The cover of Case Closed volume 71 released in Japan by Shogakukan on February 18, 2011
The Case Closed manga, known in Japan as Detective Conan (名探偵コナン, Meitantei Conan), is written by Gosho Aoyama and serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday since January 19, 1994.[1] Since Case Closed's premiere, over 1,000 chapters have been released in Japan, making it the 25th longest running manga series. Several adaptations based on Case Closed have been made, including an anime series and animated films. A database consisting of all the cases from the manga was launched in 2007.[2][3]Viz Media announced its licensing of the series on June 1, 2004, and following Funimation Entertainment's English localization, released the series under the name Case Closed with renamed characters.[4][5] The series follows high school detective Jimmy Kudo who was transformed into a child after being forced to swallow a poison.
Tankōbon volume 61 to 80 encapsulates all the chapters 630 to 850. No English releases of these volumes have been announced.
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"Burn" (燃える, "Moeru")
"Cause of Fire" (火種, "Hidane")
"Crackle" (バチバチ, "Bachibachi")
"Paper Airplane" (紙飛行機, "Kami Hikōki")
"Message" (メッセージ, "Messēji")
"Rescue" (レスキュー, "Resukyū")
"Destruction" (隠滅, "Inmetsu")
Jirokichi Suzuki places a challenge in the newspaper for the Phantom Thief Kid and wagers two jewels called purple nails. Jirokichi has the jewel placed in the center of a city intersection. When Kid comes to steal it, nets cover the intersection seemingly trapping him. Kid proclaims teleportation as he disappears and moments after, appear on a roof top making his escape. Jirokichi wagers the second jewel in the same set up. Kid steals the jewel but is interrupted by Conan midway through his teleportation, which is revealed to be a hidden pulley. Kid escapes, whilst returning the jewels to Jirokichi. An explosion occurs at a house resulting in one death and prompts the Detective Boys to solve it. Conan reveals the victim's wife to be the culprit, evidencing the vaporized gas and static electricity to be the cause of the explosion. Later on, paper planes are found throughout town, Conan and Okiya Subaru deduce the planes to be Morse code for SOS and they eventually are able to locate and save the sender. The brother of a waitress at a local diner is a suspect in a murder case.
"Kudo Shinichi's Homicide" (工藤新一の殺人, "Kudō Shinichi no Satsujin")
"Shiragami-sama" (死羅神様, "Shiragami-sama")
"Endless tears" (止まらぬ涙, "Tomaranu Namida")
"True Identity" (正体, "Shōtai")
"The Thing She Really Wants to Ask" (ホントに聞きたいコト, "Honto ni Kikitai Koto")
Conan's investigation lead him to discover the murderer is the brother's friend allowing the police to apprehend the criminal. A friend of Eri Kisaki is being stalked, and she along with Ran and Conan decide to catch the stalker. That friend's husband is found strangled in the house later and they suspect the friend, however, she has a strong alibi. Conan and Eri disprove that alibi after Kogoro Mori gives them a hint with tape recorder. A letter addressed to Shinichi requests to meet him at a distant village. Conan follows the directions in the letter and is trapped in a cabin. Realizing he took the prototype antidote to APTX 4869, he escapes through the window and falls into a river. Shinichi is later found with amnesia and later, becomes the prime suspect in an attempted murder. Heiji Hattori deduces the amnesic Kudo is a fake with the real one revealing himself shortly after. The fake Kudo was the one who invited Shinichi to trap and impersonate him to ruin his reputation. Shinichi is given a second antidote by Ai Haibara to keep his identity a secret. Shortly after, Shinichi and Heiji investigate a man who was strangled while driving on the highway.
