#instead....furukaza?

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well, well, well. here's some merch to catch up on. are you even ready for some of these? i dont think so

The usual Sega Lucky Kuji line-up for the movie. Furuya and Kazami being in the line-up is no longer surprising by now (actually it still kind of is) but KAZAMI AND THAT SCARF. UGH why is he so handsome and look at that delicious height difference that GA can pry away from my dead cold hands (x)

cute chibi bookmarks. there are individual ones for furuya and kazami and there is a cute furukaza one where kazami is struggling <3 again (x)

Conan Chocolates labelled "VALENTINE ITEM" by the shop's official account, and there are only two designs for the square box: 1) Conan&Ran; and 2) you guessed it. Furukaza.... (x) Why does a FuruKaza chocolate box exist, labelled valentine item? I don't know. Why Furukaza? As a fervent Furukaza shipper, I'm asking, hello? Why Furukaza??

kazami is once again appearing in merch lineups (x, x) for 2025 and i'm sorry but at this rate, you have to work for this, kazami.... you cant just be handed all this merch after already getting a pyokotomo mascot plush this year, without appearing even once in the manga or the anime in 2024 (i say, thanking all the gods that kazami somehow gets frequent merch despite appearing 4 times in the manga overall), look, at this rate, you have to earn your keep by appearing with an important role in M28.....i don't make the rules.....

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There's actually already been three other non-het non-canon matching cards revealed in the recent deck: Gin & Camel, Akai & Amuro, and Sera & Shuukichi!

ah, sorry, anon, when I say "pair cards" I mean not only similar illustrations, but that those character cards have: 1) matching/connected illustrations, depicting either a connected situation, same background, continued action, etc you have the sense they're part of one picture; 2) the card themselves reference each other in some way.

See, e.g., Heiji and Kazuha's pair cards (this is the parallel ver):

the illustrations are clearly connected, and if you look at their "abilities", heiji's card says (very roughly) "When the card [Toyama Kazuha] appears on your Crime Scene, you can choose a character with AP <8000 and remove it." Kazuha's card also says...a whole lot of things ;; but you can see it reference [Hattori Heiji] twice. First line is something like "when the card Hattori Heiji is on your Crime Scene, you can choose a card in the opponent's Crime Scene, whose ability will remain null until the end of the turn".

In the less rare format that is similar to Furukaza, is ShuuAke, also canon:

Here, as you see, Moroboshi Dai's card doesn't say anything about Akemi, only says you can remove an active character under level 8. But Akemi's says "Reveal cards in your deck one by one from the top, until the card [Akai Shuuichi], [Moroboshi Dai] or [Rye] appears, and add that to your hand. Put the remaining cards at the bottom of your deck and shuffle."

It sounds like a "get Akai" effect :D! Clearly matched.

This is basically the pattern for all of the pair cards of this pack, for all the canon pairs: ShinRan, TakaSatou, KaiAo, even Chihaya-Juugo. Common cards can also get a similar-ish treatment, like Kobayashi and Shiratori, where they reference each other, but the illustrations match to a lesser degree because it's all manga screencaps.

Shuukichi and Sera have neither matching illustrations, nor any reference to one another. Sera's card, for example, has an ability that is "Select up to one character under level 8, and remove them. This ability can be Declared if you have less than 5 cards in your FILE area."

Similar thing arises with Akai and Amuro, where the illustrations look a bit similar in style at first, but the cards are independent of each other. In fact, the Akai card refers to effects such as making up to 1 character from your hand and from the category [FBI], under level 6, appear on your Crime Scene. Amuro refers to making up to 1 character of the category [Café Poirot] under level 7 appear on your Crime Scene in specific circumstances. Neither of them restrict that to a specific character in the category, but they themselves don't belong in each other's mentioned categories.

For Camel and Gin, interesting, because the illustrations do seem to be part of the same scene in the FBI chase. But again, the cards are independent:

Camel (roughly): You may remove a card of the category [FBI] from your hand. If so, pull two cards.

