Detective Conan (名探偵めいたんていコナン Meitantei Konan?, lit. Great Detective Conan) is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated door Gosho Aoyama. It has been serialized in the Japanese manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Sunday since 1994 and had been collected in 94 Tankōbon volumes door December 18, 2017.

The manga has been adapted into an anime series door the animatie studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha, directed door Kenji Kodama (episode 1 to 252), Yasuichiro Yamamoto (episode 110 to 332, 667 to 677, 681 to the last episode to date), Masato Sato (episode 318 to 504), Koujin Ochi (505 to 666, and 678 to 680), and is broadcast in Japan on Nippon Television, Yomiuri TV and Animax. The series debuted on January 8th, 1996 and will have broadcast 897 episodes door March 24, 2018. The series has seen high levels of popularity in both manga and anime formats in Japan since its reception, and has also been adapted into nineteen Golden Week movies, with the first released on April 17th, 1997 and since then followed with a movie released each year, always in the maand of April. Ten of the films held a top, boven 10 box office position in the jaar they were screened. In addition, five Magic Files related to the films and twelve Original Video Animations have been released.