#azusa police

[konahana]

My Opinion About Zero's Tea Time (ZTT) Detective Conan Spin-Off

Summary: I agree this is not really 'Zero's Tea Time', more to Furuya Rei's Tea Time or Amuro Toru's Tea Time. Because Amuro and Rei are here, but Zero forever buried and only occasionally appear for his late dear friends. Zero is for WPS and for now, WPS only.

I'm happy ZTT Rei has Haro as some kind of healing and now I'm even more worried for Canon Rei. Canon Rei only have Kazami :"D

Overall, I love ZTT especially Time.2, Time.3, and Time.6! But other Eps are so fun too! I want to read ZTT manga now!

It's understandable if some people feel that ZTT is too fanservice-y because half of the screentime is for Amuro Toru persona, & even I think some of Rei's action here is a bit too open (additional after reading the manga: And too much free time being 'Amuro Toru' for the people, like ski resort chapter, baseball chapter, etc) for supposed-undercover.

But we actually get a lot of Rei being Rei too? So it's not THAT bad

Especially when Kazami is with him. He's so "Rei". And when Camel came to Poirot. That's Rei being "Rei" too. Furuya Rei flashback with Elena? Mourning for WPS? Liking Japanese product? Hating Akai? That's all "Furuya Rei" at his most authenticity.

(Additional after reading the manga: The moment we saw Rei being 'Furuya Rei' on anime and movie are always on urgent situation, except Police Academy Arc. Rei being 'Rei' in anime and movie is always high-stake or just serious moment. So I really appreciate Furuya Rei non-serious mode on ZTT. The control-freak nature? The occasional snark? The side-eye? The impatient 'I-dont-choose-other-way-I-make-MY-way-as-long-as-I-reach-my-goal'? Golden.)

So I don't really understand when people hated ZTT like it's the worst thing to do for Rei, like ZTT done so much disservice for Furuya Rei's character... But I guess it's back to each opinion

(Additional after reading the manga: As romantic AmuAzu disliker, I even feel confused for those who said ZTT baited too much for canon romantic AmuAzu in manga because, I actually don't see much scene of romantic AmuAzu except for that one chapter which in the end not happening at all because it's just grandma's imagination from the start to the end, and the last chapter when Azusa cried after Rei came back to Poirot.)

Final rating: 9/10! I love Rei. Kazami is great. Azusa, Midori, Hiroki, Camel are nice

Funfact: I consider the interpersonal relationship & the personal feeling here as canon rather than the event itself

The WPS dream of Rei... I interpret it as Rei himself is the one who kinda suicidal because he wanted to be with his friends, not like "WPS would never say that!"

Same with movie. I think the event itself isn't canon but the feeling is CANON

Like, Rei placing his Akai Hatred above national importance (read: Curacao & BO coming)? Canon. Rei willing to unjustifiedly arrest someone so he could actually catch the real one? Canon.

Rei could drive crazily? Canon

I thought the only reason Rei didn't fight with Akai on M26 because of:

- He didn't meet face to face with Akai

- Conan already in the middle of them (like how in M20 they stopped fighting bcs Conan here)

- BO actually already there at that moment

[floofiestboy]

But really, that dialogue in ZTT Ch. 1 that Aoyama either wrote himself or signed off on is insane, especially when you compare how Rei’s mixed heritage is addressed in WPS by his friends:

vs. in ZTT:

The only way this makes sense to me is if it was meant to further emphasize how alone Rei is in the here and now. He has no one who sees him as himself anymore, and neither does he have anyone who’d get angry enough to defend him. He himself is used to this level of othering- it’s not even worth getting mad at anymore, even if he might spitefully overcompensate at home by cooking up a storm of food that actually suits his tastes. So he’ll never bite back against it himself.

I assume Aoyama was planning an am*azu endgame from before ZTT started, considering that early am*azu fantasy chapter. Why in the world wouldn’t he have instead written Azusa as an ally to Rei, in that case? She could’ve defended Rei against a casually discriminating background character, cementing her as a proper friend to Rei that he hasn’t had since he lost his last police academy buddy.

Instead, he chose to do the exact opposite.

[autumn-foxfire]

KID vs Amuro!

He's still angry about the Heiji incident. Kaito, you need to kiss him to make it up to him.

Azusa: I'm not dating him, he's gay.

Sonoko, who does not recognize gay people: Sure~

God, people are so gross though. Azusa is just his coworker and she gets the hate because how dare she be friends with a hot guy. Akai come in and make out with Amuro and show them who the real competition is.

But lol, Shinichi really is Amuro and Akai's adopted son at this point. He's held both of their hands pretending to be so now.

IT'S TIME FOR KAITO TO GET JEALOUS!

Ran and Sonoko: You could go toe to toe with KID

Kaito: Yeah right.

Shinichi: No, you really could.

Kaito: This bitch-I'll show him!

The fact that Kaito breaks one of the principles of magic just because he got jealous Shinichi complimented Amuro is so goddamn funny.

He certainly succeeded in getting Shinichi's attention~

We all know that's not why, Shinichi. But you are dense so I'll forgive you.

He's such a petty asshole T-T Or maybe he's preparing his shotgun speech for Shinichi's future boyfriend. Both, definitely both. He got shown up in front of his child and now he knows it's the guy his son has got a massive crush on. He needs to make sure he's appropriate for him (I'm delusional).

