The characters of Case Closed, known as in Japan, are created by Gosho Aoyama. The series takes place in modern day Japan and follows amateur detective Jimmy Kudo who solves cases in an episodic fashion. The series begins when Jimmy Kudo is fed a deadly poison by Gin and Vodka which was designed to kill a person without leaving evidence. Instead, the poison turns him into a child and he adopts the alias Conan Edogawa in order to investigate the two men in black. Dr. Agasa places Jimmy in the care of his childhood friend Rachel Moore, and her father Richard Moore who runs a Detective agency. Throughout the series, Conan interacts and befriends many characters with the most notable being: The Tokyo Metropolitan Police, the local police in Conan's prefecture; The Junior Detective League, a group of children who solves mysteries for their clients; The FBI and Harley Hartwell, a high school detective in Osaka who knows of his true identity. The manga became licensed by Viz Media while the animation was licensed by Funimation Entertainment. The two companies attempted to Americanize the character names with both companies using different names for the same characters on several occasions. The list follows the Viz transliteration names.
