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Some Akako headcanon-discussion/meta because it occurred to me that the part she plays in Riddle in Reverse involves a fair amount of my thoughts about her.

In canon, Akako’s powers are explained a little bit, but her society and what exactly happened to her parents is never made clear. I’ve seen cool headcanons around but none really match mine, so here we go.

First, I take Akako’s age as read—she’s 17. I think her parents probably died doing something related to magic—maybe there was infighting with other magicians, maybe they tried summoning something big, I don’t know and it’s not too relevant, because, given the fact that Akako can’t let herself cry without losing her magic, she literally wasn’t allowed to be upset about it. By the time canon rolls around, she’s buried any trauma pretty deep, and we never get any glimpses.

Whatever happened, though, happened when she was in middle school or so. She learned social skills and basic human interaction from them, but most of her magic is self-taught. This means two things—1) she has no measure for comparison and 2) nobody really taught her to be responsible with her powers. These factors combined explain the attraction spell she apparently puts out 24/7. Something like that, which manipulates multiple people’s mental states has to be high energy—but I bet Akako’s never thought about the fact that spells the books say are “difficult” don’t seem to be for her. And as for ethics and responsibility, I can’t honestly believe that an entire society of magic-users are chaotically evil enough to have constant competing attraction spells “on” all the time—so Akako’s probably disregarding either a social or actual taboo because no one taught her not to.

Akako is lonely, and she throws her power around because she has so much of it but nothing especially interesting or productive to do with it (Drawing in all those boys is neither–she doesn’t even seem to enjoy the attention, much less reciprocate, and it’s clearly not a challenge). Aiding KID at least gives her something to do with the near reality-warping levels of magic we see her throw around. And, you know, his second-hand advice from his late father and/or his own advice occasionally nudges her toward better choices.

As a final note, and for my own sanity, I don’t headcanon the thing she summons as actually being Lucifer. It’s a spirit, maybe even an imp, that has an affinity for fortunetelling and is weak enough to not set off the truly impressive wards Akako’s parents left behind on her house. It just responds to Lucifer because it gets yelled at less that way.

Originally posted 2/2/2016

Anonymous said: Personally I find it annoying that Gosho insists Magic Kaito and Detective Conan are separate because at this point how is that possible when KID has been directly involved in a Black Org arc?? Like...his involvement was pretty key to how it all unfolded in the end. And the connection between HIS family and the Kudos and Vermouth too...Also imo Akako having magic actually explains some things (Hattori's dream for example) so it's not like the connection doesn't make sense.

Yeah. Honestly, for me, it’s Vermouth that I can’t get past. Like, as much as I hate it, the single BO arc he got involved in was set up so it could have just been because of Shinichi. But the whole implication that Toichi taught both Yukiko and Vermouth is plot-important in DC, at least insofar as Yukiko and Vermouth’s relationship. And given that this is Vermouth, who is probably the most competent of the BO members (Gin is close but he’s not so great at successfully murdering people). Like, is Gosho really trying to sell to us that Vermouth let a random criminal organization to which she had no connection kill her teacher, and then let them live afterward? Because that seems odd to me.

I think at some point DC and MK were supposed to be happening in different universes, and then Gosho said something else, and honestly I have regretted every time I tried to pay attention to one of those interviews he does because half of what he says is confusing and sometimes he says things that are deliberately misleading. As a fanwriter, at least, I’m going with the written canon, not with anything Gosho says outside of it. And the written canon is unclear but implies the two organizations at least could be related, and definitely sets both series in the same world.

Besides, as far as magic is concerned, DC isn’t quite as logic-driven as we tend to think of it if you look close. You pointed out Kazuha’s dreams; Heiji also has one that he at least thinks is supernatural during the Naniwa Serial Murders. Also, that omamori works, and on a pretty different level from what people expect from them in the real world, from what I know. Conan seems to be able to sense murderers and also has a KID-radar. Likewise, Ai can sense members of the BO. And like, maybe with those last two Gosho is trying to imply that it’s reading body language, but it’s drawn like lowkey psychic powers. There’s magic, or at least a lot of supernatural crap, in DCMK’verse, there always has been.

