Case Closed, Vol. 94

Can Detective Conan crack the case...while trapped in a kid’s body?

When ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a pair of nefarious men in black--poof! He is physically transformed 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.

A judge is stabbed at a kendo tournament where Harley is competing--and preparing to confess his feelings to Kazuha. A waiter is brutally murdered at a café, and every one of his coworkers has a motive. As the Detective League heads home from a soccer match, a crook is strangely fixated on stealing Anita’s beloved souvenir. Conan can handle all these cases and more, but they’re nothing compared to the bigger problem consuming his every waking moment: can he turn back into Jimmy Kudo long enough to join Rachel on a romantic class trip to Kyoto?

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 Manga Award in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga Yaiba, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award 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 and Sherlock Holmes and the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa as some of his childhood favorites.