Monday, July 28, 2008

Detective conan

Its my new addiction.

The series clicks with me because it's about crime investigation. No, not the CSI kind where everyone wears lab coat and pretends they're doing DNA sequencing or whatever crap that's supposed to be cutting edge forensic science. The logical deduction kind. The old-fashioned sherlock holmes style of investigation, which to me is wayyy cooler.

I like it also for its simplicity in characters. Gone are the complicated personas you often see nowadays in primetime shows, the ones with abusive upbringing, the fallen heroes, the good-willed killer. The anime characters here are simple to the point of predictability. Good guys are good, bad guys bad; good guys will win over bad guys. Watching conan is the much-needed antidote to my jaded, pessimistic, cynical mind.

So i devote this entry to this over-10-year-long series.

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