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===Manga=== {{See also|List of Case Closed volumes{{!}}List of ''Case Closed'' volumes}} Written and illustrated by [[Gosho Aoyama]], ''Case Closed'' started its serialization in [[Shogakukan]]'s [[Shōnen manga|{{Transliteration|ja|shōnen}} manga]] magazine ''[[Weekly Shōnen Sunday]]'' on January 5, 1994.{{Efn|The series debuted in the magazine's fifth issue of 1994 ([[cover date]] January 19),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M578090|script-title=ja:週刊少年サンデー 1994年 表示号数5|website=Media Arts Database|publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]]|access-date=March 25, 2020|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326003301/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M578090|archive-date=March 26, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> released on January 5 of that same year.<ref name="Shogakukan-PRTimes">{{cite press release|script-title=ja:祝!『名探偵コナン』連載30周年! 〜「少年サンデー」はじめ、盛りだくさんなお祝い企画が続々スタート!〜|url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000002444.000013640.html|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|via=[[PR Times]]|access-date=January 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110082809/https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000002444.000013640.html|archive-date=January 10, 2024|language=ja|date=January 10, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:「名探偵コナン」少年サンデー第7号は連載30周年記念スタート号!探偵衣装&虫眼鏡… "初表紙"を思い起させる特別デザインにも注目|url=https://animeanime.jp/article/2024/01/10/82218.html|website=AnimeAnime.jp|access-date=January 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110083031/https://animeanime.jp/article/2024/01/10/82218.html|archive-date=January 10, 2024|language=ja|date=January 10, 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>}} ''Case Closed'' became one of the [[List of manga series by volume count|longest running manga series]], with over 1,000 chapters released in Japan, and the first series with over 1,000 chapters published in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Pineda|first=Rafael Antonio|title=Detective Conan Is 1st Shonen Sunday Manga to Publish 1,000th Chapter|url=https://animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-08-08/detective-conan-is-1st-shonen-sunday-manga-to-publish-1000th-chapter/.119911|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=September 12, 2019|date=August 8, 2017|archive-date=July 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729105047/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-08-08/detective-conan-is-1st-shonen-sunday-manga-to-publish-1000th-chapter/.119911|url-status=live}}</ref> Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual {{Transliteration|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volumes. The first volume was released on June 18, 1994.<ref name="Vol 1">{{cite web|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120720013921/http://skygarden.shogakukan.co.jp/skygarden/owa/solc_tid?tid=1572|archive-date=July 20, 2012|url=http://skygarden.shogakukan.co.jp/skygarden/owa/solc_tid?tid=1572|title=''Detective Conan'' Vol. 1|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|access-date=June 11, 2009|language=Japanese|url-status=dead }}</ref> On October 18, 2021, the series reached one hundred volumes;<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:「名探偵コナン」100巻発売!ホームズに“報告”、CMや100人のコナン並ぶ巨大広告も|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/449768|website=[[Comic Natalie]]|publisher=Natasha, Inc.|access-date=October 18, 2021|language=ja|date=October 18, 2021|archive-date=October 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018045103/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/449768|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[One Piece]]'' author, [[Eiichiro Oda]], whose series achieved the same feat a month before, sent congratulations to Aoyama.<ref>{{cite web|last=Morrissy|first=Kim|title=Eiichiro Oda Congratulates Gosho Aoyama For Detective Conan's 100th Volume|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2021-11-09/eiichiro-oda-congratulates-gosho-aoyama-for-detective-conan-100th-volume/.179386|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=November 10, 2021|date=November 9, 2021|archive-date=November 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109212836/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2021-11-09/eiichiro-oda-congratulates-gosho-aoyama-for-detective-conan-100th-volume/.179386|url-status=live}}</ref> As of April 18, 2025, 107 volumes have been published.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:名探偵コナン 107|trans-title=Detective Conan, Vol. 107|url=https://shogakukan-comic.jp/book?isbn=9784098540792|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|access-date=February 24, 2025|language=ja|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250224001744/https://shogakukan-comic.jp/book?isbn=9784098540792|archive-date=February 24, 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>[[File:Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory - Aoyama's Workplace 2013-08-14.jpg|thumb|right|A recreation of Aoyama's workplace at the Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory]][[Viz Media]] announced its acquisition of the series for North America on June 1, 2004.