[Looking Back]  Cased Closed on the Big Screen
Written by: Jason Fetters

It was springtime in Japan in 2000, cherry blossoms in full bloom, and I was a college kid with a lot of free time and nothing to do.  I walked over to my school’s bookstore to pick up the latest Kansai Walker, a travel and entertainment guide, to see what was playing at the movies.  I scanned past the usual American movies, I could see them much cheaper back home anyways. Looking past that, I saw an ad for the Detective Conan movie called Meitantei Conan: Hitomi no Naka no Ansatsusha (Better known as Cased Closed: Captured in her Eyes in America).

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Did you ever wonder what would happen if Conan Edogawa (Case Closed) faced off against Kira (Death Note)? Josh Dunham put both of manga’s greatest tacticians against each other in a winner takes all battle of the minds. This is the first new feature on A3K in our new video initiative. Click here to visit our new media section or go directly to the video.

Case Closed:  Captured in Her Eyes
Review by:  Jason Fetters
Director:  Kanetsugu Kodama
Production by:  Toho Animation
Distributed by:  Funimation
 
Have you ever wanted to go back to being a kid knowing what you know now?  You would probably hesitate to do so after watching Captured in Her Eyes. 

Jimmy Kudo is an intelligent high school student who is forced to take a poison that transforms him into a kid.  Kudo takes the name Conan Edogawa and helps Detective Richard Moore by solving cases that Moore can’t on his own.

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[Review] El Cazadore del la Bruja Part 1
Review by: John-Paul Natysin
Director: Koichi Mashimo

Animation Production: Bee Train
Distributed by: Funimation

Long, long ago, a man named Koichi Mashimo founded the animation studio, Bee Train. Since 1997, they have brought us a myriad of anime titles, wildly diverging in quality. Among them are all of the .hack// titles and some arguably mediocre “girls with guns” shows like Noir and Madlax.

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Heads UP! March 2010

Hey guys, welcome back to your monthly anime news digest. Seems like the month of March will be jam-packed full of events. So, being the good chap that I am, I decided to filter out all the stuff that no one cares about to bring you a wonderful selection of knowledge. Get learned.

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