Yet again I went searching and couldn't find a thread... :L
Sorry again if there was one and I stuffed up.

'Detective Conan,' or 'Case Closed' in the trnaslated version, is about a High-School Detective with a mission. The plot goes as follows:
Shinichi Kudō a 17-year old prodigy known as the "Savior of the Japanese Police Department" (日本警察の救世主, Nihon Keisatsu no Kyūseishu) due to his solving of many difficult cases and great intellect and intelligence. He takes his good friend Ran Mōri to the theme park called "Tropical Land" because she won the regional tournament in karate. A murder case soon happen in the Roller-coaster, which Shinichi solves the case. After the murder, Shinichi sees one of the suspicious man in black that he have seen earlier and decided to spy on him. Shinichi then sees a blackmailing case which he tries to take a picture of, not noticing his second partner, he has been knocked down and got a poison named "APTX 4869" within his body, which shrunk his body into a elementary school kid, which the poison was meant to kill him. Shinichi goes under the alias Conan Edogawa and stay at Ran's place until he captured the Black Organization to get the antidote and to get his real body back.
--Copied from the Wikia

I am a great fan of it's mystery but as the series has lasted more than a decade, I'm starting to see it's repetitive sides. ^^"

Anyone out there know of it?

Yes it's great !

But poor Ran, I don't understand that Shinishi keep don't telling her... Anyway, that's the plot !

any thoughts on how he's still in the same grade after so many winter vacations?

I just started to read this manga yesterday! And I am on chapter 53 right now. Although I love the story so far,can anyone tell me, does Ran find out who Shinichi is in the older chapters?

Aah yes, the reason my handle is "Nichi". One of my favorite series, been following it since kindergarten, which really says a lot about what I've been watching since I was a kid.

>>3: Comic-Book Time. There's a TV Tropes page that explains it perfectly.

>>4: Good luck catching up, it gets tedious sometimes. And that would be spoiling the series, wouldn't it? Joking aside, if Aoyama-sensei had tied up that plot point by now, the manga would probably already be over. That should speak for itself.

>>4 Yes, she understood several times that Conan was Shinichi.

>>5 >>6 Ok thanks!