#Black Iron Submarine

[comickergirl]

Listening to the Frieren trailer in the background while I work like, 'Waaaait a minute.' XD

[bakathief]

art I did for the 26th movie (/・ω・)/ thought I can publish them now that the movie is officially out on disc

[ssaraexposs]

This is a good years fo CoAi stans

[masterdetectivexx]

Hi Detective, what did you think of Movie 26?

Movie 26 (Black Iron Submarine) Review

Raw feelings:

I'm completely speechless by this movie. It was way beyond any of my minimal expectations. It was extremely good!

I was baffled out of pure disbelief at how much main plot stuff they were revealing in this movie to the point that my brain fried. You could immediately feel that it was a movie you needed to rewatch multiple times in order to fully digest and appreciate its greatness. It was pure fanservice in the best way possible, not the botched M20 way, where fanservice scenes didn't feel earned, mystery being completely gone and main plot/cast characters getting sidelined. Everyone had their moment to shine.

After 15 years, I get a DC movie that finally topped M13 as my new all-time favorite DC movie. I was so thoroughly satisfied that I couldn't help but clap at the end.

Haibara (Sherry)

Haibara truly shined in this movie. Not only did she have proactive role in rescuing herself, Naomi and later Conan, but her personal romantic feelings, childhood past and current relationships with her dear friends were further fleshed out. I was floored by the degree that she got exposed, to the point of the OG antagonist Vodka standing right in front of her next to Pinga, ready to kidnap her, and then later interrogating her about her identity.

I truly adore how the movie also revealed what started the bullying she went through in America (protecting her fellow half-japanese) and how Naomi's story complimented Haibara's childhood. It was a beautiful touch having Haibara's childhood classmate Naomi realizing Haibara's true identity by the end of the movie.

I also love how the movie depicted how highly Haibara viewed Conan/Shinichi and his protective reassuring face. It was cute seeing her face light up with happiness when he showed up. I was shocked, but also very appreciative of how respectful she was trying to be of Shinichi's relationship with Ran (more than the fandom clearly) that she went to the degree of passing on her CPR kiss with Conan to Ran.

Mizunashi (Kir)

Kir was one of the big standouts in this movie. You could truly feel the shift in spotlight focus between her and Bourbon, seeing as Bourbon was truly put in the backburner for Kir to get more shine, and it was perfectly handled and a true overdue for her (since she has been neglected in the franchise overall). I couldn't stop grinning and appreciate her nonchalant stunts to aid in Haibara's escape by pretending to not know how to open the exit tube in the submarine so Vodka could thoroughly explain it as Haibara overhears everything through the transmitter.

I especially loved her less indirect and confrontational move towards Gin, when she directly interferred with his murder attempt of Haibara & Naomi, and how she calmly talked back at Gin when he aimed the gun at her. She was a true badass worthy of her NOC title, that I've longed to see in the series, only to get it in this wonderful movie.

Pinga

I really enjoyed Pinga's role in the movie as well, and especially appreciated how he wasn't written to be similar to Irish and Curacao (who had a more sympathetic antagonist development) but rather to be a more selfish greedy psychopath with more ambition than Gin, but less talented. It was interesting to learn how he was deep undercover as an engineer for interpol since 5 years back while disguised as a woman.

I especially enjoyed seeing his fights with Ran, and how she became a troublesome enemy for him (giving Ran good spotlight like in M13), as well as how Conan straight up shit-talked to him while giving Gin praise in comparison, to the point of riling Pinga up.

Vermouth

Vermouth was the true MVP in this movie. She had such a central role in saving Haibara from the organization's suspicion. It was extremely exciting to see Vermouth immediately sensing the potential of Naomi's All-age Recognition System (ARS) and how it could expose the boss identity and whereabouts, but more importantly to her, expose Shinichi's shrinking, that she'd rather keep hidden like a pandora's box. I was shocked and loved how she manipulated the Boss into giving her the order to destroy the ARS for his own sake, when she in reality wanted to not only conceal the current APTX shrinking effects from him, but also protect Shinichi. The way she used her disguising skills to invalidate the ARS' accuracy was just a genius move by her.

The biggest surprise to me was how she was revealed to be the old woman from the start in disguise, who was given the sale ticket for a Fusae brand brooch by Haibara out of selfless kindness, and how Vermouth was basically revealed to also be repaying that kindness back to Haibara by protecting her from the BO, further deepening her motivations and multi-faceted nature in such a beautiful way as she gazes at the confused Silver Bullet (Conan) who is questioning them after getting Bourbon's intel.

Rum & Karasuma Renya

The Biggest shocker in this whole movie was without a doubt the big reveal that Rum, the no.2 of the Black Organization, is unaware of the Boss' whereabouts in recent times and that, apart from having Pinga request Naomi to sell the ARS to them so they can modify it and also use it to erase the BO's activities in security cameras (according the boss' orders), had intended to use the ARS to locate Karasuma Renya (the Boss).

