Case Closed, Vol. 25, Paperback/Gosho Aoyama

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- An ongoing series in Japan--over 54 volumes released to date, with over 84 million copies sold - Case Closed manga has sold over 185k units in the US to date - One of the best-selling titles from the pages of Japan's manga magazine Shonen Sunday- Winner of the Shogakukan Award for Best Manga in 2001- Named one of the Top 50 Manga Properties of 2005 by ICv2- Anime is currently available on DVD from FUNimation- Merchandise across categories in North America: accessories, calendars, TCG, etc. When ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a pair of nefarious men in black--poof He is physically tranformed 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. Conan stumbles upon his creepiest mystery yet, complete with a haunted house, a spooky pair of twins, and... a giant spider? Are Conan and his friends really under attack by restless spirits, or was this web of terror spun by human hands? Good thing Harley Hartwell's there to help with the case Then the Junior Detective League goes camping--only to run afoul of a gang of crooks, a labyrinth of caves, and a whole bunch of angry bats About the Author: Gosho Aoyama, made his debut in 1992 with CHOTTO MATTE ("Wait a minute") which won Shogakukan's prestigious Shinjin Comic Taisho ("Newcomer's Award for Comics") and launched his career as a critically acclaimed, top-selling manga artist. In addition to DETECTIVE CONAN which won the Shogakukan Award for best Manga in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga, YAIBA, which won Shogakukan's Award for Manga in 1992. Aoyama's manga is greatly influenced by his boyhood love for mystery, adventure, and baseball and he has cited the tales of Arsene Lupin, Sherlock Holmes, and the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa as some of his childhood favorites.