Everything About Detective Conan:

Summary One

These were originally posted at AS boards, just so you're not confused as to when it says I want you to respond or something like that ^^.

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I’ll be going by the manga story line and only really the most important cases or something especially romantic or something that diverges from the anime.

And I’ll be using the Japanese names of course so a name list is in order.

Jimmy Kudo = Kudo Shinichi
Rachel Moore = Mouri Ran
Richard Moore = Mouri Kogoro (Sleeping Kogoro)
Booker Kudo = Kudo Yusaku
Vivian Kudo = Kudo Yukiko (formerly Fujimine Yukiko)
Inspector Megure = Megure-keibu (Megure Jyuzou)
Eva Kaden = Kisaki Eri (Queen of the Courtroom)
Harley Hartwell = Hattori Heiji
Serena Sebastian = Suzuki Sonoko

If I forgot some of the dub names it’ll be okay because I am going to explain who they are.
All right from the beginning.

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Detective Conan (Meitantei Conan, mei=great tantei=detective)

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Kudo Shinichi is a “World Famous High School Detective.” He’s 16 and a second year in high school, more or less it’s like a junior. He used to be on the soccer team until his detective career took off but he was the best person on the team and could have been in one of the national teams if he hadn’t quit. He idolizes Sherlock Holmes and so his childhood friend, Mouri Ran is always telling him to shut up. She is the captain of the Karate team at TeitanHigh School.

One day when walking home from school he meets up with Ran and starts yakking about Sherlock and saying how he loves being a detective and that the fan letters are a real perk. Ran doesn’t mind the letters but does tell him that he should pick one and stick with her. He of course looks at her because he likes her but like most guys is too chicken to say so. Before he leaves her she reminds him about his promise about taking her to TropicalLand (like Disneyland). After dogging a few kicks, a getting a peek at her underwear, he assures her that he remembers.

The next day they go to TropicalLand and they get on the Mystery Coaster. A murder occurs and though Shinichi is sure that the men in black that were riding toward the back of the ride are not the killers he notes that one, the long silver/blond haired one, looks as if he wouldn’t think twice about killing anyone. After he solves the murder and is walking out of the park with Ran, he notices one of the men in black heading to a shadowy part of the park. He leaves Ran and tells her he’ll see her later. Her shoelace breaks as she’s telling him not to leave, a bad omen, and gets the feeling that she might never see him again.

In the shadowy part of the park Shinichi witnesses a payoff, failing to realize the other man in black is not there. He then gets clubbed over the back of the head realizing that the other was behind him. He is fed a poison because so many cops are still in the park, one that wasn’t supposed to be traceable in the autopsy (no true poison does this by the way) and he slips into unconsciousness. He wakes up when the police find him and tries to tell them what he saw. He runs away after seeing his reflection in the glass. After running home and convincing his neighbor Professor Agasa (Agasa Hiroshi) what happened he gets into his house when Ran comes by worried because Shinichi hadn’t been picking up his phone. After putting on his father’s old glasses, he introduces himself as Edogawa Conan (Edogawa for Edogawa Ranpo and Conan for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).

Note in that manga scan, on the shelf you see the spine of one of the Magic Kaitou volumes, another work by Gosho. In the anime on the lower shelf one of the books begins with Phantom. Hehe, now onward!

Agasa convinces Shinichi that he should go home with her because her father is a detective, albeit at the moment an out of work one thanks to Shinichi, but in living there Shinichi can keep an eye out for the Men In Black. Ran thinks he’s just adorable and that is the beginning of Ran-neechan and Conan-kun.

Now on the walk home because she feels like Conan is her little brother and heck she can just tell him anything, she starts asking him if there’s someone he likes. He replies with the usual six year old reply of girls are icky. She says that she has someone and of course Shinichi, thinking it as just a tease, asks if it’s the boy that she was looking for (Shinichi). She just about gives him a heart attack when she says yes and goes on to list why she likes him. It’s almost no surprise that when they get to the agency Shinichi feels just a little guilty about it and wants to tell her the truth, despite the warning that Agasa gave him (they’ll kill you if they find out you’re alive) though the real reason he didn’t want to tell her was his pride. Well anyway just as he’s about to tell her Kogoro falls down the stairs in haste to get to a case he just found out about. After Shinichi helps him, discreetly, solve the case Ran gets to asking her father is Conan can stay with them. After Kogoro says yes and that Conan was such good luck that he should stay and be his son (way of saying part of the family) Shinichi just thinks to himself that he’s still too little to capture the murderers, thieves, crime-breakers – oh! And that he had to be saved by a girl… and that everything’s backwards now… lota pride in that kid.

