List of Case Closed episodes
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series Case Closed
Case Closed
Case Closed, known as in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since February 2, 1994, and has been collected in 73 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011...
is based on the manga
Manga
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series by Gosho Aoyama
Gosho Aoyama
, born on June 21, 1963 in Hokuei, Tottori Prefecture, Japan is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series Detective Conan .-Educational background:Aoyama was talented in drawing even at an early age...
. Originally titled Meitantei Conan in Japan, the English dub
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was renamed Case Closed due to unspecified legal concerns with the name Detective Conan. The series is directed by Kenji Kodama
Kenji Kodama
is a Japanese anime director, and storyboard artist. He is best known for directing the anime Case Closed and working with the anime Lupin III.-Works:* Bug tte Honey : Episode Director* Case Closed : Director, Storyboard, Episode Director...
and Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Yasuichiro Yamamoto
is a Japanese anime director, and storyboard artist. He is best known for directing the anime Case Closed.-Works:* Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie , Animation* Urusei Yatsura: Only You , Assistant Animator, In between Artist...
and produced by TMS Entertainment and Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
is a TV station joining Nippon News Network and Nippon Television Network System in Osaka Business Park, Osaka, Japan founded as "" on February 13, 1958...
. The episodes follow the adventures of teenage detective Jimmy Kudo
Jimmy Kudo
Jimmy Kudo, also known as in Japan, is the protagonist of Gosho Aoyama's series Case Closed, which is known in Japan as . A High-school Detective, he is forced to in ingest the lethal poison APTX 4869 after his encounter with Gin and Vodka. Due to a rare side effect, the poison shrinks him into a...
, who has become a young child again due to a poison called APTX 4869. Renamed Conan Edogawa, he stays with the Moores and while hiding his identity, helps solve murder cases until the day he can take down the Black Organization.
Case Closed has aired since January 8, 1996 on Nippon Television Network System
Nippon Television Network System
is a television network organized by NTV in Tokyo. NTV feeds entertainment and other non-news programming over NNS to 28 affiliated stations.-Nippon News Network stations:...
in Japan and is currently ongoing. It has aired over 600 episodes in Japan making it the eleventh longest running anime series. Also spun off from the main animation are three OVA series and a TV special titled Lupin the 3rd vs Detective Conan. For the fifteenth anniversary of the anime series, the episodes of the series were made available for video on demand
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.
In 2003, the first 104 episodes of the regular animation series were licensed by Funimation Entertainment for distribution in North America and was retitled Case Closed because of legal considerations. Meitantei Conan has also been released in other languages. Case Closed debuted on Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
as part of their Adult Swim
Adult Swim
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programming block on May 24, 2004; no more than 50 episodes were licensed from Funimation due to low ratings. The Canadian channel YTV picked up the Case Closed series and broadcast 22 episodes between April 7, 2006, and September 2, 2006, before taking it off the air. Funimation made the series available with the launch of the Funimation Channel
FUNimation Channel
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in November 2005 and was temporary available on Colours TV
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during its syndication with the Funimation Channel. A separate English adaptation of the series by Animax Asia
Animax Asia
Animax Asia is the Japanese anime TV network Animaxs English language feeds in Southeast Asia and South Asia, as well as its feeds across other regions of mainland Asia, including Hong Kong and Taiwan...
premiered in the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
on January 18, 2006, under the name Detective Conan. Because Animax were unable to obtain further TV broadcast rights, their version comprised 52 episodes. The series continued with reruns until August 7, 2006, when it was removed from the station.
Seventy-three pieces of theme music
Theme music
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are used throughout the series: thirty-two opening themes and thirty-nine closing themes in the Japanese animation and three opening and four closing themes in the English adaption. Universal Music Group released the first two openings and ending theme songs while Being Incorporated released all other themesongs henceforth. Shogakukan began releasing the series to DVD starting with the first episode; 163 volumes have been released and are split into 19 seasons.
Although Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
stopped ordering episodes, Funimation continued to dub the series direct-to-DVD and episodes 1–4 and 53–83 were encapsulated into eleven DVD volumes released between August 24, 2004 and July 26, 2005. Funimation then redesigned its DVD volumes and encapsulated episodes 1–52 into eight DVD volumes and released them between February 21, 2006 and May 29, 2007. The series was later released in five seasonal DVD boxes released between July 22, 2008 and May 12, 2009 containing 130 episodes in total. The seasonal boxes were then re-released in a Viridian edition between July 14, 2009 and March 23, 2010.
