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Case Closed
36th North American volume cover, featuring Conan Edogawa
名探偵コナン
(Meitantei Konan)
Genre
Manga
Written byGosho Aoyama
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runJanuary 5, 1994 – present
Volumes106 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Kenji Kodama (1–118)
  • Yasuichiro Yamamoto (119–161, 163–218, 220–332, 667–677, 680–present)
  • Masato Satō (162, 219, 333–504)
  • Kōjin Ochi (505–666, 678–679)
  • Nobuharu Kamanaka (975–present)
Produced by
  • Yomiuri TV:
  • Michihiko Suwa (1–332)
  • Shuichi Kitada (453–666)
  • Isato Yonekura (667–1008)
  • Takeshi Shioguchi (1009–1129)
  • Takeshi Yoshida (1130–present)
  • TMS:
  • Kazuhiko Yagiuchi (1–33)
  • Masahito Yoshioka (1–332)
  • Hiroaki Kobayashi (333–529)
  • Tetsu Kojima (505–520)
  • Takeshi Yamakawa (602–695)
  • Kiyoaki Terashima (750–1032)
  • Masataka Todo (1033–present)
Written by
  • Jun'ichi Ii'oka (story editor)
  • Yukie Koyake (1102–present; story editor)
Music byKatsuo Ōno
StudioTMS Entertainment
Licensed by
Original networkNNS (ytv)
English network
Original run January 8, 1996 – present
Episodes1,142 (List of episodes)
Related media
Spin-off manga

Case Closed, also known as Detective Conan (Japanese: 名探偵コナン, Hepburn: Meitantei Konan, lit. 'Great Detective Conan'), is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday since January 1994, with its chapters collected in 106 tankōbon volumes as of October 2024. Due to legal problems with the name Detective Conan, the English language releases from Funimation and Viz Media were renamed to Case Closed. The story follows the high school detective Shinichi Kudo, whose body was transformed into that of an elementary school-age child while investigating a mysterious organization. Generally, he solves a multitude of cases by impersonating his childhood best friend's father and various other characters.

The manga was adapted into an anime television series by Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation and TMS Entertainment, which premiered in January 1996. The anime resulted in animated feature films, original video animations, video games, audio disc releases and live action episodes. Funimation licensed the anime series for North American broadcast in 2003 under the name Case Closed with the characters given Americanized names. The anime premiered on Adult Swim but was discontinued due to low ratings.

In March 2013, Funimation began streaming their licensed episodes of Case Closed; Crunchyroll simulcast them in 2014. Funimation also localized the first six Case Closed films, while Discotek Media localized the Lupin III crossover special, its film sequel, and select films, starting with Case Closed Episode One. Meanwhile, the manga was localized by Viz Media, which used Funimation's changed title and character names. Shogakukan Asia made its own localized English version of the manga, which used the original title and Japanese names.

The tankōbon volumes of the manga had over 270 million copies in circulation worldwide by January 2023, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. In 2001, the manga was awarded the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category. The anime adaptation has been well received and ranked in the top twenty in Animage's polls between 1996 and 2001. In the Japanese anime television ranking, Case Closed episodes ranked in the top six weekly. Both the manga and the anime have had a positive response from critics for their plot and cases. The manga has been sold in 25 countries, while the anime has been broadcast in 40 countries.

Plot

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See also: List of Case Closed characters

Jimmy Kudo (Japanese name: Shinichi Kudo) is a high school detective who sometimes works with the police to solve cases.[2] During an investigation, he is ambushed and incapacitated by a member of a crime syndicate known as the Black Organization. In an attempt to murder the young detective, they force-fed him a dangerous experimental drug. However, instead of killing him, it shrinks his body into the size of an elementary school child.[3] Adopting the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and keeping his true identity a secret, Kudo lives with his childhood friend Rachel Moore (Ran Mori) and her father Richard (Kogoro Mori), who is a private detective. Throughout the series, he tags along on Richard's cases. Nonetheless, after Kudo solves one, he will use Dr. Agasa's hidden tranquilizer to sedate Richard and then uses a voice changer to simulate his voice to reveal the solution.[4] He also enrolls in Teitan Elementary School where he makes friends with a group of classmates who form their own Junior Detective League (Detective Boys). While he continues to dig deeper into the Black Organization, he frequently interacts with other characters, including his neighbor, Dr. Agasa, Ran's friend Serena Sebastian (Sonoko Suzuki), a fellow teenage detective Harley Hartwell (Heiji Hattori), assorted police detectives from different regions, and a phantom thief called Kaito Kid.

