This time, the theatrical version of Detective Conan finally did not explode.
For the past eight years, the theatrical version was released in April in Japan and October in China, and this year is the first time in history that China and Japan have been released simultaneously. On a humid and sweltering April day, Crimson Bullets, one shot pierces the memories of time about Conan.
Poster of Detective Conan: Crimson Bullets
Before entering the cinema, I was worried that I would leave the stage halfway, after all, the level and reputation of the Conan theater version of the play that have fallen in recent years have really made old fans sad.
About 10 years ago, with abusive explosions, gradually single-line and weakened reasoning narratives, and increasingly outrageous action scenes, "Detective Conan" once evolved towards "Fast and Furious", making people worry about the classic becoming chicken ribs.
This time "Crimson Bullets" is no exception, after the premiere, new and old audiences have cried and laughed:
The world's first vacuum superconducting maglev train, crashing into the back of the car people only scratched?
Shuichi Akai's homemade "crimson bullet", shot from Nagoya to Kyoto, can be called China's anti-Japanese magic skill "800 miles away, one shot a ghost"?
……
I know the complaints of netizens
The Conan theater version has gained the same level of spit density as China's Spring Festival Gala, which is no longer a matter of one year or two years.
Compared with the previous years, "the football that can bend", "the skateboard that can flatten everything like a Gaia energy cannon", and "the sports car that crosses the railway tracks up the mountain and the sea", this time it is even very gentle.
Conan's ambitions seem to be getting bigger and bigger, and today's American Hollywood industrial system, the old Newtonian laws of physics, are about to be overturned by him.
However, even if the "Kexue Universe" is outrageously flying into the sky, there is always a group of people who stick behind it, lamenting and moving at the same time.
End credits to Detective Conan: Crimson Bullets
While watching Crimson Bullets, I felt an unusually light calm the whole time, yes, calm, not disappointment.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I was catching a cold while watching the movie, and the familiar opening remarks, the music, the familiar teenage detective team and the suit that has remained unchanged for thousands of years all of this made me almost sleepy.
The whole film is generally stable in narrative, the case solving routine is still the same, the lines and dialogue are not salty and not light, but from the beginning of Dr. Kasa's guessing game, to the occurrence of the case - breakthrough - puzzle - life and death line - interception of prisoners with the help of a mysterious person, this series of expected paths down, when those familiar time nodes, familiar lines run out, accompanied by stagnant body, I once had the illusion, as if I could shrink in place and become a primary school student at any time and anywhere.
Yes, in Conan's setting, drinking liquor after a cold, the body can change back to the 17-year-old Shinichi.
In the case of the diplomat's murder, Conan has a cold and fever, and after drinking liquor, he accidentally changes back to Shinichi
I walked out of the theater and took a deep breath of air mixed with the fresh spring rains, even the cold was better.
The words spoken at the end of the film through Shuichi Akai's mouth echoed in his head: "No matter how vicious the prisoner is, it is the logic of the boy (Conan), which is different from our FBI." ”
Therefore, for the anxiety, nostalgia and disappointment of this "eternal white moonlight" in my heart, I suddenly smelled a new answer -
More than ten years ago, he reveled for Conan, because he was still a teenager at the time, and now he is crying for Conan because he is still a teenager.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="55" > "The Past of Tears"</h1>
On May 1, 2019, Kudo Shinichi's dream of "wanting to become a Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era" was forever extinguished.
It's not that it didn't beat Sherlock Holmes, it didn't beat time.
The prime minister and the year number have changed, the elementary school students have not yet grown up, the high school students have not yet graduated, Xiaolan has not yet waited for the new one, the silly Xiaogoro still has not found out who shoots the anesthesia needle behind his neck, the school song of Didan Elementary School has not been changed, the stupid black-clad organization has not tried APTX4869 on others and then discovered the mystery of the body becoming smaller...
27 years later, from the manga that began to be serialized in 1994, to the TV version that began to be updated in 1996, when "Naruto" and "Gintama" were finished, and the author of another nail household, "One Piece", was also sentenced to be finished within five years, but "Detective Conan" was still updated without hurry, silently drawing 1058 episodes.
I have always stubbornly believed that anime and people are like people to people, and there is a saying that there is fate.
For many people, Detective Conan is very ordinary, it does not sprinkle sugar, does not sell corruption, every episode is dead, is a juvenile anime without fantasy and magic, but I love it.
From childhood to adolescence to adulthood today, Conan is the whitest moonlight in my heart.
