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| Title: | Green Dragon (Part 1) |
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| Japanese title: | グリーン・ドラゴンの巻（前編） (Gurīn Doragon no Maki (Zenpen)) |
| Original release: | April 10th, 2024 |
| Shōnen Sunday issue: | #20/2024 |
| Volume: | TBD |
| Pages: | 16 |
Green Dragon (Part 1) (グリーン・ドラゴンの巻（前編） Gurīn Doragon no Maki (Zenpen)) is the 37th chapter of the Magic Kaito manga. It was written by Gosho Aoyama, drawn by him and his assistants and originally appeared in the Shōnen Sunday issue #20/2024, released on April 10th, 2024. It was written as part of a new case to promote the release of Movie 27: The Million-dollar Pentagram in April 2024.
Contents
Characters
Introduced
In order of introduction:
Featured
Gadgets
Heist
Settings
- Tokyo
- Chiyoda Ward
- Ekoda Area
- Nakamori Residence
- Ōta Ward
- Unknown ward
- Ristorante Verde
- Tsunakura Museum (綱倉博物館)
Plot
As Aoko Nakamori is sitting alone at a table in an Italian restaurant, her mother, 40-year-old Midoriko Nakamori, a prosecutor at the Tokyo Prosecutor's Office, arrives and takes the seat in front of her, excusing herself for being late. She further explains that she can only be with her daughter for two hours before having to head back to work, and Aoko wishes her to enjoy these two hours, as they are celebrating her 40th birthday. As she looks around, Midoriko comments on how expensive the restaurant looks, preferring to eat at a nearby family diner, but Aoko says that Ginzo, her father and Midoriko's husband, has been preparing for this event for a while now. Thinking about said husband, Midoriko looks around, but does not see him, and Aoko explains that he received another notice from Kaito Kid. A perplexed Midoriko looks at her daughter and asks, what "Kaito Kid"? Aoko is surprised her mother does not know the famous thief, but Midoriko had a fight with her husband about work before and never knew what happened at his work afterwards. Aoko then has her mother look him up on the internet, and Midoriko grits her teeth seeing how many criminal offenses he has done and asks why he has not been arrested yet. Realizing that the thief has been bothering her husband for so many years, she tranforms her birthday dinner into a strategic meeting with her daughter to catch said thief.
At the same time, at the Tsunakura Museum in downtown Tokyo, superintendent Chaki and Ginzo Nakamori are staring at Kaitou Kid's newest target, a bronze statue of Date Masamune. Chaki thinks that it is unusual for Kid to be targeting a statue, but the inspector points at the jewel in the statue's eye socket, but as he tries to name the jewel, Juro Tsunakura, owner of the museum, comes in help and says it is a "phosphophyllite" gem, nicknamed the "Green Dragon's scale". Ginzo looks again at the jewel and thinks that it is an easy target for Kid, as it left in the wide-open, but Tsunakura explains that the gem was inserted from the inside and then bronze was poured to fill the cavity inside the statue, setting it rock-solid into the bronze. Chaki then theorizes that Kid could dynamite the statue, but is rebutted when Tsunakura says that the jewel is very brittle. Nakamori thinks that Kid could take the entire statue by lifting it just like in a previous case, but enters Saguru Hakuba sipping from a cup of tea, who reveals that to his advice, steel beams were embedded to the ground, essentially gluing the statue to its location. At the deerstalker detective and his caretaker's arrival, Nakamori gets annoyed, but Chaki welcomes him with joy. After thanking his caretaker Kashiko Shikibe for the tea, he excuses her and allows her a well-deserved break.
Three days later, at the Public Prosecutor's Office, a tired Midoriko spits out to her superior all the evidence to help build a strong case to prosecute a suspect and then asks him for an early leave, as she had been working on the case for three straight days without sleeping. A happy chief prosecutor lets her leave, and later stumbles upon a room full of boxes of previous case files, realizing that Midoriko sifted through all that content within a mere three days. He then stood there impressed and thought to himself that she is on the road to become prosecutor general. In Ekoda, Kaito, Aoko and Keiko are walking on the road back from school and Kaito is shocked to learn that Aoko and her mother are going to try to catch Kid together. Keiko is also surprised, but because she never heard about Aoko's mother and thought she died[1]. An angry Aoko says that it is just that her mother leaves early and comes home after she goes to bed,
Continuity
Referencing
- Kaitou Under Scrutiny (Manga: 16) : Nakamori referencing Kid stealing a whole statue is a reference to the bronze statue heist at the Ekoda Natural History Museum.
Sherry's Soliloquy
Sherry's Soliloquy (シェリーのひとりごと Sherī no Hitorigoto) is a collection of comments Gosho Aoyama has Ai Haibara say on the official Detective Conan website, Conan News Agency (こなん通信社 Konan Tsūshin-sha) in the course of every new chapter's publication.
Soliloquy of File 37:
アンダーリム眼鏡・・・萌えるわね♡
Half-rim glasses.. So cute!
(April 12, 2024, translation by Nakamura)
Real Life Models
Tsunakura Museum
Tsunakura Museum is modeled after the real-life Art Institute of Chicago Building, a Beaux-Arts building completed in 1893. Tsunakura Museum is shorter than its real-life counterpart, only having 5 windows per side as opposed to the Art Institute's 7 windows. It also incorporates the street lamps outside the museum. The interior is however different, the real-life AIOC Building having Corinthian columns, while the Tsunakura Museum has Ionic columns.
Tsunakura Museum
The real-life Art Institute of Chicago.
Trivia
- The cover of Shonen Sunday #20/2024 shows Kaitou Kid and his real appearance Kaito Kuroba, along with Saguru Hakuba, Aoko Nakamori, and Akako Koizumi.
- Date Masamune (伊達 政宗, 1567-1636) was a famous regional ruler of Northern Japan during the Edo Period (1603-1868), and notably founded the city of Sendai. The diamond in his eye is also a reference to his moniker of the "One-Eyed Dragon of Ōshū".
- Phosphophyllite, known in Japanese as "Rinyō-seki" (燐葉石) is a rare mineral composed of hydrated zinc phosphate and often left uncut as its crystals are brittle, making the existence of the "Green Dragon" rather improbable.
- Jurō Tsunakura (綱倉 十朗) is named after the first Katakura Kojūrō (片倉 小十郎), Katakura Kagetsuna (片倉 景綱, 1557-1615), head of the Katakura clan and a close aide of Date Masamune.
- The Italian restaurant at the beginning is named "Verde", meaning "green/lush".
- In the case Midoriko is working on, the people involved are named after Shōnen Sunday editors: Domoto (堂本), Murata (村田) and Funamoto (舟本), whose name is also used for a riot police officer in Detective Conan file 1119[2].
- Kaito's handkerchief bears the inscription "hocus-pocus", meaning to "deceive", a fitting name for his persona as Kaitou Kid.
See also
References
- ^ Note: A reference to numerous fan theories that she had died.
- ^ http://bdamakuriimu.blog38.fc2.com/blog-entry-1711.html
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