"Whereabouts of the Poison" (毒物のありか, "Dokubutsu no Arika")
"Pig, Deer, Butterfly" (猪・鹿・蝶, "Ino Shika Chō")
"801 and Shakuhachi and First Class" (八百一と尺八と一品, "Happyaku-ichi to Shakuhachi to Ippin")
"Truth about the Contest" (選手権の目的, "Senshuken no Mokuteki")
"The Silver-White Witch" (銀白の魔女, "Ginpaku no Majo")
"White FD" (白のFD, "Shiro no Efu Dī")
"The True Identity of the Witch" (魔女の正体, "Majo no Shōtai")
Shinichi and Heiji reveal the murderer to be the victim's girlfriend who utilized a fishing line and the automatic function of the car windows. Shinichi secludes himself as he transforms back to Conan. The Detective Boys are at a sushi restaurant when a man has been poisoned with cyanide through some unknown method. Conan deduces the wet wipe was poisoned and the male customer as the culprit. Later, a competition for men with the surname Kojima is hosted and Genta's father participates. The host of the competition is murdered and three men, including Genta's father, are the suspects. Conan tricks the culprit into confessing allowing the police to identify the murderer. A ghost racer, dubbed the Silver Witch, is rumored to be causing accidents on a foggy mountain. Kogoro investigates and races against the witch, who is seemingly able to drive in the air. Instilling a road block to capture the culprit, Conan identifies the group with the fishing equipment as the ones pretending to be the Silver Witch and utilized the fog to create a mirage of driving in the air. The culprits attempt to escape the authorities but is caught by Miwako Sato who is revealed to be the original Silver Witch.
"Mackerel Carp Sea Bream Flounder" (サバ・コイ・タイ・ヒラメ, "Saba Koi Tai Hirame")
"Thirst for Blood" (殺気, "Sakki")
"Scar" (傷, "Kizu")
"The Boy of Memory" (思い出の少年, "Omoide no Shōnen")
"Gari-kun" (ガリ君, "Gari-kun")
"The One Who Whistles" (口笛の男, "Kuchibue no Otoko")
"The Connection" (つながり, "Tsunagari")
"ESWN"
"The Common Pattern" (よくあるパターン, "Yoku Aru Patān")
"Iron Tanuki" (鉄狸, "Tetsu Tanuki")
The Detective Boys explore an isolated island called Ikkaku Rock when they discover the body of a stranded diver with an encrypted message indicating her killer. The victim's three diving partners are the suspects. Conan and Subaru Okiya realize removing Sakkana (魚, fish) from the dying message indicates the diver with a surgical mask. A rich blind woman hires Kogoro to help her search for the boy who saved her many years ago but received a scar on their torso in return. After publicly announcing prize money for her savior, she asks Kogoro to differentiate two candidates as the boy. As they investigate, Conan discerns the woman's butler as the boy and her public announcement as a ploy to have him admit his identity to her. A serial killer from 15 years ago murders a psychologist who publicly challenges him. The killer is notorious for leaving a cardinal directions on the back of his victims. After the psychologist is murdered, Conan investigates and discerns the psychologist was the serial killer and the one who murdered him was one of the victim's son. As Wataru Takagi recovers in the hospital after being shot during the investigation, Sato manages to kiss him uninterrupted. Jirokichi receives a forged Phantom Thief Kid notice declaring he will opening his impenetrable safe, the Iron Tanuki. He later receives a letter by the real Kid confirming his plan to open the safe.
"Accompanying Two Dangerous People" (危険な2人連れ, "Kiken na Futarizure")
"Half-Kill" (半殺し, "Hangoroshi")
"Red Wall" (赤い壁, "Akai Kabe")
"In The Hand" (掌中, "Shōchū")
"The Late Koumei" (死せる孔明, "Shiseru Kōmei")
"Scares Away the Living Chūdatsu" (生ける仲達を走らす, "Ikeru Chūdatsu o Hashirasu")
Conan realizes Jirokichi forged the first notice in order to beckon Kid to open his safe for him. Kid is revealed to be disguised as Jirokichi's maid who reveals Jirokichi accidentally locked his dog in the safe. Jodie Starling and the Detective Boys are at the bank when a robbery occurs. The two alongside a man resembling the deceased Shuichi Akai are able to apprehend the robbers. Later, Kansuke Yamato and Yui Uehara ask Kogoro to investigate a murder where the victim spray painted a wall red before his death. They suspect the victim's roommates is the murderer and their nicknames corresponding to colors as the key to the dying message.