This was a huge bombshell reveal, yet to be revealed in the manga, that further clarified the current ongoings within the organization. It basically as good as confirmed that the Boss is hiding a de-aged form from his subordinates (including his very close associate, Rum) and that no one other than Vermouth is aware of his hidden whereabouts. This revelation is further supporting my "Child of seven (Nanatsu no ko)" theory (the Boss being a shrunken 7-year-old who is only contacting his subordinates through phone to hide his child appearance and maintain authority). This also further established a distrustful relationship between Karasuma Renya and Rum, seeing as the Boss has kept Rum out of the loop, and how Rum has persisted to locate the Boss against his wishes, creating a very small divide within the organization's power structure. This is extremely exciting for the future of the series and has gotten me very hyped for what's left of Rum's development in the Rum climax.

Conclusion

This movie was overall a 10/10 product, that gave all the fans outstanding fanservice. Conan's devotion to save Haibara, Ran's supportive contribution to the point of almost getting shot, Agasa's deeply moving heartfelt tears after Haibara's kidnapping, Kuroda's helpful backing of Conan, Bourbon's informational support and Akai's loyal aid in taking down the submarine were all just the tip of the iceberg. All the beautiful callbacks to canon events were also among the best of the fanservice. I especially loved Haibara's callback to how a child (Ayumi) had once changed her life through their actions (File 437), Pisco kidnapping her despite wearing glasses (File 240), Ran reminding Haibara of Akemi (like in File 434), Kir's callback to her father sacrificing himself for her in response to Naomi's cry (File 604) and all the moments Haibara recalled when Conan comforted and moved her (Bus hijack, Haibara intro, Reunion, etc).

Gosho's involvement in the story was clearly noticeable, just by the sheer quality of the movie, and all of his many drawn keyframes were beautiful.

Screenshots

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#HAIBARASWEEP #SUMMEROFSHIHO #SIXHAIBILLIONDOLLARS

[coffeeviolinist]

Can we just talk about the fact that Akai, who’s officially dead and also operating in Japan illegally, was somehow able to obtain a whole ass helicopter?

[missmolsa]

Nothing to see here, just a movie star and a newscaster hanging out and participating in legal activities.

Og illustration after the cut:

[deuteriumuniverse]

New drawing of Conan and Ai on Twitter by Iwao Teraoka, an animation director on Movie 26 The Black Iron Submarine!

[winterfieldfrontiers]

Go against Mouri Ran, it's gon' cost ya 

How can't you call her "MOTHER"

[comickergirl]

M26 breakin’ some DetCo Japanese box office records, ya love to see it. XD

[zryexal]

Everytime I go back to M26 scenes I feel like I find something new to eat.

Conan thought ai chan was suffering from decompression sickness and rushed to give her CPR. But if you think about it, CPR doesn't really help decompression sickness. Simply breathing into someone only gets air into their system. It doesn't help get rid of the nitrogen bubbles inside the person.

So why was Conan's first reaction was to perform CPR?

Because he might be desperate. He doesn't know if he can get help immediately; he only just resurfaced and broke the huge wave, I bet he doesn't even have his phone on his person and would it work after a dive in the ocean? Does he know where he is exactly? On which part of the Pacific bouy? He can't count on his surroundings well, and he has no diving tools on himself. Also a personal guess but he probably can't just do nothing by ai chan's side either, her unresponsiveness is going to drive him insane. So the only thing he can do at that moment, because it's also on his mind perhaps (I mean it only just happened a few moments ago too) is to give CPR.

Now for someone as rational as Conan, the sweet point isn't whether their lips touched or not, it's the fact that Conan didn't even stop to check ai chan's symptoms. He didn't check her breathing, her pulse, anything, he just immediately grabbed her head and moved in to perform CPR. You can see at this point how he really can't let anything bad happen, much less lose her (cue the edogawa rampo [江户川乱步] scene where he stumbles on the way around the hotel corridor right after ai chan's kidnapping, how he yelled at Sato and gripped his knees with shaky hands, etc)

They're so real and for what.

[griffnoir]

just watched detective conan movie 26 this was the highlight

[ssaraexposs]

I feel like the way Rei acts towards Conan (and his allies... aka Akai Shuuichi) is completely different now. I think it's due to the mysterious "tea party" with the Kudos and Akai. In the latest movie, I found him being an actual ALLY to Conan. He was exchanging informations with him for real. Usually, as much as we all know him being one of the good guys, he acts mysterious and also a little bit arrogant. This time, he was actually trying to help Conan out.

[masterdetectivexx]

Movie 26 - Black Iron Submarine (Screenshots)

[sternutaries]

!slight spoilers for DetCo movie26!

I think we should give Kir more credit. Not an essay here just stating that she actually touched Gin, skin to skin, and survived. Even had a whole ass argument with him while it happened. Correct me if I'm wrong but did anyone ever actually touch Gin (especially skin to skin) so far? Like...ever?