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Shogakukan Asia to Release 2-Volume Kaito Kid Manga Collection
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Southeast Asian publisher Shogakukan Asia announced on Monday that it will release the Detective Conan - Kaito Kid Special Collection, a two-volume release that compiles various stories featuring the appearance of the Kaito Kid character in Gōshō Aoyama's Detective Conan manga. Shogakukan Asia will release two volumes simultaneously, but has not yet revealed a release date.
Five volumes of the Detective Conan manga are labelled as "Special Manga," which feature stories centering around Aoyama's Kaito Kid character.
Shogakukan Asia describes the manga:
The Suzuki Conglomerate is hosting an exclusive party on the Q Selizabeth, unaware that Japan's most notorious phantom thief, a.k.a. the Kaito Kid, is set on leaving the event with one very expensive party favour!!Then six master detectives are invited to a manor to play a deadly mysterious game, hosted by none other than the Kid himself! But he wasn't counting on a seventh kid detective gate-crashing the scene! Can Conan outsmart Kaito Kid at his own game?
The battle of wits begins in this two-part special!
The original Magic Kaito manga revolves around a young budding magician named Kaito Kuroba who follows in his late father's footsteps as the legendary thief Kaitō Kid. The character has since appeared in Detective Conan stories, often as a formidable rival.
The manga was previously adapted into a series of TV specials in 2011. The manga also received a television anime adaptation titled Magic Kaito 1412 in 2014. The character also featured prominently in Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno, the 19th Detective Conan film, which opened in 2015.
Aoyama began serializing the manga in 1987, but put the series on hiatus in 1988. Since then, he has been publishing the manga irregularly, and Shogakukan shipped the fifth compiled volume of the manga on July 18.
Shogakukan Asia also publishes the Detective Conan manga in Southeast Asia in English. Various publishers in multiple countries publish the manga in their respective native languages, including in Chinese, Malay, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Filipino.