Conan and the Nagano officers realize the murderer was the roommate with the kanji for green in his name, indicated by the complementary colorafterimage caused by the red wall. Shiratori goes to a movies and runs into the Detective Boys. He reveals his unhappiness with the developments between Takagi and Sato's relationship, and shares his childhood encounter with a girl he assumed to be Sato. Shiratori meets a woman and believes her to be the real girl from his childhood and watches a movie with her. She asks Shiratori to accompany her home due to a stalker where they discover her ex-boyfriend dead in her home. Conan suspects Shiratori's date to be the murderer who has an alibi established by Shiratori. They discover Shiratori's date drugged him to sleep during the movie while she committed the murder. Shiratori realizes Sumiko Kobayashi was the girl from his past when she picks up the Detective Boys. Later, the Detective Boys investigate a mysterious warehouse containing a ghost treasure. Conan reveals the warehouse contained a secret attic with stolen goods. Heiji and Kazuha travel to Tokyo to search for a student who Heiji gave Kazuha's good luck charm to. Kazuha wants to retrieve the charm before Heiji can check its contents which contains a photo of him. They find the student had been assaulted in a sports bar after attending a baseball game and begin deduce the culprit to be the man posing as a soccer fan. Heiji finds his picture in the charm doodled on and mistakes Kazuha's feelings to be antagonistic. Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are at a restaurant when they see a woman dressed up in a gothic lolita fashion. The same woman is later found dead in a restroom stall.
"A Fashion Curse" (呪いのファッション!?, "Noroi no Fasshon!?")
"An Uncertain and Fragile Thing" (不確かでもろい物, "Futashika de Moroimono")
"Tomorrow is There" (明日があるさ, "Ashita ga Aru sa")
"Dangerous Area" (危険なエリア, "Kiken na Eria")
"Hint of Red and 13" (赤と13の暗示, "Aka to Jū-san no Anji")
"The Bomber's Aim" (爆弾犯の狙い, "Bakudan-han no Nerai")
"The Truth Amidst the Snowstorm" (吹雪の中の真実, "Fubuki no Naka no Shinjitsu")
"Silent Clash" (静かなる戦い, "Shizuka Naru Tatakai")
"Kobayashi-sensei's Love" (小林先生の恋, "Kobayashi-sensei no Koi")
"Kobayashi-sensei's Misunderstanding" (小林先生の誤解, "Kobayashi-sensei no Gokai")
"The Sakura Girl Is...?" (桜の少女は？, "Sakura no Shōjo wa?")
After realizing the Gothic girl they saw at the restaurant was impersonating the victim, Conan declares the victim's friend as the murderer. The Detective Boys meet a man and discerning he plans on killing himself after analyzing his style of speaking. Later, Kogoro is hired to investigate the sender of a red shirt at the mall. A man proclaims an unknown person has strapped the man with bombs. Upon investigation, Conan realizes the bomber is the man strapped with bombs and the red shirts are flag signals dictating the bomber's murder in the past; He reveals the sender to be the murdered victim's daughter. Outside the mall, the Black Organization wait with snipers for Akai Shuichi after hearing rumors of his survivor. Upon seeing him, Gin drops the assassination commenting how Bourbon is always doing what he pleases. Kobayashi is involved as a witness to a murder and is taken into questioning Tokyo Metropolitan Police. She overhears Kobayashi is Shiratori's substitution for Sato and is deeply hurt.
"Kisaki Eri's Misfortune" (妃英里の災難, "Kisaki Eri no Sainan")
"Raise and then Lower?" (落として上げる?, "Otoshite Ageru?")
"The Best Birthday" (最高の誕生日, "Saikō no Tanjōbi")
"Azure Dragon" (青龍, "Seiryū")
"Vermilion Bird" (朱雀, "Suzaku")
"White Tiger" (白虎, "Byakko")
"Black Tortoise" (玄武, "Genbu")
"Rooster Festival" (酉の市, "Tori no Ichi")
"Monkey & Nine" (猿と9, "Saru to Kyū")
"Naivety" (天真爛漫, "Tenshinranman")
After catching the murderer who attempts to silence her, Shiratori is able to help Kobayashi recall their meeting during their childhood and fixes her misunderstanding. Ran tries to get her parents together by having Kogoro celebrate Eri's birthday at a luxury hotel. Eri, who coincidentally has a client at the hotel, accepts and after dinner, finds her client dead in her room. Conan drops hints for Kogoro allowing him to deduce the client's husband is the murderer. Kogoro mistakenly gives Eri prayer beads instead of a necklace causing her to angrily yell at him. Later, Jirokichi enlists the Detective Boys as he attempts to capture Kid by baiting him with a jewel called Kirin's Horn. Kid manages to steal Kirin's Horn from its pedestal. The Detective Boys are able to deduce Kid is disguised as Ginzo Nakamori who escapes before the authorities catch him. A serial thief with a hyottoko mask stabs a man who exclaims "monkey" and "nine" before losing consciousness. Realizing the victim is relating to the Chinese zodiac, Conan discerns the identity of the stabber who is apprehended by Ran.
