I started watching Detective Conan on TV when I was a teenager. It was such a great show.
I always loved detective stories like Sherlock Holmes and here I have it in anime format and over 100+ episodes, each better than the last!
Especially the older 1996-1998 episodes are the best.
You really enjoy every case and try to figure it out on your own.
Only later I found out that many of the episodes were fillers but even then, they were interesting detective cases.
The whole black organization main plot was intriguing at first but it was the various cases that kept me interested.
Also, every aspect showed more of the Japanese culture which was so much different than the usual Western stuff. I learned a lot about Japan from Detective Conan alone.
Today the show has 1014+ episodes and is not the Detective Conan I know.
They completely abandoned the Main Plot about the Black Organization. It has been literal 20 years of no progress! By now we know they will never finish it. They just dangle it in front of fans like a false hope.
Much more filler episodes now with boring predictable cases.
In the 1014 episodes they have shown literally everything about Japan.
The show is washed up.
Still I recommend it to people, especially the first 100-300 episodes that were great. You can always skip episodes you don't like or drop it once it gets boring.
As there is no continuity or anything rewarding with keeping up with the plot, you can simply pick whichever episode you want and watch it out of order, it doesn't matter...
How sad, one of my most favorite and beloved shows reduced to this..
Whenever they make another black organization arc, it only creates more characters, more questions without answering any.
We make 1 step forward and 20 steps back.
Do you understand that people have been waiting 25+ years, a quarter of a century to see the end of this story? So many people died hoping to witness how the story ends in their lifetime only to die unfulfilled?
I am old enough to just drop the show and enjoy what we had. I sometimes re-watch the older episodes because they are that good.
But I am not giving the show anymore of my time, only to waste it on fillers...
Maybe someday they will finish the story and I will check it out but for now, I'd rather watch something else.