Gin (roughly): When you remove a character from the opponent's Crime Scene through your own ability or effect, that character will keep the damage until the end of the turn.

And that's basically the pattern...But what happens with FuruKaza is more similar to Juugo and Chihaya, HeiZuha, ShuuAke, TakaSatou and co. The FuruKaza one looks like this:

The illustrations are clearly connected, whether it is the coffee can, the background, or the way the lighting shines on Furuya's left side vs Kazami's right side, meaning that Furuya is actually facing Kazami despite the framing.

Furuya's card indicates it has an investigation level/power (?) of 2, allowing him to look into cards from the opponent's deck, but "when the card [Kazami Yuuya] is on your Crime Scene, the investigation level/power is instead of 4. You can select up to one of the characters uncovered of the same level and remove them".

He gets a buff up from Kazami!

Meanwhile, Kazami has a "hirameki" effect which activates when removed from evidence, and it goes "within your Remove area, choose up to one [Furuya Rei] card, and add it to your hand." sounds like a "get Furuya" ability

Fun fact, that is the exact same hirameki effect that Juugo has, in reference to Chihaya.

Juugo: within your Remove area, choose up to one [Hagiwara Chihaya] card, and add it to your hand

So, yeah, not the same situation! And there are good reasons to go "huh?" at the FuruKaza one because it's really...a lone beanpole among the other canon pairs at the moment.... Makes one go "Official accounts, are you sure we can have this?"

But of course, nothing says this is the last time there will be partner cards in the TCG, so maybe more non-canon, non-het pairs will show up in the future. Personally, I'm still hoping for a GinVodka pair one day. (official twt account)

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A FRKZ timeline?

i was wondering about the dynamics in M20 between furukaza and how it might differ from subsequent movies (being kazami's first ever appearance). we all know that M20 kazami was almost jarringly ruthless and cruel towards curaçao, and when we see him in ZTT (ultimate moe) and in the main manga (moe and moe again), it makes one wonder what happened to this character, beyond "he has gap moe".

my final impression is that M20 fits nicely as a story that takes place soon after kazami's been appointed as furuya's liaison. i think, taking into account all of kazami's appearances in detco media, kazami can be interpreted as being sensitive to social context, status and hierarchy. i personally can see him riding on the high of his new role and having a cocky phase in which he's over-compensating a bit to match the part (or his image of the part): furuya rei is a member of the highest-ranking agency in the police. he's infiltrating an extremely dangerous organisation and god knows what that entails. as his liaison, kazami too should be able to stomach anything (or so he thinks)

By M22, he's starting to grow disillusioned and skeptical of furuya's ways. perhaps, getting his hands dirty simply doesn't feel the same in practice as it did in theory. perhaps, he didn't think it'd involve that much fucking around with the lives of innocent people. he still obeys because respecting structure is how he has always worked and he has his own convictions about what Public Security is, at the end of the day... He's just not convinced that furuya rei is fully aligned with him on what is just and fair (until the end of M22, when, furuya does redeem himself a bit with haba)

meanwhile, ZTT happens! And kazami slowly goes through all the stage of moe and shoujo manga love interest, from being overly conscious about his boss and how to speak to him, to slowly being power-harrassed led into co-raising a dog with him, visiting him at ungodly early hours, going to play baseball and other games with him...until all the lines blur between private and professional, and furuya-san stops being a perfect being in his eyes, instead becoming a person who judges, gets trapped in basements, is childish about the color red, and will lose his cool about his dog eating ice cream...

And then, M25 rolls around. Personally, I see this as a time where kazami has truly come to be at peace with his own role vis-à-vis furuya, the things they do, their ups and downs, and whether or not he likes everything he does, M25 kazami gives this vibe of someone who's accepted the bond between him and furuya as "ah, well, our hands are both dirty anyway, and the red string of fate will drag us both to hell, so i guess i'll follow him even in death". (Cue in the wedding vows being spoken at the beginning of the movie during their scene) he'll step into furuya's quarantine box and disarm his bomb with his own hands. no questions asked.