Kudo later encounters an elementary school transfer student, Anita Hailey (Ai Haibara), who reveals herself to be a former member of the Black Organization under the code name "Sherry" and the creator of the experimental drug that shrunk him. She too had ingested it to evade the pursuit of the organization.[5] She soon joins the Junior Detectives. During a rare encounter with the Black Organization, Conan helps the FBI plant a CIA agent, Kir, inside the Black Organization as a spy.[6]

Production

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Case Closed was conceived in 1994, during the rise of mystery genre manga due to the publishing of the series The Kindaichi Case Files; the first chapter appeared in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday on January 5.[7][8] Aoyama cites the stories of Arsène Lupin, Sherlock Holmes and the samurai films by Akira Kurosawa as influences on his work.[9] When scripting each chapter, he ensures the dialogue remains simple and spends an average of four hours for each new case and twelve for more complicated ones.[10][11] Aoyama's older brother is a scientist who helps him out with the "gimmicks" in the series.[12] Each case spans several chapters (except for a handful of shorter cases that only span one), and is resolved at the end where characters explain the details of their solutions in simple terms;[13] an online database consisting of all the cases from the manga was launched in 2007.[14][15] In 2007, Aoyama hinted he had an ending planned out but does not intend to end the series yet.[10] Aoyama and his staff decided to computerize their manga creation process in early 2011, although he still draws with a pen and paper.[16][17] The change began with the final page of chapter 760.[17]

Media

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Manga

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See also: List of Case Closed volumes

Written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama, Case Closed started its serialization in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday on January 5, 1994.[d] Case Closed became one of the longest running manga series, with over 1,000 chapters released in Japan, and the first series with over 1,000 chapters published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday.[20] Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on June 18, 1994.[21] On October 18, 2021, the series reached one hundred volumes;[22] One Piece author, Eiichiro Oda, whose series achieved the same feat a month before, sent congratulations to Aoyama.[23] As of October 18, 2024, 106 volumes have been published.[24]

A recreation of Aoyama's workplace at the Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory

Viz Media announced its acquisition of the series for North America on June 1, 2004.[25] Following Funimation's localization, Viz released the series as Case Closed and took their character names to keep consistency between the two media.[26] Viz Media released the first volume in September 2004 and began releasing digital editions in 2013.[27][28] On May 9, 2023, Viz Media launched their Viz Manga digital manga service, with the series' chapters receiving simultaneous English publication in North America as they are released in Japan.[29][30] Gollancz licensed and distributed 15 of Viz Media's volumes in the United Kingdom before ceasing publication of manga. (Viz Media has since re-released them).[31] In 2014 Shogakukan Asia began its own English localization of the series for Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries as Detective Conan.[32] Laura Thornton of CBR.com, citing the common Japanese ownership in both Shogakukan Asia and Viz, described the Singapore version as, compared to the Viz one, "completely identical, word-for-word, even -- save for the names and the Detective Conan logo".[33]

Spin-offs

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Main articles: Case Closed: The Culprit Hanzawa, Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time, and Detective Conan: Police Academy Arc

Gosho Aoyama's assistants have written an anthology series of Case Closed which are released irregularly.[34][35]

A spin-off manga series, titled Case Closed: The Culprit Hanzawa, by Mayuko Kanba, began in the July 2017 issue of Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday S, released on May 25, 2017.[36]

Another spin-off manga series, illustrated by Takahiro Arai with supervision by Aoyama, titled Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time started in issue #24 of Weekly Shōnen Sunday on May 9, 2018. The story centers on the agent Toru Amuro/Rei Furuya.[37] New chapters of the manga are only published when Case Closed is on hiatus.

