Case Closed, Vol. 36

Can Detective Conan crack the case…while trapped in a kid’s body?

When ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a pair of nefarious men in black—poof! He is physically transformed 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.

When a car bomb goes off at a ticker-tape parade, Conan is onto one of the biggest cases of his career: a terrorist attack on Tokyo. A videotape intercepted from the crime scene may have captured the culprit’s face, but while the Metropolitan Police and the Junior Detective League study the footage without success, the bombings keep escalating! And for Detective Sato, the case brings back bad memories. Can she and Conan crack the mystery before the bomber takes down the biggest target of all: Touto Tower?

Author Biography

Gosho Aoyama made his debut in 1986 with Chotto Mattete (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 Case Closed, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga Yaiba: Samurai Legend, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1992. Aoyama’s manga is greatly influenced by his boyhood love for mystery, adventure, and baseball, and he has cited the tales of Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes, along with the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, as some of his childhood favorites.