Case Closed, also known as Detective Conan (名探侦コナン, Meitantei Konan?) in Japan and other countries, is a detective manga and anime series by Gosho Aoyama which has been published in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine since 1994.
The series depicts the cases of a young private detective who was inadvertently turned into a prepubescent boy by criminals and now struggles to continue his profession while keeping his true identity, age and medical condition secret.
VIZ Media publishes Detective Conan manga in English as Case Closed for American audiences. The comic uses the original right-to-left format and the English anime names for the main characters while it uses the original Japanese names for the minor characters.
The anime version is produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and has currently aired 452 television episodes and ten movies in Japan, and is still running on Japanese television today. It airs Mondays at 7:30 p.m. on Nippon TV, and is also broadcast in Japan by the anime television network, Animax, who have also aired the series across its networks in Southeast Asia and East Asia. In July 2003, FUNimation announced that they licensed Detective Conan for a release in North America, to be released as "Case Closed" due to legal issues concerning the name Conan (Conan the Barbarian, although Conan can be considered a regular name as in Conan O'Brien). In the United Kingdom VIZ's releases are published by Gollancz Manga with the same naming conventions.
The tenth movie, Private Eyes' Requiem[1] was announced on December 15, 2005 and was released on April 15, 2006, debuting at the number one position in the Japanese box office[2] and remained there for three consequtive weeks. As of May 28, 2006, it has earned $25.8 million in the Japanese box office. [3]
The latest in the series of its franchise is a live-action TV drama which is poised to be aired in autumn 2006. It would act as a prequel of the current storyline, starring Shun Oguri as Shin'ichi Kudo (Jimmy Kudo), Tomoko Kurokawa as Ran Mori (Rachel Moore), and Takanori Jinnai as Kogoro Mori (Richard Moore) [4].
Contents [hide]
1 Story
2 Series Format
3 Movies
4 Music
4.1 Opening animation
4.2 Ending animation
4.3 Adaptations elsewhere
5 Broadcast and adaptations
6 Awards
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
9.1 English
9.2 Japanese
9.3 Other
10 Navigation
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Story
For more details on this topic, see List of Case Closed characters.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Poster for Countdown to Heaven, the fifth Detective Conan movie.The English manga names will be used, with the Japanese original in brackets at their first mention. Japanese names are in Western order, with the surname after the given name, with the exception of Edogawa Rampo (Edogawa is the last name here).
At the beginning of the story, 17-year old (16 years in the manga) high school student Jimmy Kudo (Shin'ichi Kudo) becomes the boy, Conan Edogawa. Jimmy Kudo in the beginning of Case Closed is known as a high school student detective. One day, Jimmy goes to a theme park named "Tropical Land," with his childhood friend (or current girlfriend), Rachel Moore (Ran Mori). He encountered a case where a roller coaster passenger, Kishida (Kenneth in the English anime), is killed in a spectacularly bloody decapitation[5]. He solved the case and on his return home, he witnesses a suspicious deal involving some men dressed completely in black. Another man in black spots him, knocks him down, and gives him an untested poison named Apotoxin-4869 (APTX4869), which is intended to kill him. The poison does not kill him. However, when he comes to his senses, his body has shrunk down to the size of an elementary school boy.[6]
Following the advice of Dr. Hiroshi Agasa (Dr. Herschel Agasa in the English anime), Jimmy hides who he really is, lest the men in black find out that he is alive. When Rachel asks for his name, Jimmy spots books by Arthur Conan Doyle and Edogawa Rampo and comes up with the name "Conan Edogawa." Agasa says that "Conan" is a relative of his, but was too busy to take care of a young child, and suggests that "Conan" go live with Rachel, and both Conan and Rachel agree.[7]
Rachel's father, Richard Moore (Kogoro Mori) is also a detective, but is not very capable. Conan always solves mysteries in his stead. As Conan appears to be just a boy, police don't pay Conan any mind. Conan instead uses Detective Moore by putting him to sleep with a "anesthesia gun-watch"[8] and pretending to be Moore by using a voice changer disguised as a bow tie. [9] Other important characters that appear (some later) are Jimmy's parents Booker (Yusaku) and Vivian (Yukiko) Kudo , Harley Hartwell (Heiji Hattori), a rival detective from Osaka, gentleman thief Phantom Thief Kid (怪盗キッド, Kaitō Kido?) , who also appears in Magic Kaito), inventor of the APTX4869 Shiho Miyano (codename "Sherry" within the black syndicate, turned into a child also after she took her own drug to escape the organization, and then lives with Dr. Agasa under her new name Ai Haibara), and the other members of the black organization: Gin, Vodka, Tequila, Calvados, Pisco, Vermouth, Kir, Chianti, Köln, and a mysterious "boss" who has only been mentioned so far.
