“I, Kaitou KID, shall find the Pandora gem before you do, and shatter it into tiny pieces!”
I’ve always felt like KID leads a very sad existence, considering a greater part of why Kaito became the thief in the first place was for revenge…
Tag: Kaito Kid
I feel like Tuxedo Mask was the inspiration of Kaitou KID…
I feel like Tuxedo Mask was the inspiration of Kaitou KID…
“…Okay, I know. Sailor Moon was more popular, it took off, it got an anime, it was known outside of Japan. People will always jump to that guy when they see me. But let me explain something to you…”
“Tuxedo Mask was apparently introduced in the first chapter of Sailor Moon. In 1992. I was introduced in 1987.”
“So please do me a favour and never say that again. Thank you.”
What I really want to know is what happened in the twenty four hours after this scene.
Because I went through this frame by frame and the glider was nearly completely torn off his body. He was spinning, tumbling and free-falling. This was not a safe landing.
“Aha..ha… That was not fun… But if you don’t mind a theory, I can try to give an explanation that makes sense.”
First off, there are inconsistencies in the scene anyway. I’m nowhere near the water at that point, and yet dropped the box with the egg in it. Soo…”
“How could it end up here closer to the water for tantei-kun to see? With only the lid smashed and the egg perfectly fine laying up nice and pretty? You’re right, the frame of my glider was broken from the force of the bullet throwing the balance off, so I couldn’t have made it that far. Also”
“You see here that my monocle completely breaks in two. The frame and glass.”
“But just the glass is broken here. Hmm…”
“And this is what tantei-kun saw after the shot had been fired and my glider destroyed. And the figure moves perfectly steady here.”
“To actually try and explain all of this, I’m just going to use one picture.”
“This. That building there that I’m heading towards is right across from where Scorpion was aiming. You can see the bridge in this shot as well. …Can’t actually see the shooter, but I did later. It’s fairly obvious when there’s a lone figure standing in a completely empty area with no cars or people.
Anyway, that’s what I was gliding over when I was shot. And that’s where I landed. Not nearly as high of a fall, and very easy to survive with minimal damage. Luck? Perhaps, though getting shot at in the first place is never lucky… But from there, everything would have landed fairly close together. The dummy was sent off without anything, to make people think I had fallen somewhere else, and I had my dove take the egg and monocle down. I wish I’d had another method, since she had gotten injured slightly in the fall, but she could glide down safely enough.
So, not nearly as bad as you may think. Basically just got a sprained wrist, which wasn’t the most fun. Better than what could have happened. Most of the time was spent looking into how to get close to the egg again and make sure everyone else could be kept safe. Which led to research into Shiratori-keiji as well. Basically, everything was set up to make Scorpion believe I was dead/missing/injured and not be suspicious.”
(Actually, as I’m doing these screenshots…. yes we want the robot for reasons, but we need the underwater pirate one. Why? Because it kills so many things people assume about Kaito. And gives an idea to how he views enemies in general.)
((Just gon’ keep the images big this time, btw.))
(Yes)
(Kaito is still afraid of fish.)
(But he doesn’t want any danger to happen around him just to get rid of them.)
(And not afraid to go interact with them if they can’t bother him.)
(He’s not helpless in the slightest. Sure, a ton of guys with guns is hard to deal with, or a ton of people in general that he might not want to hurt. But even without his card gun, he can defend himself. Look at him, his hands are in his freakin’ pockets here. And note he didn’t kick Silver in the face. He has the skill to, if he can aim so well as to just disarm him, so he probably could be a bit more violent if he wanted. Not saying he’d be excellent at hand to hand, but he should know enough to be able to fight people off.)
(He doesn’t have a problem aiming a real gun at people to use as a threat. Would he kill? No, most likely not. But his finger is on the trigger, so he’s prepared to shoot. If he had to.)
(I’ll admit, I just love this line, or any translation of. True, he has no option but to trust Silver right now, but that he’s confident enough to say it to the person who just tried to kill him and threaten Aoko says a lot. And means he’s capable of trusting even enemies.)
(And he really does need the help. He could do literally nothing due to not having enough air here. He didn’t save them. Or, you could argue he did, for encouraging Silver and saying he trusted him to begin with. But he himself was actually helpless to save them and needed to rely on the other here. How often do we actually get to see Kid not be able to do something on his own. Not to anything at all?)
