Case Closed, Vol. 51

名探偵コナン [Meitantei Conan] #51

by Gosho Aoyama

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.

In this exciting volume:

THE CAT WHO READ JAPANESE

Digging for clams at the beach, the Junior Detective League digs up a mystery instead. Did a depressed beachgoer commit suicide, or was he murdered by one of his friends?

Then detective Richard Moore faces a challenge beyond his crime-fighting abilities: taking care of his ex-wife’s new kitten! But the pesky furball leads him to the clues he needs to solve an impenetrable code. Could there be a new detective in town—one even cuter than Conan?

Genres: Manga, Mystery, Comics, Komik, Fiction, Shonen, Crime

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 18, 2005

About the author

Gosho Aoyama (青山剛昌) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series Detective Conan (known in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom as Case Closed).

Aoyama made his debut as a manga artist with the work Chotto Matte which was published in the weekly magazine Shōnen Sunday on winter of 1987. Shortly after that, another work by Aoyama, Magic Kaito, was published on the same magazine.

Reviews

[Aitor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Todos son casos bastante sólidos, aunque diría que el último cae tanto en el exceso que me baja la puntuación del tomo.

Caso Niño Que Ha Suspendido Comprensión Escrita: por la situación, todo es muy tenso y aunque hacia el final me pierda un poco, logra ser misterioso bastante tiempo. Los dos capítulos le sientan muy bien a la serie, permitiéndose concentrar el caso y partir de una premisa más sencilla. Dicho esto, menudo crío más gilipollas por mandar semejantes mensajitos. La carta de "es que es un niño" no me vale; ya hay que ser imbécil para escribir de manera tan críptica.

Caso Mejor Sinopsis de Goodreads ("Detective Boys going to the beach to find shellfish, and found murder instead"): bastante más creíble que muchos casos de la serie. Es misterioso, entretenido y bastante memorable en su sencillez. Quizá no vaya a mucho, pero el plan está realmente bien pensado y los capítulos fluyen sin problemas.

Caso Gorogorogorogoro: como siempre, Aoyama tiene que destrozar lo cuco de la historia haciendo que su Übermensch Conan estuviera detrás de todo. Y bueno, ya me diréis vosotros qué puto adolescente escribe con semejante código. Esto último se lo achaco al trabajazo de edición de la versión española, que aunque es impresionante, hace que el código pierda credibilidad. Dicho esto, que sean dos capítulos (de nuevo, gracias al cielo) desde el punto de vista de Kogoro, sin Conan cerca y con un gato monísimo destrozando la casa hace que el conjunto cueste poco de disfrutar.

Caso ¿Para Qué Asustar a Eisuke Si Se Asusta Él Solo?: de lo más estándar. Mucho trasfondo para, al final, hacer un caso más bien regulero. Lo del plato es una gilipollez, lo del pasillo es como para encerrar a Aoyama y el misterio general no me importa. Lo acabo de leer y ya se me está olvidando, así que valga eso para remarcar lo inconsecuente que resulta.

[Gayatri · Rating 4 out of 5]

The ending of Hattori vs. Kudo was amazing, yet a bit sad because they didn't get to meet each other back then!

The Fish Incident case was a sweet case, with the boy turning out to be safe and everyone getting their happy ending.

The clam shells case was okay, but Yokomizo's twin was annoying - especially because Inspector Yokomizo is a nice character! They're like chalk and cheese.

The cat sitting case was actually quite humorous. I almost believed that something was truly special in Eri's Russian Blue cat because it led Mouri to the clues perfectly. But of course, it was all Conan's brainwave. And the part where Goro the cat was named after Kogoro Mouri was almost romantic.

The last case - the sealed window with iron nails - was again okay. It got better in the end because Yamamura seemingly received the solution to the case from Conan Mouri. And it was smart, because Conan realized that Eisuke was watching him.

[Jerry · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fine entry into the Detective Conan series. No cliffhanger ending in this volume for those looking for a "rest area" in this series.

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This volume starts off by closing out the flashback story. It was a nice one (even when dealing with a murder case) that leaves you with a smirk…or at least did for me. The first full story of this volume involves a child who is in a bad way…without his father or mother. This one isn’t a murder case and everything is resolved at the end…and to be honest, because everyone is okay and the family is reunited, it made me think about how we should have more stories within the series like this one! The next story involves the Junior Detectives and a death at the beach! Something is fishy (pun intended) This story isn’t a long one but has some interesting pieces to it…involving a death that happened a week prior to where we pick up the story. I liked it more than I thought I would and sort of wished it was a bit longer. The next story finds Detective Moore up against maybe one of his greatest hurdles to overcome since we began our journey with him in the pages of Case Closed…looking after his estranged wife’s cat! This is the cover story of volume #51 and it’s a fun one. Nothing too serious here but enjoyable. The final story isn't a cliffhanger which surprised me. This is another solid entry into this long-running series that might not attract a lot of new readers as jump in points aren’t necessarily everywhere, but doesn’t let many off the hook once you’ve begun reading them.

