Detective Conan

Detective Conan (名探偵(めいたんてい)コナン ,Meitantei Konan, lit. Great Detective Conan) is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It has been serialized in the Japanese manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Sunday since 1994 and had been collected in eighty-seven Tankōbon volumes by August 18th, 2015.

The manga has been adapted into an anime series by the animation studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha, directed by Kenji Kodama (episode 1 to 252), Yasuichiro Yamamoto (episode 110 to 332, 667 to 677, 681 to the last episode to date), Masato Sato (episode 318 to 504), Koujin Ochi (505 to 666, and 678 to 680), and is broadcast in Japan on Nippon Television, Yomiuri TV and Animax. The series debuted on January 8th, 1996 and will have broadcast 784 episodes by July 1th, 2015. 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 nineteen Golden Week movies, with the first released on April 17th, 1997 and since then followed with a movie released each year, always in the month of April. Ten of the movies held a top 10 box office position in the year they were screened. In addition, five Magic Files related to the movies and twelve Original Video Animations have been released.

Story summary

Conan Edogawa

The story follows the adventures of Shinichi Kudo (also known as Jimmy Kudo in Case Closed), a young detective prodigy who was inadvertently shrunk into a child's body due to a poison he was force-fed by members of a criminal syndicate. Neighbor and family friend Professor Agasa strongly suggested Shinichi hide his identity to prevent them from killing him and the people he cares about, so Shinichi takes the name Conan Edogawa. He goes to live with his childhood friend Ran Mouri and her father, Kogoro, and tries to use Kogoro's detective agency as a way to find the people who shrank him—without letting Ran figure out who he really is.

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Critical reception

The series has been well received in Japan, with the anime adaptation ranking in the top twenty in Animage's polls between 1996 until 2000, where it dropped below the top twenty. In the Japanese TV anime ranking, Detective Conan often ranked the top six. It has even been used as a mascot to promote citizens to follow the law. The English adaption has not been as equally popular as in Japan, and has been criticized for the name changes.

The manga is a huge success and it is continued to be published. It won the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2000. Some of its volumes appear on the lists of best-selling manga.

The series is successful in Asia and Europe, where some countries translated most of the episodes and volumes. Due to the high popularity DC is re-broadcasting in many countries after the original premieres.

Although popular in many other countries, Case Closed was not as successful in the US, most likely due to poor advertising, name changes, and script changes. Due to this, the "Case Closed" version was cancelled at only 130 episodes. However, the manga is still released by VIZ media.

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In other languages

Language	Name	Notes
Japanese	名探偵コナン Meitantei Konan	Lit. "Renowned Detective Conan"
Arabic	المحقّق كونان Al-Muḥaqqiq Konan	Lit. "Detective Conan"
Catalan	El Detectiu Conan	Lit. "Conan, the Detective".
Czech	Detektiv Conan
Danish	Mesterdetektiven Conan	Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"
English	Case Closed	Due to copyright issues, however packaging and door closing scenes still mentions "Detective Conan" title.
English	Detective Conan	Southeast Asian manga released by Shogakukan Asia use the original "Detective Conan" name.
Filipino	Detective Conan
Finnish	Salapoliisi Conan	Detective Conan
French	Détective Conan	Detective Conan
Galician	O detective Conan	The Detective Conan
German	Detektiv Conan
Hindi	Jasoos Conan	Detective Conan
Hungarian	Conan, a detektív	Conan the detective
Indonesia	Detektif Conan	Dêtektif Konan
Italian	Detective Conan
Korean	명탐정 코난 Myeongtamjeong Conan	Lit. "Renowned Detective Conan"
Malay	Detektif Conan
Norwegian	Mesterdetektiven Conan	Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"
Polish	Detektyw Conan	Detective Tsonan
Russia	Детектив Конан	Detective Conan
Simplified Chinese	名侦探柯南 Mingzhentan Kenan	Lit. "Renowned Detective Conan"
Traditional Chinese	名偵探柯南 Mingchent’an k’onan	Lit. "Renowned Detective Conan"
Spanish/Spanish Latin	Detective Conan
Swedish	Mästerdetektiven Conan	Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"
Thai	ยอดนักสืบจิ๋วโคนัน Yxd-nạks̄ụ̄b-cǐw-khonạ-n (Yodnakseubjew Conan)	Lit. "little super detective Conan". Sometimes called ยอดนักสืบรุ่นจิ๋วโคนัน Yxd-nạks̄ụ̄b-rùn-cǐw-khonạ-n (Yodnakseub Roonjew Conan)
Turkey	Dedektiv Conan	Dedektiv Yonan
Vietnamese	Thám tử lừng danh Conan	Lit. "Renowned Detective Conan"

See also

• Detective Conan in France
• Detective Conan in Spain
• Detective Conan in Italy
• Detective Conan in Germany
• Detective Conan in the Arab World
• Detective Conan in the Philippines
• Detective Conan in Korea
• Detective Conan in Thailand
• Detective Conan in Vietnam
• Detective Conan in Sweden