rdfs:comment | - Detective Conan, released as Case Closed in English, is a very long-running anime and manga series. Seriously, with over 600 episodes, it's currently at 11th place in terms of total number of anime episodes, and having just surpassed 800 issues, it's in 25th place in terms of manga volumes. Shinichi Kudo (Jimmy Kudo in the US) is one of the world's foremost detectives. And he's only in high school. His sharp analytical mind allows him to connect points faster than just about anyone else. The local law enforcement agencies frequently ask him for help.
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abstract | - Detective Conan, released as Case Closed in English, is a very long-running anime and manga series. Seriously, with over 600 episodes, it's currently at 11th place in terms of total number of anime episodes, and having just surpassed 800 issues, it's in 25th place in terms of manga volumes. Shinichi Kudo (Jimmy Kudo in the US) is one of the world's foremost detectives. And he's only in high school. His sharp analytical mind allows him to connect points faster than just about anyone else. The local law enforcement agencies frequently ask him for help. One day, while with his childhood friend Ran Mouri (Rachel Moore in the US) he witnesses a crime committed by two men in black. They see him, knock him out, and give him a pill that is supposed to kill him and not show up in the autopsy. There's about a one in a million chance that the pill will instead de-age him, and that's what it does. Now, as six-year-old Conan Edogawa (a combination of the names Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ranpo Edogawa, two famous mystery writers), he has to find and apprehend the men that shrunk him while keeping his friends in the dark, lest the men in black kill them all for knowing too much. The fact that he witnesses (and subsequently solves) about three murders a week in the process doesn't seem to slow him down. The North American dub is titled Case Closed. Some believe Conan Properties International demanded this under the impression that the only Conan in existence is Conan the Barbarian (Conan O'Brien ended up paying them to use his current show's title). Others think a distributor demanded a unique trademark.
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