<ref name="Viz announce">{{cite web|url=https://animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2004-06-02/viz-announces-new-manga-for-q3|title=Viz announces new manga for Q3|date=June 2, 2004|work=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=November 28, 2010|archive-date=June 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628231514/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2004-06-02/viz-announces-new-manga-for-q3|url-status=live}}</ref> Following Funimation's localization, Viz released the series as ''Case Closed'' and took their character names to keep consistency between the two media.<ref name="Viz rename">{{cite web|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2004-06-28/case-closed-manga-names-to-change|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070422122009/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2004-06-28/case-closed-manga-names-to-change|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 22, 2007|title=Case Closed Manga Names to Change|date=June 28, 2004|work=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=November 28, 2010}}</ref> Viz Media released the first volume in September 2004 and began releasing digital editions in 2013.<ref name="Viz 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.viz.com/manga/print/case-closed-volume-1/2210|title=''Case Closed'' Vol. 1|publisher=[[Viz Media]]|access-date=November 1, 2013|archive-date=October 31, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031053330/http://www.viz.com/manga/print/case-closed-volume-1/2210|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Digital Viz 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.viz.com/manga/digital/case-closed-volume-1/1660|title=Digital ''Case Closed'' Vol. 1|publisher=[[Viz Media]]|access-date=November 1, 2013|archive-date=November 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104144559/http://www.viz.com/manga/digital/case-closed-volume-1/1660|url-status=live}}</ref> On May 9, 2023, Viz Media launched their ''Viz Manga'' digital manga service, with the series' chapters receiving simultaneous English publication in North America as they are released in Japan.<ref>{{cite web|last=Cayanan|first=Joanna|title=Viz Media Simultaneously Releases Shogakukan Manga Titles in New VIZ Manga App|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-05-09/viz-media-simultaneously-releases-shogakukan-manga-titles-in-new-viz-manga-app/.197912|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=May 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510113238/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-05-09/viz-media-simultaneously-releases-shogakukan-manga-titles-in-new-viz-manga-app/.197912|archive-date=May 10, 2023|date=May 9, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Diaz|first=Ana|title=Viz's new subscription service will deliver translated manga the same day it's out in Japan|url=https://www.polygon.com/23711092/viz-media-new-subscription-app-manga-shojo|website=[[Polygon (website)|Polygon]]|access-date=May 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510113247/https://www.polygon.com/23711092/viz-media-new-subscription-app-manga-shojo|archive-date=May 10, 2023|date=May 9, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Victor Gollancz Ltd|Gollancz]] licensed and distributed 15 of Viz Media's volumes in the United Kingdom before ceasing publication of manga. (Viz Media has since re-released them).<ref>{{cite book|title=Case Closed Volume 15: v. 15 (MANGA)|isbn=0575080809|last1=Aoyama|first1=Gōshō|year=2005|publisher=Gollancz Manga }}</ref> In 2014 [[Shogakukan Asia]] began its own English localization of the series for Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries as ''Detective Conan''.<ref name="Singapore manga">{{cite web|url=http://shogakukan.asia/category/books/manga-comics/page/4/|title=Shogakukan Asia Manga releases|publisher=[[Shogakukan Asia]]|access-date=June 3, 2015|archive-date=June 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150615005733/http://shogakukan.asia/category/books/manga-comics/page/4/|url-status=live}} - Go to "Detective Conan A Modern Day Sherlock Holmes " - {{ISBN|978-981-07-9567-2}} - Release date 6 June 2014</ref> Laura Thornton of [[CBR.com]], citing the common Japanese ownership in both Shogakukan Asia and Viz, described the Singapore version as, compared to the Viz one, "completely identical, word-for-word, even -- save for the names and the ''Detective Conan'' logo".