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I recently started watching Detective Conan and I learned that Ran and
Shinichi are in fact childhood friends. So my question is, when Shinichi, due
to the side effects of the drug he was forced to take, end up with the
appearance of an elementary school student, why did Ran, who has known him
since childhood not see the resemblance right away?


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Why Ran did not recognise Shinichi right away?


She may well have noticed the resemblance, but seeing an elementary school
student who looks a lot like how a friend of yours _used to look_ in the past,
does not immediately lead one to the conclusion that that student _is_ in fact
your actual friend! It is never explicitly stated, but in all likelihood she
simply noted (subconsciously?) the similarity (if she were paying attention in
the first place) and moved on.


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Ran had a few suspicion arcs, where she believed (Desperate revival) or
suspected Conan's true identity. The truth is quite nonsense, if someone comes
and says your friend has shrinked from 17 years to 7 years, would you believe?
It is very illogical and hard to believe. Plus Conan always fools her into
some kind of trick at the end of suspicion arcs and he has a lot of other
people to help him out (Professor, Heiji, His parents, Ai), and moreover Conan
tries to act like a kid around her and wears big glasses. So it shouldn't
trigger more suspicion than we see. She just thinks his big resemblance to
Shinichi is some kind of coincidence, though she suspects at times, and there
shouldn't be more suspicion than this logically.


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