Summary

Great Detective Conan

Name: Great Detective Conan
Alternate 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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Sunday, September 8, 2013

0 Detective Conan Episode 62: A Ghost Ship Murder Case (P2)


Episode 62: A Ghost Ship Murder Case (Part 2)

Episode 62: A Ghost Ship Murder Case (Part 2)
Scenario: Conan proves that Richard did not kill the caretaker. Next, Conan enters the cave to show that the sounds were from the wind in the tunnels. Conan finds a staircase which breaks away to reveal another dead man and the killer. Conan deduces that the ghost ship was stuck in this part of the cave for 7 years due to a cave-in. Conan finds the gold hidden in the bricks of the staircase covered in moss. Another cave-in occurs, forcing Conan and the killer to leave. The gold is sealed inside the cave.
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0 Detective Conan Episode 61: A Ghost Ship Murder Case (P1)


Episode 61: A Ghost Ship Murder Case (Part 1)

Episode 61: A Ghost Ship Murder Case (Part 1)
Scenario: Conan and Rachel accompany Richard to an island, to where Richard was invited, to make a speech about a ghost ship that had been lost at sea 7 years before. Richard arrives on stage completely drunk. A miniature bomb explodes, nearly killing him. Conan realizes that the supposed ghost and ghost ship at the shrine in the pirate's cave are being manipulated by someone on the ship. Attacked at night, Richard flees, finding the lighthouse care-taker with a bloody sword protruding from his neck. The townspeople believe Richard is responsible, but he insists on his innocence.
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0 Detective Conan Episode 60: An Illustrator Murder Case


Episode 60: An Illustrator Murder Case

Episode 60: An Illustrator Murder Case
Scenario: Richard is asked to comment on crime drawings by a famous artist, whose assistant reveals that she did more than 60% of the drawings in the book that Richard is supposed to review. She threatens to reveal this fact to the public. The artist gets angry and hits her with an ashtray, killing her. Conan proves his case by spilling coffee on the artist to show a butterfly symbol on his toe painted on him by his assistant while he slept.
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0 Detective Conan Episode 59: The First Errand Murder Case


Episode 59: The First Errand Murder Case

Episode 59: The First Errand Murder Case
Scenario: Conan and the Junior Detective League volunteer to follow and videotape participants of the "Toddler Shopping Day". While following Christopher, a series of strange events occur. Conan deduces that the child witnessed a murder. The boy, not understanding what he had seen or that he is in danger, continues to shop. The culprit kidnaps Christopher, drugging him and placing him with another man's body in a building to be demolished that day. The man then locks Conan and the gang in the room and escapes. As the building begins to fall apart, Conan finds a water pipe that leads outside, and safely guides everyone out of the building and confronts the killer. He reveals that the dead man was a loan shark who loaned him the money he used to build his grocery store. He claims that he killed the loan shark because even though he had paid off the loan, the other kept demanding more until nothing was left.
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0 Detective Conan Episode 58: Holmes Freak Murder Case (P2)


Episode 58: Holmes Freak Murder Case (Part 2)

Episode 58: Holmes Freak Murder Case (Part 2)
Scenario: After Conan reveals his insight, Harley believes Conan is actually Jimmy Kudo. Harley reveals that when Kanucka was in the car, his body had already undergone rigor mortis. At that moment, Conan and Harley realize who the murderer is. Harley decides to wait for Conan to solve the case in order to see if he really is Jimmy. Conan tranquilizes Harley and makes it seem as if Harley solved the case. Conan accuses Alex Carr, claiming he placed Harry in the car after murdering him. Alex, he claims, then placed Harry's foot on the brake and once rigor mortis had set in, turned on the car's heater, shifted the car into drive, and opened the garage. The heat caused Harry's body to leave rigor quicker than usual, easing pressure on the brake and causing the car to accelerate into the ocean. For Sheila's murder, Alex told Sheila the book was hidden in a car in the garage. The car had a punctured gas tank and the batteries were dead. With the batteries dead, the car light did not work, forcing Sheila to use her lighter, igniting the fire. Since the garage fire was designed for Erny Bowers, Alex decided to create a blackout and stab him. Alex than asks Harley for evidence, and Conan reveals that Alex did not answer a single question on the questionnaire, apparently knowing the host would be dead. Harley wakes up and decides to blackmail Conan into revealing who he really is. Afterwards, Conan reveals his identity to Harley, as well as how he shrank.
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0 Detective Conan Episode 57: Holmes Freak Murder Case (P1)


Episode 57: Holmes Freak Murder Case (Part 1)

Episode 57: Holmes Freak Murder Case (Part 1)
Scenario: Conan enters a Sherlock Holmes contest to win a first-edition book and persuades Rachel (Ran Mouri) and Richard (Mouri Kogoro) to attend. Once at the place of the contest, everyone must take a 1000-question test about Sherlock Holmes. Harley appears and reveals to Rachel (Ran Mouri) he thought he would meet Jimmy there. Later that day, Harry Kanucka, the host, is seen driving his car off a cliff and into the ocean. Harry's death is presumed to be a murder and contestant Sheila Sands reveals she knows who the murderer is. Later a garage fire occurs and Sheila is found dead. Next, a blackout occurs and Erny Bowers, another contestant, is stabbed in the back with an ice pick.
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Monday, May 6, 2013

0 Detective Conan Episode 56: The Oja Ocean Sunfish Murder Case


Episode 56: The Oja Ocean Sunfish Murder Case

Episode 56: The Oja Ocean Sunfish Murder Case
Scenario: Conan, Richard, and Rachael are out jogging when they are attracted to the scene of a murder. One of the owners of the Sunfish Cleaning Company has been killed by a falling beam. Conan solves the crime by using window reflections.
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0 Detective Conan Episode 55: The Train Trick Murder Case


Episode 55: The Train Trick Murder Case

Scenario: Richard, Rachael, and Conan are on their way home from a hot spring. They arrive at a station with multiple lines, but scheduling of trains only five minutes apart makes a normal change of trains impossible. At the station a murder is discovered. The only suspect rode the train with Conan's group while the victim rode on a train from a different line. Conan uncovers the trick used by the murderer in this apparently impossible crime, using the change given by a lady working on the victim's train.
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