"Meitantei Conan" (1996) TV series 1996-????

User Rating:

8.5/10   

Creator:

Gôshô Aoyama

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26

Release Date:

24 May 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

One truth prevails

Plot:

Detective Shinichi Kudo (AKA Detective Conan Edogawa) isn't the man he used to be. He's the boy he used to be!

Plot Keywords:

Detective | Criminal Investigation | Tokyo | High School Student | Transformation

Cast

Minami Takayama	...	Conan Edogawa / ... (339 episodes, 1996-2006)
Wakana Yamazaki	...	Ran Mori / ... (274 episodes, 1996-2006)
Akira Kamiya	...	Kogoro Mori / ... (236 episodes, 1996-2006)
Wataru Takagi	...	Detective Wataru Takagi / ... (197 episodes, 1996-2006)
Fûrin Cha	...	Inspector Juzo Megure / ... (163 episodes, 1996-2006)

Also Known As:

"Case Closed" (USA) (short title)
"Case Closed: One Truth Prevails" (USA) (DVD box title)
"Detective Conan" (International: English title)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese | English | German | Spanish | Italian | French | Arabic | Tagalog

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | Stereo

Certification:

Germany:12 (some epiosodes) | Germany:6 (some epiosodes) | Germany:o.Al. (some episodes) | USA:TV-PG (heavily cut) | Canada:14+ (TV rating) | South Korea:All (cut) | Argentina:13

Company:

FUNimation Entertainment

Trivia:

This anime was originally going to be dubbed in English as part of the original Fox Kids line up, but it wasn't due to the majority of the series containing homicides.

Quotes:

Richard Moore: [while sleeping on couch] No, sir, Archer, I swear I gave my math homework to the pink monkey in the golf cart. He said he was the new gym teacher...

Movie Connections:

Followed by Meitantei Conan: Senritsu no furu sukoa (2008)

Makes the Scooby Doo Gang look like the meddling kids they are.

Broadcasting in he U.S. as Case Closed, Detective Conan is an interesting mystery/comedy/thriller that looks like a kiddie show but definitely ia much more to the series. Plot: a teenage detective protoge is turned into a kid by a weird poison and must help solve cases for his girlfriend's bumbling father under a alias until he can find the people who did this to him and recover an antidote. The premise, like I said, sounds kiddie but as the series rolls on things start to get messy and at times, a bit disturbing, but the cases are so ingenously planned out and executed you can't help but watch just to see how Jimmy/Conan will get the jobs done with such a small guise working against him. The animation is pretty good, bright and colorful though dated (eight years old now) but has its own style of anime. The dub isn't bad either, once again Funimation ,the folks doing the recording down here, have hired some excellent voice talent that matches each characters personalty very well though some tend to overact (the junior agency for example). Overall a great series that blends comedy and mystery very well. The only gripe being its very long (over 100 episodes) but still fun to watch. Give it a watch if you need a break from all the action animes or just a fan of Japanese cartoons in general. As Jimmy/Conan always say: "With a keen eye for detail, one truth prevails."