...Poor Kazami.

Jirokichi's new voice is weird. I need a while to get used to it.

Do they want to kill someone with this trap?!

Kazami: Why are you so interested in KID?

Amuro, not wanting to reveal the truth: ...I have my reasons.

LOOK AT SHINICHI IN THE BACKGROUND. YOU KNOW HE KNOWS THIS IS KID AND HE DOES. NOT. SAY. ANYTHING.

Shinichi just wants to see Amuro and Kaito go at each other. He's even asking leading questions that both of them will hear (though you know that Kaito already knows) just to watch their responses.

Kaito has proven to pretend to be a child before, quite successfully. But yeah, I doubt he could pull it off here.

Lol they took the time to wipe off the paint before opening the case.

Shinichi with his dads and Shinichi with his boyfriend! Also I love it when they put Kaito and Shinichi over significant lyrics.

Shinichi, that really isn't the only reason he provoked you.

I love how Shinichi throws him everyone a bone and goes: "Yeah, I know where he is" but only after they've all despaired about him disappearing.

Poor Azusa, she just wanted a picture. Kaito almost gave into her too.

Awww, Shinichi warned his boyfriend before he got crushed to death by the police.

I love how Kaito asks Shinichi how he figured him out. He loves to let him show off his reasoning.

Kaito is a pretty princess! I love how he put the Queen's Bangs on his hat. He deserves to look pretty.

OH MY GOD KAITO JUST TELL EVERYONE HOW JEALOUS YOU ARE!

I love when we get to see the Kaito who isn't as "cool and know it all" as he's perceived.

Amuro: Have we met?

Kaito: Yeah, we've met, you almost killed me.

He approves.

And at least Amuro sort of paid back Kazami T-T

[dracrownian]

Other people are talking about the ZTT bread comment and making better points than I could think of myself (and more eloquently), so I've decided to, instead, talk about the other big problem I find with the entire am*azu pairing:

Azusa literally does not know that Furuya Rei exists.

The man she works with? That she pretends not to have a crush on (because we all know where this is going)? He doesn't fucking exist, not really.

Amuro Tooru is fake. He's a made-up persona that Rei uses in order to further is other goals. As soon as it's no longer useful to him? Amuro Tooru disappears entirely.

Azusa doesn't know Furuya Rei. She knows nothing about him. Could she learn? Sure, yeah, maybe, but I'm not convinced that an in-character Azusa would even like Rei.

There are pieces of Amuro that are probably true to Rei's personality (just as I believe there are also pieces of the Bourbon persona that are still Rei), but it's just crumbs. In most ways, Amuro and Rei are entirely different people.

Azusa does not know Rei. She doesn't know his personality, his horrors, his trauma. She doesn't know that he was bullied for his heritage as a kid, that he still faced some of those same comments in the police academy. She doesn't know, and wouldn't understand, his undercover work.

She would meet Furuya Rei, PSB Agent, and probably think he's an uptight asshole.

(She won't in canon, because Gosho's obsessed with his bullshit comphet romances, but if he stuck with any of her admittedly minimal characterization at all, she would despise the real Rei.)

(And let's not get started on the stuff he's done as Bourbon. The options are either keep that a secret forever, which sucks in a relationship, or deal with the fallout, which would destroy Azusa.)

She doesn't know about Elena, one of the few people in his life that look at him and just see him and not his blonde hair or his dark skin. Someone who understood him in a way other people really can't. And even if he told Azusa about all that, I don't think she'd ever fully understand, because she doesn't know what it's like to grow up being othered.

I do think working at Poirot is doing Rei some good, bringing back some of the humanity he probably felt like he lost being undercover for years, and especially after losing everyone who loves him, but he's never going to be Amuro Tooru. And it's better that way. We shouldn't have to be subjected to having his entire personality butchered and watered down in order to make a romantic relationship make sense, but that's what's going to happen with this pair.

[potahun]

Furuya and Edges

i started typing this in the tags of a frkz post and then thought i might as well type it out.

we've all been in the camp of "ZTT is crap, it makes Furuya a boring gary stu yadda yadda" or "it softens him too much". I was in that camp as well on my first read, it poured a whole bucket of cold water on my toughly acquired appreciation of Furuya as a character. Absolutely loathed ZTT

And now I do want a ZTT 2. For furukaza reasons, yes, but also, I realise what I like about ZTT is that it does give Furuya edges which we are missing in the main manga. It does show us Furuya, as Furuya.

Furuya needs to be edgeless as Amuro. He needs to be friendly enough but also distant enough to be approachable to all, without anyone actually getting any intel on him that they can use. That's why all of his personality is smoothened out into something "universally" likeable or at least acceptable.

It's also why 97% of the times we see his personality surge out in the manga is regarding Akai, when the rage takes him - because he always disliked Akai, yes, but most importantly, bc Akai is too directly connected to Hiro and the wound of losing Hiro; Hiro, the heart of his heart: the one who guarded the most genuine parts of him, having seen him as a child. And what do we see in those moments when Furuya's edges emerge?

