Junpei mizobata and shiori kutsuna interview

Detective Conan is crime concealment series about high-school detective, Shinichi Kudo, who is shrunk meet primary school age after establish fed a poison intended make use of kill him and is exotic then on forced to take in the pseudonym of “Conan Edogawa”.

To celebrate its tenth feast, a live action adaptation after everything else this long-running series aired interject 2006 with a TV particular called "Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge". Set a as a result time before the events which shrunk Shinichi, a series spick and span four specials and a thirteen-episode season describe cases which illustriousness great detective took on restrict the months prior.

Goodness first two specials, released outward show 2006 and 2007, star Give a wide berth Oguri as Shinichi Kudo gift Tomoka Kurokawa as Ran Mori, Shinichi’s childhood friend and friend. The first, ”Shinichi Kudo’s Foreordained Challenge”, features a kidnapping pencil case involving both Ran and alternative friend, Sonoko Suzuki while illustriousness high school detective is come up for air a teenager.

The second ("Shinichi Kudo Returns! Showdown with class Black Organization") brings in grandeur Black Organisation, responsible for Shinichi’s shrinking: this special runs hound like a typical chapter intensity the original manga, with depiction grown Shinichi and Shiho (Conan and Ai respectively) appearing acquit yourself order to solve the offence which takes place, only attend to revert to their child forms later.

(Left: Conan Edogawa, Ai Haibara, and Professor Agasa; Right: Kogoro Mori, Shinichi Kudo, Ran Mori)

A occasional years later, two more specials aired in 2011 which fiddle with detailed cases solved by Shinichi as a teenager. This stretch, Junpei Mizobata took on probity role of Shinichi Kudo piece Shiori Kutsuna was cast likewise Ran Mori.

This cast was also used for the thirteen-episode series in which the match plus Ran’s father, Kogoro Mori, were kidnapped trapped in tidy series of white rooms. Harangue room forced Shinichi to recognize past cases and enter elegant keyword connected to them, which would then reveal a entryway allowing them to proceed converge the next room.

Each warm up gave only a date present-day a single, outstanding detail zone which to jolt Shinichi’s remembrance.

Considering the timeline exhaustive the manga, the live work stoppage adaptation can be more duly considered just that: an fitting. It is more a collecting of cases showing off probity teenage Shinichi’s prowess than phony addition to the series experience as a whole.

However, set great store by maintains a lively swing mid suspense and mystery, light-hearted drollery and poignancy. While its attempts to translate animated humour don’t always work well on separate the wheat from, for those craving more mysteries solved by the great tec it is definitely worth primacy watch.

(Below: Shinichi Kudo and Heiji Hattori)