#Akai x Akemi

[coucouninfairy]

Guitl

-Detective Conan x Kotteri • Veil -

[coffeeviolinist]

Snippet of some Akai angst

[romancemedia]

Detective Conan Relationships

[wormwoodwine]

Chapter 42: A New (Out)look

Author’s note: Sorry for the short update, I’m swamped lately.

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[unpopular-dc-opinions]

Anon (by PM) asks:

How do you see Akai Shuichi as a character? And how do you see the Akai x Jodie ship?

Unbelievably, I've never talked about Akai before! Well, here we go.

Both Akai and Amuro strike me as full-blown Gary Stu's, which I don't always like, but I feel like Akai has a dark/depressed vibe that makes me like him more than the handsome Amuro. I mean, I find cases more interesting when Akai is present than Amuro. So, I will say that I like Akai, but he's not one of my favorites either.

My problem with Akai is that I perceive him too unhuman, too perfect (since an agent/detective perspective), to the limit of feeling him a cold and unrealistic character, almost as if he were an invincible robot/superhero. Rarely Gosho let us see his feelings or his humanity, and that makes it hard for me to empathize with him. I see few edges to the character. I even find it annoying how all the characters must be overshadowed when they are in his presence and that Gosho must always show that Akai alone can handle anything. It's sometimes a bit the same for me with Yusaku Kudo. Why the hell have we had through 1000+ files if Akai and Yusaku are here? The two of them together could have beaten BO since episode 1.

On that note, my thoughts regarding Akai are: 1) He should have died at the end of Clash of Red and Black! His death would have meant an epic moment, as it would have also shown his level as a character, but at the same time proving that he is not invincible either (as well as helping the public to perceive BO as a fearsome organization, which has been almost completely lost). But no, Akai is immortal and no one can ever beat him (not even Amuro). 2) He doesn't seem to care about people, unless it fits with his interests (like Conan), as if his relationship with people is mostly utilitarian. I mean, I resent his attitude towards Masumi, his mother, and most of the characters that are close to him, especially Jodie! He hasn't shown any attitude towards her that makes him worthy of her concern. Quite the contrary, he doesn't even seem to empathize for what she has suffered for him.

For these reasons, I used to ship Akai x Akemi. I really liked that ship! I felt that all that love plot and Akemi by herself humanized Akai's character. It made us see another side to him that we aren't usually shown. It showed us an Akai who had a soft spot for a person, for whom he really suffered for losing her, and who does everything he can to make amends for her death. But then Gosho made them cousins, and ruined everything for me.

The latter gives me the perfect excuse to answer your second question, regarding the Akai x Jodie ship. In theory it's a workable ship. I mean, he's single and so is she. They both work at the FBI together. They've had a relationship before... But seriously, how could they work as a couple when he literally abandoned her because he was in love with another woman? It doesn't matter if that woman is now dead. The guy didn't love her and left her for someone else. How is Jodie going to get back together with someone who told her to her face that he didn't love her? And you could say that maybe it didn't work out that time, but now things have changed. But in no scene is it implied that Akai's feelings for her have changed. He doesn't seem to show any special concern for her, nor for her feelings. Nor an special respect for her abilities. I even feel like he's a bit harsh on her sometimes. So, if Jodie and I were friends, and we sat down to talk in a cafe/bar, I would tell her, "Jodie, my friend, realize, that man doesn't love you, stay away from there!".

Personally, I preferred that in the end, Akai dies (real death), in an epic scene, and Jodie finds happiness with a man who really deserves it, maybe some other member of the FBI.

[iamumbra195]

Detective Conan/DCMK characters in a Classroom of the Elite setting would be so interesting to watch/read.

I've only just finished the CoTE anime (Seasons 1-3) so i haven't read the manga or the light novel but the Advanced Nurturing Highschool or AHNS for short is so, so shady. If it and the White Room existed in the DCMK universe, I have no doubt in my mind that they would have some connection to the Black Organization.

