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Case Closed

First volume of the original Japanese release of the series
名探偵 コナン
(Detective Conan)
Genre Comedy-drama detective fiction
Manga
Author Gosho Aoyama
Publisher Flag of Japan Shogakukan
English publisher Flag of Canada Flag of the United States Viz Media
Flag of the United Kingdom Gollancz Manga
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Flag of Japan Shōnen Sunday
Flag of Malaysia Weekly Comic (漫画周刊)
Flag of Thailand Neoz
Original run 1994 – ongoing
Volumes 61 with 652 chapters
TV anime
Director Kenji Kodama, Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha (TMS)
Network Flag of Japan NTV, Yomiuri TV, Animax
Original run January 8, 1996 – ongoing
Episodes 504
TV drama: Kudō Shin'ichi he no Chōsenjō Sayonara Made no Joshō (prologue)
Director Toshizaku Tanaka
Network NTV, Yomiuri TV
Original run October 2, 2006 – December 17, 2007
Episodes 2
Related

Movies (12), OVAs (7)

Case Closed (名探偵 コナン Meitantei Conan?), known as Detective Conan in Japan and most other countries, is a detective manga and anime series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama and serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday since 1994.

Case Closed follows the adventures of Jimmy Kudo, a young detective inadvertently turned into a prepubescent boy by a secret criminal organization when they gave him a drug that was supposed to kill him, but backfired.

Case Closed is adapted into an anime series by the animation studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha, directed by Kenji Kodama and Yasuichiro Yamamoto, and airs in Japan on Nippon Television, Yomiuri TV and Animax. The first episode aired on January 8, 1996, with 504 episodes as of May 19, 2008. The series has seen high levels of popularity in both manga and anime formats in Japan since its reception, and has also been adapted into 12 Golden Week movies, with the first released on April 17, 1997, and one movie released each year since. Ten of the movies held a top 10 box office position in the year they were screened. In addition, seven OVAs have been released.

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[edit] Plot

See also: List of Case Closed characters

16-year-old high school student Jimmy Kudo, while investigating a blackmail case, was attacked by two members of the Black Organization and was given the poison, later known to be APTX 4869, to silence him. However, due to unknown reasons, the poison did not kill him, but transformed him back to the body of a 6-year-old.

In order to hide his identity and investigate the whereabouts of the Black Organization, he changed his name to Conan Edogawa, went to live with his girlfriend Rachel Moore, and enrolled in elementary school. He continues investigating criminal cases with Rachel, and her private investigator father, Richard Moore. Jimmy/Conan also does investigations through the Junior Detective League (少年探偵団 Shōnen Tantei-dan?), a group he formed with his friends at the elementary school. As the series progresses, so does the relationship between Jimmy/Conan and Rachel.

Later in the series, his investigation into the Black Organization caused him to be highly involved in the crossfires between the members of the Black Organization and the FBI and CIA agents that were sent to investigation of the Black Organization.

[edit] Media

[edit] Manga

Main article: List of Case Closed chapters

The manga was first serialized in the fifth issue Shōnen Sunday in 1994. Since then, it has spanned 61 volumes, and continuing. The manga has been highly popular in Japan; the tankoubon has received multiple first places in bestselling lists [1].

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.

Many references to other detective literature can also be found for fans of detective novels, and also includes a Detective Encyclopedia, where many characters of detective, mystery, and crime literature and film are profiled. In America, currently, there are twenty-three books.

[edit] Anime

Main article: List of Case Closed episodes

The anime version is produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and has currently aired 504 television episodes (as of May 19, 2008) and twelve movies( as of April 19, 2008) in Japan, and is still running on Japanese television today. It airs Mondays at 7:30 p.m. on Yomiuri TV Nippon TV, considered the prime slot for anime[2], and is also broadcast in Japan by the anime CS 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. Because of the long Japanese tv seasons, the show has also been able to air 500 episodes as well[3].

