Ghost stories that are not ghost stories but are also definitely stories about being haunted: Black Sails, Detective Conan

Anonymous asks: Who are some of Naoto's favorite detectives

Ask me about Naoto | of course this is always open who do you think I a-

There are a lot Naoto likes, but listing them all out would take forever, so I'm only putting a few choice ones here, but my point is, if there's a detective, there's a good chance Naoto knows and likes them. Anyway:

Sherlock Holmes — It would be remiss of me to not mention the deduction king himself. While she does judge a little (a lot) if you say you like mystery and only know him, she admires him a great deal. Sure, you can't actually piece together any of the mysteries before he does, but it's more fun reading him solve it. She even has a legally generic Holmes costume. If you were to ask, her favorite stories are The Hound of the Baskervilles and A Scandal in Bohemia.

(I have to mention Sherlock Hound, or Meitantei Holmes as it's known in Japan. Sherlock Holmes but everyone is a dog.)

Sam Spade — He's actually mentioned in P4 during one of Naoto's night time conversations and she happened to admire him. She says P4-kun reminds her of him, but we know that's a lie and the only correct option during this scene is to say she's more like Sam. The star of The Maltese Falcon.

Father Brown — This guy isn't a detective and Naoto isn't religious (she checked these out of the library rather than finding them in her grandfather's study), but Naoto found the contrast in methods fascinating. Compared to Sherlock, his reasoning falls under intuition, and as the famous quote goes: "You see, I had murdered them all myself... I had planned out each of the crimes very carefully. I had thought out exactly how a thing like that could be done, and in what style or state of mind a man could really do it. And when I was quite sure that I felt exactly like the murderer myself, of course I knew who he was."

Kogoro Akechi — I don't know what to say other than this guy is best described as the Japanese equivalent to Sherlock. The stories even have its own version of Arsène in the form of The Fiend with Twenty Faces. I can't say much about the stories themselves because it's in... Japanese and not much as been translated.

Kosuke Kindaichi — I also do not really have much to say on the actual stories because it's in Japanese and not much as been translated (again). The Wikipedia entry for him in English is laughably short, at least compared to how long it is on Japanese Wikipedia. He first appeared in The Honjin Murders, which is a locked room mystery. But the more interesting part may come from something in P4's Japanese script. In the King's Game, Chie compares Naoto to the Kindaichi family rather than the Kuzunohas. There's a manga/anime series that follows his fictional grandson and I don't think I need to explain any further why she made the comparison. I wonder how many people thought Naoto said corny things like "In my grandfather's name, I'll solve this case" lol.

Kyosuke Kozu — This guy, along with the previous two, are known as Japan's three greatest detectives. Naturally, I can't find shit about him in English, although two of the books related to him have been translated to English. He is fluent in six languages, can play the piano and his main job is assistant professor in the Department of Forensic Medicine, according to what google translate says but yeah. I mention him here, because he's, you know, one of the three greatest detectives.

Conan/Shinichi — Detective Conan is obscenely popular in Japan. It is also very long and still going. I really don't think I need to explain why, do I.....

Zenigata Heiji — He's more of a policeman during the Edo period than a detective, but he counts. He caught criminals by throwing coins, however that works. Of course, the name Zenigata may be familiar to some and indeed, Inspector Zenigata is his fictional descendant. While his competency varies depending on the writer, anyone who can come this close to capturing Lupin earns Naoto's approval. And the Lupin series happens to be a show she grew up watching.

Furuhata Ninzaburō — This guy is best described as the Japanese equivalent to Columbo. She also likes Columbo, but for sanity's sake, I'm combining these two together in one entry.

About the question “Could you remember the anime that brings you here?”

Meitantei Conan and how the references conditioned my literary genres prefer and tells a lot about the the series.

I can’t ever remember the first anime that I’ve ever seen because as a lot of us when I was a child they transmit a lot of anime through tv like Cardcaptor sakura, Ranma Nibun no Ichi, Dragon Ball, Meitantei Conan and more… but I can remembered well or I know very well the anime and manga that means everything for me and why, I have been a huge fan of Meitantei Conan (Detective Conan as you know) for almost ten years (honto-ni). When I was thirteen years old I was obsessed with reading and at that time I read of any genres and didn’t have a favorite one or don’t follow specifics writers at all, I just read because I like it, Meitantei Conan was a childhood memory in that point, I do remembered that I like it when I was a child but I didn’t remember any specific point of the series or even the names of the characters, so I make a self-project to see Meitantei Conan again (all the chapters and the manga), yes, I do see even the ���relleno” chapters so you can imagine how many hours did I spent in front of the computer just for my self-project.

Meitantei Conan is about Shinichi Kudo, a high school detective, that is forced to ingest the lethal poison APTX-4869 after an encounter with agents of the mysterious Black Organization while they were having a secret deal in an amusement park. Due to a rare side effect the poison did not kill him. Instead, it shrinks him into a child, and he adopts the pseudonym Edogawa Konan to hide from those who poisoned him. He lives with his childhood friend Mouri Ran and her father Mouri Kogoro as he awaits the day he can take down the Black Organization and regain his original size.

The name Edogawa Konan itself is a homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of sherlock holmes, and Ranpo Edogawa (Tarō Hirai), a Japanese writer who is often credited with bringing mystery fiction into the limelight in Japan. So yeah, the Detective Conan series follows in the footsteps of some of mystery fiction's biggest names in the literature, even Tarō Hirai was influenced by Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe (Edogawa Ranpo is Edgar Allan Poe in Japanese pronunciation); this is the mainly reason of why my favorite genres of literature is crime fiction, fantasy fiction and mystery fiction.

Even if Meitantei Conan has a lot of references of a lot of authors the principal relation is between Meitantei Conan and sherlock Holmes, being this character the inspiration of all the serie (we can see this in almost every especial chapter because mostly of them are inspired in one of the famous sherlock histories) and we can do connection between them by their characters: the idea of Shinichi Kudo would be turned into a child stemmed from the idea of a tortoiseshell cat in sherlock Holmes, Gosho Aoyama's idea was the cat would indicate the crucial evidence needed to solve the case, Conan does to help those around with the investigation like always happen in the series; the organization  acts as the primary antagonist of the series, Conan is concerned not only with hunting down the Black organization, but also concealing his true identity so the organization doesn't go after his friends and family; if we talk about sherlock elder’s brother Mycroft, while Conan may be a detective without an equal, he is still only second best in the field behind his father, a famous mystery novelist, however, his father has no desire to become a professional detective, preferring to focus his energies on his novels; if we want to talk about Dr Watson, the simile in Meitantei Conan is Professor Agasa he helped Shinichi in establishing his new identity as Conan Edogawa, including constructing several gadgets which help Shinichi in carrying on his detective work; we can also make a comparation between Irene Adler the “romantic interest” of Sherlock, and Vermouth a member of Black Organization that maybe is not the love interest of Shinichi but shares a lot of characteristics of Irene.

This is the page of the second chapter of the volume 1, when Shinichi chose the name Edogawa Konan as his new identity, in the serie he chose it because of the books that are behind him, so this page in fact has a lot of references, I will add some of them:

密室殺人: Locked-room mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction in which a crime is committed in circumstances under which it was seemingly impossible for the perpetrator to commit the crime or evade detection in the course of getting in and out of the crime scene.

クリスティー賞: The famous Agatha Christie she even has a japanese literary award established in 2010 in commemoration of the 120th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth.

江戸川 乱歩:  Edogawa Ranpo.

コナン・ドイル著: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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