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The Case Closed manga, known in Japan as Detective Conan (名探偵コナン, Meitantei Conan), is written by Gosho Aoyama and serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday since January 19, 1994.[1] Since Case Closed's premiere, over 1,000 chapters have been released in Japan, making it the 25th 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.[2][3] 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.[4][5] The series follows high school detective Jimmy Kudo who was transformed into a child after being forced to swallow a poison.
Tankōbon volume 61 to 80 encapsulates all the chapters 631 to 850.
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| 61 | Shoes to Die For | April 3, 2008[6] 978-4-09-121340-2 | January 10, 2017[7] 978-1-4215-8684-7 | |
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| Serena's uncle Jirokichi challenges the Kaito Kid to steal a pair of jeweled shoes called the Purple Nails in the center of a city intersection. When Kid arrives, nets cover the intersection seemingly trapping him, but Kid proclaims that he can teleport, and he soon disappears and reappears on a roof top. Since one of the shoes was a fake, he and Jirokichi arrange another challenge. Conan Edogawa tries to determine how Kid is able to move so quickly. The Junior Detective League and Dr. Agasa are on a road trip when their car runs out of gas. An arrogant driver of a luxury car on the way to the top of a hill refuses to help them, but then the driver is killed from a car explosion. His fiancee believes it was because he had lit up a cigarette in a gasoline-filled garage, but Conan suspects foul play. In another case, Conan and Subaru Okiya, a grad student who is living at Jimmy's place, try to deduce what is going on with a bunch of paper airplanes with peculiar markings that have appeared around town. They find it is a code by someone who had been abducted, and, with Rachel's help, scramble to find the person as the kidnapper had apparently committed suicide. The brother of Cafe Poirot's waitress Azusa becomes a suspect in a murder case, but Azusa reacts strangely to the news and then runs off in response to a package she received. | ||||
| 62 | The Kudo Identity | August 11, 2008[8] 978-4-09-121464-5 | April 11, 2017[9] 978-1-4215-8685-4 | |
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| Conan helps Meguire, Richard and the detectives identify the real killer behind the murder of Azusa's brother's boss. Yuko Arisawa, a former judo champion, asks Eva Kaden to help find who has been stalking her husband, but when they return to her home, they find the husband has been murdered. Eva suspects Yuko did it but she has an alibi of being with the group at a restaurant. Rachel calls Richard to get involved. Later, a letter addressed to Jimmy requests his presence at a distant village. Conan follows the directions in the letter but is trapped in a cabin. Realizing he took the prototype antidote to APTX 4869, he escapes through the window and falls into a river. Jimmy is later found but he has amnesia and then he becomes the prime suspect in an attempted murder. Harley Hartwell tries to uncover the truth behind the amnesiac. Later, Harley and Jimmy investigate a man who was strangled while driving on the highway. | ||||
| 63 | Conan Dreams of Sushi | November 7, 2008[10] 978-4-09-121513-0 | July 11, 2017[11] 978-1-4215-9444-6 | |
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| Jimmy and Harley identify three suspects related to the man who was strangled while driving on the highway. Afterwards, Jimmy tries to excuse himself as he transforms back to Conan but Rachel will not let go of his hand. Agasa and the Junior Detectives are at a revolving sushi bar restaurant when an irritating food critic is poisoned with cyanide. Several guests and staff are suspect, but it is not clear how only one plate was poisoned and there was no poison on the suspects. Later, George's father participates in a competition for people who share his family name in order to win a rare hanafuda print, but when the host of the competition is murdered and three men, including George's father, become the suspects. Conan tricks the culprit into confessing allowing the police to identify the murderer. A ghost racer, dubbed the Silver Witch, is rumored to be causing accidents on a foggy mountain. Richard, with Rachel and Conan riding, races against the witch, but the car's tail lights seem to imply she can drive over a cliffside into the air. Conan narrows the suspect list to three pairs of drivers, and deduces who could have used the fog to create a mirage of driving in the air. The culprits attempt to escape the authorities but is caught by Miwako Sato who is revealed to be the original Silver Witch. | ||||
| 64 | Old Scars | April 2, 2009[12] 978-4-09-121892-6 | October 10, 2017[13] 978-1-42-159445-3 | |