Season 1: 1996
Season 2: 1996–1997
Season 3: 1997
Season 4: 1997–1998
Season 5: 1998–1999
Season 6: 1999
Season 7: 1999–2000
Season 8: 2000–2001
Season 9: 2001
Season 10: 2001–2002
Season 11: 2002–2003
Season 12: 2003–2004
Season 13: 2004–2005
Season 14: 2005–2006
Season 15: 2006–2007
Season 16: 2007
Season 17: 2008–2009
Season 18: 2009–2010
Season 19: 2010–2011
Season 20: 2011
Region 2
The Region 2 DVD compilations of the Detective Conan anime are released by ShogakukanShogakukan
is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, manga, non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan.Shogakukan founded Shueisha which founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hitotsubashi Group, one of the largest publishing groups in Japan...
and grouped by parts. As of October 2011, 19 seasons and 163 volumes in total have been released.
| Volume | Release date | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part 1 | Volume 1 | 1–4 | February 24, 2006 | ||
| Volume 2 | 5–8 | February 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 3 | 9–11 | February 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 4 | 12–15 | February 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 5 | 16–19 | February 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 6 | 20–23 | February 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 7 | 24–25, 27-28 | February 24, 2006 | |||
| Part 2 | Volume 1 | 26, 29–31 | February 24, 2006 | ||
| Volume 2 | 32–35 | February 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 3 | 36–38, 41 | February 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 4 | 39–40, 42–43 | February 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 5 | 44–47 | February 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 6 | 48–51 | February 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 7 | 52–54 | February 24, 2006 | |||
| Part 3 | Volume 1 | 55–58 | March 24, 2006 | ||
| Volume 2 | 59–62 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 3 | 63–66 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 4 | 67–70 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 5 | 71–74 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 6 | 75–76, 79 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 7 | 77–78, 81–82 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Part 4 | Volume 1 | 80, 83–85 | March 24, 2006 | ||
| Volume 2 | 86–89 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 3 | 90–93 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 4 | 96 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 5 | 94–95, 98–99 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 6 | 100–103 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 7 | 97, 104–106 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Part 5 | Volume 1 | 107–109, 112 | March 24, 2006 | ||
| Volume 2 | 110–111, 114–115 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 3 | 113, 116–117, 119 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 4 | 118, 120, 123 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 5 | 121–122, 124–125 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 6 | 126–127, 130–131 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 7 | 128, 132–134 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 8 | 129 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Part 6 | Volume 1 | 135–137 & 140 | October 25, 2000 | ||
| Volume 2 | 138–139, 141–142 | October 25, 2000 | |||
| Volume 3 | 143–145, 148 | November 25, 2000 | |||
| Volume 4 | 146–147 149, 152 | November 25, 2000 | |||
| Volume 5 | 150–151, 153–154 | December 25, 2000 | |||
| Volume 6 | 155–158 | December 25, 2000 | |||
| Volume 7 | 159–160, 162 | December 25, 2000 | |||
| Part 7 | Volume 1 | 161, 163–165 | May 25, 2001 | ||
| Volume 2 | 166–169 | June 25, 2001 | |||
| Volume 3 | 170–173 | July 25, 2001 | |||
| Volume 4 | 174 | August 25, 2001 | |||
| Volume 5 | 175–178 | September 25, 2001 | |||
| Volume 6 | 179–182 | October 25, 2001 | |||
| Volume 7 | 183–184, 187 | November 25, 2001 | |||
| Volume 8 | 185–186, 188–189 | December 15, 2001 | |||
