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'''Jimmy Kudo''', also known as {{nihongo|'''Shin'ichi Kudo'''|工藤 新一|Kudō Shin'ichi}} in Japan, is the [[protagonist]] of the [[anime]] and [[manga]] ''[[Case Closed]]'', known in Japan as ''Detective Conan'' (名探偵コナン ''Meitantei Conan''). Viz romanized his original name as ''Shin'ichi Kudo'' while Shogakukan's website romanizes it as ''Shinichi Kudoh''. He later takes on the alias {{nihongo|'''Conan Edogawa'''|江戸川 コナン|Edogawa Conan}} after [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Edogawa Rampo|'''''Edogawa''''' Rampo]].<ref name="alias">{{cite book|last=Aoyama|first=Gosho|title=Case Closed|volume=1|publisher=Viz Media|isbn=1-59116-327-7 |chapter=File 1 |language=English |location=San Francisco |date=2004-09-07|pages=58–59 }}</ref>
'''Jimmy Kudo''', also known as {{nihongo|'''Shin'ichi Kudo'''|工藤 新一|Kudō Shin'ichi}} in Japan, is the [[protagonist]] of the [[anime]] and [[manga]] ''[[Case Closed]]'', known in Japan as ''Detective Conan'' (名探偵コナン ''Meitantei Conan''). Viz romanized his original name as ''Shin'ichi Kudo'' while Shogakukan's website romanizes it as ''Shinichi Kudoh''. He later takes on the alias {{nihongo|'''Conan Edogawa'''|江戸川 コナン|Edogawa Conan}} after [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Edogawa Rampo|'''''Edogawa''''' Rampo]].<ref name="alias">{{cite book|last=Aoyama|first=Gosho|title=Case Closed|volume=1|publisher=Viz Media|isbn=1-59116-327-7 |chapter=File 1 |language=English |location=San Francisco |date=2004-09-07|pages=58–59 }}</ref>
Jimmy Kudo was a well known High School Detective who helped solved cases which the police could not. One day, he investigates a suspicious man. Later he is attacked and forced to swallow a a poison called the APTX 4869 which turns him back into a child. Now he lives with his friend and love Rachel Moore as Conan Edogawa who helps her father Richard Moore solves cases hoping that they will run into a case involving those strange men who forced him to drink the poison, whom are part of the Black Organization.
Jimmy Kudo was a well known High School Detective who helped solved cases which the police could not. One day, he investigates a suspicious man. Later he is attacked and forced to swallow a a poison called the APTX 4869 which turns him back into a child. Now he lives with his friend and love Rachel Moore as Conan Edogawa who helps her father Richard Moore solves cases hoping that they will run into a case involving those strange men who forced him to drink the poison, who are part of the Black Organization.


==Creation and conception==
==Creation and conception==

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Jimmy Kudo
Case Closed character
File:ConanJimmy.jpg
Jimmy Kudo, shown in his regular form (right) and his "Conan Edogawa" form (left)
First appearanceCase Closed Manga, File 1
Case Closed Episode 1
Created byGosho Aoyama
In-universe information
AliasConan Edogawa
NicknameDetective of the East
GenderMale
RelativesBooker Kudo (father)
Vivian Kudo (mother)

Jimmy Kudo, also known as Shin'ichi Kudo (工藤 新一, Kudō Shin'ichi) in Japan, is the protagonist of the anime and manga Case Closed, known in Japan as Detective Conan (名探偵コナン Meitantei Conan). Viz romanized his original name as Shin'ichi Kudo while Shogakukan's website romanizes it as Shinichi Kudoh. He later takes on the alias Conan Edogawa (江戸川 コナン, Edogawa Conan) after Arthur Conan Doyle and Edogawa Rampo.[1] Jimmy Kudo was a well known High School Detective who helped solved cases which the police could not. One day, he investigates a suspicious man. Later he is attacked and forced to swallow a a poison called the APTX 4869 which turns him back into a child. Now he lives with his friend and love Rachel Moore as Conan Edogawa who helps her father Richard Moore solves cases hoping that they will run into a case involving those strange men who forced him to drink the poison, who are part of the Black Organization.