Originally posted 5/25/2017 with 69 notes

@mirrorfalls said: Bruh, talk to us about all the ways Gosho - as a writer - frustrates you.

…How long do you have?

No, really, disclaimer because I’m not a fan of the Discourse, I do like some things Gosho does, or I wouldn’t be here. But I do fandom by analyzing the heck out of things, and there are so many things that Gosho could do better. Just…keep in mind that if I didn’t like this series I wouldn’t care enough to complain so much. We are all in the same fandom.

I will probably forget some things, but here we go!

Gosho doesn’t write women well. He has the kind of ideas about women secretly needing rescuing by the men in their lives you’d expect from a guy his age. He also tends to hijack their arcs for romance. Like, god forbid Jodie or Sato get to be awesome on their own, Akai has to upstage Jodie and Takagi has to at least help!

He shuffles emotional arcs offscreen, ignores them completely, or if they have to happen onscreen, he rushes through them. There are so many cases and heists that should have had a coda involving the characters reacting with some sort of emotion, maybe even talking about feelings (oh horror), and it never happens. Like, KID just flies off after the Nightmare Heist. Or Heiji gets hurt badly onscreen and it immediately turns into a joke about how everyone was overreacting (Naniwa Serial Murders).

Related to that, he’s fantastic at setting up those emotional arcs and then he doesn’t follow through. Like, why did a person who barely likes to admit his main characters have emotions besides “justice” and “mischief” get the ability to set up something as brutal as Nightmare. That frustrates me on a visceral level.

He’s also really good at writing cases at least sometimes, but other times, heavens, they’re terrible. DC has ridiculously inconsistent quality and it makes me sad. I know some of that is his schedule being brutal and the sheer output expected of him, but at the same time…he’s got assistants, too, and enough money to hire a lot of them.

He underuses the side characters. He’s got a lot of really cool ones, and a lot of the best cases IMO have Heiji or the Nagano trio in them, but most of the cases still end up with the main cast only. Hakuba rarely shows up, Eisuke got put on a bus. It’s been almost 1000 chapters and some characters still haven’t met–take advantage of untapped wells of character interaction!

Gosho’s handling of romance also tends not to be terrible deft. Like, we can agree to disagree, definitely, but he’s been drawing out Heiji and Kazuha’s romantic out to an awkward degree, if nothing else.

Related to that, Gosho’s awkward incorporation of his probable teenagerhood desire to see girl’s underthings into his children’s manga is unprofessional. No, really, the perverted jokes stopped being funny a long time ago, especially as a girl, honestly.

He’s so inconsistent with how reality works in his universe. People might be able to sense murderers and also rocket skateboards work but you can tell who was the murderer by whether they’ve got the muscle mass to lift the murder weapon. Everyone fudges physics a little once in a while but he really could do better.

One of my biggest complaints is that he really doesn’t seem to realize that he wrote a bunch of dysfunctional families. Like, Shinichi grew up going to crime scenes and started living alone before high school, Ran’s half responsible for her alcoholic dad, Kaito and his mom vary by canon but there’s always the phantom thief secret looming between…and Gosho never seems to think this might be a formative thing for any of the characters. Ever.

On that note, Gosho almost never writes anyone having lasting trauma unless they’ve killed someone over it. No one’s upset by seeing the dead bodies unless the plot requires it. Shinichi is very rarely upset by his near death and when he is it’s because we need to lead into a flashback; while it’s implied that Kaito must be messed up over his dad’s death, this is something we only learn through his decision to become KID, since we don’t really see him mourn at any point. Ai is the one exception I can think of to this, but I have to go back to the above thing–most of her emotional arc gets shoved offscreen, though I’ll admit what is on screen is actually pretty great.

That’s the thing. When Gosho does bring himself to write feelings, and people having trauma, and relationships that aren’t built on stacks of lies, it’s often amazing. (Okay I’m thinking about Fuurinkazan here.) But he never does it.

The timeline. IT HASN’T BEEN HALF A YEAR GOSHO FIGHT ME.

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru by B'z

Anonymous said: Honestly with how often Kaito disguises as Shinichi in the movies i wouldn't be surprised if the theory that 'Kudou Shinichi is actually KID' started becoming increasingly more popular among people. KID fans in movie-verse or something having these huge conspiracy theories about it.

