Hobgoblin2014 Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Do you like detective/mystery series, like Detective Conan, Kindaichi shounen no Jikenbo, Tantei Gakuen Q, Karakurizoshi Ayatsuri Sakon etc? I am especially a fan of Kindaichi, as it has longer plots, usually 4 episodes each, leaving room for more character development and plot twists. By the way, I noticed that in Japanese detective fiction the murderers at the end are often portrayed a little sympathetically, at least compared to the victims who are usually complete scumbags. It's somehow strange, imo, that only a few of the cases in such anime contain really "evil" guilty parties without scruples, unlike for example in Western classic detective fiction, like Agatha Christie or John Dickson Carr, where the murderers are usually really deserving of the term "bad guys". What do you think, why do Japanese authors prefer sympathetic murderers and "evil" victims? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambda Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Personally I've consumed Detective Conan in some form at least 4 times, and I loved Hyouka, too (I've also read Shinrei Tantei Yakumo which had some... yeah... moments). By the time you get through enough of Detective Conan, you're kinda attached to the characters, the couples and the plot and if you've got time on your hands, it's not a bad read. Reading that made some other detective mysteries predictable, though, which is sad.... . Gosick's mysteries were a flop for me 'cause of the info I gained from Conan...(part of the reason I loved Hyouka) It's more comforting to read about sympathetic murderers than someone outta Criminal Minds and it can kinda tell two messages for the price of one, which might be good considering Detective Conan is family programming. "Murderers don't get away no matter the circumstances" (through the detectives catching them) but "don't be an absolute jerk or you just don't know". Well, that's a rather rough, uneducated opinion anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoom909 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Yeah I just started watching Conan, like the first 8 or 9 episodes; I put it off for a long time but after seeing the "Lupin vs Conan" movie I decided it was time to give it a shot. I also liked Hyouka, as well as the one called "Telepathy Shoujo Ran" (which is good, unless you have qualms about them solving cases with ESP) I do not think the "ordinary person who has a good(?) reason for killing" type of reasoning is unique to Japan--I watched Columbo for many years on (A&E I think it was?) and it was often ordinary people who had never committed a serious crime but then something happened and someone backed them into a corner or blackmailed them etc, although sometimes it was just the typical motive of greed or fighting over a lover etc. Seems like it takes a better detective to solve the "one-off" kind of crime, anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Can't say I don't like it having Conan as a major part of my childhood and all. Hyouka was fairly good but felt strangely lacking but all in all, it was pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asterisk Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 I've always had a soft spot for Conan. Since it aired on tv when I was a kid over here. I remember I read something like 40 volumes of the manga before slowly drifting away from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5T4R Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 This is a bit off topic, I've never watch "Detective Conan" before, I heard a lot about it. Somebody care to explain if it's good? The reason I don't watch "Detective Conan" is because it is too long for me. I love detective mystery kind anime, "Hyouka", "Gosick" & "Dantalian no Shoka". I would be please if there's more of this kind of anime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewy Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 I've always had a soft spot for Conan. Since it aired on tv when I was a kid over here. I remember I read something like 40 volumes of the manga before slowly drifting away from it. I feel kinda torn because 40 volumes seems to be a lot when i pretty much watched and read EVERYTHING available to me and I was only 5-10 years old..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arakura Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Idk if this is exactly similar to the others, but UN-GO is one of the more incredible anime that I have ever watched. You should try it. I myself want to start another long anime, so maybe I'll try Conan soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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