In parallel though, kazami has definitely grown to become more and more relaxed and cute in furuya's presence. and the gap moe IS real. hatoyama farm case and his "yatta!" at furuya, the kid heist and his "eeehh! please let me stay!!! i'm dying of curiosity!!!"

Professionally speaking, M25 is where they're at. Ride or die and completely unhinged, but cool about it, and will not address the unhingedness of their bond in any way. In private, or even when they're even slightly aside from others, kazami has grown into the most moe of subordinates. he's spoiled. he's been fed hand-cooked bentous every other morning. furuya just cannot get really mad at him anymore....

And now, we've come to M28...and I wonder what it reserves for us.

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PS: the only remaining question i have about M20, is the amount of reliance furuya seems to have on kazami in it (which is more than i'd expect if they were paired up only recently). we see him confirm more than once that he's "counting on" kazami for things. he even reflects at one point that he has to "meet up as soon as possible" with kazami. It does feel like he trusts him and knows him very well already! but hmm, i guess it wasn't jarring to the point of being irreconcilable with the rest. after all, furuya too is a guy who respects structure. i can see him as someone who feels "closer" to a counterpart in the beginning of their professional relationship because of their respective roles. that is the person "assigned" to him. before getting to know that person on a personal level, this person is his "liaison", his partner, his teammate, someone he can trust. and so, he does.

at least, that's one way it would make their whole relationship work chronologically for me!

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Canon and "Canon-ish" FuruKaza moments: An ENG Compilation

Furukaza (Furuya Rei x Kazami Yuuya) is a fan pairing (not canon) from DCMK, that mainly finds its reasons in things which, while baffling, are often not easily accessible in English. Having scrambled and screamed for ~2 years through materials, I thought an ENG compilation would be fun to make, especially for potential new frkz fans. Some house-keeping points:

Part 1 of this list contains spoilers for Zero's Tea Time (ZTT) and the movies. It follows a "Fact -> Recommendation" structure, so you can just read the REC part if you want to avoid spoilers.

This list however presumes that you know about Furuya's triple identity. If the name "Furuya Rei" is not clear to you, it's fine, but please don't read part1 unless you're fine with major DC spoilers.

This list will be divided into "canon" facts (manga/anime), "semi- or may be canon" facts (movies, ZTT) and "furukaza from other official sources" (merch/other).

Ultimately, this will not replace the fun of going through the materials and piecing up your own frkz narrative, but i hope it can be a starting point or a thing that casual DC fans can read and go "what's wrong with those guys" and "is this allowed?" about

Finally, I will keep a neutral tone for this list, as they are frkz "facts". Please read as such, and welcome to fact-check.

[PART 1: canon and may be canon(this post)] [PART 2: other official sources]

-PART 1: Canon and "May Be Canon"

BACKGROUND

Kazami Yuuya (30) is Furuya Rei's (29)'s subordinate. But they actually belong to different police agencies: Furuya is from the National Police Agency, while Kazami is from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Public Security Bureau. Kazami first appeared in the series in M20: The Darkest Nightmare (2016) and was introduced in the manga later.

A. CANON FACTS (DC Manga/Anime)

Kazami only appears in a total of 4 cases in the manga/anime, each time with Furuya.

Out of all DC characters, Kazami is one of the only people still alive who call Furuya by his real name, and maybe the only one who almost exclusively calls him "Furuya-san" instead of his undercover alias "Amuro". He once calls him "Furuya-san" when he shouldn't (in front of others), showing the extent to which Furuya is "Furuya" to him.

When Kazami is trapped in a basement by a criminal and has one chance to contact the outside world, he chooses to inform Furuya. Though Kazami reassures Furuya that it's fine, he can probably escape, Furuya insists on going himself to save Kazami.

Kazami is candidly excited when he sees Furuya in the same basement as him, exclaiming "Yatta (yay!)! Now I'm saved!".