| Volume 9 | 190–193 | January 15, 2002 | |||
| Part 8 | Volume 1 | 194–196, 207 | March 25, 2002 | ||
| Volume 2 | 197–200 | April 25, 2002 | |||
| Volume 3 | 201–204 | May 25, 2002 | |||
| Volume 4 | 205–206, 208 | June 25, 2002 | |||
| Volume 5 | 209–211, 214 | July 25, 2002 | |||
| Volume 6 | 212–213, 215–216 | August 25, 2002 | |||
| Volume 7 | 219 | September 25, 2002 | |||
| Part 9 | Volume 1 | 217–218, 220–221 | December 25, 2002 | ||
| Volume 2 | 222–225 | January 25, 2003 | |||
| Volume 3 | 226–229 | February 25, 2003 | |||
| Volume 4 | 230–232, 235 | March 25, 2003 | |||
| Volume 5 | 234–237 | April 25, 2003 | |||
| Volume 6 | 238–241 | May 25, 2003 | |||
| Volume 7 | 242–245 | June 25, 2003 | |||
| Volume 8 | 246–248, 251 | June 25, 2003 | |||
| Volume 9 | 249–250, 253–254 | August 25, 2003 | |||
| Part 10 | Volume 1 | 252, 255–257 | October 22, 2004 | ||
| Volume 2 | 258–259, 261–262 | October 22, 2004 | |||
| Volume 3 | 260, 266–268 | November 26, 2004 | |||
| Volume 4 | 263, 273 | November 26, 2004 | |||
| Volume 5 | 264–265, 269–270 | December 24, 2004 | |||
| Volume 6 | 271–272, 274–275 | December 24, 2004 | |||
| Volume 7 | 276–278, 281 | January 21, 2005 | |||
| Volume 8 | 279–280, 282–283 | January 21, 2005 | |||
| Volume 9 | 284–285, 289–290 | February 25, 2005 | |||
| Part 11 | Volume 1 | 286–288, 296 | March 25, 2005 | ||
| Volume 2 | 291–293, 303 | March 25, 2005 | |||
| Volume 3 | 291–293, 303 | April 22, 2005 | |||
| Volume 4 | 299–302 | April 22, 2005 | |||
| Volume 5 | 304, 314 | May 27, 2005 | |||
| Volume 6 | 295–308 | May 27, 2005 | |||
| Volume 7 | 209–311, 315 | June 24, 2005 | |||
| Volume 8 | 312–313, 320, 328 | June 24, 2005 | |||
| Part 12 | Volume 1 | 316–319 | July 22, 2005 | ||
| Volume 2 | 321–324 | July 22, 2005 | |||
| Volume 3 | 325–327, 337 | August 26, 2005 | |||
| Volume 4 | 329–332 | August 26, 2005 | |||
| Volume 5 | 333–336 | September 22, 2005 | |||
| Volume 6 | 338–341 | September 22, 2005 | |||
| Volume 7 | 342–344 | October 28, 2005 | |||
| Volume 8 | 345 | October 28, 2005 | |||
| Volume 9 | 346–349 | November 25, 2005 | |||
| Volume 10 | 350–353 | November 25, 2005 | |||
| Part 13 | Volume 1 | 354–356 | December 23, 2005 | ||
| Volume 2 | 357–360 | December 23, 2005 | |||
| Volume 3 | 361–363, 368 | January 27, 2006 | |||
| Volume 4 | 364–367 | January 27, 2006 | |||
| Volume 5 | 369–372 | February 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 6 | 373–376 | February 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 7 | 377–380 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 8 | 381–382, 388–389 | March 24, 2006 | |||
| Volume 9 | 383 | April 28, 2006 | |||
| Volume 10 | 384–387 | April 28, 2006 | |||
| Part 14 | Volume 1 | 390–393 | May 26, 2006 | ||
| Volume 2 | 394–397 | May 26, 2006 | |||
| Volume 3 | 398–400, 405 | June 23, 2006 | |||
| Volume 4 | 401–404 | June 23, 2006 | |||
| Volume 5 | 406–408, 413 | July 28, 2006 | |||
| Volume 6 | 409–412 | July 28, 2006 | |||
| Volume 7 | 414–417 | August 25, 2006 | |||
| Volume 8 | 418–420, 423 | August 25, 2006 | |||
| Volume 9 | 421–422, 424, 426 | September 22, 2006 | |||
| Volume 10 | 425 | October 27, 2006 | |||
| Part 15 | Volume 1 | 427–430 | December 22, 2006 | ||
| Volume 2 | 431–434 | January 26, 2007 | |||
| Volume 3 | 435–438 | February 23, 2007 | |||
| Volume 4 | 439–442 | March 23, 2007 | |||
| Volume 5 | 443–445, 448 | April 27, 2007 | |||
| Volume 6 | 446–447, 449 | May 25, 2007 | |||
| Volume 7 | 450–452 | June 29, 2007 | |||
| Volume 8 | 453–456 | July 29, 2007 | |||
| Volume 9 | 457–460 | August 24, 2007 | |||
| Volume 10 | 462–465 | September 28, 2007 | |||
| Part 16 | Volume 1 | 461, 466–468 | January 25, 2008 | ||
| Volume 2 | 469–471, 474 | February 22, 2008 | |||
| Volume 3 | 472–473, 475, 478 | March 28, 2008 | |||
| Volume 4 | 476–477, 480, 483 | April 25, 2008 | |||
| Volume 5 | 479 | May 23, 2008 | |||
| Volume 6 | 481–482, 484–485 | June 27, 2008 | |||
| Volume 7 | 487–488 | July 25, 2008 | |||
| Volume 8 | 489–490 | August 22, 2008 | |||
| Part 17 | Volume 1 | 486, 491–493 | September 26, 2008 | ||
