Case Closed, also known as Detective Conan (名探偵コナン, Meitantei Konan?) in Japan and other countries, is a detective manga and anime series by Gosho Aoyama which has been published in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine since 1994.
The series depicts the cases of a young private detective who was inadvertently turned into a prepubescent boy by criminals and now struggles to continue his profession while keeping his true identity, age and medical condition secret.
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 460 television episodes (as of 15 January 2007) and ten 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 television network, Animax, who have also aired the series across its networks in Southeast Asia and East Asia. 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.
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