Detective Conan in the Arab World

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| **Detective Conan in the Arab World** | |
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| Language: | Arabic |
| Continents: | Asia and Africa |
| No. of Episodes: | 551 (405 JP) (TV) 71 (Season 25) |
| Dubbed by: | Venus Centre |
The Detective Conan anime was first dubbed in the [Arab World](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_World "wikipedia:Arab World") in 1998 and was aired on Qatar TV, and on March 31st 2000, the [first episode](/wiki/Roller_Coaster_Murder_Case "Roller Coaster Murder Case") was broadcast on [Spacetoon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetoon "wikipedia:Spacetoon"). Currently, new seasons show first only on streaming service SpaceToon Go and on the TV channel SpaceToon not too long after, and in the past, on its now-defunct sister channel Space Power. The series is dubbed by the most famous anime dubbing centre in the region, Venus Centre (مركز الزهرة Markaz Az-Zuhra).
Detective Conan in Arabic is called المحقق كونان Al-Muhaqqiq Konan, which literally means *Detective Conan*.
The Detective Conan series has became very popular in the Arab world and is one of the best ranked animes of all time. Venus Centre continues dubbing Detective Conan. As of June 2025, up to 500+ episodes were dubbed.
Most of the characters kept their main names, but names with four syllables are often reduced to two syllables (i.e. Mitsuhiko is called Mitsu). Most of the characters only have a given name and not a family name or vice versa. Most of the cases characters kept their original Japanese names as well, but some are changed because they sound similar to another character (e.g Yuuko from [Episode 3](/wiki/An_Idol%27s_Locked_Room_Murder_Case "An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case") was renamed شوكو Shuko because it sounded similar to [Yoko Okino's](/wiki/Yoko_Okino "Yoko Okino") name. All of the TV specials are always divided into two or four episodes (except for if it’s on the Space Power streaming service) and most of the films have been dubbed as of June 2025. On 2018 the [22th movie](/wiki/Zero_the_Enforcer "Zero the Enforcer") was also dubbed and released in Dubai cinemas on November 29th, and many other movies have released on theaters such as The One-Eyed Flashback, The Million Dollar Pentagram, and the Ai Haibara’s Story special.
## Contents
* [1 Timeline](#Timeline)
+ [1.1 1998-2000](#1998-2000)
+ [1.2 2000-2013](#2000-2013)
+ [1.3 2013-2014](#2013-2014)
+ [1.4 2014-2019](#2014-2019)
+ [1.5 2019-Now](#2019-Now)
* [2 Cast](#Cast)
* [3 Theme song](#Theme_song)
+ [3.1 Speculation](#Speculation)
+ [3.2 Theme Trivia](#Theme_Trivia)
* [4 Censorship](#Censorship)
* [5 Trivia](#Trivia)
* [6 See also](#See_also)
## Timeline[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Detective_Conan_in_the_Arab_World&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Timeline")]
### 1998-2000[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Detective_Conan_in_the_Arab_World&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: 1998-2000")]
The anime started being dubbed and was airing episodes on Qatar TV.
### 2000-2013[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Detective_Conan_in_the_Arab_World&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: 2000-2013")]
On March 31st 2000, The (at the time) new children’s TV block on Bahrain TV called Spacetoon started airing Detective Conan, the block got really popular and it became a TV channel, Detective Conan was and still is one of Spacetoon's biggest hits and the show quickly gained a community and Conan’s name became so big that to some places, it even surpassed Sherlock Holmes’ popularity, Conan even had his very own live show called “Conan On Air” where Conan tests kids' logic.
A 3D model used frequently for advertisements in the 2000’s.
Though the show had some minor censorship; it was mostly kept intact, but Spacetoon was involved in some big controversy surrounding the possible dangers of anime and starting episode 124, the anime became heavily censored with things such as rewriting criminal’s motives and changing certain Black Organization codenames due to the alcohol references, but the large community criticized Spacetoon for the changes calling the dub childish, around that time; a heavily rewritten illegal dub using the same voices from the original Arabic dub started airing on another channel called Basma TV that focused on religion and often replaced certain scenes with narrations of Hadiths; the Basma dub also changed characters’ names (such as Conan being renamed to Kamal ibn Al Qadi Mansour) and removed Shinichi; 15-20 episodes were dubbed before it stopped being dubbed and mysteriously briefly aired again a few years after, The dub was produced by Tihama Advertising and Public Relations in Saudi Arabia.
the Spacetoon dub eventually went back to how it was before starting episode 235.
### 2013-2014[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Detective_Conan_in_the_Arab_World&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: 2013-2014")]
The dub took a year long hiatus from July 29 2013 to September 10 2014 before returning with JP episode 345 (Kaitou Kid’s Miraculous Mid-Air Walk).
### 2014-2019[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Detective_Conan_in_the_Arab_World&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: 2014-2019")]
The dub had taken another, much longer hiatus lasting from November 27 2014 to May 29 2019.
### 2019-Now[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Detective_Conan_in_the_Arab_World&action=edit&section=6 "Edit section: 2019-Now")]
The dub comes back with it’s 9th season on May 29 2019 with JP episode 379, the dub has no changes except for the new intro and outro themes.