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I’m sorry Haibara. At this rate, we’ll never get a step closer. 

Detective Conan Episode 345

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"Having played Ai for so long, I am the most surprised by how she's transformed. At first, she was haunted by her past, trembling in the shadow of the Black Organization she once served and forever treading the line between life and death. But thanks to the earnest and unconditional love she feels from Conan, the professor, the Detective Boys, and her other friends, she's slowly begun to change. In recent years, she even worked with Kogorou to investigate Ryuusuke Higo; she's started expressing both her happiness and anger more freely; and where she used to simply pass on all sorts of things, now she's become a sort of guardian angel for the detectives.

At first, I was confused and even worried about Ai's transformation. How much emotion should I put into her voice? But maybe she didn't really change at all, and this is actually her true self? When it occurred to me that perhaps we're getting a glimpse of Shiho Miyano, the person she was before she got involved with any drugs or crime syndicates, then I was able to accept it.

What made me realize this was the movie Countdown to Heaven, which I both loved and hated. The idea occurred to me during the scene when Ai visits her late older sister Akemi Miyano's room and listens to her answering machine message.

When this movie was released in 2001, smartphones and photo attachments weren't nearly as common as they are now, so Ai's one and only tool for remembering her sister was that answering machine message. And since Ai took the drug to turn herself into a child and barely escaped from the organization with her life, of course she wasn't able to bring any physical mementos to remember her sister by, so the message that begins with "Hello, this is Miyano" must be truly dear to her heart.

All that's left is the recording of her voice. 

"She just can't answer the phone right now." 

“Maybe she'll call when she gets back."

Ai tells herself this imaginary story, knowing all too well that it isn't true, as she thinks of her lone sister."

- Megumi Hayashibara, The Characters Taught Me Everything: Living Life One Episode at a Time (2021)

(Translated by Jenny McKeon & Nathaniel Hiroshi Thrasher)

@runawaycarouselhorse

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Shiho Miyano (Countdown to Heaven)

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This is too funny, poor women

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“Wow! You two always know so much!” “I bet you guys are actually lying about your age!” Haha, you got that right…

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remind me why there are still people who don’t like ai haibara

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When they ask how I manage to follow this series for 20+ years:

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That one line from the Lupin crossover lives in my head rent free. 

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Sherry's Escape

Detective Conan Movie 26: Black Iron Submarine

(Be sure to tag spoilers! 💕)

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ASSASSIN’S CREED (2007)

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Conan, you know how to do CPR, and That's not it. He immediately went for it, idc.

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The illustration of “Shinichi Kudo Returns! Showdown with the Black Organization”.Shinichi Kudou & Shiho Miyano

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#ProudParents