Gosho Aoyama

Ghastly beheadings, bloody murders, and coldhearted child abductions--Precocious high school student Jimmy Kudo uses his keen powers of observation and astute intuition to solve mysteries that have left law enforcement officials baffled. Hot on the trail of a suspect, Jimmy is accosted from behind and fed a strange chemical which physically transforms him into a grade schooler! Taking on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa, he attempts to track down the people who did this to him. But until he finds a cure for his bizarre condition, Jimmy continues to help the police solve their toughest cases.Can you crack the case before Conan does?

Case Closed

Can Detective Conan crack the case…while trapped in a kid’s body? Jimmy Kudo, the son of a world-renowned mystery writer, is a high school detective who has cracked the most baffling of cases. One day while on a date with his childhood friend Rachel Moore, Jimmy observes a pair of men in black involved in some shady business. The men capture Jimmy and give him a poisonous substance to rub out their witness. But instead of killing him, it turns him into a little kid! Jimmy takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the difficult cases that come his way. All the while, he's looking for the men in black and the mysterious organization they're with in order to find a cure for his miniature malady. Jimmy, Rachel and Richard take a vacation aboard a cruise ship, but little do they know that the patriarch of the wealthy Hatamoto family is about to be murdered. With the perpetrator still aboard ship can you figure out whodunit before Conan does!?

Case Closed, Vol. 3

4 of 5 stars

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Chapters 020-029
Favorite Case: Hatamoto Family Case

Having a lot of false evidences lead you conveniently to a suspect from the very start, chances are that suspect isn't the real culprit. And that was what happened in this case. It was actually a smooth move to have Ichiro as the culprit. I know that a lot of times, the ones who seem unlikely to do the crime ended up being the culprit. Yes, he has his own motive, but it appeared not strong enough to kill his grandfather. And since money was a real deal in the family, you would think that money was linked to the real motive. But just like what Conan had said, he indeed dug his own grave with his last move. He thought that by stabbing himself, it would make him less suspicious and more a victim, but it was what made him more rooted as the culprit. But if it weren't because of Conan's deductions, I can never link all the three incidents with each other to know who did it. 

In The Monthly Presents Case, I remember how suspicious Ran was about Conan's identity. It was just a really small case. I think it was made like that just to remind us that Conan was actually Shinichi and we should never forget about it. Sometimes that reminder would surfaced whenever the Black Organization was mentioned but a lot of times it was not. I mean, all the time it was about Conan solving the cases and as a great amount of time passed by, we were getting too familiar with the image of the child doing all the work that we seemed to forgot that he was actually in the middle of his own case as well. That he was actually a teenager stuck in a child's body. It was just great to see that there's at least one person that was able to see even just a small shadow of the truth about Conan's identity.

Can Detective Conan crack the case…while trapped in a kid’s body? Jimmy Kudo, the son of a world-renowned mystery writer, is a high school detective who has cracked the most baffling of cases. One day while on a date with his childhood friend Rachel Moore, Jimmy observes a pair of men in black involved in some shady business. The men capture Jimmy and give him a poisonous substance to rub out their witness. But instead of killing him, it turns him into a little kid! Jimmy takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the difficult cases that come his way. All the while, he's looking for the men in black and the mysterious organization they're with in order to find a cure for his miniature malady. Bloody murder is committed at a museum, reproducing a scene from a gruesome painting. Later, the men in black are back! Will Conan be able to come any closer to getting his old body back? Also, Conan's friends from grade school find a treasure map--but will it only lead them to a trove of trouble?

Case Closed, Vol. 4

3.5 of 5 stars

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Chapters 020-029
Favorite Case: Museum Owner Murder Case

**Warning: I loved noticing some differences between the anime and manga. I know changes were inevitable with anime adaptations, but I just want to mention it. Those mentions would probably appear in most, if not all, of my Detective Conan reviews**

Museum Owner Murder Case was one of the few cases where Kogoro wasn't in his usual 'Sleeping Kogoro' state when solving the case, though it was still Conan who's leading him to the truth by dropping innocent clues. Among the three cases, this is what I liked the most since it was one of the 'framing other suspect' case where Conan should prove that the number one current suspect was not really the culprit. It was obvious how inconvenient it was to solve crimes in his child state but I always find it so cute to see how he sometimes used that opportunity in his advantage to solve the cases. 

