This year marks the 20th anniversary of the serialization of Detective Conan. In the summer vacation of graduating from elementary school in 1999, because of my cousin's recommendation, I moved back a 24-volume set of "Conan" from Anhui Big Market. Closing with the debut of absinthe at the Cuphu City Hotel ("The Street Corner of Betrayal") - It has been fifteen years since I recalled that summer when I was terrified on the mat, but I couldn't put it down.
At first, it was an original pirated copy of 24 volumes, and then from time to time, fake pirated copies can be found at the bookstore in front of the Luzhou Roast Duck Restaurant (the story is mixed with Qingshan Gangchang's original work and other people's fake works, so it is easy to distinguish; but even if there are only a few in a volume. The page belongs to the original work, and I will still buy the collection for the integrity of the story). When I was in middle school, Changchun Publishing House introduced genuine books, so I regularly bought books from bookstands at the entrance of Ladies Street, and bargaining for two sentences could be a dollar cheaper than the list price. After going to college until graduation, I insisted on buying genuine copies at the newsstand in front of the Guangyuan Xingguang Supermarket, but it seems that I can't bargain in the capital.
After going abroad, I basically watch the serialization on the comic website once a month, and watch the theatrical version on Acfun once a year. Looking at the comic series now, in addition to the main plot related to the underworld, I often go through ten lines at a glance. And the theatrical version is rarely even read - I don't think it is my aesthetic or mentality that has changed. The theatrical version in recent years is different from "Countdown to Heaven" and "The Magician at the End of the Century". Japan's animation industry has gradually declined after the millennium, and "Conan" is not immune to it.
From Showa to Heisei
Once, my understanding of Japan came entirely from Tokyo in the Showa era as depicted in Doraemon. Yasuo Nohito and I were about the same age, naive and curious, believing that there were ancient treasures buried on the hill behind the school, and that the entrance to the sewer in the clearing led to a strange world. These delusions gallop in one after another, until the age gets older, the thirst for knowledge disappears, and the source Shizuka in the eyes has become a bear child like Yoshida Ayumi.
Conan came out just in time, and I became fascinated by the life of a group of high school students in the Heisei era in the manga—a group that usually traveled around Tokyo's Beige-cho, and occasionally took the Shinkansen to and from Osaka, as well as New York and London. In 2001 and 2002, when Shinichi Kudo and I were about the same age, their experiences were particularly climax: in the spring of 2001, Shuichi Akai and James came to Japan; in the fall, the New York chapter titled "Golden Apple" made the worldview bigger than ever. ; At the beginning of 2002, "12 million hostages" with the whole Tokyo as the stage finally climbed to the peak of the whole comic work.
At that time, when I was a teenager, I was unwilling to guard the two points and one line between home and school, and devoted all my excess energy to creating a similar urban legend. Coinciding with Beijing's successful bid for the Olympics, he was obsessed with Hong Kong police and bandit films, so he conceived a series of stories about "The Hurt Locker" based on Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo and New York in 2008. To (chao) to (xi) to your favorite comics and movies. A few years later, I went to Beijing to study at university. After graduation, I studied in the United States and worked until now. However, Beijing and the United States, where I live in person, are far less passionate than I imagined. Before that, Hong Kong films withered along with the Pearl of the Orient.
Thanks to "Conan"—perhaps because of the distance and the lack of personal encounters—the only impression of Tokyo is still there. Hefei has undergone tremendous changes in the past ten years. My primary school, junior high school, and high school have all moved to new campuses. When I come home today, I'm afraid I can't tell the difference between the north and the south. While the Ferris wheel of Dorobika Amusement Park is still spinning, Shinigami elementary school students report year after year in Class B of Tedan Elementary School that the address of the Maori Detective Office has always been the second floor of No. 39, 5-chome, Mikacho. There is a cafe on the first floor called Poirot. A young and lovely waitress named Azusa Enomoto has been serving dishes in the cafe for ten years. Three years ago, a handsome boy named Toru Amuro also came to do odd jobs. The phone used is an iPhone 4s.
mobile phone
In the past 20 years, mobile communication has experienced the transition from big brother to handheld function machine, and then to smart machine. For Conan and I, the fact that the phone has become a companion has been in the last decade: Conan wore Google Glass-like tracking glasses in 1994, but ten years later, his first phone, Sony Ericsson The W21S is long overdue; also in 2004, I also had my own mobile phone, the Moto V303.