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| The Junior Detectives and Subaru Okiya visit an isolated island called Horn Rock reputed to be off limits where they discover the body of a stranded diver with a list of fish etched into a rock nearby. Conan determines which of the diver's colleagues is the suspect. A rich blind woman hires Richard to help her find a boy who had saved her many years ago, but had received a scar on his torso in return. With her offering a large cash reward, Richard has to determine which of two candidates is the boy. They discover that Superintendent McLaughlin is secretly surveying the manor to determine if the scarred man could be a serial killer who had scarred McLaughlin's face 15 years ago. Although Conan determines who the boy is, the trail goes cold for McLaughlin's attacker, until a psychologist publicly challenges the serial killer to come to his place before the statute of limitations expires. The psychologist is murdered at his computer with the large letter Z slashed on his back. Conan and Takagi determine how the victims were related and who the killer is. Jirokichi receives a note allegedly from the Kaito Kid declaring he will opening his impenetrable safe, the Iron Tanuki, but the note is not in the Kaito Kid's writing style. While demonstrating his security to Richard, he then receives a note by the real Kaito Kid that he will open the safe. | ||||
| 65 | The Red Wall | August 18, 2009[14] 978-4-09-121717-2 | January 9, 2018[15] 978-1-42-159689-1 | |
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| Conan deduces how the Kaito Kid snuck into the household to crack the safe. The Junior Detectives are at a bank when a robbery and hostage situation occurs with one of the captives being Jodie Starling. Conan deduces what the real intent is for the robbery. Later, Dr. Agasa and Anita get a ride into town but suspect their drivers could be criminals looking to kill Richard and Conan. It turns out the drivers are Nagano police detectives Kansuke Yamato and Yui Uehara and they need Richard to help investigate a murder where the victim had spray painted a wall red before his death. They suspect the victim's former housemates, who have colors in their names. Things get complicated when one of the housemates is killed in a similar fashion, and the original manor is burned to the ground while precinct inspector Takaaki Morofushi is investigating. | ||||
| 66 | Cherry Blossom Confidential | November 18, 2009[16] 978-4-09-122048-6 | April 10, 2018[17] 978-1-42-159708-9 | |
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| Conan and the Nagano officers bait and capture the red wall murderer. Santos, who had a crush on Sato because she resembled a kind girl from her childhood, goes to the movies and runs into the Junior Detectives. He meets a woman that could be the childhood girl, but when the woman asks him to check up on her boyfriend at her home due to a stalker, they discover the man has been murdered. The Junior Detectives investigate a warehouse that appears to house a treasure if viewed from a top window, but when opening the front doors it is empty. Harley and Kazuha travel to Tokyo to search for a university student whom Harley gave Kazuha's good luck charm to. Kazuha wants to retrieve the charm before Harley can check that it contains a photo of him. They find the student had been assaulted in a sports bar. Later, Richard and Conan go along with Rachel and Serena for shopping. At a restaurant, they see a woman dressed up in a Gothic Lolita fashion. The same woman is later found dead in a restroom stall. | ||||
| 67 | Fashion Emergency | February 18, 2010[18] 978-4-09-122146-9 | July 10, 2018[19] 978-14215-9860-4 | |
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| Conan solves the mystery of how a Gothic Lolita girl was murdered in a restroom far from the restaurant where she and her friend were to meet. The Junior Detectives meet an elderly man who seems to have a lot on his schedule, but is actually planning on committing suicide. Richard is hired to investigate the sender of a set of red shirts at the mall. They encounter a man who is wearing explosives and that they have to solve the mystery of the red shirts or the entire floor will be destroyed. After hearing rumors that Shuichi Akai might have survived, the Black Organization wait outside the mall to snipe him (and kill Kir for failing to kill him before). Ms. Kobayashi witnesses a murder of a pawn shop owner and is questioned by Tokyo Metropolitan Police. While there, she overhears that Santos only likes her because she looks like Sato. She denies the story of how they met as kids. | ||||
| 68 | The Kirin's Horn | May 18, 2010[20] 978-4-09-122290-9 | October 9, 2018[21] 978-14215-9861-1 | |
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| The murderer of the pawn shop owner hopes to silence Ms. Kobayashi at her school, but is caught by police when it is revealed Sato was disguised as her. When Santos recites verbiage from the self-defense article, Ms. Kobayashi is reminded of their childhood meeting; they reconcile and start dating. Rachel tries to reunite her parents on a hotel vacation because she thinks Richard has bought Eva a birthday present. Eva agrees to attend because she can meet her client at the hotel who is dealing with a legal settlement. However, after dinner, the client is found dead under her hotel bed. Conan drops hints for Richard to allow him to solve the case. Jirokichi tries to stop Kaito Kid into stealing a jewel called the Kirin's Horn by hiring Conan and the Junior Detective League to protect it inside a temple room. But when the horn is stolen and Conan is knocked out, the Junior Detectives must find out which of the people present has disguised themselves as the Kid. At a Tori no ichi festival, Serena becomes the victim of a serial purse thief disguised in a hyottoko mask while Rachel restrains herself as she had received a fortune that says that the guy that likes her prefers ladylike girls who don't fight. The next week, when the purse thief has apparently stabbed a guy who communicates the words "monkey" and the number "nine" before losing consciousness, Conan and the girls puzzle over three possible suspects. | ||||
