Meitantei Conan

Shinichi Kudou, a high school student of astounding talent in detective work, is well known for having solved several challenging cases. One day, when Shinichi spots two suspicious men and decides to follow them, he inadvertently becomes witness to a disturbing illegal activity. Unfortunately, he is caught in the act, so the men dose him with an experimental drug formulated by their criminal organization, leaving him to his death. However, to his own astonishment, Shinichi lives to see another day, but now in the body of a seven-year-old child.

Perfectly preserving his original intelligence, he hides his real identity from everyone, including his childhood friend Ran Mouri and her father, private detective Kogorou Mouri. To this end, he takes on the alias of Conan Edogawa, inspired by the mystery writers Arthur Conan Doyle and Ranpo Edogawa.

Shinichi, as Conan, starts secretly solving the senior Mouri's cases from behind the scenes with his still exceptional sleuthing skills, while covertly investigating the organization responsible for his current state, hoping to reverse the drug's effects someday.

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Edogawa, Conan Main

Takayama, Minami Japanese

Haibara, Ai Main

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Mouri, Ran Main

Yamazaki, Wakana Japanese

Mouri, Kogorou Main

Koyama, Rikiya Japanese

Agasa, Hiroshi Main

Ogata, Kenichi Japanese

Yoshida, Ayumi Main

Iwai, Yukiko Japanese

Tsuburaya, Mitsuhiko Main

Ootani, Ikue Japanese

Kojima, Genta Main

Takagi, Wataru Japanese

Kuroba, Kaito Supporting

Yamaguchi, Kappei Japanese

Akai, Shuuichi Supporting

Ikeda, Shuuichi Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Watson, Barry Producer

Suwa, Michihiko Producer, Planning, Chief Producer

Terashima, Kiyoaki Producer, Chief Producer

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Nov 25, 2006

MeitanteiShakura

Recommended

Preliminary (Unknown/? eps)

It's funny. I'm not the type of person that would sit in front of the TV all day, watching CSI series, but somehow, "Detective Conan" really changed that outlook.

'Detective Conan" is about a teen detective by the name of Shin'ichi Kudo (known in the dub as Jimmy), who has a charismatic skill of solving crimes that leave the police force and its leading investigators baffled and astounded. One night, when Shin'ichi is at the amusement park with his childhood friend Ran Mouri, he whitnesses two strange men dressed in black carrying out an illegal trade. While watching, he's ... accosted from behind by one of the men, forcefed a drug intended to kill him, and knocked out.

When Shin'ichi wakes up, he finds that the drug didn't kill him, but has caused his body to shrink down to the size of a seven-year-old boy. Shin'ichi confides in his neighbor, the crazy scientest Hiroshi Agasa, who informs him not to tell anybody else about his condition for the safety of those around him and provides his with gadgets to help him around, such as a bowtie that can duplicate any voice and a wrist stun-gun used to put people to sleep. Shin'ichi then goes under the alias "Conan Edogawa" to conceal his identity. In order to get information about the men responsible for his small body, he lives as a surrogate brother to Ran and helps out her father, Kogoro Mouri, who is a mediocre detective with poor deduction skills.

Following Kogoro on cases assigned to him, Conan tries to help behind the scenes any way he can. The problem is that no professionals want to listen to a kid's advice, so "Conan" deducts as other work. After balancing out all the evidence, he gets everyone's attention through knocking Kogoro out with a stungun, hiding behind him, and dupliicating his voice while explaining the case.

While not that popular of an anime in North America (despite finding a fair audience among Americans), Conan has a great amount of success in Japan, spanning more than 450 episodes(and STILL GOING!!), 55 tankoban, 10 movies, and 16 OVAs.

At first I thought this anime wasn't all that interesting and was poorly animated (stopped thinking that after finding it was made in 1996), but after watching the dub more on Adult Swim, I got more attached to the characters, storyline, and everthing that made the show so admirable. For two years I watching both the English and Japanese versions, bought merchandise, and tried to work my way up to the current story development in the manga.

Leaving off the personal experience bits I thought about putting in, I'll get to the qualities that make "Detective Conan"such a favorite to the Japanese and other nationalities as well.

Now starting with the artwork, I'll have to go out on a limb and say that it can take some adjusting to at first, with the pointy, "barely-there" noses, the round eyes, and "jug ears" and all the other oddities in the art. It'll eventually grow on you, nonetheless. Also, the artstyle advances to higher quality in both the anime and manga as animation methods and improve as well as Aoyama's drawing skills, so the artwork still is able to better itself.

The background music for the series really gives it that "classic detective drama" feel. It's a combination of jazz, some saxophone jams both slow and quick, as well as some themes that play in the background on occasion. It sets teh atmosphere and tone for the format and purpose for the playing of the episodes.

