Case Closed, Vol. 99

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.

Ain’t nobody here but us chickens…and a corpse, as the Junior Detective League discovers while visiting a farm. Who’s been sowing the seeds of crime? Then Yoko Okino comes to Detective Moore’s office with a spooky case set at a haunted house. Mr. Moore isn’t available, but Wakita, the mystery-loving sushi chef, is!

Meanwhile, learn the truth about Mary, the mysterious girl Sera’s been protecting. Could there be another victim of the drug that turned Conan into a kid?

Gosho Aoyama made his debut in 1986 with Chotto Mattete (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 Case Closed, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga Yaiba: Samurai Legend, 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 Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes, along with the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, as some of his childhood favorites.