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The protagonists of Gosho Aoyama's serial works together on a crossover artwork.

A crossover (クロスオーバー ,kurosuōbā), in Japan also sometimes called a collaboration (コラボレーション ,koraborēshon) or "korabo" in short, is the combination of two or more distinct works, their plots, characters, settings, props or other intellectual properties in one or all of the involved works or a wholly new one independent of them.

Gosho Aoyama, the author of Detective Conan, is a big fan of this narrative device and used it to create many allusions, easter eggs, cameos and nods between his own and other works, most of them not being fully canon for the story in question, though. Individual persons and companies producing adaptions, spin-offs and tie-in media to Gosho's stories followed suit and created even more crossover between other properties and those based on his works.

Detective Conan

Detective Conan in Detective George's Mini-Mini Big Strategy

Anime

"Kanpai!"

Right after escaping the clutches of the men dressed in black in his car, private detective George Kirishima takes Asami Ashikawa to Beika, a district and main setting from Detective Conan, to retrieve the golden hair pin from a well at Beika Shrine, which belongs to an old lady named Harue, who is living in this district. It's exactly the same hair pin Sanjuro Tsurugi later identifies her by when he visits Harue's house in Play It Again.

Detective Conan in Magic Kaito

Manga

Black Star (Magic Kaito Manga: 23-24)

If you thought Akako is unrealistic, wait until you see the magic of a 16-year-old using a gun without getting his parents into trouble and making Megure lose his job.

During this story arc get a tie-in story serving as a prequel to FILE.156 - 159 (Volume 16, File 6-9) of Detective Conan - the first meeting between Conan Edogawa and Kaitou Kid - with a pre-shrunken Shinichi Kudo and Kaitou Kid having a battle of wits while the latter is trying to take some jewels from the clock of a tower without knowing who their respective opponent is. Juzo Megure also had his debut in this series during this story.

Furthermore, these chapters were adapted as a part of Episode 219: The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid from the Anime of Detective Conan and Episode 6: Black Star of Magic Kaito 1412 later on.

Dark Knight (Magic Kaito Manga: 27-28)

The story happens on a Friday the 13th, just like FILE.605-609 (Volume 58, File 8-11 and Volume 59, File 1) of Detective Conan, which were released less than half a year later, maybe subtly hinting for them to be happening concurrently.

Omake Manga (Magic Kaito Manga: Volume 4 Omake)

I hope his fee is accordingly. Gosho is rich enough for that.

In the third Omake, published in the fourth volume, after the "filming" of the 28th chapter of Magic Kaito has wrapped, the meta-fictional "child actor" of Kenta Connery is said of having to go to another shoot right now, which is revealed to be Detective Conan, with Kenta's actor also playing the role of Conan Edogawa.

Phantom Lady (Magic Kaito Manga: 29-30)

"My son... Please do this absolutely dangerous thing for me before I try to prevent you from doing stuff like this a couple of chapters later!"

These chapters end with a cliffhanger that functions as another tie-in with Detective Conan, this time FILE.731 - 733 (Volume 70, File 2-4). Kaito's mother Chikage Kuroba - Ex-Phantom Lady and globetrotter extraordinaire - sends him an SMS about some other fake dealers associated with President Gozu, who she never managed to bring down in the past - leading directly into Kid's appearance in the aforementioned Files and his try to uncover the schemes of Shishihiko Tarumi and Masanosuke Hanamura involving Ryoma Sakamoto's treasures.

Sun Halo (Magic Kaito Manga: 34-36)

It's got a skirt-rising-function now, to the visible und understandable dismay of Aoko. I wonder whether Agasa approves.

Kaito tells Aoko Nakamori that "Jii-chan's professor friend" fixed his bike after it was damaged pretty badly in an accident. This not only alludes to a certain scene at the beginning of Episode 2 (Blue Birthday) of Magic Kaito 1412, but implies that no less than Professor Hiroshi Agasa repaired Kaito's bike. This allusion is, in return, further developed in FILE.997 (Volume 94, File 5) of Detective Conan later on.

Omake Manga (Magic Kaito Manga: Volume 5 Omake)

Gosho seems to be one parsimonious fella.

There's a meta gag in the fourth Omake included in the fifth volume again, with a joke on the expense of the similiarity between the house of Akako Koizumi and the home of the Kudo family.

Kogoro Mouri's "actor" also seems to double as the demon Lucufer.

Magic Kaito TV Specials

The Revived Phantom Thief

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Viva Las Vegas?

Kaito Kuroba's mother Chikage mentions that she's in Las Vegas, "meeting an old friend of Toichi" who could be Yukiko Kudo (if it isn't the other person on the monitor), who's also in the United States around that time and was an apprentice of Toichi Kuroba once.

Kaitou Kid's Busy Date

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Can you see the joy in Haibara's eyes?

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Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu!

