#i think i'm just a sucker for Character Interactions and Boy Howdy this has PLENTY

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i know nothing abt detective conan apart from what was established in the two lupin crossover specials. enlighten me

OH BOY u activated Ultimate Hyperfixation mode thank u... it's So Much. iirc the specials established the basics; high school detective Shinichi Kudo, somewhat well known as the "modern era sherlock holmes" was on a date outing with his childhood best friend, Ran Mouri, to the local amusement park. While there (and after solving a murder), he noticed two shady dudes dressed in all black, followed them, saw one of them doin crimes, then got brained by the other one w/a metal pipe sdjfgsk. the men in black gave him an experimental drug (APTX 4869, which is also a sherlock holmes pun (shi ha ro kyu)) said to kill without a trace. but! little did anyone know, it has a rare side effect of Turning You Into A Child instead of dying and that's what happened to shinichi sdkjfgsdf. (this might not actually be a side effect. the prototype drug might be an attempt to make a drug that makes u immortal. maybe.) He decided to ask if he could live with Ran and her dad, Kogoro Mouri(a disgraced ex-cop private detective) bc he thought that if he was in a detective agency, he could more easily find the ppl who did this to him! he named himself Conan Edogawa in a panic after being backed into a bookshelf (Arthur Conan Doyle and Edogawa Ranpo books, naturally). For a while, Conan ends up following Kogoro to any cases he's on (and the Random Murders they run into almost daily), knocking Kogoro out with an anesthesia-laced needle hidden in his watch and using a voice changer to solve the cases as Kogoro (this turns Kogoro into a minor celebrity: the Sleeping Kogoro, named bc he looks like he's sleeping when he's solving cases (he is sleeping actually. sdkjfgsd)) It starts slowly coming to light that the men who attacked Shinichi are a part of some larger Evil Organization with hands in corruption, illegal weapons trade, assassinations, u name it. Also they're all named after different kinds of alcohols (hard liquor for the men, diff kinds of wines for the women iirc) (the two who attacked shinichi are called Gin and Vodka)! One day a girl shows up at his neighbor's (Professor Hiroshi Agasa, the first person who knows that Shinichi is Conan) house, and eventually introduces herself as Sherry, the creator of the drug that shrunk him. she betrayed the org after they killed her sister (which conan was present for), and took the drug herself and escaped from where they were holding her when she too turned into a child. Now she's goin by Ai Haibara and is working to try and reverse-engineer an antidote for the two of them! There's also a group of Actual Kids who latched onto Conan and Haibara bc "Wow these two are smart and cool!" :] they formed the Detective Boys and they love going out and solving cases (and unfortunately see their fair share of murders :( ) As far as like the Main Cast (so many ppl) I'd narrow it down 2 probably Shinichi/Conan, Ran, n Kogoro! but also when u look up "detective conan main characters" the wiki page has a promotional image with like 43 ppl on it so. i'd also include heiji hattori (another high school detective, and the first one to figure conan out. they're besties now), professor agasa, and the detective boys :] the series has a general "monster of the week" format with a LOT of non-directly-plot relevant cases b4 kinda just. slamming so much plot that has been slowly setting up onto u in a Big Confrontation sdfhskjdg its like the kind where when u get there u go OHHH THAT WAS FORESHADOWING AUUUGH but then nothing big happens for another 100 chapters so sjdkgfjksdhskbs ALSO IT'S LONG AS FUCK I SHOULD MENTION THAT ongoing since 1994 babeyyyy getting close to 1100 chapters. pain BUT i do kinda love that for it. it's so long and theres SO many characters but that means nearly every reoccuring character is gonna get SOME kind of arc and growth as a person which is cool! like yeah there's A Lot but i feel like it does a p good job of juggling that big cast of ppl :] a lot of wild shit goes on like. there's sooo much backstory for some of the characters n so many connections between them it makes my brain

happy drawing lines between characters and bein like okay so you're connected to this person bc of THIS person and so on and so forth. also i think within the first 1/4 it's kinda just "hm smthn shady going on" and then suddenly the fbi is just. there. i think it's outright stated that they don't have permission from the japanese government to be there either. ALSO there's so many british ppl for some reason??? i mean i know why (sher lock holms) but it's still really funny to see some of these characters n b like. if u were speaking english u would have a thick british accent. oh should probably mention magic kaito too. so magic kaito was an earlier series by the same author focusing on kaito kuroba, a high schooler magician who ends up becoming a phantom thief (the kaitou KID) while evading a mysterious shady organization, trying to find out who killed his father (the og KID), and also trying to find a gemstone that supposedly makes u immortal? magic kaito got HEAVILY sidelined when detco started (and got way more popular) but the author made kaito a reoccuring character within detco, making them set in the same universe. now it feels like rather than writing for magic kaito, the author just writes a KID heist in detco skdjfgskjd (<- crying in "magic kaito hasn't updated in 3 years") this is like. mostly fine. except real magic explicitly exists in magic kaito (one of his classmates is a witch) which does kinda clash with the Mostly Grounded In Reality murder mysteries of detco sdjkfgsd

OH YEAH also the dub/localization was called Case Closed and they tried to Americanize it. Shinichi's name got changed to Jimmy Kudo sdkjgsdkfsdjskd i would watch the dub just bc from what ive seen it's venturing into "so cheesy it's hilarious" territory but it made me cringe so bad when i tried skjdfhsjkd despite my best efforts... i cannot handle Jimmy. THANK U AGAIN 4 THE ASK i hope that was somewhat coherent!!