[Bill Fish · Rating 5 out of 5]

It took me some time to get back to this volume, but it was worth it. Conan trikes solving some cases without putting someone asleep to voice them. I guess he's starting to worry people are starting to notice how peculiar this is. The Russian Blue story was my favorite from this volume, although all the stories were pretty good, hence the high rating.

[Chocotube · Rating 4 out of 5]

- suite et fin de l'affaire de l'habit étincelant de la femme des neiges
- affaire du SMS de SOS
- affaire du ramassage de coquillages
- affaire du Bleu russe
- affaire de la fenêtre scellée

Un tome plutôt sympa, où on retrouve Heiji, Azusa, Eri et Eisuke, dans des affaires qui ne cassent pas trois pattes à un canard mais qui sortent de l'ordinaire. Un tome de transition on va dire.

[Felicia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some filler cases, but they're still pretty engaging. Sometimes the explanations are super detailed and feel a bit stretched, but I'll take it. Eisuke's totally faking being clumsy, but I do like that Conan has a little bit of a challenge with him. Yokomizo's got a hunch!

[Hana Eka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Di vol. ini ada 4 cerita pendek.
2 diantaranya ada kucing xD9

[Vernica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bagus

[Valerie · Rating 3 out of 5]

casos bastante flojos

[Ana · Rating 3 out of 5]

★★★✭☆

[Primadonna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this one in Malay. I love reading Conan in Malay, brings me back to my childhood. Already read the Indonesian version.

[Soobie has fog in her brain · Rating 3 out of 5]

E ogni tanto Conan lascia il palcoscenico a Mori... Con l'aiuto del gatto della moglie.

[鯊 · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5.

[Caa · Rating 3 out of 5]

can’t believe I’m rating DC this low but none of the cases feels on par with their standard :/

the cat case is cute though & clam was alright but the villa was like idk doesn’t makes sense

[Robin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Proper review to follow

One Word Rec.: READ

Rating: 5 🔍🔍🔍🔍🔍

Aoyama Gosho; DETECTIVE CONAN [Meitantei Conan #51]

e/read online; genre: { manga, mystery, shounen }; shelves: |comics, GN, manga, manhua, manhwa|

General Synopsis:
As mentioned above, I am going to write a proper review for this soon, but I have a few books ahead of this one in the queue, so I cannot stop reading DC NOW! That's sacrilege. I have decided to read all the chapters available up to now (we are almost to 1000!) As you can see, I am totally fangirling over here and I don't care, because this is one of my favorite manga series, ever! But all of this aside, there are a few things I wanted to list so I don't need to go back and look everything up when I do finally sit down and write my fangirl review. ✌🏻

V.51, includes Files 522 - 532

DO NOT click on the spoiler link if you don't want to read all the cases in this volume, because it will ruin it for you. On the other hand, if you're a fan like me or are looking for a certain case (and please note, these are how I have set the cases), etc. click away, that's why it's there.


Case 150 - Snow Woman Murder Case (solved), File - 522
Case 151 - Cell Phone SOS Case (solved), File 523 - 524
Case 152 - Sea Shell Hunt Murder Case (solved), File 525 - 527 (DB)
Case 153 - Russian Blue Cat Case (solved), File 515 - 517
Case 154 - Sealed Window Murder Case (solved), File 528 - 529

Another spoiler link, so don't click if you don't want to ruin this manga. I am going to include the characters introduced or as the series continues are in this volume. Personally, I think us DC fans love certain characters more than other (yes, Heiji, I mean you!), so sometimes when we are re-reading this series (like all the time!) you might wish to start at a specific case or start when a certain character is involved.

Characters in this volume:
Kudo Shinichi, high school detective
Edogawa Conan, main protagonist (and the shrunk form of Shinichi)
Mouri Ran, main protagonist & love interest of Shinichi
Mouri Kogoro, detective & Ran's father
Professor Agasa Hiroshi, inventor & long time friend to the Kudo family
"Criminal" silhouette
Haibara Ai, shrunk form of Miyano Shiho, former member of the Black Organization
Suzuki Sonoko, Ran's best friend & fellow classmate of Shinichi's
Hattori Heiji , high school detective - self proclaimed "Detective of the West"
Toyama Kazuha, childhood friend of Heiji & romance interest
Enomoto Azusa, waitress at Cafe Poirot
Hondō Eisuke, a new transfer student at Ran, Sonoko & Shinichi's high school

Law Enforcement changed from Police due to progression of series, fans know what I mean!
Yamamura Misao, detective and police officer from the Gunma district
Inspector Yokomizo Jugo, Kanagawa Prefecture Police, also Inspector Yokomizo Sango's brother

Detective Boys
Yoshida Ayumi, a student in Conan's class
Kojima Genta, a student in Conan's class
Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko, a student in Conan's class

rare appearance
Kudo Yusaku, Shinichi's father
Kudo Yukiko, Shinichi's mother
Kisaki Eri, Ran's mother


Personal Opinion:
#1, I never call this CASE CLOSED. If you do, you're not a true fan of this series, so don't even bother reading my review or my personal opinions. I'm sorry if I offend you, but you offended me first by telling me you want to read CASE CLOSED or you just love Jimmy.

