Gosho Aoyama

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Gosho Aoyama (青山 剛昌 Aoyama Gōshō), born Yoshimasa Aoyama (青山 剛昌 Aoyama Yoshimasa, born June 21, 1963) in Daiei, Tottori Perfecture, Japan. He is a Japanese manga writer well-known for creating the manga series "Detective Conan" (known in the USA as "Case Closed").

Aoyama was a genius in drawing ever since he was young. When he was in Grade 1 (in elementary school), his painting of "Yukiai War" won a competition and was displayed at the Tottori Daimaru Department Store.

He graduated from high school at Ikuei High, a local high school. After finishing high school, he studied to Nihon University College of Art in Tokyo. During his university years (winter 1986), Aoyama joined a comic contest for freshmen and won, which was a stepping-stone for his career as a manga artist (mangaka) and author, as well as a turning point for his life.

Aoyama's maiden work was a manga named "Chotto mattete" (English Translation: Wait a Minute), which was published in the weekly magazine "Shonen Sunday" on winter 1987. Shortly after that, "Magic Kaito" was published on the same magazine.

At the beginning of the 90's, another story done by Aoyama named "Yaiba" was out. This manga , which was released up to 24 volumes, won the Shogakukan manga contest in 1992. Other works he did that were released in tankouban (volumes) included "Magic Kaito", "Third Baseman No.4", "Aoyama Gosho's Collection of Short Stories", and "Detective Conan."

He married voice actress and singer Minami Takayama on May 5, 2005, who, incidentally, is the Japanese voice for Conan of the Detective Conan anime.[1]

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Manga Creations

Gosho Aoyama's first manga series. It was published in 1987 on the magazine "Shonen Sunday".

A 24-volume manga series which tells the adventures of the young samurai Yaiba Kurogane. It won the 1992 Shogakukan manga contest and was adapted into a 51-episode anime series.

A 1-volume baseball manga.

A 3-volume manga series which tells the comical adventures of Kaitou Kid, a gentleman thief who often uses his skills in magic and disguise in every robbery he commits. Although the manga series ended in 1994, Kaitou Kid still appears in "Detective Conan", another manga series by Aoyama.

Probably Aoyama's most well-known manga series. It tells the story of Jimmy Kudo (Shin'ichi Kudo in the Japanese version), a high school detective who, while witnessing a crime being committed, was knocked unconscious and forced to drink a drug which was supposed to kill him. But instead, he shrank into the size of a kid. Hiding his real name, Jimmy now lives with his childhood sweetheart Rachel Moore (Ran Mori) under the name of Conan Edogawa and hoping to find some clues about the men in black through clients and cases of Rachel's father, Richard Moore (Kogoro Mori), a pathetic second-class detective who quickly became well-known through secretive helps from Conan. The manga series was first published in August 1994 and was adapted into a long-running anime series in 1996.de:Gōshō Aoyama es:Gosho Aoyama fr:Gosho Aoyama id:Gosho Aoyama it:Gosho Aoyama nl:Gosho Aoyama ja:青山剛昌 tl:Gōshō Aoyama zh:青山刚昌

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