Kazunari Kouchi

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Gender: Male
Date of birth: January 18, 1956
Date of death: July 18, 2016
Place of birth: Tokyo Metropolis, Japan
Position: Screenplay
Years active: 1979-2016

Kazunari Kouchi (古内 一成 Kouchi Kazunari?, January 18, 1956 – July 18, 2016) is a Japanese screenplay writer. He is best known for his work on episodes of the anime Detective Conan, and for writing and producing most of the movies released before his retirement in 2014.

Kouchi began to serve as screenwriter for Detective Conan after Hiroshi Kashiwabara's invitation, who did the manga adaptation of the first Detective Conan episode, Roller Coaster Murder Case. His contributions towards the Detective Conan anime is tremendous: which he was behind the screenplay of several TV specials, manga adaptations, movies, OVAs, magic files, and short stories. His most notable scenarios include the 14 movies he wrote, and the highly acclaimed cases The Truth Behind the Car Explosion Case and The Invisible Weapon, Ran's First Investigation, as well as the anime adaptation of Clash of Red and Black.

On July 18, 2016, he died of pancreatic cancer.

Biography

Kazunari Kouchi was born in Tokyo Prefecture on January 18, 1956[1]. He entered university at Sophia University and received a degree from its faculty of law[2]. He was a member of the Writers' Guild of Japan (日本脚本家連盟) during his lifetime.

During his senior year of college, the fourth year, Kouchi was accepted for a script for police show Taiyō ni Hoero![2]. At the same time, another screenwriter from the same school, Kenichi Onishi (尾西 兼一), was accepted for the same project[2]. He was introduced to Ei Ogawa (小川 英) by the series' producer, and studied under him[2]. At first, after graduating from college, he worked for a major non-life insurance company, but left after about four months because he was worried about being transferred and decided that if he wanted to work as a scriptwriter, he needed to stay in Tokyo and work up from there[2]. The day his debut script was broadcast coincidentally coincided with the day he left the company[2]. His career in scriptwriting had thus just started. In his early career, he mainly wrote live-action drama scripts, and wrote his first independent script in 1989, "The Chaser"'s Brilliant Pursuit (華麗なる追跡 THE CHASER)[3]. In 1995, he writes the scripts for episodes 17 and 18 of TV drama Shizukanaru Don, based on the manga of the same name.

In 1996, he joined the Detective Conan at the recommendation of Hiroshi Kashiwabara. Since then, he became a key scriptwriter and later the main writer for the series' original cases. He debuts with the adaptation of The Coded Map of the City Case on January 29. His first script was for The Mysterious Shooting Message Case, aired on April 29. Between 1996 and 1997, he writes the script for the first movie, The Time-Bombed Skyscraper, which aired in April 1997. He writes the first ever Mystery Tour, The Nanki Shirahama Mystery Tour, which aired on June 4 and June 11, 2001. After writing The 14th Round of the Matsue Tamatsukuri Linked Verse Contest in October 2001, he takes a break from anime-original cases, before coming back in September 2005 with The Detective Boys' Bluebird Chase. He takes another break in August 2006 after Trick vs. Magic. He finally comes back for The Great Dog Coeur's Triumph 2 in July 2012. He writes his last movie Dimensional Sniper between 2013 and 2014, aired in April 2014. His last script was for Promise with a J-Leaguer, aired in June 2014.

On July 18, 2016, he died of pancreatic cancer at age 60[4]. The year after, movie 21 put a title card "In memory of Kazunari Kouchi" at the end credits of the film.

Scenarios written

Number of case scenarios written: 36 (42 episodes)

Scenarios adapted from the manga

Number of manga cases adapted to anime: 12 (26 episodes)

OVAs

Number of OVAs written: 12

Magic files

Number of Magic files written: 5

Short Stories and Specials

Number of Short Stories adapted: 6

Number of specials written: 5

Detective Conan movies

Kazunari Kouchi is credited as the lead writer in the following Detective Conan films:

References

  1. 古内一成 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
  2. Anime News Network
  1. ^ 日本音声製作者名鑑2007. Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2007. pp. 286. ISBN 978-4095263021. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f "脚本家の横顔". 週刊テレビ番組（東京ポスト）: 82. April 20, 1990. 
  3. ^ "古内 一成". 2023. https://mangapedia.com/%E5%8F%A4%E5%86%85%E4%B8%80%E6%88%90-mins4z2va. 
  4. ^ 月刊ドラマ: 123. October 2016. 
  5. ^ 16th Detective Conan Anime Feature to Open in April - ANIME NEWS NETWORK
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