#2, as you can tell by #1, I read this online. I would never waste my money buying a manga series in english that cannot get the name correct and mess up the main characters to make it appear more "ENGLISH." I am so happy I don't run a blog and this isn't a review on Sailor Moon, #1, because I have a huge soap box tirade against DiC. I also don't think there is anything against reading something online. Comics, which is what manga are, are meant to be read and shared and sometimes paying over $10 is too much in my opinion. Plus, I read the newest chapters as soon as they are released from Japan, because I would never miss a release of DC. So this is my personal shout out to you translators from me, Thank You!

[Skjam! · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shin’ichi Kudou (Jimmy Kudo) is a teen genius detective, well known for solving cases that baffle the police. One day while visiting an amusement park with his female friend Ran Mouri (Rachel Moore), he witnesses a murder by two men in black. They catch him, and one of the men decides to try a new poison their organization has developed

Shin’ichi vanishes, initially presumed dead by the assassins. But in fact the poison has caused him to physically regress to about six years old. He contacts Dr. Agasa, an eccentric scientist of his acquaintance, who isn’t a biochemist and has no idea how to reverse the effect. Ran appears, looking for Shin’ichi, and the boy comes up with a name based on the spines of detective story books he was looking at, Conan Edogawa. (From Arthur Conan Doyle and Rampo Edogawa, the latter being best known in Japan and having taken his pen name from Edgar Allen Poe.)

Ran is told that Conan’s parents are out of the country, and Dr. Agasa asks her to look after him until they’re back. Ran’s father, inept private eye Kougoro Mouri (Richard Moore) is not happy about this, but is soon distracted by a murder case. Conan figures out whodunnit, but has to use Kougoro as a mouthpiece to avoid blowing his cover, so the older detective gets the credit.

After that, Conan continues to solve cases, mostly murders, while looking for clues to track down the Black Organization. This requires a lot of subterfuge, as he supposedly cannot tell Ran or Kougoro the truth, lest they also be targeted by the Organization (this has become increasingly hypocritical over the years as they come into dangerous unknowing contact with the Black agents repeatedly) and thus cannot let the police or other responsible adults in on it either.

This is a very long running series, up to 51 volumes in North America, which is several years behind the Japanese releases. That creates some weirdness as it’s all supposed to be taking place in one year after Shin’ichi is shrunk. (An early case had a cell phone that could fit in a lunchbox as a cool new gadget; a more recent case has the absence of cell phones in a writer’s story as evidence he had been housebound for years.)

Due to marketing concerns, the title of the series and some of the names were altered for the North American market to get the anime version on television. This didn’t work out as well as hoped; while the main character looks like a child and thus the U.S, networks expected a kid-friendly show, the manga is actually shounen (aimed at junior high boys and up) and features gruesome murders and some other violence. There’s also some mild fanservice.

Over the course of the series, it’s accumulated loads of characters; Conan’s first grade classmates, Shin’ichi and Ran’s friends, rival detectives, many police officers, recurring criminals, members of the Black Organization and of course a whole new cast of murder suspects in most stories. Most of them are pretty self-evident, or re-introduced when they show up, but I should mention Ai Haibara (Anita), the scientist who developed the experimental poison for the Black Organization. She later took it herself to escape them, and poses as Dr. Agasa’s ward.

The cases are usually enjoyable, if sometimes a bit repetitive when a few volumes are read in a row. And it is always a delight when there is actual movement on the Black Organization plotline. (This won’t actually be resolved until the manga ends, of course.) Once familiar with the basic premise, a reader should be able to pick up any volume and have a good read.

The volume to hand, #51 is typical. First, the flashback Snow Maiden case is wrapped up. Then a waitress at Cafe Poirot slowly realizes that texts she’s getting from a little boy mean he’s trapped alone in a car…somewhere (this one has a happy ending.) The Detective Kids (Conan’s classmates who enjoy mysteries) help our hero solve the murder of a clamdigger.