Three days pass and then we find out about Kogoro’s idol, Yoko Okino, a singer/actress. Well of course Shinichi doesn’t think very highly of him and goes to Agasa’s house to complain even if they’re both aware that Kogoro used to be a really good police officer. After that they start talking about Ran and that she came by thinking of going to the police to tell them really about the men in black Shinichi was eyeing, that they might have to do with his disappearance. Which really might have been the smart thing to do, but Agasa calms her down and tells her he’ll be back soon, that he’s just caught up in a case. Shinichi feels bad about it because she never shows how sad she might be at home when serving dinner or anything; he wishes he could do something because he can’t just have her worrying. It’s then that Agasa shows him the handy-dandy bowtie that changes people’s voices, and there begins the plan to make Kogoro a meitantei.

That evening they get involved in a case concerning Yoko Okino. Conan is desperately trying to put them in the right direction and it continually told to but out. As Ran holds him off to the side she tells him that if Shinichi were there that it would be solved. Another sad scene for the star crossed couple as Conan reassures her that he bets that he’ll be back soon. After using the bowtie to solve the case all if well and it’s not until three days after that when Shinichi realizes of all the things he can do with his bowtie. While walking home with Ran from shopping, she admits, teary-eyed, after seeing how strong Yoko is, that she can’t go to sleep because she’s so worried, and thinks that she’s not that strong. That night Shinichi snuck out, it’s snowing by the way, and calls her from a pay phone telling her not to worry and he’ll be home as soon as he solves it. As he’s talking to her he thinks how he regrets not being able to talk to her normally… but when he gets his body back, when that time comes, he’d tell her straight out his true feelings for her.

And that is just what happens.

In the next one he gets his super sneakers but nothing too important happens.

The next important case involves the Billion Yen robbery.

After getting his new glasses with the tracer Conan goes home and sees that they are handling a case. A girl, Hirota Misami, is looking for her missing father. A week later they find him but soon after he is found dead. When they go to see Megure-keibu, they assume that the girl was taken and may be dead. On the way home Conan remembers that his tracker fell on the girls watch (after he tripped trying to stick it to Ran’s, ahem, upper leg). The glasses lead him to a pachinko parlor were he runs into a large man just as the batteries in the glasses die. Later that day they discover another detective who was helping a large man find his brother. The picture he was given was one of Mr. Hirota.

After getting his glasses charged he uses the glasses to lead them to a hotel. As they are about to get into the elevator a woman coming out was startled and the things on her cart fell off. Once upstairs they find the large man dead from cyanide. They receive a call from Megure and find out Hirota-san was single with no family. Conan see empty duralumin suitcases that would have held money. He figures they all must have been partners for the billion yen robbery. Then with Ran following him they follow Masami to the docks.

That’s when the POV shifts to Masami, or rather Miyano Akemi, a low level member of the organization of the men in black. Akemi talks with them demanding they release her younger sister. They counter that she is too important and shoot her. Ran and Conan find her just as she’s shot. Ran runs too call the police and Shinichi tells her who he really is, knowing full well that she is about to die. She tells him where the money is, not wanting to be used by them anymore.

After that sad part of the series we get a kid case that introduces Yoshida Ayumi, Kojima Genta and Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko on some adventure in some ghost house…. Yay team.. okay then after that is the The Cruise Ship Murder of the Hatamoto Clan (Smooth Sailing), The Mysterious Gifts (the one that Ran suspects Conan), and The Art Museum Murder (where the curator was the knight). A note on each of those Takeshi is like Takagi (a police officer who appears later on who btw is like Shinichi in personality) and in one point during the case Natsue, Takashi’s wife asks Ran if she has a boyfriend, and because she describes Shinichi, Conan is blushing like mad. Kogoro is a very good detective in that one, cop instincts kicking in, up until Conan uses the stun watch so he can solve the case. In the beginning of the mysterious gifts one Natsue calls Shinichi Ran’s boyfriend in a letter. Ran blushes and thinks where is Shinichi. She thinks aloud he might have lost his touch, Conan’s reaction is less than pleased. It’s during this case that Ran’s suspicion climbs quickly until she corners him. In the art museum Ran threatens both Kogoro and Conan by saying they could cook their own dinners either meaning they can’t cook or that her’s is better than anything.

