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The Detective Conan anime was first dubbed in the [[Wikipedia:Arab World|Arab World]] in 1998 and was aired on Qatar TV, and on March 31st 2000, the [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|first episode]] was broadcast on [[Wikipedia:Spacetoon|Spacetoon]]. Currently the latest season shows first only on SpaceToon or its sister channel SpacePower. The series is dubbed by the most famous anime dubbing centre in the region, Venus Centre (مركز الزهرة  Markaz Az-Zuhra).
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The Detective Conan anime was first dubbed in the [[Wikipedia:Arab World|Arab World]] in 1998 and was aired on Qatar TV, and on March 31st 2000, the [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|first episode]] was broadcast on [[Wikipedia:Spacetoon|Spacetoon]]. Currently, new seasons show first only on streaming service SpaceToon Go and on the TV channel SpaceToon not too long after, and in the past, on its now-defunct sister channel Space Power. The series is dubbed by the most famous anime dubbing centre in the region, Venus Centre (مركز الزهرة  Markaz Az-Zuhra).
  
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Detective Conan in Arabic is called المحقق كونان Al-Muhaqiq Konan, which literally means ''Detective Conan''.
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Detective Conan in Arabic is called المحقق كونان Al-Muhaqqiq Konan, which literally means ''Detective Conan''.
  
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The Detective Conan series has became very popular in the Arab world and is one of the best ranked animes of all time. Venus Centre continues dubbing Detective Conan. As of May 2013, up to 400+ episodes are dubbed.
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The Detective Conan series has became very popular in the Arab world and is one of the best ranked animes of all time. Venus Centre continues dubbing Detective Conan. As of June 2025, up to 500+ episodes were dubbed.
  
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Most of the characters kept their main names, but names with four syllables are often reduced to two syllables (i.e. Mitsuhiko is called ميتسو Mitso). Most of characters only have a given name and not a family name or vice versa. Most of the cases characters kept their original Japanese names as well, but some are changed because they sound similar to another character (e.g Yuuko from [[EP003|Episode 3]] was renamed شوكو Shuko because it sounded similar to [[Yoko Okino|Yoko Okino's]] name. All of the TV specials are always divided into two or four seasons and only the first four films have been dubbed so far.
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Most of the characters kept their main names, but names with four syllables are often reduced to two syllables (i.e. Mitsuhiko is called Mitsu). Most of the characters only have a given name and not a family name or vice versa. Most of the cases characters kept their original Japanese names as well, but some are changed because they sound similar to another character (e.g Yuuko from [[An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case|Episode 3]] was renamed شوكو Shuko because it sounded similar to [[Yoko Okino|Yoko Okino's]] name. All of the TV specials are always divided into two or four episodes (except for if it’s on the Space Power streaming service) and most of the films have been dubbed as of June 2025. On 2018 the [[Zero the Enforcer|22th movie]] was also dubbed and released in Dubai cinemas on November 29th, and many other movies have released on theaters such as The One-Eyed Flashback, The Million Dollar Pentagram, and the Ai Haibara’s Story special.
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==Timeline==
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===1998-2000===
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The anime started being dubbed and was airing episodes on Qatar TV.
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===2000-2013===
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On March 31st 2000, The (at the time) new children’s TV block on Bahrain TV called Spacetoon started airing Detective Conan, the block got really popular and it became a TV channel, Detective Conan was and still is one of Spacetoon's biggest hits and the show quickly gained a community and Conan’s name became so big that to some places, it even surpassed Sherlock Holmes’ popularity, Conan even had his very own live show called “Conan On Air” where Conan tests kids' logic.
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[[File:TheResultofConanMania.jpg|thumb|A 3D model used frequently for advertisements in the 2000’s.]] <br>
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Though the show had some minor censorship; it was mostly kept intact, but Spacetoon was involved in some big controversy surrounding the possible dangers of anime and starting episode 124, the anime became heavily censored with things such as rewriting criminal’s motives and changing certain Black Organization codenames due to the alcohol references, but the large community criticized Spacetoon for the changes calling the dub childish, around that time; a heavily rewritten illegal dub using the same voices from the original Arabic dub started airing on another channel called Basma TV that focused on religion and often replaced certain scenes with narrations of Hadiths; the Basma dub also changed characters’ names (such as Conan being renamed to Kamal ibn Al Qadi Mansour) and removed Shinichi; 15-20 episodes were dubbed before it stopped being dubbed and mysteriously briefly aired again a few years after, The dub was produced by Tihama Advertising and Public Relations in Saudi Arabia.
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the Spacetoon dub eventually went back to how it was before starting episode 235.
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===2013-2014===
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The dub took a year long hiatus from July 29 2013 to September 10 2014 before returning with JP episode 345 (Kaitou Kid’s Miraculous Mid-Air Walk).
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===2014-2019===
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The dub had taken another, much longer hiatus lasting from November 27 2014 to May 29 2019.
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===2019-Now===
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The dub comes back with it’s 9th season on May 29 2019 with JP episode 379, the dub has no changes except for the new intro and outro themes.
  
