[768-770] Jeet Kune Do: Sera's Identity Speculation Thread

[Katty008]

Perhaps! Conan/Shinichi finds himself falling for new character... And Ran sees how close they are getting (doesn't matter whether new character knows Conan's Shinichi or not, could just be innocent on new character's part) and can't figure out why she's upset... Therefore leading to OMG Conan=Shinichi etc.!

But that would imply that we're actually nearing the end, which by this point is some kind of sacrilegious.

[AICHAN]

Perhaps! Conan/Shinichi finds himself falling for new character... And Ran sees how close they are getting (doesn't matter whether new character knows Conan's Shinichi or not, could just be innocent on new character's part) and can't figure out why she's upset... Therefore leading to OMG Conan=Shinichi etc.!

Omg, that would be just AWESOME!!!!
But I would like to see adult Shinichi there, too!

that would be a good idea indeed...I'm tired to see guys falling for Ran,so I want a serious love pretedant for Shinichi(a detective girl for once...^^)
well since Haibara gave up on him,I guess Gosho will use Sera as a rival for Ran...

but I still don't want to see a rival in love...I want Sera to be important in the BO plot,instead of the Shinran love story...

[Abs.]

Re: Gender, I already posted my translation of the Twitter message in this thread so I have already clarified this ahead of time.

[KnightusMaximus]

Personal opinions...!

I wouldn't want to see Ran go through any more hardship by introducing a love rival for her. The poor woman has sat around, completely in the dark about what's going on, waiting for her supposed childhood friend to come back from a series of never-ending cases which apparently are more important than her. She has shown an enormous degree of strength and loyalty to Shinichi throughout the emotional turmoil of separation. Haven't we seen Ran cry in sadness enough already? Left speculating about whether hearts grow apart over time, baking cookies that will "burst into tears of melancholy", depressingly telling Conan "I wish you were Shinichi", or left to sadly wonder why Conan would keep her in the dark about being Shinichi? Finally a bit of happy news has just blown her way.

On the other hand, despite Conan's fits of jealousy, I can't go so far as to say Eisuke or Araide were ever serious rivals for Conan. The issue in volume 24 was a simple misunderstanding (ending with Ran, as always, devoted to Shinichi), and the supposed love-scene in volume 26 was only a play - wasn't even the real Araide - and in any case was actually acted out by Shinichi. Eisuke, meanwhile, never even mentioned his feelings to anyone until, literally, the chapter that he left in. He told Shinichi these feelings, not Ran, and Shinichi's somewhat selfish response reflected this to me: no matter how happy you say you'll make Ran, only I have the right to confess to her.

I feel like a true potential rival for Shinichi has been hinted at since Volume 33, so if the story proceeds along that path I'd happily embrace it. In V33-9 Conan told Haibara that he can't confess to Ran how he feels because, "She would want to see me. If I said how I feel about her, she would miss me even more... all this time, I've been breaking her heart by keeping her waiting, yet I still can't appear before her eyes. I never want to see her cry anymore, even if it means I no longer exist in her heart." Haibara later thinks, in that same file, that "flowers are fragile and ephemeral... even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, the flowers die without sunlight. And a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. Are you fully aware of that? Kudo?" Sera could be that strong wind.

(Besides Shinichi is the one who already confessed, not Ran. Ran is the one holding up the relationship now, albeit unintentionally. She's the one who's still a viable target for affection. I don't seriously believe Shinichi would ever "take back" a confession, so I don't exactly see much potential for love drama there. Sonoko, however, might try and encourage Ran to hookup with Sera without even thinking of it as cheating on Shinichi. From both a love interest and rivalry perspective, Sera is a greater threat as a man than as a woman.)

[Officer Kaoko]

File 760 has been released !

Warning: Don't open this unless you DON'T MIND SPOILERS !

Spoiler: First Page

Spoiler:

Spoiler: Last Page

Definitely a guy .

[Abs.]

File 760 has been released !

Warning: Don't open this unless you DON'T MIND SPOILERS !

Spoiler: First Page

Spoiler:

Spoiler: Last Page

Definitely a guy .

[Officer Kaoko]

Oh, and ABS !~

I've got 2 gifts for you <3 I hope you like them.

Spoiler: Sonoko's Abnormal Laugh

Spoiler: Sonoko's Abnormal Revenge

[Hazel-rah]

Someone said earlier something about „Sera“ could be important for the Conan=Shinichi plot.
I just thought if Sera knows that Conan=Shinichi, (s)he could help Conan to fool Ran again about his identity. We all can see that Sera looks like Shinichi – the face, the eyes...(yeah I know it's Goshos drawing style).  So I think to fool Ran again Conan and Shinichi aka Sera will appear together before her and Rans suspicions will be groundless.
Nya..and then Ran confess to the fake-Shinichi XDDD...*Conan face palm*

[kkslider5552000]

Main reason why I'm still not taking this too seriously: Conan will end in 2017. I don't think there's enough time for a rival character before the end of that year.

Also I don't approve of it being a rival for Ran's feelings, if entirely because I worry that would mean less Haibara. And anything that means less Haibara appearing in ANY way (even if it involves a love story/love triangle that hasn't been interesting for the larger part of a decade) is probably not a good idea.

[ProfParanoia]

Clearly, we should just make this Shiho JKD and have her try to steal Ran. j/k.

[Silver1412]

Well I want Sera too be one of those things:
- deduction rival for Conan,
- important character for BO plot
- important character for ShinRan plot
- important character for Conan=Shinichi plot
- rival for Ran's Karate
- rival for Kaito KID!

That's about it!

[Akonyl]

hearing this character called Sera just makes me think of Morrowind all the time.

[Cheesus]

Rival for Ran's karate is just retarded *not inteded to anger anyone* Why would she need a rival. I mean liek her karate isnt mentioned too much.

[Kleene Onigiri]

Main reason why I'm still not taking this too seriously: Conan will end in 2017. I don't think there's enough time for a rival character before the end of that year.

Also I don't approve of it being a rival for Ran's feelings, if entirely because I worry that would mean less Haibara. And anything that means less Haibara appearing in ANY way (even if it involves a love story/love triangle that hasn't been interesting for the larger part of a decade) is probably not a good idea.

But if Ran get's a love rival, then Haibara would also get a love rival. This could mean that Haibara would get more active/aggressive (if gosho pulls that off). Meaning there would bemore Haibara scenes than less Haibara :x

[alicetama]

Awesome! *.*

But, don't you mean 769? xD