Living in Japan, where the digital age is trending, Conan has a special insistence on mobile phones. The W21S was not replaced by the Sony Ericsson LT18i with Android 2.3 until 2012, when Android and iOS had swept the world. A little earlier in 2011, I first bought a phone with my salary, a motorcycle Atrix 4G with Android 2.2 (the fourth and last motorcycle I ever used). It can be said that Conan and I were equipped with mobile phones at the same time, and we also entered the Android camp at the same time - Qingshan has a slightly unpleasant setting, the FBI including Conan uses Android mobile phones (except for mobile phone manufacturers). Sony Ericsson, LG, Samsung), and the most important characters in the Black Organization are all using iPhones...
In 1999, I got to know Japan from 1994 to 1999 from the "Conan" comics. Since then, the two worlds have gradually been synchronized. From the delay of several months in the physical book, the serialization of the book has just been published, and the sinicization of the book has been circulating on the Internet. The background of the story is still not long after Kudo Shinichi swallowed aptx4869, but the real world is changing with each passing day but never stops for a moment. Over the years, I have been chasing some Japanese comics off and on, and I have also abandoned a few American dramas. No work has been intertwined with my life for as long as "Conan". I remember that my first online article was "In Heaven, Dedicated to Matsuda Jinping" written by "12 Million Hostages". On Sunday, the national mock exam that Ran participated in began...". In 2002, when I wrote this article, I didn't have a mobile phone, and neither did Conan, and I still needed to instruct Officer Takagi to send a text message to convey the answer to the bomb puzzle. At that time, my life and mentality were closer to Kudo Shinichi and Maurilan, and now I am at the age of Takagi Shibu and Sato Miwako, and I am moving towards Mouri Kogoro and Concubine Miles.
In the days when there was no mobile phone, Conan often used a bowknot voice changer in the public telephone hall to announce to Lan that he was safe. At that time, I also had a calling card in elementary and junior high school. Later, we all had mobile phones - mobile phones are necessary for my life and work for me, but for Conan it is like a scroll, it is an artifact for detectives to play digital magic in the 21st century - after that, Conan became Never got into a public phone booth again (except for the homage to the iconic red phone booth in "London").
Reichenbach
Holding high the banner of homage to Sherlock Holmes, "London", which began serialization in August 2010, is one of the few non-mainline highlights in recent years. The huge length of almost a whole volume can be said to be full of sincerity. The solution (lv) mystery (you) line starting from Baker Street and ending at Wimbledon can even be used as a London sightseeing guide. However, the quality of the case itself is not as good as that of "The Monster of Jiaziyuan" in 2004, let alone "12 Million Hostages". Even more unfortunate is that the first season of BBC's "Sherlock" made its debut in July 2010 a little earlier.
As far as I can remember, since I entered college in 2005, "Conan" has few stories that impressed me. The main line chapters like eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year can barely maintain the level, and there is nothing good to say outside the main line. Recalling the classics of 2001 and after wave after wave: "Shadow Designer", "Twilight Pavilion", "12 Million Hostages", "Wave Swordsman and Taige City"... It seems like a white rainbow pierces the sun and a comet strikes The joy of reading for months is gone forever. I once suspected that it was aesthetic fatigue. After all, I have read a lot of detective novels over the years, and the mentality of reading comics has also changed as people grow up. When I think about it, it's not so much that I, as a reader, have aesthetic fatigue, but rather that the author, Aoyama Gosaka, is tired of working for twenty years. His marriage with Gao Shannan lasted only two years. How many years (if any) can the passion for creation last?
To this day, the most impressive thing in the whole comic is still the "New York Chapter" in 2001: the brightly lit Brooklyn Bridge in the night, the angel-like corpse on the Broadway stage, and Akai passing by in the dark alley. Shuichi and Maori Lan... always thought that the most glorious moment of Sherlock Holmes was the moment in "A Study in Scarlet" when he pointed out that the coachman who invited Jun into the urn was the murderer, and the most glorious moment of Cun Fu was the moment in "The Scandal of Belgovia" I'm Sherlocked" password, the most glorious moment of Kudo Shinichi is when he smiled and said to Absinthe, "I don't understand why people kill people. But people save people, and they don't need logical reasons." moment. At the time of the 20th anniversary of the serialization of "Conan", I hope that Wannian primary school students can call the curtain in another most glorious moment. One is to give this long serial a title that has a beginning and an end, and the other is to let Qingshan take a long vacation and stay in Get creative enthusiasm back in new works. Of course, when Qingshan has new inspiration (or is short of money), the serialization can be restarted, after all, Reichenbach is already a Sherlock Holmes tradition.
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