Kazunari Kouchi

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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 a screenwriter for Detective Conan after Hiroshi Kashiwabara's invitation and did the manga adaptation of the first Detective Conan episode, Roller Coaster Murder Case. His contributions to the Detective Conan anime are tremendous: 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 (上智大学) 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 a police show Taiyō ni Hoero! (太陽にほえろ!)[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 significant 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 wrote the scripts for episodes 17 and 18 of a TV drama Shizukanaru Don (静かなるドン), based on the manga of the same name.

In 1996, he joined the Detective Conan at the recommendation of Hiroshi Kashiwabara. From then on, he had become a key scriptwriter and the primary writer for the series' original cases. He debuted with the adaptation of The Coded Map of the City Case airing on January 29. His first script was for The Mysterious Shooting Message Case, which aired on April 29. Between 1996 and 1997, he wrote the screenplay for the first movie, The Time-Bombed Skyscraper, which was released in April 1997. He wrote the first ever Mystery Tour, a two-part episode titled 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 took a break from anime-original cases before returning in September 2005 with The Detective Boys' Bluebird Chase. He took another break in August 2006 after Trick vs. Magic before finally returning for The Great Dog Coeur's Triumph 2 in July 2012. He wrote his last movie Dimensional Sniper between 2013 and 2014, released in April 2014. The final TV episode for which he provided the screenplay, 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 dedicated the film with "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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