Detective Conan

Phatkav · Detective Conan

One of my favourite anime. The one I grew with during grades 2-6.

Really love the way people get killed.

Badie05

Case Closed, also known as Detective Conan (名探偵コナン, Meitantei Konan?) in Japan and other countries, is a detective manga and anime series by Gosho Aoyama which has been published in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine since 1994.

The series depicts the cases of a young private detective who was inadvertently turned into a prepubescent boy by criminals and now struggles to continue his profession while keeping his true identity, age and medical condition secret.

VIZ Media publishes Detective Conan manga in English as Case Closed for American audiences. The comic uses the original right-to-left format and the English anime names for the main characters while it uses the original Japanese names for the minor characters.

The anime version is produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and has currently aired 460 television episodes (as of 15 January 2007) and ten movies in Japan, and is still running on Japanese television today. It airs Mondays at 7:30 p.m. on Nippon TV, and is also broadcast in Japan by the anime television network, Animax, who have also aired the series across its networks in Southeast Asia and East Asia. In July 2003, FUNimation announced that they licensed Detective Conan for a release in North America, to be released as "Case Closed" due to legal issues concerning the name Conan (Conan the Barbarian, although Conan can be considered a regular name as in Conan O'Brien). In the United Kingdom VIZ's releases are published by Gollancz Manga with the same naming conventions.

The tenth movie, Private Eyes' Requiem[1] was announced on December 15, 2005 and was released on April 15, 2006, debuting at the number one position in the Japanese box office[2] and remained there for three consecutive weeks. As of May 28, 2006, it has earned $25.8 million in the Japanese box office. [3]

The latest in the series of its franchise is a live-action TV drama which is poised to be aired in autumn 2006. It would act as a prequel of the current storyline, starring Shun Oguri as Shin'ichi Kudo (Jimmy Kudo), Tomoka Kurokawa as Ran Mori (Rachel Moore), and Takanori Jinnai as Kogoro Mori (Richard Moore) [4].

Phatkav

Gotta love it when you copy 'n' paste from Wikipedia.

Have you watched the anime before?

Badie05

Yes. I have watched Case Closed. Like longgg time ago. It was very interest. Very unique ways of dying!

Phatkav

I watched the arabic dub. Really great because they dubed it from the Japanese version and not the English one.

That's why they have dubbed about 120 episodes and they use the original Japanese names.

Plus they don't cut anything.

Badie05

I think this is the FIRST time i heard of an Arabic Dub of an anime. Well second!

Phatkav

Arabic dub is really good.

They don't care about blood so nothing get censored.

I can see them dubbing One Piece unedited.

Badie05

Inexorably!

Phatkav

The only thing that bothers me is that they sometimes change the names,

For Pokemon and DBZ, they didn't change a thing about names. However for Digimon, they changed everything. Even the Digimons names.

Badie05

Phatkav

I agree with you. That's why right now, I can't name any Digimon character.

Badie05

Phatkav

I remember that show.
Watched the Arabic dub for it.

Badie05

Phatkav

But I never liked the monsters design. However I liked the storyline.

Badie05

bashmo

great man...detective conan was good while it was on YTV!