This almost certainly happens. I imagine there are boards on the same KID forums that Sonoko frequent dedicated to it. You can divide the posters up into a few groups:

1) Proponents of the theory, who a) think it Just Makes Sense, b) think both KID and Kudou are hot and thus feel this simplifies things immensely, or c) are fascinated by the inherent moral quandary presented by a prominent murder detective moonlighting as a nonviolent thief (these people make subforums and debate whether Kudou-as-KID still qualifies as a morally good human and cite philosophers and moral theorists as evidence)

2) Kudou stans, who are offended that anyone thinks that the Great Detective of the East would stOOP TO THEFT

3) KID stans, who are offended that anyone thinks that the Magician Under the Moonlight is secretly a murder detective how boring

4) Trolls (KID himself is included in this category; while he posts reasonable things in other parts of the forum, everything he posts in this area is either nonsense or agitation)

5) Members of the KID Task Force, who sweep the forum for clues and aren’t supposed to post but occasionally argue with the trolls if they insult KID too much (even when people are theorizing that KID is Kudou, which they don’t believe for a second)

6) People with reasonable arguments against the theory, who rarely last more than two weeks (Kudou himself, who posts occasionally under a pseudonym, is an exception to this rule)

(Yes, KID and Kudou have in fact gotten into an internet post war without fully knowing, though both of them had an odd feeling the whole way through. Kudou just figured there was a draft in Agasa’s lab and Kaito figured it was test anxiety over an upcoming exam he was avoiding preparation for.)

I want to actually fic this but I’m pretty sure I don’t have the time, so I’m releasing it into the wild for now. Maybe I’ll come back to it, maybe not, but if anyone else wants to take a crack in the meantime, feel free!

Originally posted on 4/26/2017, with 248 notes

A slightly pared-down version of my writing playlist for Riddle in Reverse and Steeplechase, for your listening enjoyment. It’s on Stayed Up All Night, which is a newer site, but one I really like.

The first eight songs are for Riddle in Reverse; the rest of the playlist is for Steeplechase. There are also some vague spoilers in the song choices if you look for them (particularly for RiR; seriously, just don’t look at this if you don’t want to be spoiled for RiR).

More notes (and links to translations of some songs) under the cut if you want them!

…I was nervous about posting this because I have a very odd and not necessarily good taste in music, and it has a lot of anime OST stuff in it, but here you go, internet. Hope it’s not too embarrassing.

I would have preferred to add this version of Ai no Scenario, but there was a copyright issue so I went for the cover that I could actually add to the playlist.

I also think I need to credit Raifuujin13, whose excellent (and unfortunately currently copyright-blocked) AMV of Centuries is why a version of that song exists on this playlist.

Lyric Translations: Hello World | Crying Prologue | Mirai | Eine Kleine

Bonus: Ai no Scenario | Seasons Die One After Another | Sekai wa Anata no Iro Ni Naru

Originally posted 12/14/2016

A while back I took a screencap during the Gathering of the Detectives episode and it’s technically a summary of the whole of the Riddle in Reverse series (under a cut because spoilers):

A picture of the character Hakuba Saguru from Magic Kaito, a teenage boy with tea-blond hair and brown eyes. The image is a subtitled screenshot, and the subtitles include three variations of "KID the Phantom Thief"--twice in English, and once in Japanese katakana.

A picture of the character Hakuba Saguru from Magic Kaito, a teenage boy with tea-blond hair and brown eyes. The image is a subtitled screenshot, and the subtitles include three variations of "KID the Phantom Thief"--twice in English, and once in Japanese katakana.

Originally posted 10/11/2016

Current Mood: amused

Detective Conan and Magic Kaito are two old, interconnected fandoms that are somehow still active, and that fact never ceases to give me joy. That said, a lot of the authors that got me into this fandom are no longer writing. So, this list of recs is limited to people who have written or updated their fics relatively recently.