| 69 | The Shape of Murder | August 18, 2010[22] 978-4-09-122500-9 | January 8, 2019[23] 978-14215-9867-3 | |
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| Richard receives a request to solve the drowning of a boy eleven years prior at an inn. During their stay, the boy's father is later found dead there, having drowned in a small basin of swamp water. Rachel thinks she saw a Kappa creature near the river earlier. Agasa takes the Junior Detectives to a resort known for their lakefront hot springs so he can fix one of the inventions he sold the owner; they meet some actors that are starring in a hitman drama film. However, the screenwriter is found dead in the locked hot springs bath area. Later, Richard stars in a commercial for White Day chocolates and is invited to the company party. There, the company president is murdered, but his wife seems to have an alibi by doing palm reading with Rachel. The Junior Detectives are stranded on a mountain road after Agasa's car breaks down. They take shelter from the rain in a house where they discover a mysterious piano player and a diary in which it is written plans to kidnap and murder a boy. | ||||
| 70 | You're History | November 18, 2010[24] 978-4-09-122658-7 | April 9, 2019[25] 978-14215-9868-0 | |
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| The Junior Detectives find the missing boy and reconstruct the diary pages revealing the kidnapping motive and what happened to the kidnapper. The Kaito Kid sends a notice announcing he will return three possessions of Sakamoto Ryōma that were stolen by a Phantom Thief Lady before, at Jirokichi's museum where they will show Ryoma's gun belt. Although Jirokichi's exhibitor does not seem to be worried about that the gun belt being stolen, Jirokichi prepares security anyway. When Kid does return the items, he reveals a larger conspiracy by the exhibitor and his appraiser to sell forged items. Harley and Kazuha visit Conan and Rachel in order to investigate the love children heirs of the Inubushi conglomerate, two of whom have mysteriously died after having seen a glowing spectral hound (like in Sherlock Holmes' Hound of the Baskervilles). They visit an heir who happens to be named Shinichi Kudo, but Shinichi is apparently murdered in a room taped up with duct tape. At the Inubushi estate, they discover another heir has fallen off a cliff; Rachel and Kazuha are chased by the spectral hound, and the hound goes after another heir. Conan and Harley eventually deduce which of the heirs is responsible for the murders. | ||||
| 71 | The Game Is Afoot | February 18, 2011[26] 978-4-09-122780-5 | July 9, 2019[27] 978-1-9747-0655-6 | |
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| Ms. Kobayashi asks the Junior Detectives to find an old crime prevention video. They are joined by Detective Chiba, who is looking for a message left on a video by former classmate Naeko Miike who he liked prior to going to their class reunion. Richard receives an offer from a rich English woman to travel to London to share his detective stories with her husband and friends. Conan joins them by boarding the airplane with Agasa and taking a temporary antidote to be Jimmy. At the Sherlock Holmes Museum, Apollo Glass, younger brother of tennis star player Minerva Glass, gives Conan a riddle he received from a strange man who proclaims the riddle to be an advance notice to a murder. Conan, Agasa, Richard and Rachel try to solve the clues, but when Conan accidentally uses Jimmy's voice and reveals to Rachel that Jimmy is also in London, he is forced to take the antidote to hide his identity. They piece together the clues on the message that direct them to locations all over London and that the killer is a serial bomber who plans to kill Minerva's mother at the Wimbledon finals. | ||||
| 72 | In the Cards | June 17, 2011[28] 978-4-09-122898-7 | October 8, 2019[29] 978-1-9747-0656-3 | |
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| Thanks to Minerva and also to his parents, Conan is able to find Hades in the crowd, and stops him from detonating the bomb. When the Junior Detectives play kick the can in an abandoned warehouse, a small earthquake occurs, and then they hear someone making sounds that resemble an emergency code. They find two workers who claim to be inspecting the walls to prep for demolition, but suspect there may be a third person who is captured. While Richard is giving a speech at his university, Rachel, Serena and Conan are asked by a film student group to check out their haunted house display, but discover that one of their members has been murdered. While Conan is at home sick with a cold, a kid in Amy's apartment complex claims that he is being held by a couple that are not his real parents. After checking with neighbors, the Junior Detectives suspect he could be a boy who cried wolf but continue investigating because of Conan's remark. A wealthy woman who owns and maintains a large collection of clocks hires Richard to investigate a threatening letter she has received surrounding her birthday. At her birthday party gathering, a black out occurs and she is then found dead. | ||||