Kazami behaves sternly in front of other police officers, but when he is with Furuya, he becomes more expressive, effusive and candid, such as whining to Furuya about wanting to stay until the end of the Kid Heist, but instantly switching to a serious expression when Nakamori talks to him.

Kazami does not derogate from Furuya's orders, even if it puts him in unenviable situations. He answers Furuya's call on his free day and agrees to work without prior notice, even though he really wanted to hear Yoko Okino perform live and was already at the idol festival when Furuya called.

Furuya has Kazami's home address, as seen by the fact that he sends, to Kazami's appartment, a box of Okino Yoko CDs, photobooks, calendars and the illegal pre-sale DVD of the concert that Kazami missed.

Kazami is older than Furuya by 1 year, but due to ranks, he calls Furuya with the polite "-san" honorific, and speaks exclusively in polite form to him. Furuya, despite being younger, uses "Kazami" without honorifics and sometimes, "kimi", as well as casual speech (tameguchi) towards him. Another pair that has a similar speech pattern is Takagi and Satou. (Satou using casual speech with Takagi because she is more senior, while Takagi uses "Satou-san" and speaks politely)

In file 1115, Furuya has to board a Shinkansen train. Kazami walks him all the way to the platform but does not board. Shinkansen train platforms are located past their own ticket gates, so it raises questions such as whether Kazami bought a ticket just to send Furuya off, or if he used his police badge to go through, and why.

REC: File 998; Files 1051-1054; Files 1076-1078; File 1115 (and their corresponding episodes)

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B. SEMI-CANON OR "MAY BE CANON" FACTS (Movies, ZTT)

It's uncommon for Furuya to give direct answers to questions, especially if they concern himself. However, in both the main manga and ZTT, Kazami asks Furuya a lot of questions and gets a truthful answer most of the time.

Despite that he should cut off ties with his past, Furuya trusts Kazami with knowledge of some private and confidential aspects of his life, including prior to the NPA, such as the fact that he was classmates with Matsuda Jinpei. Kazami is also trusted with at least some knowledge of the BO, given his role in securing Curaçao.

There is at least a period in time when Kazami seems to disapprove of Furuya, enough that he confesses to Conan that Furuya is "a murderer". He also says to Furuya's face that he is a "terrifying man". Despite this, he remains loyal and never derogates from his orders.

Furuya saves Kazami from falling to his death, while both are injured from an explosion. During that time, Furuya gets collared with a bomb by the culprit, and has to be quarantined. In the end, it is Kazami who enters the quarantine box alone and neutralises the bomb on Furuya's neck, even though Kazami is not part of a bomb squad. In effect, Furuya entrusts his life to Kazami in this process.

Furuya once calls Kazami "my outstanding subordinate" while talking to a criminal.

After Kazami neutralises the bomb threatening Furuya, he appears to have collapsed from exhaustion, but wakes up to find Furuya's jacket covering his shoulder. Kazami is not wearing a protective blast suit in this scene and is alone. In episode 304, Matsuda explained that a blast suit is so heavy it cannot be put on or removed on one's own.

When talking as Bourbon, Furuya's eyes are usually drawn with a smaller pupil. After talking with Rye for a while with those eyes during an intercalation with the BO, his eyes return to the usual "Furuya" look when Kazami calls out to him.

Furuya will lecture Kazami about needing to sleep well and eat well, when Kazami reveals he's eaten chocolate for breakfast and hasn't slept due to reports. He takes Kazami to a restaurant, driving the car even though normally, it's the subordinate who should drive. Furuya also smiles when he sees Kazami fall asleep in the passenger seat of his car.

Furuya cooks too much in the morning and says to himself he will give it to Kazami. In the anime, there is an extra scene where Furuya finds a tired Kazami in the park to give him a bentou wrapped in a furoshiki.

Kazami once thinks silently that chocolate is the best combination with whiskey, and wonders if Kazami Yuuya is truly the most compatible with Furuya Rei. Right after thinking that, he stares at Furuya and bites into chocolate.