Ichthyophobia is incredibly prolific and everything they write is beautiful. They come up with really, really neat ideas for fics and then execute them better than you would’ve hoped for. Their grasp of the characters and their voices is particularly strong. Given the wave of Scarlet Arc hype that just swept through Tumblr, I eventually settled on recommending Two-Faced, Half-Faced , a fic with Scarlet Arc spoilers. It’s got a rare combination of characters—I don’t think I’ve ever seen KID and Akai in the same fic, with or without Conan and Sera—and is a little bit closer to the current manga timeline than the other DC fics on this list.

brawltogethernow is really good at writing humor—but also using it to create drama. Most of their fics are short but incredibly punchy, and simultaneously feel complete and make you wish that they weren’t, regardless. Their grasp of the characters, both their voices and their thought processes, is flawless. Makes Me Feel Alive is a MK fic about Inspector Nakamori and is one of the best analyses of the relationship between him and KID that exists. Go read it, you will not regret it.

miladyRanger is a friend, and I beta-read for her; that said, she’s also just an excellent writer and if you haven’t found her MK fic yet you’re missing out. You can see the thought she’s put into her portrayal of the character dynamics in every interaction, and the writing itself flows really well. Her descriptions are excellent, and she’s got a gift for surprising the reader. Front Row Seat is an MK fic from Aoko’s perspective that’s part character study and part narrative, and definitely worth checking out.

darkcyan is particularly skilled at using imagery. They’ve also got a firm grasp of Shinichi’s often disorderly thought process. Their writing is generally top-notch, particularly the descriptions of the character’s tones and expressions, and the dialogue feels entirely natural. Late-Night Conversations, a Heiji and Conan friendship fic series, is particularly worth checking out.

joishbishmyoga has been writing in this fandom for years, but they’re still quite active. They know how to construct a story; more than that, they know how to balance everything they need in order for that story to work—not only the genres, but also the characters, the subplots and the often shaky balance between science, pseudoscience and straight-out magic that canon leaves authors with. They’re incredibly flexible in terms of genre, as well—equally adept at humor and angst. They write a variety of genres, ratings and pairings, so give their archive a look! Inconceivable is a particularly skilled execution of one of the more common DCMK crossover tropes that distinguishes itself by edging into detective noir territory in places–I particularly recommend it.

Ocianne is another one of the older DCMK writers who is still active at the moment. They specialize in creative AUs and filling in gaps in canon with creative headcanons that make as much or more sense than what Aoyama originally wrote. They also have a special gift for using their understanding of the characters to tear both the characters and the readers apart emotionally. The way she writes Kaito is basically my headcanon for his thought process, now—her fics were that formative. I know that not everyone loves crossovers, but if you want to read Ocianne’s work, I can’t in good conscience recommend anything other than the Promenade & The Way Home series. I can’t do it justice other than to say that it is probably the best multi-crossover in existence, and also a good tour of the headcanons and shared OCs floating around the MK fandom at various points in time.

MeridianGrimm writes a lot of KaiHaku which isn’t my cup of tea, but even when they’re writing gen they’ve clearly got the character dynamics between nearly everyone down. The dialogue in their fic is snapy, and often quite hilarious. I particularly like the way she writes Hakuba. As for a recommendation, The Confidant is a nice little gen fic with three of four Gosho Boys and all the deducing you could want.

Favorite Opening: Ai no Scenario by CHiCO feat. HoneyWorks (Magic Kaito 1412 OP 2)

The imagery in this opening is pretty–my feelings about the Kaito Corbeau storyline aside, I really like the way they use the black-and-white mirror imagery, the scenery shots are lovely, and the little bit with Aoko and Kaito passing on the staircase is pretty lovely too. That said, I really mostly love it for the song. I am a Vocaloid geek and I knew HoneyWorks before I ever heard about the anime–I was pretty fond of some of their stuff, especially “Inokori Sensei,” though I liked “Friday’s Good Morning” pretty well too. I was interested, if a little nervous, to see what they’d do with an anime opening, since it was pretty different than the type of songs they would usually make (happy-bouncy romantic story songs), but when I heard it I felt really silly for ever worrying. It fit both into HoneyWork’s body of work and the requirements of an anime opening and works well as an opening song and as an independent single. HoneyWorks even went through the trouble to make and post online a slightly altered arrangement that utaites/cover artists could use to make covers (the alterations were so the record label wouldn’t remove covers for copyright reasons). Gotta love the Vocaloid producers.

Current Music: Ai no Scenario by CHiCO feat. HoneyWorks

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