After that, Kougoro finds himself catsitting a Russian Blue (based on the author’s real life new cat, see the cover illustration) while tackling a difficult cipher. The volume wraps up with Ran’s rich but airheaded friend Sonoko (Serena) inviting her, Conan and a new classmate named Eisuke to her country home. On the way there, they stumble on a locked room mystery…complicated by Conan’s suspicions of Eisuke. Is the new fellow really as clumsy and unlucky as he appears? There’s circumstantial evidence that he’s sharper than he looks.

This volume ought to go over especially well with cat lovers.

[Pato Myers · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quick and enjoyable read.

[Veronica Ika · Rating 5 out of 5]

A SILENT CRY FOR HELP
Café Poirot’s waitress, Azusa Enomoto, receives cryptic messages from a boy who appears to be in grave danger—kidnapped or trapped without food or water. The boy can only send texts but cannot receive replies, leaving Conan with a daunting challenge: decipher the scattered clues within his messages to locate him before time runs out.

THE CODED MESSAGE AND THE WATCHFUL CAT
A desperate father seeks Kogoro’s help in decoding a mysterious message from his daughter. Meanwhile, Kogoro is tasked with caring for Eri’s mischievous cat, Goro. As Kogoro struggles with the code, Goro’s antics accidentally lead him to a breakthrough—the message is written using missing strokes from Hiragana and Katakana, hidden in plain sight. But as Kogoro pieces the puzzle together, he begins to suspect that the cat itself might be leading him toward an even bigger revelation.

THE HAUNTED VILLA AND THE LOCKED-ROOM CURSE
A mountain retreat turns into a chilling mystery when Sonoko, Ran, Eisuke, and Conan stumble upon a supposedly haunted villa. Once owned by two brothers, its dark history includes a series of unexplained deaths—first, the older brother’s wife was found hanging in a locked room, followed by the brother’s own tragic suicide. When a new owner, a band member of "Dorcus," meets the same fate under eerily identical circumstances, Conan must uncover the truth. But with Eisuke closely observing his every move, Conan must work carefully to expose the murderer without revealing his own secrets.

[Hikari · Rating 5 out of 5]

Das Cover dieses Bandes finde ich super süß. Doch auch die Fälle sind diesmal sehr spannend. Als erstes geht es natürlich weiter mit den Erinnerungen von Heiji. Und da taucht auch Shinichi mit auf. Also ganz besonders toll. Der Fall wird dann hier zum Abschluss gebracht, der ja bereits in Band 50 begonnen wurde. Danach kommt es zu einem rührenden Fall für Kogoro, Ran und Conan, als ein kleiner Junge merkwürdige Nachrichten schreibt und scheinbar verloren ist. Danach geht es wieder mit einem Mord weiter, den diesmal die Detektive Boys und Professor Agasa lösen müssen. Danach muss Kogoro die verschlüsselte Nachricht einer Oberschülerin lösen und bekommt Hilfe von Eris neuem Kater Goro. Als letztes verschlägt es Sonoko, Ran und Conan mal wieder in ein mörderisches Anwesen. Und auch dieser neue Charakter Eisuke, der einen auf dumm und nervig macht, ist mit von der Partie... allerdings hat er ein besonderes Auge auf Conan. Na, wer steckt denn diesmal dahinter? Oder sollte er tatsächlich der einzige Erwachsene außerhalb des FBI und der Männer in Schwarz sein, die Conan merkwürdig finden?? ;)

[Selena Pigoni · Rating 5 out of 5]

The cat was definitely my favorite part. I want that cat to be a permanent member of the cast. I know it won't happen, but kittens are so cute.

*ahem*

Anyway, more mysteries, two of which actually didn't involve murder (a rarity for Case Closed).

I enjoyed this volume immensely.

[Martina · Rating 3 out of 5]

makin lama kasusnya makin pusing (kayak kindaichi).

lama bgt ya nerjemahinnya..di internet e-booksnya udah beredar setidaknya sampe no.65! gak sopan....

[Eka · Rating 2 out of 5]

entah kenapa kurang seru,,

[Alya N · Rating 4 out of 5]

Di volume ini ada episode yang Goro ngebantu Kogoro mecahin kasus orang hilang itu kan?

Padahal sebenernya tu orang kaga hilang. Dan yang mecahin juga bukan Goro, tapi Conan. Hehehe.

[Fariz Anshar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Russian Blue itu hal terbodoh di volume ini, bikin ketawa aja si Conan sama Mouri

[Mahra · Rating 5 out of 5]

KAZUHA AND HEIJI OMG I AM DEAD!

1. starting this volume with the detective team does actual team work when solving a case and i liked how the teacher asked to join the detective squad! XD

2. this whole arc of flashback between heiji n shinchi is just so sweetingly cute!! and kazuha and heiji are just like PLZ BE TOGETHER!

3. basically both heiji's and shinchi's moms are me in the future!!.

4. kazuha n heiji is ship sailed!!!!(see gif below as a representation of my feelings)


also; young shinchi and heiji is just adorable.