Detective Conan (1994)
Detective Conan is a 1994 comedy drama anime and manga title by Gosho Aoyama.
High school detective Shinichi Kudo has a Sherlock Holmes mind and a knack for solving cases the police cannot. Then a shadowy syndicate forces an experimental poison on him and, instead of killing him, it shrinks his body back to grade-school size. Hiding his identity as young Conan Edogawa, he moves in near his childhood friend Ran and quietly feeds solutions to her bumbling detective father while hunting the men who did this to him. Gosho Aoyama has run this blend of locked-room puzzles, gadgets, and slow-burn conspiracy in Weekly Shonen Sunday since 1994.
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What is Detective Conan about?
High school detective Shinichi Kudo has a Sherlock Holmes mind and a knack for solving cases the police cannot. Then a shadowy syndicate forces an experimental poison on him and, instead of killing him, it shrinks his body back to grade-school size. Hiding his identity as young Conan Edogawa, he moves in near his childhood friend Ran and quietly feeds solutions to her bumbling detective father while hunting the men who did this to him. Gosho Aoyama has run this blend of locked-room puzzles, gadgets, and slow-burn conspiracy in Weekly Shonen Sunday since 1994.
When was Detective Conan released?
Detective Conan was released in 1994.
Who made Detective Conan?
Detective Conan is by Gosho Aoyama.
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A few thoughts on Detective Conan
Fans of the fair-play whodunit should try Agatha Christie's Crooked House, a tight family-mansion mystery with a genuinely surprising solution. Life Is Strange scratches the same investigative itch, piecing together a small-town disappearance clue by clue. For the jazzy, melancholy side of anime storytelling, the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack sets a noir mood that suits a lone detective.
Follow Conan from the page onto the screen
Detective Conan has run in Weekly Shonen Sunday since 1994, and its cases spilled long ago into film and television. These entries carry Shinichi's shrunken sleuth through feature mysteries, a Lupin crossover, and the ongoing anime, all built on the same locked-room puzzles and slow-burn syndicate hunt.
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