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'inchi 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.
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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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The best way to be invisible is to be small,
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This review is from: Case Closed, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
Gosho Aoyama, Case Closed, vol. 2 (ViZ, 1997)
Jimmy Kuda is back as pint-sized crime-fighter Conan Edogawa in this second installment in the Case Closed series. This is a setup volume, really; we know what Conan's all about here, and he spends his time making other people look good while actually solving crimes-- but Aoyama is establishing little bits of Conan's character while advancing the major plotline of Jimmy getting back to his old self. I really like this series so far, and hope Aoyama keeps it as fun, and as surprisingly subtle, as it is. *** ½
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CANCELLING AN UNFAIR HEIGHT ADVANTAGE,
By Sesho "www.sesho.libsyn.com" (Pasadena, TX USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Case Closed, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
Conan Edogawa's short frame really doesn't allow him to get close up and personal with the criminals he tracks down, so he's asked his mad scientist neighbor, Doctor Agasa, who serves as an equivalent to James Bond's "Q", to come up with some devices to compensate. Now, in addition to his voice modulating bowtie, he has added super sneakers, which give him powerful kicking power, and stretchy suspenders made of incredibly strong material that can be used to tie up suspects. Because Jimmy Kudo now has the body of a six year-old, Agasa convinces him to enroll in elementary school, much to his dismay. In this volume, Conan lends a hand to Richard Moore as a man he was hired to tail ends up dead in a school bonfire celebration. Then Conan and crew help a young high school student find her missing father, a father who quickly is found hanging from the rafters of his apartment! In the final story, things get a little scarier as Conan and some of his elementary schoolmates investigate a haunted house.
While some of devices Conan is equipped with this volume seem a little goofy, once you think about it, they're no more kooky than some of the gadgets Bond has fiddled with since Goldfinger. A drawback to Gosho Aoyama's writing is that the cases Conan gets involved with are pretty easy to figure out without much effort. But to Gosho's credit, he does make it interesting with slight plot twists and characterization. It's just nothing above average. The story I enjoyed most here was the one where the kids go into the haunted house. It's just funny to see Conan interact with them. Also, Rachel really surprised me with her strength, impressing me when she went through a car windshield with a flying kick to nab a suspicious man. Aoyama has got some good characters here, it's just that the mystery elements are nothing to write home about.
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