Friday, August 16, 2013

Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of the Century

Although I already watched this movie since before and I can’t count how many times I watched this movie. Detective Conan is one of my favorite anime since I was still a kid. The first time I watched in Detective Conan series was the Detective Conan Movie 2: The Fourteenth Target. Now, I’ll share about this movie and I hope you like it.  This movie was shown since April 17, 1999 in Japan and Directed by the famous anime director Kodama Kanetsugu. Detective Conan is more on mystery and actions. Actually Detective Conan has 17 movies now and I chose this the movie 4 because I think that this movie is the best. This movie achieved a distributor’s income of 1.45 billion yen.
This movie has many characters as usual. This movie has a connection with a Russian History. The famous Faberge egg was mentioned in this movie and the famous people Nicholas II and Grigori Rasputin. The interesting one is there is a person that his/her ancestor was Rasputin; his/her code name is Scorpion (the killer in this movie). In this movie, they mentioned that Rasputin was shot three times (right eye, forehead and the lungs) and this information will be interesting one if you know how Scorpion kills people.
Kaito Kid sends a riddle, warning and the Police was successfully deduct that his next target is the recently discovered Faberge egg that belongs to Nicholas II of Russia. Kid was successfully steals the egg and flies away, and Conan and Heiji chases after him. However, Kid was shot in the right eye by Scorpion and falls in the sea. The police recovered the egg but it is unknown if Kid was really died or not. Next Day, Conan, Kogoro and Ran rode on a ship to Tokyo. They met Kousaka Natsumi and her grandfather was working in Faberge’s factory. She shows the sketch of the two eggs and said that those eggs were her grandfather’s momentos. Later on many characters joined on conservation then Conan suspects that the person who shot Kaito Kid is on the ship. They decided to go the castle that was the eggs should be kept in. While exploring the castle, Inui (one of the suspect) sees a shadowy in the tunnels, and was shot to the right eye. Suddenly, the two eggs are snatched away by Scorpion. Conan deducted that the Scorpion is Seiran (one of the suspect) she shots the victims in the right eye to avenge her ancestor Rasputin. Conan successfully knocks Scorpion.
This movie is kind a historical right? I love the movie with historical stories. One of the best things about this movie is that you can learn something new by watching. I learned a part of Russian history. The visual of this movie is looks old but cool. You can feel like it is nostalgic. I prefer the old Detective Conan series than the new.
Overall, this movie is really something that thrills and excites us in every scene. It might be that you don’t like it because it is an animation but I suggest that you guys need to watch movies like this.


[Draft] By: Reiji Hiraguchi 

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