Kazunari Kouchi

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Kazunari Kouchi

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Gender: Male
Date of birth: January 18, 1956
Date of death: July 18, 2016
Place of birth: Tokyo Prefecture

Kazunari Kouchi (古内 一成 Kouchi Kazunari?, January 18, 1956–July 18, 2016) is a Japanese screenplay writer. He is best known for his work on episodes of the anime Detective Conan, and for writing and producing most of the movies released before his retirement in 2014.

Kazunari studied under the renowned scriptwriter Ei Ogawa, and debuted in the TV drama Taiyō ni Hoero! in 1979. After that, Kanzuari is continually active in the industry. In 1996, Hiroshi Kashiwabara, who is the screenwriter for the manga case Roller Coaster Murder Case, invited him to join the Detective Conan animation production team. Furthermore, he was the screenplay of several TV originals, manga adaptions, movies, OVAs, magic files, and short stories etc.

On July 18, 2016, he died of pancreatic cancer. The year after, movie 21 put a title card "In memory of Kazunari Kouchi" at the end credits of the film.

Detective Conan anime

Number of case scenarios written: 36 (42 episodes)

Scenarios adapted from the manga

Number of manga cases adapted to anime: 12 (26 episodes)

OVAs

Number of OVAs written: 12

Magic files

Number of Magic files written: 5

Specials and Short Stories

Number of Short Stories adapted: 6

Number of specials written: 5

Detective Conan movies

Kazunari Kouchi is credited as the lead writer in the following Detective Conan films:

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