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The 26th Detective Conan movie features a controversial scene of a kiss between two girls under a dramatic pretext.

The Detective Conan series is a popular anime franchise with a wide fan base in the Arab world. The 26th movie, titled The Bride of the Crimson Bullet, was released in Arabic cinemas on May 25, 2023. It was also made available on a popular Arabic anime streaming app without any censorship.

In the controversial scene, a young girl named Ai Haibara kisses another girl named Ran Mouri. Ai Haibara is secretly in love with Conan Edogawa, who is Ran's childhood friend and romantic interest. However, Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo, a high school detective who has been transformed into a child due to a poison.

Ai Haibara's kiss is intended to act as a proxy for Conan's kiss for Ran. This is because Ai Haibara has ingested an antidote that temporarily allows her to transform back into her adult form, Haibara Ai. In this adult form, she resembles Conan's older sister, Akemi Miyano, who was also Shinichi's girlfriend before her death.

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15 Algerian Children Commit Suicide Inspired by Detective Conan

Three news reports came as a shock to the residents of remote villages in Tizi Ouzou, a province in the Great Kabylie region of central Algeria. Three children, no older than 12, committed suicide in a similar manner and at the same time after watching the anime series "Detective Conan."

The village of Lastours, near the town of Tizi Rached, was shaken by the news of the suicide of schoolboy Karim Amrane, nicknamed Zidane. Born in 1999, he was in his ninth year and was expected to take his middle school exams. However, fate turned him into one of the children eager to imitate what they saw in the anime series "Detective Conan."

His classmate, Mohamed Amine, says that Zidane would constantly say he would do what Conan did. The series depicts how someone can commit suicide and then come back to life.

"But reality is different, and that's what children don't understand," says the victim's father. His young son went to a grove near the family's house, tied a rope to a tree trunk, and committed suicide "Detective Conan style." The tragic difference between reality and fiction is that the family found their son lifeless after an hour, hanging from the rope.

Not far from this village, the village of Ahebal in the same province was grieved by the news of the death of Hani Mohand Akli, born in 2000, who committed suicide "Detective Conan style," half an hour after Karim.

Akli, a first-year middle school student, committed suicide with his karate belt, according to his father. The mother confirms that her son followed the cartoon series shown on the "Spaytoon" channel after returning from school.

She explains that one of the episodes showed a dramatic and horrifying scene where a character committed suicide by hanging because they were tired of life, only to return to life filled with happiness and bliss. The mother says with heartbreak: "It seems that Mohand Akli was affected by the episode and tried to imitate it, but he died with no return."

In a third incident, Mohamed Saidi from the Bouzeguène area committed suicide by hanging himself after tying a rope to his parents' bedroom window and wrapping it around his neck. He passed away after half an hour. This incident, which shook three regions in Tizi Ouzou, was not an isolated one. News later emerged about child suicides influenced by Detective Conan. A teenager in Batna, east of the Algerian capital, committed suicide by burning himself, and another hanged himself in the western capital Tiaret. Similar cases were reported in Biskra, Skikda, Bordj Bou Arreridj (2 cases), Khenchela (3 cases), Bejaïa (2 cases), and Oran. All these cases involved children who reportedly followed the series "Detective Conan" and imitated the details of its events, causing panic among Algerian families.

Fifteen child suicides, none older than 14, within three weeks shook the entire society. The reason behind them is the influence of cartoons that have become a major danger to children, prompting educational sociologists and psychologists to warn about their consequences for children. In addition to suicide, there are other problems that arise in young people that can be difficult to detect quickly. According to psychotherapist Saida Lejri, "Such series have become a real problem for children and families. The most important issue is the lack of concentration in studies and their obsession with following these series, even if they are not suitable for their age." She points out that "these programs, although cartoons, are not intended for children, which makes parents underestimate the danger they pose."