During Kaito Kuroba's and Aoko Nakamori's date in Tropical Land, one can spot the Detective Boys in front of a few costumed mascots (from left to right: Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, Ayumi Yoshida, Conan Edogawa, Genta Kojima and Ai Haibara - who is the only one whose face is visible). Later, while trying to distract the policemen, Kaitou Kid also uses a Conan mask plus a part of his famous phrase ("There is only one truth!").

The Princess Prefers Magic

Someday my princess will come.

There's a party here in Tokyo!

The Detective Boys can be seen two times again: First during the arrival of the Princess Anne of Sublina at Narita Airport and the second time on the ceremony of the princess at her residence in Tokyo.

A Witch Sheds No Tears

What was he doing there?

Shortly before Kaitou Kid's confrontation with the witch Akako Koizumi, one can spot Conan Edogawa from behind as one of the bystanders in front of the Tokyo Skytree (to lower right of the tower).

The Fated Blue Birthday

Go back to bed, this isn't even your series.

During Kaitou Kid's birthday firework for Aoko Nakamori, Conan Edogawa is one of the people who wakes up because of it, whereupon he looks out of a window of the Mouri Detective Agency, from where you can see the skyscraper in the background Kid is on top of.

Love on the Ski Slope on Christmas Eve

Or it was just simple promotion.

Conan Edogawa has another small cameo at the ski resort and wears the same clothes as in Movie 15: Quarter of Silence of Detective Conan, which plays in a similar setting. It's possible the Anime producers wanted to imply that this episode and the movie happen concurrently.

The Splendid Rivals

Which is kind of unfortunate, because the previous cameos were relatively creative and didn't seem forced.

You can again spot Conan Edogawa in a crowd standing in front of Studio ALTA. He suddenly turns around with his glasses reflecting and goes away. That's basically his modus operandi for all following episodes until the end.

The Secret of the Red Tear

His favorite movies.

Conan Edogawa stands in front of the cinema Kaito Kuroba and Aoko Nakamori go into, looking at the parodies of posters of "Batman Begins" and "The Avengers", shortly before the "Red Tear" heist.

The Witch, the Detective, and the Phantom Thief

Or he just really likes gratuitious guest appearances.

Conan Edogawa is standing in front of the mansion in which the gem Kaitou Kid wants to steal is exhibited in. Perhaps he doesn't want to interfere because this time real magic is involved?

The Reminiscent Golden Eye

Stop stalking people.

Conan Edogawa appears again, walking past Kaito Kuroba and Aoko Nakamori on the street, being creepy as ever. His appearance is even stranger considering the easter egg after that in the same episode...

So he never got a remedy in the end?

... because Saguru Hakuba, who is currently in France to follow Spider, reads the news on his mobile phone (in French). One of the texts (the one at the bottom) tells something about a "black organization uncovered by a child yesterday" and that this occurrence took place in "Baker street" (= Beika). If there ever was any chronology, this is one of the things that would severely mess it up.

The Tearful Crystal Mother

"I like trains."

Conan Edogawa stands at the train station the royal train drives through. You can easily spot him, as he's the only one not looking at the train and the only one with the unsettling cameo grin.

Tears of Love for the Dark Knight

Breaking out into evil laughter in 3... 2... 1...

Last but not least, Conan Edogawa is seen walking past the rushing Saguru Hakuba, being no less creepy than in his previous appearances. The so far last guest spot he had in the TV Specials. Only time will tell if there will be more of them eventually - which became rather unlikely by now.

Magic Kaito 1412

Opening 1

Maybe a hand stunt double had to replace Yusaku and Conan's actor didn't have time for the shooting of this scene...

During the first opening you can see Yusaku Kudo's hand writing while he got the idea to create the "KID" out of "1412" for a short moment. Furthermore, a key moment from Kaitou Kid's and Conan Edogawa's first meeting on the roof top of Haido City Hotel is recreated, without Conan being visible for some reason.

The Revived Phantom Thief Kid

So, does that mean that... there is no floating timeline and they really don't age?

During the flashback showing Touichi Kuroba's purported death, one can see a Shinichi Kudo and a Ran Mouri look-alike respectively, seemingly supposed to be their high school versions - which of course is totally impossible, considering that this was eight years ago.

Blue Birthday

How does Agasa hide this from Ai? Or is she in on this...?

Konosuke Jii hands some new gadgets to Kaito Kuroba at the beginning of the episode, which were seemingly made by a "professor friend" of his, while a yellow VW Beetle leaves in front of the Blue Parrot Pool Bar, heavily implying this friend to be Professor Hiroshi Agasa. This connection was taken over by the Manga in Chapter 34 (Magic Kaito Volume 5, Chapter 6) and continued in FILE.997 (Volume 94, File 5) of Detective Conan.

Black Star

Also with the hue and brightness decreased a lot.

