Meitantei Conan
Case Closed

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The first time I read this series was when I happened to pick up a copy at the library. At first, didn't really think much of it, but eventually it's grown on me.

Story: most of the cases they present are really entertaining, and often suspenseful. I find myself anticipating what will happen and I enjoy the suspense; I think that's what pulls you to the story. However, having read so many chapters now, with almost one case every 2-3 chapters, you start to find some ideas being repetitive. Overall though, it's still good.

Art: not much to say for art. It's ... a little different to the typical drawings of manga, but that doesn't make it bad. The more you read, the less you'll mind the drawings.

Characters: repetitive use of characters can be good or bad. Good thing is you familiarize yourself with them, bad thing is it does at time get boring. However, I like the cast of conan, it fits with the story pretty well, so, in this case I don't mind repetition :)

Enjoyment: same as for the story. At first it's very thrilling but I find it's slightly repetitive now, so it's not as good as when I first read it. But the cases itself are really cool, you learn a lot of new things. Sure, not all the things are probably accurate, but they are cool nontheless.

Overall: I think the only two aspects that kind of pulls it down the score are story and characters. But overall, it's worth a read if you're into crime solving stories. There's also slight comic relief in this manga which contrasts nicely to the seriousness of the cases.

Me having no life I been able to read almost 500 chapters of case closed. I
must say this series about as old as me is a good series. What first grabed my attention in this book was the way the crimes were pulled off and I stayed hooked.

After abot 75 chapters or so I started to feel the series was repetitive with some ideas over used. But once you want to stop reading it, it beings you back in from random cases to plot effecting the characters whitch make me want to keep reading.

POSSABLE SPOILER it seems so far everyone has some ... kind of love intrest END SPOILER

to conclude you will love this series if you treat most cases as the "plot" and not a filler.
If you have patience and get into the characters you will enjoy as much as me.

Right let start at the beginning, this is my first review "EVER".

Now onto the review,

When I got to this manga I expected there to be some stories that I would not enjoy and some stories that I would enjoy.

This manga's story regarding the BO is brilliant everything surrounding them is well planned and executed however the other stories regarding investigations after a while got so boring that I wanted to quit multiple time over because they were basically the same with different characters which made the reading more of a chore instead of enjoyment.

Story;
For me the actual cannon material that I mentioned above "The Black ... Organisation" is the most amazing stuff you can find anywhere, it grips you and doesn't let go until the end. However the filler arcs are my problem at first I thought like this wow its pretty okay, after 200 or chapters of filler I wanted to k*ll myself but instead of doing so I took a break for a few weeks and continued onwards until the point where I had to take a break again because it was so boring.

Characters;
Throughout the story we meets thousands of different characters however they are mostly minor and almost never reappear again, with them I have no problems whatsoever because I know that there is no need to develop minor characters that will disappear in a few chapters. My main problems are with Ran, Mouri, Kazuha, some police detectives. Starting off with Ran she witnessed hundreds of cases but still believes there are ghosts when people say so = where is the logic in that???, next Mouri over the 924 I have not seen any character development whatsoever which is to say that he was retarder and will continue being retarded, Kazuha with her I don't have much of a problem because she is a minor character that appear rarely but she is basically like Ran but practises a different Martial Art. And Lastlty detectives in this story are even more stupid than or are on the same level as Mouri for example; A kid says something relevant to the case, what do the detective do? scream at them for interfering. Great Huh?

Art;
To be honest I don't have anything about the art it is pretty decent.

Enjoyment;
Overall my enjoyment of the series has been killed by the continuous filler arcs which ruin the entire series. The ONLY time I was enjoying myself was when the story revolved around THE BLACK ORGANISATION.

Thanks for reading "if you finished anyway"