Impatience and rashness. (rushes into the Kudou's house without proof, is in too much hurry to get to results)

Temperament and emotion. (uses kisama on Akai, gets destabilised, goes up to a guy with no agenda other than to say he's dying to pull down their collar or that he hates someone enough to kill them)

This matches the traits we see in WPS and in the flashbacks of his childhood, where Furuya:

is hot-headed and temperamental (gets into physical fights based on feeling, is asked if he can get along with the person he fought with and snaps instantly with "are you joking?" (Hiro is the one who creates a window for him and Matsuda to talk again))

is reckless and intense (gets hurt on purpose to visit Elena)

is stubborn and opinionated, in that he actively tries to figure out what's wrong with Matsuda, but his views remain heavily and stubbornly biased despite learning more about him (his vision of the police as a good student vs Matsuda's personal grudge).

But WPS is in the past, and the manga only shows us Furuya when he "loses it" with Akai (+once, his pettiness with Kid). It is mostly "unhinged" moments when he loses to negative emotions. It counts! But it's incomplete. Your most stressed out side is not your only, real personality.

And so, I do like ZTT for filling the missing picture. In ZTT, we do see a lot of Furuya being Amuro, edgeless and a gary stu. But in details, we also see A LOT of furuya being furuya and having a personality with ugly edges.

An overwhelming majority of this happens when Kazami is there, because with Kazami he's always Furuya. It's not for nothing that Kazami struggles to call him anything but Furuya-san. It's reciprocal! Furuya is never Amuro with Kazami, not when they're alone. But he also does show his "edges" a few times with Camel and Azusa!

We see Furuya being impatient, and wanting things to be given to him straight / to have things be straight. (he's a "what is it? say it clearly!" guy and a "it's a hassle to give directions. i'll drive myself (hierarchy be damned)" guy and also a "let me explain to you why i'm single. see i absolutely cannot let you go away from here with misunderstandings" guy)

We see Furuya being opinionated and judgey (he gives the stink eye often, e.g. when Kazami spits out celery like Haro, he does it with Camel, with Azusa and her pumpkins and the velvet cake).

We see him be obsessively controlling (excel sheets for haro's diet, really?)

We see him be prickly ("you better not think that i'm the one getting vaccinated...")

are those good traits? no. what a terrible guy. but damn, we definitely are seeing those edges there. And they're in little things - not in the big losses of temper.

So I like ZTT for allowing me to say with sound basis that Furuya is actually a really "prickly, rash and opinionated guy at heart, and he might actually prefer things to be set straight as fast as possible in his own daily context, which is the opposite of his worksona". It does make him a more likeable blorbo and gives me so much more material to make fun of him.

It also fuels so much of my furukaza headcanons. But that is a story for another day.

PS: Incidentally, it's why "emotional" is not something I use often as a descriptive for Furuya's personality despite emotion being one of the edges we see most in the main manga, because, I think, he loses it with Akai as a result of his deepest wound and he's shit at processing the grief other than channelling it into anger. But I don't necessarily consider it a character trait. Ironically, I wonder whether, if he was an emotional person, he might actually be better at processing grief (or understanding Matsuda' off the bat's POV, for example). It's like the question of whether your trauma-induced PTSD is part of your personality? It's not the same thing, but I sometimes feel that his own losses of temper, as a placeholder for grief-processing, are actually a sign that he's under-developed in terms of emotional maturity, which, to me, suggests he favors rationality as his main tool, and therefore defaults to emotion only when the rest is lost. I think he's "temperamental" but not necessarily "emotional".

[yuikomorii]

Don’t know about Azusa but as someone who’s favourite boy is Subaru, I can confirm that he’s no better than any of his brothers in terms of respecting women lol. Even in a fairly new game like lost eden, where all of them are intended to be nicer, he harasses Yui in Kou’s route and forces himself on her, despite her telling him "no".

I don’t see any point in playing moral police here. Rejet will always let them keep some 🚩 no matter how many games pass. No one has to excuse their behaviour, just enjoy this series of games in peace.

// Yup, I agree.

Moreover, you made me remember that LE scene, and I’m sorry, I know it’s not supposed to be funny but I always find it so UNCOMFORTABLY hilarious.

So many things happen in such a short scene and Subaru’s “behave!” made me imagine Yui as a disobedient dog, lol.

[leonawriter]

I- Azusa, why, why?!

She asks him if he prefers bread for breakfast (as in, not something most Japanese would do) based purely on "Just kind of from how you look... you are blond, after all..."

Amuro, of course, says "You'll need to dig a little deeper for that to make logical sense!" which to me is a kind of... tactful and polite way of saying "wow, you're showing your prejudice a bit there, want to try again?"

It kinda hits harder after learning more about his past in both the Detective Conan chapters where he thinks more about how Elena Miyano connected with him when he was young, and Wild Police Story, where Wataru Date defended him from similar remarks made in much less polite ways (i.e, academy canteen bullying).

He's used to this sort of attitude - the old "you don't look Japanese, so is your lifestyle less Japanese as well? Do you prefer less Japanese styles, or foods?" which... when people can easily have non-Japanese ancestry but can also have never lived outside of Japan? Is really prejudiced and rude.

What I will say is that since this attitude is so ingrained in many ways, it doesn't say as much about an individual as it does about social norms. My standard is less "wow, that individual is doing this, that means they're bad" it's more "if that person was told how rude they were being, would they accept it and apologise?"

Sure it'd be nice if no one had to learn, but that's not a very forgiving mindset.

[rum4869]

Uehara Yui was supposed to be the culprit! But she ended being a recurring character.