So just imagine an AU where Shinichi caught Vodka doing an arms deal in middle school but didn't get caught by Gin like in canon. Imagine him trying to investigate them but coming up with nothing until he, Ran, and Sonoko are on a train ride for the first day at AHNS where he runs into Gin and Vodka, just like he did in canon episode 5.

He learns their codenames there and saves the people on the train from being bombed to hell. Unfortunately, this ends up making him, Ran and Sonoko late for their very first day. They're thankfully excused because the incident was out of their hands before being placed into their respective classes.

You can have adult characters like Jodie and Amuro be teachers and business owners while also acting as undercover agents.

Important student characters at the school:

Hattori Heiji (he can be in the same class as Shinichi where they are both antagonistic at first but later become allies and friends)

Toyama Kazuha (they were made for each, I will never seperate them)

Kuroba Kaito (who also happens to be Kaitou KID and regularly sneaks off school campus for heists. Jii Konosuke cases places for him and he contacts the man using a secret phone he smuggled in. He tends to downplay his academic and physical skill to be somewhat average so he's in Class C or B)

Nakamori Aoko

Akako Koizumi (no magic in this AU but she's interested in spirituality and shit like tarot cards and all)

Hakuba Saguru (suspects of Kaito of being KId and regularaly requests time off from school to go to the heists)

Eisuke Hondou (but only for a little while near the end of 1st year as a rival for Shinichi and love interest for Ran before going back to America to pursue the future he wanted)

Sera Masumi (would be introduced in 2nd Year when Shinichi starts investigating Bourbon as a potential subject because she somehow found out he has connection to the maker of the pill that shrunk her mother)

Important characters outside of school

Agasa Hiroshi (supplies Shinichi with spy tech)

Haibara Ai AKA Miyano Shiho (shrunken and lives with Agasa just like in canon, specifically sought Agasa out because he was a connection to Shinichi, who was involved in her sister's case and was a detective at that. They contact each other through secret phone. She also happens to be one of the failed subjects of the white room)

Miyano Akemi (During school break, Shinichi went back to Beika where he was then approached by Masami Hiroto and the rest goes like canon with her dying in his arms)

Akai Shuichi (still don't know what I'm gonna do with him but he's important)

Rena Mizunashi AKA Hidemi Hondou

Side Characters in school

Nakamichi (Shinichi's soccer friend)

Eisuke Aizawa (Shinichi's soccer friend)

Kazumi Tsukamoto (a third year in Ran's karate club)

Tashiro (Ran's friend)

Hidaka (Ran's friend)

Anyways, I imagine Shinichi being in a different class from Ran and Sonoko and just thinking about ShinRan competeing but also saving each other's asses from time to time is beautiful.

Having Kaito and Shinichi's respective Black Organization be one and the same would make it more interesting as well.

Anyways, I think these characters are fun to play around with in this setting, mixing the dramatic school life in CoTE with the looming threat of the Black Organization as Shinichi delves deeper and deeper into the case.

Idk how this would be resolved but it would be so, so fun to read if written well. Shinichi's gonna be so paranoid by the end of this lol.

[aegyanges]

tfw the biggest ship in your fandom turns out to be COUSINS HELPPPPPP

[wolfshystuff]

CALLING ALL THE BANDORI AND DETECTIVE CONAN FAN

I just found out that this 2:

And this 2:

Share the same MBTI!!!

Akemi & Lisa => ENFJ

Akai & Yukina => INTJ

I'm going insane thinking about it and it doesn't help that also them have the same MBTI:

Rei and Chu2 => ENTJ

Pareo and Azusa => ESFJ

I really don't ship Rei and Azusa toghter but thinking of them having a cute dynamic like parechu is just adorable

[everythingblackblack]

Please tell me your DCMK OTPs, OT3s, OT4+s, BroTPs and NoTPS.

