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Based on the manga by Gosho Aoyama, Meitantei Conan (Famous Detective Conan, a play off the original title of Hayao Miyazaki's Sherlock Hound) ran for 12 seasons on Japanese TV and won fans around the world. At 17, Jimmy Kudo is an ace detective; but when he stumbles onto a blackmail payoff, two men in black give him a pill that turns him into a little boy. To hide his identity, he takes the name of Conan Edogawa--from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Japanese mystery writer Ranpo Edogawa. As Conan, he's taken in by his former girlfriend, Rachel Moore, and her hair-brained detective father. Trapped in a puny body, Conan solves crimes (sometimes aided by the Junior Detective League), hoping to find the men in black and obtain an antidote. Viewers can try to outguess the hero of this rollicking comedy-adventure using the "Crack the Case" game. (Rated 13 and older: minor violence, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon

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MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 Ounces
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Animated, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 40 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ August 24, 2004
Actors ‏ : ‎ Artist Not Provided
Studio ‏ : ‎ Funimation Prod
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00026L8H6
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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SHK SAUD

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 24, 2016

Good film

Anime for People With a Brain

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 5, 2006

With so much "eye candy" anime out there, it is refreshing to enjoy this series, which taxes your brain as well as tickles your funnybone.

Case Closed is the story of seventeen year-old Jimmy Kudo, who is a well-known amateur detective. He assists the police, a la fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, who is Jimmy's hero. Jimmy is sweet on a girl in his class. Her father is a private eye, but suffering because of Jimmy's prowess.

The story changes drastically when Jimmy stumbles upon a back-alley political scandal. The men poison him, but the poison doesn't kill him - it only reduces his age. Now Jimmy is a tiny eight-year old. He now stays with his "girlfriend" and her dad. His real identity is secret in order to protect his girl from the thugs, who would surely kill him if they found out he was alive.

He adopts a new name, in honor of the English author who created Holmes: Sir Edgar Conan Doyle. Now, "Conan" and his school chums are cracking cases and criminals' skulls as the Junior Detective Agency.

I love the opening and closing songs and animation.

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Alex Reimann

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 9, 2013

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Nice way to start the series, and it came nice and quickly. Case closed is a great show, but I should have just watched the first few episodes on hulu, instead of actually buying them!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 3, 2014

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Thisis my second favorite anime and thats because its so dang clever and gets me thinking about it all the time and great at setting the mood in critical moments.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 3, 2014

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we love our case closed. so many episodes to choose from.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 27, 2004

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We have these episodes in our country from long time and it is very very good. The real name of jimmy is senshy. These episodes is for all anime lover, for all age.

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Bryn Tanner

Case Closed is my new favorite Anime!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 4, 2004

As of this review the first set of Case Closed DVDs have not been released, however, the episodes on this disc have already aired on Cartoon Network, so I'll be able to review it knowing what the content of these DVDs are.
In the first episode, "The Big Shrink", Jimmy Kudo is a grade-A teenage detective who solves murder cases with ease. He goes to a park with his crush, Rachel Moore. On one ride a murder takes place with a girl beheading her ex-boyfriend which Jimmy solves. On their way out, Jimmy goes into a dark alley after seeing a man dressed in black who was on the ride running into the alley. Jimmy overhears an exchange, but gets knocked out and is forcefed some poison from the men in black (there's two of them now - one just appeared out of nowhere). When the episode ends he wakes up to see a couple of cops at his aid. One says to him, "Don't worry little boy. You're safe." (CONAN'S HINT: skyscraper)
In Episode 2, The Kidnapped Debutante, Jimmy finds that he's shrunk! He comes to Dr. Agasa, a family friend, and Agasa tells him that he must keep his identity a secret to everyone, including Rachel (his parents live outside the country). Rachel comes to Agasa's place to ask him where Jimmy is, and the shrunken Jimmy puts on a pair of his dad's glasses to disguise himself and makes up a new name - Conan Edogawa! Rachel invites "Conan" to stay with her and her dad. They go home and Rachel's dad (Detective Richard Moore) has just received a case. A girl has been kidnapped, and Conan finds out who the kidnapper is, but Richard takes all the credit. (CONAN'S HINT: iceblock)
In Episode 3, "Beware of Idols" Conan, Rachel, and Richard investigate a case involving a stalker of the popstar Yokou Okina. They go to her apartment to discover a dead man is lying on the floor with a knife in his back. Conan knows who did it, and wants to tell everyone, but nobody listens to him. He uses a voice-changing bowtie invented by Dr. Agasa, and knocks out Richard to tell the investigators, police, etc. who the killer was (this tactic will be used in many future episodes). (CONAN'S HINT: Neon signs)
In Episode 4, "Fish Marks the Spot", Conan goes to a museum with some kids from his new school - Amy, George, and Mitch. They find something that looks like a treasure map, and go to cause havoc in a clothing store, until they get kicked out. Conan tries to figure out what the map means, but he can't until night comes... the Junior Detective League (the collective name of Conan, George, Mitch, and Amy) decide to follow signs that lead to the "treasure", but Conan says that they need to follow neon signs instead, because at the top of the map there's a crescent moon. The JDL find the gold, and it's revealed by some Italian gang members that it was stolen gold. The JDL turn the gang members in after Conan comes up with a clever way to escape. (CONAN'S HINT: Cellphone)
In the last (5th) episode, Conan, Rachel, Richard, and the JDL get onto a train leaving for a wedding Richard must attend. Conan finds an unexpected duo - the men in black - on the train, and investigates what they're up to. He finds out that the train is going to blow up from a suitcase with a bomb planted in it, and the owner of said suitcase is going to blow it up without even knowing it! Can Conan save the train and everyone's lives? (CONAN'S HINT: Chocolate bar)
This series is absolutely stellar, and reccomended for all Animé fans.
(BTW, if you're wondering about the (CONAN'S HINT: ) things, those are little 2-second "hints" as to what the solution to the next episode is going to be. For example, in "Beware of Idols", the hint is "neon sign". In the next episode, "Fish Marks the Spot" Conan follows the neon signs throughout the city to find the gold)

