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Case Closed, also known as Detective Conan ( Meitantei Konan?) in Japan and other countries, is a detective manga and anime series by Gosho Aoyama which has been published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine since 1994.

The series depicts the cases of a young private detective who was inadvertently turned into a prepubescent boy by a certain criminal organization. Although his body has been shrunk, he continues to solve many cases and is struggling to solve the mysteries of the criminal organization responsible in order to return to his normal body.

VIZ Media publishes Detective Conan manga in English as Case Closed for American audiences. The comic uses the original right-to-left format and the English anime names for the main characters while it uses the original Japanese names for the minor characters.

The anime version is produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and has currently aired 475 television episodes (as of June 18, 2007) and eleven movies in Japan, and is still running on Japanese television today. It airs Mondays at 7:30 p.m. on Nippon TV, and is also broadcast in Japan by the anime CS network, Animax, who have also aired the series across its networks in Southeast Asia and East Asia (including its English language network in Southeast Asia, where its English adaptation stayed true to the original, retaining the original name Detective Conan, as well as each of the characters' original Japanese names and dialogue)[1]. In July 2003, FUNimation announced that they licensed Detective Conan for a release in North America, to be released as "Case Closed" due to legal issues concerning the name Conan (Conan the Barbarian, although Conan can be considered a regular name as in Conan O'Brien). In the United Kingdom VIZ's releases are published by Gollancz Manga with the same naming conventions.

The tenth movie, Private Eyes' Requiem[2] was announced on December 15, 2005 and was released on April 15, 2006, debuting at the number one position in the Japanese box office[3] and remained there for three consecutive weeks. As of May 28, 2006, it has earned $25.8 million in the Japanese box office.[4]

The latest in the series of its franchise is a live-action TV drama, which premiered in Japan on Nippon Television on October 2, 2006. It served as a prequel of the current storyline, starring Shun Oguri as Shin'ichi Kudo (Jimmy Kudo), Tomoka Kurokawa as Ran Mori (Rachel Moore), and Takanori Jinnai as Kogoro Mori (Richard Moore).

Detail 

Demographic Shōnen
Genre Mystery, Romance, Manga
Authored by Gosho Aoyama
Publisher Shogakukan,  VIZ Media, Gollancz Manga

Show and Other publishers

•  EMA
  
•  Kana
  
•  Planeta DeAgostini
  
•  Star Comics
  
•  Egmont Kärnan
  
•  Egmont
  
•  Elex Media Komputindo
  
•  Edko Publishing
  
•  Daiwon
  
•  Tora Aman
  
•  Vibulkij Comics
  
•  NXB Kim Dồng

Changchun Publishing House

•  Serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday,  Weekly Comic,  Neoz
  Original run 1994
  No. of volumes 57 (currently) (611 chapters)

TV anime

• Directed by Kenji Kodama, Yasuichiro Yamamoto
  
• Studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha (TMS), Network  NTV, Yomiuri TV, Animax,  YTV
  
• FUNimation Channel, Adult Swim (Previously), GMA7
  

Show and Other networks

•  Cartoon Network
  
•  GMA7
  
•  RTL II
  
•  Italia 1
  
•  Tooniverse
  
•  CTS
  
•  TV Azteca
  
•  Etc...TV, Chilevisión
  
•  Cartoon Network
  
•  Dubai TV
  
•  TV3
  
•  Modernine TV, TRUE Spark (TRUE Visions Cable TV)

 Animax, TVB

• Original run 8 January 1996
  
• No. of episodes 478 (currently), 83 (US dubbed)
  
• TV drama : Kudō Shin'ichi he no Chōsenjō Sayonara Made no Joshō (prologue)
  
• Directed by Toshizaku Tanaka
  
• Network  NTV, Yomiuri TV
  
• Original run 2 October 2006 – 2 October 2006 
  
• No. of episodes 1