Detective Conan

Hello everyone! Today's topic will introduce Detective Conan. I think that most of Japanese know the comics called Detective Conan. This comics are published serially for 20 years from 1994 by the publishing company called Weekly Shonen Sunday. And this comic became famous. The comic's aniamation is broadcast from 1996. In addition the movie is show every year from 1997. A separate volume is about 460 yen. There are about 80 volumes.

Main character is a boy called Shinichi Kudo of the detective high school student. He is made to take strange medicine by mysterious composition. Then he becomes the figure of the primary schoolchild. Shinichi Kudo changed the name called Edogawa Conan. And he lives with childhood friend called Ran Mouri. However, she does not know that Conan is Shinichi Kudo. Conan solves a lot of cases. Many adults wish Detective Conan conclude, because we want to see ending of this book.

Nodame Cantabile

Hello everyone! Today I will introduce the comic named "Nodame Cantabile". It is Japanese manga by Tomoko Ninomiya. "Nodame Cantabile" was published serially by Kodansha in the comic book named Kiss and it is issued in 23 separate volumes. And it won the prize named Koudansha Manga Prize. The theme of the comic is classical music. It is a romantic comedy, and the comics are interesting and you can learn about classical music. If you are interested in classical music, I recommend "Nodame Cantabile".



The chief character of this story is a woman called Megumi Noda. She studies piano at the College of Music. A man called Chiaki Shinichi lives in the room next to the apartment where she lives. He is at the same university too, but he learns conducting.

This comic became an animated cartoon, a TV drama and movie.The acters Hiroshi Tamaki and Juri Ueno appear in this movie. They learned about musical instruments to reproduce an orchestra. I was surprised that they researched so seriously. Please check out this comic or movie!