Detective Conan is about an elementary school boy named Conan Edogawa. He solves mysteries and crimes through reasoning and logic and with the help of friends and nifty gadgets. Conan is really a 17-year-old famous high school detective, Shinichi Kudo. While investigating some suspicious activity, Shinichi was knocked over the head by a man dressed in black. During his semi-conscious state, an experimental drug was forced down his throat that was meant to kill him. Instead, Shinichi was shrunk into a little kid. In order to prevent the men who did this to him from hurting his friends and family, Shinichi changed his name to Conan Edogawa and now lives with his girlfriend, Ran and her dad.

Detective Conan was created by Gosho Aoyama and appears in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine. Right now, Detective Conan has 50 completed volumes, 19 completed special volumes and is an anime series on Monday night at 7:30 pm in Japan. The series is now on air on Cartoon Network under the title "Case Closed" as a part of Adult Swim.