I have almost caught up to the latest episode of Detective Conan. I first became aware of the show back in 2012 when I watched all the English dubbed episodes. I think there was around 130? That suddenly ended though and I remember thinking that the sudden end wasn't very satisfying. Then I think in April last year I decided to pick it back up but this time to watch it in Japanese. At the time I think there was a total of around 774 episodes and I honestly didn't realize there was that many! My only knowledge was of the dubbed versions. Initially I found the number of episodes daunting and I was going to see how far I got before I gave up but I kept going with it and now after just over a year I am about to watch episode 808.
I am feeling bitter sweet about it because for the last year I have made sure to watch it at least every day and it really has become apart of my daily routine. Very soon I will only be able to watch it once a week as I wait for new episodes. On the other hand I am really pleased to have almost caught up to date with the series. In fact it feels so bizarre to have almost caught up that I am doubting myself as to whether or not I have watched from episode 1 to present but I definitely have. I just can't remember much about the earlier episodes is all because there has been so much to get through.
I have really enjoyed it and I am so glad to see it still going strong with no end in sight. I found the episodes that advanced the overall story with the Black Organization or introduced new characters etc etc to be my favourite ones and they were really griping and interesting.
I was wondering how others felt when they had watched from episode 1 to the present episode at that time? Did you feel pleased and relieved or sad that you couldn't watch it as frequently having to now wait for new episodes?
Detective Conan when I first got into it (2008) is probably the closest I've ever been to truly being obsessed with a series. I went through borderline every available episode at the time twice in one year, it was crazy. Granted, there were only a little over 500 episodes and like 1/4 of them weren't even subbed yet, but still, that was a lot of time spent on one series. I don't think I could do that ever again. My initial experience with it is one of the main reasons nothing has replaced Conan as my favorite anime.
I would say, the series is probably not as good to be watched on a weekly basis, especially if you care about plot. But I got caught up in 2008, which probably had the most consistent focus on plot ever, so that didn't help when things went back to the norm (and then even slower) after that. So that didn't help.
I'm sad that I haven't seemingly gotten anyone else in the series, but because of length that might be a good thing. XD
It was somewhere between 2004 and 2006. My family moved away from our old house when I was in the 3rd grade. Me and my sister used to watch Digimon, Dragon Ball Z and pro wrestling all the time... After moving we started to buy manga volumes and my sister got into drawing alot. I remember reading alot of Rave Master and keeping up with the volumes, that pumpkin darkness guy and all that jazz. I really liked the series. Same with Beyblade, Pokemon, Digimon, Rurouni Kenshin, DBZ and probably some others. I was really interested in following the series every time the next volume came out in a local shop. Some monthly, some every three months. One night I was reading a series that looked really interesting on the cover at the time which was the reason I had wasted money on it. I believe it was volume 36 of Detective Conan with the start of the 12 million hostages case of the metropolitan love story. Now... Even though I liked alot of the series like Digimon, I was playing the games even hundreds of hours like 1 and 2003, I can honestly say the first series I truly loved was Conan. Conan is my first love in fiction. I loved Takagi and Conan goin in during that case. Kogoro's personal case in which he solved the case and even outsmarted Conan a bit was HYPE I was going insane I loved that. All the connections he had and just fleshing the character out (he resembles my uncle alot). The writing was godly to me back then I was talking to my sister how Kogoro was smarter than sherlock holmes easy. After that the grand volume of 38 with the dark footprint? Akai walking out of the phone booth. I'll never forget that double page spread... After that it was just insane. Buying the volumes religiously continued for few years. Around the time I bought multiple older and also the same volumes I already had for some reason of DC, I can say that the Osaka double mystery was the first case that made me really love Heiji. When he appeared in that outfit in the cover page I was wondering what the hell is going on. It was too much, seeing these ultimate detectives going at it in duo. After that the baseball stadium case. I had no idea how they were figuring the codes it was just no.. Heiji for the president.
Anyway skipping around, around the time the Clash of Red and Black was ending in the anime I got into the Black Impact part in the manga and dear god...... you're talking about the ultimate tard right here. I literally watched the newest manga chapters that were in 240p in youtube with the openings. I was watching the English Dubbed version of the old cases and I was trying to find the japanese anime episodes constantly along with the volumes that were having a weird hiatus more often than not but anyway. It was retarded. Reading the black impact was too much.
When I finally got to watching the Clash of Red and Black I was sick in bed. After finishing the flashback case I was just fanboying about Heiji and Yusaku. Anyway there were kind of hallucinative moments I was having that I didn't want for it to go away. I was binging the episodes and fell asleep, and in the dreams I was interacting with the cast of character. When I woke up I was like DAMN.. I need to get back to sleep to find out what happens next. Rewatched the episode and tried to fall asleep again. I think I barely ate anything during those two weeks.
After that I was moving alot and didn't keep up with the series for a few years. I remember watching youtube videos about the shiragami case like I did in the past with other cases with openings 2-4 playing and the case was split into three videos and I was like holy hell what is going on in the story. That was around when I was watching Death Note and Higurashi, probably around 2010. After catching up to Conan again I just wasn't feeling it. The stuff in the first half of the Bourbon arc just wasn't doing it for me for the most part (until I reread the nagano cases recently). Until Masumi Sera and Amuro appeared. I was like what is this? These characters are insane. Their designs are crazy and their quirks go very well with them. The presence of these characters make the cases much better. The fact that the culprits plans go under the sun because Amuro can pick locks and drive cars at others is great. Or when Masumi investigates in the backgrounds and does her ridicilous things like the casket trick during the apple fruit case and just her being a mysterious individual was great to follow.
During the Araide reveal I went mental, Kir talking on the phone was too much, Kaito Kid appearing was cool always, Heiji's cases and the trembling metropolitan hostage case and all the moments with Kogoro, Shinichi, Haibara, Ran, Heiji, Yukiko, Yusaku, Conan, Akai, Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Kir... So many good memories. There is literally no other series out there that I have as many memories with as Conan. No other series.
I started probably around kindergarten when the series started airing around 1997 or 1998.
At first it was just random episodes on TV, during elementary I started reading manga from volume 1 to 39.
6th grade I started watching the anime again.
Middle school full on going crazy for Conan I was doing anime, manga, and movies.
Honestly I didn't know it would be this long, I thought I would grew out of it but no!
Being following since it came out and still following strong; happy 20th baby!
I've started watching Conan back in 2004, when the very first episode aired in France on TV - with a French cast (not so bad btw) on channels called Cartoon Network and France 3. The French title didn't changed instead of the english version, it was simply: Détective Conan. The characters name hasn't been replaced either (thank God!) - not silly Richard and Rachel Moore or else...
The only thing a bit disturbing was censorship; no blood - no corpse - no swear. It was considered a cartoon for children.
We were lucky to have 8 seasons dubbed, until the episode 224 in 2006. Unfortunately from there it suddenly stopped.
Now (and for a longtime ago) you cannot find anything on TV about the anime (except on Jap-based charged channels).
After that I needed to catch up +200 episodes, because in 2006 the season 15 was airing in Japan.
Everytime I tell someone that I am still watching Détective Conan, they can't believe the anime is still ongoing and can't imagine how thrilling it became!
Anyway welcome to the DC family!
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I remember watching Conan for the first time on Adult Swim in 2004, and I was instantly hooked.
I didn't realize how many episodes there were of Conan though until awhile later, and I was completely dumbfounded.
I haven't watched EVERY episode of Conan, but right now I'm luckily caught up to the latest episode thanks to Crunchyroll. Luckily, Conan is a series that you can pick up at almost any episode, and easily figure out what's happened up to that point without missing much.