(But people still wont always go along with him, even after helping. He doesn’t win everyone he meets over completely.)
(And)
(Similar to Conan)
(He can’t always save everyone. He can’t always help. Granted, Conan’s Moonlight Sonata case hit him harder than Silver sending Kid to safety and going down, but it’s still here. Also not as traumatising to Kid as Nightmare is later, but it’s still a good example that he’s not perfect and he doesn’t always win at everything. He tried to get through to Silver and save him, but failed. That it happened later with Nightmare, with the added hit of knowing Kenta, it was probably bigger because something like this would have happened already. They were similar, and Nightmare was far worse.
And I just really have feelings for the older chapters that the animations seem to try and avoid, really…)
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Magic Kaito 1412 and colours~
(So, a year ago I had to watch the front of a store that hadn’t opened yet. That consisted mostly of sitting around for seven hours doing nothing… So at some point, I took some paper and a mechanical pencil with me and doodled. Most were random, but I did do these, which weren’t as much. Mostly without references, in case you notice anything weird. And I do tend to rely on refs, so I guess this is my basic style when I don’t have them. And my interests definitely start to show… I’d put one of the original sketches for comparison, but the papers are a mess, because some really were doodles on pages I’d written stuff on. …And lazy backgrounds are lazy.)
Kaitou Kid AMV I Will Not Bow
While this is also on YT, that was before I got the episodes without subs, so here’s a more final version of one of my amvs. ^^
(Yeah, wasn’t kidding when I said I would talk about the robo-Kaito incident. In all honesty, if thought about enough, it could be more traumatising that Nightmare. (And I’ll explain why I say that as well.))
(Okay, so, to start this off… the fact it wasn’t even Kid related. (Yeah, yeah, ‘Kid’ shows up literally right at the beginning of the chapter, but that’s not what I mean. I mean the premise for why the whole chapter is taking place to begin with.) The Ticking Heart, the Underwater Pirate Ship, Ghost Game. That’s it. The ones that didn’t start out with the main problem at a heist, someone suspecting him, or someone using the thief’s name with Kaito finding out.
But the Ticking Heart is the only one from those that, while it did start without Kid, used Kaito having a secret job to drive the story afterward. However… even then, I’d argue that it isn’t about the job itself so much as how Kaito viewed the situation.)
(Actual first off: he got friggin’ kidnapped. This is why I say it didn’t really have anything to do with Kid. Jeeze, he was walking to school (Not from school, only a day goes by and Aoko later says he hadn’t been at school the previous day, so…). No thief, no one out to get him, Kaito, as himself, just up and got taken away by some random and probably insane man. (And side notes, in the manga he doesn’t live alone. Chikage is still at the house and I do have to give a thought to how the robot acted at home… anyway.)
Also have to wonder if he was given food or anything, but for a day, I won’t worry too much over that. What should be noted is the fact that he didn’t even know why he’d been kidnapped up until that point, when the robot came in. Literally left there, tied up, for a day without any idea what was going on other than that the man had taken him and he was hooked up to some kind of machine. And for all the current day for the robot talking to him, no one would have seen him at all, since the robot maker had been killed the night before.
And the first thing he hears after something else comes in is that the robot that looks like him and has his memories killed the guy. Without batting an eye. This is the main thing I’m interested in, and something Kai doesn’t like thinking about when it comes to the robot. Even if you argue that a robot doesn’t have a soul and cannot feel, and doesn’t know right from wrong or full consequences… this one isn’t quite like most robots that have that happen. He has memories. A mind that should know about death and morals, or at the very least, the reason Kid exists.