So I find this reddit post:

I looked up the source the starting of SDB justice plus says:

I went ahead and made a transcript for it (and tried to translate it):

tl:

Hello, it's Aoyama!

Of course it's coming out: JUSTICE＋(lol)

When it comes to the police department and FBI, it's romantic comedy after all, right?(lol) Although in the FBI there's almost no romcom. (There is love, though..)

The relationships in the police department are a jumbled mess <3. Starting with Takagi and Sato, Yumi and Shuukichi, Shiratori and Ms. Kobayashi. Chiba and Naeko, Megure and Midori… Amuro and Azusa? (lol), etc…

Among them, there is only one unfolding outside of Tokyo. Nagano Prefectural Police's Yamato Kansuke and Uehara Yui. Actually, Yui was a culprit!(lol).

When I came up with her name based on the fictional names('Yuu hime' and 'Ko-i hime') of Takeda Shingen's beloved wife, Suwa Goryōnin, I felt like "I want to make her the heroine of this case…" So, I quickly adjusted the dialogues. (While the assistants were sleeping. It took 2 hours.(lol))

When I showed the completed draft of first chapter to the editor in charge saying "This character is no longer the culprit…", The editor was like "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-t?!" This really happened. (lol) For this reason, Yui looked like the culprit until the end. (Well, naturally. She was supposed to be, at first.) I personally think it ended up really good.

Since she became the heroine, I put in the intense romcom with kansuke. When I added the strategist, Mofurushi Taka'aki, apparently Nagano Prefectural Police became the strongest. (tl: The word for 'strong' is the one used for strong coffee.)

If Kuroda stayed in Nagano at that state, justice would have been served even without Conan.

transcript:

どーも　青山です！

当然出るのね　JUSTICE＋（プラス）（笑）

警察とFBIといえば、やっぱ。。。。。　ラブコメだよね？（笑） 。。。とはいえ。FBIのラブコメは、ほとんどないが。（ラブはあるけど・・・） 警察関係は。。ゴチャゴチャありまくり　<3 高木（たかぎ）と佐藤（さとう）に始まり、由美（ゆみ）と秀𠮷（しゅうきち）、白鳥（しらとり）と 小林（こばやし）先生。 千葉（ちば）と苗子（なえこ）。目暮（めぐれ）とみどり。安室（あむろ）と梓（あずさ）？（笑）。etc…

そんな中。唯一東京以外で　ラブコメを繰り広げてるのが。 長野県警の　「大和　勘助」と　「上原　由衣」なのだが。 実は由衣は当初、犯人だったのだ！（笑）でも。彼女の名を 武田（たけだ） 信玄（しんげん）の最愛の妻、「諏訪御料人」の想像上の名前である 「湖衣姫」と「由布姫」の間を取って「由衣」と決めたら、 「なんか　この子。。。事件のヒロインにしたくなっちゃいたな。。。」と思い 急遽セリフを手直しして。（アシが寝た後、２時間かけて修正（笑）） 一語目の完成原稿を担当編集さんに渡した時に。。。 オし(?)、「あ、このキャラ、犯人じゃなくしたから。。。」 担当編集　「ええーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーっ！？」ってやり取りがあったのは ホントの話！（笑）お陰でラストまで由衣が犯人っぽくて （まあ、元々犯人だったんだから当然だけど。。。（笑）） オレ的には、イイ感じに仕上がりやった！

ヒロインならばと、勘助とのラブコメもガンガンぶち込み。 同僚の刑事に、同じ軍師系の「諸伏高明」を加えたら、 なにやら長野県警だけ濃（こ）ォーい警察になって しまったのだった。。。。（笑）

あのまま「黒田」が長野県警に留まっていたら、 コナンがいなくても長野で正義（ジャスティス）は 執行されると思う。。。（笑）

[moonlightkitsune]

I like thinking about what Amuro has heard about KID secondhand considering the company he keeps. Azusa's a big enough KID fan to incorporate it into her blog, Sonoko idolises KID as do the Detective Boys (though they do it differently), Kogorou and Ran frequently are involved in heists not to mention Conan is the KID Killer who considers him a playmate of all things.

Rei's jurisdiction isn't Phantom Thieves but the general consensus seems to be that KID is a frenemy type figure to the Japanese police who they will catch not harm but can also use to their advantage when their goals align without much harm happening to them or the public (Zero seemed to have fun at the Queen's Bang too, it's nice to see him share the other detectives' desire to match wits with KID), though he'd a a good ally or a horrifying terrorist/assassin if he wanted to be. Does Rei suspect him of working with Akai or Vermouth courtesy of the Mystery Train? I kind of want to see Rei's reaction to finding out KID photographed Okiya's voice-changing choker in use.

I wonder what the Underworld thinks of KID and therefore Bourbon. Kaito's interacted with Chat Noir, Dark Knight: Nightmare, Lupin III, as well as Spider and Snake/Jackal & Rose. He helps some criminals, exposes others and is open to competition. He operates in the shadows and the spotlight but isn't exposed to either world, he's simultaneously exploitable and dangerous to mess with (he always gets payback). Generally if you leave him and his alone he leaves you alone though, he's not like a vigilante. His skills are high demand and his secrecy makes him anear urban legend if not for the media coverage.

If he did find out, Rei would be interested in the association with Vermouth, and be impressed that KID got that picture in the first place... even though he had to give it up.

