Kaito is more than just ‘never forget your poker face’. [Pt. 3]

[Pt. 1], [Pt. 2]

In your Non-Canon Kaito Kid post, what did you mean by pre 10 movie release. I know pre 8 was a Tv Special called Time Travel of the Silver Sky but I for the life of me cannot find anything about the pre 10 one…

(Ah, yeah. I don’t know if it has a special name, but it was something that came with a torrent I had that gave eps 1-647, the OVAs, movies (through 15), and specials in chinese soft subbed. When I looked through the specials, it had the pre releases from the movies, and the movie 10 one is one that’s not seen in a lot of places.

Made a gifset from part of it before (and this), though I can add a few pictures as well. It does the same as other pre-releases, goes over parts of the series that would be nice to know for the movie, and this one was set up like an awards show, with Conan and the woman hosting (I don’t quite know names, but I’ll put her introduction in for people who do recognise, apologies on my part), the other characters in the audience, and Kid had sent a notice that he would pop up.)

(They have contests like: Which character is better, or FBI vs Black org. And a who’s the better detective to tie in with t he 10th movie, with Conan, Kogoro, Heiji, and (Ha) Hakuba being the options.)

(Kid does, of course, pop up, cause a little trouble for Conan, though a little revenge is gotten in return… But not going to do everything for that, even if I have some icon gifs from this.)

(…Not immediately in that order, the first was from a bit before Kid showed up but yesh. Maybe more of a 10 anniversary, though a lot was still promoting movie 10.)

Just a handful of Kaito’s non-canon appearances~

(That last gif demanded this. But on the note, have to wonder if Hakuba’s ever been to one of Kaito’s ‘heists’ where he really doesn’t do anything. Green Dream is especially coming to mind as Kid accomplishing something, just not exactly what everyone expected. Or, you know. Ryoma or that baseball incident. I’d love to know Hakuba’s thoughts on ones like those, even if he gets that Kaito isn’t a bad thief.)

(On the glider thing earlier… still doesn’t make sense for you to check there, Conan. V: Though I’ll agree Kid’s way of disengaging it varies. From…)

(Using the belt to take it off entirely, which is most likely what Conan was attempting.)

(Disconnecting it from the shoulders.)

(Use of a button to make the rig go down.)

(Possibly doing that here, if he has a button in his pocket.)

(Undoing belt and hitting it, though that was more ‘it’s broken, might as well knock it down’. And the cape itself was still taken off at the shoulders here.)

(And then we have the magic cape which apparently needs nothing. :V )

(…Still no excuse to go from checking around here…)

(To there, tantei-kun. Or anywhere inside for that matter, should have just grabbed the belt. Also, you’re very lucky the dork of a thief didn’t let go, with all this tumbling that went on and complete lack of control he had over anything. And you being right in that area, he really couldn’t disengage it himself if it were the belt. Worse if it needed both hands. V: )

(Sorry not sorry, this was all I could think when I saw this scene.)

(Something about Toichi’s hidden room I never noticed before, since my image is still the one from the specials, for the most part.)

(The specials have it well lit, shiny steel and white, a workbench, the hidden closet behind the large mirror (without the lights around it, though another with), and overall looks clean and organised, if a little that it’s more like an office space you’d rarely come to except to work. Despite the jukebox and game.)

(The newer anime feels emptier, though still clean and orderly, with everything in shelves, but also more comfortable and a place to relax. Like, ‘I’m just going to chill here for a while before I need to grab my things and leave’.)

(Even Kaito is fine sitting there (listening to his father’s words).)

(Which is why I find it hilarious, looking back, to see the room is a mess of stuff everywhere. Very little space, miscellaneous items eveywhere, mice having set up a home, cracks in the wall. Very much a basement work area, and more busy and used. Not just Kid stuff, I can see Toichi practicing his magic in general down here, as well as researching various things. And the heck is up with that instrument (Cello? Did he play that, maybe?) behind the stairs in the top picture? Side note, stairs. And not ones that take him back to the painting room like in the anime, no, those go somewhere else, where, we’ll never know. The bottom one is a little messier, with things on the ground and toolbox open, since Kaito’s been there a while, doing the job himself, things were moved around.

…But something else I find interesting in the top picture, when the room was how Toichi left it… This will be delving more into headcanon right now, but there’s what looks to be a wine bottle and a cup on the small tale in the lower left. Might not mean anything, but I have to wonder why they’d be left out, if he even thought he might die. So… I don’t think he expected it at all. Most of the room looks lived in, as if he expected to come back to it. But he did leave a message, and the lock was set… My theory says Chikage took care of that. Toichi knew he could die at any time, but wanted to wait until Kaito was old enough to say anything, so he made a recording at some point in the event he did die. Chikage, after the murder, set the time on the lock and cassette and shut the room off. Because she was also aware when the room was opened, and didn’t go to check on Kaito after she knew it was, not because Toichi had set that into place, but because she had and knew Toichi wanted to tell Kaito the truth himself.)

List of Kaito’s crimes (canonically and in pictures) as per a certain assassin’s irritation.

In no particular order and not all serious…

Accomplice to theft.

Lying

Identity Theft (Multiple accounts on disguises, but since he used an ID this time, using this as the rep)

Destruction of property

Failure to follow safety rules/misuse of a roller coaster

Kidnapping (since it was never said if the PM explained Kid hadn’t taken him.)

Creating a panic

Driving a car (and motorcycle), and a plane without licenses.

Use of a ‘weapon’ on a person (Aimed directly, not just to the side for intimidation, though that’s another thing he does)

Sexual Harassment (And with that…)

Invasion of privacy

Robbery (with breaking and entering)

Cheating (Or more specifically for the cue, swindling)

Dognapping

Grand Larceny (And to any who say ‘but he returns what he steals…’, not everything. We have no idea what happened to most of the targets from before the Blue Birthday heist, including this painting shown here. Kaito has stolen things, if only to draw the people who killed his father in)

Multiple accounts of assault and battery

And last, but arguably the most important…

Illegal amounts of cute

(Was going through icons (big surprise, I know) and I came to one I had to stop on. And get the full image.

I know this has very likely been compared before, often as the two are compared in general, but still.

I get the feeling if Kaito didn’t have to worry about his identity there, he’d be just as bad as Shinichi. Even then, Kaito’s pride is more in amusement, knowing he’s Kid when no one else does and being able to hide it. (Not very well if you keep that up, Kai. V: ), while Shinichi is very much pride in detective skill. Deceiving others vs being better than them… I find you both really interesting, considering you both regret those prides later. Kaito hates that he has to hide it from people who trust him and he cares about and he gets in serious trouble when he can’t trick people, Shinichi learns in a more direct and harsher way that he can’t just go showing off how he’s right all the time and wanting more attention bringing people down like that.

If both saw themselves on the news now (as they are like that, famous high school detective and mysterious phantom thief), Shinichi/Conan might have a panic attack because oh shi-. And Kaito might still have some pride, smile a bit, snicker if he’s alone, but you know it’d hurt if he were with Aoko then and she started saying how horrible Kid was again.)