Global InformationList of Case Closed volumes information
Case Closed, known as Meitantei Conan (名探偵コナン, Great Detective Conan) (officially translated as Detective Conan) in Japan, is written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama and serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday. The series began its serialization on January 19, 1994. Since Case Closed's premiere, over 1000 chapters have been released in Japan, making it the 21st 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. 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. The series follows high school detective Jimmy Kudo who was transformed into a child after being forced to ingest an experimental poison.
Shogakukan collected the individual chapters into tankōbon volumes in Japan. The first volume was released on June 18, 1994 and is currently on-going.[1] In addition, Gosho Aoyama's assistants have also written and published volumes their own side stories of Case Closed.[2] Ani-manga tankōbon based on the Case Closed films have also been released by Shogakukan with each movie cut into two parts.
Viz Media licensed the manga and released the first English adapted volume on September 7, 2004.[3] Victor Gollancz Ltd used Viz Media's translation to release the 15 volumes in the United Kingdom before ceasing publication of manga (Viz Media has since re-released them).[4] On July 22, 2009, Viz Media uploaded a website containing its licensed series from Weekly Shōnen Sunday;[5] the first chapter of Case Closed was uploaded to the website on October 21, 2009.[6]
The series has been released internationally under the name Detective Conan. The manga series is licensed for additional regional language releases by Changchun Publishing House in China;[7] Kana in France and the Countries of Benelux (in French);[8] Egmont Manga & Anime in Germany, Austria and Switzerland;[9] Elex Media Komputindo in Indonesia;[10] Star Comics in Italy;[11] Chingwin Publishing Group in Taiwan;[12] Kim Dong Publishing House in Vietnam;[13] and Planeta DeAgostini within Spain for both Spanish- and Catalan.[14][15]
Egmont licensed series in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, but dropped them either because low sales (Sweden),[16] unknown reason (Denmark and Norway)[17][18] or when Egmont closed its manga-publishing division in 2013 (Finland).[19]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Vol 1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Detective Conan Special Edition 1" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. 28 January 1997. Retrieved June 4, 2010.
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Viz 1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Case Closed Volume 15 (MANGA): Amazon.co.uk: Aoyama, Gosho: 9780575080805: Books
- ^ "News: Viz to Launch Shonen Sunday Imprint with Rin-ne Manga". Anime News Network. July 8, 2009. Retrieved December 3, 2010.
- ^ "Shonen Sunday Case Closed". Viz Media. Retrieved December 3, 2010.
- ^ 《名侦探柯南》01 [Detective Conan Vol 01] (in Chinese). Changchun Publishing House. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
- ^ "Détective Conan" (in French). Kana. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- ^ "Detektiv Conan" (in German). Egmont Manga & Anime. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- ^ "Detektif Conan 57" (in Indonesian). Elex Media Komputindo. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
- ^ "Detective Conan" (in Italian). Star Comics. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- ^ 名偵探柯南 [Detective Conan] (in Chinese). Chingwin Publishing Group. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
- ^ "Thám tử lừng danh Conan – Tập 59" [Detective Conan: Vol 59] (in Vietnamese). Kim Dong Publishing House. Archived from the original on February 8, 2008. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
- ^ Detective Conan Vol. 2 Nº 68 [Detective Conan Vol. 2 No. 68] (in Spanish). Planeta DeAgostini. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- ^ Detectiu Conan (Català) Vol. 1 Nº 08 [Detective Conan (Catalan) Vol. 1 No.08] (in Catalan). Planeta DeAgostini. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- ^ [1]"Unfortunately, the sales for the Case Closed in Sweden have been low in recent years, making Conan Vol 63 last volume to be published in Swedish."
- ^ [2] Wayback machine capture from Hovedbiblioteket, archived 2006
- ^ [3] Wayback machine capture from Egmont Univers, archived 2011
- ^ [4] Archived 2017-08-05 at the Wayback Machine Vaara-kirjastot (library catalog entry for last Finnish volume)