As for the Underworld... hopefully, they either take advantage or leave well enough alone.

[pinktie]

Enomoto Azusa is a fun character; she makes the setting of a detective agency above a cafe seem more lively and I welcome Ran not being solely responsible for feeding her family. She’s knowledgeable about her job and cares a lot for the Mouris and Conan. She was a good senpai to Amuro too when he started. I remember when her big brother Sugihito (28, 5 years older than her) was accused of murder and framed, she went against police advice and tracked him down. As a result lots of police members became regulars because of the cafe’s special pasta recipe. I like her original design as well but prefer her as a more recurring character. She has a blog and is a KID fan too.

AzuAmu/AmuAzu feels like despite both of them seeing each other as colleagues everyone sees them as a couple (probably because a pair of attractive adults hang out more than necessary) to the point where Azusa tries to disguise going with him to places from Amuro’s fans using others. I like that she’s witnessed some of Furuya Rei’s craziness in him and he does seem to get along with and respect her too.

She is a great character, isn't she.

My newest favorite moment of her was her reaction to Amoru's "love confession."

[amu-azu]

I just imagining myself as Master Poirot. One day, I gave my two employees (who I suspected were dating) tickets to the exhibition.

Later, that night, when the exhibition should've closed, I called one of them about cafe opening hours tomorrow and he said he would tell his colleague because they were still together, so I didn't contact her.

The next morning, I found them both sleepy and yawning a few times.

"Last night was so tiring. I'm so sleepy right now," said my male employee as he yawned.

"Still, I was too excited last night. I woke up late this morning," said my female employee with sleepy eyes.

I thought, what made him tired and what made her excited last night? Then I concluded that my suspicions were right. It wasn't a rumour anymore, was it? So I told everyone, including my substitute who seemed to have a crush on my female employee.

I told him wisely, "You should just give in. She seems happy with the new handsome part-timer at Poirot."

I don't know what happened next, but I heard that my substitute came to the cafe just to make sure that my handsome male employee was suitable for my sweet female employee.

Oh, I heard them denied it too. It seems like they are still shy, or they don't want to make their relationship public yet. But I'm still sure that they are dating.

Lol, I would love a fic from Poirot's Master POV

from his POV they really must look like a couple (●'◡'●)

Oh, so you think Reita has a crush on Azusa huh. I made a poll and 50% believe he does and 50% don't.

I'm more inclined towards him liking her. Maybe platonically? Like how the police officials were with Sato? well, he is 15 years older than her 🤔

[nocandnc]

You people have no idea how delulu I can actually be!!

Watch this—

Is his facial structure totally different? YES. But we haven’t seen Azusa’s brother in A Long Time, and it wouldn’t be the first time someone's appearance got a major overhaul (Elena, Takagi, even Azusa herself!)

What is similar is the dark wavy hair, fine parted bangs and thick brows.

The first image is a shot from the new movie, and appears directly between shots of Furuya and Kazami, implying there could be a connection there. In Zero's Tea Time, they and Azusa's brother bonded a bit as a trio... so it's possible this was canonized.

The main antagonist of the movie appears to be a rifleman!

Interestingly, Sugihito was suspected of a gun-related murder on his introduction on account of his shooting hobby. In Zero's Tea Time, he's gotten good enough to enter into competitions.

Finally, the movie's setting is a snowy mountain. Snowfall also played a key role in proving Sugihito's innocence.

I've long wondered what it would've been like had Amuro been present back during the case with Azusa's brother. Would he assist the police and treat the Enomotos as suspects, or would he believe in Azusa and support her defiance of them? She certainly wouldn't be able to give him the slip as easily as Takagi, but she also might have trusted him enough to reveal the message her "brother" sent her and let him accompany her to the warehouse...

Wait, where was I going with this? Uh.

Visual connections can be drawn between the new movie and the case involving Azusa's brother. I don't think he's ACTUALLY involved (wouldn't that be insane? I'd love a fic of it lol) but it would be fun if he made a quick appearance as a little wink to the audience.

Of course, this is all leading into my TRUE hope for the movie, which is

MORE AZUSA!!!

... And If I'm rambling about fanfiction wants and needs, I'd really love a story where Sugihito has to actually use his shooting skills to protect Azusa. Not murder, but like. Maybe she gets caught up with some criminals while the three are together, prompting Amuro to put Sugihito to work providing cover fire while he goes in to save her... I don't know, I'm crazy >>>.>>>

[autumn-foxfire]

Up to movie 22! I can't believe I'm almost at 23, the best DC movie. But I still have this one to get through first.

Of course Shinichi knows the record for the highest a drone can fly. The king of weird facts.

It's too early in the movie for you two to look pretty. Not fair.

We're starting off with a very violent explosion I see.

Or, Agasa, you should tecach the children to take turns like a normal person would.

Well that isn't good news for Amuro. If Ai noitced, you know that the BO did too. Is this going to have BO involvement?

The synopsis did say Kogoro was framed. I have to wonder how they managed to achieve that, however.

She deserves the world. Gosho, you should give her the world.

This episode shows you why the police aren't your friends. Also why is Ran calling Shinichi and NOT ERI. ONE OF THEM IS A LAYWER AND HER MOTHER.

This movie already is getting on my nerves.

