Description
– Launched 2021
– Check out the YouTube video of Shiho Miyano talking about APTX. Unfortunately I can’t find one with English subtitles.
🪐 Available editions:
1. Detective Conan (Red), limited edition of 5000
2. Kid the Phantom Thief (Blue), limited edition of 5000
3. Moonlight Magician (Silver /Blue /Gray), limited edition of 999. Not for sale normally, it was a GWP with purchase of 6 decks
4. Shinichi Kudo Laser Holographic tuck, limited edition of 1996
5. Detective Conan 25th Anniversary (Turbo Engine Skateboard), limited edition of 4869
– I am aware that the silver foil IP protection sticker is placed awkwardly however that is proof of authenticity and I cannot remove it. Sorry!
🌟 Official merchandise paying attention to each character’s costumes, expression and personality. Even Kogoro Mori’s sleepy pose is perfectly brought to life. 52 unique card designs, spot your favourite characters, including Conan Edogawa, Shinichi Kudo, Kid the Phantom Thief, Ran Mori, Shuichi Akai, Ai Haibara, Heiji Hattori, Gin, Yukiko Kudo, Hannin, Vermouth, Toru Amuro, Masumi Sera, etc.
🌟 Number Cards have a hidden surprise as well. Watch out for Professor Agasa’s gadget inventions, such as the Detective Boys Badge, Criminal Tracking Glasses, Voice Changing Bowtie, Stun Gun Wristwatch, Turbo Engine Skateboard, Elasticity Suspenders, Power Enhancing Kick Shoes….. How many of these Easter Eggs can you spot?
🪐 APTX 4869 (四八六九 Yon-Hachi-Roku-Kyū?), nicknamed “Prototype Detective” by members of the Black Organization, is a fictional toxin and derivative of an experimental formula of unknown purpose developed by Shiho Miyano, which is used by the Black Organization as an untraceable, lethal poison. Right now, there is a prototype antidote for it made by Shiho.
🪐 APTX is an abbreviation of “Apoptoxin,” and, as the name implies, it involves the activation of apoptosis: the mechanism by which cells kill themselves. APTX contains ingredients which have other functions as well. It contains a component which activates telomerase: an enzyme which lengthens the caps at the end of DNA whose length limits the number of times a cell can divide.
In practice, most of the time APTX 4869 works as a lethal poison. Gin says it can’t be detected when used, possibly indicating it leaves few traces that forensic examination could uncover. However, as said by Ai Haibara, a rare side effect can in fact de-age victims. When talking about her own and Conan’s shrinking, she said that the side effect causes everything apart from the nervous system to revert back to a childlike state, but the adult personality and memories remain intact.
🪐 APTX 4869 is a pun on “Sherlock Holmes”. 4869 can also be pronounced “Shi-Ya-Ro-Ku” (シャロク Sharoku), which translates into Sherlock. Adding to the pun, the password for the APTX data is “Shellingford”, an unintentional misspelling of “Sherrinford”, which was the name Arthur Conan Doyle called his detective character before deciding on “Sherlock”. The password and the pun name seem to be related to why several members of the Black Organization call APTX 4869 the “incomplete detective”, implying APTX 4869 is not finished yet.
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