 
==Cast==
 
==Cast==
 
{{BeginTable Cast|no-image-cast=true}}
 
{{BeginTable Cast|no-image-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Conan Edogawa|أمل سعد الدين<br />Amal Sa'ad Adin|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Conan Edogawa|آمال سعد الدين<br />Amal Sa'ad Adin|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Shinichi Kudo|مروان فرحات<br />Marwan Farhat|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|3|Shinichi Kudo|مأمون الفرخ<br />Mamoon Al-Farkh|Seasons 1 and 2 and [[Zero the Enforcer|Movie 22]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Ran Mouri| سمر كوكش<br />Samar Kokush|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||زياد الرفاعي<br />Ziad Rifai|Seasons 3 to 5 and [[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper|Movie 1]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Kogoro Mouri| محمد خير أبو حسون<br />Muhammad Khair Abou Hassoun|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||كامل نجمة<br />Kamil Najmah|Seasons 7 to 8 and Movies [[The Fourteenth Target|2]] to [[Captured in Her Eyes|4]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Ayumi Yoshida| رندة جيلات<br />Randa Jileto|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|2|Ran Mouri| سمر كوكش<br />Samar Kokush|Episodes [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|1]] to [[A Small Client|355]] and movies [[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper|1]] to [[Captured in Her Eyes|4]] and [[Zero the Enforcer|Movie 22]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya| رغدة الخطيب<br />Ragdha Khatib|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||نور أبو حسون <br> Nour Abu Hassoun|Episodes [[Kaitou Kid's Miraculous Midair Walk|356]] to [[The Time Limit is 15:00!|376]] |no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Kogoro Mouri| مروان فرحات<br />Marwan Farhat|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Ayumi Yoshida|رندة جيلات<br />Randa Jileto|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya| رغدة الخطيب<br />Ragdha Khatib|Episodes [[The Desperate Revival|188]] onwards and movies|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
 
{{CastItem|1|Genta Kojima| أمل عمران <br />Amal Omran.|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
 
{{CastItem|1|Genta Kojima| أمل عمران <br />Amal Omran.|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
 
{{CastItem|1|Ai Haibara| فاتن عيدو <br />Faten Eido|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
 
{{CastItem|1|Ai Haibara| فاتن عيدو <br />Faten Eido|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Shiho Miyano| فاتن عيدو <br />Faten Eido|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
 
{{CastItem|1|Hiroshi Agasa|مروان فرحات <br /> Marwan Farhat |no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
 
{{CastItem|1|Hiroshi Agasa|مروان فرحات <br /> Marwan Farhat |no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
 
{{CastItem|1|Sonoko Suzuki| آمنة عمر <br /> Amna Omar|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
 
{{CastItem|1|Sonoko Suzuki| آمنة عمر <br /> Amna Omar|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Heiji Hattori| رأفت بازو <br /> زياد الرفاعي <br /> Raafat Pasor <br /> Ziad Rifai |no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|4|Heiji Hattori| رأفت بازو <br /> Raafat Bazo |Episodes [[Diplomat Murder Case|48]] to [[Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case|78]], [[The Desperate Revival|189]] to [[The Client Full of Lies|221]], [[English Teacher vs. Great Western Detective|277]] onwards and [[The Last Wizard of the Century|Movie 3]] |no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||زياد الرفاعي<br/>Ziad Rifai|Episodes [[The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case|117]] to [[The Twenty Year Old Murderous Intent: The Symphony Serial Murder Case|174]] |no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||عادل أبو حسون<br/>Adel Abo Hassoun|Episodes [[And Then There Were No Mermaids|222 to 224]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||فادي وفائي <br> Fadi Wafai|Episodes [[The 3 "K"s of Osaka Case|238]] to [[The Osaka Double Mystery - The Naniwa Swordsman and Toyotomi's Castle|263]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
 