The Bullet-Train Bombing case involved the Black Organization. Again, Conan used the advantage of being a child to find who's holding the briefcase with a bomb inside. But that also held him back from saving the whole train from exploding since no one believed a child. But because of his quick-thinking, he was still able to dispose the bomb before it exploded. **The case was consisted of a few changes compared to the anime episode. In the anime, Gin and Vodka weren't really the men in black in the episode. They were just some random men in black clothes that Conan thought were with the Black Organization. As I also remember, Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko were also in the anime episode, but in manga, they didn't appear. But the case itself, it was the same.**

The Code Sheet Case with the Detective Boys was kind of a child-friendly case that fits perfectly for them. Though it still involved dangerous thieves, it was not as 'bloody' as the other cases. Here, Conan used a lot of his brain cells just to crack the secret code leading to the 'treasure'. Even he took a few trial and error to find it. And I loved his reaction when he finally solved it. That laugh uggh! **There was also a scene where I remember that wasn't in the anime episode of this but I have seen in one of the Detective Conan movie. That was the cola scene between Ran and Shinichi. I remember it because I just finished watching the Captured in Her Eyes movie where the scene appeared, but in the different location and situation.**

4 of 5 stars

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Chapters 010-019
Favorite Case: Mysterious Shadow Case

If I were to choose my most favorite among the three cases in this volume, it has to be the Mysterious Shadow Case. Having to crack the criminal's perfect alibi will always be one of the most fun cases in Detective Conan. As as reader, you knew who the criminal was from the beginning and the only problem was to break his perfect alibi. Because not all of us are as keen as Conan, we tend to overlooked the most obvious clue. In the anime episode of this case, it was kind of like a dead end to think that the criminal has an irrefutable alibi. But that alibi was not exactly the problem. It was actually the only truth in the case. The problem was about the trick used by the criminal to make everyone believe the false time of death was the actual time of death. It was good!

Though among the cases in this volume, I also liked the 1 Billion Robbery Case because it involved the Black Organization and for me, cases involving the Black Organization in the anime were always be the intense one. I was just kind of confused because in the anime, I remember having two cases with the same 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case. Both episodes have the same female culprit named Miyano Akemi having to used the fake name Hirota Masami. Other than having a robbery case and exactly the same character name, it was a totally different case. But only one of the two episodes included the Black Organization. As I now read the case in the manga, the case was like the combination of the two episodes. I don't know if it just got overlooked in the anime or if it was intentional, though. 

In this volume was also the first appearance of the cute little kids Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko. Overall, this was fun!

Ghastly beheadings, bloody murders, and coldhearted child abductions-- Precocious high school student Jimmy Kudo uses his keen powers of observation and astute intuition to solve mysteries that have left law enforcement officials baffled. Hot on the trail of a suspect, Jimmy is accosted from behind and fed a strange chemical which physically transforms him into a grade schooler! Taking on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa, he attempts to track down the people who did this to him. But until he finds a cure for his bizarre condition, Jimmy continues to help the police solve their toughest cases. Can you crack the case before Conan does? -- VIZ Media

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The Magical Suicide When a master magician commits suicide his wife suspects foul play and pays a visit to private detective Richard Moore's office. The culprit is one of the dead magician's three assistants. Can Conan find out which one of them had something deadly up their sleeve? Plus, Rachel takes Conan's glasses off while he is sleeping and discovers Conan looks just like a young Jimmy Kudo! Is Jimmy's cover blown? Or can he find a way to pull the wool over her eyes yet again?