| 73 | Out of Time | September 16, 2011[30] 978-4-09-123235-9 | January 20, 2020[31] 978-1-9747-0961-8 | |
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| A woman is stabbed at her birthday party at her estate, and the suspect apparently escaped out the balcony, but with it raining outside, there are no footprints. Rachel thinks it could be the ghost of the woman's clock tower mechanic who died four years prior. Later, Richard and Conan go to a ramen shop in a district where a real estate businessman wants to run the shop out of business so that the district can be gentrified. However, the businessman dies while eating a ramen bowl, so Richard and Conan must determine who poisoned him and how. Rachel, Serena and Conan are on the way to a hotel for a pastry buffet when someone gropes Serena on the bus. Rachel fights the suspected assailant but the person is skilled at jeet kune do and the person actually points out the real assailant. At the hotel, a man seemingly commits suicide by falling off a building rooftop. The person from the bus tries to solve the mystery, using an elaborate scheme involving wires, a wheelchair, and the elevator, but gets help from Jimmy Kudo. The person is later revealed to be Rachel's new classmate, a girl named Masumi Sera. Three women enter Richard's office, followed by a man who then holds everyone at gunpoint (and then with an explosive belt) unless Richard can solve the mystery of which of the women murdered his sister. The clue to the murderer comes from his sister's final blog, detailing her visit from an elephant, rat, and fox – nicknames of the women. Conan tries to remotely help as Jimmy over the phone. | ||||
| 74 | An Eye for an Eye | December 14, 2011[32] 978-4-09-123428-5 | April 14, 2020[33] 978-1-9747-0962-5 | |
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| Jimmy gets the gunman to hesitate on which woman murdered his sister, allowing Rachel and Masumi to disarm him. After he is taken away, Jimmy identifies the culprit. The Junior Detectives and Dr. Agasa are having curry, but when some of them return from buying more ingredients, they find Dr. Agasa was knocked out and Amy has been kidnapped with a ransom text message to find a missing cat. The suspects are visitors interested in Agasa's vase, while Anita suspects they could be after her. Harley and Kazuha join Conan, Rachel, Masumi, Richard, and Agent Camel (FBI) in investigating the case of a man who died from poisoning in a family restaurant restroom stall. Harley receives a letter from someone associated with a prior murder of a businessman named Mr. Wakamatsu, and that Kazuha had visited the place once before as a test of courage and saw a mysterious man with the word "Eye" scratched into the bathroom tile. They meet the widowed wife and son and investigate the villa while they have a gathering with the colleagues and house staff. When the son dies from a poisoned piece of baumkuchen cake, Meguire and Takagi get involved, and the gang search for where the cyanide could have been delivered. | ||||
| 75 | More Moores | April 14, 2012[34] 978-4-09-123738-5 | July 14, 2020[35] 978-1-9747-1495-7 | |
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| Ms. Wakamatsu is found dead in a locked room along with items brought by her servants and close contacts. Harley and Conan determine which of her associates is the culprit as well the murderer of her stepson. When Rachel rants to Masumi and Serena about how irresponsible her father is, a landlady vouches that Richard has been doing good. But Rachel sees he's actually an impersonator who claims to be her granddaughter's boyfriend, and has been helping out with her cases which are mostly handyman work. One of the woman's tenants is found dead in his apartment after complaints that his television was playing at a loud volume; his neighbors become suspects. Conan gets the fake Richard to solve the case. The Junior Detectives help Detective Chiba investigate a series of car vandalisms where the interior was sprayed with the words "drop dead". With help from Yumi, they try to pair Chiba up with Naeko Miine, and find another situation where a vehicle hits another vehicle and is then similarly vandalized in the parking garage. Richard, along with Rachel and Conan, throws a party for his high school friend Raita and his fiancee Hatsune, but after she leaves to get her nails put on, she is caught in a car explosion and dies. They discover that both Raita and Hatsune have hired private detectives including Toru Amuro to spy on each other. Conan discovers the cold truth about their findings. Afterwards, Toru persuades Richard to be his teacher. | ||||
| 76 | Detectives’ Nocturne | June 18, 2012[36] 978-4-09-123738-5 | October 13, 2020[37] 978-1-9747-1700-2 | |
