Gosho Aoyama
Gosho Aoyama (青山 剛昌, Aoyama Gōshō) is a Japanese manga artist best known for the popular manga series, Detective Conan, 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.[1]
History
Aoyama had a passion for drawing since he was a kid, and began drawing his own manga in elementary school.[2] He later enrolled at Nihon University College of Art in Tokyo, where he continued to pursue his passion for manga.[2] 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, Magic Kaito, which later became a part of the Detective Conan series. Between 1988 and 1993, Aoyama created the series Yaiba, which ran for 24 volumes.
In 1994, Aoyama began serializing Detective Conan. 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 Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan series, in his "Detective Picture Book" for the cover of Detective Conan Volume 101, alongside a recommendation to read Millionaire Village.[1] Aoyama described Rohan as a manga artist with an almost inhuman degree of skill and an ability that 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 rather than solving actual cases.
In December 2022, 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." His recommendation of other manga series continued in the next volume of Detective Conan, where he illustrated Seiko Fuji from the manga Police in a Pod. In 2021, he also collaborated with Rei Hiroe and Sunday GX to draw Revy, the protagonist of Black Lagoon.
In 2023, Aoyama designed an original Black Organization member called Pinga for the 26th Detective Conan theatrical film, Black Iron Submarine, which was released on April 14, 2023. During a stage greeting event for the film on September 30, 2023, Aoyama revealed that he created Pinga's androgynous features to make him look like a character from JoJo, which was something the series had never done before.[3]
On October 5, 2023, Aoyama provided a tribute illustration for the Fist of the North Star 40th Anniversary Exhibition alongside Hirohiko Araki.
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" (
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
Interviews
| # | Interview | Type | Media | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! (December 2022) | Interview |
Magazine |
December 4, 2022 |
Commentary
Detective Conan Volume 101 - Detective Picture Book
During these bizarre cases, he calls himself forth to investigate with the help of “Heaven's Door,” which has the special ability to read a person’s life like a book. In addition, he uses his intellect and tremendous self-confidence to get to the bottom of the mystery. Despite this, he seems more focused on his manga rather than solving the actual case… By the way, according to the author, Hirohiko Araki, Rohan Kishibe is his “ideal vision of a manga artist.” If I could use Heaven’s Door, I’d like to take a peek inside of Rohan… (laughs)
(My recommendation is…"Millionaire Village")Black Iron Submarine Stage Greeting
Gallery
Rohan Kishibe by Gosho Aoyama
Revy from Black Lagoon by Gosho Aoyama
Conan cosplaying as Kenshiro for 40th anniversary of Fist of the North Star
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gosho Aoyama Draws Rohan Kishibe for Detective Conan Volume 101
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 EdogawaConan.com: Gosho Aoyama Profile
- ↑ "「劇場版コナン」ピンガ誕生に「ジョジョ」の存在、青山剛昌が次回作についても明かす", Natalie, September 30, 2023.
