Gosho Aoyama

Gosho Aoyama (青山 剛昌) is a Japanese artist best known for the popular manga series,, also known as Case Closed outside of Japan.

Aoyama featured Rohan Kishibe as a detective in Volume 101 of Detective Conan, along with a recommendation to read Millionaire Village.

History
Aoyama had a passion for drawing since he was a kid, and began drawing his own manga in elementary school. He later enrolled at in Tokyo, where he continued to pursue his passion for manga. In 1986, Aoyama won the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for his debut work, Wait a Minute. Aoyama then begun to work on his debut series,, which later became a part of the Detective Conan series. Between 1988 and 1993, Aoyama created the series, which ran for 24 volumes.

In 1994, Aoyama began serializing. The series follows a high school detective named Shinichi Kudo, who is transformed into a child after being poisoned by a mysterious organization. Under the alias Conan Edogawa, he solves various crimes while searching for a way to return himself to normal. The series has become a cultural phenomenon in Japan, with millions of copies sold and an anime adaptation spanning over a thousand episodes. Due to legal problems with the name "Detective Conan," the English release by VIZ Media renamed the series to Case Closed.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
In April 2022, Aoyama featured Rohan Kishibe, the titular protagonist of the series Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, in his "Detective Picture Book" on the cover of Detective Conan Volume 101, alongside a recommendation to read Millionaire Village. Aoyama described Rohan as a manga artist with an almost inhuman degree of skill who has an ability which allows him to read a person's life like a book. Aoyama praised Rohan's eccentricity and his tendency to get involved in bizarre cases, despite being more focused on his manga than solving the actual case. Hirohiko Araki was later asked about this in Kono Mystery ga Sugoi!, in which he was surprised yet humbled to hear Rohan being given the title of "detective".

Aoyama's recommendation of other manga series continued in the next volume of Detective Conan, where he drew Seiko Fuji from the manga. In 2021, he also drew Revy, the protagonist of, in a collaboration with and.

Works

 * "Wait For Me" (ちょっとまってて) (1986)
 * "100% Tantei Monogatari" (１００％探偵物語 100% Tantei Monogatari) (1986-1987)
 * "Nonchalant Lupin" (さりげなく ルパン) (1987)
 * "The Santa Claus of Summer" (夏のサンタクロース) (1987)
 * "Magic Kaito" (まじっく快斗) (1987-present)
 * "Sunday 19 Show - The Wandering Red Butterfly" (さまよえる赤い蝶) (1988)
 * "Detective George's Mini-Mini Big Strategy" (探偵ジョージのミニミニ大作戦) (1988)
 * "Play It Again" (プレイ・イット・アゲイン) (1988)
 * "Excalibur" (えくすかりば) (1988)
 * "Yaiba" (1988-1993)
 * "3rd Base Fourth" (4番サード) (1993)
 * "Gosho Aoyama's Collection of Short Stories" (青山剛昌短編集) (1994)
 * "Detective Conan" (名探偵コナン) (1994-present)
 * "Tell Me A Lie" (〜私にウソをついて〜) (2011)
 * "Detective Conan - Hanzawa the Criminal" (犯人の犯沢さん) (2017-present) - Original draft
 * "Detective Conan - Zero's Tea Time" (ゼロの日) (2018-present) - Original draft cooperation
 * "Detective Conan - Wild Police Story" (名探偵コナン 警察学校編) (2019-2020) - Original story