Detective Conan Episode 346: Find the Buttocks' Mark! (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, October 14, 2019

0 Detective Conan Episode 346: Find the Buttocks' Mark! (P1)

Episode 346: Find the Buttocks' Mark! (Part 1)

A phantom killer dressed in a gray raincoat has been randomly slashing civilians. His face wasn't seen by the victim for his face was covered with a hat and hood.

Scenario: Conan and Haibara, along with the other Detective Kids, are walking home from school discussing the previous event that occurred, meanwhile Ran and Sonoko visit Jodie who is in the hospital recovering from her injury. Jodie explains to Ran and Sonoko that she is a FBI agent and tells them a makeshift story to hide the fact that Haibara's life is in danger. Afterwards, Jodie's superior comes in and they talk about getting Haibara in the witness protection program. As Ayumi left the rest to go home, she ran into the Phantom Killer, but with many witnesses around, he fled the scene. The only clue is the mark on Ayumi's hand from the item that the culprit dropped on the ground and quickly retrieved. It is later discovered to be the symbol of a car brand as the same mark was also imprinted on Genta's rear end as he sat on Satou's car.

After the confrontation with Black Organization, Jodie Starling offers Ai Haibara to join the Witness Protection Program, which allows Haibara to escape the Black Organization by faking her name and cutting ties with her friends.

One rainy on the way from school, Ayumi collides with an escaping phantom killer and she isn't able see the face of the killer, due to him being concealed with a hat and hood. The phantom killer fells upon colliding with Ayumi and drops his knife he used for a recent slasher attack. Once the phantom killer gets up, he faced Ayumi and reaches out to her. Ayumi screams in fear of harm, but he only picks up a small object from the ground and then flees the scene afterwards. A clue is left behind when Ayumi realizes a mark on her hand that resembles a number 5.

Ayumi and the Detective Boys are taken to the police department to provide information regarding the phantom killer, but the only thing provided was that the phantom killer was a man through Ayumi hearing his voice, but that provided little help. With Detective Sato they all returned to the scene of the crime and found out the mark left on Ayumi was of a car brand. Genta was also found with the symbol on his butt from sitting on Detective Sato's car logo. With this added information, the culprit has been narrowed down to those with cars of the same mark.