Furuya asks Kazami to speak to him without honorifics just for that evening at the bar, because they're celebrating Kazami's good work in a mission. There's just the two of them in that party.

While drunk in Furuya's presence, all that Kazami thinks and babbles about is related to Furuya. This includes thoughts like "it's not because you have a good-looking face that I'm jealous" and being upset when Furuya talks to the lady bartender "instead of" with him at one point.

When Kazami catches a cold, Furuya thinks it might have been because he caught it from him, and gives him some celery from his own lunch with his chopsticks.

Kazami gets hooked on a co-op mobile game where he plays with someone using a girl character called REI, and whom he calls REI-chan. Kazami found her cute and called her an oasis for his dried out heart. The girl character has a face similar to Furuya.

Furuya trusts Kazami to take care of his dog Haro while he is away on a trip. When Furuya returns, he finds Kazami sleeping in his bedroom with Haro, covered in the dog's blanket, and smiles.

Furuya has a trick to gain less weight drinking ramen soup, but says it doesn't matter for Kazami anyway "because you're slim".

Furuya also calls Kazami to join in baseball matches and other sport games where Furuya participates in as "Amuro". This involves Kazami meeting people from Poirot and the ramen shop, and him assuming the fake identity of "Hida", Amuro's former assistant.

When Furuya gets trapped in a basement with children without phone network, he has one chance to contact someone, and the person he contacts is Kazami, who does come to free them.

The clothes that Furuya wears as Amuro are picked and bought by Kazami.

When Kazami mistakenly thinks that Furuya has brought a woman home, it really affects him and he cannot stop thinking about it. Furuya actually spends time clearing these doubts to Kazami, even asking him if he has "any other unclarified doubts?" at the end. All of this takes place in Furuya's home.

When Kazami saves a drowning child in a storm, but almost dies too, Furuya saves him and praises him for spotting that child. Kazami blushes.

Kazami and Furuya spar together as training.

Kazami takes care of Haro frequently enough that, when Furuya cannot figure out why Haro has gained weight, his first thought is that Kazami has been spoiling him too much while taking care of him. Kazami is offended when confronted, and Furuya actually apologizes.

Kazami installs pet cameras in Furuya's house and can access the footage from his laptop. He and Furuya meet after work to check the videos and figure out together why Haro has been gaining weight.

Kazami will buy fancy beef snacks for Haro without being asked to by Furuya and they will play together with Haro so he can have the snack as a reward.

When Furuya misses a difficult kick in a rugby game, Kazami thinks he did it on purpose, but Furuya assures that he is not that almighty. Later, in an emergency, Furuya succeeds in making that kick, when Kazami is there to hold the ball for him.

When Furuya rushes ahead up a burning apartment, he almost loses his life by falling from a high floor. The reason he's alive is because Kazami thought fast (of his own initiative) and got people ready to help cushion Furuya's fall.

Note: The spin-off Zero's Tea Time was serialized between 2018 and 2022, written by Arai Takahiro, but with drafts supervised and approved by Gosho Aoyama. Whether you consider ZTT and movies "canon" is up to you, but they can be canon.

REC: Movie 20 The Darkest Nightmare; Movie 22 Zero the Enforcer, Movie 25 The Bride of Halloween; Zero's Tea Time Chapters 2, 3, 11, 14, 15, 19-20, 24, 25, 31, 32-33, 35, 37, 38, 39, 45, 51, 57 and 58.

Part 2 of this compilation over here for the Other Official Sources

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furukaza sick day... furuya making kazami soup🥹🥹

WHO?S COMING HERE TO ATTACK ME IN MY OWN HOUSE (thank you so much)

HELP

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TT WAIT. i drew this (almost)?!!!! i forgot i drew this ;;; well, i drew congee instead of soup, and (as usual) it's more on the silly side than on the sweet/cute side, but the continuation of this was meant to be soft, with furuya wiping the sweat off the forehead of a delirious kazami ...

