Case Closed

Might I just say before this review continues that I love Case Closed (Detective Conan) and I love this plotline.It is based of the plot of the second storyline in volume 4 of the manga.It's a very suspenseful tale of Conan attempting to find out who the owner of a briefcase bomb is before the bomb detonates,killing everyone aboard.Now here are my problems with this anime adaptation.First off,the writers attempt to downplay the Black Organization early in the series comes at a costly price.In the original comic Conan doesn't encounter look-a-likes of the men who shrank him,but the men themselves!Sadly what the viewer loses here is Conan actually makes some progress in the original version,as while listening to their conversation over the wiretap,he overhears their codenames:Gin and Vodka,which is a key breakthrough!How this is covered in later episodes is unbelievable.In the English dub of "No Immunity For The Diplomat (Part 2)" Harley Hartwell (Heiji Hattori) somehow knows about them.But the Japanese original language version of "Game Gone Bad" is even stranger,with Conan in his thoughts already knowing the codenames without ever having learned them.Second,the very idea that Conan encounters two men who look and dress like the two main protagonists is in my opinion,just silly.And third,in the manga George,Mitch & Amy (Genta,Mitsuhiko, & Ayumi) weren't on the train,which I feel is an improvement,making it Conan's lone battle,especially if it really was the people that shrank him.The writers later had this problem when they screwed up the ending to "Mystery Mastermind" by once again removing Gin and Vodka,and replacing them with a generic criminal ringleader.Because the female lead in "Mastermind" later played a big role in the series although being dead,the writers had to remake the episode about one hundred episodes later.It just makes me wish that they would have paid attention to the importance in both storylines,but you can't change history.

[Contains minor spoilers]



I personally liked this episode ^^...but then again I do tend to like episodes involving the Black Organization or what Conan thinks to be the Black Organization. It wasn't -the best- but it was a fairly good episode.



Not a classic, persay, but it was very good ^^