serinoxtv replied to your post: Tbh I have always assumed that if DC and MK exist…
Gosho didn’t just say so in a Q&A, he included it in his additional comments in the 2011 MK volumes re-release. He wrote for the Akako chapter in Vol. 1: “Well, you’ll just have to accept these two works as parallel world.” Not much room for interpretation there I think, no matter how you like or dislike the fact.
It’s still largely retconning. Or maybe not quite that, but covering himself when he realized it might not have been the smartest idea to mix an actual magic world with the one that’s supposed to be logic. Fans have been around long before he decided this clarification needed to be brought up, and while he might want to stick to that idea now, it doesn’t change how people want to think about the two series. If he’d stuck with just the one initial cameo for Kid, that might be allowed to slide, but covering his tracks after the DC crossover had been going on during multiple encounters, it feels like ‘oh, people are starting to go back and read Kaito’s manga, which has actual magic that can’t be in Conan’s story because magic can’t exist for a detective, let me just get a disclaimer out of the way.’
Either way, Gosho did not give the best way to handle it, because some fans just wouldn’t know or care to see if the universes are connected. I do try and look things up (though I wasn’t aware he said it in comments in a re-issue, scans and the manga I have are the older version), but most people would just read one, and then look at the other because it’s about a character that appeared in the series they read and it’s by the same author. The fact that Kid does appear so much in DC makes it unsurprising the majority of people think they’re in the same universe.
He’s done brief cameos between series before before. Between Magic Kaito, Yaiba, 3rd Base Fourth, the short stories, small things that would just bring a smile because of the reference. No explanation. He wouldn’t have to be trying to use the excuse of ‘parallel universe’ at all if it weren’t a bigger problem than any of those others.
I RP and write them being in the same universe for character interaction because we know the most about how things work in their respective stories. I’d be fine with the idea of parallel universes if there was any real indication that it was the intent, and not just some excuse used to bandage liking Kaito too much that he wove him into Conan’s story more than just a small appearance. What would Kid be looking for? Still a stone with a story that would have to be fake about immortality just because his baddies believe it might work? What would Akako be like if she weren’t a witch? Or is the idea for a ‘non magic’ world that she just wouldn’t exist? Did any of the other silly things in MK happen?
It’s a fun idea, but I can’t accept the word of Gosho when it reeks of an excuse and isn’t actually utilized except to give Kaito an excuse to be in Conan’s world.
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