Gosho Aoyama, made his debut in 1992 with CHOTTO MATTE ("Wait a minute") which won Shogakukan's prestigious Shinjin Comic Taisho ("Newcomer's Award for Comics") and launched his career as a critically acclaimed, top-selling manga artist. In addition to DETECTIVE CONAN which won the Shogakukan Award for best Manga in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga, YAIBA, which won Shogakukan's Award for Manga in 1992. Aoyama's manga is greatly influenced by his boyhood love for mystery, adventure, and baseball and he has cited the tales of Arsene Lupin, Sherlock Holmes, and the samurai films of Akira...

High-school mystery fan Shin'ichi Kudo is actually one of his high school's best minds, but he gets his reality checks from his childhood friend and almost-girlfriend Ran Mori. Nothing can keep Shin'ichi from a case, until he follows a suspicious man into a park, is accosted from behind and fed a strange chemical which renders him unconscious. When he awakens, he has been transformed into a puny grade schooler The hapless boy finds a home with eccentric inventor Professor Agasa, who searches for a cure for his condition. While he's waiting to be restored to his adolescence, Shin'ichi takes...

Conan and Rachel take to the skies But their transcontinental detective mission runs into unexpected turbulence when a murder is committed on board their passenger plane. Rachel doesn't think she can solve the case before the plane lands, but then she receives a little in-flight assistance...from none other than the long-lost Jimmy Kudo Has Conan finally returned to his teenage self? And if so, how? Whatever the answer, Rachel's in for a bumpy flight

When ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a pair of nefarious men in black--poof He is physically tranformed into a first grader. Until Jimmy can find a cure for his miniature malady, he takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the cases that come his way.

Conan and his friends take a well-deserved break at a video arcade--until one unlucky gamer is found dead in the seat of a virtual-reality game. As Conan and Rachel investigate, they're joined by an unlikely new accomplice: Rachel's English teacher, Ms. Saintemillion. Outside the...

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When ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a pair of nefarious men in black--poof He is physically tranformed into a first grader. Until Jimmy can find a cure for his miniature malady, he takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the cases that come his way.

What Ms. Saintemillion SawConan isn't sure whether to trust Jodie Saintemillion, the American high school teacher whose ditzy blonde exterior conceals a calculating mind. When a bus is hijacked by desperate criminals, Ms. Saintemillion turns out to be...

The mystery series that inspired the hit anime

The mystery series that inspired the hit anime

Reads R to L (Japanese Style). "Valentine's Day Massacre" Love is in the air as Conan and company face the most dangerous time of the year: Valentine's Day Detective Sato of the Metropolitan Police has reluctantly agreed to an arranged marriage--unless her partner Takagi can work up the nerve to confess his feelings for her. But first he's got to catch a convenience store stickup artist who looks completely different to every witness Can a phone call from Jimmy Kudo help him crack...

The mystery series that inspired the hit anime

Reads R to L (Japanese Style). The mystery series that inspired the hit anime

Greek Tragedy: Flash back to one of the cases that made Jimmy Kudo famous before he became Conan While visiting his actress mother on Broadway, Jimmy discovers some rotten apples in the Big Apple. Someone is trying to kill the stars of Golden Apple, a musical based on Greek mythology, and the only clue is a golden apple inscribed "For the Fairest." While Jimmy races to crack the case, Rachel stumbles upon a mystery of her own...and a certain man in a black...

Der sechzehnjhrige Oberschler Shinichi Kudo ist ein groer Sherlock Holmes Fan und gefrchteter Verbrecher-Jger. Als er auf einer heien Spur berwltigt wird und ein mysterises Gift verabreicht bekommt, verwandelt er sich pltzlich ... in ein Kind zurck!? Doch unter dem Namen Conan Edogawa lautet seine Mission jetzt: Der Kampf gegen das Bse und das Erlangen alter Gre.

Mein Name ist Shinichi Kudo. Ich will ja nicht angeben, aber ich bin ein ziemlich bekannter Oberschlerdetektiv. Oder besser gesagt, das war ich! Denn aufgrund mysteriser Umstnde laufe ich jetzt wieder als Steppke durch die Lande! Mein Verstand blieb von der Rckwandlung jedoch unangetastet und so lse ich die schwierigsten Flle! Denn es kann immer nur eine Wahrheit geben!!

Mein Name ist Conan Edogawa. In Wirklichkeit bin ich aber der Oberschlerdetektiv Shinichi Kudo! Kaum hatte ich seit langem wieder eine Spur der Kerle in Schwarz gefunden, denen ich meine schicksalhafte Schrumpfung verdanke, da ... Aber damit nicht genug, dann taucht auch noch dieser Typ aus Osaka wieder auf! Ich hab s aber echt nicht leicht...!