Detective Conan Episode 269: The Forgotten Memento from the Crime (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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Monday, July 29, 2019

0 Detective Conan Episode 269: The Forgotten Memento from the Crime (P1)

Episode 269: The Forgotten Memento from the Crime (Part 1)

A second after Ayumi found Mrs. Morita's lost watch, everyone hears the sounds of something crashing and someone escaping from the house. They quickly rush to the audio room and find Idetsuki murdered! A vase from the hallway was found missing and it's the same one that was used for the murder. Was this the work of an outsider?

Scenario: Hideo Morita has come forth to the agency asking Kogoro to find his late wife Mrs. Morita’s watch which he has lost in his house. Kogoro refuses the problem, but the Detective Boys and Dr. Agasa offer to help. At Hideo’s house, they find a room full of movie tapes and fantastic equipments for watching movies. During the search, Eiko Idetsuki, Hideo's neighbor, comes to ask for money he previously loaned. Hideo makes a partial payment then shows her the tape of a movie she really wanted to watch, and she goes to the audio room. The children give the woman lunch and find the watch in the washing machine. Just then, they hear a loud noise and find Idetsuki with her skull crushed by a vase of flowers followed by the sound of someone running out the door. Hideo has an alibi as he wasn’t in the same room as the victim but Conan believes that Hideo played a role in Idetsuki’s untimely demise. During the investigation, Takagi reveals to Conan that someone has stolen from the police all the documents relating to cases resolved by Kogoro. These documents, however, were returned by mail shortly thereafter. Moreover, Takagi adds that the thief struck the same day of the questioning of witnesses of the hijacked bus incident. Conan immediately suspects Professor Jodie, Dr. Araide and a mysterious man named Shuichi Akai.

A man seeks out Kogoro Mouri to help find his passed wife's wind-up watch in his apartment. Thinking it's a ridiculous request, Kogoro refuses, and instead Professor Agasa and the Detective Boys offer help. When everyone arrives in his house, a woman knocks and asks for the money the man loaned. He returns part of it and lets her borrow a film she has been looking for. As she was eager for seeing it, she begins to watch it right there in the video room. Conan finds the watch, which is still working even though it's supposed to be stopped. The woman is found dead and the tape in the VCR rewound.