Case Closed - Starter Set (Season 4)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Greatest show anywhere, 2005-12-19
I like this show better than any show. And just for you people who keep on and on about the american changes, get a life. It is very annoying listening to you and you giving it bad rating for just that reason. I like the American version better, and for you who say Funimation is bad you are crazy too. Funimation not only redubbed the episodes in english but they even did the songs, and they were the same song. Not to mention you get the Japanese version on the disc. So if it bothers you so much change it. br / br /This is a great show, if you like mysteries, comedy, and some romance. It is also a very long running show, there are over 300 in Japan as well as 9 movies. We are only just about to the 100's for our dvds. So hopefully we will get the movies soon.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

great show... not a great box set., 2005-11-10
Don't let the "season 4" in amazon's heading decieve you. When I recieved this item I was extremely disappointed to find that this is not the complete fourth season. I don't exactly know how they have the episodes catagorized but this "starter set" actually includes episodes 1-4[The Big Shrink, The Kidnapped Debutante, Beware of Idols, Fish Marks the Spot] on the first disc and then spisodes 53-55[The Mist Goblin Murder Part I, The Mist Goblin Murder Part II, Weapon Of Choice] on the second disc. I was very disappointed because I actually already own both of these DVDs! It wasn't very clear what was included, and while I assumed I was going to have two copies of 4.1[the second disc] I didn't think I was only getting 1.1[the first disc] as well!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

It doesn't look like an anime, 2005-08-25
17 year old Jimmy Kudo is a high school student detective who becomes a boy name Conan. One day Jimmy goes to a theme park named "Tropical Land," with his childhood friend, Rachel Moore He encountered a case where a roller coaster passenger is killed in a spectaculary bloody decapition. He solved the case and on his return home, he witnesses a suspicious deal involving some men dressed completly in black. Another man who was also dress in black spoted Jimmy spying so he knocks him and gives him an untested poison named Apoptoxin-4869 which is intended to kill him. The poison did not kill him it just turn him into a little boy.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

My Review, 2005-06-22
I love to watch Case Closed. Last year the show ran every night at 1a.m. I would stay up each night to watch. But now since the show isn't as popular as before the show runs Saturday - Thursday at 5:30a.m. I don't have the time to watch it that early. I'll try to pull an all-nighter but sometimes I just can't. I'd get up earlier but I tend to sleep in. If you're in the same situation as me this is a great opportunity to watch the show.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

An excellent series, 2005-03-24
This series is the first to have ever grasped my attention and never let go of it. It's intriguing, imaginative, funny, and all-around great to watch. I am a bit annoyed that DVD 4-1 and all those thereafter only have three episodes per disc, but this is what happens when you have a series as long-running as Detective Conan. It's a fact that has to be dealt with, same as the Americanization... which, by the way, can easily be avoided by watching the Japanese version of the show, which is included on the discs with its own set of subtitles. Yes, they call Jimmy "Shinichi", Rachel "Ran", etc.. Just look for them. This saves you from whatever voices you happen to think are bad, as well. I personally don't mind the voicework. The main characters are what really matter, and their voice actors/actresses do a great job. The other characters could use work, but we don't care about them because they're gone within three episodes at most. br / br /Detective Conan/Case Closed is a show that makes you think, and I've always seen that as a good thing... especially since my 13-year-old brother has pretty much stopped watching things like Ed, Edd, Eddy on Cartoon Network in favor of Conan. Case Closed is pretty violent at times, but it's also intelligent, which is more than anyone can say for EEE. br / br /Oh, and don't be surprised if you slowly start to develop an interest in Sherlock Holmes/mysteries in general while watching this series. br / br /I stumbled across a thread on a message board where people were coming up with possible reasons for FUNimation skipping from episode 4 to episode 53. One of those was that FUNimation wanted to give people episodes where the art was a little better, lead them into the series with the first few episodes and then give them something fresh after all that's been run on Adult Swim. Good idea... but I do hope that they release the earlier episodes. br / br /As for the box itself, I have the entire collection of Season 4 DVDs, and it's a little bit of a tight fit getting all of them in there. (Getting one out requires some holding the box open side face down and shaking it.) Other than that, worth picking up if you're going to be collecting the series. Season 5's box is coming out in April, so it's a handy way to keep everything together.