<ref name=ThorntonLaura>{{cite web|last=Thornton|first=Laura|url=https://www.cbr.com/detective-conan-cased-closed-too-many-localizations/|title=Detective Conan's Trickiest Case Is Its Sheer Number of Localizations|work=[[CBR.com]]|date=September 24, 2020|access-date=September 24, 2020|archive-date=October 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006141050/https://www.cbr.com/detective-conan-cased-closed-too-many-localizations/|url-status=live}}</ref> ====Spin-offs==== {{Main|Case Closed: The Culprit Hanzawa{{!}}''Case Closed: The Culprit Hanzawa''|Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time{{!}}''Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time''|Detective Conan: Police Academy Arc{{!}}''Detective Conan: Police Academy Arc''}} Gosho Aoyama's assistants have written an [[anthology]] series of ''Case Closed'' which are released irregularly.<ref name="Short 1">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013113046/http://www.shogakukan.co.jp/comics/detail/_isbn_4091425313|archive-date=October 13, 2012|url=http://www.shogakukan.co.jp/comics/detail/_isbn_4091425313|title=''Detective Conan'' Special Edition 1|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|language=Japanese|access-date=June 4, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:名探偵コナン 特別編 闇夜の追撃手|url=https://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/book?isbn=9784091432995|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|access-date=May 19, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210519095044/https://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/book?isbn=9784091432995|archive-date=May 19, 2021|language=ja|url-status=live}}</ref> A [[spin-off (media)|spin-off]] manga series, titled ''Case Closed: The Culprit Hanzawa'', by Mayuko Kanba, began in the July 2017 issue of [[Shogakukan]]'s ''[[Shōnen Sunday S]]'', released on May 25, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:「名探偵コナン」犯人が主役のギャグ新連載、黒い人が犯罪都市・米花町へ|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/233973|website=[[Comic Natalie]]|access-date=October 18, 2020|language=ja|date=May 25, 2017|archive-date=October 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017065318/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/233973|url-status=live}}</ref> Another spin-off manga series, illustrated by Takahiro Arai with supervision by Aoyama, titled ''Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time'' started in issue #24 of ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' on May 9, 2018. The story centers on the agent [[List of Case Closed characters#Rei Furuya|Toru Amuro/Rei Furuya]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Baker|first=Bayleigh|title=Detective Conan Gets Spinoff Manga Centering on Tōru Amuro|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-04-10/detective-conan-gets-spinoff-manga-centering-on-toru-amuro/.130125|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=November 18, 2018|date=April 10, 2018|archive-date=November 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118130004/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-04-10/detective-conan-gets-spinoff-manga-centering-on-toru-amuro/.130125|url-status=live}}</ref> New chapters of the manga are only published when ''Case Closed'' is on hiatus. Another spin-off manga series by Arai, titled ''Detective Conan: Police Academy Arc – Wild Police Story'', was serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from October 2, 2019, to November 18, 2020. Spanning 13 chapters, it again focuses on Amuro/Furuya during his years in the police academy with his colleagues.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mateo|first=Alex|title=Detective Conan Gets New Police Academy Spinoff Manga Centering on Tōru Amuro|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-09-24/detective-conan-gets-new-police-academy-spinoff-manga-centering-on-toru-amuro/.151479|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=October 18, 2020|date=September 24, 2019|archive-date=October 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024100401/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-09-24/detective-conan-gets-new-police-academy-spinoff-manga-centering-on-toru-amuro/.151479|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:「名探偵コナン 警察学校編」ついに開幕!松田陣平の声が聴けるPVも|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/349765|website=[[Comic Natalie]]|access-date=October 18, 2020|language=ja|date=October 2, 2019|archive-date=October 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017072334/https://natalie.mu/comic/news/349765|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Pineda|first=Rafael Antonio|title=Detective Conan Police Academy Spinoff Manga Ends on November 18|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-11-11/detective-conan-police-academy-spinoff-manga-ends-on-november-18/.166221|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=November 11, 2020|date=November 11, 2020|archive-date=November 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111214552/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-11-11/detective-conan-police-academy-spinoff-manga-ends-on-november-18/.166221|url-status=live}}</ref>
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