The next important case involves the men in black and the train bomb threat. Conan is on a train trip with Ran and Kogoro when he sees the men in black, in the manga there is no kids along for the ride. Well after planting a listening device he finds out their names, Gin (the blond/silver haired one) and Vodka (the stockier stupider one). They get off the train and Conan is left to find which passenger was left with the bomb. He finds it, and uses his super sneakers to kick the bomb out the window before it explodes saving Ran, but not before almost telling her who he is… leaving her to wonder in the next case, the Italian Mob case, to ask him when she takes the kids to see the Tokyo tower, the beginning of Ran-neechan taking them places.

As the kids go off to see a Kamen Yaiba show she’s left alone to notice that there are only couples there and that she once went there with Shinichi, and pressed a coke to her cheek. Well guess how she’s shaken out of her thoughts – Conan pressing a coke to her face. And then she asks him what he meant the other day, about who he really is. He scrambles for an answer and then strikes a pose in desperation to say “I’m Kamen Yaiba!” and runs off while the couples around them gush over how cute he is. And then we get a sad repeat of his promise that one day he’ll tell her. At the end of the case we get the first display of how much Ayumi adores Conan.

After that is the Mountain Villa murder, the introduction of Ran’s bestfriend, Suzuki Sonoko, who is really really rich (maybe not as rich as Shinichi but that is debatable). Well since it is the Suzuki Villa Sonoko’s sister, Ayako, is there as well. It’s a reunion of Ayako’s film club from college the thing is that this bandaged man keeps showing up and scaring them after he tried to kill Ran. Well then after, the bridge goes out, one girl dies but after checking that the villa is secured they go to sleep. When Conan is thinking about the case Ran interrupts him because she’s a bit scared and gets in his bed (it really is a pity that he’s stuck as Conan but if he were still Shinichi he would never be in that situation -_-*sigh*). And then after that and realizing just how close she is, he can’t think… but doesn’t fall asleep. A good thing too because Ran is attacked again, and he sprains his ankle while saving her. After that Ran carries Conan around piggy-back (kawaii!!! (cute)). There’s a third attack after the power goes out and then “Sonoko” solves that case (Conan used the wrist watch and the bow-tie).

After that case is the “Karaoke Killing case” in which Conan uses Shinichi’s voice to solve the case. It’s around Christmas time again and the subject of Shinichi comes up. Ran lists off all the things wrong with Shinichi (smug, rude, cocky) “but still… there’s something about him.” After that Sonoko invites Ran to meet the lead singer of Lex. A case comes up, Conan solves it using his real voice but through a speaker so he doesn’t have to actually be there. After the case is solved, Ran waits outside Shinichi’s house hoping to see him. The lights come on and Ran steps inside calling out for him. She stops by the stairs and then the lights go out. And then, as Conan, he puts his hand on hers, and using the bow-tie, talks to her as Shinichi.

(Note as the story goes on you start thinking of Shinichi and Conan as separate people though you’re fully aware that they are the same person…).

He leaves her a Christmas present when he “leaves” and for the next hour is left to run around the house avoiding Ran as she is looking for Shinichi.

The next case is really great- the kidnapping of Edogawa Conan- and I won’t really spoil it but we meet Shinichi’s globetrotting parents. His mother, Yukiko, was an acclaimed actress (her career began when she was 16 in a tv drama and won every award there was to win by the time she was 19) and his father, Yusaku, is a mystery writer who is famous for his Night Baron novels, a phantom thief who went mad and kills whoever gets in his way. They want to take him out of Japan for his safety but he demands to stay, saying it’s his case, really thinking all the while of Ran. Of course his father is quick on the uptake (he knows Shinichi is thinking about Ran) and lets him stay, paying the Mouri’s well for it. Of course for all the trouble his parents put him through, Shinichi calls his father’s editors and tells them where the elusive Kudo Yusaku is (he’s always running from his editors).

And after that exciting case we get:

The Disguised Sword Murder – nothing important there except Kogoro acting funny.

The Intro. of the Shonen Tantei – when the kids finally come up with the name.

Festival Night Photograph Murder – the one where we meet Inspector Yokomizo Sango from the SaitamaPrefecture who thinks the detective Mouri Kogoro is really smart.

Moonlight Sonata Murder – sad case.

