Detective Conan

Detective Conan was created by Gosho Aoyama and appears in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine. Right now, Detective Conan has 50 completed volumes, 19 completed special volumes and is an anime series on Monday night at 7:30 pm in Japan. The series is now on air o Cartoon Network under the title “Case Closed” as a part of Adult Swim.

Detective Conan is an elementary school boy named Conan Edogawa. He is really a 17 year-old famous high school detective, Shinichi Kudo. While investigating some suspicious activity, Shinichi was knocked over the head by a man dressed in black. During his semi-conscious state, an experimental drug was forced down his throat that was meant to kill him. Instead, he shrunk into a little kid. In order to prevent the men from hurting his friends and family, he changed his name to Conan Edogawa, and now lives with his girlfriend, Ran and her dad, whose name is Kogoro Mouri.
Shinichi adopts his name based on his favorite author Arthur Conan Dolye. Ran, his girlfriend takes this little boy under her wing and bring him to her home. His mind is as keen as ever, and he continues to solve mysteries. He always allows Ran’s father, Kogoro Mouri take all the credit
Conan has a mission to find the criminals who did this to him and get the antidote to that drug. Each episode contains a mystery that Conan has to solve. He solves mysteries and crimes through reasoning and logic and with the help of friends and nifty gadgets. The nifty gadgets are created by Dr.Agasa. He solves them through Kogoro Mouri secretly by using the nifty gadget, voice changing bowtie that makes to have an alias, “The sleeping Kogoro”.
Who know that he is Shinichi are his father, his mother, Dr. Agasa and Ai Haibara

The Characters
The Regulars

1. Shinichi Kudo (Narrated by Kappei Yamaguchi) – He is 17 years old high school detective. He is big fan of Sherlock Homes, a suiri otaku (big fan of speculation), and great at soccer. He is a childhood friend of Ran Mouri. Shinichi has feelings for Ran, but can’t be truthful about it.

2. Conan Edogawa (Narrated by Minami Takayama) – He is the child form of Shinichi after being forced to drink a mysterious pill by men in black. Shinichi used the name Conan Edogawa to hid his true identify from the people around him while searching out members of the mysterious organization. He lives with Ran Mouri and her dad, Kogoro Mouri. He used voice changing bowtie and other nifty gadgets created by Dr. Agasa.



3. Ran Mouri (Narrated by Wakana Yamazaki) – She is a classmate and childhood friend of Shinichi Kudo. She secretly likes Shinichi and worries about him during his absence. Ran is very strong willed and a great karate athlete. She can beat the crap out of her opponents if she isn’t scared or semi-unconscious. Ran cooks for Conan and her dad and when she’s not around they starve or go out for food. She is also the responsible one between her and her dad.



4. Kogoro Mouri (Narrated by Akira Kamiya) – He is Ran’s father and incompetent detective. He hasn’t been able to solve a single mystery for himself. Conan secretly solved all his crimes for him. Before he became a private detective, Kogoro was a detective in the police department, working along side with Inspector Megure. An incident caused him to retire from the force early and do what he does now. Believe it or not, Kogoro was actually kakkoii when he was younger. A.K.A The Sleeping Kogoro.




5. Detective Boys (Narrated by Wataru Takagi, Ikue Ohtani and Yukiko Iwai) – Genta Kojima, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Ayumi Yoshida – They are classmates of Conan. They like to solve mysteries, but most of the ones that they do solve by Conan. They do however help Conan with ideas. There is a little love triangle going on between the foursome; Ayumi likes Conan, but Mitsuhiko and Genta like Ayumi and, of course, Conan likes Ran.





6. Ai Haibara (Narrated by Megumi Hayashibara) – She is like Conan. Her real name is Shiho Miyano. She was the one who invented the drug that shrunk Shinichi and herself. Her codename was Sherry, but the death of her older sister made her turn away from the Underground Crime Ring. When the Underground decided to kill her, they handcuffed her to a pipe on the wall to await her execution. Since they were going to kill her, she took her own drug, intent on killing herself first. Instead, she was shrunk, and her hand was able to slip out of the handcuffs. Now, she stays with Dr. Agasa.



7. Dr. Agasa – He is Shinichi’s neighbor and Conan’s “distant relative”. He invented the cool gadgets for Conan (i.e power – up shoes, voice changing bowtie and stun gun wristwatch etc…)






8. Inspector Megure (Narrated by Rin Chafuu) – He is the detective of the police force and relies on Shinichi to solve crimes. But with the disappearance of Shinichi, he comes to rely on Kogoro Mouri, whom he once thought was idiotic detective.



Frequent Guests

1. Heiji Hattori – Being from Osaka, he is the West’s version of Shinichi (the East’s). Hattori has appeared in several cases. He figured out the Conan is really Shinichi.







2. Sonoko Suzuki (Narrated by Naoko Matsui) – Ran and Shinichi’s classmate. Ran is closest girlfriend. Sonoko was the one who told Hattori that Ran and Shinichi are boyfriend and girlfriend.






3. Wataru Takagi – A detective in the Beika City Police Department. His partner is always Detective Satou. There seems to be a love triangle going on between Takagi and Satou, but who is the third person ?






4. Miwako Satou – She is a female detective in Beika City Police Department. Her partner is always Detective Takagi. She’s always oblivious to Takagi’s love sick puppy dog reactions around her, but is she really that oblivious? And who does she like ?





5. Kaitou Kid – Just who is the mysterious character ? Actually, fan of Gosho Aoyama’s other works would recognize him, he’s none other than Kid the Phantom Thief, or Kaito Kuroba. His uncanny resemblance to Shinichi confused Ran in his first appearance in Detective Conan.




6. Gin – One of the men dressed in black, or part of an Underground Crime Ring. Gin was the one who hit Shinichi in the head and forced a strange drug down his throat.






7. Vodka – One of the men dressed in black, he is always seen with Gin.

I like Conan very much, especially when Conan is Shinichi because he looks smart when he solves mysteries. I feel that, this cartoon is fun and very excited every episode. Moreover, it also has knowledge and point of view each episode. Some knowledge are about stories of Japan that I never know, I know them from this cartoon.
I have many VCD and many comics of Detective Conan. At present, I collect its comics. Detective Conan is only cartoon that I watch and read it. Not only I like this cartoon, but my family also likes it.

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