The last Sara Aeschliman simulcast writeup before Christmas! And next week's the final Sara Aeschliman simulcast writeup for 2025! It's so hard to believe that we're getting so close to the end of the Fall 2025 anime season, and honestly, I don't think I would have it any other way. The Winter 2026 anime season should have me popping up a bit more, so if you didn't feel content with me only popping up once per week, don't worry!

On December 12th of the year 2025, I turned 21. This holds absolutely no bearing on the post, I just wanted to say that since I also brought it up in my post about the previous episode. Anyway, I've been loving turning on this series and seeing what occurs to the characters as they do their regular day to day things.

I'm listening to Christmas music while working on this post, as my parents have been neglecting to play it themselves, and I want to play Whamageddon! I absolutely did not have to mention this, but I'm just doing so because it's Christmas season and Christmas is cool. :] Anyway, in today's episode, Mizuki gets a stye and has to stay home from work.

Suddenly, me writing down the name of the episode in the episode preview just to be able to provide the name of an episode alongside its number when letting people know that the next episode isn't out yet is a stroke of genius on my part. This isn't the only episode to be hit by this. I can confirm that Spy x Family Season 3 Episode 9 was hit by something like this as well, and I think it's highly likely that this isn't an isolated incident that was contained to these two shows.

Ugh, I'm tired. Like, tired enough to the point of "I can't think up of a good way to lead into this post". Sorry, folks. Maybe next week I'll figure out a good way to lead into the post that completely excuses the fact that I didn't really do anything to lead into this post except for this. During a meeting, Futami gets another responsibility dumped onto her...needing to make the cover illustration for the next issue of the magazine that her manga gets published in!

I'm going to be honest, when I read the title for the first time, my mind jumped to the song Last Surprise from Persona 5. I haven't even played any of the Persona games, I only know the song because of the internet. Yes, I'm fully aware that this series wouldn't go anywhere near Persona territory. But that's just the connection my brain made!

"Could you hold on a minute before you continue?" SPOILER WARNING: This post contains spoilers from Episode 5 of A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace, as it needs to be brought up to make this writeup make sense. Please watch episodes 1 through 5 of A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace before proceeding to read this writeup. Yeah, I know it's weird to see me utilize one of those little boxes again, but in my defense, I purposefully didn't reveal something that happened in Episode 5, so I'd have to add that to this post regardless of whether I wanted to or not.

If there's one thing that you may be wondering while watching this show (assuming you're someone who only follows the story through the anime), I'm sure it's probably nothing along the lines of "someone else is gonna pop up in this house, aren't they?"...what do you mean nobody asked me what I thought you were thinking about? Ugh, this is why we can't have nice things...

Before I get into the writeup I typically do, I just wonder: how similar is the mangaka process to the graphic novelist process? Someone correct me if I'm incorrect, but I believe that in some instances, graphic novels get serialized in the same way as manga does. Is it just Japan that has the magazines that include chapters of many different series as part of serialization, or does the US have an equivalent to that for its comic series?

I would've watched this yesterday, but with non-emergency family stuff that occurred that day where I wasn't told when we were going to head out until basically the day before (with me feeling like the time would've caused the quality of this writeup to suffer in the process), I had to quickly do stuff to make it clear this post was going to be delayed.

Sorry if this post ends up being shorter than my typical posts here. I'm on more of a crunch to write this due to the fact that for a while, Crunchyroll didn't have proper English subtitles available for this episode. Like, there were subtitles for some of the on-screen stuff that's not as important, but the dialogue hadn't been subtitled yet.

Before I get to my regular coverage of this episode, I need to point out something that I noticed happened on the English subtitles for this episode that I haven’t seen occur in any other Detective Conan episode on Crunchyroll before this point in time. What I am specifically talking about is the subtitles for the little speech that Conan/Shinichi gives prior to the lyrics of the theme are out of sync on the version of the subtitles that Crunchyroll has.

Valentine’s Day...is still way too far away for me to be making any meaningful comments about it. Look, it’s October, what exactly do you want me to say? Chocolate is delicious? Anyway, with an important holiday like that existing, surely Detective Conan’s gotta celebrate it, right? But how exactly will a show that focuses on murders and kidnappings and whatever other crimes a detective can investigate end up celebrating…

Early Detective Conan is fun. There are so many awesome cases, and the fact that these are being done back in the time of 90s, when technology isn’t as advanced as it is today. While that isn’t necessarily an issue, I think it creates a lot of cases that would likely be way too easy to solve in the modern day.

I genuinely thought that for me to find this series, considering the subpar way that Crunchyroll has labeled their Fall 2025 shows so far, I was gonna have to play "Season 1 Russian Roulette" when looking for this show. So, I ended up lucking out when it seems like that the first simulcast that's going to come every Monday (unless Crunchyroll is running behind like they were on Saturday) …

Yeah, I know, this writeup is coming out much later compared to when my other writeups for this series came out. But the wait for me to be able to watch this episode was pain! Thankfully, I didn't have to deal with needing to look through multiple entries that are labeled as "Season 1" just to find it, but I still dislike how long I ultimately had to wait just to see it!