{{CastItem|1|Juzo Megure| محمد خير أبو حسون <br /> Mohamed Khair Abu Hassoun |no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
 
{{CastItem|1|Juzo Megure| محمد خير أبو حسون <br /> Mohamed Khair Abu Hassoun |no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Wataru Takagi|مروان الرفاعي <br /> Marwan Al-Rifai |no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Wataru Takagi| |no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Kaitou Kid|مكسيم خليل <br /> مروان الرفاعي <br /> Maxim Khalil <br /> Marwan Al-Rifai |no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|4|Kaitou Kid|مكسيم خليل <br /> Maxim Khalil |[[Conan vs. Kaitou Kid|Episode 76]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||زياد الرفاعي <br/> Ziad Rifai |[[Magic Lover's Murder Case|Episode 134]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||رأفت بازو <br/> Raafat Bazo|Episodes [[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|219]] and [[Kaitou Kid's Miraculous Midair Walk|356]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||رائد مشرف <br> Rayid Musharaf|[[The Last Wizard of the Century|Movie 3]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|5|Ginzo Nakamori|مأمون الفرخ<br/>Mamoon Al-Farkh|[[Conan vs. Kaitou Kid|Episode 76]] (part 1)|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||أيمن السالك<br/>Ayman Al-Salek|[[Conan vs. Kaitou Kid|Episode 76]] (part 2)|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||عادل أبو حسون<br/>Adel Abo Hassoun|[[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|Episode 219]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||محمد مصطفى<br/>Mohammad Mustafa|[[The Last Wizard of the Century|Movie 3]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||محمد خير أبو حسون <br /> Mohamed Khair Abu Hassoun|[[Kaitou Kid's Miraculous Midair Walk|Episode 356]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|1|Saguru Hakuba|عادل أبو حسون<br/>Adel Abo Hassoun|[[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|Episode 219]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|3|Gin|زياد الرفاعي <br/> Ziad Rifai|[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episodes 1]]–[[The Mysterious Passenger|230]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0|Gin|منصور السلطي <br/> Mansour Al-Salti|[[Contact with the Black Organization|Episode 309–311]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0|Gin|مأمون الرفاعي <br/> Mamoon Al-Rifai|[[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|Episode 345]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|6|Vodka|علي القاسم <br/> Ali Al-Qassim|[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||واصف الحلبي <br/> Wasif Al-Halabi|[[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case|Episode 128]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||مروان فرحات <br/> Marwan Farhat|[[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|Episode 129]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||منصور السلطي <br/> Mansour Al-Salti|[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176-178]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||رأفت بازو <br/> Raafat Bazo|Episodes [[The Mysterious Passenger|230]] and [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|345]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
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{{CastItem|0||مأمون الرفاعي <br/> Mamoon Al-Rifai|Episodes [[Contact with the Black Organization|Episode 309-311]]|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
 
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==Theme song==
 
==Theme song==
 
{{main|Arabic theme song}}
 
{{main|Arabic theme song}}
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The opening and ending song from season 1 to season 4 were different from the [[Mune ga doki doki|original Japanese intro]]. In season 5 to the season 8, a remix of the previous tune with the same lyrics was used. Both the endings were simply the tune instrumental. The first four seasons used a logo which is simply the Detective Conan in Arabic in red on a cross-hair. The current logo (used from season 5 onwards) is very similar, but the cross-hair is different.
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The opening and ending song from season 1 to season 4 is an original song made for the Arabic dub. The opening and ending for season 5 to season 8 is a rock cover of the original song. The opening for season 9 to season 25 is an original song, similarly to the ending song for season 9 to season 25.
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The first four seasons used a logo which is simply "Detective Conan" in Arabic in red on a cross-hair. The logo for season 5 to 8 was very similar with a different crosshair, the logo for season 9 resembled the Japanese logo but in Arabic while the current logo resembles the international logo but in Arabic.
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===Speculation===
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It is possible that in 2013, the Arabic dub had another theme song covering the main theme, but this is only supported by certain viewers' memories and an upload of the theme that does not specify the season<ref>See excerpt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNH0txbrWYI&pp=ygUi2KfYutmG2YrYqSDYp9mE2YXYrdmC2YIg2YPZiNmG2KfZhg%3D%3D</ref>
  
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===Theme Trivia===
 
The dubbed show sometimes used Japanese themes:
 
The dubbed show sometimes used Japanese themes:
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* An instrumental version of [[Mune ga doki doki]] accompanying a creditless version of the opening of the first episode aired unedited.
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* An instrumental version of [[Mune ga Dokidoki]] accompanying a creditless version of the opening of the first episode aired unedited.
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* The introductory 30-second parts of episodes with the first, third and fourth opening themes were left in, then cutting before the Japanese vocal part directly to the episode. Those introductory parts were removed from episodes using the second  
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* The introductory 30-second parts of episodes with the first, third and fourth opening themes were left in, then cutting before the Japanese vocal part directly to the episode. Those introductory parts were removed from episodes using the second.
 
