Watch Episode 1. Then Episode 11. Then 28. You’ll be hooked.
Episode 10, "The Pro Footballer Blackmail Case," is a sleeper hit for character development. It features a flashback where Shinichi promised Ran a date at a soccer game. Ran waits in vain, having given up on the "missing" Shinichi. It is the first time the audience truly feels the tragedy: Conan is physically beside Ran, but cannot reveal himself. The distance between them becomes the series’ emotional anchor. Detective Conan -Case Closed- -Season 1 Ep 1-28...
So he waits. He hunts. He solves. And every night, he looks in the mirror and sees a boy wearing the ghost of a young man. Watch Episode 1
After witnessing a shady deal involving men in black, Shinichi is caught and forced to swallow an experimental poison, . Instead of killing him, the drug shrinks his body to the size of a first-grader. To protect those around him, he adopts the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and moves in with Ran and her bumbling private investigator father, Kogoro Mouri . The Rise of the "Sleeping Kogoro" You’ll be hooked