Shinichi, Amuro has always been your adversary. He almost fucked up your plan with Akai for a personal grudge. He almost got Ai killed (someone you said you would protect with your life). I'm sorry, but I really hate how lightly Shinichi treats Amuro when other people have gotten his scorn for less actions.

Finally, Ran remembered her mother is a lawyer and went to her. Who she should have gone to first but we gotta push the bad romance~

Awww, thank you Agasa for reminding Shinichi not to take it out on Ai.

Ran, trust your mother's judgement. She is the lawyer. She knows what she's doing.

So Nasa is known as Nazu in DCMK.

Honestly, I think they should let Shinichi be more pissed off.

LMAO I do love Azusa shutting down Amuro's comment about being a good wife. She's not for it. She only cares about profits.

Shinichi, you should recognize the "I'm just going to the toilet" excuse for what it is. This is just embarrassing for you.

Does this man not change his suit?

Shinichi, why are you admitting your crimes to a police officer? Your lucky he won't do anything about it but what you just did was a crime that could get you in a lot of shit.

Shinichi isn't even bothering to be "shinichi" to tell the truth.

Ran don't get flustered about that. If Shinichi is a decent person, he would do this without any connection. Also Shinichi can you fucking NOT insult Ran. It's not playful when you do it to her because you're an ass to her and you genuinely do treat her like an idiot who doesn't deserve to know as much as you do.

Sorry, I'm just realising why I don't see many people talk about this film unlike the others.

Shinichi entered the matrix.

Pile ups are becoming common in Detective Conan movies.

Of course Ran is where the danger is. Can't have a movie without her being a damsel in distress who needs to be saved by Shinichi!

CAN WE FUCKING NOT. Sorry I'm throwing up because they're also making Eri a school girl whose blushing over being protected by Kogoro (who is also in danger but is calm because the men get to be cool).

I'm sure this tall place won't be in any danger at all. None at all :)

I wonder if these public security know that they're using children to fly a drone to "defend this country".

"I tried to ruin a family for my petty revenge." God this movie is fully of bad people, isn't it. Amuro and her would get on great though.

Imagine being a part of this evacuation though. You were told to go somewhere safe and then the police go "lol we made a mistake, this place is where the actual danger is".

Genuinely, I really hate the contrived danger they put Ran in so they can have Shinichi be all worried about her and not the thousands of other lives in danger as well.

Give a cheer for Amuro's car, the true MVP in this movie.

Fuck. Off.

Shinichi: Do you have a girlfriend, Amuro?

Amuro: Shinichi, I'm gay, just like you.

Shinichi: I'm what?

They're being very obnoxious with the "Ran"s this movie, aren't they.

LMAO I find it kind of funny how pushed the romance was this movie and they just showed the conclusion in the ending credits which was just Shinichi going "Oh, glad you're alright."

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Revival Nostalgic

Part V:

Musical

Everywhere music, everywhere

Song for you, for you and you!

Emo liar~~

Shiki's lore 💀

Mariposa~~

Shiki in general ☠️☠️☠️

Mage the tsundere

Yeah Aniki!

Urie Daddy issues Sogami

Rem Daddy issues Arlond

Incest?

What Lindo is whose son?!

Lindo Daddy and Mommy issues Tachibana

The beach episode in the game 10/10

What Shiki did what?!

Stop Shiki! Stop!

Urie is that a thong?? *laughs* well, nice torso

And that whip?

A pomeranian😍

That is Cerberus? *laughs* Aww~~~

Roen bad! Bad Roen!

Lindo The mom

Ritsuka! If they say no, it's no!

Where the fuck is the police when you need them?!

What the Church what?!😨😨

Where is animal protection when it is needed?

Azusa🪦

My first reaction:

*Me before watching the anime*

Mmm? A supernatural, romance, musical anime? What?! Are Subaru and Laito's seiyuus in it?! Oh yeah baby!!

*After watching the first episode of the anime*

High School Musical supernatural version? 🤨

*The dance episode*

Disney is that you? 🤨

*The fight episode*

Wtf!? When did they change clothes??? Why?

*The End*

What the-?!?! I have many questions and I need answers

*After all the routes in the game*

What???

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Shumori chapter 8

TW: Diabolik Lovers, sexual harassment, mild violence, high level manipulation. More dream world next time!

Subaru skipped class to track at least one of the amateur terrorists, learn their schedule, whereabouts, dwelling and eventually find where they were holding Yui captive.

He had a lot more success than he wanted to, though; turns out two of the brothers noticed and blocked his way whenever he was about to get close to Yui, who was being a lot more closely guarded by the guy with too much perfume.

How close, exactly? And why did she allow this?

Subaru had a knot in the stomach and seriously considered the possibility that there really was no point in trying to retrieve his girlfriend; he could hear her heart sometimes went faster, too. But he had to see for himself. As he was reaching the hallway her scent came from, they appeared again.

-I'm sorry, Subaru... but we can't be suspected of holding a hostage... -Azusa had just dropped an entire cart full of basketballs to roll and bounce directly at Subaru like bowling balls to a pin- you would make it too obvious...

Subaru was appalled the school seemed to pay no attention to the racket Azusa's balls were making, or the soapy water Ruki was strategically dropping just a few meters of Yui's classroom.

-Don't even bother telling on us -Ruki said, rather proudly as he made a barricade out of mops- we have bribed the cleaning staff, and they were a bit too enthusiastic about the idea of causing you any type of predicament. It's best to keep your distance, Sakamaki Subaru.

