Detective Conan
It just keeps going and going…
This boy-detective anime, based on the hit manga by Gosho Aoyama, is now one of the longest-running animes on Japanese TV. Both manga and anime are still ongoing as of the writing of this article, as the anime is just passing its 400th episode.
The story follows high-school detective Kudo Shinichi, who, upon witnessing an illegal transaction between a member of the “Black Organization” and a businessman, is knocked unconscious and fed a poison that, instead of killing him, shrinks him into a gradeschooler.
To hide from the Organization while he locates them – and a cure – Shinichi ends up living with his almost-girlfriend Mouri Ran, whose father is a private investigator, calling himself by the pseudonym “Edogawa Conan”. From there, we witness the adventures and drama between Conan and Ran, his friends the Shounen Tantei (Detective Boys), next-door neighbour (and sometime-genius) Professor Agasa, Ran’s suspicious schoolteacher, a mysterious Black Organization scientist who shares Shinichi’s fate, and many more characters.
Detective Conan is actually a spinoff of an unfinished earlier work of Aoyama-sensei’s, Magic Kaito, the story of a phantom thief that ran for 3 full volumes before Aoyama-sensei turned his attention to Conan. Kaitou Kid, the star of Magic Kaito, has made numerous appearances in the newer series as an opponent for Conan.
At first not much of a hit, but now quite popular in Japan, the anime began in 1996, and the 9th theatrical release made its appearance in April 2005. It airs on Mondays on YTV in Japan, and the second try at an English dub, Case Closed (the original was to run on Fox Family in 2000, but was cancelled due to the violent nature of the show), is currently being produced by FUNimation. In addition to English, it has also been translated into Chinese, German, Spanish and French.
Official Sites:
Japanese
Japanese (Movie website)
English
Fansites:
Dream Forest
DetectiveConan.com
Detective Conan’s Mystery File
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July 21st, 2005 at 1:09 pm
I love Case closed cartoon
December 25th, 2005 at 9:04 am
salut
October 21st, 2006 at 3:58 pm
I just love the cute face of Conan and the amazing way he solve cases.Kudo Shinichi(Jimmy)is a handsome guy.
March 18th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
I love all the cases from the closed room until the murder.I love kaito kid, he is the best one who could be the competitor of shinichi
March 18th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
ups…..sorry,
one more to say…
there is nothing in this world like shinichi (except Holmes)
April 21st, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Kudo Sinichi is very,,very,,HANDSOME!! ^_^
April 21st, 2007 at 6:13 pm
He is d’best caracter 4 me
November 16th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
cona..n km tu ya…ker33n abii11zz. tapi akhir ceritanya yang lama aja.. kayaaak nom3r 96 ya.. trus ap bener kaito kid kembaraN / saudara km ??? and ingat aku penggemar paling setia ma kamu meskipun cerita akhir / setalah ini menurut orang jelek ak tetep suka..
I LOVE DETEKTIF CONAN
salam untuk conan yg imut
April 17th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
i love the loveteam ran and shinichi!! i wish that shinichi is ran`s boyfriend!!
cases that solved by conan is exciting too, especially the moonlight sonata murder case!! i love it..!..
April 18th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
This might be crazy but I had to do a poster project over my hero, and I did Jimmy and Harley (Shinichi and Heiji).
March 8th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Detective Conan is a great show. Adult Swim showed their intelligence by putting it on at 1 in the morning on Weekdays. I no longer watch Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, and I don’t plan to ever do besides the occasional Family Guy episode they tend to play that isn’t a repeat.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Nice,Anime series
I loves the part of Romantic comedy between Rain & Conan.
Simply,I loves the Detective conan.
May 23rd, 2009 at 6:09 am
..hurray for detective conan(case closed)..
August 11th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
conan @ shinichi kudo is best of the best… ;op