Detective Conan OVA 9: The Stranger of 10 Years

Alt title: Meitantei Conan OVA 9: 10 Nengo no Stranger

OVA (1 ep x 22 min)
2009
3.983 out of 5 from 1,599 votes
Rank #1,075

While lying in bed with a cold, Conan receives a phone call from Haibara offering him a chance to try the latest prototype antidote to the Apotoxin-4869 that turned him into a child. Thrilled at the chance to turn back into Shinichi Kudo once more and surprise his friends at school, Conan immediately takes her up on the offer, despite his high fever. After his transformation, Conan is amazed at how different the world looks; but after arriving at school he slowly begins to realize that he’s somehow managed to travel forward ten years in time!

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DGFischer
9.8

Detective Conan: The Stranger of 10 Years (TMS Entertainment, 2016) is the Conan OVA with a touch of the Twilight Zone.  The premise is intriguing.  Conan is down with a fever and a cold.  He will be absent from school.  But fellow victim of Black Corp. Ai Haibara calls with a proposal.  An experimental antidote to APTZ 4869 which will revert seven-year old Conan to seventeen-year old Shinichi ... for twenty-four hours.  Prompted by Sonoko's suggestion that Ran dump Shinichi (and against Ai's concern that taking the drug in a fevered-state), Conan takes the antidote and ... Prospects start well.  Shinichi plans to take in high school for the afternoon to get back in touch with Ran.  Meanwhile, the ominous notices that Beika doesn't look quite the same.  This is where things go downhill for Conan, for he arrives at high school as the seventeen-year old Conan.  Things get good when Conan runs into the equally seventeenish Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Aiyume (great character designs for these three, and let us not forget the 18-year old Ai come to explain what might have gone wrong).  In a panic over Ran's rumored marriage plans, Conan rushes about to find Ran, who cannot be convinced that Conan was Shinichi for all those ten years.  The dream reunion becomes a nightmare. Which happens when you take your dose of anti-APTX4869 while having a 100° fever (38.7° C, actually).  Conan wakes from his future shock and has a reunion with the whole Detective Conan gang at the Mori residence (including one good-looking physician whom Conan will be keeping his eyes on). The OVA is pure premise experimentation ... what happens if ...?  Following the lines of Conan/Shinichi unravel what is really happening in this surreal 'whatif' to its logical conclusion (Heiji and Hazuka look really great as 27-year old prospective married-types ... but not just yet) was a marvelous experience of imagination. The animation to OVA9 was drawn with beautiful jabs of CGI (birds a flutter), ponderous scenes of shade and shadow (Conan meeting Ran in the Kudo library), and well-wroth advancements of age for the characters who have aged ten years, theoretically.  Even the closing theme was composed for the occasion ... what if Shinichi risked losing Ran to another? The resolution made sense even as the dream-like adventure showed that it would break down under its own weight.  Things may not change over time when subjected to the prospects of the things that may be.

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