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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Sunday, September 8, 2013
0 Detective Conan 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.0 Detective Conan Episode 58: Holmes Freak Murder Case (P2)
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.0 Detective Conan Episode 57: Holmes Freak Murder Case (P1)
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.Monday, May 6, 2013
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.Friday, May 3, 2013
0 Detective Conan Episode 54: The Mist Goblin Legend Murder Case
Episode 54: Game Company Murder Case
Scenario: Richard is invited to a party for the release of a game which stores himself. While there, Conan runs into a man who uses the alias Tequila and learns that he plans to meet with Gin and Vodka. Conan follows Tequila to the bathroom where an explosion occurs and kills the man. Conan investigates the explosion and realizes that it was a murder attempt but the wrong person was killed. Conan knocks Richard out and uses his voice changing bow tie to reveal what had happened. Conan reveals that Tequila and Henry Nelbit, one of the game designers, secretly exchanged suitcases. Conan reveals that the bomber is game designer Charles Shore and that Henry was his intended target. As evidence, Conan reveals that Henry's suitcase's key would fit into the suitcase Charles is holding since that is originally Henry's suitcase. Charles confesses and denounces Henry for having an affair with his wife. Conan asks Henry what he knows about Tequila's acquaintances only to learn that he always meets them in the cafe in the Apollo building. Conan heads there only to find out Gin and Vodka had cause an explosion to hide evidence of them being there.0 Detective Conan Episode 53: The Mystery Weapon Murder Case
Episode 53: The Mystery Weapon Murder Case
Scenario: After finding a wounded bird on the ground Conan, Richard, and Rachel hear a scream coming from the building next to them. Once upon entering the building they find a murder victim on the balcony, believed to have been killed by a plant plot. Can Conan solve the case before the murderer gets away?Friday, April 26, 2013
0 Detective Conan Episode 52: The Mist Goblin Legend Murder Case
Episode 52: The Mist Goblin Legend Murder Case
Scenario: One rainy day, Rachel, Conan and Richard lost their way home and are about to spend the night in the car when Conan luckily finds a temple. They are welcomed by the headmaster of the temple. But during dinner, when they hear Richard is a detective, the Master gets angry and wants him out of the Temple by tomorrow. Sadly the next day, the headmaster is murdered and they are four suspects: Kannen, Mokunen, Tonnen and Shunen. The same thing happened 2 years ago: a student is murdered.After the murder of the headmaster, Conan uses Richard to reveal that the Master was murdered last night before being hanged. The murderer used a dashboard to the waterfall to fill the room he was found in with water and a rubber boat to float to the top, where he hung the corpse on the rail. Conan names Shunin the murderer, revealing Shunen didn't hear Richard's scream the night before and noting a piece of double-sided tape had his fingerprints. Shunen reveals Chunin, the student killed 2 years ago was his older brother. He was in love with the Master's granddaughter, but the Master refused to allow the two together, so he murdered him the same way. Shunen arrived to find out who killed his brother. When the Master left last night, Shunen begged him for an answer. Drunken, the Master reveals the truth but isn't guilty at all about the murder and was strangled to death. Shunen decided to cover it up the same way his brother's death was covered.
0 Detective Conan Episode 51: The Golf Driving Range Murder Case
Episode 51: The Golf Driving Range Murder Case
Scenario: A relaxing day at the driving range leads Conan, Richard, and Rachel to their next explosive case, as the president of a leading electronics manufacturer meets an untimely end. Richard believes the vice president to be responsible by placing a bomb inside a golf ball. Conan discovers a burnt golf ball and realizes that the bomb was in the golf club. He deduces that Michael, the assistant, was the killer. He reveals he is the president's son and wanted his father's company and implies he killed others to inherit it. As the police drag him away, Conan believes that there may have been some good in him, as he had tried to make Conan leave the area before the bomb went off.Thursday, April 25, 2013
0 Detective Conan Episode 50: Library Murder Case
Episode 50: Library Murder Case
Scenario: A librarian is hiding more than just foreign books in the shelves. Conan and the Detective Boys sneak into the library at night after seeing police look for a corpse of a missing librarian. They see the director,Tuttlebore, packing imported books that Conan found wrapped up earlier into a briefcase. Unaware of the children's presence, he boasts to himself of being able to hide the body of the missing librarian in the library without the police finding it. They decide to look for the remaining books that Tuttlebore wasn't able to take with him. After an exhausting search, they realise that there is a middle row of books between the outside two that doesn't have a spine giving the impression of it being the opposite book. In each of these fakes they find packets of narcotics. Realising that the body is on top of the elevator Conan calls it up while manually opening the door. They find the dead body of the missing librarian but inside the elevator there is the director. After narrowly escaping him they set a trap for him which knocks him out.0 Detective Conan episode 49: Diplomat Murder Case (Part 2)