Canonical or otherwise, canon-compliant or completely adjacent (wrong word?).

Het, Yaoi, Yuri and poly all welcome!

I love your question, thanks for asking.<3 First of all, I must say that I am more of a fan of Magic Kaito than DetCo and that I am multishipper. Oh, please! Yours count too, maybe we are ship brothers.

My supreme OTPs (which I will order from my favorite to my least favorite): Shinichi x Kaito: I really like rivals to lovers, okay? They have two very gay songs, I don't think I need to say much.

Akako x Kaito: And I like enemies to lovers too much. She tried to kill him, but he still saved her.

Aoko x Hakuba: I have these little crumbs of Aoko x Hakuba, and I don't know, the fact that she has his phone number, it made my mind think "I think they would look cute together".

Also, the fact that their dynamic is somewhat similar to Iida x Ochako made me pay attention to them a lot.

Sonoko x Ran:

Oh yeah, I like friends to lovers too.

They have shared interests, how much they care for each other, I think they are quite cute together. There are two movies in particular that shaped my liking for them, where they both face the pirates and where Ran loses her memory.

Ships I like (but not as much as the ones above): Aoko x Akako: Aside from Kaito, Aoko is the only one who makes Akako blush. Also the fact that Akako is willing to protect her instead of hurting her.

Kaito x Saguru: I have an obsession with rivals to lovers, okay?

OT4: Ekoda Gang. Kaito should stay with the 3, Keiko is the spinster friend.

Kaito x Keiko: One day I was just rambling and it occurred to me. I had no light, I was bored, I thought it was reasonable.

Akai x Akemi: It makes me laugh a lot that they met because she ran him over with her car.

Kazuha x Hattori: Kazuha is great, Hattori makes me laugh so much, I don't know what else to say.

Finally, I will comment that I like HeiShin as an incredible BrOTP. I really like the headcanon where Kazuha thinks Hattori is in love with Shinichi. I'm sure I have more ships, but I can't think of anything else right now, so I'll leave you with those. Oh yeah! I like KaiAo and ShinRan, but only because they're canon, I don't really think about them that much and if I had to choose one of the two, I guess I'd choose KaiAo because I'm obsessed with Kaito. And I only have 1 NOTP, I don't like kogoro x eri, I just don't, I can't. THIS REMINDS ME THAT I ACTUALLY REALLY LIKE YUUSAKU X YUKIKO, AND TOICHI X CHIKAGE. I have a love-hate relationship with Kaito's parents, I like to make fun of Toichi (a lot) but well, before all the fuss about his parenting, they were some of my favorites.

[bastionbibi]

saw THIS akai x akemi fanart and almost cried bro like WHY ARE THEY SO TRAGIC GAAAAAAAAHHH 😭💔😭💔😭💔💔💔💔💔💔😭😭💔

[birubilirubin]

Thanks to someone I rechecked the dialog in Conan

付き合うことになった

You are going out with her.

彼女を潜入するために付き合うんでしょう？

Aren't you going out with her to infiltrate?

二人の女は同時に愛せるほど器用な性分じゃないでね。

I'm not dexterous enough to love two women at the same time.

The plot goes like this:

Akai approaches Akemi – Approached her to gain her trust or to make her fall in love with him and began dating - Akemi introduces him to Shiho as a lover - Became close friends with Shiho- Infiltrated the organization through Shiho’s connections

In the dialogue above, we can know the timeline was that he has not infiltrated the organization, and he wasn't dating Akemi at that time, he just met her and there was a love bombing process to gain her trust or to make her fall in love for a few days or months. It was not that he just met her and then suddenly asked her out, unless she's really a love brain and crazy about him.

器用な性分じゃない =不器用/ 無器用

不器用 (Not very dexterous / Bad at doing things)

It means that he is not good at communicating, not good at socializing, not good at getting along like a couple.