* Insert songs in the first three seasons (episodes 1-127) were left in using their vocal versions. Subsequent episodes would lower the volume of the BGM or replace it, or in the case of endings edit that part out entirely.
 
* Insert songs in the first three seasons (episodes 1-127) were left in using their vocal versions. Subsequent episodes would lower the volume of the BGM or replace it, or in the case of endings edit that part out entirely.
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* The movies kept the endings, using instrumental versions. An exception is the third movie's ending which had the B'z song start normally, then fading to the first movie's ending theme.  
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* The movies kept the endings, using instrumental versions. An exception is the third movie's ending which had the B'z song start normally, then fading to the first movie's ending theme.
  
 
==Censorship==
 
==Censorship==
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When the dubs for the episodes 1-125 aired between 1998 and 2002, the censorship was somehow light, focusing on removing excessive gore, and digitally editing scenes with women clothes to have the skirts cover the knees after the same dubbing studio received backlash over Nadia's Blue Water dub (1995) which didn't edit the revealing heroine's outfit and even kept some scenes with nudes - also midst a general negative perception of anime due to the airing of Onisamaa e and an edited version of Grave of the Fireflies as children programs earlier.  
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When the dubs for the episodes 1-125 aired between 1998 and 2002, the censorship was light, mainly focusing on removing excessive gore, and digitally editing scenes with women's clothes to add leggings to shorts and skirts after the same dubbing studio received backlash over Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water dub (1995) which didn't edit the revealing titular heroine's outfit and even kept some scenes with nudity - also midst a general negative perception of anime due to the airing of Dear Brother (which dealt with themes of suicide, incest and lesbianism) and an edited version of Grave of the Fireflies (which dealt with child death in war) as children programs earlier.  
  
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The themes weren't affected: the audio generally matches the original unedited version, with a generally accurate translation that creatively replaces some problematic words for the target audience ("Hell" as "Where the Dead Go", "Devil" as "Evil One", alcoholic beverages as "Drinks", "fiancé" for "boyfriend/girlfriend", "drunk" as "needing sleep" but otherwise unedited). Unlike several European dubs, the episodes 12, 35, and the ending of 5O made it to the Arabic dub - references to suicide, romance, characters being unfaithful partners, or nude were kept. Some gory cuts made it but sped-up. Blood was generally uncensored. Positions of authorities (diplomats, prime ministers, senators) would get translated though as the generic "official". Some occultism stars and imagery (the goat for example), and manjis (as well as actual swatsikas in other works by the same dub house) were removed as well.
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The themes weren't affected: the audio generally matches the original unedited version, with a generally accurate translation that creatively replaces some problematic words for the target audience ("Hell" as "Where the Dead Go", "Devil" as "Evil One", alcoholic beverages as "Drinks", "boyfriend/girlfriend” to “fiancé/fiancée”, "drunk" as "needing sleep" or “sick” but otherwise unedited). Unlike several European dubs, the episodes 12 (11 the Japanese way), 35, and the ending of 5O made it to the Arabic dub - references to suicide, romance, characters being unfaithful partners, or nude were kept. Some gory cuts were kept but sped-up. Blood was generally uncensored. Positions of authorities (diplomats, prime ministers, senators) would get translated though as the generic "official". Some religious and occult references were removed.
  
 
The show went on to become the center of a controversy surrounding multiple real-life suicide cases involving children imitating the suicide case in episode 26, as well as the Pokémon controversy (originally started by the trading cards being used for "gambling") where local religious clerics would try and associate elements of anime with satanism and degrading youth's education.
 
The show went on to become the center of a controversy surrounding multiple real-life suicide cases involving children imitating the suicide case in episode 26, as well as the Pokémon controversy (originally started by the trading cards being used for "gambling") where local religious clerics would try and associate elements of anime with satanism and degrading youth's education.
  