Another spin-off manga series by Arai, titled Detective Conan: Police Academy Arc – Wild Police Story, was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 2, 2019, to November 18, 2020. Spanning 13 chapters, it again focuses on Amuro/Furuya during his years in the police academy with his colleagues.[38][39][40]

Anime

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See also: List of Case Closed episodes (seasons 1–15), List of Case Closed episodes (seasons 16–30), and List of Case Closed episodes (seasons 31–current)

The anime version of Case Closed is produced by Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation and TMS Entertainment.[41][42] Over 1110 episodes have aired in Japan since the anime's premiere on January 8, 1996, making it the fifteenth longest anime series to date.[43][44] Initially, Shogakukan collected and released the episodes on VHS video cassettes from June 1996 to October 2006.[45][46] Four hundred and twenty-six episodes were released on VHS until Shogakukan abandoned the format and switched over to DVDs, starting over from the first episode.[47] For the fifteenth anniversary of the anime series, the series was made available for video on demand.[48][49] The series celebrated its 25th anniversary in January 2021, and the "Moonlight Sonata Murder Case" episode (11th episode of the series) was given the remake treatment as the first part of its celebration, which featured the latest staff and production techniques, and classical pianist Aimi Kobayashi performed Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 for the episode. It aired on March 6, 2021.[50][51]

As of 2018, the Detective Conan anime has been broadcast in 40 countries around the world.[52] The Canadian channel YTV picked up the Case Closed series and broadcast 22 episodes between April 7, 2006, and September 2, 2006, before taking it off the air.[53][54][55] Case Closed was later broadcast in North America on NHK's cable network TV Japan.[56] Hanabee Entertainment licensed the series for distribution in Australia.[57]

In 2003, the first 104 episodes, as well as the first six movies were licensed by Funimation for distribution in North America, under the title Case Closed because of legal considerations.[2][58] The Case Closed anime has also been released in other languages such as French, German and Italian.[59][60][61] Case Closed debuted on Cartoon Network as part of their Adult Swim programming block on May 24, 2004;[62] no more than 50 episodes were licensed from Funimation due to low ratings.[63] Funimation made the series available with the launch of the Funimation Channel in November 2005; it was temporary available on Colours TV during its syndication with the Funimation Channel.[64][65] Funimation also released DVDs of their dubbed series beginning August 24, 2004.[66] Initially, the releases were done in single DVDs and future episodes were released in seasonal boxes; 130 episodes have been released in total.[67] The seasonal boxes were later re-released in redesigned boxes called Viridian edition.[68][69] Funimation began streaming Case Closed episodes in March 2013.[70] Finally, in 2018, Funimation lost the rights to the series.[71]

A separate English adaptation of the series was made by Voiceovers Unlimited Pte Ltd. in Singapore.[33] Another one by Animax Asia premiered in the Philippines on January 18, 2006, under the name Detective Conan.[72][73] Because Animax were unable to obtain further TV broadcast rights, their version comprised only 52 episodes.[74] The series continued with reruns until August 7, 2006, when it was removed from the station.[75] Both the Singapore and Philippines versions used Japanese character names.[33] The California-based channel United Television Broadcasting (UTB) aired it with English subtitles from 2011 to 2014, until episode 421.[76][77]

Crunchyroll began simulcasting the series in October 2014, starting with episode 754.[78] In September 2020, Crunchyroll began streaming the first 42 episodes, later adding episodes 42–123 in August 2021 (with any special episodes with an extended runtime that were previously split into multiple parts being presented as they were originally broadcast in Japan).[79][80] In August 2024, Crunchyroll removed the first 123 episodes. In January 2016, 52 episodes of the anime appeared on Netflix, initially under its original title Detective Conan before changing to its English moniker Case Closed. The episodes were listed as "season one", although in reality they are episodes 748 to 799. The episodes were only available in Japanese, but were subtitled. The availability was likely part of Netflix's efforts to expand its anime catalog.[81] In January 2021, Netflix removed the episodes.

It was revealed in February 2023 that TMS Entertainment commissioned a new English dub of Case Closed, with episodes of the anime beginning streaming on Tubi that same month, starting at episode 965.[82][83] This marked the first English dub for the series since 2010.[84] The dub is produced by Florida-based studio Macias Group with a new dub cast (except for the voices of Shinichi, Conan, Ran, Kogoro, and Kaito Kid, whose voice actors were retained from the Bang Zoom! Entertainment home video dubs).[85]

Films

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See also: List of Case Closed films

