Detective Conan is a cartoon created by Mr. G?sh? Aoyama with the theme of high school students' detective solving crimes. 1994 began to create cartoons, which are still serialized in Teenagers Sunday Weekly. The animated TV version was launched in YTV on 1996, and now there are 502 TV versions (unfinished), 12 theatrical versions (the 12th theatrical version was released on April 19, 2008) and 2 live-action versions. In Japan, China and other places deeply loved by fans. So it is 15. This year is 2009.