To maintain his cover, Conan goes to elementary school and has made particular friends with three children at the school, George Kaminski, Mitch Tennison and Amy Yeager who form the self styled Junior Detective League. Although Conan feels profoundly self conscious playing with them given his true age, the foursome have numerous adventures of their own and the normal trio have proved capable assistants to the detective for their age.
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Series Format
Case Closed has the format of classical mystery/crime literature, with such classical set ups such as the Closed-Room-Type murder case, and cases with a limited number of suspects. It also includes the wrap up of the case and conclusion/solution of the case as in typical crime literature.
Many references to other detective literature can also be found for fans of detective novels; References to Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie's works, Kogoro Akechi, Kosuke Kindaichi, Arsène Lupin, Maigret, and many more.
The manga also includes a Detective Encyclopedia, where many characters of detective, mystery, and crime literature and film are introduced, including even Columbo and James Bond.
In Japan a new theatrical movie of Detective Conan is released every year in April during the Golden Week. Also, regular appearances of 1 hour specials as well as the yearly two hour new year special define the series.
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Movies
Since 1997, a movie based on the series is screened during the Golden Week (Japan). Because of the series' general popularity in Japan, most of the movies are number one in box office rating at debut, if not for several weeks. The list of movies screened so far include:[10]
The Time-Bombed Skyscraper (名探侦コナン 时计じかけの摩天楼, Meitantei Konan Tokei Jikake no Matenrō?), 1997, 2006 (English version)
Detective Conan - The Fourteenth Target (名探侦コナン 14番目の标的, Meitantei Konan Jyuuyon banme no Tagetto?), 1998, Distribution income: 1.05 billion yen.
Detective Conan - The Last Wizard of the Century (名探侦コナン 世纪末の魔术师, Meitantei KonanSeikimatsu no Majutsushi?), 1999, Distribution income: 1.45 billion yen
Detective Conan - Captured in Her Eyes (名探侦コナン 瞳の中の暗杀者, Meitantei Konan Hitomi no Naka no Ansatsusha?), 2000, Box office: 2.5 billion Yen.
Detective Conan - Countdown to Heaven (名探侦コナン 天国へのカウントダウン, Meitantei Konan Tengoku He no Kauntodaun?), 2001, Box office: 2.9 billion Yen.
Detective Conan - The Phantom of Baker Street (名探侦コナン ベイカー街の亡霊, Meitantei Konan Beikā Sutorīto no Bōrei?), 2002, Box office: 3.4 billion Yen.
Detective Conan - Crossroad in the Ancient Capital (名探侦コナン 迷宫の十字路, Meitantei Konan Meikyū no Kurosurōdo?), 2003, Box office: 3.2 billion Yen.
Detective Conan - Magician of the Silver Sky (名探侦コナン 银翼の奇术师, Meitantei Konan Ginyoku no Majishan?), 2004, Box office: 2.8 billion Yen.
Detective Conan - Strategy Above the Depths (名探侦コナン 水平线上の阴谋, Meitantei Konan Suiheisenjō no Sutoratejī?), 2005, Box office: 2.15 billion Yen.
Detective Conan - The Private Eyes' Requiem (名探侦コナン 探侦たちの镇魂歌, Meitantei Konan Tantei tachi no Rekuiemu?), 2006 (10th Anniversary Special)
Confirmed, yet untitled, 2007.
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Music
For more details on this topic, see List of Case Closed music tracks.
To date, Detective Conan/Case Closed has 18 Opening themes and 25 Ending themes in Japan. Most of the themes, except a few, were sung by Giza Studio singers or groups.
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Opening animation
The 5th is the first to introduce Shiho/Ai. The 6th is the first to introduce officer Takagi(only officer). The 7th is the first to show all the main officers that work with Megure as well as Ran's mother(Eri). The 10th is the first to show Gin and Vodka in the intro credits. The 13th is the first to show ALL the officers including those who don't work with Megure, plus, the teacher Jodie, and new BO member Vermouth. The 15th introduces James Black and the FBI Agents (Jodie and Shuichi Akai). And the 16th Opening is the first to introduce new members of the Black Organization (Kir, Chianti, and Korn). The 17th Opening recycles visuals from the previous openings (13-16), however, it adds Kir to Vermouth, Gin, and Vodka's group as the main black organization members. The 18th opening shows almost every contributing minor character in the series, and Kir as the only black corps member.
