Case Closed, known as Meitantei Conan (å探åµã‚³ãƒŠãƒ³?, lit. Great Detective Conan, officially translated as Detective Conan) in Japan, is written by Gosho Aoyama and serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly ShÅnen Sunday. The series began its serialization on January 19, 1994. Since Case Closed '​s premiere, over 800 chapters have been released in Japan, making it the 21st longest running manga series. Several adaptations based on Case Closed have been made, including an anime series and animated films. A database consisting of all the cases from the manga was launched in 2007. Viz Media announced its licensing of the series on June 1, 2004, and following Funimation Entertainment's English localization, released the series under the name Case Closed with renamed characters. The series follows High-school detective Jimmy Kudo who has subsequently become a child after being forced to swallow a poison.
Shogakukan collected the individual chapters into tankÅbon volumes in Japan. The first volume was released on June 18, 1994 and is currently on-going. In addition, Gosho Aoyama's assistants have also written and published volumes their own side stories of Case Closed. Ani-manga tankÅbon based on the Case Closed films have also been released by Shogakukan with each movie cut into two parts.
Viz Media licensed the manga and released the first English adapted volume on September 7, 2004. Victor Gollancz Ltd used Viz Media's translation to release the series in the United Kingdom. On July 22, 2009, Viz Media uploaded a website containing its licensed series from Weekly ShÅnen Sunday; the first chapter of Case Closed was uploaded to the website on October 21, 2009.
The series has been released internationally under the name Detective Conan. The manga series is licensed for additional regional language releases by Changchun Publishing House in China; Kana in France and the Countries of Benelux; Egmont Manga & Anime in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Elex Media Komputindo in Indonesia; Star Comics in Italy; Egmont in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark; Chingwin Publishing Group in Taiwan; Kim Dong Publishing House in Vietnam; and Planeta DeAgostini to Spanish- and Catalan-speaking countries.
Volume list
Volumes 1â€"20
Volumes 21â€"40
Volumes 41â€"60
Volumes 61â€"current
Manga Special Editions
Special editions drawn by Aoyama's assistants do not belong to the main plot. Thirty-nine volumes have been released as of December 2011.
Film Manga
References
- General
- "Detective Conan manga volumes" (in Japanese). Shogakukan.Â
- "Case Closed printed manga volumes". Viz Media.Â
- "Case Closed digital manga volumes". Viz Media.Â
- Specific
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