An Advantageous Shadow
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| Title: | An Advantageous Shadow |
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| Japanese title: | 割のいい尾行 (Wari no Ii Bikō) |
| Original release: | March 9th, 1994 |
| Shōnen Sunday issue: | #14/1994 |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Pages: | 16 |
| Anime adaptation: | Episode 38: Akaoni Village Fire Festival Murder Case |
| English title: | A Lucrative Tailing Job |
| English release: | November 3rd, 2004 |
An Advantageous Shadow (割のいい尾行 Wari no ii Bikō) is the tenth chapter of the manga of Detective Conan. It was written by Gosho Aoyama, drawn by him and his assistants and first released in Shōnen Sunday #14/1994 on March 9th, 1994 and later on reprinted as part of Volume 2 on July 18th, 1994.
Contents
Characters
Introduced
In order of introduction:
Featured
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Gadgets
Introduced
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Settings
Introduced
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Featured
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Plot
Kogoro Mouri tails a man named Masaki Negishi for three days in a row and gets paid a considerable amount of money for it. But then a corpse is found which gets identified as Negishi according to the news, which is seemingly impossible, since that person must have died before Kogoro's job observing him ended...
Continuity
- The chapter plays out over two days. Ran Mouri visited Hiroshi Agasa on the first one off-panel, while Conan Edogawa met Kogoro Mouri tailing "Masaki Negishi", which was the third day he did this. On the evening of the second day, at 8 pm, the corpse of the real Negishi gets found in the fire of the Akanoni Village Festival.
- Tenth chapter of the so-called "Conan Arc", a fan-coined term.
Referencing
- The Great Detective Turned Small (Manga: 2): Ran Mouri inquires Hiroshi Agasa about the whereabouts of Conan Edogawa's (fictional) parents he told her about during the second chapter.
Cameos
- Masaki Negishi is directly named after one of Gosho Aoyama's assistants.
Shōnen Sunday Q&A
Every issue of the Shōnen Sunday features a question asked by the magazine to the manga artists featured in it. The one accompanying this chapter was:
The movie or novel that left you with the strongest impression is,
"The long-running anime I've seen for the first time, Puss in Boots."
(Translation by justwantanaccount)
Trivia
- Conan Edogawa's walking pose on the chapter cover is identical to the pose Yaiba Kurogane (and sometimes Sayaka Mine) made on a couple of Yaiba artworks, reminiscent of figures on traffic signs and lights.
Adaptions
- Anime Episode 3: Akaoni Village Fire Festival Murder Case
See also
References
| Chapters of Volume 2 | ||
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| Chapter 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 |