So 愛せる doesn't refer to the literal meaning of "Love", but it refers to the contextual meaning of "Doing all the things that couples do", and he's not good at handling it. So, the indication is that he was not in 2 boats at the same time.

So the 2 women are still referring to Akemi and Jodie.

Because it's hard to find the original text. So, I only heard from the animation. So maybe there are wrong words.

84さい、嘘、本当は.....

I'm 84 years old, kidding, actually I....

Interrupted by Ai's hat falling off

....ますます興味ぶかい魅力的...

You're getting more and more interesting and fascinating (because Conan can figure out the bomber from just a few clues).

８４歳バアバに言われたかねよ

I don't want to be praised by an 84-year-old grandmother

あなたの似合い18歳よ、なんてね。

I'm 18 years old just like you, I'm kidding.

えっ??

Huh??

The full sentence becomes like this

84歳、嘘、本当はあなたの似合い１８歳よ、なんてね。

I'm 84 years old, it's a lie, I'm actually 18 like you, Just kidding.

Huh?? (You're really 18 years old??)

(So it's not ambiguous right)

まだ糸は切れていない

The thread has not been cut (Their destiny has not been cut)

糸= 運命  (thread = Destiny / Bond)

Title of this chapter 運命の人 (The destined person)

This chapter tells a lot about Akai Shuichi, from the appearance of the fake Akai, Jodie and Akai’s past, and Subaru also appears. So, the destined person refers to Akai Shuichi.

Shiratori is the one destined for Kobayashi.

Aoyama also used Ayumi's mouth to explicitly say 放っとけない人は、好きな人です (The person you worry about is the person you like).

Who is the person who worries about Haibara the most, installing bugs everywhere, having his subordinates guard her or tap her when he has to leave Kudo’s house, forbidding her from going to the crime scene, picking her up when she didn’t come home?.

Akemi said "The only thing to worry about is you, Shiho", and Akemi loved Shiho.

The title of this chapter is ‘白い雪黒い影’ (White Snow Black Shadow). All chapter titles are clues, it applies in Conan.

When Shiho first appeared the chapter was titled 白い世界 (The White World).

Thanks to Gin, we know shiho is White Snow 白い雪, and she likes Scarlet 緋色

The kanji is the same as the kanji in the chapter "The emergence of scarlet". 緋色

白い雪 White Snow refers to Shiho. It was because Shiho still has her own sense of justice although she's been in the dark world since she was a baby.

黒い影 The black shadow refers to Akai. At that time, Akai was still suspected of being black.

So the narrative trick played out like this:

Akai saw Ran, and he thought of a stupid woman (×)

Haibara saw Ran, and she thought of Akemi (×)

So X = Stupid woman = Akemi.

The animation/movie team and the most fans’ logic are like that.

"I knew it was the wrong person"

Akai probably heard that a brown-haired girl (Sonoko) was following the doctor (He already knew the doctor was Vermouth)

When Subaru met Ran and Sonoko, he immediately noticed Sonoko first. "You, browned-haired girl", he said it to Sonoko.

It can be seen that the buildings marked in both pictures are very similar, and there is no fence on the street. So it was the same place where Miyano Shiho first appeared and was shot by Gin.

The most important point is that there is a phone booth in that place. Akai also came out of the phone booth.

Then, in Vermouth's apartment there was a Shiho photo, but during the full moon chapter, Akai met Haibara, but he still said "The person I was waiting for didn't show up".

So, I assume Akai has two different targets from the FBI, I.e:

1. Finding Shiho

2. Confronting Gin

He probably thought he could find those two people with him following Vermouth, but the FBI knew nothing about them.

So his revenge on Gin was not for Akemi.

The only witness to Akemi's murder was Vodka. How could Akai know the person who shot Akemi was Gin?. It could have been another member.

That's why Akai's actions towards Gin were all related to Shiho not Akemi. These three people have a story, and only they know about it.

