The new Dub is still great, awesome cast and good scripting, and each episode is a good one including two of my favorite of the entire series. I do want everyone to keep watching them so they'll make more.
However I can no longer stay silent about how frustrated I am with how this is being handled.
I would be less annoyed by how many important episodes are being skipped if these weren't the only ones we can legally watch even just Subbed between 123 and 754. If TMS would just make all of it available Subbed somewhere then I could direct people to the context they're missing.
I was fully prepared for the amount of content we'd get today to be no more then what we got in terms of runtime. However when they said this would end the Black organization collection I assumed it was gonna end with episode 345 Head to Head Match with The Black Organization: A Duel Mystery on a Full Moon Night the finale of the Vermouth arc.
Episode 425 Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out is a very good and very important episode but one I was willing to wait for since it's the start of an era of the show not an ending.
For today's drop I would gladly have traded it for Contact with The Black Organization 309-311 and Four Porsches 338-339. And of the episodes between Mysterious Passenger and 345 I would also for a collection branded as being about Conan VS the Black Organization consider them more directly relevant then The New York Murder Case, that case's relevance to the BO storyline is largely in hindsight, Contact is the episode that really first starts revealing what the BO is actually doing. And Four Porsches is most of the set up that 345 pays off.
And if we could have had more episodes I'd next have prioritized Hidden Bathroom Secret 340-341 and 343-344 The Connivence Story Trap.
The New York Murder Case I would maybe have saved for a Collection focused on key episodes of the ShinRan Romance storyline in which I'd include every episode where Ran suspects the truth at least up to The Desperate Revival 188-193, maybe episode 10, Ski Lodge Murder Case 84-85,The Memories of First Love Murder Case 100-101, The Locked Room in the Sky: Shinichi's First Case 162 (which is a double length episode), The Secret Rushed Omission 271-271 and again 343-344.
If that is the theme of the next collection we get which I think it should be, but again being given only 12-13 episodes, I would skip those already covered by the first 123 and focus on the episodes the West hasn't officially gotten yet.
Another theme the next collection could have is an FBI characters focus, Cinema Saturdays is doing the two most FBI centric movies in a row, and it would fill in some gaps. It could start with The Battle Game Trap 226-227, then 277-278, 343-344 and Four Porsches could also fit here, The Man from Chicago 258-259. And then Shadow of The Black Organization. Those being the options for just the first Cour of such a collection, the second cour would have to be the full Clash of Red and Black, not a single episode skipped.
Update August 26th 2025: Contact With The Black Organization has moments that could justify making it part of either a ShinRan or FBI themed selection, it'd be hard to argue that's the main point of the episodes, but I also feel it's hard to argue the Black Organization is the main point of the New York Murder Case.
I've also recalled that a few things my memory associated with Contact actually happened in the prior two parter 307-308 On The Trial of The Silent Witness. But none of the most essential stuff.
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