Talk:Canon

Sanctioned Guidebooks

We should probably give a mention to the sanctioned guidebooks. They are, as far as I know...

• Detective Conan Mystery Museum (1997)
• Detective Conan's Mystery Academy (1997)
• Conan the Movie Perfect Guide (2001)
• Conan Drill: Decipherment of the Conan (2003)
• Gosho Aoyama the Complete Color Works 1994-2002 (2003)
• Love Conan (2004)
• Detective Conan vs. Kid the Phantom Thief (2004)
• Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths Official Fanbook (2005)
• Detective Conan 10 Years Cinema Guide (2006)
• Detective Conan the Movie: All Character Record (2007)
• Love Conan the Movie (2007)
• Love Conan the Movie (2008)
• Love Conan the Movie (2009)

Some of them are anime and movie related, and others I don;t know much about, but I know Conan Drill is a manga guide. Chekhov MacGuffin ^talk 23:02, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

I own Detective Conan vs Kaitou Kid Perfect Edition. It's just a compilation of Kid related chapters from Detective Conan plus the inclusion of the Clock Tower heist. There is however an interview with Aoyama on page 169. The 2010 edition presumably contains the same stories. I'll type up the interview when I have a chance to post into the interviews topic on the forum. Maybe justwantanaccount would be gracious enough to translate it for us.

I saw the post on DCTP in regards to the list of sanctioned guidebooks, but did Jd- ever mention where he found that Aoyama sanctioned these particular ones?--Skyechan 01:43, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps because these are the ones published by Shogakukan? The Love Conans, the Drill, and Movie Perfect Guide are all Shogakukan I think. Chekhov MacGuffin ^talk 02:13, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

They are, but I'm not sure about using that as proof. I wish we had an actual source of Aoyama saying he approves those specific guidebooks. :/ --Skyechan 03:24, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Maybe if someone did some translation they could find out the info. There is an intro to the Conan Drill that might be relevant. That's the one I am most interested in because of the stuff it says in relation to the manga canon. Chekhov MacGuffin ^talk 03:35, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Edit, so I was going back through some old convos, and we may have to be careful about the official confirmation. The Love Conans may be fanbooks published by Shogakukan. I guess individual verification is the key here. Chekhov MacGuffin ^talk 04:05, 30 April 2012 (UTC)