Then, I look at the vocabulary he used was complex and romantic, and have many implied expressions, and comparing his dialog with Ayumi's, his dialog was rarely used in daily conversation (Well, although it's an Oresama character's dialog, and don't use this grammar in daily conversation, or you will get slapped by others). Every dialog box of every character is always carefully thought out, right. So I think Aoyama designed Akai's character as a character who is quite dark, deep and has hidden feelings (deep affection).

For example:

愛しい愛しい宿敵(こいびと) 愛しい and 恋人 can not only be interpreted as dearest love, but can also be interpreted as the person he misses. So it can be interpreted as (Gin who I miss).

So 恋人(こいびと) is not referring to Akemi.

Aoyama is traditional Japanese. The use of these words is often found in classical Japanese literature (Osamu Dazai, Akutagawa, etc)

The shadow is very deep, right.

File 874

From what Bourbon said, "I met your mother and your sister".

Then Shiho (Kid) said, "You are the rival of my sister's boyfriend, Moroboshi Dai. I heard from my sister that you don't get along."

"My sister's boyfriend" in Ai's mind this misunderstanding is still not resolved. Ai didn't know it was just a fake relationship. So it wasn't Shu-Ake's official CP hammer.

"I heard from my sister" We all clearly knew Akemi is just an outsider, she wouldn't know the problem with Rye and Bourbon. Based on Rye's character he wouldn't tell her about it either. Then based on Aoyama's interview, he said "Akemi didn't remember Bourbon". It is a contradiction.

It can be inferred that "I met your mother and your sister" was when he was a child, and Akemi has forgotten about him.

So this "I heard from my sister" is Aoyama's narrative trick. Because Aoyama wanted to hide Shuichi-Shiho's close relationship. He used a patch sentence (I heard from my sister) to cover up the original information.

Then, I saw some theories from Chinese fans who argued, the dialog probably like this because I also forgot it, "Like two sisters (姉妹), I know your action".

Actually, there is no need to use complex logic to analyze the dialogue in Conan, just use simple logic. "Sisters" still refers to Shiho and Akemi not Vermouth and Yukiko. "Your action is just like two sisters" This action doesn't refer to Haibara's action of crying silently, but Haibara's action of sacrificing herself for others just like Akemi sacrificed herself for Shiho, and Akai clearly knew it. So this dialog doesn't describe Akai knowing Akemi well (because cring silently). So, the girl who cries silently still refers to Shiho (Haibara). Akai only knew Akemi sacrificed herself for Shiho (from the message she sent).

Then, In Conan, the information we get from each character is not synchronized. It happens in the case of Subaru and Wakasa's identities, so you can't line them up linearly, but you have to look at each character's perspective.

Some of Ran's behaviors can refer to several characters depending on the perspective of each character describing Ran, so Ran doesn't just seems like Akemi because they both have long black hair.

For example, in one of the daily cases. A murderer saw Ran and he saw his girlfriend's shadow because Ran's voice was similiar to his girlfriend.

In Ai's mind, Ran's characteristics, bright, kind-hearted, protect her, was the same as Akemi.

Ran wanted to go home because she was worried about Conan. But Ai suddenly shouted at her to stop her, seeing her sister's shadow. This is Ai's guilt for Akemi because she couldn't stop her at that time.

But for Akai who only always saw Ran crying alone was similar to Shiho.

And in Ai's mind Ran's behavior of always holding back her crying, pretending to smile was just like herself. So that's why Ai understands Ran's feelings because they have the same behavior like pretending to be strong.

It's in chapter 335 A Gift from The Wife, sorry I don't have a picture.

This chocolate is smiling, but its face is sad.

A face torn with pain and tears, she pushed herself too hard

Mistranslation in the English version

It should be a dialogue box for Yamamura

The dialog should be like this

"If you get in contact with Hiro-chan again. You'll talk to him about me..."

