Case Closed

Case Closed, known as Detective Conan (名探偵コナン, Meitantei Konan) in Japan and in non-English speaking countries, is a detective manga and anime series by Gosho Aoyama (青山 剛昌), which has been published in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine since 1994.

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Japan - Detective - Manga - Anime - Gosho Aoyama - Shonen Sunday

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The anime version is produced by TMS Entertainment and has run over 400 television episodes and nine movies in Japan, and is still running on Japanese television today. It airs Mondays at 7:30 PM on Nihon TV. In July 2003, FUNimation announced that they licensed Detective Conan for a release in the United States, 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 every other part of the world, in the many countries where Detective Conan was released and aired, the name "Detective Conan" (or the literal translation of it), remained intact. The title Detective Conan is also used by TMS Entertainment. Detective Conan has aired in Spain, Germany, Italy, China, the United Arab Emirates, and other nations. However, it was at the insistence of TMS that such precautions be taken in the US market. Likewise, FUNimation was also instructed, much to their dislike, to use a new logo designed by TMS, as well as change most of the character's names to what the Japanese licenser felt would be more friendly to an American mainstream audience. However, like many licensers who have an inaccurate perception of the North American market, marketing an animated murder mystery show to a family audience in the US was far more difficult than TMS anticipated. There have been unconfirmed reports that the Fox Network (pre-Fox Box) considered licensing the series, but couldn't because it was thought to be far too violent. Indeed, there are many situations that involves disturbing homicides, such as human corpses, dismemberbed bodies, and in very few cases, even murdered children, etc.

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TMS Entertainment - Nihon TV - July 2003 - FUNimation - United States - Conan the Barbarian - Conan O'Brien - Spain - Germany - Italy - China - United Arab Emirates - Logo - North America - Fox Box

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Cartoon Network began broadcasting Case Closed as part of their Adult Swim programming block beginning in May 2004. Although a family series in Japan, it airs on Adult Swim in the US due to the mature content of the crimes portrayed. Currently, Adult Swim possesses approximately fifty episodes, while FUNimation has dubbed additional episodes into English for American audiences; some of which have been released on DVD. In January of 2005, Adult Swim announced that it would not purchase additional episodes due to poor ratings in the US.

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Cartoon Network - Adult Swim - May 2004 - 2005

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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. In Germany a German translation of the manga is published by Egmont, and in France the manga published by Kana.

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VIZ Media - English - Germany - Egmont - France - Kana

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A ninth Detective Conan movie, Strategy Above the Depths, was released in Japan on April 9, 2005.

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April 9 - 2005

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