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BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

Keywords

Sherlock Holmes adaptation, detective Conan, social order

Abstract

Sherlock Holmes is one of the longest standing detectives in the world of crime and detective fiction, evident in the recreation of his character in various media. In Detective Conan, or Case Closed—a Japanese anime series adapted from a Japanese manga—the writer, Gosho Aoyama, creates his version of Sherlock Holmes in the form of Shinichi Kudo, a high school detective. However, parts of Holmes’s character can be problematic for Aoyama to adapt for Japanese society, particularly Holmes’s role as a disrupter of order. Thus, Aoyama provides a liminal space as a solution for Shinichi to preserve social order by turning him into a child. In other words, Aoyama takes Sherlock Holmes’s character and tweaks his physical characteristics for Holmes to exist in a Japanese society.

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