Twenty-seven feature films based on the Case Closed series have been released. They are animated by TMS Entertainment and produced by Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, Nippon Television, ShoPro, and Toho.[86] The first seven were directed by Kenji Kodama; films 8–14 were directed by Yasuichiro Yamamoto; films 15–21 were directed by Kobun Shizuno; film 22 and 26 were directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa; films 23, 24, and 27 were directed by Chika Nagaoka; and film 25 was directed by Susumu Mitsunaka. The films have been released in April of each year, starting in 1997 with the first film, Case Closed: The Time Bombed Skyscraper.[87] The 27th and latest film, Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram, was released on April 12, 2024. The second film and onwards were the top twenty grossing anime films in Japan.[88][89] The revenue earned from the films funded Toho's other film projects.[90] Each film was adapted into two film comics which were released in the fourth quarter of the same year.[91][92] Funimation released English dubbed versions of the first six films on Region 1 DVDs between October 3, 2006, and February 16, 2010.[93][94] Bang Zoom! Entertainment has released English dubs of Case Closed films through Discotek Media, starting with the Episode One TV special on July 28, 2020.[33]

Original video animations

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See also: List of Case Closed TV Specials and OVAs

Two original video animations (OVA) series were produced by TMS Entertainment, Nippon Television, and Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. The OVA series Shōnen Sunday Original Animation are yearly mail order episodes available to subscribers of Weekly Shōnen Sunday.[95] The first Shōnen Sunday Original Animation was available in Weekly Shōnen Sunday's 26th issue in 2000, with eleven OVAs released as of 2011.[96][97] The first nine episodes of the OVA series were later encapsulated into four DVD volumes titled Secret Files and were released between March 24, 2006, and April 9, 2010.[98][99] The second OVA series, entitled Magic File, consists of yearly direct-to-DVD releases. The first Magic File was released on April 11, 2007, and contained four episodes from the anime series.[100] The subsequent Magic File OVAs contained an original plot with background ties related to their respective Case Closed theatrical films, beginning with the twelfth film Detective Conan: Full Score of Fear.[101]

Television special

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A two-hour television special titled Lupin the 3rd vs. Detective Conan was produced by TMS Entertainment, Nippon Television, and Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation and aired on March 27, 2009.[102] It was first announced in the 9th issue of Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 2009.[103] The plot follows Kudo as he investigates the death of the Queen of Vespania while Arsène Lupin III from the Lupin III series attempts to steal the Queen's crown. The special earned a household record rating of 19.5 in Japan.[104] VAP released the special on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on July 24, 2009.[105][106] The special is followed by Lupin the 3rd vs. Detective Conan: The Movie which takes place after the television special.

Video games

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See also: List of Case Closed video games

Case Closed's expansion into the video games industry followed behind its foray into animation. On December 27, 1996, Detective Conan: Chika Yuuenchi Satsujin Jiken was released for the Game Boy.[107] Since then, 24 games have been released. Currently, the majority of the games have only been released in Japan, though Nobilis has localized Case Closed: The Mirapolis Investigation for the PAL region.[108] All dedicated Detective Conan games released for the Game Boy, Sony's consoles, the WonderSwan, and the Nintendo DS have been developed by Bandai.[107][109][110][111][112] Banpresto developed the Case Closed titles on the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance while Marvelous Entertainment developed Case Closed: The Mirapolis Investigation.[108][113][114]

Audio CDs

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Main article: Case Closed discography

Katsuo Ono composed and arranged the music in the Case Closed animation; his works have been released on several CDs.[41][115][116][117] Two image albums, comprising several songs sung by Japanese voice actors of the characters in the animation, were also released.[118][119] Several theme music were performed by pop musicians such as B'z, Zard, and Garnet Crow. The first four theme music were released by Universal Music Group and all releases thereafter were by Being Inc.[120][121]

The Best of Detective Conan and The Best of Detective Conan 2 albums collectively sold over 2.2 million copies, while singles from The Best of Detective Conan 3 collectively sold over 1.6 million copies.[122] On July 25, 2017, the singer Mai Kuraki was awarded a Guinness World Record for singing the most theme songs in a single anime series, having sung 21 songs for Detective Conan, starting with her hit song "Secret of My Heart" (2000).[123]

Live-action drama

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See also: List of Detective Conan live action drama episodes

Four live action drama TV specials and a TV series were created by Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation and TMS entertainment based on the series.[124] The first two specials aired in 2006 and 2007 featuring Shun Oguri portraying the teenage Jimmy Kudo and Tomoka Kurokawa as Rachel Moore.[124][125] The third and fourth TV specials aired in 2011 and 2012 featuring Junpei Mizobata as Jimmy and Shioli Kutsuna as Rachel.[126] The cast used for those TV specials were used for the television series which aired between July 7 and September 29, 2011.[127][128]