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The studio would then adopt an ultra-conservative censorship, going as far as editing out entire scenes with women without long pants (skirts, jupes, and clothes exposing top cleavage, while tolerated before, are no longer allowed) and replacing them with long frozen frames, criminal confessions rewritten to have almost the same script about remorse and how awful they are instead of the actual motives, Black Organisation code names (save for Gin, and "Belmutt") altered or replaced to remove alcohol references starting with episode 126 onward (Vodka becoming Vokka), and even altering plot-relevant episodes featuring them and introducing several continuity errors (like making Gin a "leader of the BO" who "knows about Sherry's (adult) face and that little boy") which wouldn't be fixed until much later episodes are accurately translated. Any references to suicide or romance was removed, or occasionally replaced with "Ran, so when is your wedding taking place?".
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The studio would then adopt an ultra-conservative censorship, going as far as editing out entire scenes with women without long pants (skirts, jupes, and clothes exposing top cleavage, while tolerated before, are no longer allowed) and replacing them with long frozen frames, criminal confessions rewritten to have almost the same script about remorse and how awful they are instead of the actual motives stated in the Japanese original, Black Organization code names (save for Gin, and Vermouth who was known as "Bellmoot" similar to the Japanese version) altered or replaced to remove alcohol references starting with episode 126 onward (Vodka becoming Vokka), and even altering plot-relevant episodes featuring them and introducing several continuity errors (like making Gin a "leader of the BO" who "knows about Sherry's (adult) face and that little boy") which wouldn't be fixed until later episodes accurately translating it. Any references to suicide or romance was removed, and romance references were occasionally replaced with "Ran, so when is your wedding taking place?".
  
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The show wouldn't be shown on as much networks as before afterwards, most of the high-profile voice actors would go elsewhere, and the dub studio produced an ultra-censored abridged dub with the whole plot replaced with non-stop ultra-conservative religious preaching and all of the music, Japanese names, and adult women would be removed altogether (which caused a controversy of its own on mainstream media over the religious message and its medium, and the dub studio's translation ethics -even though the religious dub was completely separate from the main dub). This dub was produced and endorsed by the same company that did the Arabic dubs. Additionally, some of the unaired Japanese material (like the visuals for the original openings) would be used in abridged dubs for toys, toothpaste, pens, among others. Fans would take the Arabic audio and try fitting it on uncensored Japanese raws and upload it online.
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Afterwards, the show wouldn't be shown on as much networks as before, most of the high-profile voice actors would go elsewhere, and another channel would start airing an illegal heavily abridged version of the anime with religious preachings and an overall different storyline that involved the original voices of the original dub, Fans would take the Arabic audio and try fitting it on uncensored Japanese raws and upload it online.
  
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Initially dismissing negative fan reception as "overly kiddy", claiming the dub was targeting a children audience, the studio aimed to target a teen audience much later starting with episode 235 onward, where, while some episodes are still heavily censored, many themes are allowed again, and women with skirts are - and ones with clothes not reaching knees or covering enough cleavage would have some colored overlay covering it.
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Initially dismissing negative fan reception as "overly kiddy", claiming the dub was targeting a children audience, the studio aimed to target a teen audience much later starting with episode 235 onward, where, while some episodes are still heavily censored or outright banned, many darker themes are allowed again, along with women with skirts - ones with clothes not reaching knees or covering enough cleavage would have some colored overlay covering it.
  
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
 
* Detective Conan is the longest dubbed TV show in the Arab World.
 
* Detective Conan is the longest dubbed TV show in the Arab World.
 
* Officially, Detective Conan is divided into ''seasons'', although  (جزء) is literally translated to ''part''.
 
* Officially, Detective Conan is divided into ''seasons'', although  (جزء) is literally translated to ''part''.
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* SpaceToon made a TV program called “Conan on Air” where Conan would directly talk with children and give them riddles.
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* Season 12-24 of the dub don’t exist as of June 2025, SpaceToon decided to skip hundreds of episodes sometime in 2023-2024 to get directly to where the show currently is, though the show is still progressing through season 11 and getting to the other seasons and season 25 is exclusive to the SpaceToon Go streaming service.
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* The show had a sort of “Conan-Mania” in the 2000’s for the Arab world.
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* The Arab World has one of the largest fanbases for the series and the show is heavily talked about and seen there.
  