The cast of characters starts to build thoughout the series, from the tough but sensitive Ran and the overconfident Kogoro to the brooding Ai Hiabara and the individual members of the Metropolitan Police Force. All of them have distinct personalities that may not develop quickly, but are interesting to explore while watching this long series.

The cases, murder cases, suicide cases, puzzles, kidnappings, and cases involving those men in black and their organization, are so brilliantly laid out. You just want to watch every darned bit of the episode to see the conclusion. The way Shin'ichi uses his logic in each episode just makes one think, "Whoa. This show's amazing." And the series can get somebody hooked with just deductions alone. However the episodes play out in almost the same format, kind of like Law & Order, with the same episode formula, but different twists and clever setups in the cases that keep viewers coming back for more every time.

Overall, "Detective Conan" is all that and a bag of chips, being possibly my ultimate favorite as well as the favorite of many other fans. It can be a bit boring for those that hate being overloaded with details, but mystery fans and intellectuals are bound to love it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Aug 8, 2022

DeltaLight

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (780/? eps)

Case Closed. Where to start

I'm starting by saying that I haven't finished it yet, and I'm mainly watching the episodes that carry on the plot of the Black Organization. I haven't finished the story yet, but in case I decide to change my mind I will edit the review later.

So:
The story is very slow based on the clues that are given to the viewer, as if the purpose of the show for the author was not to carry on the story of the BO but to shoot as many detective cases as possible to be shown on TV. This is probably the case, but we ... get over it.

To make people understand the slowness that I mean now I find myself around episode 900 and more or less what the protagonists know about the BO is the same as they knew in the first episodes.
It must be said that he knows how to put curiosity, the characters are mysterious and they want to be discovered willingly.

Another problem is the main characters .. practically they are nothing more than a side dish for Conan who is the absolute GOAT of the show. He does everything, only him. Any problem, any difficulty, anything is solved by the protagonist. An absolute deus ex machina. I'd like some other secondary characters to appear and maybe show the protagonist that he actually exists.
On the show, they say Conan's father is smarter than Conan himself, but the father is practically never around. He would solve everything in 5 minutes but he is not there, the Captain Marvel of Case Closed practically.

The cases are great fun and seen with friends they are very entertaining. Maybe after a while you can figure out the pattern but it's still fun.

Sometimes I get angry because the members of the BO, when they are about to be captured, seem to be made of water. They slip and manage to liquidate themselves from the crime scene before even the FBI can only catch a glimpse of them. In my opinion, here is a bit of a suspension of disbelief in true Conan style that takes the serial killers with a ball to capture them. But this, if the show is seen in a group, makes even more laugh so that's great.

The reason for the existence of the BO has not yet been discovered, I have some suspicions for now but still nothing. In my opinion this is a problem because as a spectator I don't know who we are fighting against.
edit. After 900 episodes this is becoming one of the main problems

It would be nice if the protagonists also used a little more force and maybe shot or capture more important members of the BO to find out details and motivations.


The drawing style is very beautiful and original. The animations are not the best but watchable.

The OSTs are not bad but they are few for a story that goes on for so long (the times in which the main theme is repeated in different sauces are many)

I will update the review in the future, for now I remain of this idea particularly neutral and a bit irritated haha.

-goro stop being a comic relif and save everyone's ass I know you're a genius-


Case Closed. (xD)

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 21, 2021

MeanEYE

Not Recommended

Funny

Preliminary (100/? eps)

This show is "Groundhog day" animated. Every episode has the exact same structure, slightly different plot line and absolutely the same conclusion every single time. How people can claim it's funny or enjoyable is beyond me but I guess humor is an individual thing...

What is not subjective is logic and this series is completely absent of it. After few million episodes one would think character would change, learn from his past cases, grow at least a centimeter or two. But no, he stays the same, with same old characters still being surprised at same things that happened past 65 times. At this point Conan should ... be closing in on retirement age or he's found cure for mortality or he's solving another murder case every 30 minutes. Not sure what is less believable.

I did watch some 100 or so episodes but I can't remember how much because pretty much all of them are the same. Uneventful murder cases with same outcomes and same development. Why did I watch so many, I don't know but lets attribute it to a delicate cocktail of masochism and nothing better to watch over dry periods.

Should you watch it... perhaps if you have nothing better to do with your life, no lawn to mow, toilets to clean, knit a sweater or anything else more productive. Also it is said there's humor in there somewhere but I haven't ran into one over 100 episodes. Rating it currently has is nowhere near representative. I'd give it 5 at best if am drunk enough.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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