#god i love shitty thousand-chapter-long poorly localized manga. i take it back everyone should read detective conan

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AAAAAH omg Case Closed fan!! I had the fattest crush on Harley Hartwell (Heiji Hattori) when I was a preteen. Looking back idk why my parents let me read that LMAO

i do sincerely love case closed but it also fascinates me because i cant for the life of me figure out what the target audience is supposed to be. conan is both 7 and 16 and theyre dealing with like actual real life murders and the solutions are so complex that i, a 21 year old obsessed with mysteries, have yet to actually solve a single one before the reveal 400 chapters in and the setup is so fundamentally ridiculous that no one over the age of 10 or so could ever hope to take it seriously and the most recent case i read involved actual literal cocaine and multiple armed thugs kidnapping and beating up a teenager. I can only conclude that it's written for guys like me who love detectives so much they don't care if the story is actually good. and im obsessed with it

#it's one of those things where the characters are so good they have me in a chokehold (shinichi kudo i love you so fucking much) #and it's like intermittently funny and/or dramatic enough that i can ignore the insane plot and pacing #i did also watch the first maybe 30? episodes of the anime on adult swim when i was like. idk 7 or 8 #so there's definitely some childhood nostalgia mixed in here #anyway. heiji is so good you're real for that #god i love shitty thousand-chapter-long poorly localized manga. i take it back everyone should read detective conan