Ghastly beheadings, bloody murders, and cold-hearted child abduction casesQprecocious high school student Shin'ichi 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, Shin'ichi 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 that did this to him.
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Gosho Aoyama, made his debut in 1992 with Chotto Matte (Wait a minute) which won Shogakukan's prestigious Shinjin Comic Taisho (Newcomer's Award for Comics) and launched his career as a critically acclaimed, top-selling manga artist. In addition to Detective Conan, which won the Shogakukan Award for best Manga in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga, Yaiba, which won Shogakukan's Award for Manga in 1992
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
A Kid's Review
Format:Paperback
Of course there is a lot of comedy and a lot of romance and back story but the part that I find really interesting are the cases. This is about 16/17 year old Jimmy Kudo one of the greatest detectives you can think of. You can not beleive the cases he can solve! After witnessing a crime these men in black give him a poison that should kill him but it shrinks his body into that of a 6 year old. Until he can find the men in black that shrunk him, he (taking on the alias of "Conan" since if the men find out his real idenity they will kill him and the ones around him,) solves these ridiculusly hard cases. If Sherlock Holmes was alive he would struggle to solve them! Conan is put under the care of Jimmy's wannabe girlfriend and her 'stupid', 'not perceptive' detective father and Conan/Jimmy solves the cases for him. In the first volume the cases he solves are hard but relativly simple, but later on they have these cases that even if the pulprit walked around with a sign saying he did it, you couldn't sove them. One word, Amazing!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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What happens when you mix a pre-school body with a high schooler's mind? A really weird person (really close), nope! A super ace detective who has to hide his talents because he's staying at his best friend from High School's house? Yes.
When High School detective and prodigy, Jimmy Kudo involves himself too far into a mystery of two men wearing black, he ends up being turned into a tiny preschooler with a high schooler's mind. To cover up his flaw and to keep his friends safe, Jimmy must pretend to be the preschooler he turned into and stay at his best friend, Rachel's house under the name "Conan Edogawa".
Throughout the series, the hilarity of Jimmy's failed attempts to conceal his high school self rise as do Rachel's suspicions about Conan's (Jimmy's) similarities to Jimmy. In addition to that problem, Jimmy can't keep his head out of a mystery even as a little kid, bringing him into deeper trouble with Rachel's father, Detective Richard Moore.
The bloody assasinations, stabbings, head chopping, impaling, poisoning, dismemberment, drownings, and more show up to block Jimmy's way to finding the cure that will return him to normal, in the meantime, Conan (Jimmy) has to keep Rachel from worrying about his other self, and keep her from knowing the truth of how he became small.
This is an excellent series for all manga fans or mystery fans, it's funny, suspenseful, (and gory for anyone with action issues. I highly reccomend anyone to read this book and the rest of the series if they want action, jokes, mystery, a little bit of love and wit.
The Best Mystery Manga ever!
When High School detective and prodigy, Jimmy Kudo involves himself too far into a mystery of two men wearing black, he ends up being turned into a tiny preschooler with a high schooler's mind. To cover up his flaw and to keep his friends safe, Jimmy must pretend to be the preschooler he turned into and stay at his best friend, Rachel's house under the name "Conan Edogawa".
Throughout the series, the hilarity of Jimmy's failed attempts to conceal his high school self rise as do Rachel's suspicions about Conan's (Jimmy's) similarities to Jimmy. In addition to that problem, Jimmy can't keep his head out of a mystery even as a little kid, bringing him into deeper trouble with Rachel's father, Detective Richard Moore.
The bloody assasinations, stabbings, head chopping, impaling, poisoning, dismemberment, drownings, and more show up to block Jimmy's way to finding the cure that will return him to normal, in the meantime, Conan (Jimmy) has to keep Rachel from worrying about his other self, and keep her from knowing the truth of how he became small.
This is an excellent series for all manga fans or mystery fans, it's funny, suspenseful, (and gory for anyone with action issues. I highly reccomend anyone to read this book and the rest of the series if they want action, jokes, mystery, a little bit of love and wit.
The Best Mystery Manga ever!