Episode 49: Diplomat Murder Case (Part 2)
Scenario: Harley concludes the murderer to be Isao's father since he was in the room where the string and needle was found. However, Jimmy appears and reveals that Harley's deduction of the murder is incorrect, stating that the key's position inside Isao's pocket would be impossible if he was murdered that way due to the tightness. He also reveals the string and needle were found in many rooms and that they were meant to convict Isao's father. As for the real murder method, Jimmy explains the Opera music and book stack were to cover the victims screams and face in case Isao woke up after being pricked by the poison needle. He then reveals the murderer to be Kimi and exclaims the evidence is in her keyholder which should reveal the groove of a needle. Kimi confesses and explains Isao framed her former husband of corruption resulting in his death and tricked her into marrying him. Isao revealed it all in a fit of rage when he discovered his son was dating Yukiko, daughter of Kimi and her former husband and she then formulated a plan to murder him. As Kimi is taken away by the police, Jimmy escapes to the bathroom and becomes Conan again. Rachel finds him in the bathroom and asks him about Jimmy's whereabouts, but collapses soon after. Three days later, Conan plans on drinking Paikaru to become Jimmy again, but Rachel hides it upon discovering him drinking alcohol. As Conan is escorted by his friends to the Library, he opts to play with them one last time before returning to normal.0 Detective Conan episode 48: Diplomat Murder Case (P1)
Episode 48: Diplomat Murder Case (Part 1)
Scenario: After Conan makes a phone call to Rachel as Jimmy, he returns home and discovers that Harley Hartwell, a high-school Detective from the west side of Japan, is searching for Jimmy to test his skills as a detective. To help Conan with his cold, Harley offers him an unknown drink which is revealed to be a Chinese Alcohol known as Paikaru. Soon after, a woman named Kimi Tsujimura, wife to the diplomat Isao Tsujimura. She want Richard to investigate her son's girlfriend, Yukiko Katsuragi, believing she is too perfect. Richard, accompanied by Rachel, Conan, and Harley, are invited to the Tsujimura mansion and enters Isao's study. Kimi tries to wake up the seemingly sleeping Isao only to discover he is dead. Harley and Conan discern Isao was killed by a needle dipped in a powerful neurotoxin and his death was recent. The room however was locked and left Isao and Kimi the only ones with access to the room. Conan and Harley attempt to deduce the locked room mystery, the reasons the stereo was playing loud opera music, and the stack of books in front of Isao. Conan's cold worsens and causes him to be bedridden in another room, while Harley discovers how Isao was murdered. Harley reveals that after Isao was murdered, the culprit placed scotch tape inside the key holder and pierced a string through the victim's pocket, allowing the culprit to leave the room, lock the study, and pull the string causing the keys to slide back into the victim's target; This is evidenced by the string and needle Harley found in the trash.Wednesday, April 24, 2013
0 Detective Conan Episode 47: Sports Club Murder Case
Episode 47: Sports Club Murder Case
Scenario: There's been an accident - an athletic diver hit his head on the diving board. But Conan isn't so sure it was an accident and so he goes to question the witness, an elderly man. The man shows Conan a sketch of the scene he witnessed, and Conan notices that in the sketch, the diver is wearing earrings, and the victim doesn't have pierced ears. Conan tranquilizes Richard and tells the Inspector that the killer was the man who used to be on the dive team, but was replaced. It is revealed that he was being blackmailed, and so to get revenge and retrieve his spot on the dive team, he drowned his blackmailer.0 Detective Conan Episode 46: Alpine Hut in the Snowy Mountain Murder Case
Episode 46: Alpine Hut in the Snowy Mountain Murder Case
Scenario: Rachel, Richard and Conan are skiing in the mountains. They meet up with a doctor and his students. They offer Richard, Rachel, and Conan to stay at their place during the night due to a dangerous snowstorm. Things get ugly when the head doctor is murdered when watching his favorite soap opera. Conan determines the killing was an inside job, and that it was one of the 4 students. Two have air-tight alibis, but the other two are suspects. Conan, through Richard, announces the killer was the doctor's third student, a woman with the same name as a shogi piece. Conan had examined the crime scene and discovered the doctor's dying message of the identity of his killer.Popular Posts Last 7 days
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