Character · Detective Conan
Conan Edogawa
A high school detective in a seven-year-old's body, still solving murders, still unable to tell anyone who he is.
In Otakana the clue reads: Detective shrunk into a child's body
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- Detective Conan
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Shinichi Kudo was a teenage detective good enough that the Tokyo police called him to their crime scenes. Then he followed two men in black coats to a warehouse, one of them hit him from behind, and they made him swallow an experimental poison meant to kill without leaving a trace. It shrank him instead. He woke up the size of a primary schooler, with his own face ten years younger and nobody willing to believe a word he said.
The alias came off a bookshelf in a hurry. Conan from Arthur Conan Doyle, Edogawa from Edogawa Ranpo, the writer who gave Japan its first great detective fiction. He moves in with Ran Mouri and her father, joins a class of six-year-olds who form their own detective squad, and works cases with gadgets a neighbourhood inventor builds him: a bow tie that changes his voice, a watch that fires a tranquilliser dart, shoes that put a grown man's force behind a kick.
Gosho Aoyama began the manga in Weekly Shonen Sunday in 1994 and it is still running, past a hundred volumes, with an anime that has cleared a thousand episodes and a film every spring. English releases renamed it Case Closed over a trademark problem, which is why the same series has two names depending on where you bought it.
Spelling CONAN
The game wants the alias, CONAN, not Shinichi or Kudo. Five letters with the N repeating in positions three and five, which is the pattern to look for once you have one N placed. No Japanese trap here at all: the name was lifted straight from Arthur Conan Doyle, so it is spelled the way an English speaker would already spell it.