In my never ending task of catching up with all the things my students are into, a couple days ago I started watching Detective Conan, aka Case Closed (名探偵コナン). It's the new movie all the kids are talking about but I watched the first couple episodes of the TV anime from 1996. It's not bad.
I'd seen a couple episodes dubbed in English when the show aired on Adult Swim in the early 2000s under the title Case Closed. Like most Adult Swim viewers, I didn't have any interest in a show about a little kid, and there's certainly nothing particularly adult about the show, except to the lingering Puritanism of American broadcast restrictions. But I like kids a lot more than I used to and so I can enjoy a kids' show.
The show's about a brilliant high school student detective named Shinichi Kudo who's transformed into a brilliant elementary school student detective called Conan Edogawa. Among other things, this derails his plans to make it with his high school sweetheart, Ran.
In prepubescent form, he goes by the name Conan Edogawa, which comes from combining the names of two famous mystery writers, Arthur Conan Doyle and Edogawa Ranpo. He has a pretty charming obsession with Sherlock Holmes.
The show's funny but also capable of real tension at the right moments.
Detective Conan is available on Netflix in Japan.
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