Case Closed, known as Meitantei Conan (???????, lit. Great Detective Conan, officially translated as Detective Conan) in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama and, since 1994, is serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday. To avoid copyright issues with the name Detective Conan, the English language release was renamed Case Closed. Gosho Aoyama’s work was influenced by the stories of Arsène Lupin, Sherlock Holmes, and the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa.The story follows the adventures of Jimmy Kudo, a prodigious young detective who was inadvertently transformed into a child after being poisoned.
