“Where’s Mr. Blood and Guts?”

That’s a good question. Where is he? Well, just ask Conan Edogawa to close the case! In Case Closed, Conan is an alias for Jimmy Kudo, a 17 year old boy who was transformed into a 7 year old. He ends up at the home of a not so well known detective, Richard Moore, who is not very good at his job. Conan starts going with the detective to the crime scenes. While the lame detective acts like he figured it out right off the bat (usually stating it’s a suicide), Conan snoops around and figures out what really happened. Then, Conan will tranquilize the detective and use a voice simulator to reveal the truth through the detective. Eventually he creates the Junior Detective League with a couple of kids his age.

Episodes:
Disc One:
106 “The Memories of First Love, Part 1”
107 ”The Memories of First Love, Part 2”
108 “Fame and Misfortune, Part 1”
109 “Fame and Misfortune, Part 2”
110 “The Mystery of Bludcraven Manor, Part 1”
111 “ The Mystery of Bludcraven Manor, Part 2”

Disc Two:
112 “Snapshots of Death”
113 “ The Mysterious Moletian Case Part 1”
114 “The Mysterious Moletian Case Part 2”
115 “Hit and Run”
116 “Recipe for Murder, Part 1”
117 “ Recipe for Murder, Part 2”

Disc Three:
118 “School of Ghouls”
119 “Prescription for Murder”
120 “Scuba Dying, Part 1”
121 “Scuba Dying, Part 2”
122 “The Mystery Writer Disappearance, Part 1”
123 “ The Mystery Writer Disappearance, Part 2”

Disc Four:
124 “License to Die, Part 1”
125 “License to Die, Part 2”
126 “The Masked Yaiba Murder Mystery”
127 “The Big Sting”
128 “The Forgotten Bond, Part 1”
129 “The Forgotten Bond, Part 2”
130 “The Disappearing Weather Girl”

This is not exactly your ordinary mystery cases. Those who commit the crimes take the time to try to cover their tracks. How the criminals do their crimes is pretty cleaver…almost too cleaver. Though, too bad for them, Conan has no problem solving the crimes. There is a repetitiveness of plot, starting at the crime its self. Then the poor assumption that it is a suicide (for the murders), or that they are dead by now (for the disappearances) by Detective Richard Moore, followed closely by Conan figuring the crime out. It is a little weird (sometimes in a funny way) that Conan is clearly visible while talking into his voice simulator, and no one seems to notices. There were two really interesting Cases, The Bludcraven Manor and The School of Ghouls. It’s cleaver how each mystery is set up, each one has a different opening and portrays all the ways to tell a mystery story. Sometimes it starts off with the murder, but you don’t know who did it, or sometimes you know who did it, but not why and how, then there’s the times when you don’t know anything until the end. It’s cool to see all these different mystery plot lines in one series, keeping it shiny and new.

ComicsOnline gives Case Closed Season Five, 4 out of 5 guys with freaky eyebrows.