Which Detective Anime has the Best Cases?

Introuble · Post by **Introuble** » April 21st, 2010, 6:58 am

Just wondering how Detective Conan's cases fare with other mystery anime cases. ;)

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I remember someone saying "Kindaichi's cases are darker and better than Conan" on some other topic.
Because of this statement I've started wondering which mystery anime is the best in terms of cases? So based on cases and nothing else which mystery anime has the best cases?

Don't include Detective Conan's Black Organization. Just base your answers on Detective Conan's cases and other mystery anime's cases.

Please take a look at the last option.

Laurell · Post by **Laurell** » April 21st, 2010, 9:00 am

Vote for Conan!

I have watched the other Detective Animes in the list like Spiral, Detective Academy Q... And I guess some of the cases there are quite good and better than those of Conan. But still, majority of the Conan cases are well-thought. The alibi tricks, the methods of murder and the other elements. And Conan is still alive until now and to the near future, one of the things where the others have failed. Conan has also a very good plot especially the BO cases.

Conia · Post by **Conia** » April 21st, 2010, 10:25 am

Voted DC. Altough I didn't read the last option

scineram · Post by **scineram** » April 21st, 2010, 1:54 pm

Spiral had no cases. Isn't detective series.

Introuble · Post by **Introuble** » April 21st, 2010, 9:52 pm

scineram wrote: Spiral had no cases. Isn't detective series.

Changed it to Q.E.D, my bad. :D

gisaku-chan · Post by **gisaku-chan** » April 24th, 2010, 7:33 am

It's a tie between Detective Conan and Detective Academy Q for me. But in the end I voted DAQ. The cases in DAQ aren't boring, unlike in DC wherein some cases are not that good.

mangaluva · Post by **mangaluva** » April 24th, 2010, 8:05 am

I voted Detective Conan, but actually, to whatever extent "Yuu Yuu Hakusho" qualified as a detective manga early on, Yusuke had some unique and interesting cases

Too bad it descended into endless tournament format... the Dark Tournament was a good arc, but really, isn't Yusuke meant to be a Spirit DETECTIVE?

scineram · Post by **scineram** » April 24th, 2010, 10:54 am

He was fired.

meidei · Post by **meidei** » April 24th, 2010, 6:45 pm

Let's see...
I've watched only DC, DAQ and Kindaichi in terms of anime.
I've watched the live action of QED. And I learned not to judge from live actions.

Kindaichi's cases are mostly logical and easy to figure out, but it annoys me that it ends always with a suicide (well, most of the time).
DC has a great number of excellent cases that make me pause the video and think (really hard) but there are quite a few cases that are really BAD and illogical. It can't be helped I guess, since it's on air for so many years...
DAQ was short but solid. Thing is, it didn't motivated me to solve the cases, and that's not good.

No clear answer...
So, forget everything I said above. I'll vote ''other''.
Karakuri Zoushi, Ayatsuri Sakon.

skyechan · Post by **skyechan** » April 24th, 2010, 11:21 pm

I'd have to say Conan wins this. I did like the few Kindaichi cases I've seen, but Conan just stands out more. (Only other detective anime I've seen is Meitantei Holmes (Sherlock Hound), but you can't really consider the episode plots really as "cases" so much.)

CTU · Post by **CTU** » April 25th, 2010, 3:19 am

I have only watched Detective Conan...now if somebody could post some download links to some of the other options on that list I would give them a try

Introuble · Post by **Introuble** » April 25th, 2010, 8:39 am

scineram wrote: He was fired.

LOL

ranger · Post by **ranger** » April 25th, 2010, 11:54 pm

not sure if this counts, but I really enjoyed Monster's cases (if you can call them that). The series had some mysteries tied into the plot, and I loved the character depth and the dark style of the plot. I also really like the setting in Prague and Eastern Europe

Also, I have to toot Death Note's horn, as it can be sort of considered a Detective anime (its got detectives, hah)

CoolKid3 · Post by **CoolKid3** » April 26th, 2010, 12:27 am

The whole Johan Liebert thing of Monster can be considered a one BIG case as well as the Kira case of Death Note can be considered one BIG case for me, though these cases served as the MAIN PLOT in their respective series... The whole BO thing in DC can be considered their counterpart...

As for case to case basis, I voted for DC though I also liked some DAQ cases (especially the Kamikakushi Village case)... However, the Pluto Org was not as emphasized as the Black Org so DAQ really lacked on the villain group aspect... I also loved some Majin Tantei: Nougami Neuro cases. And yes Spiral does not have cases as the story revolve aroung Ayumu Narumi and the Blade Children...

I dropped Mythical Detective Loki and I'm not familiar with Kindaichi so I can't comment on that...

I'm currently trying to get into Clamp School Detectives and Agatha Christie no Meitantei Marple to Poirot but I'm having a hard time to like it as much as I immediately liked DC and DAQ...

The only sort of detective series I was able to finish steadily was Ryoko's Case File because of the funny tandem of Yakushiji Ryoko and Izumida-kun...

Akonyl · Post by **Akonyl** » April 26th, 2010, 3:01 am

though Monster and Death Note are mysteries, I'm not sure if I'd call them quite detective serieses.

So I went with the last option.