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==

Latest revision as of 12:03, 29 August 2025

Detective Conan in the Arab World

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Language: Arabic
Continents: Asia and Africa
No. of Episodes: 551 (405 JP) (TV)
71 (Season 25)
Dubbed by: Venus Centre

The Detective Conan anime was first dubbed in the Arab World in 1998 and was aired on Qatar TV, and on March 31st 2000, the first episode was broadcast on Spacetoon. Currently, new seasons show first only on streaming service SpaceToon Go and on the TV channel SpaceToon not too long after, and in the past, on its now-defunct sister channel Space Power. The series is dubbed by the most famous anime dubbing centre in the region, Venus Centre (مركز الزهرة Markaz Az-Zuhra).

Detective Conan in Arabic is called المحقق كونان Al-Muhaqqiq Konan, which literally means Detective Conan.

The Detective Conan series has became very popular in the Arab world and is one of the best ranked animes of all time. Venus Centre continues dubbing Detective Conan. As of June 2025, up to 500+ episodes were dubbed.

Most of the characters kept their main names, but names with four syllables are often reduced to two syllables (i.e. Mitsuhiko is called Mitsu). Most of the characters only have a given name and not a family name or vice versa. Most of the cases characters kept their original Japanese names as well, but some are changed because they sound similar to another character (e.g Yuuko from Episode 3 was renamed شوكو Shuko because it sounded similar to Yoko Okino's name. All of the TV specials are always divided into two or four episodes (except for if it’s on the Space Power streaming service) and most of the films have been dubbed as of June 2025. On 2018 the 22th movie was also dubbed and released in Dubai cinemas on November 29th, and many other movies have released on theaters such as The One-Eyed Flashback, The Million Dollar Pentagram, and the Ai Haibara’s Story special.

Timeline

1998-2000

The anime started being dubbed and was airing episodes on Qatar TV.

2000-2013

On March 31st 2000, The (at the time) new children’s TV block on Bahrain TV called Spacetoon started airing Detective Conan, the block got really popular and it became a TV channel, Detective Conan was and still is one of Spacetoon's biggest hits and the show quickly gained a community and Conan’s name became so big that to some places, it even surpassed Sherlock Holmes’ popularity, Conan even had his very own live show called “Conan On Air” where Conan tests kids' logic.

A 3D model used frequently for advertisements in the 2000’s.


Though the show had some minor censorship; it was mostly kept intact, but Spacetoon was involved in some big controversy surrounding the possible dangers of anime and starting episode 124, the anime became heavily censored with things such as rewriting criminal’s motives and changing certain Black Organization codenames due to the alcohol references, but the large community criticized Spacetoon for the changes calling the dub childish, around that time; a heavily rewritten illegal dub using the same voices from the original Arabic dub started airing on another channel called Basma TV that focused on religion and often replaced certain scenes with narrations of Hadiths; the Basma dub also changed characters’ names (such as Conan being renamed to Kamal ibn Al Qadi Mansour) and removed Shinichi; 15-20 episodes were dubbed before it stopped being dubbed and mysteriously briefly aired again a few years after, The dub was produced by Tihama Advertising and Public Relations in Saudi Arabia. the Spacetoon dub eventually went back to how it was before starting episode 235.

2013-2014

The dub took a year long hiatus from July 29 2013 to September 10 2014 before returning with JP episode 345 (Kaitou Kid’s Miraculous Mid-Air Walk).

2014-2019

The dub had taken another, much longer hiatus lasting from November 27 2014 to May 29 2019.

2019-Now

The dub comes back with it’s 9th season on May 29 2019 with JP episode 379, the dub has no changes except for the new intro and outro themes.