"The True Identity of the Kappa" (河童の正体, "Kappa no Shōtai")
"Steam Murder" (湯けむりの殺人, "Yukemuri no Satsujin")
"Locked Room on the Lake" (湖上の密室, "Kojō no Misshitsu")
"An Eye for an Eye" (目には目を, "Me ni wa Me o")
"White Day Murder" (ホワイトデーの殺人, "Howaito Dē no Satsujin")
"Miracle Trick" (ミラクルなトリック, "Mirakuru na Torikku")
"Happy White Day" (ハッピーホワイトデー, "Happii Howaito Dē")
"Air on the G String" (G線上のアリア, "Jī Senjō no Aria")
"Genius" (天才, "Tensai")
Kogoro receives a request to solve the drowning of a boy eleven years prior at an inn. During their stay at the inn, the boy's father is found dead after being drowned in a basin of swamp water. Conan investigates and point out the murderer to be the boy's teacher due to a misunderstood vengeance. Kogoro stars in a commercial for White Day chocolates and is invited to the company party. There, the company president is murdered through an unknown method. Conan is able to deduce the president was murdered by his wife with the use of a poison lemon. The Detective Boys are stranded atop a mountain after Agasa's car breaks down. They take shelter from the rain in a house where they discover a dairy with plans to kidnap and murder a boy.
Conan's investigation leads him to discover the boy was kidnapped to prevent him from entering a piano competition to allow the kidnapper's daughter to win the competition. The Detective Boys find the boy in good health and are able to save the kidnapper when he attempts to commit suicide due to guilt. The Phantom Thief Kid sends a notice announcing he will return three possessions of Sakamoto Ryōma. Kid succeeds and returns a large number forgeries evidencing the Ryōma exhibitionist organizer and his appraiser business of selling forged items. Heiji and Kazuha visit Tokyo in order to investigate the inheritance affair of the Inubushi family and murders cited to be caused by an inugami. After their investigation, Conan and Heiji reveal the inugami to be a fake created by one of the inheritors of the Inubushi fortune who wanted to increase his share-hold.
"VHS of Memories" (思い出のVHS, "Omoide no Bui Eichi Esu")
"13-Year-Old Message" (13年越しの想い, "Jū-san'nen Goshi no Messēji")
"Holmes' Apprentice" (名探偵の弟子, "Hōmuzu no Deshi")
"Book of Revelation" (黙示録, "Mokushiroku")
"Love is Zero" (ラブは0, "Rabu wa Zero")
"Ask Holmes" (ホームズに聞け, "Hōmuzu ni Kike")
"The Holmes Code" (ホームズの暗号, "Hōmuzu no Angō")
"The Other A" (もう1つのA, "Mō Hitotsu no Ē")
"Message from the Queen" (女王からのメッセージ, "Joō kara no Messēji")
"The Real Target" (真の標的, "Shin no Tāgetto")
"The Queen's True Worth" (女王の真価, "Joō no Shinka")
Officer Chiba is searching for a VHS in Teitan Elementary after his childhood love, Naeko Miike, calls him for a school reunion. The VHS contains a reply to Chiba's love letter. The Detective Boys, after some deduction, find the tape and learn she requited Chiba's feelings. Chiba goes to the reunion to discover Naeko did not attend, and, unbeknownst to him, passes by Naeko in an officer uniform, having recently transferred to the same department as Chiba. At the usual diner, Kogoro receives an offer from a rich English woman to travel to London and share his detective stories with her husband. Conan boards the plane by taking an antidote to APTX 4869 and traveling as Shinichi. At the Sherlock Holmes Museum, Apollo Glass, younger brother of tennis player Minerva Glass, gives Conan a riddle he received from a strange man whom proclaims the riddle is an advance notice to a murder. When Conan accidentally reveals to Ran he is in London while posing as Shinichi, he is forced to take the antidote for the return trip to hide his identity. He discerns the strange man to be Sabara Hades. Decoding the riddle indicates the finals tennis match where Minerva plays. At the stadium, Conan realizes Minerva's mother is holding a bomb to which Hades plans on detonating at the end of her match.
