Detective Conan: Angel of the Highway — A Motorcycle Cop Steals the Show

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 685)

• That female motorcycle officer who rammed her bike into the car near the end — I love her so much I want her back, this time with an actual name.

  終盤の車に激突させた白バイ女性隊員、名前付きで再登場して欲しいくらい好きになった。

  — @足りてますシロップ-w7c796 likes

• The scene where the random mob motorcycle officer sacrifices herself so Chihaya can press on ahead — that one really got me.

  モブの白バイ隊員が千速を先に行かせるために犠牲になったシーンが良かったな

  — @ジャックスパロウ-y4k128 likes

• Her logic is "the car's unmanned, so if it goes wrong the only one who dies is me" — and she rams her bike into it anyway. The resolve is absolutely dialed to 100…

  車が無人なら何かあっても死ぬのは自分だけだからとバイクぶつけに行くのは覚悟ガン決まりすぎてる…

  — @侑弥石川-g6z113 likes

• Making that call without a second's hesitation, ready to throw herself into it — she's an absurdly good subordinate.

  躊躇わず自身を犠牲にしてあの判断下せるの部下として優秀すぎた

  — @下痢やろー196 likes

• I really hope that mob motorcycle-cop lady quietly shows back up someday as Chihaya's subordinate or colleague.

  白バイのモブ隊員お姉さん千速の部下か同僚としてしれっと再登場しないかなぁ

  — @サカヅキさん780 likes

• But she's probably Tokyo Metro Police, right? She was riding an "Angel" unit. PLEASE bring her back!!

  でも多分警視庁の人ですよね エンジェル乗ってたし めっちゃ出てほしい！！

  — @りん-h6s57 likes

• That mob female motorcycle officer was so cool.

  モブの女性白バイ隊員かっこよかった

  — @朝霧奏20 likes

• The motorcycle officer who stays loyal to Chihaya is genuinely so cool. Leading the detour, the three of them riding together — I loved it. And her go-for-broke nerve the second she clocks "if it's unmanned…" is unreal.

  千速さんに忠実な白バイお姉さん本当に格好良い。迂回路の先導してて、3人で走ってるの良かった…。無人なら、での思い切りがすごすぎ。

  — @らむ-e9s2t248 likes

• Chihaya is just too beautiful.

  千速さんが美しすぎだ

  — @ナナシ-v9b62 likes

• I'm a sucker for a cool, composed grown woman suddenly letting her guard slip — so the final scene, where Detective Yokomizo princess-carries Chihaya and won't put her down and she goes red in the face, absolutely wrecked me.

  カッコよくて余裕のある大人のお姉さんが不意に見せる隙が大好きなので最後のシーンで横溝刑事にお姫様抱っこを下ろして貰えなくて赤面する千速さんがめちゃくちゃ刺さりました

  — @武口龍633 likes

• Ahh, that's gap-moe for you. So precious~

  ギャップ萌えってやつか、てぇてぇなぁ〜

  — @へちま-i7i7 likes

• Conan's annual "GO!!" soccer-ball kick fails to break the door, so the ball just ricochets everywhere and beats the helicopter to a pulp instead — I'm dead lol

  毎年お馴染みの「いっけぇぇぇ！」で扉破壊できなくてサッカーボールが跳弾しまくってヘリがボッコボコになるのほんま草

  — @決定のツイーゴ391 likes

• Yeah that one got a laugh out of me.

  あれ笑ってもうた

  — @shacchosan38 likes

• This year's "there's no way that works" moment: hijacking a flying helicopter by ramming it with a motorcycle.

  今回の《そんな馬鹿な》ポイント 飛んでるヘリにバイクでカチコミジャック

  — @黒い猫-f1l301 likes

• Honestly I could not tell you at what point the sniper guy actually got rescued, lol.

  スナイパーの方どのタイミングで助かったのかわからんかったんすよね

  — @もんちゃん-d3v42 likes

• The line "We can't close off the Rainbow Bridge!" flashed through my head and I just lost it. (Note for non-JP fans: it's an iconic line from the cop drama Bayside Shakedown — a national meme over here.)

