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* According to the OVA, "Stranger in 10 Years," those two grow up just like other kids do. The only reason they never grow up in the main series is just like the reason why Ash Ketchem never physically grows up: the artist does not allow it.
== [[The Other Wiki]] refuses to call this show by its most well-known title. That...still...bugs me. Freaking idiots. ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(anime-_and_manga-related_articles)#Article_names_and_disambiguation The rule they use] is "the official English title," and the franchise has never been released in English as "Detective Conan." The Robert E. Howard estate being silly isn't their problem, and they need a definite rule. It's also why they use the names ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' and ''[[Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai (Anime)|Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi]]''. Funnily enough, the articles on the various versions of the ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' franchise have different titles.
** Actually, the rule was introduced after the fact to justify the article name. Originally, the rule that applied was in the Japan manual of style, which said that [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(Japan-related_articles)&diff=220485781&oldid=220195651 names are romanized according to the most common usage], not according to the official name, up until June 20 2008. Likewise, the guideline in the anime style guide [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(anime-_and_manga-related_articles)&diff=227975712&oldid=222166128 did not require that the official name be used if some other name was more widely recognized.]
*** I have defended the ''Case Closed'' name since 2007; even though my fandom was pre-Case Closed and was not even in an English-speaking country. Wikipedia, ofter all, is supposed to be for the ''random'' English speaker, not us. Judging by the number of bookstores carrying ''Case Closed'' manga in the US, I have to say your random English speaker would be more likely to have heard of ''Case Closed'' than ''Detective Conan''. (Of course, if WP changed their definition of ''English speaker'', I may change my stand.)
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*** It's possible that it no longer has any effect on Kogoro and the so-called "Sleeping Detective" is just playing along for the fame... and possibly out of curiosity. If he stopped pretending to go under, he might never figure out what Conan is doing.
**** Nah. Kogoro isn't that smart. If they pull an "Aunt May" retcon somewhere down the line, I'm going to be seriously annoyed. :P
***** Kogoro is that smart. He's just lazy. Like the main page says, he'll attach himself to his first theory unless [[
**** Read Ellen Brand's excellent [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3620272/1/An_Unprofessional_Opinion An Unprofessional Opinion], and you'll see that it's not quite as far-fetched as you may like to believe.
** Heck, forget that. Kogoro has been hit with the tranquiliser over a hundred times ... but how far has time advanced? By a few days maybe? That is a much bigger mystery than why he shows no side effects.
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** It's actually a [[Running Gag]] in the series. Megure has actually said, "Not you again" when he sees Kogoro at another crime scene. Or something a long those lines. And the whole series requires you to [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief|suspend your disbelief]]. In Japan, the actual crime rate is quite low.
** Also hilariously lampshaded when Heiji once told Kazuha to leave fast, because "he" (he was talking about Shinichi, Kazuha thought he was talking about Kogoro) attracts murder like a magnet. Cue someone discovering a dead body.
** See [[
*** It's not only a running gag. If you can notice in some sentences the characters mention, you can notice that sometimes various weeks are spent between each case. The situation is that the manga/anime only shows that days when they had cases to solve.
*** Yes, but the characters don't seem to grow up despite that. Just how long would it take for Conan to move from 1st grade to 2nd grade?
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== Why was the Professor's nifty-neat micro-miniature cellphone disguised as ''a clip-on girl's earring''? What would a male elementary school student be doing with a clip-on girl's earring in the first place? ==
* The series started in 1997 and cellphones weren't big yet. However, despite [[Comic Book Time]] and [[Anachronism Stew]], it's all been but ditched for normal cellphones.
** I'm aware of that—in fact, I'm the one who wrote the majority of the [[Cell Phone]] entry for Conan. That's not what I was wondering. What I was wondering was why the Professor thought that a ''clip-on girl's earring'' would be nicely inconspicuous for an ''elementary school boy'' to carry around. Then again, given that it ''is'' the [[Absent
== Why don't people recognize Kaito Kid as Kaito Kuroba? All he did was put on a top hat and monocle. You'd think Inspector Nakamori would realize it since Kaito is Aoko's best friend and all. ==
* He did (though he needed to unmask him to do it), but KID reacted by staging an alibi (a date with Aoko) while getting unmasked * again* in another location, this time appearing to be ''Aoko.'' Nakamori remembered that KID is a master of [[Latex Perfection]] and decided that KID only looked like Kaito the last time to mess with him. See the [[Magic Kaito]] IJBM for more on this subject.
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