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Case Closed: The Big Shrink

 

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9.4 Superb
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Air Date

Monday May 24, 2004

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Episode Summary

Meet Jimmy Kudo, your everyday teenager with a not-so everyday hobby. He is your High School celebrity with a knack for solving the most confusing mysteries. Jimmy has a magical touch and a keen eye, and it helps him solve every mystery or puzzle in his face.

Jimmy's best friend and crush named Rachel. Rachel is the captain of the karate team and she has the fist to prove it. Jimmy promised to take her to a park one day, but trouble always manages to find Jimmy. After using his keen eye and magical memory, he manages to catch the murderer within minutes.

After adding another solved puzzle to Jimmy's file, he sticks his nose where it don't belongs, following a black caped stranger. After witnessing a crime scene, he gets knocked in the back and falls half dead. Unfortunately, that's not what the criminals want, being unable to leave being any bullets, they slip him some poison......

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    8.9 Great

    A nice start to the series. hide show

    Jimmy Kudo is just a regular teenager with a passion for mysteries. Though he often does not look for trouble it always seems to fine him. Jimmy looks really good as teen it is too bad that he was shrunk. The roller coaster murder was rather gruesome and this was a family show in Japan? Anyway it takes no time for Jimmy to figure out who did the murder, the gymnast. After that he spends time with Rachel but this was sadly his last night as a teen. I think that this episode was a great way to introduce the characters and the main plot which is Jimmy finding the men who poisoned him. One truth prevails...Case Closed.

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    9.7 Superb

    I love Jimmy Kudo! hide show

    ...or as we now know, Conan Edogawa. This whole episode was good. I love the way the writers showed us how smart he was right away, so I totaly respect him now. How on earth did he solve that roller coaster case? It had me guessing the entire time, but, as usual, if it were me, i would have sent the wrong person to jail haha. The whole thing with her standing up on that rollert coaster was like woah. Rachel ha a really good... umm, sixth sense, i guess.... when she knew that she was never going to see Jimmy again. I'm so mad that the series is no longer airing in the us. how depressing :(

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    9.5 Superb

    Jimmy Kudo is intelligent, hot, and good at sports. classic mary sue, yes? but he's also cocky, condecending, and bigheaded. he's just the type to stick his nose where it doesn't belong, and when he does... hide show

    An Amazing story has to start out with an amazing first episode, right? I'd have to say, this one takes the cake. without a good beginner episode, no one watches. 'The Big Shrink' throws first time watchers into an exciting, thrilling world.

    First off, we start with the viewers seeing the crime commited-- a man jumping across to a balcony and shooting someone inside. After, we have the police and Jimmy Kudo checking out the scene, where the hero, Jimmy, explains how the Murder was commited, exactly the way we saw earlier. completely astounds the audience, first off, and then gives you respect for Jimmy right off the bat.

    Your respect doesn't last, however, when you see him walking with Rachel, a friend of his. we easily learn he has a crush on her, but he's obviously enjoying his celebrity status (as a world class detective) far too much to even let her know. You can see how cocky and condecending Jimmy is when he's with his friend. I guess Rachel brings out the worst and the best in him.

    Then soon you're plunged into another mystery, at the fair. a man was decapitated while on a roller coaster, and it seems that his girlfriend, sitting beside him, was the one who did it. Jimmy quickly ends this case as well, showing one again how brilliant he is. this basically sets the tone for the entire series-- how Jimmy is just a murder magnet. it seems people are dropping dead around him all the time. most scenes, he's not 'invited' to a murder scene, he's right in the middle of having a party or visiting a friend, when suddenly a body is found or someone dies. it's very interesting, how you can just expect that. After the roller coaster case is solved, Jimmy gets curious and sticks his nose where it doesn't belong; he follows a guy dressed in all black to a site, where the man trades a roll of film for at least a million dollars. another man catches him, and knocks him out. Jimmy is fed poison, and now what will happen?

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    9.5 Superb

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    . The Beginning Of A Great, Never Ending Anime, That Has Over 400 Episodes Right Now. I Watched This Episode In Uncut A Little While Ago. And FUNimation Did Something Only 4kids Would Do: Name Changes And Bad Voices. A Reason I Do Not Like The Dub. Watch The Show In Uncut And 4kids's- I Mean, FUNimation's Crappy Dub. Tell Me What You Think About It.

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    10 Perfect

    The very first episode of all-The Big Shrink![Contains Spoilers] hide show

    The episode starts off with Jimmy Kudo, our hero, solving a murder mystery. The killer tries to escape and Jimmy kicks a globe, knocking him out...we learn Jimmy is a good soccer player.

    We then see his friend/girlfriend Rachel, a detective's daughter. Jimmy is arrogant and Rachel puts him in his place. It's obvious the two like each other.

    They head to a carnival and Jimmy solves another murder case, but when he sees a mystery man in black from the murder case, he follows him and is fed an experimental posion that is not supposed to show up in the autopsy...

    This episode is really one of the best. It gives us the background and sets the stage for the future episodes!

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  • Differences from the manga version:
    - In the anime, the murderer at the beginning kills his wife as opposed to killing his partner.
    - In the anime, Jimmy's face ends up under Rachel's skirt after dodging her kicks. In the manga, he simply leaps out of the way to dodge her kicks.
    - In the anime, Richard, Agasa, George, Amy and Mitch make their first appearances. In the manga, Richard and Agasa would debut in the next story ("The Kidnapped Debutante"). George, Amy and Mitch's first appearance in the manga would be the 6th story ("The Disappearing Act") []
  • Appeared in volume 1 of the manga. []
  • The name of Jimmy and Rachel's school in the manga is "Teitan High School" they changed it to "Titan High School" in the show. []
More Notes
  • Rachel: Careful pal, your head's inflating. []
  • Rachel: Don't you want just one real girlfriend?
    Jimmy: Mmmmm...one real girlfriend?
    Rachel: Why are you looking at me like that? []
  • Jimmy: Now I remember why you're captain of the karate team. []
More Quotes
  • One of the girls in line for the roller coaster in front of Jimmy and Rachel is dressed like Velma from Scooby-Doo, another mystery solver. []
  • When Rachel is crying at the theme park, in the background there is a castle. This may be an allusion to the signature Cinderella Castle seen at all Disney Theme Parks. []
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    Rachel didn't follow Jimmy at the end of the evening when they were at the amusement park because her shoelace broke; a sign of bad luck in Japan. []
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