Forum - View topicNEWS: Detective Conan Gets Spinoff Manga Centering on Tōru Amuro
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#861208
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I just got totally obsessed with Cirque du Freak again and I was just thinking about how Amuro is actually a lot like my favorite character.
ffffff I am so excited for this. |
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Otaku-sempai
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So...who is Tōru Amuro and why should we care about him? It would be nice if the article had touched on the main character of this spin off.
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Vycey
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I still haven't gotten around to starting Detective Conan but Arago is still one of my favourite manga so I'll check this out for sure.
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zrnzle500
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The full answer involves significant spoilers for the main series. The most I could say without spoiling is that he works at the cafe near the detective agency the MC’s guardian runs and he also acts as a detective in the show. |
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Otaku-sempai
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That's more than was in the article. Thanks! 
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Fluwm
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As for why you should care, (minor spoilers)spoiler[ Tooru’s is involved with the “Black Organization” the shadowy criminal cabal around which Conan’s over-arcing plot revolves.]
Which presents an obvious problem for this spinoff: will it go the safe route and simply serve as a vehicle to deliver more generic Conan-style mysteries (something MC proper has too much of already, IMHO) or will it be more ambitious and dive into aspects of that SPOILER that haven’t really been explored much in MC? Worst-case scenario it’s mostly the former with just enough moments of the latter to tease diehard fans and force them to read it, but not enough to add any meaningful depth or nuance beyond what has already been established. |
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Codeanime93
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Part of something to do with the character is the fact his name is a reference off of the voice actor and the main character from the first Mobile Suit Gundam show (Amuro Ray) and he's also voiced by said voice actor besides that the other people on this forum explained his character already. Shuichi Akai is his rival who is also involved in the FBI and he's a character who's name is based around Char Aznable's voice actor's name (He's also voiced by the guy who does Char), and him and Amuro had a big fanservice laden bout at one point that made Japanese Gundam fans cry tears of joy. Prompting my question, where's the Shuichi Akai spin-off manga? |
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#861208
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This and the fact that those two - especially Amuro - are the hot fanservice guys that have become really popular in Japan in recent years. There was a while where every top-20 picture on pixiv was either YOI, Osomatsu-san, or them. They're that popular.
Amuro gets treated like a main character in so many of the tie-in things (pop-up shops, cafes) and he's pretty central to the new movie that's opening. I.... sort of... hope they chose Arai in order to promote something new they're doing with CDF. Like an adaptation of the prequels. Either way, I feel like this is going to bring a lot of people into/back into CDF. It's one of those things that never really leaves you... and there's a character like Amuro who is... very compelling, in an intensely tearjerker way. |
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Dian Z
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A problem indeed. I wouldn't want it to be just another slice-of-life-y story with episodic minor crime cases, or even if it touches on something bigger, it'll never mean anything to the main story or at least his character in the main story. My hope is that it'd be more of a prequel with an actually developing main storyline. If it can't affect the current canon, then a prequel should work just fine. Especially that they got a seemingly pretty well-known mangaka (sorry, haven't read any of his works, but I heard good things about him), unlike the usual relatively unknown mangaka doing a spin-off. |
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