#Stuff from Magic Kaito that was put in Detective Conan had all references of Pandora removed as well.
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triplethreat-triplea · 4 months ago
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Despite being stated to exist in the same universe...there's a slight difference between the Magic Kaito world and the Detective Conan world. Real magic does exist in Magic Kaito (even if he himself just uses stage tricks, Akako and Pandora are two examples of real magic) and real magic does not exist in the Detective Conan universe.
This puts the crossover of DCMK a bit at odds, is magic real or not? When Kaitou KID shows up in Detective Conan, he doesn't check the gems in the moonlight for Pandora because real magic doesn't exist in the Detective Conan universe.
So what is Kaitou KID's motivation? In Magic Kaito, it's clear. Find Pandora and destroy it so that a criminal organization cannot get their hands on immortality. But in Detective Conan? A core part of his motivations is missing. Perhaps it could be to figure out why his dad was killed, but... that's linked to Pandora too.
The magic of Pandora just being a folk tale would work in Detective Conan. If the criminal organization believes in the magic, then they will hurt people to get it, no matter if the magic is real or not. Keeps the motivation without real magic. Still works, right? But then why doesn't Kaito check the gems still? Or fake a gem and destroy that one in front of the bad guys? Or fake a gem and let the organization take it. If the legend of the gem doesn't come true, then it's because magic isn't real.
The ramifications of real magic existing in one universe and not the other is huge. Akako doesn't canonically exist in Detective Conan, as suggested by Gosho Aoyama himself. So what about heists she had a role in, are they also not canon to Detective Conan?
What else differs between universes? The butterfly effect exists, so what has it made a hurricane of? I'm going insane!
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