Look at the angle when Shinichi said to Ai. It has the same angle, and it's a lens language where the conversation doesn't use subject and object if there are only two of them there.

In the English version the object becomes "Her"

"I will protect her......"

If he loved her, Akai should have gone to save her when he knew Akemi was in danger, or he can spend 1000 episodes taking care of her grave. But instead he appeared to meet her younger sister with a smiling face every day.

Haibara said 守ってくれるんでしょう to Conan

....んです is an emphasis sentence.

She's emphasizing that Conan will protect her right?. Because there was someone who wanted to protect her, but he didn't keep his promise.

Spoiler M26

Many of the character settings are very OOC and slightly out of the manga. First, Akai's reaction when he found out Ai was kidnapped was calm, while in the manga he was looking for her all over the city with a sad face. Second, How could he miss it, so all those bugs are useless. Third, Ai heard Akai's voice through the intercom of the diving goggles, but she didn't respond at all, and after Conan started answering the call, but her attention was only on Conan, and she only responded with "Kudo-kun", it is not Ai-chan who will think of Moroboshi Dai when she hears that someone likes to drink black coffee. Fourth, Conan said "そんな颜してんじゃねーよ" (Don't make faces like that) to Ai-chan. The production team seemed to run out of ideas and just Ctrl+C - Ctrl+V another CP's phrase and pasted it on the popular CP, although the structure is slightly different from Akai's "そんな颜するな". Fifth, the Conan-Ai kiss that seems like a copy-paste of the Conan-Ran kiss in M2. My first reaction after reading it was that there were a lot of character setups that didn't make sense and didn't match the plot of the original manga, and it was again a recycling of the previous plot.

[coffeeviolinist]

Akai’s cover doesn’t get blown. That doesn’t mean he and Akemi will get a happy ending.

[bakathief]

what's your opinion about ShuKemi?

I first read this sleep-deprived so I didn‘T realize this was about a different pairing. Oops. Have their art anyway, they are very cute and probably one of the most realistic couples in DC, my favorite part of movie 25 for sure. Also the story of how they first met was super adorable. 😔 ❤️ I don‘t really have an opinion on them? 😂 Akemi probably won‘t come back. Akai x Curry seems to be his strongest pairing atm (though I do enjoy how he manages to enrage Amuro by just breathing, what a feat)

[wormwoodwine]

Chapter 36-40: A merry mayhem.

Vermouth: Embrace the chaos, Gin!

Gin: Easy for you to say!

Author's note: Merry Christmas. Sorry for the late update. I planned to update a lot earlier, but the World Cup consumed my life quite a bit. Thank you and enjoy. New batch of updates from chapters 36-40 as of 25/12/2022.

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[liliumofthevalleyy]

Hi, can I ask your top 5 favorite romantic ships (can be canon or non canon) from any media? Thx ⭐

Thank you for your question, Anon♥️💄

Starting at 5th I would say Toji × Mama Megumi(jujutsu kaisen)

Just a note, this ship is barely existent in the animanga. I'm living purely off fanarts of them. There is this one amazing artist who draws Fushiguro family shenanigans that I absolutely adore. (They're @ddub2126 in instagram).

At 4th I would say Akemi x Akai (Detective Conan/Case Closed)

3rd: NaruHina (Naruto/shippuden/the last, Boruto)

2nd: Kagaya × Amane (demon slayer)

They break my heart and tear it up with gentleness and care, I'm very normal about them, promise </3

Personally my best ship for arranged marriage-falling in love troupe.

1st: Ramesses x Ivy (Pharaoh's Concubine)

Now this is from an unpopular manhwa. I read it back 4 years ago, and still no ship in any media after it managed to grab my heart by its strings and let it sing and cry and go through an absolute roller coaster of emotions through every chapter. Yes I am recommending it

Thank you so much for this ask Anon, and sorry it took so long. I really enjoy talking about my ship.♥️💄