Let me tell you this:
In the summer vacation of the third grade of elementary school, my cousin and I grew up with my cousin followed the adults to Shanghai for the first time, and in the crowded Chenghuangmiao shopping area, we found a Conan watch in an anime handmade shop.
Ecstatic, we both asked, "Is there anesthesia needle here?" ”
Conan's watch with anesthesia needle
There are countless scenes like silly and make people laugh and laugh.
For example, hiding behind the sofa, using a bow hair band as a voice changer, relaying a murder incident, and finally pulling out the murderer hiding behind the curtain, a black body;
For example, after walking through Tokyo, Koshien, Kyoto, Osaka Castle, and Kobe in maps and manga, eating a bowl of udon noodles in the fictional streets of Rice Blossom Town, grabbing a baseball ticket in Koshien, going to Kyoto Sakura Park to see Kabuki, and scoffing at the fantasy taste that "eel rice is not so delicious"...
More than ten years later, my cousin has traveled to Japan many times, but I have not been able to go once steadily because of the shackles of studying work arrangements and other time. The distance between me and my cousin was also gently and calmly pushed farther and farther away by the years.
I don't know who is as stupid as I am, not only to think of an animation as a trace of childhood, but to think that it has given me values and spiritual sustenance.
When I was a child, I was often alone at home, those set at a younger age, cheerful and comedic animation can not drive away my loneliness, "Detective Conan" is very suitable, its reasoning atmosphere and suspense plot are absolutely engaged, it is also through it, I developed a taste for realism and suspense elements, but also at a young age to watch horror movies without changing their faces.
I miss being able to patiently follow the plot to watch every frame of reasoning when I was a teenager, I miss the nervous and expectant mood when I cover my eyes and don't want to see the corpse, and I miss going to Baidu Tieba to go through every post, in order to "verify" whether Kudo Shinichi was born on May 4.
So far, my social account passwords have a common string of 13-digit numbers, which is a chowder of data that is "melted" by adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing several numbers such as Shinichi's birthday, Maoriland's birthday, and Hattori Heiji's first appearance episode.
Muscle memory makes it forever embedded in my mind, even if the bank card password is forgotten, it can blurt out.
Even now, when I feel depressed at work and tired in life, I still open an episode of Detective Conan.
The familiar sense of security comes to the face, unlike other anime, "Detective Conan" does not have to "chase", or it can be sneaky to chase.
We never have to worry about its ending, and we never worry about its plot going in a direction we don't like, because each episode will go into a new case, and the main plot will maintain simple, basic relationships and feelings, and it won't change much for more than a decade.
No matter how time passes, Conan's world seems to have only passed for one day.
This stability turned Conan into a huge palace that belonged only to me, hiding the joys and sorrows I experienced over the years.
According to the statistics of netizens, so far, nearly 400 people have died in the Conan TV version of the drama, Maori Kogoro has been pricked with more than 900 stitches, every city in Japan has been completed, and the pace of conan's journey has to be derived to foreign countries, New York, Singapore, and even outer space...
But a subtle feeling also arises: it is not finished, it seems not to be purely to enrich the volume of this Conan universe, but to keep the time that only happened when Conan was 7 years old and the new one was 17 years old by constantly zeroing out and re-entering the corner of this great world in each episode.
It could be 1996 or 2021.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="55" > "turn the wheel of fate"</h1>
As a child, Conan was first exposed to manga, and in the early years, black and white manga was more refined and more suitable for collecting than the style of animation.
Every time I plunge into a palm-sized vertical Conan comic, I will always be reprimanded by adults: such a small word, the eyes do not want?
When the original work, Tsuyoshi Aoyama, was keen to write all the thinking processes and reasoning logic lines of the characters into the manga palace, without slacking off.
Feel it
You have to read it very intently like a labyrinth to keep up with the plot and get some popular science knowledge about Japanese society and culture from it.
In retrospect, Conan didn't intend to develop from the beginning towards a light-hearted, sensory-stimulating anime.
Yes, today it seems that it has exhausted the elements of reality and culture, and can only catch the audience's attention in bizarre action scenes.
But in terms of narrative type, in addition to the "APTX4869", which is a science fiction poison, "Detective Conan" has always been in line with the realism + Benguet reasoning school, no crossing, no magic, no supernatural human.
Shinichi was fed pills
When it was first serialized, Conan's plot was closely related to Japanese society at the end of the century.
