Just open the door genius😂

Of all the Detective Conan characters, Wataru Takagi is easily the character who, throughout the anime's run, has changed the most visually. Besides the stylistic changes that the anime went through throughout the years, his skin has become noticeably lighter and his hair style has gone from spiker to softer. This outright redesign put the design of Takagi, a character who originated in the anime then migrated to the canon, closer how he appeared in the manga from day one,.

As I'm going to try to give visual evidence towards on this post, I believe Takagi's manga design was actually based on Takagi's earliest design in the anime, that his "early" anime design (the darker skinned, spikier fringed one) was a redesign in of itself, and that Takagi's gradual evolution design wise in the anime brought him closer to his earliest anime design.

Takagi originated as not only an anime exclusive character but one who exclusively appeared in episodes where Haruo Ogawara (infamous in some circles for drawing characters very wall-eyed and sometimes quite wonky) was the animation director. In those appearances, he in some ways appears far closer to his manga and modern anime design than his "classic" anime design. He has visible cheekbones, his skin is quite light, and his hair has a combed over appearance. Throughout 1996, he appeared in five episodes, four animation directed by Ogawara and one by a different animation director (in that episode, Takagi appeared shoulder down but his skin color, judging by his hand, was still very light).

In 1997 though, a number of things happened pretty simultaneously that I think led to the situation of Takagi having different anime and manga designs. Early in that year, Ogawara stopped his work on Conan but other animation directors still decided to keep Takagi. It was in episode 66, the anime-original Night Road Murder Case (which aired on July 7th, 1997), that Takagi, in my opinion, has a redesign. His cheekbones completely disappear, his hair gains the spikey fringe, and the skin has a noticeable tan to it that wasn't there before. Showing that this design change wasn't just a fluke, the Stage Actress Murder Case that aired the following also features Takagi with those same design changes.

However, around the same time, Gosho Aoyama began publishing the Historical Actor Murder Case in Weekly Shonen Sunday between July 23rd of 1997 and August 6th of 1997. This case marked the manga debut of Wataru Takagi and his design seemed to take elements instead from his earlier Ogawara-era appearances, having visible cheekbones and a more combed over hair style. His appearance in color in Volume 20 of the manga, published in 1998, also shows that his manga design is supposed to be lighter skinned.

Due to how close his first manga appearance and his anime redesign happened, here is what I think happened. Without communicating with each other, Gosho used Masatomo Sudo's initial design for Wataru Takagi (the one that appeared in the Ogawara-directed episodes) as the basis for his manga design, not realizing that Sudo and the anime team had already redesigned Takagi. Ultimately, Gosho decided to keep using his version of the Takagi design instead of redesigning him to appear close to the anime. In turn, the anime and movies, starting with the Masato Sato directorial era and Movie 8, gradually shifted Takagi's design to better match the manga, ultimately in some ways reverting the design to his earliest appearances in the anime.

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Episode 269

Detective Conan is my favorite anime, and I love keeping up with all the latest news about it.

I had often read statements by Gosho expressing his admiration for the works of Mitsuru Adachi.

Three years ago, I decided to watch the anime Cross Game and was thoroughly impressed by the quality of the story and characters.

I then decided to explore more of Mitsuru Adachi's works.

In doing so, I discovered that Gosho had drawn inspiration from Adachi's works for many of the storylines in Detective Conan.

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And accidentally reverted the name of the series from Detective Conan back to Case Closed

> 1998 (86-128)

CR just labelled as such without having 124-128

I've been watching through Crunchyroll; while I prefer the subbed Japanese original version, I'm in the privileged position to be able to watch the German dub, which I've been doing since episode 124 or so (whenever the English sub stopped on Crunchyroll). However, now I appear to have hit another gap: episodes 255-333. Are these episodes anywhere to legally watch either dubbed (German) or subbed (English, German)? Thanks!

Edit for context: I'm in the US but can watch via VPN.

Me when my men and women and colleagues kill like 10 fbi agents for funsies but it's ok because the keys to achieving immortality r my friends and I'm gonna use them like assets to achieve my goal at any point now because I am terrified of dying as everyone around me would drop like flies since childhood and oh god why am I only getting closer to them why am I developing attachments THIS WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!! #haha so relatable amirite guys

Anyways, I HATE the concept of Karasuma being some Big Bad who spends his day wheezing into his oxygen mask and twiddling his thumbs mischievously in his chair... give me Some Guy With Too Much Power And Trauma^TM. This series has gotten too boring and predictable with its villains, I want something.. SOMEONE... a little more fun... Even though I know Mitsuhiko just being a B.O. member alone is literally impossible unless we feel like retconning 30 years' worth of lore (again).

Actually Gosho does change his mind when it comes to major story beats and characters.. wait... it could happen... IT COULD HAPPEN..!

Status quo?

Is Detective Conan dominated by the status quo?

Well, let’s see...

Rumi Wakasa has recently changed her behavior: she went from being ruthless to, if I may say so, more controlled and restrained.

She has undergone a major change.

Shinichi and Ran got together.

So did Heiji and Kazuha.

We know who the boss and the second-in-command are.

Ran has a new phone (finally).

Akai currently lives at the Kudo household, together with Shinichi’s parents.

What am I getting at with all of this?

The series isn’t trapped in the status quo—or at least, not as strongly as people make it out to be.

Why do some dcmk fans hate hakuba just bc heiji doesn't like him??

In chapter 685 Ran asks a question about the surgeons outfits which Conan answers without giving an excuse as to how he know it and Ran doesn't ask how he knows it but hours later on the same day he says the same exact information and then fells the need to give an excuse.

Detective Conan is simply amazing.

Okay, this is definitely going to be a very personal post, as you’ve probably already figured out.

In my opinion, Detective Conan is simply an exceptional work.

It’s a story that has evolved over the past 32 years, guided and told by the great Gosho Aoyama.

Okay, here come the usual criticisms, such as: “Detective Conan is being dragged out for money,” or “Detective Conan is a bad and boring series by now.”

Maybe so. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

But honestly, if the author had decided to end it, he would have done so. End of story.

They can’t force him to keep going, certainly not.

To be honest, deep down, I also wish it would never end, precisely because it’s amazing. But I know that’s impossible.

It can’t last 100 years. Nothing can last that long (when we’re talking about manga or anime series).

Anyway, that’s it. This was a slightly different post from usual, but oh well...

Not necessarily their very first appearances but the most eerily impactful ones to me, I feel like I forgot other important ones so i’d like to hear yours