Behind the Scenes: Detective Conan - Gosho Aoyama, Manga Artist

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The Professionals
プロフェッショナル 仕事の流儀

Gosho Aoyama Documentary - NHK World-Japan.jpg

Information
Title: Behind the Scenes: Detective Conan - Gosho Aoyama, Manga Artist[N 1]
Original airdate: December 27, 2024
Runtime: 49 minutes
Japanese version
Japanese title: スペシャル 世界を、子どもの目で見てみたら 〜漫画家 青山剛昌〜
(Supesharu Sekai o, Kodomo no Me de Mitemitara ~Mangaka Aoyama Gōshō~)
Translation: Special - When You Look at the World Through the Eyes of a Child ~Manga Artist Gosho Aoyama~
Original airdate: April 28, 2024
Runtime: 72 minutes
Documentary
Cast: Featuring:
Gosho Aoyama

Mitsuru Adachi
Hiromichi (Gosho's father)
Michiko (Gosho's mother)

Produced by: NHK
Staff
Executive Producer: Tomohiko Yokoyama
Producer: Izuru Yamamoto
Director: Jun Murata
Editor: Kunimitsu Nojima
Sound Design: Saho Higashimoto
Shigeyoshi Tanaka
Art Director: Risa Ushijima
Video Engineer: Tomohiro Takahashi
Sound Engineer: Masaharu Iizuka
Camera: Jun Murata
Yusuke Arimoto
Ryuta Yajima
Narrator: NHK World-Japan
Emma Howard (English)

NHK (Japanese)
Satoshi Hashimoto

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Behind the Scenes: Detective Conan - Gosho Aoyama, Manga Artist[N 1] is a documentary produced by NHK and was released onto the NHK World-Japan website on December 27, 2024 as part of NHK World-Japan's The Professionals series. The documentary was originally part of NHK's Professional Work Style (プロフェッショナル 仕事の流儀 Purofesshonaru Shigoto no Ryūgi?) series and was broadcasted in Japan on April 28, 2024 under the name When You Look at the World Through the Eyes of a Child ~Manga Artist Gosho Aoyama~ (世界を、子どもの目で見てみたら 〜漫画家 青山剛昌〜 Sekai o, Kodomo no Me de Mite Mitara ~Mangakka Aoyama Gosho~?). The Japanese version was also available on-demand on the NHK Plus streaming website, but as of January 2025, that documentary has been removed.

Background

Filming for the documentary began on May 29, 2023 and ended in January 2024. It is the first ever documentary to film the manga production process up close. Being the first-of-its-kind, there were initially some issues in negotiating filming for the production of the Flaming Skull Case, but after unmanned cameras were introduced, the documentary was able to include segments featuring Gosho brainstorming and drawing rough drafts for the manga. Besides the production of the manga, the documentary also includes short interviews with fellow renowned manga artist Mitsuru Adachi and Gosho's parents, Hiromichi and Michiko.

At the time this was broadcasted in Japan, Volume 105 of the Detective Conan Manga and the 27th Detective Conan movie had been released.

Details

About Gosho Aoyama

Daily life

Childhood

Career before Detective Conan

Career while making Detective Conan

Manga production

Flaming Skull Case

Kaitou Kid and the Azure Throne

Foiled Kidnapping Transaction Case

Interviews

NHK version

Quotes

Gosho Aoyama

I realized I shouldn't forget how being a kid feels.

Kids are smart, so if you simplify too much, they know you're trying to fool them. I don't treat them like kids...Even if it's hard to understand, if I do a good job presenting it, kids will enjoy it more. I believe in kids.

—Explaining why difficult tricks are used in a manga supposedly targeting kids

If I washed it, I feel like I'd lose something. Like eel shops that keep the same sauce simmering.

—Referring to the color palette that Gosho uses for coloring

I felt nothing. I really felt nothing in my heart. I didn't even feel worried about dying. I was numb...I wanted people to see what Shinichi and Ran were like as kids. I needed to tell that story. I felt I couldn't die until then.

—How Gosho felt during his hospitalization in 2015

Some spots look bad up close. People say no one would notice if I didn't fix them. But I can tell, so I don't like it.

—Gosho's attention to detail when drawing manga

Other

It's hard to say if he grew up into a proper adult and member of society...He draws manga like a genius middle schooler.

—Mitsuru Adachi, describing Gosho Aoyama

He always seemed to be thinking about ways he could make people happy.

—Hiromichi (Gosho's father), describing Gosho when he was a child

Trivia

  • Gosho originally did not allow filming, but as he describes it, the production staff were so enthusiastic that they won him over.
Gosho's submarine
  • He spent six hours building a submarine in the game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, featuring the faces of (from left-to-right) Amuro, Vodka, Kir, and Vermouth in the windows of the submarine
    • In this segment, it is also shown that Gosho's Nintendo Switch:
      • Has gray Joy-Con controllers
      • Uses the Light theme
      • Has four user accounts
      • Has two other games besides Animal Crossing: New Horizons, one of them being Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban!
  • This is the last Detective Conan-related production of any kind to include the voices of Atsuko Tanaka and Tohru Furuya, who voiced Chihaya Hagiwara and Rei Furuya, respectively.
    • In the NHK World-Japan version, there is no animated segment that includes Rei Furuya, and thus, Tohru Furuya's voice is not included in NHK World-Japan's version.

In other languages

Language Title Translation
Flag of Indonesia Bahasa Indonesia Di Balik Layar: Aoyama Gosho, Seniman Manga Detektif Conan Behind the Scenes: Aoyama Gosho, Detective Conan Manga Artist

References

  1. ^ a b c The original name of this documentary is "Behind the Scenes: Detective Conan - Aoyama Gosho, Manga Artist"

External links

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