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Christopher Bubb

Case closed, this show is great!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 11, 2004

Yes, I know the DVDs aren't out yet... but I've gotten hooked on this show after watching it on the Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" block. "Case Closed" is Funimation's English dub of "Meitantei Conan," or "Detective Conan," the anime adaptation of the popular manga by Gosho Aoyama. (So if you've been looking for info on a show called "Case Closed" and can't find much, try looking for "Detective Conan" instead and I guarantee you'll find much more.) Produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha (TMS), also known for LUPIN III and HAMTARO (which, in fact, shares an animation director with this series), the anime has been going strong on Japanese TV since its debut in 1996, and even now is still the most popular anime on Japanese TV, still scoring double-digit ratings (it's even higher-rated than INUYASHA in Japan right now). This is actually the second attempt to get the show onto TV screens in the U.S. - Fox Family was originally supposed to air the show in 2000 under the literal English title, "Detective Conan," but apparently balked at the more violent scenes and never picked up the series. The previous reviewer already outlined the premise to the series, so I won't go into that.
I'm a huge fan of not only anime, but also true-crime television shows such as "American Justice" and "Cold Case Files" on A&E and much of what's seen on Court TV, and I'm happy I've finally found a show that marries those two loves - there really hasn't been a good one since "Inspector Gadget," and that was way back in the early '80s. The animation style is simple and cartoony, which does make it seem somewhat out of place alongside other Adult Swim shows like Cowboy Bebop and Trigun. But don't let that fool you - most of the cases Conan solves are murders, and if you're easily disturbed by scenes of corpses, even animated ones, you might want to stay away, or at least avert your eyes when they show the corpses. Also, Richard Moore is one of the biggest sleazeballs in all of anime - he smokes and drinks heavily, and is also a womanizer and totally full of himself. (Rachel is so much more mature than he is, she may as well be his mother!) Thus, this show might be too intense for young children.
The dub isn't the best I've heard - to tell you the truth, Conan's voice kind of grates on my nerves and makes him sound more like a girl than a boy, and one would expect a sleazeball like Richard Moore to sound more, well, sleazy than he does here. However, Rachel Moore is well-voiced, as are most of the criminals. I'm looking forward to getting the DVD which will hopefully have the original Japanese track, but the dub is passable. Then there's Katsuo Ono's music, which is excellent. I've actually gone out and bought an import "Detective Conan" CD and am looking forward to hearing its contents.
Incidentally, here are the original Japanese names of the main characters from "Case Closed"... Rachel Moore: Ran Mouri; Richard Moore: Kogoro Mouri (he was actually named after another famous detective of Japanese literature); Inspector McGuire: Inspector Megure; Amy: Ayumi Yoshida; Mitch: Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya; George: Genta Kojima; Serena: Sonoko Suzuki. And of course, Jimmy Kudo is Shinichi Kudo in the original. Conan and Dr. Agasa's names were unchanged.
All in all, this is a very unique series and unlike anything else out there. It might not seem like an "Adult Swim"-type show, but it is a refreshing change of pace from the other anime series on the air right now. Check it out and find out why the Japanese have gone ga-ga for this show for eight years!

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Genre	kids & family
Format	Animated, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Contributor	Artist Not Provided
Language	English
Runtime	1 hour and 40 minutes