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| Richard is hired to locate a locker in which he is given a key. However, conflicting text messages from different phone numbers direct him to meet at the restaurant or the office. He, Rachel, Conan, and Toru return to the office to find a woman, Kei Kashitsuka, tied up and a man who had just shot himself in the head. As they investigate Kei's apartment, they start connecting her to a bank robbery in which her brother was killed. After Conan pretends to have been knocked out by Kei's spiked drink, he helps Kei identify the third participant in the robbery. The Junior Detectives and Dr. Agasa attend a barbeque lunch hosted by a couple they had previously met camping, but the couple seems to get in a lot of heated arguments. The woman is about to stab the man but is stabbed by him and is taken to the hospital in critical condition. Conan tries to piece together what happened that it would lead to such an attack. When Detective Sato gets a mysterious computer tablet showing Detective Takagi being tied up on a high wooden beam and a noose around his neck, she and the Junior Detectives are on a race to find the location before he is dropped and hung to death. But somehow it's related to another police detective who shares his given name Wataru. | ||||
| 77 | The Sign of the Three | September 18, 2012[38] 978-4-09-123806-1 | January 12, 2021[39] 978-1-9747-1496-4 | |
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| Takagi's kidnapper commits suicide, leaving the police and the Junior Detectives to try to piece together where Takagi is based on the video stream. A tabloid publisher falls from his high-rise apartment; Anita, Conan, and Subaru join detective Takagi to investigate three employees who also live there and who received the publisher's last text messages. The suspects have alibis of having prepared freshly made drinks beforehand. Rachel, Serena and Sera find a dead guy next to a vending machine but with a kanji symbol for death written in blood next to him. As it reminds them of a case that Jimmy's father Booker gave up on ten years ago, they visit Jimmy's house to look for similar evidence. The Junior Detectives go camping with Dr. Agasa. While Conan and Agasa go to get supplies and end up meeting Sera at the shop, the others spot someone trying to bury a body and escape into a room cabin, but they are locked in by the suspect and the cabin is set on fire. Conan and Sera determine which of the other camper suspects is the culprit, while Anita secretly transforms into her adult form to rescue the kids. Toru Amuro sneaks into Richard's office to garner better clues about Shiho/Anita's identity, but Subaru is also watching over the attempt. | ||||
| 78 | Mystery Train | December 18, 2012[40] 978-4-09-124031-6 | April 13, 2021[41] 978-1-9747-2060-6 | |
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| Conan, Agasa, and the Junior Detectives join Richard, Rachel, Serena and Sera for a murder mystery game on a train. When one of the passengers is murdered for real, it is up to Conan and the gang to investigate it. However, members of the Black Organization have also boarded the train, which puts Anita in fear of her life. Conan and Richard join Rachel and Serena to a villa to play tennis, where there are a group of college students, but one of them dies in a locked room. Serena's uncle challenges the Kaito Kid to steal a gem that is attached to the back of a turtle. | ||||
| 79 | Conan Edogawa's Dracula | April 18, 2013[42] 978-4-09-124291-4 | July 13, 2021[43] 978-1-9747-2114-6 | |
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| Conan figures out how the turtle with the gem on its back disappeared. Harley and Kazuha join Conan, Rachel, and Richard on a case where a man had apparently committed suicide in a locked room. They find the man had made some bad investments with a neighbor but when they see him in a rising elevator shooting himself in the head and suspect that to not be a suicide. They then join Inspector Otaki in investigating a manor where a maid had been found dead nearby with her blood drained supposedly by a vampire. When the master hasn't shown up but is known to have vampire-like behaviors (avoiding garlic, having coffins, hanging upside down and flying away), the gang look for clues until some of the sons and daughters are found dead. | ||||
| 80 | Cold Case | July 18, 2013[44] 978-4-09-124324-9 | October 12, 2021[45] 978-1-9747-2115-3 | |
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| Conan and Harley solve the manor mystery. The Junior Detectives follow a local feral cat but get stuck inside a refrigerated truck, but find that the drivers have stashed a corpse in a box. They try to contact someone outside without getting caught. Conan, Rachel, Richard, and Sera join Serena as audience members of a cooking competition, but the main judge is found dead in the locked chest of the secret ingredients. Yumi, Naeko, and the Junior Detectives are called over to an apartment complex where they find a woman who hung herself and a suicide note. While Conan suspects foul play, Yumi bumps into her ex-boyfriend. Agasa and the Junior Detectives meet Jodie at a cherry blossom viewing festival when a woman that bumped into Jodie earlier is found dead. | ||||
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