/r/OneTruthPrevails

475 readers for 6 months!

Small subreddit today. Trust me, it's worth your time. /r/OneTruthPrevails is a subreddit for Detective Conan a long running manga/anime series by Gosho Aoyama. The premise is as follows: a famous high school detective is investigating a crime when he is shrunken by a mysterious drug and becomes a kid again. He has to continue to investigate crimes to try and get his body back, all the while hiding his true identity from those around him. Oh, and when I say long running, what do I mean? If you started watching the episodes and movies right now (not including OVAs, magic files, etc), it'd take you over 15 days to finish it all. 363 hours, 23 minutes, 27 seconds. That's 763 episodes, 18 movies, and the two Lupin III VS movies. (Lupin III is another great series, by the way.)

And I love all of it. Seriously, I love Detective Conan. It's one of my favorite animes of all time. Right up there with Fullmetal Alchemist, Cowboy Bebop, and the rest of the greats. I'm currently at episode 712 (quite a bit behind), and have seen all the movies (20 of them, I think). I'm nowhere near tired of it. The mysteries are great, the crimes are clever, the characters are interesting, the plot is captivating, the music is awesome (I have the soundtracks currently playing), and above all else, Conan is a fookin' legend.

Who doesn't get hyped when Akai Shuichi shows up and makes some people wish they'd never been born? Who doesn't laugh at Professor Agasa's bad puns? You have never not cracked a smile at Mouri Kogoro's hilariously bad deductions. When Ran is close to figuring everything out, you all sat on the edge of your seat. The show (and manga) is packed to the brim with all this kind of awesome. Every episode (okay, maybe not some of the filler) is teeming with greatness. Remember that episode where Gin and Co. set up across from the agency with the intent to kill Kogoro? Oh, or remember the time Conan got drunk and went super saiyan transformed back for a while to put Heiji in his place? Oh man.

/r/OneTruthPrevails is the reddit portal to all of this and more. It's the discussion hub for Detective Conan on reddit, and a great place to ask questions. Are you picking the show back up and want to know what episode you were on, but only remember that the episode involved the culprit putting loose tape along the inside of the door to create a locked room mystery, unlocking the door as they broke it down to make it look like a suicide? They can find that episode (I can't, I looked, but I know it's a real episode.) Do you want to know where to buy lifesize replicas of Detective Takagi for your unspecified "special collection"? I'm sure they could help with that. How about if you're trying to compile a list of every episode in which someone said the word "dinosaur"? They can give you a hand there too.

Let's hear from the head mod of /r/OneTruthPrevails, who is so awesome and has the strength of a million men.

1. First off, tell me a bit about yourself.

/u/ReasonShallPrevail Well, /r/OneTruthPrevails is one of the three biggest Conan fan communities online. We've organized several contests, two YouTube channels, and an AMA with the series creator, Gosho Aoyama!

As moderators, we tend to take a laissez-faire approach, allowing any content that is not explicitly spam. Since the DC fan community is very friendly, this policy generally works.

As a subreddit, we provide users with a place to discuss Detective Conan news, theories, and fan works. Fans of Aoyama's other works, such as Magic Kaito and Yaiba, are welcome as well.

2. What would you say to someone to convince them to watch Detective Conan?

/u/ReasonShallPrevail It is one of the biggest anime/manga franchises in the history of the industry, and with good reason. Detective Conan is a holmesian who-dunnit with a twist. Though the plot advances slowly, the cases in-between major events are the heart and soul of Detective Conan - clever, fair-play crime mysteries that call for creative thinking and an open mind, engineered to teach fans about various obscure historical facts, niche field expertise, and philosophical dilemmas.

Given the series' 20 year history, there's an absurd amount of content just waiting to be devoured - between 18 movies, 18 games, 12 OVAs, 6 Magic Files, 14 Specials, 4 live action specials, 2 TV shows, 750 anime episodes, and nearly 1000 manga chapters, any fan of this series is bound to remain entertained for years to come.

3. What's been your favorite post in r/OneTruthPrevails?

/u/ReasonShallPrevail Easily the Gosho Aoyama AMA, as it not only showcases the diversity of the community, but also serves as a testament the extreme level of depth and care that is put into the series.

4. What's your favorite episode or chapter, and why?

/u/ReasonShallPrevail It's a bit early in the series, but I've always been a fan of the Moonlight Sonata Murder Case (Spoilers!), because it was one of the first times Conan let a case get to him.

Kogoro's Class Reunion (Spoilers!) gets an honorable mention, as it gave us a rare glimpse at Kogoro's true nature.

5. Thanks a bunch. Is there anything else you'd like to say?

/u/ReasonShallPrevail I'm glad Detective Conan is finally getting some exposure! Many thanks for giving us the opportunity to share our passion for the series with you! Also, take a look at /r/DetectiveConanShow and /r/DetectiveConanScans for an archive of all the episodes/chapters!

Thank you to /u/ReasonShallPrevail for answering my questions. I want to note, that you're all welcome to answer these questions as well, encouraged even, in the comments. I'd love to hear what you have to say. Before I make this post too long answering them for myself, I'd better wrap this up. I encourage all of you to go to /r/OneTruthPrevails and subscribe immediately. It's an awesome community full of awesome people, and I love it to death. It would make my year if it became much more active. Do it for me. Do it for her. I mean Jodie, the best character ever. (FACT)

This has been Holmes' Apprentice, Xavier Mendel, signing off.