The Magical Suicide

Case Closed, Vol. 14

High-school mystery fan Shin'ichi Kudo is actually one of his high school's best minds, but he gets his reality checks from his childhood friend and almost-girlfriend Ran Mori. Nothing can keep Shin'ichi from a case, until he follows a suspicious man into a park, is accosted from behind and fed a strange chemical which renders him unconscious. When he awakens, he has been transformed into a puny grade schooler! The hapless boy finds a home with eccentric inventor Professor Agasa, who searches for a cure for his condition. While he's waiting to be restored to his adolescence, Shin'ichi takes on the name Conan Edogawa (borrowed from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the last name of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Ranpo). As Conan, he plays the part of the little brother that Ran never had, and helps her incompetent private-detective father solve all of the gruesome murder mysteries that come their way.

Surely the Junior Detective League can't get into any trouble at an afternoon monster movie. But when a man in the audience dies, Conan and Anita realize that the real monster isn't the big green behemoth on the screen. Then Rachel gets her own movie moment, playing Rose--minus Jack--at the prow of a glittering ocean liner. When a suspicious explosion kills the romance, it's time for Conan and teen detective Harley Hartwell to make sure that the passengers' hearts will go on!

Can Detective Conan crack the case…while trapped in a kid’s body? Jimmy Kudo, the son of a world-renowned mystery writer, is a high school detective who has cracked the most baffling of cases. One day while on a date with his childhood friend Rachel Moore, Jimmy observes a pair of men in black involved in some shady business. The men capture Jimmy and give him a poisonous substance to rub out their witness. But instead of killing him, it turns him into a little kid! Jimmy takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the difficult cases that come his way. All the while, he's looking for the men in black and the mysterious organization they're with in order to find a cure for his miniature malady. During a school field trip, Conan and Rachel end up in a mountain cabin with several members of the teaching staff. Conan gets quite a surprise when he answers the doorbell and a frozen teacher's corpse falls into the house! To add to the mystery, a strange letter is written on the teacher's hand, which sends another of the educators running to his room. Shortly after, he's found dead too! Can Conan put his brainpower to work and solve the mystery before the students run out of teachers?

Case Closed, Vol. 15

Can Detective Conan crack the case…while trapped in a kid’s body? Jimmy Kudo, the son of a world-renowned mystery writer, is a high school detective who has cracked the most baffling of cases. One day while on a date with his childhood friend Rachel Moore, Jimmy observes a pair of men in black involved in some shady business. The men capture Jimmy and give him a poisonous substance to rub out their witness. But instead of killing him, it turns him into a little kid! Jimmy takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the difficult cases that come his way. All the while, he's looking for the men in black and the mysterious organization they're with in order to find a cure for his miniature malady. A diplomat is found dead in his study and Conan's on the case. But what exactly happened? The elder statesman was definitely murdered, but the door and windows to his private chamber were all locked from the inside. How in the world did the killer escape? And, as if that wasn't bad enough, Conan and his pals get swept up in a missing person caper at the local library. Murder, kidnapping and drug smuggling aren't exactly the sorts of things condoned by librarians. What's the connection? Conan thinks he knows the answer but he's got more pressing things to worry about--like escaping the deadly grasp of the fiendish miscreant!

Case Closed, Vol. 10

Can Detective Conan crack the case…while trapped in a kid’s body? Jimmy Kudo, the son of a world-renowned mystery writer, is a high school detective who has cracked the most baffling of cases. One day while on a date with his childhood friend Rachel Moore, Jimmy observes a pair of men in black involved in some shady business. The men capture Jimmy and give him a poisonous substance to rub out their witness. But instead of killing him, it turns him into a little kid! Jimmy takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the difficult cases that come his way. All the while, he's looking for the men in black and the mysterious organization they're with in order to find a cure for his miniature malady. It's summer! Conan and Rachel are invited to Serena's family beach house. Serena's sister has a fiancé with a family beach house next door, who plans to introduce his bride-to-be to his father and brothers that weekend. But plans go awry when Conan witnesses the fiancé killing his father! To add to the confusion, it turns out the suspected murderer is one of three identical triplets! Can Conan figure out who the real murderer is? Is this marriage over before it even begins?

Case Closed

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