The bubble economy burst, people were in turmoil, and the crime rate increased dramatically... At that stage of "Detective Conan", many cases were filled with a depressing and terrifying atmosphere, such as bandages and library elevators hiding corpses.
At that time, the characters in the play did not have mobile phones, and Conan called Xiaolan in the voice of Xinyi in the downstairs phone booth, as if the two were looking at each other across the street, which also constituted a special romance.
Conan calls Xiaolan in Shinichi's voice at the phone booth
Later, with the gradual maturity of the film industry, the annual theatrical version was a percussion and salute to the times.
In the first "Detonating the Skyscraper" in 1996, the bomb was the most traditional time bomb, which required 1/2 of the bet to cut one of the lines.
In 2002's sixth theatrical version of Baker Street, the prisoners were transformed into artificial intelligence, and the crime was committed through the virtual somatosensory game Cocoon, which was manipulated by virtual reality technology.
Detective Conan Theatrical Version of "The Undead on Baker Street"
You know, in 2002, AI intelligence in the strict sense has not really prevailed.
In the fourteenth theatrical version of "Shipwreck in the Sky" 8 years later, the explosion uses a "Resident Evil" type germ weapon;
In 2018's "Enforcer of Zero", the weapons were upgraded again, turning into Long-range Controllable Internet of Things Bombs and Space Vehicles Beyond Earth...
Explosion scene in Detective Conan: Zero's Enforcer
Between change and invariance, the distinctive traces of the times show Conan's ambitions and also constitute his characteristics that are different from ordinary speculative detective works.
These things retain the eternal respect that old fans have for Conan, but of course, it is much more than that.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="55" > "The world will be your color."</h1>
In "The Assassin in the Pupil", Xiaolan witnesses her friend being shot several times in front of her eyes, and under the impact and stimulation of fear and self-blame, she loses her memory overnight;
In "The Undead on Baker Street", the computer genius who is dissatisfied with being used as a money-making tool by adults chooses to end his life to warn the moral adults who control the resources and power of this country;
In "The Crossroads of the Labyrinth", Hattori uses the wisdom of the I Ching to confront the murderer, interpreting his own justice.
Deep friendship, hazy love, adherence to justice and the multifaceted interpretation of human nature... These lonely courage and enthusiasm that run through the Conan universe, "sticking to the true nature of the world", I would like to call it "the heart of the child".
Naked, children also.
The heart of the child is a natural and simple belief, even if you face the darkness, you can be bright inside.
The biggest difference between Conan and his idol, Holmes, is that Holmes is an "anti-socialist", out of tune with the world, indifferent to people's hearts, and scornful of human nature.
Conan's personality combines the youthfulness of a "high school student" with the softness of an "East Asian", who also pursues the only truth, but also firmly believes that justice is the world scale that he can reach.
Holmes pursues the truth itself, and Conan pursues the justice behind the truth.
But Conan's justice is not pure punishment of evil and promotion of good, nor is it just about finding out the truth and picking out criminals.
Looking back at the cases in the past twenty years, there are very few "evil people" in "Detective Conan" who kill people for the sake of killing, most of them are vendetta killings and love killings, and many times the motives for crimes are too simple or even absurd, but Conan's principle is consistent - "Although I don't know the reason for killing, I don't need a reason to save people." ”
He will do his best to protect everyone around him, lovers, friends, strange victims, and evil murderers.
He will do everything he can to protect the world.
Detective Conan: The Executioner of Zero
Similarly, he does not think that to find the murderer is to practice justice, in the early famous piano sonata "Moonlight" murder incident, the murderer who killed for revenge burned himself to death after being discovered by Conan, which caused Conan a deep self-blame, in his heart, this time he killed someone himself.
This kind of youthfulness, the persistence of desperately seeking goodness and truth not only appears in Conan, the hot-blooded Kansai teenager Hattori Heiji, and the strange thief Kidd, who "steals and has righteousness", they all have a pure enthusiasm like a child.
Including the heart always has a touch of sadness and gray original mourning.
A fugitive whose relatives have died and has gone through hardships, the depths of her heart are still seeking kindness, and this dusted belief supports her to live as a primary school student, looking for an outlet for life in despair and loneliness.
Gray Plains Mourning
Conan's presence allowed her to see the exit.
This high school student, who has a similar experience to herself, has a relentless pursuit of goodness and justice, giving grief the courage to live and letting her come out of the dark past little by little.
The heart of the naked child is the most precious thing in "Detective Conan" in my eyes, and it is also the rare thing that the more I grow up, the more I find it.
