Summary
Great Detective Conan
Name: Great Detective ConanAlternate Name: Case Closed, Meitantei Conan
Year of Release: 1994
Status: Ongoing
Author: Aoyama Gosho
Artist: Aoyama Gosho
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.
Genre
Great Detective Conan is written in the classic detective genre, with classic layout of the murders in the house, and there are countless cases suspect. Covers the way the case was argued solving very typical of the classic text adventure.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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0 Detective Conan Episode 1155: Follow Them! Detective Taxi 2
Episode 1155: Follow Them! Detective Taxi 2
Scenario: Every ten years, a so-called "Jewelry Washing Festival" is held at Tsubaki Shrine. Jewels that are washed by the water in the shrine's well will supposedly shine brighter and their value will increase. With such great outcomes, only wealthy people, jewelry store owners, and luxury car owners come to the festival as participants. One participant, named Yoko Matsuda, comes to the shrine for this festival, and her driver is none other than "Detective Taxi" Genki Ishikawa. As Ishikawa looks at the various luxury cars of other participants, he notices a suspicious-looking duo taking pictures of those cars, and decides that a case is abound.
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Ishikawa noticed this duo are secretly taking pictures of the "Jewelry Washing Festival" participant's cars for unknown purpose. |
Back at the detective agency, Kogoro and Conan are eating their sandwiches (with Conan noting that Kogoro has put too much ketchup) when they hear a TV news report of a robbery that had taken place at Tsubaki Shrine. This prompts Kogoro and Conan to rush to the shrine and investigate what happened. Upon getting to the shrine though, they find the police leaving and after asking the shrine maid of what happened, the shrine maid confirms that it was only an attempted robbery.
But no one has seen a taxi driver named Genki Ishikawa, even though a taxi is still parked by the shrine. Kogoro confirms that this is Ishikawa's taxi, and after he opens the trunk of the taxi, Ishikawa is found tied up.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
0 Detective Conan Episode 1152: Last Dance
Episode 1152: Last Dance
Scenario: Sonoko invites Ran to a party held by real estate company manager Kensaku Takada, and Conan inevitably has to follow them since Kogoro is off to drink with the neighborhood association. At the party, they get to meet Kensaku and his wife, Konomi. Kensaku, who heard from Sonoko that Ran is a karate champion, says that he also once practiced karate in college, and out of his passionate talking, starts striking poses. While not mentioned by anyone, Kensaku’s sleeves pull up slightly during this talk, revealing an expensive-looking watch.
Upon seeing Rika, Kensaku’s maid, walk past him, he calls her over to bring some drinks. Unfortunately, Rika bumps into one of the guests and accidentally spills the drinks onto Kensaku, which makes him furious and he nearly strikes her before Konomi intervenes. Konomi suggests him to go change his clothes, and Kensaku leaves the room, before Konomi also leaves to head to the powder room. Conan then spots a worried-looking man holding his phone intently before the man also exits the room.
After some time, Konomi returns, but Kensaku is still missing. Rika, now with a red mark on her cheek, tells Konomi that Kensaku went out to smoke. Konomi then instructs Rika to go get Kensaku. Meanwhile, Sonoko notices that Konomi had changed her shoes, and also invites Ran to change into a different pair of shoes. When questioned by Conan, Sonoko reveals the party to be a dance party, where participants wear special dancing shoes. She reminds Ran that wearing accessories are not allowed. But not long before the dancing is about to begin, a scream from Rika interrupts the excitement—she has found Kensaku, who had fallen to his death.
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Kensaku was drinking before the accident, but would this really mean he was in a drunken state and accidentally fell off the elevated property? |
The police arrive, with Takagi noting that Kensaku had been drinking before his death, suggesting that his drunken state led him to accidentally fall over the mansion’s fencing and, due to the property’s elevation, injure his head on the pavement below. However, Conan denies this as an accident, having noticed many footprints in the yard above, indicating a fight between Kensaku and a possible killer. The police, Ran, and Sonoko head back up to the mansion’s yard to see the footprints, but Conan stays back, and finds that Kensaku’s watch is missing. Apparently, the forensics officer had found the watch in Kensaku’s jacket pocket, not on his wrist. Back at the mansion, the police take a look at the footprints. Considering their wide extent across the yard, they assume Kensaku had an intense fight with whoever killed him. There are also four sets of footprints, which are from Kensaku, Rika, Conan and the murderer. Strangely, some footprints are whole while others are halved, as if the halved footprints were created from a person standing on their tiptoes.
Conan helps the police narrow down the suspects to those who left the party venue before Kensaku’s death. They are Konomi, Rika, and the worried-looking man from before, who is introduced as Satoru.
Of the three, Satoru is the only one with a motive, being financially indebted to Kensaku. The police later find a pair of dancing shoes in the yard that match with the fourth set of footprints. It bears a small mud print. Satoru confesses that the shoes belong to him, and the police decide that he is the culprit. Conan, though, notices something between Satoru’s dancing shoes and the shoes Satoru was currently wearing.
Conan decides to investigate some more, and heads into the mansion’s kitchen, where he sees Rika searching for something on the floor. That “something” is her earring, which for some reason had been dropped. Heading back out to the yard, Conan finds that forensics had finished recording the footprints. Conan then has Takagi and Chiba reenact the murder by stepping onto the footprints. But when Takagi is forced to stand on his tiptoes, he loses balance. The experiment is seemingly useless, and Satoru is being taken away by the police for questioning.
Conan, holding the forensic officer’s record of the footprints, passes by Ran. Ran notices that the footprints look similar to a step diagram, which Sonoko used when teaching Ran how to dance. It is not long before Sonoko is seen kneeling on the ground…and “Sonoko’s” deduction show begins.
