#名探偵コナンミステリーアカデミー

[shirleykarasuma]

Some time ago, I posted this official Detective Conan artwork on here, asking if anybody in the Western DCMK community had ever seen it.

Original blog post here ->

So far, everyone reacting to my post told me they've never seen this artwork before and honestly I am not surprised.

This artwork seems to be from around mid 90s, so approximately from around the first 3 seasons of the Detective Conan anime.

I personally have been obsessed with this specific artwork for a decade and always wanted to know the origin of it.

So here is what I've found out!

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It all started around 2011 when I went to my first convention. There was a booth selling some anime postcards, and it got me interested, so I looked around and found a postcard with said Detective Conan artwork on it.

Since I first saw it, I always wondered where the artwork was from, so I immediately began searching for its origin.

To my surprise, when I was doing the research in English, I would get no results. I researched for other postcards I got at that convention, and for them, I was able to find out that these artworks belong to old 90s Detective Conan coloring books.

Fast forward to late 2023, I decide to dig into that DetCo artwork mystery once again and I actually accidentally solved it by just buying an old Detective Conan anime book.

This is said old anime book:

Detective Conan's Mystery Academy

Not sure if it's heard of in the western Detective Conan fandom.

I saw this specific book being sold as a pre-owned item online on a Japanese website. There was just a picture of the front cover, but it seemed so interesting to me that I just had to get it.

Once I got it, I immediately opened the book and there, not even on the first page, I saw it.

The exact same image as shown on the postcard.

I assume this artwork was specifically made to be used in this book.

Oh hey, the poster has a printed backside.

Apparently it's just a simple board game. Who would have thought that!

Technically this poster / board game combination has nothing to do with the actual content of this book. It was just put in there as an "extra".

So yeah, now we know the origin of the funky "Detective Conan characters on skateboards" artwork!

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The "characters on skateboards" artwork was put as an extra poster in the "Detective Conan's Mystery Academy" book.

I would say, that's another Detective Conan lost media case closed! 👓