  「レインボーブリッジ、封鎖できません｣が頭をよぎって笑ってしまった

  — @ほこた-b9x209 likes

• ???: "We can't close off the Bay Bridge!"

  ？？？「ベイブリッジ封鎖できません！」

  — @usurabi10710 likes

• Ran broke out of her restraints and beat everyone down with literally zero on-screen explanation, and that cracked me up.

  蘭姉ちゃん、なんの描写もなく拘束解いてボコしてたの笑った

  — @Raito0378234 likes

• They've finally reached the point where Ran's one-woman beatdown gets skipped entirely, as if to say "we don't even need to show you this, right?"

  遂に「見せなくてもわかるでしょ？」と言わんばかりに省略された蘭姉ちゃん無双パート

  — @Kinato-niziiro37 likes

• ???: "Can't we just... send her in alone at this point?"

  ？？？「もうあの人1人で良くないですか…？」

  — @むっそりーに-w1n10 likes

• The second I heard someone was going to the eye doctor, my brain screamed "EYE DROPS!! This is The Fourteenth Target!!" Please tell me someone else's brain went there too.

  眼科に通ってるって聞いた時 目薬‼︎14番目のターゲットだｯ‼︎ってなった 同じこと思った人いて欲しい

  — @とら-o8i318 likes

• Right — once you count the tiny touches too, there were a TON of homages to the older movies. The obvious ones: The Time Bombed Skyscraper → the bomb that detonates if you slow down; The Million-dollar Pentagram → smashing through stained glass on a bike; One-eyed Flashback → a lovestruck older guy catching the heroine. But honestly, from the earliest films to the recent ones, there were callbacks everywhere, from small details to whole vibes and setups.

  そう、こういう細かいのも含めると過去作のオマージュがめちゃ多かった。 目立つのは、 『時計じかけ』→速度が落ちると爆発する爆弾 『五稜星』→バイクでステンドグラスぶち破る 『隻眼』→恋するおじさんによるヒロインキャッチ あたりだけど、初期作品と近年の作品からは細かい要素から大まかな設定や雰囲気的な部分まで沢山あったように思う。

  — @千埴ちゃん90 likes

• Yeah, going in I thought it'd be one thing, but it ended up being this patchwork of homages to a bunch of different movies.

  なんか今回は天国かと思ったら複数作品からオマージュしてる感じだったね

  — @バイバイン-b7e17 likes

• Getting to see Matsuda and Hagiwara interact during the character-intro opening was the best.

  キャラの紹介オープニングで松田と萩原のからみが見れたの最高だった

  — @ポラリス-v9p67 likes

• Seeing the late Atsuko Tanaka's name in the end credits made me cry.

  エンドロールに田中敦子さんいるの泣いた

  — @Twitter-y3c216 likes

• I felt weirdly reassured when, at the very very end, they actually put up a proper "please obey traffic laws" card.

  最後の最後にちゃんと「交通ルールは守りましょう」って出て安心した

  — @倉庫区55 likes

• The post-credits notices — "please use motorcycles responsibly" and a plug for the new bicycle ticketing system — slowly got funnier the more I thought about it. I mean, wall-riding at highway speed, tightrope-walking across the Bay Bridge to ram a helicopter... a real cop would be fired on the spot, so what exactly is "responsible use" here (deep philosophical sigh).

  エンドロール後の 「バイクは正しく使いましょう」と「自転車青切符制度」 の注意書きが少しジワった。確かに高速で壁走りしたりベイブリッジ綱渡りでヘリにカチコミしたり警察でやったら即解雇なのに正しく使うとは(哲学)

  — @あんまき2411181 likes

• Honestly this one might be a really solid pick for Conan newcomers.

  今回のはコナン初心者にだいぶおすすめかもしれない

  — @Nishikawa_Goemon112 likes

• I feel like I say this every single year, but the recent Conan movies' soundtracks are just too good. The way it synergizes with the bike action to get your blood pumping — I love it. (…) If I'm being greedy, I really wanted to see the stadium blow up.

  毎年言ってる気がするけどここ最近のコナン映画BGMが本当に良すぎる バイクアクションとの相乗効果でワクワクする感じが好き （…） 欲を言えばハマスタ爆発見たかった

  — @kohaku616534 likes

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