As of August 2007, Detective Conan is airing on Yomiuri TV (producing TV station), NNS TV stations, and TV Miyazaki on Mondays at 7:30 p.m., after Kekkaishi, which is also from the same comic group. While its ratings have declined over the years, it is still one of the highest rated anime on Japanese television.[citation needed]

Cartoon Network began broadcasting Case Closed as part of their Adult Swim programming block on May 24, 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. Only 50 episodes aired in the United States, and in January 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. Funimation claims that they will continue dubing episodes into English. Up to only 80 episodes (83 by English numbering) have been released, with no additional episodes purchased. Funimation has recently announced a new Season Box Set for Case Closed to be in stores on July 22, 2008, and that future releases will most likely be in this manner, due to the exceeding length of this show. [4] [5] [6]

FUNimation's English dub of Case Closed made its Canadian television debut on YTV's Bionix programming block on 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., effectively leaving 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 series was also later dubbed and translated into English by the anime television network Animax for broadcast across its English-language networks in Southeast Asia (including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and several other countries in the region)[7][8], with Animax's unedited dub staying true to the original, retaining the original name Detective Conan as well as the original dialogue and each of the character's original Japanese names.[7] Animax, whose founders include the studio behind the production of the anime series, TMS (along with other studios such as Sunrise, Toei and NAS) has also aired the series in its original network in Japan (in Japanese), as well as its other networks worldwide, including Hong Kong and Taiwan (where it was aired in Chinese).

[edit] TV drama

The latest series in the franchise is a live-action TV drama, which premièred in Japan on Nippon Television on October 2, 2006. It served as a prequel of the current storyline, starring Shun Oguri as Shin'ichi Kudo (Jimmy Kudo), Tomoka Kurokawa as Ran Mori (Rachel Moore), and Takanori Jinnai as Kogoro Mori (Richard Moore).[9]

Episode 2 of the live-action TV drama premiered on December 17, 2007, With added characters such as Yu Kashii as Shiho Miyano, Sasaki Kuranosuke as Gin, Tayama Ryosei as Agasa, Fujisaki Nao (Conan) and Shibata Kyoka (Haibara).

[edit] Movies

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The tenth movie, Private Eyes' Requiem[10] was announced on December 15, 2005 and was released on April 15, 2006, debuting at the number one position in the Japanese box office[11] and remained there for three consecutive weeks. As of May 28, 2006, it has earned $25.8 million in the Japanese box office.[12]

The twelfth movie, Full Score of Fear[13] was announced on February 20, 2008[14] , and released on April 19, 2008, debuting at the number one position in the Japanese box office.[15] [16] It is unknown how long it remained there for at this time. There have been reports that the advertising for the film was limited, yet normal for a Detective Conan movie.[17] It was reported that (an estimate of) 350,000 people watched the movie in it's opening weekend alone.[18] This film is expected to surpass the profits of the previous film released the year before, Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure[citation needed]. As of May 5, 2008 the movie has earned over 420.03 million yen.[19]

FUNimation's English dub of The Time-Bombed Skyscraper was released on DVD on October 3, 2006. Unlike the series, the movie left the original animation entirely intact with no translations except for the opening title and ending credits. The opening title was replaced with an English version. The original Japanese credits were changed from a tour of Tokyo and recap of the movie to an endless loop of fire engines and police cars with their lights from the final scene with the credits displayed over it.

FUNimation's English dub of The Fourteenth Target was released on November 20, 2007. Due to the americanization of the majority of the character's names, many of the explanations for names have been changed to completely random bits of information(For example, instead of Santos' name, Santos says he is one of three children.) The ending of this movie as well was changed to and endless loop of police cars with their lights from the final scene with the credits displayed over it.

