in the atmosphere, very mysterious and scary, than in visual violence.

It seems that the long-running rumor can finally become reality... maybe. At least, this time, the source is more serious and I think it can be trusted. http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ComicMovieNews/news/?a=24337 If it happens, the new movies could follow the released of the six movies in 3D.

Yes, of course I watched it. Otherwise, I wouldn't criticize a movie I haven't even seen.

Cute movies, true to the identity of CCS. Yes, they're good (especially the second one).

Well, it's right that movie 11 doesn't sound right (he was just entertaining and well directed, but this is hardly a Detective Conan movie for me). But personally, I think movie 14 to be even worst, the worst of all Conan movies in fact. It isn't a serious film, it's more some kind of second degree story where every WTF could happen at any time without any logic.

My review of Captured in Her Eyes.

It's not so incredible when 3/5 of the movie are action scenes with a abusive use of gadgets (and the story is a joke). 1h42 for a story which could have be done in 35 to 45 minutes. And not a good one to begin with. I hope better from the 15th movie !

For my part, top suspects are: -Yusaku Kudo: I think he is the most likely to rule an organization. He is a a celebrity like some organization members, he has a strong interest in detective novels and also write some of them (the organization has clearly a strong interest for talented persons such as a detective and an actress/transformist), he certainly knows Vermouth (the favorite of the boss), he has strong connections... I don't count the Night Baron virus as an element against him because the name was given by the victims. -Eri Kisaki: Of all the characters of Detective Conan, if Eri Kisaki turns out to be the boss, she would be extremely dangerous for everyone. She is highly intelligent (her sudden professional rise is quiet surprising), maybe equal to Shinichi and Heiji, she has connections with the most important characters of Detective Conan and, in a personal perspective, it would be a disaster for Ran and Kogoro. She is quiet mysterious, very cold (to put it bluntly, she doesn't act often as a woman because the nature of her job won't allow it), even Shinichi fears her (lol !) and, by her job, she must know a lot of influent people. And the reasons why she left Kogoro are quiet mysterious * (IF she is the boss, maybe she didn't want him to be involved with her business because she cares for him). * I don't count the movies as canon.

For movie 14, it was 1h42.

Well, it's not as popular as Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z (God ! lol !), Saint Seiya, City Hunter, Hokuto No Ken, Ranma 1/2, Captain Harlock, Cat's Eye, Cobra, Captain Tsubasa or UFO Robot Grendizer (all of them being series which popularized animes during kid's shows some decennies ago), but Detective Conan is nevertheless pretty famous here, yes. All the kids, now adults, who grew with these animes wanted to discover the mangas they were derived from, they became very popular and other more recent mangas and animes have followed since (Detective Conan, Card Captor Sakura, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Naruto, One Piece, Bleach...).

I didn't know Speed Racer was an adaptation from a manga. :shock:

Well, in France, it's a bit special. Back then during the 80's/90's, it was commonly kids and teenagers who watch animes and later read mangas. Now, this generation has grown and mangas have been popularized a lot, so it has become common for adults to read mangas. Detective Conan is a well-known manga so I won't be teased for reading it. Of course, it would be a different things if it was Pokemon for example (also well-known but categorized for children).

Ah, you're chinese. Okay, I understand now. I'm a big fan of Tsukasa Hojo's works (especially City Hunter and Family Compo), so I've naturally discovered the Cat's Eye manga and anime (I like both, even if I prefer the manga). Really fun ! And Aï is so funny ! lol ! By the way, it's not very well known but the end of the manga Cat's Eye (which was absent from the anime) was actually adapted in recent years for a video game. We can see a few parts at the end of the video game trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kER7OwnI1J0&feature=player_embedded

Ah, I didn't thought about that. It can explain a few things. But I see there are still some secrets around the Night Baron virus, to the point that you're not sure if it was the organisation which created it to begin with. Maybe that plot could still achieve some importance later. Thanks for your answers !

I would like to know more about the virus Night Baron which appears sometimes in Détective Conan.

Well, there are two elements that I didn't really think of before and which could have some importance in the resolution of the boss' identity.

For those I read, the one which leaves me the most stronger impression was the Moonlight Sonata case around the beginning of the series. Very mysterious, almost creepy, and the answers were quiet surprising and dark.