The essential episodes of Detective Conan
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Detective Conan — each pick states its reason.
- 01
While on a date with Rachel, Kudo is attacked by two shady thugs who slip him an experimental drug. The effects of the poison will turn Jimmy’s life upside down!
- 02
Conan and the gang's ski-trip turns deadly when a medical professor is murdered right under their noses. A secret message left by the victim points to one of his students as being the killer. However, unraveling the secret proves one of the greatest challenges the pint-sized sleuth has ever faced.
- 03
No Immunity for the Diplomat (1)
Conan, Richard and Rachel are joined by Harley Hartwell, a teen detective from the west coast, in solving the sealed room murder of a diplomat.
- 04
No Immunity for the Diplomat (2)
Jimmy Kudo returns to the surprise of everyone, especially himself! As Jimmy tries to expose the real secret behind the perfectly sealed room, the rivalry between he and Harley Hartwell heats up!
- 05
Conan enters a Sherlock Holmes contest to win a rare first-edition book and persuades Ran Mouri and Kogoro to attend.
- 06
Conan enters a Sherlock Holmes contest to win a rare first-edition book and persuades Ran Mouri and Kogoro to attend.
- 07
How can blood from one victim, murdered on the street, wind up on the wall of an abandoned building, the railing of a rooftop, and broken glass of an upper apartment window? This is the question Conan must answer if he is to catch a crafty killer entrenched in a seemingly innocent mountain-climbing fraternity, which hides a deadly secret.
- 08
The Case of the Murdered Actress
Kogoro is given a case to solve the sender of a threat note. His teacher Heihachiro Shiota appears at his house and decides to go to the theater, too. Conan and Ran tag along. Kogoro's case turns into a murder, but he soon breaks his backbone before Conan can solve it.
- 09
The tour takes a deadly turn when one of the guests falls from a room and is impaled on a statue.
- 10
Conan closes in on the killer's identity when he realizes something he missed earlier. Meanwhile, Rachel suspects that an idol of her's, a karate champion staying at the hotel, is involved.
- 11
An S.O.S. message in a bottle disrupts Conan's beachside vacation. Can he and his Junior Detective League friends find the young woman they believe to be the note's author?
- 12
Mahjong: a game of strategy, skill, and luck - three things that a sinister murderer hopes he has on his side! Conan must stack the clues and place details in order if he is to win this terrifying game!
- 13
Conan enters a battle of wits with an elusive master thief known as Kaito Kid and has to stop him from stealing a precious pearl from Sonoko's family aboard a cruise ship.
- 14
Conan and Harley Hartwell's covert investigation continues. But with precious few suspects, one big question haunts the brilliant duo: If Roland Dufour didn't commit the murder, then who did?
- 15
Ran and Sonoko are getting ready to attend a huge concert by the very popular J-Pop band Two-Mix. Some hours before that, Conan and the Detective Boys go to a coffee parlor and meet a lady with sunglasses and a cap... who turns out to be the singer of the group, a woman named Minami Takayama whose voice is rather similar to Conan's.
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