Detective Conan
| Detective Conan | |
|---|---|
 aka Giant-Head Boy Detective | |
| Director/Artist | Kenji Kodama (Anime) Yasuichiro Yamamoto (Anime) Gosho Aoyama (Manga) |
| Format | Anime (TV), Manga, Anime (OVA), Anime (Movie) |
| Made By | TMS Entertainment (Anime) Shogakukan (Manga) |
| Length | 614 eps. (Anime, ongoing) 71 vol.(Manga, ongoing) 17 OVAs 15 movies |
Contents
Genre
Sum it up in a Sentence:
A high-school detective gets poisoned by criminals, turning into a 10-year-old, but still manages to solve every single crime ever.
Main Description
Jimmy Kudo thinks he's pretty hot shit: he's a famous detective, he kicks ass at soccer, he's got a hot girlfriend, and he even knows a wacky scientist. His life is about as awesome as it can get for a young anime, until he stumbles upon some criminals with incredibly dumb nicknames from the ultra-generic "Black Syndicate." Rather than shooting Jimmy like sensible thugs, Gin and Vodka (seriously) decide to poison him with some weird-ass drug they developed. For some reason, the poison doesn't kill Jimmy, but simply turns him into a little kid.
Not wanting to go through puberty twice, Jimmy vows to hunt down the Black Syndicate and find a cure. His wacky scientist friend helps him compose the identity of Conan Edogawa, and with a variety of inventions, he manages not only to solve countless crimes, he convinces everyone that his girlfriend's washed-up private-eye father, Richard Moore, is the one solving the mysteries. He also forms a junior mystery team with his classmates, because I guess he didn't have enough shit on his plate already.
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Personal Opinions
OldTimeyProspector
Detective Conan isn't an anime, it's a force of fucking nature. Over 600 fucking episodes, are you for goddamn real? Holy shit. That said, there is no reason to be intimated by it. Being so huge means its over-arching "plot" moves at a glacial pace, and any given episode may as well be a stand-alone. Everything really important, like adding new characters and such, happens in the movies anyway.
But should you even bother picking it up? Sure. It's an episodic mystery. Each week, Conan stumbles upon some dreadful crime and solves it easily, because he's basically perfect. It's not deep, and half of the time it's not even particularly clever. But it's got solid pacing, inventive scenarios, and enough tricks up its sleeve to keep it from being stale or repetitive even though it's been running since the birth of the freaking cosmos. It's fun, and great "popcorn" television. At the very least, it's always got something you haven't seen yet and your wierdo obsessive friend will not shut up about with his bizarre laugh.* Plus he did a cross-over movie with Lupin, that has to count for something.
- Disclaimer: not all Detective Conan fans are like this.
