Shin'ichi Kudo (Japanese: 工藤 新一, Hepburn: Kudō Shin'ichi), known in the United States as Jimmy Kudo,[note 2] is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the manga series Case Closed, created by Gosho Aoyama. A high school detective, he is forced to ingest the lethal poison APTX 4869 after an encounter with Gin and Vodka, agents of the mysterious Black Organization, while they were having a secret deal in an amusement park. Due to a rare side effect, the poison did not kill him. Instead, it shrinks him into a child and he adopts the pseudonym Conan Edogawa (江戸川 コナン, Edogawa Konan) to hide from those who poisoned him. He lives with his childhood friend Ran Mori and her father Kogoro Mori as he awaits the day he can take down the Black Organization and regain his original size.
