Rating - 8/10

Summary - 

Shinichi Kudo, a seventeen-year-old master detective, had it all. He could solve any case brought to his attention and in record time. His crush, Ran, is a karate expert, and her father is a bumbling detective who is driven crazy by the fact that Shinichi gets all of the great cases. (Although he ain't too smart himself.) One day, while Shinichi and Ran are at an amusement park, the pair become separated. Shinichi catches wind of a dirty deal going down, and spies on a pair of men in dark trenchcoats. He's caught and the men use an experimental poison on him, intending to kill him. However, things don't work exactly as planned. When Shinichi comes to, he finds he's shrunken down to the size of a fourth grader. He goes to the goofball inventor that lives next door to him for help, and the inventor agrees to give him a hand. When Ran comes looking for Shinichi, he and the inventor come up with a story saying that Shinichi is a child named Conan Edogawa (Conan as in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). Ran offers to let "Conan" live with her family while his "family" is away. Shinichi then makes it his mission to one day find the men who poisoned him and get the antidote. Thus concludes the backstory to the series. In each episode, Conan solves a different case in the style of all good detective shows, giving hints to help the viewer try to guess who the villain is while trying to keep his true identity a secret.  

What I liked - 

 - I like how this is one of the anime's that you don't have to watch in order - as long as you watch the first two episodes to get the general gist of what's happening, you can skip to any season, and episode and still understand what's going on. Anime's like this are very convenient to watch because you don't need to spend the rest of your life trying to find all of the seasons/ episodes in order - you can just go straight to season 5!  (Netflix currently has season 17, for all of yall wondering.)

 - Great characters, storyline, etc. 

 - This anime is a great break from really deep/ sad animes such as Clannad and YLIA; It's funny, relaxing, and a very light storyline. This is one anime I still watch to this day! 

What I didn't like - 

 - I'm really not a huge fan of mystery, but that's more of a personal thing. 

 - Some of the mysteries are very predictable and easy to see the end of, while others are just plain cliche and boring. (Of course, this is only about 10% of the mysteries in the series, most of them are pretty decent.)

 - Almost all of the mysteries are murder mysteries. (Which are interesting, don't get me wrong, but it gets kinda repetitive after some time.)

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