Meitantei Conan
English title: Case Closed
Japanese title: 名探偵コナン
Alternative titles: Detective Conan
Type: TV
Source: Manga
Status: Currently Airing
Aired: Jan 8, 1996 to ?
Broadcast: Saturdays at 18:00 (JST)
Duration: 24 min
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Studios: TMS Entertainment
Producers: Yomiuri Telecasting, Shogakukan, Audio Planning U, Tokyo Movie, Polydor Records
Licensors: Funimation, Crunchyroll
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
Themes: Detective
Demographics: Shounen

Shinichi Kudou, a high school student of astounding talent in detective work, is well known for having solved several challenging cases. One day, when Shinichi spots two suspicious men and decides to follow them, he inadvertently becomes witness to a disturbing illegal activity. Unfortunately, he is caught in the act, so the men dose him with an experimental drug formulated by their criminal organization, leaving him to his death. However, to his own astonishment, Shinichi lives to see another day, but now in the body of a seven-year-old child.

Perfectly preserving his original intelligence, he hides his real identity from everyone, including his childhood friend Ran Mouri and her father, private detective Kogorou Mouri. To this end, he takes on the alias of Conan Edogawa, inspired by the mystery writers Arthur Conan Doyle and Ranpo Edogawa.

Shinichi, as Conan, starts secretly solving the senior Mouri's cases from behind the scenes with his still exceptional sleuthing skills, while covertly investigating the organization responsible for his current state, hoping to reverse the drug's effects someday.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

In 2003, FUNimation licensed the first 104 episodes of the series for North American production under the name Case Closed. They later decided to stop pursuing more episodes past episode 123 due to poor sales. In 2014, Crunchyroll obtained a license to stream simulcast episodes of Detective Conan on their website starting with episode 754. Winner of the Animation Award (DIVE Award) of the 2010 Japanese Movie Critics Awards.