Creation and conception

Character Outline

Personality

At the beginning of the series, Jimmy is a 17-year old student at Teitan High School. He was already well-known as a brilliant young detective who closed many difficult cases that the professionals could not, and known as the savior of the police force[2]. Jimmy was born to Booker Kudo, a mystery writer and Vivian Kudo a former movie star.[3]. He is extremely intelligent, and even from a young age, was very intuitive and observant. Due to the influence of his father, and the generally laissez-faire environment at home, he has long been an incessant and persistent reader, especially of mystery novels.[4] Booker started taking Jimmy to crime scenes sixth grade which inspired him to be a Detective.[5].Besides for Jimmy's intelligence, Jimmy is an extremely skilled soccer player. At first, it was to hone his reflexes but he grew fond of the sport.[6][7] Jimmy is also known for his inability to sing, but was revealed to have perfect pitch. [8][9] He is also a skilled violinst, taking after his idol Sherlock Holmes. He apparently can speak English, as he once conversed with and translated for an American diplomat.[10]

Jimmy is a good friend to Rachel Moore whom he has known since kindergarten.[4][11] Jimmy has not found any interest in other girls.[12]. After changing into Conan, Jimmy sometimes calls her over the telephone and imitates his normal voice with the voice-changing bowtie, so that she is not worried about him.[13]. He convinces her that he is off solving a very difficult case and will return once the investigation concludes.[14] Jimmy/Conan is not without sexual fantasies regarding Rachel; the most obvious example being his getting nosebleeds or blushing--manga shorthand for lust-- when he sees her in a bathing suit, or when Rachel pulled him into an onsen with her.[15]

Plot Overview

At the beginning of the series, Jimmy brings his friend Rachel to a local theme park called "Tropical Land," to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. He later ends up solving a murder case there.[16]. As they are leaving, Jimmy witnesses a suspicious exchange between an unknown man and Vodka in a secluded area just outside the park.[17] He leaves Rachel and investigates but does not notice Gin who knocks him out and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as APTX 4869.[18]. They then leave him to die. However, instead of killing Jimmy, a rare side-effect occurred. It shrinks his body to his appearance back to that of his six or seven year-old self.[19] In desperation and confusion, Jimmy heads back to his house and runs into his next door neighbor and close family friend, Dr. Herschel Agasa who warns him he must keep his idenitity as the Black Organization, will endanger his life and others associated with him.[20][21]

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Conan using his Stun-dart watch, to knock out Richard (in the manga)

Jimmy comes up with alias Conan Edogawa and pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's who places Conan in Rachel's care.[1] Rachel's father Richard Moore, owns a Detective Agency which may allow him to run into a case involving the Black Organization. He is signed up at Titan Elementary to further protect his identity and makes friends with kids and forms the Junior Detective Leage [22]. As the story progresses, Conan later befriends biochemist Anita Hailey. Haibara Ai or Anita Hailey grew up within the Black Organization and is a former member of it along with her sister.[23]

She is the creator of the APTX 4869 drug but took the drug in order to escape from the Black Organization. Conan has run into the Black Organization multiple times, but he fails in tracking them do to Gin's cleverness. But sometimes everyone think both Conan and Haibara had a special relation and friendship that nobody would understands.

In some episodes and manga chapters, Haibara would give hint to Conan about her feelings towards him. But in the end, she would always told him that it's a lie. Even though everybody including The Detective Boys, Sonoko, Ran and the other know about Haibara's secret feelings toward Conan, he never realizes it.

It also shown that Conan has a strong feeling to protect Haibara if anything happens to her. For example on the episode where Haibara stayed in a bus that has a bomb in it, Conan immediately saved her and tell her to accept fate and never turn back.

Throughout the series Conan has returned back to normal. First he temporary returns to normal after drinking alcohol while infected with a cold.[24] He quickly turns back into Conan after solving the case. The next time was after taking the prototype antidote for APTX 4869.

After two days, the antidote wears off and he becomes Conan again.[25][26] Much further into the series, Jimmy accidentally takes a prototype antidote for APTX 4896. The antidote wears off 24 hours later but he is given another one by Anita to keep his identity secret. After another four hours, he becomes Conan again.[27]

APTX 4869

APTX 4869 (四八六九, Yon-Hachi-Roku-Kyuu), code named Prototype Detective, is a fictional toxin is a derivative of an experimental immortality formula developed by Shiho Miyano, which is used by the Black Organization as an untraceable, lethal poison. APTX is an abbreviation of "Apotoxin," and, as the name implies, it involves the activation of uncontrolled apoptosis which causes death by the destruction of cells. In addition, it can also activate telomerase. However, in very rare cases, it causes the apoptosis of non-neural cells only and the apoptosis would stabilize at some point, causing the victim's apparent age to be decreased. Jimmy, the series' protagonist, is such a victim; later Shiho Miyano, who chooses to attempt suicide by using her own drug, was added to the two known people to have survive after taking the APTX-4869 throughout the series.

Throughout the series there are several instances in which the APTX was temporarily neutralized and Jimmy and Shiho were returned to their actual age forms. The main ingredient for this reversal is a component found in Chinese ginseng root schnaps, which Ai has already incorporated in a prototype antidote for the APTX. It is to note that in the instances where Jimmy or Shiho changed back, the recipient was suffering from a common cold while the component was ingested, indicating that the immune system somehow has to be taxed for the antidote to work.

