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, August 1, 2021

0 Detective Conan Episode 1003: The 36-Cell Perfect Game (P1)


Episode 1003: The 36-Cell Perfect Game (Part One)


Scenario: Kogoro received a letter from someone called Taisei Nichihara, asking him to investigate the suicide of his old friend, along with a piece of paper containing a cipher that is claimed to have been found at the feet of the body. Kogoro, along with Conan, Amuro, and Wakita then arrived at an abandoned church deep in the mountains of Nagano. They later meet five other guests who are high school classsmates of Taisei Nichihara, and revealed that Nichihara is the one who committed suicide.

Suddenly, the nearby parking lot collapses, and all cars parked there fall into the ravine. Amuro notices that the parking lot sign is brand new, despite the church being very old. Wakita senses that there will be serial murders happening.

Unfortunately, the Nagano police can't come to the church, because the tunnel that leads to the church was blocked by a snow avalanche. Komei then smells gunpowder around the avalanche, implying that the avalanche was caused by a human. The nine people are forced to spend a night in the church.

Later, they find a paper, instructing them to search for the code sheets in each room in the church. One of the guests, Sumiya Nishino, suggests drawing lots to decide who is searching in each room by using 9 pieces of paper and a tissue box. They later find the code sheets and return to the chapel, except Kouhei Wada. After an hour passes, everyone present decide to go to the toilet where Wada is searching. Unfortunately, Wada is found dead by an arrow from an automatic crossbow trap.

Kogoro, Conan, Amuro, and "Irohara Sushi" craftsman Kanenori Wakita were heading to Nagano, replacing Sonoko, who was originally supposed to go with them, had a fever, and Ran, who was going to visit her. This was because the client, Yasuo Hihara, wrote in the letter, "Be sure to come with four people." The letter also contained a piece of paper written in katakana cipher.

The four of them arrived at an abandoned church in the depths of a snowstorm. In the chapel were Yorito Fujide, a high school teacher, Kohei Wada, an office worker, Ikue Furuura, a banker, Yosuke Kawasaki, a banker, and Sumiya Nishino, a bartender. In their conversation, Conan and his friends find out that their client, Hihara, committed suicide here two months ago. Suddenly, a loud sound echoes and the parking lot where the car was parked collapses. The nine of them gets stuck and contacts the Nagano Prefectural Police.

However, The Nagano Prefectural Police's Kansuke Yamato, Yui Uehara, and Takaaki Morofushi, who came to the site, confirmed that the entrance of the tunnel was blocked by the avalanche and could not be picked up immediately. They instruct them to wait in the church. Meanwhile, Takaaki, who had come to the scene, felt the smell of gunpowder from the tunnel and inferred that it was an artificial avalanche that was carried out to trap the people who came to the church.

On the other hand, Conan and his friends, who will spend the night at the church, begin to prepare and break the code.



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