posted on by Ken Iikura-Gross
Man: “In the first 20 seconds I was prepared to die, but then this scene popped into my head, and I escaped with my life.”
©青山剛昌／小学館・読売テレビ・TMS 1996
A Japanese driver posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday about his near-death experience when his car flooded in a river, and how the long-running anime Detective Conan saved his life. He said that he saw a separate driver backing into a cemetery on the right side of the road and the two collided while he tried to pass. The man suggested both drivers were planning on going the same direction and that is what caused his car to end up in the neighboring river.
The unnamed man said, “When my car was flooding, this passed through my head and I was able to escape with my life! I can’t thank Conan’s creator enough!” pointing to a separate X user citing Detective Conan episode 1078, in which fictional FBI agent Andre Camel is in a flooding car. He continued, “In the first 20 seconds I was prepared to die, but then this scene popped into my head, and I escaped with my life.” While the man’s post does not explicitly state how Detective Conan saved his life, the clip from episode 1078 shows Andre Camel escaping his flooded car when the water pressure inside and outside the car are the same.
Gōshō Aoyama launched the Detective Conan manga in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shounen Sunday magazine in 1994. The manga has spawned a television anime that has been running since January 1996, as well as an accompanying anime film series. Viz Media publishes the manga under the name Case Closed, Funimation‘s original localized title. The anime’s 1,078th episode aired in April 2023, based on a manga chapter that debuted in October 2020.
Sources: nozinozi053’s X/Twitter account (link 2, link 3), bakugekidoao15’s X/Twitter account, Detective Conan on Amazon Prime Japan via Hachima Kikō