| Volume 2 | 494–497 | October 24, 2008 | |||
| Volume 3 | 498–501 | January 1, 2009 | |||
| Volume 4 | 502–504, 512 | February 27, 2009 | |||
| Volume 5 | 505–508 | March 27, 2009 | |||
| Volume 6 | 509–511, 520 | April 24, 2009 | |||
| Volume 7 | 513–515 | May 22, 2009 | |||
| Volume 8 | 516–517, 526 | June 26, 2009 | |||
| Volume 9 | 518–519, 521 | July 24, 2009 | |||
| Volume 10 | 522–523, 527 | August 28, 2009 | |||
| Part 18 | Volume 1 | 524–525, 528–529 | October 23, 2009 | ||
| Volume 2 | 530–533 | February 26, 2010 | |||
| Volume 3 | 534–536, 539 | March 26, 2010 | |||
| Volume 4 | 537–538, 540–541 | April 23, 2010 | |||
| Volume 5 | 542–544, 553 | May 28, 2010 | |||
| Volume 6 | 545–548 | June 25, 2010 | |||
| Volume 7 | 549–552 | July 23, 2010 | |||
| Volume 8 | 554–557 | August 27, 2010 | |||
| Volume 9 | 558–561 | September 24, 2010 | |||
| Volume 10 | 562-565 | October 22, 2010 | |||
| Part 19 | Volume 1 | 566-569 | January 28, 2011 | ||
| Volume 2 | 570-572,577 | February 25, 2011 | |||
| Volume 3 | 573-576 | April 8, 2011 | |||
| Volume 4 | 578-581 | April 22, 2011 | |||
| Volume 5 | 582-585 | May 27, 2011 | |||
| Volume 6 | 586-588, 591 | June 24, 2011 | |||
| Volume 7 | 589-590, 592-593 | July 22, 2011 | |||
| Volume 8 | 594-596, 599 | August 26, 2011 | |||
| Volume 9 | 597-598, 600-601 | September 23, 2011 | |||
| Volume 10 | 602-605 | October 28, 2011 | |||
Region 1
The Region 1 DVD compilations of the Case Closed anime are released by Funimation EntertainmentFunimation Entertainment
Funimation is an American entertainment company. Originally founded in 1994 by Gen Fukunaga, the company became a subsidiary of Navarre Corporation on May 11, 2005...
. Although Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
stopped ordering episodes, Funimation continued to dub the series direct-to-DVD and episodes 1–4 and 53–83 were encapsulated into eleven DVD volumes released between August 24, 2004 and July 26, 2005. Funimation then redesigned its DVD volumes and encapsulated episodes 1–52 into eight DVD volumes and released them between February 21, 2006 and May 29, 2007. The series was later released in five seasonal DVD boxes released between July 22, 2008 and May 12, 2009 containing 130 episodes in total. The seasonal boxes were then re-released in a Viridian edition between July 14, 2009 and March 23, 2010.
| Case Closed DVD volumes | Release date | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case 1 Vol 1: Secret Life of Jimmy Kudo | 1–4 | August 24, 2004 | ||
| Case 4 Vol 1: Deadly Illusions | 53–55 | August 24, 2004 | ||
| Case 4 Vol 2: Desperate Truth | 56–58 | October 12, 2004 | ||
| Case 4 Vol 3: Like Old Times | 59–61 | November 23, 2004 | ||
| Case 4 Vol 4: Broken Dreams | 62–64 | January 11, 2005 | ||
| Case 4 Vol 5: Dubious Intent | 65–67 | March 1, 2005 | ||
| Case 5 Vol 1: Truth about Revenge | 68–69, 73 | April 19, 2005 | ||
| Case 5 Vol 2: Knight Baron Mystery | 70–72 | June 7, 2005 | ||
| Case 5 Vol 3: Triple Threat | 74–76 | August 26, 2005 | ||
| Case 5 Vol 4: Phantom Thief Kid | 78–81 | October 11, 2005 | ||
| Case 5 Vol 5: Covering Up | 71, 82–83 | December 20, 2005 | ||
| Case 1 Vol 1: The Investigation is Afoot | 1–9 | February 21, 2006 | ||
| Case 1 Vol 2: In Hot Pursuit | 10–15 | May 2, 2006 | ||
| Case 1 Vol 3: Ill-Fated Imposters | 16–21 | July 11, 2006 | ||
| Case 1 Vol 4: Wrong Answers Resolved | 22–26 | September 19, 2006 | ||
| Case 2 Vol 1: The Exploits of Genius | 28–33 | November 28, 2006 | ||
| Case 2 Vol 2: Cracking the Perfect Alibi | 34–39 | February 6, 2007 | ||
| Case 3 Vol 1: Behind the Facade | 40–45 | April 3, 2007 | ||
| Case 3 Vol 2: Death Wears a Blindfold | 46–52 | May 29, 2007 | ||
| Season | Episodes | Regular Edition release date | Viridian Edition release date | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 1-26 | March 24, 2006 | July 14, 2009 | |
| Season 2 | 27-52 | September 30, 2008 | September 15, 2009 | |
| Season 3 | 53-79 | November 25, 2008 | March 23, 2010 | |
| Season 4 | 80-105 | February 17, 2009 | March 23, 2010 | |
| Season 5 | 106-130 | May 12, 2009 | March 23, 2010 |