Shinichi’s Girlfriend – funny case where we see just how scary Ran-neechan can be when a girl says she missed ‘her Shinichi.’ Nice part at the end when we get Shadow Shinichi, upgraded from ‘Blackout Shinichi.’ Ran cried, Shinichi said something along the lines that he doesn’t like to see her cry but then ‘runs off’.

The case after that one in the manga is The Night Baron Murder, which in the anime comes later. I won’t spoil it cause it is just so cool, but Ran, Conan and Kogoro go to the beach at Izu staying at the Izu Princess Hotel (Ran’s wearing a sexy one-piece) where they are joining a mystery tour, and by chance meet the guy that inspired Ran to start karate. We get the second appearance of Inspector Yokomizo and a memory for Ran and Shinichi! Ran has to prove the karate guy innocent and she remembers what Shinichi once told her. That if it were someone he knew he would be so tired when he accused him because by then he would have looked for every possible way to prove them innocent.

After that is the June Bride Murder Case, the one when we meet Megure’s boss, Matsumoto Kiyonaga, the father of the bride.

Then Ayumi-chan's Kidnapping Case, nothing too exciting there but after that is….!

The Murder Case of Kogoro's Classmate! Where Kogoro proves he does have a brain working in there! Great case because we also get the sexy hot spring scene between Ran and Conan (hehe.)

Then Reika’s Birthday Murders- Ran is attacked (poor girl, always a target) and when Conan gets there he finds her unconscience. When she kinda wakes up as Conan is calling desperately for her to wake up she thinks it’s Shinichi there.

(As I’m writing this I’m realizing there’s a lot to go through still, sorry if it’s getting to short on some cases. I’ll post some manga file numbers at the end so you can look up and read the volumes on line, links will be included too.)

As we approach file 100 we are treated to the introduction of the Great Detective of the West, Hattori Heiji, who is kinda obsessed to prove that he’s a better detective than Shinichi. He asks Ran, if during the phone calls she gets from Shinichi if he asks how she’s doing. When she says no, he thinks he must be around somewhere where he can see her. And that gets Ran a little mad, Shinichi stalking her and not seeing her. Conan is suffering from a cold then and scoffs the best he can, up until Heiji gives him a remedy for his cold (Chinese Sake). Then a client comes, they go to her house, a murder comes up (no duh) and Conan is trying to help solve it but Heiji being there doesn’t make it easy and he is feeling really sick. And then he faints and is taken out of the room as Heiji is about to “solve the murder.” Ran leaves Conan to get the doctor but when she comes back Conan is gone. As she joins the rest in the study when Heiji is declaring the murder, Kudo Shinichi (no longer Conan) steps in (looking just a bit tired) saying Heiji is wrong. He points them all to the real culprit.

Afterward Ran practically jumps on him asking him for an explanation, has he been stalking her. He laughs and says, very romantically, that he can tell how she is just by the sound of her voice. Then he falls into a coughing fit and Heiji says he guesses Shinichi won. And Shinichi says that detective work is not a game, there’s no winner or loser, no higher or lower, but always only one truth. And then he has to huff it to get away from Ran as he can feel himself turning back into Conan, really mad that he has too – really sad scene… cause he just wants to tell her… (sniff…)

After that case we get one with the kids, stuff happens and afterward Conan goes to Agasa’s house wanting to try the alcohol again – the only thing he turns into is one drunk little boy.

The next one after that is the snowy mountain villa murder, where Conan, Ran and Kogoro go skiing and can’t get into their villa, meet a professor who loves Kogoro’s work as a detective but ends up the victim of a murder. Shogi was involved for the dying message. After that is the TV Station Murder, where Kogoro solves the murder on tv, of course we know it’s Conan using the bow-tie. Oh and we get another look at how bad Ran’s sense of direction is. After that we meet Eri in “Enter the Queen of the Courtroom” when Conan thinks Ran is going out on a date to meet a boy. A display of how jealous Shinichi is, maybe worse than Ran. Then “The Kiri Tengu Legend Murder Case” where the three go to see cherry blossoms, their car breaks down and they stay at a temple. Of course there is some murder they have to solve which is, but not before us getting the first dose of how scared Ran is of monsters, ghost, etc. Snuggles near Conan again. After that we get “The Secret of the Moon, the Star, and the Sun.” Not a really important case.

