Detective Conan Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Detective Conan (名探偵コナン, Meitantei Konan), also known as Case Closed, is a detective manga and anime series by Gōshō Aoyama; (青山 剛昌), published in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine.The anime version is produced by TMS Entertainment and has run over 350 television episodes and five movies in Japan. In July 2003, FUNimation announced that they licensed Detective Conan for a release in the United States, to be released as "Case Closed" due to legal issues concerning the name Conan (Conan the Barbarian). 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. The title Detective Conan is also used by TMS Entertaiment. Detective Conan has aired in Spain, Germany, Italy, China, the United Arab Emirates, and other nations.
Cartoon Network broadcast Case Closed as part of their Adult Swim programming block beginning in April 2004, but has since stated at the 2004 Dragon*Con that they have no intention of broadcasting any episodes beyond the 51 already aired (source). However, Cartoon Network does not plan to cancel Case Closed. An eighth Detective Conan movie, Magician of the Silver Sky, was released in Japan on April 17, 2004.
Viz Communications publishes Detective Conan manga in English as Case Closed: Detective Conan for American audiences. The comic uses the original right-to-left format and the English anime names. Viz originally planned to use the Japanese names (See: [1]), but TMS forced Viz to use the English names. In Germany a German translation of the manga is pubished by Egmont, and in France the manga pubished by Kana.
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At the beginning of the story, 17-year old (16 years in the manga) high school student Shin'ichi Kudo (Jimmy Kudo in the US release) becomes the boy, Conan Edogawa. Shin'ichi Kudo was known as a high school student detective. One day, Shin'ichi Kudo; went to a theme park named "Tropical Land," with his childhood friend, Ran Mori (Rachel Moore). He encountered a case where a roller coaster passenger was killed. He solved the case and on his return home, he witnessed a suspicious deal involving some men dressed completely in black. Another man in black spotted him, knocked him down and gave him a poison named Apoptoxin 4869 (APTX4869) intended to kill him. The poison did not kill him, but when he came to his senses, his body had shrunk down to the size of a elementary school boy.
Following the suggestion of Dr. Agasa, Shin'ichi hid who he really was, lest the men in black find out that he is alive. So he began living at Ran's home. When Ran asked for his name, Shin'ichi spotted books by Arthur Conan Doyle and Edogawa Ranpo and came up with the name "Conan Edogawa".
Ran's father, Kogoro Mori (Richard Moore) is also a detective, but is not very capable. Conan always solves mysteries in his stead. Because Conan appears to be just a boy, police don't pay Conan any mind. Conan instead uses Detective Mori by putting him to sleep with a "clock type anesthesia gun" and pretending to be Mori by using a voice changer disguised as a bow tie.
Other important characters that appear (some later) are Shin'ichi's parents Yusaku (Booker) and Yukiko Kudo (Vivian), Shin'ichi's rival detective (and later friend) Heiji Hattori (Harley Hartwell) from Osaka, gentleman thief Kaitō Kid (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, Calvados, Pisces, Vermouth, and a mysterious "boss" who has only been mentioned so far.
Detective Conan 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 like 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.
There is a new theatrical movie of Detective Conan coming out every year in April during the Golden Week. Also, regular appearances of 1 hour specials as well as the yearly 2 hour new year special define the series.
Detective Conan is airing on Yomiura TV mondays at 7:30 pm, after its sister anime InuYasha (another series based on a Shonen Sunday manga publication).
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Names are in Western order, with the surname after the given name.Characters
The Japanese names are in Western order (surname after personal name), and are followed by the names used in the US adaptations. The story was edited in the US releases so these character descriptions only apply to that.
Movies
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