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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, June 25, 2024

0 Detective Conan Episode 1128: Conan and Megure's Two Hostages (Part 1)

Episode 1128: Conan and Megure's Two Hostages (Part 1)

Scenario: Conan went out to purchase popular mystery novels in a bookstore, and by chance, he encountered two people (a man named Hayato Wakai and a woman named Chiaki Wakai) carrying a child, whose name was Kazuo Mimura. As they radiated gazes at each other, the child chucked a gachapon towards Conan. Opening the toy capsule, not only did Conan see a tiny Kamen Yaiba figurine inside, but also a piece of paper was visible. Unfolding it, Conan discovered that the child was being kidnapped, and the content on that paper was "HELP" (たすけて).

After Conan interpreted the signal of crisis, he tailed the three of them and perused into a hotel, where in the hall of the hotel he learned the number of their booked hotel room. Then he knocked on the door of their room and dashed into the room. He pretended to return the gachapon dropped by Kazuo and pulled him into the bathroom. Within the bathroom, he briefly grasped the situation by asking Kazuo for some basic information. Yet he scrutinised the bathroom; there were absolutely no exits to the exterior. The circumstances outside of the bathroom were rather eminent; Hayato kept urging the two kids to get out of the bathroom. Conan had no other choice but to exchange clothes with Kazuo based on the fact that they possess similar appearances. This was the best approach to saving Kazuo from the kidnappers.

Conan deceiving Hayato with the voice-changing bowtie.

And that's how Conan found himself sitting in the kidnappers' minivan. Conan persistently observed their behaviour in the back seat. He deduced that the two kidnappers were couples based on their rings on the ring finger. Conan also noticed some unknown stains on the back of the front seat. Apparently, the two kidnappers did not act so proficiently on the matter; they looked more like amateurs. Instead of plotting the abduction themselves, they supposedly read strings of instructions printed on a notepad, possibly written by somebody else. Just after that, Conan witnessed Hayato calling Kazuo's father, Masami Mimura, on a public telephone, per commands printed on the notepad.

Since Conan had brought the Voice-Changing Bowtie with him, when the kidnappers intended to communicate with the hostage "Kazuo", Conan was able to gloss over by imitating Kazuo's voice using the bowtie. All of a sudden, Conan proclaimed that he was exceedingly hungry and wanted to consume some dumplings and shumai; consequently, they led them into a Chinese fast food restaurant and let Conan enjoy the food. At the same time, Hayato called Kazuo's father once again, demanding for that three-million-ransom in cash. By reading the instructions, Hayato alerted Mimura that the money must be available within an hour. On the other hand, Mimura requested to hear Kazuo's voice through the telephone, and Conan, with the help of his bowtie, managed to utter some words by impersonating Kazuo.

Kidnappers feeling perturbed when accepting the cross-examination.

In Mimura Residence, the police from Investigation Division One were invariably inspecting the situation. After Mimura hung up the phone call with Hayato, he pointed out something weird: the "Kazuo" he heard from the phone called him "dad" rather than "papa", which made him wonder about the credibility of the voice. Megure also learned that there were two kidnappers involved and got some rough sketches of their faces. By contacting Sato, Takagi knew the names of the kidnappers as well as the vehicle they were driving; hence, Inspector Megure required checkpoints on the roads that the two kidnappers might come across with. Simultaneously, he claimed that if novels of movies were guiding the two amateur-ish kidnappers, arrest would be bound to be conducted.

On the road, Chiaki and Hayato were intercepted by the police, who were responsible for the checkpoint. The two of them were remarkably nervous, as everything would be dug out if Cinan in the back seat yelled in front of the police. Meanwhile, Conan found a mini toy car stuck within the gap between two car seats, which had the name "Tetsuya" (てつや) written underneath. He smirked. Then concealed the kidnapping affairs happening within the minivan. Thereupon, the police settled down and permitted their departure. As they drove away from the checkpoint, both two kidnappers felt fairly puzzled about Conan's behaviour; normally, any person, out of the sake of self-help, would call for aid when a police officer was in front of them. Conan responded, yet this time using his actual voice. Conan talked about their anxieties since he surmised that their primary intent was not to carry out crimes but to save their own child who got kidnapped, Tetsuya Wakai. Conan deduced this because he found that mini toy car that Tetsuya had lost a month ago. Conan thus revealed his identity: "Edogawa Conan, a detective."

On the other hand, the little Kazuo, who had exchanged clothes with Conan earlier, had been mandering around the tremendous city, lost and helpless. What he could remember that Conan told him was to find Detective Takagi from Investigation Division One; however, he had a really hard time finding police on the street. Kazuo then attempted to go home; knowing that his home was located in the direction of Shibuya, he entered a metro station. Unluckily, he got on the train, which went in the opposite direction (South Tokyo). Will Kazuo be able to arrive home successfully and notify his family?

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