Subaru tripped on a ball and landed face down, as all classrooms shut their doors and left tardy students outside for another 45 minutes. He was condemned to skip yet another class today.

This only further angered Subaru. And reporting them for bullying was too lame. What would Shu do?

Nothing. He wouldn't give a-

Exactly!

He'd send a familiar to follow them and leave a trail for him to catch up. Yui couldn't possibly think he'd forgotten about her, or could she?

-Hey, Masokitty, it's especially dark tonight, isn't it? -Kou stretched out a hand to Yui- do you wanna hold hands? We wouldn't want you to be snatched away by some scary serial killer...

Yui was embarrassed to even be suggested the option. She couldn't really phatom disrespecting Subaru like that by her own will but on the other hand, she really did find their way home to be a bit scary.

-Can we maybe just have me walk in front instead?

-And have all of us 3 vampires look at you obsessively the whole way? -Kou smirked- My, you really have a hidden pervert inside!

-Or is it just vanity? -Kou growled as his eyes narrowed- I tried the easy way, but you are annoyingly uncooperative...

And he cuffed himself to her, with real, cold metal cuffs.

-Kou, why? -Yui yelped as he forcefully pulled her forward

-A spirit, a being with no physical body, cannot undo chains or anything like that. -Kou giggled- isn't that poetic, Masokitty? Ruki here thought of all possibilities, that's our big brother for you!

-Kou, let's get on with it; -Ruki smiled a little but tried to dissimulate- you know what our limits are.

-Hey, Eve... -Azusa said casually as he walked beside a handcuffed Yui- I'm so jealous you get to use those for the first time, they are top-quality and military grade... do they hurt?

Yui felt both hopeless and mortified... but hopefully that "spirit" she had been cuffed in account of had something to do with the Sakamaki house... this town must have so many other creepy creatures hungry for humans, but she wanted to believe.

Meanwhile, the police was inspecting a park where drug dealers liked to hang out and they spotted a huge guy sleeping on a tree branch like he lived in the jungle.

They shone a light in his face,

-Sir, get down immediately, we cannot have people climbing these trees! Are you under the influence of any substance?

Yuma growled and hissed and covered his eyes as the police made their classic police-y noises. He almost lost balance, if it wasn't for the rope he could have fallen from quite a few meters.

He had tied himself to a tree like he was avoiding being eaten by some predator. He didn't know how he got here, or why he'd resorted to this action.

The police was about to interrogate him when he snapped out of the confusion and remembered he was a vampire, fuck the police!

And he ran in super speed out of their sight. Now, where did he live..?

Subaru arrived at what looked like a modern version of the Sakamaki mansion. He wondered if he would be crazy to think these people had something to do with his bastard of a father, but that was insane.

Surely there were a lot more vampires in the human world than there should be, right? Every single one was one too much, in his view, but he couldn't imagine other vampires having a demented father send them here; he wanted to believe not too many were like Karl-Heinz.

He just had bad luck. Speaking of which, it started raining.

Laito would probably say this was a scene from a horror movie in which a stalker stood around waiting for the heroine to discover him.

Fuck Laito, he was the good guy! They really had held her hostage previously, though. He didn't really know if she'd left willingly. Now he was mad at Laito for no reason. No, not at Laito. He hated himself. He had definitely messed up with Yui enough for this to happen.

But priorities first: the lights were on on the other side of the house. Everywhere was dark except this one window.

As he got closer, he saw the blond guy holding Yui's face in his hand, her back pressed against what he guessed was his dimly lit bedroom wall.

-Come on, Masokitty, it's rather selfish that I escorted you all the way here -he grabbed her chin and lifted it to expose her neck- keep you company in a scary storm and even give you nice, fluffy pajamas -he murmured in her ear, feeling up the fabric in her waist and pinning her hip against the wall with one leg- and you won't let me suck your blood?

-Kou, -Yui moaned as she struggled- I didn't ask for any of this, please let me go!

-You totally thought it was a given, didn't you? -Kou slowly passed a light finger along her carotid- You really are arrogant... just look at these goosebumps, begging to be pierced...

He bit, she yelled.

Subaru knew that pained face very well. Because he had previously caused the same himself.

He didn't want to let unwanted pain happen to her, be it by his hand or anyone else's. If she really didn't love him, he loved her still and didn't want her mistreated. He smashed the glass separating the balcony and the bedroom to face the other vampire.

Yuma got lost in the city, then he remembered the way to school; it had just started to rain pretty heavily and he didn't want to end up in the police's records for actual trespassing in some public place or an empty house, and the school was all he could recall in terms of directions.

He imagined it would be very strange if the police saw a guy identical to him had been apprehended a few decades ago in Romania, but wasn't like, a 100 years old now.

Come on, Yuma! -he yelled at himself- That's NUTS! -a passerby made a frightened face and ran as Yuma facepalmed at himself, oblivious- and very unlikely!

But how likely was his very existence? His mugshot would probably be some kind of horror tale on that "Internet" thing. The Japanese would think he was a Yokai like the Shirime. No thanks!

So he broke into school to sleep somewhere it wouldn't rain on him. Most classrooms were locked, except the music classroom. Cozy, he wouldn't need to break anything!

