So it seems that the latest Detective Conan full-length feature is inspired by the Singapore Flyer. I was watching it on the plane (gah, what is it, 36 more hours until I get home?) and couldn’t quite believe my eyes when the credits featured footage of the Marina Bay skyline, and Gardens by the Bay. It’s funny how the things that seem dinkiest and least impressive to someone who lives there—and especially things that are so novel and phantasmic as the features of Singaporean contemporary urban planning are—can be the most inspiring to others. It’s a strange taste I’m not sure I want to understand, but y’know, there is still something to call home.
The film, by the way, is excellent. From the opening fight sequence you can tell it’s a well-animated. No Dragonball-style fight scenes here, although the degree to which angles and shots try to do something novel drops off significantly after the first act. I have no qualms with that, and anyway, there’s something very comforting about Conan’s world, where a kid who looks 10 basically can run around with FBI agents and save the world.
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