Granted, at this point, it didn’t feel like it knew everything and was confused…
…But Kaito’s emotions and thoughts clearly came out before, though Kaito didn’t know that. It honestly believed, or wanted to believe it was human, but clearly missed the mark on morality and self restraint. Hmm…
After hearing about the other casually killing someone, the next thing he’s met with is this. The robot came in questioning why he has to be Kaito, but wanted more answers, and did this. …And it wasn’t until he had the rest of Kaito’s memories, that…
It decided it wanted to take Kaito’s place. Also, I’ve used that quote out of context before. The ‘a copy is just a copy’ one. …Well, mostly out of context. Yes, it was said here, but I used it with regards to Kid and Toichi, the previous Kid… And trust me, I’m looking into this, but it is something I believe Kaito has thought before. And the robot, immediately after getting more of Kaito’s mind, says no. He’ll surpass Kaito. That he’s not just a copy. And he’s proving it by becoming Kaito… Please say I’m not alone in the thinking it’s eerily similar to how Kaito is taking his dad’s place as Kid. Questioning it, looking for answers… But he got stuck on not thinking he was as good as his father. The robot has no restricting thoughts like inadequacy, just knows what it wants and how it thinks, and it knows it wants to be better than Kaito. Also, personality change there. After getting Kaito’s mind, it’s… not quite as innocent. Yeah it had killed someone, but it was quiet, thinking, questioning, confused… then to having a goal and jeeze he got confident quickly. He didn’t start acting with purposefully ill intentions until then. Would he have if he hadn’t? Would he have started acting out if he’d been out longer than a day? Who knows. What we do see is a definite change now, though.
…So can I hazard this theory that the robot showed Kaito’s darker side that he normally doesn’t show? Because it really seems like that to me, and I think Kaito himself was aware of that, to a degree. Kaito just has a ton of self control in that area. Not that it wouldn’t ever come out… But he has a lot of good to balance it out. He’s more caring, and has sentimentality that he pays attention to. When people talk about dreams, or promises, or he learns something that makes him feel for them in any way (usually involving family, this), he helps. The robot seemed to have missed that part. It focused on the ‘Kid’ part more, really, which probably skewed its way of thinking. Mentioning that he became Kid, immediately planning another heist, and making special mention that he would not only be Kaito, but Kid. The robot liked being Kid. It had a will to live, and no one to command it anymore, and honestly, it hadn’t taken command all that well in the first place…
…Like, at all… I… don’t think it liked that restriction… Just like normal Kaito wouldn’t.
Just… robo Kaito is Kaito… without anything holding him back. The psycho Kaito people are so afraid to see, but want to see. We’ve seen him. The manga readers, anyway.
Seriously, it’s this robot.
Doing…
…anything…
…to get…
…what he wants. Without a care for morality.
And if that idea wasn’t bad enough…
What ultimately brought the robot down wasn’t really Kaito outsmarting it. …Not entirely…
It more… Kaito had to consider his own weaknesses that the robot would have gotten. In this case…
That overconfidence. I can shoot faster, and first, wherever you aim.
And sticking to that cockiness ultimately is what killed him. Yes, some outsmarting, either that or a ton of luck for that to have worked without Kaito getting a card in his own head… because he did pull that trigger. If the robot had caught on, managed to stop from shooting himself… I’m fully confident it would have killed Kaito. Shooting himself was his last resort…
…And then after all of that…
After it had thought it had taken over Kaito’s life up until Kid showed up… had it not felt human until just then? When it was about to die? …“Once a human is dead, he can’t be repaired.” Continuously saying it was Kaito, calling Kaito himself the false one, the robot, fighting to take over someone else’s life… but it didn’t feel alive until it was broken beyond repair and it lost everything. And just to point out, that last little bit over the eye is the last part of it that looks like Kaito. Everything else was the endoskeleton. When it was itself more than someone else…
Am I looking too far into it? Probably. But I do think the robot screwed up Kaito’s mind more because it had his mind than most of the other experiences he’s had. Yes, Nightmare probably hurt him as well, hitting so close to home with Kenta’s and Jack’s relationship and having someone’s life literally slip though his fingers… But I think he’d be more scared of what he could become over another life he failed to save. That death was closer to one he could have successfully stopped, but… the robot is a unique, disturbing, and terrifying experience. Even if you don’t go into mental implications: He was kidnapped, had something that shared his face outright murder someone, hear the thing saying it would become him, then almost killed him in an explosion, and nearly killed him again when he went to stop it at the heist.
And probably shouldn’t forget that, even with its face being torn off, it’s still saying Kaito is the fake one. I’m sure that’s a lovely image for Kaito to have…
…In short, overthink it, or just look at what was given, it’s still a very potentially traumatising event for Kaito, and it deserves to be seen, dammit animators. >:V (All chapters deserve it, and heck, they even did a version of Ghost Game, which I doubt anyone expected. Give us this robot!) )
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