CASE CLOSED, VOL. 72
VIZ MEDIA – @VIZMedia
MANGAKA: Gosho Aoyama
TRANSLATION: Tetsuichiro Miyaki
LETTERS: Freeman Wong
EDITOR: Shaenon K. Garrity
ISBN: 978-1-9747-0656-3; paperback (October 2019); Rated “T+” for “Older Teen”
184pp, B&W, $9.99 U.S., $12.99 CAN, £6.99 UK
Detective Conan is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday since January 1994. VIZ Media is publishing an English-language edition of the manga as a paperback graphic novel series, entitled Case Closed, under its “Shonen Sunday” imprint.
Case Closed focuses on Jimmy Kudo, ace high school detective. Kudo is trailing two suspicious men in black (named “Gin” and “Vodka”), when the nefarious duo attacks him. The two men administer to Jimmy a mysterious substance that physically transforms the teen into a first grader. While searching for a cure, Jimmy adopts a new identity, becoming elementary school student, Conan Edogawa. Acting alone and sometimes with his friends, the Junior Detective League (JDL), Jimmy/Conan continues to solve criminal cases and mysteries.
As Case Closed, Vol. 72 (“In the Cards”) opens, we find Conan, Dr. Herschel Agasa, Richard Moore (“the Sleeping Detective”), and his daughter Rachel continuing their London sojourn. They were invited to the United Kingdom on an all-expenses-paid trip by an eccentric lady millionaire. Now, Conan is trying to unravel an elaborate terrorist plot before it becomes a reality. It involves the favorite in the finals of a women's championship tennis match. And if Conan is in London, how does Jimmy Kudo end up there, also? And can they solve the mystery of the devilish serial killer and terrorist whose clues reference Sherlock Holmes stories?
Next, Conan and the Junior Detective League are playing hide and seek in an abandoned building when they happen upon an unexpected criminal case with an unexpected victim and the threat of imminent death for our young detectives. Also, when Conan is out sick, the JDL is forced to try to stop a crime on their own. And all they have to stop that crime with is … a deck of cards?!
THE LOWDOWN: I am a huge fan of the Case Closed manga. But you already know that, dear readers, if you are regular reader of my manga reviews.
Case Closed Graphic Novel Volume 72 starts off by wrapping up the London adventure, and it only takes the first chapter of this volume to do so. The abandoned building is a fun adventure with the JDL. I have to admit that I have not always been a fan of that bunch, but I find myself warming to them. The two mysteries in Vol. 72 that involve the JDL show me that this group of characters offers a respite from the edgier story lines and darker elements of this series. Oh, you also get to see Conan put a soccer ball to excellent use a few times in Vol. 72, which is one of the better recent volumes.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Readers looking for fun mystery fiction will want to investigate the “Shonen Sunday” detective manga, Case Closed.
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9 out of 10
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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