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MushroomMan674
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This style of release just goes to show everyone who thinks Detective Conan has no plot—it absolutely does. It's very slow drip compared to just about every other popular anime, but a plot is there, and it does move. Most fans agree TMS was probably better off just starting from the beginning, advance in other, and just go for broke with Conan one last time in America.
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BalmungHHQ
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I get where the reviewer's coming from, but honestly I think these episodes are all still quite fun and engaging.
Yes, in the context of the Selections these episodes are "filling in the gaps" of the reveals from the Black Organization batch. But I do genuinely think that even if you know these character's identities, it's still fun to see their debut episodes alongside these early interactions where Conan seems a bit uncertain of them. If only to learn about the sense of mystery and longform setup of reveals this series handles. Of course, I might be biased because I've already known the FBI character's identities for 20 years now, and I still enjoyed these episodes both back when I first saw them and again now dubbed into English despite that. I consider this batch a result of the Episode Selections doing well after putting out those heavy-hitting episodes at the start. These are the episodes people were clamoring for at the advent of the new dub: "I love that they dubbed these Black Organization specials, but what about all the setup for them?!", etc. That was the number 1 critique of the initial Selection. So now that the dub is continuing it makes total sense to go back and do these episodes fans were asking for, right? Taking that into account, I don't think it's entirely fair to criticize the decision when Conan fans at large were literally asking for these exact episodes. |
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Wyvern
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At this point it feels like TMS is just scared to commit to simply translating and releasing the show in order. And I mean, I get that: it's a huge undertaking and they tried it once already with the Case Closed dub, and that certainly didn't work out for them. But streaming is a different proposition than airing episodes nightly on Adult Swim, and I think there's certainly an audience on Netflix for a show like Conan which offers up dozens of new standalone mysteries whenever you feel like watching one, alongside an ongoing plot. And Netflix seems to be quite interested in hosting long-running anime on their service, given that you can go on there right now and watch the complete runs of Naruto, Inuyasha, Jojo, and Hunter X Hunter, along with around 800 episodes of One Piece. So why not Conan?
I think TMS should just release the darn show in order already, maybe doing big batches of episodes every couple of months. The themed releases are starting to get confusing for casual viewers and I think with this batch they've hit the point of diminishing returns. |
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tintor2
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I think Netflix is aware Conan is one of the animes with the biggest amount fillers ratio next to Sailor Moon and wanted to appeal as quickly as possible with the first collection they released. One Piece was released properly but in my región I have notes from app describing which episodes are filler. |
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Tanteikingdomkey
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I am actually curious at this point if there are any major episodes that are missing at this point still before what was done in the original release?
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BalmungHHQ
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As in, any episodes before Episodes 345 & 425 from the initial Black Organization batch? Yes, there are a few, which some fans are expecting will be included in an eventual Part 2 of the "FBI Investigations" Selection, alongside potentially a few post-425 eps that will set up the inevitable Clash of Red & Black Arc (eps 491-504) that many fans are expecting these current FBI-related Selections are building up to. The Clash of Red & Black Arc is a huge climax that imo closes out the first big "section" of Conan's story, so I too am in the camp that firmly believes that's what these choices in episodes are building up to. I'm really excited to hear the dub tackle it! |
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Slop Slop no Mi
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Plenty. The problem is the people in charge of these releases think only episodes relating to the Black Organization are the important ones and not storylines about the characters and their relationships. Also the fact they're all out of order and disjointed. Essentially, the people these releases are for are the same people who tell people to only watch the Vicious and Julia episodes of Cowboy Bebop and everything else is filler. |
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BalmungHHQ
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This is just not true at all. The second Selection was all about episodes that establish the important secondary characters such as the Detective Boys, Heiji Hattori, and Kaito Kid, as well as portray the development of Shinichi and Ran's relationship. Please don't spread misinformation about the Episode Selections. |
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Slop Slop no Mi
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Not misinformation at all. They skipped hundreds of episodes between all these selections. One of the more egregious skips were all the Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story episodes and other background episodes involving the police characters like Megure. There's plenty of Kaito Kid and Heiji episodes they skipped. If they wanted to cut out anime filler that's one thing but they skipped so many cases that were in the manga. And again, these are all out of order. Here someone re-ordered them to be in-order just to show how much is missing and how all over the place it is https://www.reddit.com/r/OneTruthPrevails/comments/1rr1kp0/detective_conan_episode_selections_list_in/ Overall this is still a terrible way to watch the show even if it wasn't missing a ton. |
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merr
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Do they not have a playlist where you can watch every episode they’ve dubbed in Japanese release order? Seems like that would solve a huge problem with their strategy of filling in gaps like this.
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Tanteikingdomkey
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The inherent problem of releasing all black organization cases first is that they yes give you a through plot look at the series you are also a lot of times getting major charcter moments as well that they are trying to go back and support but...... now you have already been spoiled.
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Nekbone
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Detective Conan is one of those shows you just have to bite the bullet and watch from the beginning, in order if you truly want to experience it in the best possible way in addition to the movies, OVAs, and TV specials because any hope for a complete official release is probably next to none. Back before Crunchyroll picked it up a decade ago I remember marathoning 600+ episodes from the start. When Crunchyroll got it it was clear with them not grabbing the earlier episodes and just starting from Japanese newest episode that it was a release for people who were already watching it through fansubs.
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Brack
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The dub script here is terrible. There's a howler of an error in the solution to the clue in the James Black arc before we even get to the butchering of Shuichi's name at the end of the episode.
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bluebaron
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I just hope they keep dubbing something.
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