Anime

Detective Conan Anime
The Detective Conan (名探偵 コナン, Meitantei Conan) anime series began January 8, 1996, and was created off of the famous manga series created in 1994 by Gosho Aoyama. There were many adaptations of the series in multiple languages, and one of the more famous adaptations was the Funimation version of the series, in which the series was renamed Case Closed because of legal issues with the name Detective Conan. The series is both based off of the manga and an introduction to "TV Originals", episodes which were not included in the original manga series and instead were added onto the anime series only, usually one thirty minute episode mystery with no new important characters or plot development to the main story (See Summary). The anime series was directed by Kenji Kodama and Yasuichiro Yamamoto. The series was produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, and is shown on the networks NNS (Nippon Television Network System(日本テレビネットワーク協議会, Nihon Terebi Nettowāku Kyōgikai)) and Animax in Japan. Later on, Funimation Entertainment released an English version of the series, Case Closed. The series was confirmed July 5, 2003, and fifty episodes were released to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim starting May 24, 2004, and ending January 2005 due to low ratings. It also aired on YTV's Bionix in Canada from April 7- September 2, 2006. There have been 130 episodes and five series (as of May 12, 2009) dubbed so far, and Funimation is currently putting the series to a short break due to the low ratings compared to their other shows.