When ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a pair of nefarious men in black–poof! He is physically tranformed into a first grader. Until Jimmy can find a cure for his miniature malady, he takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the cases that come his way.
Conan and his friends take a well-deserved break at a video arcade–until one unlucky gamer is found dead in the seat of a virtual-reality game. As Conan and Rachel investigate, they're joined by an unlikely new accomplice: Rachel's English teacher, Ms. Saintemillion. Outside the classroom, the fast-talking American turns out to have an itchy trigger finger–at least when it comes to video games–and a suspiciously keen interest in Conan. Has the shrunken sleuth stumbled upon a valuable new ally…or an enemy agent?
When ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a
pair of nefarious men in black–poof! He is physically tranformed into a first
grader. Until Jimmy can find a cure for his miniature malady, he takes on the
pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the cases that come his
way.
Author Biography
Gosho Aoyama, made his debut in 1992 with CHOTTO MATTE (“Wait a minute”)
which won Shogakukan's prestigious Shinjin Comic Taisho (“Newcomer's Award
for Comics”) and launched his career as a critically acclaimed, top-selling
manga artist. In addition to DETECTIVE CONAN which won the Shogakukan Award for
best Manga in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga, YAIBA, which won
Shogakukan's Award for Manga in 1992. Aoyama's manga is greatly influenced
by his boyhood love for mystery, adventure, and baseball and he has cited the
tales of Arsene Lupin, Sherlock Holmes, and the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa
as some of his childhood favorites.