Friday, March 21, 2025
0 Detective Conan Episode 1147: Stakeout 4
Episode 1147: Stakeout 4
Scenario: On Beika Amusement Park's final day before indefinite closure, the Detective Boys visit it for one last time. One hour before the closure, the Detective Boys get on the Ferris Wheel and spot Takagi and Chiba in the park's security control room. After entering the room, they find Takagi and Chiba dressed as security guards and conducting a stakeout. Without any other choice, Takagi explains the case behind the reason for the stakeout.
Six years ago, two thieves conducted a robbery on a nearby jewelry store.
The main culprit of the robbery was identified as a man named Ippei Kanieda, but he died in a traffic accident the next day.
Strangely, no jewels were found in Ippei's home. The amusement park was where Ippei was working part-time as a student and is near the site of the traffic accident where he died. So, the jewels are thought to be hidden somewhere in the amusement park. The police also identified Ippei's accomplice as "Ebishima" (an alias), whom Ippei met over a criminal website. "Ebishima" was likely waiting for the statute of limitations to expire before they would come retrieve the jewels. However, since the park had announced its closure, they would have to collect the jewels before the amusement park was demolished. Up until the final day before closure, the police have found no movement in the stolen goods market, so it is almost certain that "Ebishima" would have to show up on this final day.
Conan deduces that the jewels would have to be hidden in concealed places, which eliminates all places in the park except for the employee-only areas. Not long afterward, a retired, now volunteer security guard named Hisao Yamagata enters one of the areas. Because he is a security guard, he is not suspected by Takagi, who is monitoring from the security room. However, in a panoramic video that Haibara takes of the employee-only area, Conan notices a suspicious-looking vent where the vent itself is rusted, but the bolts holding the vent are not. At the same time, a woman named Kanako Sakuramachi lost her 5-year-old daughter, Hiroko, and a mysterious Baker Eats delivery man named Daiki Nagasaki appears. A single shoe of Kanako's daughter is found in front of one of the employee-only areas. Meanwhile, since Daiki was instructed to deliver some hamburgers to the employee-only area next to the spinning cups, he enters the second employee-only area. Kanako, wanting to find her child as soon as possible, enters a third employee-only area, and so, three different people have entered each of the employee-only areas, making all of them suspects.
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Chiba along with his faulty Police ID. |
To add to the chaos, "Ebishima" suddenly calls the security room to announce that they have planted bombs in the amusement park. Right after, multiple smoke bombs were detonated, though they did not cause any casualties.
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The bombs were only smoke bombs, and thankfully, there were no casualties. |
After the string of smoke bomb explosions, Daiki is suddenly instructed to deliver the hamburgers to Beika Station instead, and the second shoe of the lost girl is found near the Ferris wheel, next to a drinking fountain. At the drinking fountain, Mitsuhiko finds that the back panel of the fountain was removed, while Conan discovers some small prints in the flowerbed behind the fountain. Also, Genta finds Hisao collapsed in one of the employee-only areas. Hisao is seen trying to open the suspicious-looking vent that Conan spotted earlier. But Conan has already solved the case.
0 Detective Conan Episode 1146: The Whistling Bookstore 4
Episode 1146: The Whistling Bookstore 4
Scenario: Conan and the Detective Boys are having a leisure time at Yujiro Tamaki's bookstore café when a woman named Ami Komachi enters the bookstore. As part of a recent purchase of used books by the bookstore, a novel called "The Lonely Sea," one of Ami Komachi's father's keepsakes, was accidentally sold to the bookstore. Ami asks if she could buy the book back, but unfortunately, the book was already sold to another customer.
Shortly after, that customer, a regular customer named Kenichi Kirishima, enters the bookstore. When the Detective Boys ask whether he has a book called "The Lonely Sea," Kenichi says he remembers buying it from the bargain items rack in the bookstore and that he had already sold it to another customer. He quickly pulls up an online listing showing the sold-out item on his phone.
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Detective Boys and Ami Komachi. |
After Ami, who gives up on finding the novel, and Kenichi leave the bookstore, Haibara tells the Detective Boys that she noticed that the novel's listing was 200,000 yen, even though the books from the bargain items rack should not be more than 500 yen. Yujiro Tamaki confirms the low value of the book by saying that the novel was only recently published and is not that rare.
A few hours pass, and the Detective Boys decide to go home, but Yujiro says he will join them on the way home to drop off Kenichi's lost key. When Yujiro opens the apartment door, he and the Detective Boys find Kenichi lying dead.
Conan deduces that the price of "The Lonely Sea" novel was so high because Kenichi was involved in black market deals, specifically in the exchange of robbed goods. The book is used as a camouflage for the exchange. Meanwhile, the police use the apartment's security camera footage to narrow down the suspects who murdered Kenichi to two people: Ami Komachi and a delivery man.
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The book cipher. |
Conan wonders why the murderer had to take a book from Kenichi's apartment and then finds a notebook with a ripped page and some blood. After shining his Wristwatch Flashlight onto the page underneath at an angle, a page filled with numbers is revealed. Conan notes that each row of numbers has three numbers. The left column of numbers keeps going up with each consecutive row, and the other two columns have seemingly random fluctuations in numbers. Conan realizes what the numbers mean but tells Yujiro to explain the cipher. Yujiro says that it is a book cipher, where each row of numbers contains the page number, line number, and character number. However, the numbers cannot be deciphered without the book.
Using the set of receipts that Kenichi stored away, the Detective Boys narrowed the list of books down to those on the receipts but not in Kenichi's apartment. This leaves 20, and Yujiro narrows it further by using each book's average page length. With three books left and the bookstore having a copy for each of them, the Detective Boys, Yujiro, and the police head to the bookstore to decode the cipher.
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