# Title Release date Income
1 Case Closed: The Time-Bombed Skyscraper (名探偵コナン 時計じかけの摩天楼 Meitantei Conan Tokei Jikake no Matenrō?) April 19, 1997
(English dub: 2006)
2 Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target (名探偵コナン 14番目の標的 Meitantei Conan Jyuuyon banme no Tagetto?) April 18, 1998
(English dub: 2007)		 ¥1.05 billion[20]
3 Case Closed: The Last Wizard of the Century (名探偵コナン 世紀末の魔術師 Meitantei Conan Seikimatsu no Majutsushi?) April 17, 1999 ¥1.45 billion[21]
4 Case Closed: Captured in Her Eyes (名探偵コナン 瞳の中の暗殺者 Meitantei Conan Hitomi no Naka no Ansatsusha?) April 22, 2000 ¥2.5 billion[22]
5 Case Closed: Countdown to Heaven (名探偵コナン 天国へのカウントダウン Meitantei Conan Tengoku e no Kauntodaun?) April 21, 2001 ¥2.9 billion[23]
6 Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (名探偵コナン ベイカー街の亡霊 Meitantei Conan Beikā Sutorīto no Bōrei?) April 20, 2002 ¥3.4 billion[24]
7 Case Closed: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital (名探偵コナン 迷宮の十字路 Meitantei Conan Meikyū no Kurosurōdo?) April 19, 2003 ¥3.2 billion[25]
8 Case Closed: Magician of the Silver Sky (名探偵コナン 銀翼の奇術師 Meitantei Conan Gin-yoku no Majishan?) April 17, 2004 ¥2.8 billion[26]
9 Case Closed: Strategy Above the Depths (名探偵コナン 水平線上の陰謀 Meitantei Conan Suiheisenjō no Sutoratejī?) April 9, 2005 ¥2.15 billion[27]
10 Case Closed: The Private Eyes' Requiem (名探偵コナン 探偵たちの鎮魂歌 Meitantei Conan Tantei tachi no REQUIEM?) April 15, 2006 ¥3.03 billion[28]
11 Case Closed: Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure (名探偵コナン 紺碧の棺 Meitantei Conan Konpeki no Jorī Rojā?) April 21, 2007 ¥2.53 billion[29]
12 Case Closed: Full Score of Fear (名探偵コナン 戦慄の楽譜 Meitantei Conan Senritsu no Furu Sukoa?) April 19, 2008

[edit] Reception

In 2001, the manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen, along with Cheeky Angel by Hiroyuki Nishimori.[30]

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.[31]

TV Asahi, in a national survey conducted in 2005, put the series to the sixth in the top 100 anime[32], while in a web survey also conducted by the same TV network, the series was put to the eighth[33]. The same poll, did in 2006, put the series in the 23th place using the online poll, and 43th basing on a survey of 100 celebrities.[34]

Due to its high popularity, several Japanese government agencies had used the series to promote government policies, including the mission of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs[35], the history of the G8 Summit[36], and general crime fighting[37].

[edit] References

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    Japanese Comic Ranking (October 23-29). Anime News Network (2007-10-31). Retrieved on 2008-06-10.
    Japanese Comic Ranking (April 1-7). Anime News Network (2008-04-10). Retrieved on 2008-06-10.
  2. ^ Yatterman Remake to Take Kekkaishi's 'Golden' Timeslot. Anime News Network (2007-10-09). Retrieved on 2008-06-10.
  3. ^ Detective Conan Episode Guide - Detective Conan Season Episodes - TV.com
  4. ^ "Case Closed.com". Funimation. Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
  5. ^ "AAA Case Closed". AAA Anime Inc. (AAA Distribution). Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
  6. ^ Case Closed On FUNimation's Youtube Account. FUNimation on Youtube. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
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  8. ^ Case Closed (TV) - Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2007-02-22.
  9. ^ 小栗旬でコナン初実写！アニメ１０周年企画で秋にドラマ化：芸能：スポーツ報知 (Japanese). Yomiuri (2006-07-12). Retrieved on 2006-08-21.
  10. ^ Detective Conan Movie Official Site. Retrieved on 2006-04-15.
  11. ^ Japan Box Office April 15-16. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2006-08-22. Note it is referred as Meitantei Conan: Tanteitachi no requiem.
  12. ^ Japanese Box Office May 27-28. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2006-08-21.
  13. ^ "Next Detective Conan Film to Use Unreleased Zard Song". =Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
  14. ^ "Next Detective Conan Film to Use Unreleased Zard Song". Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
  15. ^ "Japanese Box Office: April 19–20" on Anime News Network. Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
  16. ^ Detective Conan Movie 12 : Full Score Of Fear Begins In Japan Cinemas Today. furuanimepanikku.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
  17. ^ Detective Conan Movie 12 : Full Score Of Fear Begins In Japan Cinemas Today. furuanimepanikku.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
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  19. ^ "Japanese Box Office: April 19–20" on Anime News Network. Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
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  30. ^ 小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 (Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved on 2007-08-19.
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  34. ^ Japan's Favorite TV Anime. Anime News Netowrk (2006-10-13). Retrieved on 2008-06-10.
  35. ^ Japanese Government Hires Detective Conan for PR Campaign. Anime News Network (2007-04-29). Retrieved on 2008-06-10.
  36. ^ Japan hires Detective Conan to Introduce World Summit. Anime News Network (2008-04-08). Retrieved on 2008-06-10.
  37. ^ Detective Conan Helps Kids Fight Crime. Anime News Network (2006-09-18). Retrieved on 2008-06-10.

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