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By Kellie
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Jimmy Kudo, a 2nd year high school student, is best known for his deductive skill, enough so, he's even called the best detective in all of East Japan.
After Rachel, Jimmy's childhood friend and daughter of the retired Detective Richard Moore, scores well in the Karate Tournament, he takes her to Tropical Land to celebrate, unbeknownst of the trouble that awaits.
After solving a case, with no toruble whatsoever, Jimmy tails a couple of suspicious men in black. He watches over an illegal transaction and is soon knocked out and slipped a secret poison, which turns him small. Jimmy creates the alias "Conan Edogawa" and stays with Rachel and Richard, in hopes of finding information on the drug and men that shrunk him.
Will Conan turn back to his original form? Do Rachel and Richard know about this change? How will he go about solving cases as a 1st grader? Who exactly were these men in black and why do they have a drug with the ability to shrink one's body? All this and more answered in the mystery novel, Case Closed.
After Rachel, Jimmy's childhood friend and daughter of the retired Detective Richard Moore, scores well in the Karate Tournament, he takes her to Tropical Land to celebrate, unbeknownst of the trouble that awaits.
After solving a case, with no toruble whatsoever, Jimmy tails a couple of suspicious men in black. He watches over an illegal transaction and is soon knocked out and slipped a secret poison, which turns him small. Jimmy creates the alias "Conan Edogawa" and stays with Rachel and Richard, in hopes of finding information on the drug and men that shrunk him.
Will Conan turn back to his original form? Do Rachel and Richard know about this change? How will he go about solving cases as a 1st grader? Who exactly were these men in black and why do they have a drug with the ability to shrink one's body? All this and more answered in the mystery novel, Case Closed.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Wow
This is a good manga I rented for free. There are a lot of surprises. It is a very long series though.
Published 1 month ago by H. Kang
5.0 out of 5 stars
Volume 1
No problems with this besides the fact that some of the pages had been dog eared. It shipped really, really fast, like within a week so even that wasn't a problem.
Published 3 months ago by Samantha
5.0 out of 5 stars
LOVE this book!!
I have had this book since I was a 12 year old in the year 2004 and I absolutely love it! I love the plot of a highschool detective turning into a kid and having to go around... Read more
Published 19 months ago by K. Martin
1.0 out of 5 stars
Great, but butchered.
The series itself is great, interesting (if maybe a bit repetitive) plot, lovable characters, and a gets-you-thinking edge in it on par with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself. Read more
Published 19 months ago by TRMshadow
5.0 out of 5 stars
Case Closed
Very fun! I gave this as a gift to my husband (we're currently renting the series from Netflix) and he said that the manga was fantastic (and of course, now he wants to read the... Read more
Published on February 5, 2010 by E. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars
Case Closed Volume One!
This book is GREAT! It is about a high schooler who solves mysteries. One day when he takes a friend to the amusement park, he solves a crime there. Read more
Published on January 29, 2010 by Carol M. Wallace
3.0 out of 5 stars
Tiny teen Sherlock
It's a rough life being a teenage detective genius -- crimes happen everywhere, and strange people may shrink you into a small child. Read more
Published on October 3, 2009 by E. A Solinas
4.0 out of 5 stars
How Jimmy became Conan.
Gosho Aoyama, Case Closed vol. 1 (ViZ, 1994)
Back before I switched cable companies, I got a station called ColoursTV of which I was greatly enamoured. Read more
Back before I switched cable companies, I got a station called ColoursTV of which I was greatly enamoured. Read more
Published on January 3, 2008 by Robert P. Beveridge
4.0 out of 5 stars
SHRUNK TO A SIX YEAR OLD
Jimmy Kudo tries his best to be like his idol Sherlock Holmes by helping the authorities solve baffling crimes even though he's just a junior at Teitan High School. Read more
Published on September 30, 2006 by Sesho
5.0 out of 5 stars
Case Closed is the best book in the world !!!!!!
Elias Hernandez 3/9/06
102 English
Case Closed
Case Closed, by Gosho Aoyama, is the book in the magna series. Read more
102 English
Case Closed
Case Closed, by Gosho Aoyama, is the book in the magna series. Read more
Published on March 13, 2006 by Elias
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