Case Closed discography

Case Closed discography
The Meitantei Conan version of the single Jûgoya Kuraishisu (Kimi ni Aitai) by Hundred Percent Free and published by Pure Infinity on January 27, 2011
Soundtrack albums22
Compilation albums9
Singles87
Image albums2

Case Closed, known as Meitantei Conan (名探偵コナン, lit. Great Detective Conan, officially translated as Detective Conan) in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since February 2, 1994.[1] It was adapted into an anime series produced by Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation (YTV) and TMS Entertainment where it premiered on YTV.[2][3] The first episode premiered on January 8, 1996. It is currently ongoing and numbers over 1000 episodes, making it the eleventh longest running anime series.[4][5] The anime spin off has over twenty animated featured films.[6][7]

Katsuo Ono (大野 克夫, Ono Katsuo), who composed and arranged the music in the Case Closed animation, produced four original soundtracks for the TV anime and one original soundtrack for each of the seventeen films totaling nineteen tracks.[2][8][9][10][11] The best of his work were compiled into three collections, Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best,[12] Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best 2,[13] and Detective Conan TV Original Soundtrack Selection Best.[14] Two image albums were also created featuring the voice actors singing as their character.[15][16]The Best of Detective Conan and The Best of Detective Conan 2 albums collectively sold over 2.3 million copies, while singles from The Best of Detective Conan 3 collectively sold over 1.5 million copies.[17] On July 25, 2017, the singer Mai Kuraki was awarded a Guinness World Record for singing the most theme songs in a single anime series, having sung 21 songs for Detective Conan, since the hit song "Secret of My Heart" (2000).[18] In total, the series' albums and singles have collectively sold over 9.4 million units and grossed approximately ¥15 billion ($185 million) in Japan.

  1. ^ Weekly Shōnen Sunday (in Japanese). 1994 (5). Shogakukan. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ a b "Detective Conan staff" (in Japanese). Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. Retrieved April 13, 2009.
  3. ^ "Detective Conan". TMS Entertainment. Archived from the original on August 10, 2011. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
  4. ^ "YTV: Animation on the Web" (in Japanese). Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. February 18, 2010. Archived from the original on March 29, 2011. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
  5. ^ "Detective Conan episode archive" (in Japanese). Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  6. ^ "Detective Conan movie archives" (in Japanese). Conan-movie.jp. Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
  7. ^ "Detective Conan official movie website" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on March 13, 2009. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference OST was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference OST Super 2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference OST Best TV was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ Cite error: The named reference Image 1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  16. ^ "Detective Conan Image album 2 information" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
  17. ^ "B'z、ZARD収録、『名探偵コナン』テーマ曲集第3弾発売". MSN News. August 7, 2008. Archived from the original on August 15, 2008. Retrieved August 15, 2008.
  18. ^ "Japanese singer Mai Kuraki claims animation theme songs record for Detective Conan a.k.a. Case Closed". Guinness World Records. July 27, 2017.