Case Closed, Volume 1 (2004) (edit title/settings)

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• Shinichi Kudou/Jimmy Kudo: He is a teenager whose favourite fiction character is Sherlock holmes.He is an amateur detective who is very famous.He is forced to drink a pill which turns him into a little kid.
• Ran mouri/Rachel Moore: She is shinichi's girlfriend and is a highly talented karate fighter.She is afraid of ghosts though.
• Conan Edogawa: When Shinichi ture back to litter, this is the name that he uses to hide
• Kogoro Mouri/Richard Moore: Ran's father who is also a private detective
• Dr. Hiroshi Agasa: the professor that lives next to Kudo. makes useful inventions

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• Black Organization: Add a description of this organization.

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Followed by Case Closed, Vol. 2.

Followed by Case Closed, Vol. 2.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Gosho Aoyama (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Shogakukan Manga Award (2000: Shounen)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 741.5952

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Rated T+, for older teens. (16 and up)

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• Books › Comics & Graphic Novels › Manga › By Publisher › Viz
• Books › Comics & Graphic Novels › Manga › Mystery
• Books › Comics & Graphic Novels › Graphic Novels
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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• The Time-Bombed Skyscraper (IMDb): While sorting mail at Dr. Agasa's house, Conan finds an invitation addressed to Shinichi from Leo Joel, a famous architect. One Saturday morning, Conan receives a call from a strange man, who challenges Shinichi to a game. Conan accepts the challenge, and the mystery caller gives him clues leading to bombs hidden all over Tokyo. Conan finds and destroys every one, but it's revealed that there is one more left at the arrest of the culprit.
• The Fourteenth Target (IMDb): Various people are being attacked with only a card from a deck counting down. Soon, it is found out that each victim is represented by a regular playing card. The order of the attacks starts from the highest card, the King, and goes down in order. Victims of face cards "clues" are objects that are being held in the playing card. Victims of non-face cards are represented by the playing card itself. Realizing this, Kogoro and Conan try and find out the next targets and save them. Near the end, the family is invited to the Hotel Tycoon, but the building explodes and water rushes inside.
• The Last Wizard of the Century (IMDb): Kaitou Kid sends a riddle, warning of another heist. The police deduce that his next target is a recently discovered Fabergé egg belonging to Nicholas II of Russia, which is to be displayed in the Suzuki Modern Art Museum in Osaka on August 22. The night of the heist, Kid successfully steals the egg and flies off with it, and Conan tenaciously chases after him with Heiji. However, in the middle of the chase, Kid is shot in the right eye by an unknown assailant and apparently falls into the sea to his death. After recovering the egg, the police fruitlessly search for Kid's body. The next day, Conan, Ran, and Kogoro board a boat to Tokyo. They meet Natsumi Kousaka, whose great-grandfather worked in Fabergé's factory. She shows them a part of a sketch of two eggs and a key, which were found among her late grandmother's momentos. Conan suspects that the person who shot Kaitou Kid is on the ship. That night, Ryu Sagawa, a freelance photographer covering the press with news of the egg, is murdered, shot in the right eye in the same fashion as Kid. Soon after his body is discovered, Inspector Megure, along with officers Takagi and Shiratori, arrive by helicopter to inspect the crime scene. At first, they suspected Sonoko's father's servant, Mr. Nishino, but the police and Conan later conclude that the culprit is Scorpion - a mysterious killer who always shoots his victims in the right eye. A missing lifeboat hints that Scorpion has already escaped, and the passengers of the boat set off toward Yokosuka Castle, the location of Scorpion's next target: the second egg.
• Captured in Her Eyes (IMDb): On the way home, the Junior Detective League witness a policemen being killed by an unknown man. Conan Edogawa learns from the police that a killer has recently been murdering police officers in the area and that the killer has some sort of connection to the police. During a party, Simone Miwako is critically wounded by the killer. Rachel Moore, the only witness, is traumatized and consequently develops retrograde amnesia. While Conan investigates the culprit's motive, he links the murders to a past case the police could not solve.
• Countdown to Heaven (IMDb): Gin and Vodka, on a hunt for Shiho Miyano, sneak into Akemi Miyano's flat and listen to the messages on the answering machine. They discover that Shiho will attend a private viewing of two new skyscrapers in Tokyo with Shinichi Kudo. Gin and Vodka plan to end Shiho at the towers. At the viewing, Yoshiaki Hara and Tokiwa Mio are murdered, after Ohki Iwamatsu, a builder of the skyscrapers, was killed in his apartment. Sake cups left at each murder scene links the three together in a serial murder case. Before the murderer’s identity is revealed, the bombs planted by the Black Organization detonate, setting the building ablaze.
• The Phantom of Baker Street (IMDb): Schindler, Inc., holds a demonstration of a virtual reality game system called Cocoon. The Detective Boys are invited to the demonstration. Doctor Agasa and Yusaku Kudo arrive at the City Hall. Conan discovers the corpse of Kashimura, the top employee of Schindler, Inc., and a dying message on a keyboard: J-T-R. He decides to participate in the demonstration, hoping that the game would lead him to an answer. Yusaku finds out that J-T-R stands for "Jack The Ripper". When the demonstration begins, Hiroki's artificial intelligence system, Noah's Ark, takes control of the game system Cocoon. It tells the audience that if all fifty kids in the demonstration lose the game, it will kill the kids with a large electromagnetic burst.
• Crossroad in the Ancient Capital (IMDb): Kogoro, Ran, Conan, and Sonoko go to Kyoto and meet up with Heiji and Kazuha to investigate a robbery and several murders. The killer tries to kill Heiji several times and severely injures Heiji. The killer kidnaps Kazuha, but Heiji collapses before he can reach her. Conan swallows a pill Haibara gave him and a bottle of wine, temporarily turning him back into Shinichi.
• Magician of the Silver Sky (IMDb)
• Strategy Above the Depths (IMDb): A stage actress, Julie wants to use her star sapphire for her upcoming play and asks for Mouri Kogoro's help to protect it after showing Kogoro a letter from Kaitou Kid. On the day of the theft, Kid appears at the theatre disguised up as Kudo Shinichi but ends up fleeing in the end without the jewel. To thank them, Julie invites Kogoro and everyone to Hakodate, and they all travel on an airplane to get there. Ran's mother, Kisaki Eri, joins them on the plane. As the plane takes off, Julie comes in physical contact with most of the individuals she invited, making them all suspects to her death by consuming a piece of poisoned chocolate. The captains were also poisoned from Julie and were not able to pilot the plane, so Shinjo agrees to take over because he supposedly "took courses", and appoints Conan to assist him.
• The Private Eyes' Requiem (IMDb)
• Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure (IMDb)
• Full Score of Fear (IMDb)
• The Raven Chaser (IMDb)
• The Lost Ship in the Sky (IMDb)
• Quarter of Silence (IMDb)
• The Eleventh Striker: Will be out in theaters on April 14th, 2012 in Japan.