It's very faint in my memory but I remember a time when I felt uneasy to know behind the scenes information about anime. I guess I wanted to, as far possible consider those worlds to be real, or at least a realistic simulation that I could learn something from and apply it in my life, rather than a contrived scenario whose every-step was a deliberate choice of the creator to get a desired effect from an audience.

Today, I watched the first episode of the remastered version of Detective Conan/Meitantei Conan/Case Closed, and it's bringing me back to my memories as a seven year old reading the first volume of conan. I was around the same age as conan, so much time has passed but the feelings are still the same, which is a pleasant surprise. If there is something different, it's that I feel a lot free-er as an adult.

Anyway to focus on one thing which struck me is how Shinichi says he doesn't want to be a mystery writer like his dad, but wants to live out the life of characters like Sherlock Holmes. Was Gosho Aoyama projecting his own feelings or the feelings of 5-12 year old boys who were his audience? In any case, as fantastic an ambition it is to be a real life sherlock holmes, I do not think it is wrong.

So many young children get discouraged to do anything by a "realism" which dooms everyone to their lowest expectations of themselves? The cure to stoic presenting "realism" is to realise that it's just a front for cowardice, a mask of "reason" for an abject fear of failure.

Yes, the naïve teacher that told you that you could be anything that you wanted, if you were lucky enough to have such a teacher, was actually telling you the truth. Well it's only part of the truth, because you would have to do a lot of thinking, planning and acting but it is essentially true that you can just do things.