Reviews
(4.25/5)A Good Ol' Mystery Novel
ENTERTAINMENT
Detective Boys had many enjoyable moments from start to finish. It was a battle of wits between 20 Faces and Akechi Kogoro. I do wish that the Detective Boys were able to do more as a team like in the beginning of the book.
It was great to see where Detective Conan's Detective Boys got there namesake and badges from. The gadgets that they had were interesting as well. Like the fountain pen flashlight.
LANGUAGE LEARNING
This was my first time reading an old book so it was diff
The Youtube reading differed from the Aozora text in the introduction (adding several extra sentences) but seemed to be largely consistent after that point.
An old fashioned kid's detective's story. I'm a fan of golden era detective novels and also very comfortable with older texts at this point, so I enjoyed this thoroughly, but a few call outs for people not familiar with the genre:
- This is an old text (published 1937) so some of the grammar and words used will not be in common use anymore
Private detective Akechi Kogoro is teaming up with a gang of curious boys to first solve the mystery of a black demon before going against a phantom thief.
With this being a children’s book from 1937 I’m not sure if it will rank as high on other people’s lists but for me personally it was a lot of fun analyzing how this series definded the “detective vs. phantom thief” trope on the Japanese side. Be advised though that not everything holds up to modern standards and especially the chapters wher