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A Detective Conan-themed cafe

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Weekly Shōnen Magazine, the two companies collaborated to publish twelve biweekly magazines consisting of chapters from Weekly Shōnen Sunday's Case Closed and Weekly Shōnen Magazine's Kindaichi Case Files.[129] The magazine ran between April 10, 2008, and September 25, 2008.[130][131]

Shogakukan have also produced many books spun off from the series. Fifty volumes of a film comic series were published in Japan between June 1996 and August 2000, covering the first 143 episodes of the anime, though some episodes were skipped.[132][133][134][135] Five additional film comics entitled 5 Juuyou Shorui (5重要書類, lit. 5 Important Documents) were published between July 2001 and January 2002 and covered selected episodes between 162 and 219.[136][137] Thirteen official guide books were published between June 1997 and April 2009.[138][139] Shogakukan has also published novels,[140] digest books,[141] educational books,[142] and puzzle books.[143]

In North America, Score Entertainment published the Case Closed Trading Card Game on June 29, 2005.[144][145] The game entails the use of three customized decks of cards, which players buy and collect. Representing characters, events, and objects in Case Closed, these cards are used by players to fulfill certain conditions to solve a case and win the game.[146] Certain cards are used to foil the progress of the player's opponents.[147][148] An English unofficial guidebook to the series titled The Case Closed Casebook: An Essential Guide was published by DH Publishing Inc. on March 25, 2008.[149] A collaborative themed event by Universal Studios Japan with the series, for the Universal Cool Japan 2018 attractions, ran from January 19 to June 24, 2018.[150] Characters from the series were featured in a crossover event for the survival horror video game Identity V for the game's China server in 2020,[151] and released globally in 2021.[152]

Reception

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Popularity

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The series has ranked on the "Book of the Year" list from Media Factory's Da Vinci magazine, where professional book reviewers, bookstore employees, and Da Vinci readers participate; it ranked fifth in 2012;[153] eleventh in 2014;[154] fourth in 2015;[155] sixth in 2016;[156] fifth in 2017;[157] first in 2018;[158] fifth in 2019;[159] sixth in 2020;[160] tenth in 2021;[161] fifth in 2022;[162] and eighth in 2023.[163] On TV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150,000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, Case Closed ranked fourth, behind One Piece, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and Slam Dunk.[164][165]

The animated adaptation of the series was also popular in Japan, appearing in the top six of Japanese TV Rankings at various times.[166][167] The television series ranked among the top twenty in polls conducted by anime magazine Animage from 1996 to 2001.[168][169][170][171][172][173][174] It also placed better than twenty-third in polls for the Top 100 anime conducted by Japanese television network TV Asahi in 2005–06.[175][176][177] The series received considerable airtime in China; it was the second most broadcast animation there in 2004.[178]

In 2006, the Japanese government used Conan in campaigns to help promote crime awareness among children.[179] Targeting the same audience, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs used Conan and his friends in two pamphlets: one to promote the ministry's mission, the other to introduce the 34th G8 summit held in the country in 2010.[180][181][182][183] Several characters in the series featured in the sixth installment of the Anime, Heroes and Heroines commemorative stamp series issued by Japan Post in 2006.[184] Aoyama and his creations are celebrated in his hometown Hokuei, Tottori; a museum with exhibits of his work is located there, and several bronze statues of Jimmy Kudo, Conan Edogawa, and Rachel Moore are installed in various locations throughout the town.[185][186][187][188][189] It also has other tourist attractions related to Detective Conan, including a Detective Conan themed airport and train station, and it is promoted as Conan Town.[190]

In 2018, Case Closed caught the attention of American late night talk show host Conan O'Brien, who discussed the character Conan Edogawa as well as Conan Town in his talk show Conan,[191] and visited the town in September 2018.[192]