He entered, humming a violin song that often got stuck in his head and noticed something. This place smelled very familiar. Either way, it was late and he was exhausted.

Good night, goodnight, close your eyes and you'll leave this dream

Kou had legitimately not seen this coming. He didn't hear him either; the sound of the rain must have dulled his presence, sound and smell. That, and the intoxicating smell and taste of this girl's blood.

There he stood, yelling something about not treating his girl like that, not taking his property without permission and something at her asking if she'd left willingly.

Subaru was aiming a punch at Kou when Azusa snuck behind him and kicked the back of his knees; once again Subaru was on the floor. This was definitely not his day.

Ruki restrained Yui and shielded Kou; Subaru was outnumbered, and he wouldn't do something Ayato would do, like setting the house on fire; he'd admit defeat and retreat.

Yui saw him disappear in a cloud of dust; she couldn't help but cry. He'd come for her. As Yui or his "property"?

-That is one proud guy... isn't he? -Azusa and Ruki exchanged dreading looks as Kou helped Yui sit on the bed and brought her a tissue.

-Why are you crying, lil' kitty? -Kou asked, genuinely confused; his eye detected sadness but something like happiness at the same time- Scary having someone just break windows to barge in like that, huh?

-Please, Kou... you make no sense! -Yui sobbed- why are you keeping me here? I wanted to go with him...

-We can't; and I'm pretty sure that violent guy is a handful. After all, haven't you've been pretty lonely for a while?

Guilt.

-Hey, it's been hard for you, let me take you out somewhere fun tomorrow to make it up to you!

Fear. He'd need a different approach.

-I'm sure those guys won't let you go to stuff like... you've been wanting to experience a normal, human student life, if only for a little bit, haven't you? -Kou smiled- You know we used to be human a long time ago; we have an idea what it's like... there is a place the girls at school said is cool, I've wanted to check out; you should come!

Bullseye.

An offer Yui couldn't resist. He'd just seen into her deepest desire. She hugged him, willingly, and sobbed what seemed like a river. Was she going crazy? These people kidnapped her! But she had longed for this for too long to say no, catch or no catch.

At the Sakamaki mansion, as everyone was going to bed, the main door busted open and a soaking wet Subaru with a few cuts entered and left muddy footprints in the foyer, much to Reiji's dismay.

-Subaru! What compelled you to go roll in the mud at this hour? -Reiji grew livid when Subaru didn't respond- Are you possessed or why do think it is fine to leave mud footprints in the house like a rabid animal?!

-Shut the fuck up, leave me alone!

Subaru ran toward his room, or the castle, but not before taking off his shoes to stop leaving footprints. How very considerate.

-Oooh -Laito poked his head into the hallway- do you think he tried and failed to retrieve Bitch-chan and that's why he's so riled up?

-Surely that is the case. I'll let it go this time. But tomorrow he'll clean that floor with the help of torture tools.

-Do we still have popcorn? -Ayato laughed behind them

Truth is, he would have preferred to stay up and watch Subaru clean while Laito took pictures and Kanato set a beautiful table of sweets for them to enjoy Subaru's torment, because his dreams were so unsettling lately, but he didn't want to say anything because that was just lame.

Reiji left, not without ordering his brothers to go to bed already. Everything was okay.

-Hey, Ayato... have you been seeing something very strange in your dreams lately? -Laito said, grin gone- Something about a picnic, pictures, a fire and the missing Mukami guy?

Ayato flinched. His brother could be so stalkerish and guess his thoughts! Would his thoughts follow him into his dreams!?

-What? The great me doesn't have lame dreams about lame people doing lame things!

Laito looked sad. He hated that face. Okay, he'd remove the depression from his face.

-I do remember a picnic with all of you. But I'm sure it's nothing.

-The picnic was kinda fun. -Laito remembered only he and Shu seemed to be their conscious selves in the dream- I wonder if, you know how the Yuma guy is missing in real life... could we ever..?

-What do you want something like that for? It's pointless.

-If you ever feel like it, though...

Laito left the hallway, a bit disappointed, but not too much; he couldn't really expect Ayato to get it.

Predictably, when he opened his eyes he was back at the strange garden-nursery, and lying around him on the floor were Ayato, Kanato and Subaru, who were still asleep, even in the dream. Would they be dreaming inside the dream?

He might as well play around a little in this place, it wasn't so bad, after all, much cozier than the mansion.

There was a radio from the 1930s. He hadn't seen one of these in such a long time!

He turned it on.

"Kaaaaaaaaarl, what have you done this time????!

"Nothing, nothing!"

"Kaaaaaaarl, there is a dead person in our living room!"

"Oh yes, I killed him..."

"KAAAAAAAARL!"

This Karl guy seemed to be awful. He kept saying something about a great plan and a genetic experiment to spawn crazy individuals; and he had a breeding fetish. He hoped he never actually met the bastard.

It sounded familiar, but he didn't want to hear any more of this absurd, twisted plan of a new species, inheriting mysterious powers to some poor guy and the woman saying KAAAAAAAARL to every atrocity like it was a minor inconvenience. For some reason he was enraged.

He prided himself in not being obnoxiously destructive like Subaru, but this was all a dream, so he couldn't be bothered to care: he threw the radio through the window.

Problem was, it had apparently landed on someone's head, and they survived and had enough energy to give chase. The door had already been reached. He was quite possibly screwed.