Now as a journalist, the understanding of "investigation" is somewhat inseparable from "detective", although it is not frank and righteous, but occasionally tragically has the idea of "if it is for the public interest, I am willing to accept death" (Shinichi quoted In Sherlock Holmes).
The verification of the years has made the classic not only a classic of an era, but also a classic of a person.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="55" > "Romance of Light and Shadow"</h1>
25 years later, Conan has long become a brand, a product that integrates the labor and commercial interests of tens of millions of people, and it is not only who determines its survival and survival.
Since the departure of Kodama Kenji, who first accompanied the original Aoyama through the creative blowout period, the level of the next few directors slid to a single-line narrative, the reasoning part was weakened, and more and more large scenes and action scenes were delayed, which gradually lowered Conan's reputation in the world.
In 2015, Aoyama Tsuyoshi announced the suspension of serialization, and in 2017, he was hospitalized with physical sickness, and at one point announced that he wanted to end Conan.
However, after the restart of the 2018 series, Aoyama firmly stated that he would continue to draw - "because this is a happy thing".
While watching the movie, Aoyama joted down any interesting plot fragments that came to his mind in the note book
Not to mention the animation industry, looking around the world, how many creators can maintain 25 years of continuous high-quality output?
Even when inspiration is worn out, even if his works are gradually commercialized, Aoyama still adheres to his love for creation and his strict demand for details.
For 25 years, in each theatrical version, he has personally taken materials, written love scenes, and painted hand-painted posters, while listening to the sigh of his own "Jiang Lang cai" in his ear, this little old man, on the contrary, the more he paints, the more determined.
As long as the "green mountain" is left, it seems that burning can indeed be based on love alone.
In these more than 20 years, the Japanese animation industry has been surging and rolling, the Internet era is changing with each passing day, and many anime that fit the new tastes and new values of young people, such as "Devil's Blade" and "Attack on Titan", etc., you sing I am on the stage, injecting countless new blood into the prosperity of Japanese animation.
A large number of popular dramas, you sing me on the stage
And Conan's old fans have already tacitly reached a consensus:
Even if Conan becomes boring and monotonous, there is still a "main line" that needs to be solved.
The so-called "main line" generally refers to the evolution and sorting out of the development of the black-clad organization (later officially known as the "distillery organization") that made Kudo Shinichi's medicine pills smaller. This mysterious organization involves a large number of characters, and later joined the US FBI multi-line figures, the elements are too complex, three or two sentences are difficult to explain clearly.
Of course, the main line also includes the love line.
Subtle and youthful, it is the tone of love that runs through the entire play when conan was created.
Compared with the fierceness and bloody wind in solving the case, compared to the scientific and technological elements that keep pace with the times, Conan's emotional line is like a boiled frog in warm water, and the advancement is like a year.
In 2021's "Crimson Bullets", Xinyi is still embarrassed to say "I want to protect you" directly to Xiaolan.
Only in "The Assassin in the Pupil" 17 years ago, Xiaolan took advantage of her amnesia to dare to say to her, "I like you, I like you more than anyone else in this world." ”
"Because I like you more than anyone else on this planet."
In fact, Maoriland is not actually a female character who conforms to the contemporary female audience, she is more like the virtuous, simple and hardworking girl in the traditional Japanese society of the last century.
Fortunately, the original Aoyama Tsuyoshi gave her karate skill settings, so that the heroine would not become a pure "silly white sweet".
In this way, the theme of "waiting" about Lan becomes precious as the white colt crosses the gap.
In Conan's world, waiting is a true romanticism, just as believing that the truth can save justice is a true idealism.
There are too many anime works that portray pure love, but the touching that Conan brings to people is an almost anti-human obsession, which is invisible in many stories that are tirelessly describing ambiguity and romance.
It seems that Conan's drama team in recent years has also adjusted the plot according to the response of the market audience.
As the audience's call for "Ke Lai" (Conan + Gray Plains Wai) is getting higher and higher, in this "Crimson Bullet", Xiao Lai's role has indeed increased greatly, even surpassing the official heroine Lan.
But none of this matters, we will watch and even participate in the voices that chant "Ke Ai", but we will always silently support Xinyi and Xiaolan in our hearts, after all, they have waited for each other wordlessly for more than twenty years.
I don't know what day will be waiting for Conan's ending, but even if he never ends, we will accompany him to wait.
Because "the longer you wait, the happier you are when you see it." ”
Author | Xiao Yao
Edit | He Yan
Typography | Moon month