But then we get “Tequila’s Appearance” when the three of them are visiting a mantendo convention (video games) when Conan runs into a large man in Black. While following him Conan decides he’s just an employee, that is until he’s buying a tomato juice for Kogoro and hears him say “Tell Gin.” And from there he is able to get a tracer/listening device on the guy’s shoes. Unfortunately, the guy picked up the wrong suitcase and was blown up before Conan could find out anything else. Once the case is solved, Conan asks the guy who was meeting Tequila what else he knew. Unfortunately he didn’t know much and met him at the Cocktail Bar at the top of the Daikoku building. Conan runs there but just as he’s getting to the top floor on the elevator a bomb goes off. Which scares Conan because Gin and Vodka might have been killed in the blast.

After that we get the “Holmes Lovers Case” where Heiji finds out who Conan really is…. And it’s really Conan’s fault because he used Heiji to give the deduction. Of course Heiji was about to blackmail Conan by telling Ran, who would have believed it in an instant.

Then we get “Triple Threat” where we see Ran in a swim suit, which Sonoko blurts out for Conan to hear that she bought especially for Shinichi. (He starts to swim over to get a better look.) Then after that is “An Illustrator Murder Case” and then “The Murder Case of the Big Monster Gomera,” nothing real special in those two.

After that we get three big cases. But the other two will have to wait for tomorrow.

The first one is “Shinichi Discovered/ Yusaku’s Affair” and was a special when it aired in Japan. It starts out with Conan (Shinichi) talking to his mom, Yukiko, who is convinced Yusaku is having an affair. He came home drunk and with lipstick on his shirt. She thinks, logically, that she should have an affair too. He hangs up and thinks it’s impossible for his father to have an affair “How can someone whose head is so full of deduction and plot have time for that kind of thing?” (stupid naïve Shinichi!) Truth be told, his parents are always having some kind of fight anyway. When Agasa says that arguing is a sign of a good relationship he asks Conan about Ran. To which he says he sees her everyday, he sees her so much he’s tired of her (stupid ungrateful….) When he get’s back to the agency Kogoro is arguing with Eri on the phone (seems as if all couples are having problems). Conan falls asleep on the couch to forget his hunger. When Ran comes back she sees Conan asleep and takes off his glasses but is startled by how familiar he looks (she hasn’t placed it yet.) When Conan wakes up he snatches back his glasses. After that a client comes in and Kogoro finds out it was Ran who set it up that Eri send over a client. A magician died a week ago, someone Ran and Shinichi once met. When she finds the photo of the two of them she realizes who Conan looks like (Shinichi of course). When meeting the three magician students (in their 20s) Ran at one point has doves coming out from under her clothes (giving Conan an opportunity to see her underwear (white)). She tells him angrily don’t look, the way she would tell Shinichi. A little while later a classmate of Conan, the dead magician’s daughter, begs Conan to come shopping with her. (Obviously he’s popular at school, albeit a bit odd). That’s when Ran comes in and says he can’t (Ran jealous of a six year old ladies and gentlemen). Well Conan helps solve the case and Conan notices her acting odder and odder. (in this case you find out how much Gosho like magicians and that a lot die in murders that look like accidents).

After it’s solved Ran and Conan walk home alone, but not the usual route but taking the one through Beika street, past Shinichi’s house. Luckily for Conan, Yukiko shows up just as Ran is cornering him. Well Ran leaves after being convinced. Yukiko and Conan talk about what would have happened if Ran found out (they took a bath together remember) but then they talk about how Yukiko has more or less left Yusaku, but she doesn’t care much and calls her son Shin-chan and is giddy over how “It’s like she’s young again!” Of course Shinichi hates being babied over. The next day they out to an appointment that Yukiko has and introduces Conan as her second son (honestly woman there are enough lies going around). A case pops up and we meet Lieutenant Yamamura, from the GunmaPrefecture. As Conan is solving the case and declares the murderer the man in the coat and scarf that had been stalking the area comes into the room and says “Not good enough yet.” He tells them to play the tape and explains the rest once he introduces himself as a “simple story teller.” Of course it’s none other than Yusaku. (Both of Shinichi’s parents are so darn dramatic.) Well he solves the case and this is how he get’s Yukiko back – throwing her a motorcycle helmet and telling her to get on. Of course she does (and I think it’s cause he came all the way from Los Angeles to go after her. So men, if you find yourself in such situation, go after her!) When dropping Conan off, his parents both tell him give him warnings. Yukiko says that Ran’s smile didn’t quite convince her that she really believed. Yusaku tells him not to underestimate women… or else.

End of Summary one.

Next time:

Detective Ran, Two-Mix, and Kid the Phantom Thief and many more!