The twentieth season of the Case Closed

Case Closed

Case Closed, known as in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since February 2, 1994, and has been collected in 73 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011...

anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 was directed by Kenji Kodama

Kenji Kodama

is a Japanese anime director, and storyboard artist. He is best known for directing the anime Case Closed and working with the anime Lupin III.-Works:* Bug tte Honey : Episode Director* Case Closed : Director, Storyboard, Episode Director...

 and Yasuichiro Yamamoto

Yasuichiro Yamamoto

is a Japanese anime director, and storyboard artist. He is best known for directing the anime Case Closed.-Works:* Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie , Animation* Urusei Yatsura: Only You , Assistant Animator, In between Artist...

 and produced by TMS Entertainment and Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

is a TV station joining Nippon News Network and Nippon Television Network System in Osaka Business Park, Osaka, Japan founded as "" on February 13, 1958...

. The series is based on Gosho Aoyama

Gosho Aoyama

, born on June 21, 1963 in Hokuei, Tottori Prefecture, Japan is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series Detective Conan .-Educational background:Aoyama was talented in drawing even at an early age...

's Case Closed manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 series. In Japan, the series is titled but was changed due to legal issues with the title Detective Conan. The series focuses on the adventures of teenage detective Shinichi Kudo

Jimmy Kudo

Jimmy Kudo, also known as in Japan, is the protagonist of Gosho Aoyama's series Case Closed, which is known in Japan as . A High-school Detective, he is forced to in ingest the lethal poison APTX 4869 after his encounter with Gin and Vodka. Due to a rare side effect, the poison shrinks him into a...

 who was turned into a child by a poison called APTX 4869, but continues working as a detective under the alias Conan Edogawa.

The episodes currently use six pieces of theme music

Theme music

Theme music is a piece that is often written specifically for a radio program, television program, video game or movie, and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits...

: three opening and four ending themes. The first opening theme is "tear drops" by Caos Caos Caos and is used up to episode 612. The second opening theme is "Don't Wanna Lie

Don't Wanna Lie

"Don't Wanna Lie" is the 49th single for the Japanese rock duo B'z, and the second single to be released from their 2011 album C'mon. It was released on June 1, 2011. The song debuted at #1 on the Oricon chart, with first week sales of 160,000 copies. It is their 45th consecutive number one single,...

" by B'z

B'z

is a Japanese hard rock duo, composed of and .B'z has released 45 consecutive #1 singles, 24 #1 albums, and sold more than 79 million records in Japan alone...

 from episodes 613 to 626. Following is "Misty Mystery" by Garnet Crow

GARNET CROW

Garnet Crow is a Japanese pop/rock band formed in 1999 and associated with the Giza Studio record label. Members include Yuri Nakamura, Hitoshi Okamoto, Nana Azuki, and Hirohito Furui, with Nakamura leading on vocals...

. The first ending theme, by Hundred Percent Free is used up to 609. The second ending theme is by Breakerz is used from episodes 610 to 626. The third ending theme is by B'z and was used for episodes 627 and 628. The fourth ending theme is "Your Best Friend

Your Best Friend

"Your Best Friend" is the 37th single by Japanese singer Mai Kuraki. It was released on October 19, 2011 on the Northern Music record label.-Information:...

" by Mai Kuraki

Mai Kuraki

is a Japanese pop and R&B singer-songwriter and producer from Funabashi, Chiba. Kuraki debuted in 1999 with the single, "Love, Day After Tomorrow". In 2000, she released her debut album, Delicious Way, which debuted at number-one and sold over 2,210,000 copies in its first week...

 beginning on episode 629.

The season began airing on February 19, 2011 on Nippon Television Network System

Nippon Television Network System

is a television network organized by NTV in Tokyo. NTV feeds entertainment and other non-news programming over NNS to 28 affiliated stations.-Nippon News Network stations:...

 in Japan.

Episode list

Ep no.	Title	Original Airdate