I don’t know how long TMS Entertainment will keep this up on their YouTube channel, so watch it fast if you want to catch an airplane killer.
Detective Conan follows the adventures of a young detective turned even younger. Teen detective Shinichi Kudo was transformed into a elementary school kid by two members of a mysterious organization whose poison caused de-aging rather that death. Try not to think about it too much since I don’t think the franchise ever really brings it up again except to explain the series plot. Now trapped in a child’s body, Shinichi is forced to live with his detective rival and his daughter, the latter also being Shinichi’s love interest. Even they don’t know who the boy is because to protect them he’s taken on the identity of Conan Edogawa, a fusion of Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Rampo (a pen name of Hirai Tarō based on Edgar Allan Poe). Now he uses his wits and a few gadgets to solve mysteries and let his rival, whose career had fallen after the death of his wife and being shown up by Kudo, take the credit until he can restore his body to normal.
When the show was brought to the English speaking world there was concerns about legal issues. So Funimation changed his name to Jimmy Kudo while naming the show Cased Closed, which Viz also followed in the manga. Although I don’t think anybody is going to mistake the barbarian or the talk show host for a child detective. It also helped with localization, but more recent dubs, like the one we’ll be watching tonight, has since return to the proper Japanese names for all the characters and the show.
While TMS’s official YouTube channel doesn’t have the entire series up (you’ll have to hunt that down, like through Crunchyroll though I have founded subbed versions), at least as of this writing they posted episode 162 for the show’s 30th anniversary, “Locked Room In The Sky”. Oddly they don’t have the dub while a Detective Conan movie they also have up at the time is only available subtitled. I don’t get it. Love interest Rin remembers when they were visiting Shinichi’s parents in the US while taking a similar flight with the present day main cast, including Conan’s actual kid friends. There a murder takes place because when doesn’t it and Shinichi has to solve it, with the inspector and his partner happening to be on the same flight for vacation. The stand-out here is that in this flashback, Shinichi isn’t officially a teen detective yet. In fact, it’s his first ever case. Will one truth prevail? Enjoy…for as long as it’s available.
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