Cast

Character Voice actors
Picture Name Name Notes
Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg Conan Edogawa آمال سعد الدين
Amal Sa'ad Adin
Shinichi Kudo 60px.jpg Shinichi Kudo مأمون الفرخ
Mamoon Al-Farkh		 Seasons 1 and 2 and Movie 22
زياد الرفاعي
Ziad Rifai		 Seasons 3 to 5 and Movie 1
كامل نجمة
Kamil Najmah		 Seasons 7 to 8 and Movies 2 to 4
Ran Mouri 60px.jpg Ran Mouri سمر كوكش
Samar Kokush		 Episodes 1 to 355 and movies 1 to 4 and Movie 22
نور أبو حسون
Nour Abu Hassoun		 Episodes 356 to 376
Kogoro Mouri 60px.jpg Kogoro Mouri مروان فرحات
Marwan Farhat
Ayumi Yoshida 60px.jpg Ayumi Yoshida رندة جيلات
Randa Jileto
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya رغدة الخطيب
Ragdha Khatib		 Episodes 188 onwards and movies
Genta Kojima 60px.jpg Genta Kojima أمل عمران 
Amal Omran.
Ai Haibara 60px.jpg Ai Haibara فاتن عيدو
Faten Eido
Shiho Miyano 60px.jpg Shiho Miyano فاتن عيدو
Faten Eido
Hiroshi Agasa 60px.jpg Hiroshi Agasa مروان فرحات
Marwan Farhat
Sonoko Suzuki 60px.jpg Sonoko Suzuki آمنة عمر
Amna Omar
Heiji Hattori 60px.jpg Heiji Hattori رأفت بازو
Raafat Bazo		 Episodes 48 to 78, 189 to 221, 277 onwards and Movie 3
زياد الرفاعي
Ziad Rifai		 Episodes 117 to 174
عادل أبو حسون
Adel Abo Hassoun		 Episodes 222 to 224
فادي وفائي
Fadi Wafai		 Episodes 238 to 263
Juzo Megure 60px.jpg Juzo Megure محمد خير أبو حسون
Mohamed Khair Abu Hassoun
Wataru Takagi 60px.jpg Wataru Takagi
Kaitou Kid 60px.jpg Kaitou Kid مكسيم خليل
Maxim Khalil		 Episode 76
زياد الرفاعي
Ziad Rifai		 Episode 134
رأفت بازو
Raafat Bazo		 Episodes 219 and 356
رائد مشرف
Rayid Musharaf		 Movie 3
Ginzo Nakamori 60px.jpg Ginzo Nakamori مأمون الفرخ
Mamoon Al-Farkh		 Episode 76 (part 1)
أيمن السالك
Ayman Al-Salek		 Episode 76 (part 2)
عادل أبو حسون
Adel Abo Hassoun		 Episode 219
محمد مصطفى
Mohammad Mustafa		 Movie 3
محمد خير أبو حسون
Mohamed Khair Abu Hassoun		 Episode 356
Saguru Hakuba 60px.jpg Saguru Hakuba عادل أبو حسون
Adel Abo Hassoun		 Episode 219
Gin 60px.jpg Gin زياد الرفاعي
Ziad Rifai		 Episodes 1–230
منصور السلطي
Mansour Al-Salti		 Episode 309–311
مأمون الرفاعي
Mamoon Al-Rifai		 Episode 345
Vodka 60px.jpg Vodka علي القاسم
Ali Al-Qassim		 Episode 1
واصف الحلبي
Wasif Al-Halabi		 Episode 128
مروان فرحات
Marwan Farhat		 Episode 129
منصور السلطي
Mansour Al-Salti		 Episode 176-178
رأفت بازو
Raafat Bazo		 Episodes 230 and 345
مأمون الرفاعي
Mamoon Al-Rifai		 Episodes Episode 309-311
The First Logo

Theme song

Main article: Arabic theme song

The opening and ending song from season 1 to season 4 is an original song made for the Arabic dub. The opening and ending for season 5 to season 8 is a rock cover of the original song. The opening for season 9 to season 25 is an original song, similarly to the ending song for season 9 to season 25. The first four seasons used a logo which is simply "Detective Conan" in Arabic in red on a cross-hair. The logo for season 5 to 8 was very similar with a different crosshair, the logo for season 9 resembled the Japanese logo but in Arabic while the current logo resembles the international logo but in Arabic.

Speculation

It is possible that in 2013, the Arabic dub had another theme song covering the main theme, but this is only supported by certain viewers' memories and an upload of the theme that does not specify the season[1]

Theme Trivia

The dubbed show sometimes used Japanese themes:

  • An instrumental version of Mune ga Dokidoki accompanying a creditless version of the opening of the first episode aired unedited.
  • The introductory 30-second parts of episodes with the first, third and fourth opening themes were left in, then cutting before the Japanese vocal part directly to the episode. Those introductory parts were removed from episodes using the second.
  • Insert songs in the first three seasons (episodes 1-127) were left in using their vocal versions. Subsequent episodes would lower the volume of the BGM or replace it, or in the case of endings edit that part out entirely.
  • The movies kept the endings, using instrumental versions. An exception is the third movie's ending which had the B'z song start normally, then fading to the first movie's ending theme.

