What is Detective Conan?
In 1994, the serialization of Detective Conan began in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday. Its author, Gosho Aoyama, had already received the Shogakukan Manga Award for the samurai manga YAIBA, which had also been adapted into anime, but his domain was action and the sword genre: he had never worked on a mystery story as such. The series was born of a commission: following the success of a mystery manga in a rival magazine, the Sunday editorial team proposed that Aoyama write something in the same genre. Aoyama himself thought at first that he would run out of ideas and that the series would end in about three months. Far from that forecast, the story of the high-school detective Shinichi Kudo — turned into a child by an organization of men in black — became a national phenomenon. Its volumes have sold more than 270 million copies worldwide, and the serialization continues more than thirty years on: the longest in the history of Shōnen Sunday.
Thirty years of cases
Adapted into a television series in 1996, Detective Conan premiered its first film in 1997. Since then, the films have been released almost every year around Golden Week, totaling 29 installments up to 2026 and, for the last four consecutive years, surpassing ten billion yen in box-office takings, becoming an unmissable date each spring. Accompanying each release, Cinema Magazine is published. It is an informational magazine centered on the story and characters of the most recent film, which also gathers the merchandise news and Conan events of that year, along with interviews with Gosho Aoyama and eight of the main voice actors, as well as posters. A volume conceived so that the fans who follow the films can have, in a single issue, everything surrounding Conan that year.
The Complete Color Works
The Complete Color Works 1994-2025 is a compilation of the color illustrations that Gosho Aoyama has drawn over more than thirty years of serialization. The numerous original color illustrations, published only once as magazine covers or opening pages, are gathered here arranged by period. It is a work that lets you contemplate at a glance Aoyama's color and his complete graphic trajectory, something the black-and-white manga cannot quite convey.
The art books of Detective Conan
This category brings together the art books of Detective Conan in their original Japanese edition. You will find official visual books from Shogakukan, character design material, official card-game guides and more. They let you traverse, from multiple angles, thirty years of the work's universe — that which simply reading the story does not quite reveal.