These two are really popular and of course they are both super KAWAII !!!
so who do you like more?
i vote for Haibara!!!
she's just so cute!!!!
i like her personality, her cuteness, her "teasing Conan" scenes, her apathetic personality, her... i like everything about her. she's a really great character. one of the best to enter DC!!!
Haibara by far. Still hate Conan... Plus... Ai [Aka Shiho] is a hyping genius scientist. Honestly... She calculated the aspects of the Ferris Wheel in seconds. I forget which though... and she was going to do the total power too... if Shinichi didn't stop her! Given Shinichi is very smart, I think Ai is on a totally different level with her intelligence, and I don't think Shinichi is as smart as her in most things. He has the advantage of being able to piece together info into a coherent deduction to reach a definite conclusion. But I doubt he can do advanced physics in his head in seconds <3.
Conan failed the character growth test when he, 1.) blamed Gin for separating him from his peers in volume 45, ignoring how he had already left the soccer team to play detective before Gin drugged him; 2.) bragged about being "Edogawa Conan, tantei" to a gang leader he confronted after seeing evidence there might be a gang involved, only having his hide saved by Makoto (and Ran, to a lesser extent). 3.) ignored Shuuichi's warning about the danger he puts his friends in if he's caught working with the FBI, even as a child, not even bothering to try a disguise.
Now I'm conflicted between hoping he won't destroy his friends (Ran in particular) with his tragic flaw and hoping that the flaw won't be forced into a virtue by writer's fiat always bailing his reckless arrogant "heroic" hide out of the situations he creates for himself and his friends.
He's not really that unlikable, mind you. I just want him to recognize when he does something hideously reckless, something that puts people he's intentionally keeping ignorant in danger, it's not "heroism". That his curiosity isn't something that affects only him. That he can't keep promises about things he can't really control, and probably shouldn't make such promises in the first place if he thinks he'll be held to them.
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Nyarl wrote:
hoping that the flaw won't be forced into a virtue by writer's fiat always bailing his reckless arrogant "heroic" hide out of the situations he creates for himself and his friends.
Nyarl wrote:
hoping that the flaw won't be forced into a virtue by writer's fiat always bailing his reckless arrogant "heroic" hide out of the situations he creates for himself and his friends.
so I see you've never read shonen manga before
I have, but I was holding out hope Aoyama would turn that cliche on its head and mock it like he has a lot of mystery cliches. He did after all make those disguise glasses useless for Haibara, and has had *some* of her "pessimism" come true. Oh, and Conan does end up needing to be saved a lot. Other shonen heroes who get in over their heads tend to "die" only to be rewarded with power-ups.
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