Censorship

When the dubs for the episodes 1-125 aired between 1998 and 2002, the censorship was light, mainly focusing on removing excessive gore, and digitally editing scenes with women's clothes to add leggings to shorts and skirts after the same dubbing studio received backlash over Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water dub (1995) which didn't edit the revealing titular heroine's outfit and even kept some scenes with nudity - also midst a general negative perception of anime due to the airing of Dear Brother (which dealt with themes of suicide, incest and lesbianism) and an edited version of Grave of the Fireflies (which dealt with child death in war) as children programs earlier.

The themes weren't affected: the audio generally matches the original unedited version, with a generally accurate translation that creatively replaces some problematic words for the target audience ("Hell" as "Where the Dead Go", "Devil" as "Evil One", alcoholic beverages as "Drinks", "boyfriend/girlfriend” to “fiancé/fiancée”, "drunk" as "needing sleep" or “sick” but otherwise unedited). Unlike several European dubs, the episodes 12 (11 the Japanese way), 35, and the ending of 5O made it to the Arabic dub - references to suicide, romance, characters being unfaithful partners, or nude were kept. Some gory cuts were kept but sped-up. Blood was generally uncensored. Positions of authorities (diplomats, prime ministers, senators) would get translated though as the generic "official". Some religious and occult references were removed.

The show went on to become the center of a controversy surrounding multiple real-life suicide cases involving children imitating the suicide case in episode 26, as well as the Pokémon controversy (originally started by the trading cards being used for "gambling") where local religious clerics would try and associate elements of anime with satanism and degrading youth's education.

The studio would then adopt an ultra-conservative censorship, going as far as editing out entire scenes with women without long pants (skirts, jupes, and clothes exposing top cleavage, while tolerated before, are no longer allowed) and replacing them with long frozen frames, criminal confessions rewritten to have almost the same script about remorse and how awful they are instead of the actual motives stated in the Japanese original, Black Organization code names (save for Gin, and Vermouth who was known as "Bellmoot" similar to the Japanese version) altered or replaced to remove alcohol references starting with episode 126 onward (Vodka becoming Vokka), and even altering plot-relevant episodes featuring them and introducing several continuity errors (like making Gin a "leader of the BO" who "knows about Sherry's (adult) face and that little boy") which wouldn't be fixed until later episodes accurately translating it. Any references to suicide or romance was removed, and romance references were occasionally replaced with "Ran, so when is your wedding taking place?".

Afterwards, the show wouldn't be shown on as much networks as before, most of the high-profile voice actors would go elsewhere, and another channel would start airing an illegal heavily abridged version of the anime with religious preachings and an overall different storyline that involved the original voices of the original dub, Fans would take the Arabic audio and try fitting it on uncensored Japanese raws and upload it online.

Initially dismissing negative fan reception as "overly kiddy", claiming the dub was targeting a children audience, the studio aimed to target a teen audience much later starting with episode 235 onward, where, while some episodes are still heavily censored or outright banned, many darker themes are allowed again, along with women with skirts - ones with clothes not reaching knees or covering enough cleavage would have some colored overlay covering it.

Trivia

  • Detective Conan is the longest dubbed TV show in the Arab World.
  • Officially, Detective Conan is divided into seasons, although (جزء) is literally translated to part.
  • SpaceToon made a TV program called “Conan on Air” where Conan would directly talk with children and give them riddles.
  • Season 12-24 of the dub don’t exist as of June 2025, SpaceToon decided to skip hundreds of episodes sometime in 2023-2024 to get directly to where the show currently is, though the show is still progressing through season 11 and getting to the other seasons and season 25 is exclusive to the SpaceToon Go streaming service.
  • The show had a sort of “Conan-Mania” in the 2000’s for the Arab world.
  • The Arab World has one of the largest fanbases for the series and the show is heavily talked about and seen there.

See also

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Detective Conan in Other Countries
North America USA & Canada
South America Brazil • Latin America
Europe Albania • Belgium • Denmark • France • Finland • Germany • Greece • Hungary • Italy • the Netherlands • Norway • Poland • Portugal • Russia • Spain • Sweden • United Kingdom
Middle East Arab World • Iran
Central Asia India
Southeast Asia Indonesia • Malaysia • Philippines • Singapore • Thailand • Vietnam
East Asia China (Taiwan • Hong Kong) • Japan • Korea
  1. ^ See excerpt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNH0txbrWYI&pp=ygUi2KfYutmG2YrYqSDYp9mE2YXYrdmC2YIg2YPZiNmG2KfZhg%3D%3D
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