Shinichi Kudo

Jimmy Kudo, also known as Kudo Shinichi (工藤 新一, Kudo Shin'ichi?) in Japan, is the main character of the anime and manga Case Closed, known in Japan as Detective Conan (名探偵コナン Meitantei Conan). Viz romanized his original name as Shin'ichi Kudo while Shogakukan's website romanizes it as Shinichi Kudoh. He later takes on the alias Conan Edogawa (江戸川 コナン, Edogawa Konan?) to protect those around him from the Black Organization.

Shinichi Kudo

Shinichi was born to Booker Kudo, a myster writer and Vivian Kudo a former movie star. He was born on the 4th of May, but repeatedly forgets his birthday every year. He is a genius savant, and even from a young age, was very intuitive and observant. In addition, his father often made him puzzles and games to help sharpen his mind even more as he grew up.

Due to the influence of his father, and the generally laissez-faire environment at home, he has long been an incessant and persistent reader, especially of mystery novels-- he finished the entire collection of mystery novels in his elementary school library during his elementary school years. Also, Booker started to bring young Shinichi to crime scenes until Shinichi was in sixth grade. This caused Shinichi to have a love of crime investigation, and for that reason, peers like Rachel Moore and Serena Sebastian called him a mystery geek in passing.

His life between ages 6 to 16 was not well-documented. During junior high school he was made a starting midfielder on the school's soccer team as a freshman. The head of the soccer club even fell in love with him, but he rejected her due to the fact that he was secretly in love with Ran.

His parents moved to the United States when he was 14 to pursue their own careers, while he was left in Tokyo.

At the beginning of the series, Shinichi is a 17-year old student at Teitan High School. He was already a well-known detective who closed many difficult cases, and known as the saviour of the police force. That same year, he left the soccer club even though his soccer skills were considered national level. He explained he liked soccer as a way to train his reflexes-- akin to his idol, Sherlock Holmes's practice of fencing-- for his detective skills; he aspires to be the Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era.

Shinichi is also known for his inability to sing; but since he can still distinguish different musical notes, by definition he cannot be referred to as tone deaf.

He apparently can speak English, as he once conversed with and translated for an American diplomat.

Shinichi Kudo

Shinichi Kudo

Inuyasha Kagome

After Naraku's death, Kagome is sucked into a Meidou and transported inside the Shikon Jewel, where she experiences an illusion in which she lives out her normal life. InuYasha cuts his own Meido and leaps in to rescue her, but is delayed by the soul of Magatsuhi, the demon trapped in eternal combat against the priestess Midoriko's soul inside the jewel. Once Kagome sees through the illusion, the Shikon Jewel appears before her and tempts her with the chance to wish that none of the past events had ever happened. Magatsuhi reveals to InuYasha that, as a part of an eternal cycle of conflict, if Kagome was to perform a selfish wish on the jewel, her soul would be damned to fight the demons inside the jewel until the next miko over, with Naraku's soul replacing Magatsuhi. InuYasha refuses to believe the demon's assurances that Kagome will doom herself to that fate, and continues to fight him to reach her before it is too late.

Inuyasha Kagome

However, then InuYasha finally defeated Naraku and Magatsuhi inside the Shikon no Tama and arrives in the Meidou outside the jewel to save her, Kagome makes the wish for the jewel to disappear and it does. Afterwards, Kagome returns to the modern era for three years and returns at the age of 18 after her high school graduation. When she returns, she is reunited with InuYasha and marries him. Sango and Miroku are married with three children at the time. Rin is living with Kaede in the village, while Kohaku (now free from Naraku's control) continues his demon slayer training and work with Kirara. Kagome also learns that Shippo is studying to become a better fox demon.

Inuyasha Kagome

Inuyasha Kagome

Inuyasha

InuYasha, full title InuYasha, a Feudal Fairy Tale (Sengoku Otogizōshi InuYasha?, lit. "Warring-States Fairy-Tale Book: InuYasha") (romanized as INUYASHA in Japan and sometimes Inuyasha), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It premiered in Weekly Shōnen Sunday on November 13, 1996 and concluded on June 18, 2008. The series follows a time-traveling high school student, a half-demon, a lecherous monk, a fox demon, a demon slayer, and a nekomata during the Sengoku period as they seek to find all the fragments of the Jewel of Four Souls (Shikon no Tama) and to keep them out of the hands of evildoers, especially Naraku.

Inuyasha

The manga was adapted into a 167 episode anime series produced by Sunrise. Masashi Ikeda directed the first forty-four episodes, while Yasunao Aoki directed the remainder of the series. InuYasha premiered on Yomiuri TV in Japan on October 16, 2000 and ran until September 13, 2004. The television run of the anime ceased without a conclusion to the story.

Inuyasha

Inuyasha

In 2002, the manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen title of the year.

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Inuyasha

Inuyasha

New Doraemon

There are three current and often quoted urban legends that started spreading in late 1980s of an ending to the Doraemon series.

The first and the more optimistic ending was made public by Nobuo Sato several years ago. Doraemon's battery power ran out, and Nobita was given a choice between replacing the battery inside a frozen Doraemon, which would cause it to reset and lose all memory, or await a competent robotics technician who would be able to resurrect the cat-robot one day. Nobita swore that very day to work hard in school, graduate with honours, and become that robotics technician. He successfully resurrected Doraemon in the future as a robotics professor, became successful as an AI developer, and thus lived happily ever after, thus relieving his progeny of the financial burdens that caused Doraemon to be sent to his space-time in the first place. A dōjin manga for this ending was made by a "Tajima T Yasue" in 2005, and it sold 13,000 copies before Shogakukan halted its publication. Tajima apologized to Shogakukan in 2007 and paid an undisclosed amount of money for settlement.

New Doraemon

The second, more pessimistic ending suggests that Nobita Nobi is suffering from autism and that all the characters (including Doraemon) are simply his delusion. The idea that Nobita was a sick and dying little boy who imagined the entire series on his sickbed to help him ease his pain and depression no doubt angered quite a lot of fans. Many Japanese fans staged a protest outside the headquarters of the publisher of the series after learning about this suggestion. The publisher had to issue a public statement that this is not true. (This ending actually correlates to the ending for the series St. Elsewhere, which ended in 1988.)

New Doraemon

The third ending suggests that Nobita fell and hit his head on a rock. He fell into a deep coma, and eventually into a semi-vegetative state. To raise money for an operation to save Nobita, Doraemon sold all the tools and devices in his four-dimensional pocket. However, the operation failed. Doraemon sold all his tools except for one used as a last resort. He used it to enable Nobita to go wherever he wanted, whichever time or era he wished to go. In the end, the very place Nobita wanted to go was heaven.

New Doraemon

New Doraemon