TT aaaaa furuya spoonfeeds him and catches the flu from the proximity so they take turns being sick...then kazami sits by his bedside, and furuya is delirious, begging for kissies, so kazami goes from thinking "*sigh, making unreasonable demands even when he's sick" to yielding and giving him a little smoochie on his brow, near the temple, because "sorry for contaminating you..." and furuya's fever shoots up 3 degrees

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And one more thing...

the thing that really gets me with furukaza (or should i say ONE of the things) is how at first, kazami seems to be the one super hung-up on furuya but the more you read the fine print the more it becomes visible that furuya is equally if not more abnormal about kazami.

kazami's unwavering loyalty and his unhinged "is kazami yuuya the most compatible with furuya rei" antics or all of ch. 33 are definitely the most striking thing about frkz, at first sight. and for a good reason!!! kazami IS unhinged about him!

but furuya is ALSO incredibly Weird and horribly fond of kazami???

even if you blame all of his involving-kazami-in-his-private-life-and-errands on him being a horrible boss (which you can rightly do), there's so much stuff:

kazami underperforms at work, and furuya, despite being the most pathological workaholic who sleeps 1h30 a day, ultimately rewards that with...food? ??? with buying him a meal? DRIVING him to the restaurant? smiling at him while he sleeps?? in his car???? (and then giving him a bentou??)

no matter how you think about it, furuya shouldn't have been going on his own to save kazami at the hatoyama farm, but he insisted on doing just that. he himself was working. he's an undercover cop, who shouldn't even let his affiliations with the PSB be discovered. and he still went first thing to save kazami, by himself, because he doesn't want kazami to die? calling for anyone to back him up was out of the question? he had to do this himself???

kazami is capable of taking a day off and enjoying himself without furuya, but furuya? cannot even fucking deal with kid by himself without getting kazami involved. who's dependent on whom??

we've seen furuya's home and it's TidyTM. when he asked kazami to help with haro, it was only a request for kazami to feed haro once a day, that's it. instead he comes home to a sleeping kazami in his bedroom, having made a mess on the table, and... and he just smiles fondly at it?

he can't shut up? no one asks him about kazami and he shouldn't even talk about kazami, he babbles to plamya about how the neutralizer been made "By mY ExcELLEnt SuBoRDinATe" ??? she didn't ask you?? hello, why are you showing off. kid didn't ask to know ANY kazami fact either, and you had to tell him the whole story about kazami's road to otaku life??? shut up about him??? i mean, he generally has 'can't shut up' disease, though, so we can let him have that.

why do you need to explain to him that you're SingleTM

no matter how you look at it, kazami was being a bit dazed when plamya's bomb exploded in the parking lot. it was because of that and because kazami almost fell off the edge, that furuya got collared with a bomb. he got. collared. with a bomb. furuya knew plamya's bombs and their power. he had no idea how to defuse them, he knew he could blow up at any time. rather than to drop kazami, he chose, basically, the death road.

and then still trusted kazami to defuse the bomb for him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

he literally just doesn't have anyone else... kazami is everywhere in his life, and it's because of him. again, we've seen kazami be capable of having fun without furuya. BUT HE KEEPS BEING CALLED BY FURUYA TO THINGS. FURUYA is the one who keeps!! involving!!! him!!!!! in his life!!!! it's furuya, the perpetrator!! NOT KAZAMI!!! he's the one conditioning kazami into this whole thing, i'm.... !!!!! ????? freak

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anyway so. confirmed now that kazami calling furuya "anata" is absolutely something he does more than once and not only as "an'ta". in chapter 11, while completely drunk, he uses "anata" instead of "furuya-san" to say the sentence "i tried to follow you desperately, but..."

it wasnt a collective furukaza fan hallucination....it's real.....kazami would call furuya "anata" if he wasn't using the usual formulation of avoiding using any "you"...

DAN DAN KOKORO HIKARETEKU by Field of View as a furukaza song, from furuya’s POV vs Don’t you see by Zard as a furukaza song, but from kazami’s POV