Gadgets

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Conan using his homing glasses to track down the target

Conan uses many inventions made by Hershel Agasa to help him solve cases discreetly. One of them is a voice changing bowtie, which he often uses to imitate a person's voice in the process solving the case.[28] Every so often, he also has to use it to reassure Rachel by mimicking his original voice in a phone call.[28] To assist him further, Agasa invented a wristwatch that is able to shoot a tranquilizer dart. This is generally used to put Richard to sleep so Conan can solve the case though Conan may use it to take out a culprit as well. To help capture criminals, Agasa invented special shoes for Conan that is able to enhance his kicking power to super human levels; enabling him to kick objects at culprits. It has also been shown to be useful with breaking objects or jumping.[28] Agasa also invents a special belt that is able to leverage objects or deploy a soccer ball to be used with the shoes. Agasa later creates a multipurpose computerized glasses allowing Conan to track down objects, zoom into targets, and infrared vision. He also invents the Junior Detective Badges, allowing Conan to talk with the Junior Detective League wirelessly and track them down if necessary.

Appearances in other media

Besides for his anime and manga appearances, Conan is the protagonist for all the movies and the video games based on the Case Closed series. Some anime parodied, lampooned and even mentioned him. Some of them include ,Yakitate!! Japan,[29]Black Cat [30] Inuyasha,[31] Hayate the Combat Butler,[32] Proposal Daisakusen,[33], Sonic X, and Angelic Layer.[34] He was used as a character to promote people to follow the law in Japan, due to the popularity of the series.

Reception

References

  1. ^ a b Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 1". Case Closed. Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. pp. 58–59. ISBN 1-59116-327-7.
  2. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 1". Case Closed. Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. p. 11. ISBN 1-59116-327-7.
  3. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2005-05-05). "File 10". Case Closed. Vol. 5. San Francisco: Viz Media. p. 163. ISBN 1-59116-633-0.
  4. ^ a b Files 5-8, Detective Conan volume 55
  5. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2008-01-15). "File 5". Case Closed. Vol. 21. San Francisco: Viz Media. pp. 74, 78. ISBN 1-4215-1456-7.
  6. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 1". Case Closed. Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. p. 13. ISBN 1-59116-327-7.
  7. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 1". Case Closed. Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. p. 13. ISBN 1-59116-327-7.
  8. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2007-01-16). "File 4". Case Closed. Vol. 15. San Francisco: Viz Media. ISBN 1-4215-0445-6.
  9. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2005-09-08). "File 5". Case Closed. Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. ISBN 1-59116-978-X.
  10. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2008-01-15). "File 5". Case Closed. Vol. 21. San Francisco: Viz Media. ISBN 1-4215-1456-7.
  11. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2006-05-16). "File 7". Case Closed. Vol. 11. San Francisco: Viz Media. ISBN 1-4215-0441-4. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)
  12. ^ Chapter 5, Detective Conan volume 26.
  13. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 10". Case Closed. Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. pp. 180–182. ISBN 1-59116-327-7.
  14. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 10". Case Closed. Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. pp. 180–182. ISBN 1-59116-327-7.
  15. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2006-01-10). "File 4". Case Closed. Vol. 9. San Francisco: Viz Media. ISBN 9=1-4215-0166-X. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
  16. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 1". Case Closed. Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. pp. 17–32. ISBN 1-59116-327-7.
  17. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 1". Case Closed. Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. p. 34. ISBN 1-59116-327-7.
  18. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 1". Case Closed. Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. p. 37. ISBN 1-59116-327-7.
  19. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 2". Case Closed. Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. p. 44. ISBN 1-59116-327-7.
  20. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 2". Case Closed. Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. p. 52. ISBN 1-59116-327-7.
  21. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 2". Case Closed. Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. pp. 56–57. ISBN 1-59116-327-7.
  22. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2005-07-01). Case Closed. Vol. 6. San Francisco: Viz Media. ISBN 1-59116-838-4.
  23. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2007-07-17). "File 8". Case Closed. Vol. 18. San Francisco: Viz Media. ISBN 1-4215-0883-4.
  24. ^ Case Closed Episodes 48-49
  25. ^ Detective Conan 191- 193
  26. ^ Files 3-7 volume 26
  27. ^ Files 647 to 654
  28. ^ a b c "Case Closed Characters at CaseClosed.com". FUNimation. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
  29. ^ Yakitate!! JapanAnime Episode # 48,
  30. ^ Anime Episodes # 13 & 14
  31. ^ Inuyasha Anime Episode 128
  32. ^ Hayate no Gotoku# 30
  33. ^ Proposal Daisakusen Anime Episode # 10
  34. ^ Angelic Layer Episode 22
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