Detective Conan Episode 746: Kaito Kid VS Makoto Kyogoku (P1)

Summary

Case Closed

Case Closed, known as Meitantei Conan (名探偵コナン?, lit. Great Detective Conan, officially translated as Detective Conan) in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since February 2, 1994, and has been collected in 73 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011. Due to legal considerations with the name Detective Conan, the English language release was renamed Case Closed.[1] The story follows the adventures of Jimmy Kudo, a prodigious young detective who was inadvertently transformed into a child after being poisoned.

Since its publication, Case Closed has spawned a substantial media franchise. The manga has been adapted into an ongoing animated television series by Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation and TMS Entertainment; the animated series has reached its twentieth season. The series has spawned three original video animation series, fifteen animated feature films, three live action dramas, one live action series, numerous video games, and many types of Case Closed-related merchandise. A two-hour television special titled Lupin the 3rd vs Detective Conan was aired on March 27, 2009, and featured a crossover with the series Lupin III.

Funimation Entertainment licensed the anime series for North American broadcast in 2003 under the name Case Closed with the characters given Americanized names. The anime premiered on Cartoon Network as part of their Adult Swim programming block and was discontinued due to low ratings. The first six films were released on Region 1 DVD in North America. Viz Media later licensed the manga series for English-language publication in North America and used Funimation's renamed title and cast. As of July 2011, 39 volumes have been published by Viz Media.

Compilation volumes of the manga have sold more than 120 million copies in Japan. In 2001, the manga was awarded 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category. The anime adaptation has been well received and ranked in the top twenty in Animage's polls between 1996 and 2001. In the Japanese TV anime ranking, Case Closed often ranked in the top six. Both manga and anime have had positive response from critics for its plot and cases.

Plot

Jimmy Kudo is a 17-year-old high school prodigy who frequently helps the police to solve cases. During an investigation, he is attacked by two criminals, codenamed Gin and Vodka, from the syndicate called the Black Organization. They force him to ingest an experimental poison, APTX 4869, which is supposed to kill him, and leave him to die. A rare side-effect of the poison, however, transforms Kudo's body into that of a child instead of killing him.

Adopting the pseudonym Conan Edogawa, Kudo hides his identity to investigate the Black Organization. He intends to pretend to be a child until he can find enough evidence to apprehend the syndicate, after which he can then safely find and administer a cure for his current condition. Edogawa enrolls at Teitan elementary school and forms the Junior Detective League with three other children in his class: Amy Yoshida, Mitch Tsuburaya, and George Kojima. To further cover up his activities, he moves in with his childhood friend Rachel Moore, whose father, Richard, works as a private investigator. Kudo continues to solve criminal cases as Conan, but usually poses as Richard Moore with the help of special gadgets invented by his neighbor and friend, Hiroshi Agasa.

Shiho Miyano, a member of the Black Organization and creator of APTX 4869, tries to leave the syndicate after her sister's murder, but is held captive by them. She attempts to commit suicide by ingesting APTX 4869; however, like Kudo, she is transformed into a child. She manages to escape and enrolls in Conan's school under the pseudonym, Anita Hailey. She joins the Junior Detective League and assists Conan in his investigations on the Black Organization. Conan's quest has led him to help the FBI to plant a CIA agent, Kir, inside the Black Organization as an undercover spy.

In 2007, Aoyama hinted he had the ending planned out but he has no intention of ending the series yet.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

0 Detective Conan Episode 746: Kaito Kid VS Makoto Kyogoku (P1)

Episode 746: Kaito Kid VS Makoto Kyogoku (Part 1)

Scenario: Sonoko has decided to introduce Makoto to her parents. Her father approves of Makoto but her mother doesn't. Makoto is going to prove himself by protecting the jewel which is the target of Kaitou Kid.

Sonoko has decided to introduce Makoto to her parents. But while her father wholely approves of Makoto, especially as he is a fan of martial arts competitions himself, her mother in turn is strictly against a union between her younger daughter, as the prospective heir of the Suzuki Corporation, and an (in her eyes) uneducated, fight-obsessed rapscallion. Just then Sonoko receives a phone call from Ran, who informs her of Kaitou Kid's newest intention of stealing a priceless jewel from his self-declared archnemesis Jirokichi Suzuki. But as she expresses her excitement to her uncle, Makoto hears Sonoko calling Kid by his honoric "-sama", and becomes highly suspicious about her attention for that notorious master thief.

A little while later, after many concluded simulation runs and scenario calculations, Jirokichi Suzuki has to face the bitter reality that all measures he and his technicians have thought of to apprehend Kaitou Kid will actually be less than sufficicent to prevent the young master thief from taking Jirokichi's latest bait, the Alexandrite Green Emperor.

Deeply depressed, Jirokichi considers cancelling the exhibition when a security guard (looking the worse for wear) announces the arrival of Makoto, who has spontaneously given up his return flight and smashed his way to the front of Jirokichi's mansion to request that Jirokichi lets him join the security force guarding the jewel. At first Jirokichi refuses, but when Sonoko calls him up to inquire about Makoto's exact whereabouts, and when Jirokichi learns of Makoto's phenomenal victory record, he swiftly changes his mind about the young man's offer and sends a demonstration video to Superintendent Chaki and Inspector Nakamori. However, amidst the slack-jawed policemen witnessing Makoto's fighting prowess lurks Kaitou Kid in disguise, who merely shows amusement at this new, if unusual challenge.

Later on, as Makoto spends the night in the Suzuki Museum to familiarize himself with the battleground, Tomoko Suzuki shows up and suggests that they enter a bet. At the same time, Sonoko phones the great news of the impending clash between Makoto and Kid to Ran when Kid interrupts her conversation by appearing at her room's balcony, and he also offers her to enter a bet with him.