Sales

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By October 2021, the Case Closed manga had over 250 million copies in circulation worldwide, making it one of the best-selling manga series,[193] having been sold in 25 countries.[52] By January 2023, the manga had over 270 million copies in circulation worldwide.[194][195] In Japan, individual volumes frequently appear on the lists of best-selling manga.[196][197] Case Closed was the nineteenth best selling manga in 2011, with 2,120,091 copies sold.[198] Nikkei Entertainment magazine published a list of top 50 manga creators by sales since January 2010, in its September 2011 issue; Gosho Aoyama, the author of Case Closed was ranked sixteenth, with 3,320,000 copies sold.[199] It was the seventeenth best selling manga in 2012, with 2,430,572 copies sold.[200] In 2013, Case Closed became the 24th best selling manga, with 1,966,206 copies sold.[201] In 2024, alongside Space Brothers, Case Closed won the grand prize of Rakuten Kobo's second E-book Award in the "Long Seller Comic" category.[202]

Licensed merchandise based on Detective Conan are sold in Asia. In Japan, Detective Conan licensed merchandise sold ¥2.89 billion in 2003, ¥17.29 billion during 2005–2008, and ¥9.03 billion during 2010–2012, adding up to at least ¥29.21 billion ($366.08 million) sold in Japan between 2003 and 2012.[203] The first volume of Case Closed appeared thrice in the top ten selling lists, right after its premiere,[204] the same volume has also appeared in the Diamond Comic Distributors's ranking list.[205] Later-published volumes have appeared on The New York Times Manga Best Sellers lists.[206][207][208][209] Case Closed is one of the best-selling manga in Vietnam,[210] with volumes 93–96, surpassing the 1.5 million digital copies each by 2020.[211]

Critical response

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In the United States, Case Closed received praises from Mania.com's Eduardo M. Chavez and IGN's A. E. Sparrow for its stories—telling the mysteries and how they were unfolded by the investigations of Conan and gang. Sparrow called the style of the series a mix of Scooby-Doo and Sherlock Holmes, while Chavez believed the manga had appeal to readers of all ages.[212][213] Melissa Sternenberg from THEM Anime Reviews gave the series 5 out of 5 stars, she praised its animation and plot, and described it as "what puts Detective Conan as my all-time favorite anime is the superb writing. I soak up Detective Conan like a good book, I get so drawn into every episode that everything around me just sinks away and it is just me and the episode. It is engrossing. I can not think of another word for it. Like I said, every episode is fresh, and every mystery that is solved is profound. The kid is a prodigy, and you can not blink while watching an episode of this wonderful series".[214]

ActiveAnime's reviewers commented on complex character design and the "spirit" that the series has, indicating that fans of serialized mystery shows would rather enjoy it. The series is also said to better suit the more matured audience.[215][216] Lori Lancaster of Mania.com described Case Closed as "a clever series that had mysteries at every corner", noting the "bizarre" and "interesting" nature of each case.[217] IGN's Chris Wyatt was positive to the manner the cases were set up, relating them to Agatha Christie's locked-room mysteries. He described the series as "Inspector Gadget meets Law & Order but in an anime style".[218]

In the United States, the dubbed series faced several negative reactions toward its changes to localize the content for international English-speaking audiences, mostly North American. Jeffrey Harris of IGN found it pointless to change the names of the characters, and Anime News Network's Carl Kimlinger said that the changes of certain Japanese cultural references rendered several parts of the mysteries and their investigation illogical.[219][220] The voice-overs proved to be a mixed bag for Carlo Santos, who reviewed the first DVD release of Case Closed for Anime News Network; he said that while the main characters sounded like "real people", the secondary ones "[came] off as caricatures".[221]

Accolades

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The Case Closed manga series was awarded the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2001.[222] It respondents in an online poll for Japanese citizens in their mid-twenties voted Case Closed as one of the top three manga they wanted to continue running in publication.[223][224][225] In France, the series was nominated for the Angoulême Festival Graphic Novel award among the Japanese selection.[226] The series ranked on About.com's top continuing manga series of 2010, under the title "Best Underappreciated Gem: Shonen" category.[227]

Several of the franchise's films were nominated for awards in their home country. The ninth film was nominated for the feature film category at the 5th Annual Tokyo Anime Awards, and the next five films were nominees for the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year in their respective years of release.[228][229][230][231][232][233]

Notes

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  1. ^ Formerly Funimation, which licensed episodes 1–123 and the first six feature films from 2004–2018.
  1. ^ As Detective Conan
  2. ^ Subbed episodes
  3. ^ Subbed and English dubbed episodes
  4. ^ The series debuted in the magazine's fifth issue of 1994 (cover date January 19),[18] released on January 5 of that same year.[8][19]

References

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