"A Troublesome and Difficult Case" (厄介な難事件, "Yakkai na Nanjiken")
"A Person in Need of Rescue" (要救助者, "Yōkyūjosha")
"A Dangerous Game of Hide-and-seek" (危険なかくれんぼ, "Kiken na Kakurenbo")
"Communications Code" (通話コード, "Fūwa Kōdo")
"A Terrible Death" (ヤバイ死に様, "Yabai Shi ni Zama")
"Moving Corpse" (動く死体, "Ugoku Shitai")
"Fake Feet" (偽りの足, "Itsuwari no Ashi")
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (オオカミ少年, "Ōkami Shōnen")
"The Horsehair Crab from Lake Suwa" (諏訪湖の毛ガニ, "Suwa-ko no Kegani")
"The Truth of the Karuta Cards" (カルタの真実, "Karuta no Shinjitsu")
"The Guardian of Time" (時の番人, "Toki no Ban'nin")
Conan is able to locate Hades in the crowd and apprehends him before the bomb is detonated. He receives another antidote to the APTX 4869 from his parents and is able to return to Japan. The Detective Boys play in an abandoned warehouse when a small earthquake occurs. They hear an unknown person in the warehouse banging the code 252 on the walls, indicating they need help. Originally deducing someone got trapped by the earthquake, they discover that two kidnappers posing as construction workers. With the assistance of Okiya Subaru, they are able to apprehend the kidnappers and reveal the kidanappe to be Agasa. Later, a kid who is known to be an obsessive liar tells the Detective Boys his home has been invaded but is taken away by his parents. They decide to investigate to see if the boy is telling the truth. After concluding the boy is telling the truth, the invaders, who were posing as the boy's parents, corner the Detective Boys. Conan, having deduced the boy was telling the truth, had called the police to apprehend the criminals. A wealthy woman hires Kogoro to investigate threatening letters she received. While celebrating her midnight birthday, a black out occurs and Kogoro's employer is found dead.
"Ramen to Die For" (死ぬほど美味いラーメン, "Shinu Hodo Umai Rāmen")
"Ramen and Poison" (ラーメンと毒薬, "Rāmen to Dokuyaku")
"The Truth Over the Spectacles" (眼鏡越しの真実, "Megane Goshi no Shinjitsu")
"Jeet Kune Do" (截拳道, "Jī Kun Dō")
"A Detective Just Like You, Little Boy" (ボウヤと同じ探偵, "Bōya to Onaji Tantei")
"Sera's Careless Deduction" (世良の迂闊な推理, "Sera no Ukatsu na Suiri")
"Let's Hear Your Brilliant Deduction!" (名推理を聞かせろ!, "Meisuiri o Kikasero!")
"The Law of Nicknames" (あだ名の法則, "Adana no Hōsoku")
"Possible Sniping!" (狙撃可能!, "Sogeki Kanō!")
The police presume the murderer escaped out from the balcony as the doors opened up during the time of death. Conan investigates and reveals the balcony doors were tied to a system of strings connected to the large clock on the house which caused it to open at midnight. As for the murderer, he declares it to be the architect who used a modified umbrella to stab the victim. Later, Conan and Kogoro eat out at a restaurant when a costumer dies from poison. After a thorough investigation, Conan reveals the poison was applied near the lens of the victim's glasses by his barber. Conan, Ran, and Sonoko are on the way to a hotel for a cake buffet when a man seemingly commits suicide. Conan, along with teenage detective Masumi Sera, investigate and deduce he was murdered. They reveal the victim was placed in a wheelchair and pulled by a system of strings connected to the elevator which launched him out a window. Sera enrolls as a student at Teitan high-school and accompanies Ran home. Sera questions Kogoro about Conan's presence during his deductions but is interrupted when a man and three hostages enter Kogoro's office demanding him to deduce which of the three murdered his sister. The clue to the murderer is from his sister's final blog, detailing her visit from an elephant, rat, and fox.
