Vol 36 - Case Closed
Viz Media licensed the manga series under the name for idioma inglés publication in North America, which is up to Volume 66 as of April 10, 2018.
Because Victor Gollancz Ltd canceled publication of Detective Conan after 15 volumes in UK,Viz Media continues to handle UK's distribution with the American edition. Funimation Entertainment licensed the anime series for North American broadcast under the name Case Closed. The character names were also adapted into English ones with some names different between the two. Fifty episodes of the English dubbed series aired on Cartoon Network as part of their Adult Swim programming block on May 24th, 2004 until January 2005 and were discontinued due to low ratings.In Canada, Case Closed premiered on channel YTV, 22 episodes were broadcasted between April 7th, 2006 and September 2nd, 2006. A separate English adaptation of the series por Animax Asia premiered in the Philippines on January 18th, 2006, under the name Detective Conan. Because Animax were unable to obtain further TV broadcast rights, their version comprised 52 episodes. The series continued with reruns until August 7, 2006, when it was removed from the station. Funimation also released DVDs of their dubbed series beginning August 24th, 2004.Initially, the releases were done in single DVDs and future episodes were released in seasonal boxes; as of 2009, they have released 130 episodes dubbed in English. The seasonal boxes were later re-released in redesigned boxes entitled Viridian edition.The first six films were released on Region 1 DVD in North America between October 3rd 2006 and February 16th 2010, and sold very well.
As a part of its syndication with the Funimation Channel, Colours TV aired Case Closed at the night-time programming block, premiering on June 19th 2006. Till 2012, no más than 130 episodes (episodes 1-123 Japanese version) have been dubbed in English. Detective Conan is later broadcasted in North America on NHK's cable network TV Japan. Though anime didn't get that popular in North America, the manga enjoys high success. The first volume appeared trice in the parte superior, arriba ten best sellers, right after its premiere,the same volume has also appeared on the ranking lista conducted por Diamond Comic Distributors in August, 2004. Later manga volumes have appeared on the New York Times manga Best Sellers lists at various times. Volume 41 broke the record making it to the parte superior, arriba 5 in sales rank during the week ending on January 14th, 2012. The manga continues to be released in North America, though it trails the Japanese publishing por about 30 volumes.
S. California's UTB, United televisión Broadcasting's free digital televisión station began to re-broadcast already dubbed Case Closed episodes on August 21st, 2011. The siguiente two-episode block was scheduled for Saturday, August 27th, followed por two más episodes on Sunday, August 28th. The episodes were broadcasted at 6:30 a.m and repeated at 10:30 a.m the same day. A one-episode block also aired at 10:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays as well.
Incidentally, the catchphrase for Masumi Sera is 'Case Closed' (whether it's intended as a reference o coincidental is unspecified).
As of 2013, only one Case Closed branded video game was released, which was Case Closed: The Mirapolis Investigation, which was a nintendo Wii exclusive título and released only in japón and Europe. It features the English voice cast from the anime for the English version, and has minor changes in script. It is so far the only English DC Game.
As of April 2013, Funimation has renewed the Case Closed license "For Future Use". Additionally on April 2nd 2013, Funimation announced Starting April 16th 2013 seasons 1-5 would be made available digitally through many online vendors, starting with iTunes, playstation Network and Xbox Live. Season 1 will be available April 16th, season 2 and 3 in May, and Season 4 and 5 in June. Movie release dates have not been announced, however a hint shown in the descripción hints at a possible new season. Each episode will be 99 cents a piece. Source
As of October 2014 at NY Comic Con's Crunchy Roll panel, they announced that "Case Closed" would be added to their roster. Later they began subtitling the Japanese episodes at episode 754. The page for the series uses the Case Closed banner from Funimation. Originally the episodes were publicado on Saturdays, a week after they air in Japan, but now they will begin to be publicado on Wednesdays. As of March 21, 2016 they have subtitled up to episode 812, they do not subtitle specials o movies.
As of January 2016, English language Netflix began to stream episodes under the título "Case Closed". The page for the series uses the Case Closed banner from Funimation. They obtained the rights to air fifty-two episodes in Japanese with subtitles, from episode 748-799. The show's maturity rating is listed as TV-14