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Ending animation
From ending 1-18, the animation begins and end with the same video, however, in between they show different scenes of the currently aired episode. Starting ending 19, this differs and the animation displays a picture of Ran and Shinichi in a photo sitting on a desk while things around the desk change. Ending 20 shows Conan wandering through the city passing various characters. Ending 21 shows Conan and Ran in chibi version. The 22nd and 23rd ending show an animation based on the relationship of Ran and Shinich. The 24th shows character outlines while displaying different views of the city. Starting ending 25, the animation resorts back to showing scenery of the episode while the beginning and end remain intact.
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Adaptations elsewhere
In the U.S. version, as is customary for most of FUNimation's productions, the original songs were replaced by new songs using the same melodies and an English translation of the original lyrics. This is also the same for the German RTL II adaptation of the anime.
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Broadcast and adaptations
Detective Conan is airing on Yomiuri TV (producing TV station), NNS TV stations, and TV Miyazaki on Mondays at 7:30 p.m., after Tezuka Anime, Black Jack. It is regularly one of the highest rated programs on Japanese television.
There have been unconfirmed reports that the Fox Network (pre-Fox Box) considered licensing the series at one point, but decided not to as it was thought to be far too violent[11]. Indeed, there are many situations that involve disturbing homicides, such as human corpses, dismembered bodies, and in a very few cases, even murdered children. (In the very first episode of the anime, the young man, Kishida, is beheaded on a roller coaster, with actual graphic detail and gore. The anime version has gouts of what appears to be intense light spouting from where Kenneth's (as "Kishida" is known in the English anime) head was.
In every other part of the world, in the many countries where Detective Conan was released and aired, the name "Detective Conan" (or the literal translation of it), remained intact. Detective Conan has aired in Chile, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, China, Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates, Philippines, Malaysia and other nations. However, it was at the insistence of TMS that legal precautions be taken in the US market and the alternate title "Case Closed" be used. Likewise, FUNimation was also instructed, much to their dislike, to use a new logo designed by TMS, as well as change most of the character's names to what the Japanese licensor felt would be more friendly to an American mainstream audience. However, like many licensors who have an inaccurate perception of the North American market, marketing an animated murder mystery show to a family audience in the US was far more difficult than TMS anticipated.
Cartoon Network began broadcasting Case Closed as part of their Adult Swim programming block in May 2004. Although a family series in Japan, the mature content of the crimes portrayed prevented it from gaining prime time exposure to its proper audience. Also, one glaring example of either an inaccurate translation or inept writing was an episode where TNT was discounted as the cause of an explosion because of the lack of burnt gunpowder smell or traces of gunpowder (which hurt the series' credibility). Only 50 episodes aired in the United States, and in January of 2005, Adult Swim announced that it would not purchase additional episodes due to low ratings. They gave back the rights to the series later that year, and it has now debuted on a syndicated FUNimation Channel programming block airing on CoLours TV on June 19, 2006. However, episodes are still being released on DVD.
The English dub of Case Closed made its Canadian television debut on YTV's Bionix programming block on Friday, April 7, 2006 at 10:30 p.m. Beginning on June 2, 2006, Case Closed was still part of the Bionix block, but it had been airing at a later timeslot of 12:00 a.m. The reason for this, however, is likely not so much because of low ratings (as was the case on Adult Swim), but because the station needed to meet their annual Canadian Content quota by airing a certain amount of Canadian programming before 12 a.m., leaving, effectively forcing the series out of the main line-up. After broadcasting 21 episodes, YTV has since stopped airing Case Closed, with its final broadcast at 12:00 a.m. on September 2, 2006.
The English dub of The Time-Bombed Skyscraper, was released on DVD on October 3, 2006.
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Awards
At the 5th Annual Tokyo Anime Awards competition, the ninth Detective Conan movie, Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths, won the Feature Film category, together with Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Heirs To The Stars. [12]
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Conan Edogawa looks like an ordinary school student.But he is actually Shinichi Kudo, a high school student.
Whosalso a detective. Poisoned by a mysterious crime organization. Shinichis body consequently shrand to the elementary school student.Now he must hide his identity by calling himself Conan Edogawa.
Detective Conan.And the name of the new film is Strategy Above the Depths.Although we called Strategy Above the Depths,I think we should called it Strategy Above Kogorou Mouri.Because there was a wonderful illation in Mouri.Conan also has the same opinion as me.The film has a big different than the former films.That is the conspire hasn't only one.There are two criminals in the film. The second criminal makes the first one the goat and the first one doesn't konw it.So Conan makes the mistake and catch the wrong crimal.Oppositely,Kogorou Mouri outguesses the truth and catches the truth criminal.He is the truth hero in the film.Through the film,I change my view of Mouri.He is a good gentleman,though he often feigns a fool.In pivotal time,he aslo can try his best to act as a serious gentleman.
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