The indirect first confrontation between Shinichi Kudo and Kaitou Kid from Chapter 23 and 24 (Magic Kaito Volume 4, Chapter 3-4, previously animated as Detective Conan Episode 219: The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid) is completely remade (with some technological updates) and slightly extended (from Kaito's point of view). It also serves as the debut of Juzo Megure in Magic Kaito 1412.

Phantom Lady

He seems awfully unhappy about being reduced to a side character.

This multipart story revolves around the first crossover using a flipped perspective as narrative device, showing well known confrontations between Conan Edogawa and Kaitou Kid from Detective Conan from the latter's point of view.

This one adapts the case from Detective Conan FILE.731-733 / Episode 627-628, directly following the adaption of the "Phantom Lady" story from Magic Kaito, building a coherent story out of the tie-in Gosho Aoyama created in both Mangas. This also makes it the debut of Shintaro Chaki, Jirokichi Suzuki, Conan Edogawa, Ran Mouri (if one ignores her anachronistic cameo from Episode 1), Sonoko Suzuki and Yukiko Kudo (by virtue of her appearing in Conan's memory as her movie role of Ryoma's sister).

Ending 2

As if the chronology wouldn't be convoluted enough as is.

The second ending contains some recaps of past events in Kaito's life he experienced up to this point (the first half of the series), including moments from the Detective Conan movies featuring Kaitou Kid, like the hang-glider/parachute hunt from the middle of Movie 8 (Magician of the Silver Sky), the ride in the rollercoaster during the finale of Movie 10 (The Private Eyes' Requiem) and Kid flying side by side with the air ship in Movie 14 (The Lost Ship in the Sky), implying that they've already happened in the meantime (i.e. sometime before Episode 13, Stay Away From Him) in the continuity of Magic Kaito 1412.

Kid vs. Conan: Miraculous Midair Walk

I believe I can fly stand in the air.

The sixteenth episode is the second crossover using a perspective flip, this time adapting Kaitou Kid's miraculous mid-air walk from Detective Conan FILE.453-456 (Volume 44, File 7-10), again extended by some scenes with additional characters from Magic Kaito, as well as his point of view and preparations. This story was adapted before as Episode 356, Kaitou Kid's Miraculous Midair Walk, of the Detective Conan Anime. It also serves as the debut of Kogoro Mouri in Magic Kaito 1412.

Kid vs. Conan: Teleportation Under the Moonlight

"Superhero landing!"

The 21st episode is the next and so far last of the flipped-perspective-crossover. It features the story about Kaitou Kid's apparent teleportation originating from FILE.631-634 (Volume 61, File 1-4) of Detective Conan, which was also adapted before as Episode 515, Kaitou Kid's Teleportation Magic, of its own Anime. This episode is the debut of Ai Haibara in Magic Kaito 1412.

Midnight Crow

"Oh nice, we are flashback material."

During the talk with his mother in their kitchen, Kaito Kuroba ponders about some run-ins he had in the past, including those with Conan Edogawa, also showing Ran and Kogoro Mouri, as well as Sonoko and her uncle Jirokichi Suzuki again, via footage from previous episodes.

Detective Conan in Play It Again

Anime

Did he really expect they would care what a total stranger looks at in a book store?

After his miraculous rejuvenation, Sanjuro Tsurugi takes a train ride to Beika and tries to grab a bunch of erotic magazines in a book store at the train station - almost getting caught by two high school girls, who are revealed to be no less than Ran Mouri and Sonoko Suzuki.

He goes to the Beika Shrine afterwards to revisit his memories from the youth and his love from back then, a woman named Harue, who is still living close to it. He identifies her by the golden hairpin private detective George Kirishima and Asami Ashikawa retrieved for her before in Detective George's Mini-Mini Big Strategy.

Detective Conan in Wait For Me

Anime

All aboard! Hahaha!

The trains that can briefly be seen passing the bridge over Yutaka Takai on his way from school are of the fictional Toto Railways company from Detective Conan.

Detective Conan in Yaiba

Manga

Nobunaga Oda Tournament (Yaiba Manga: 237-254)

This means: Heiji would have fought against a bald boy who was a demon king before instead, off-panel. And lost.

During the "Nobunaga Oda Tournament", one can spot the name of "H. Hattori" on the tournament bracket several times. While it was referring to Hanzō Hattori back in the day, it's probably become Heiji Hattori from Detective Conan for that series' canon retroactively, considering his relationship to/rivalry with Soshi Okita (whose name can also be seen) established in the latter series (even though, judging by the board, he would have never fought Okita in Yaiba's world, at least not during this tournament).

Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba

I’m Yaiba Kurogane, a Samurai!

Or perhaps it was the news instead, reporting about a solved crime?

Musashi Miyamoto and Sayaka's Grandmother are bickering over the remote control in the very last episode of Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba, unwittingly switching channels in the process. One of the shows visible during it is Detective Conan, featuring Conan Edogawa and Ran Mouri.

It's noteworthy that Detective Conan didn't have its own Anime yet back then, which makes it their first animated appearance ever and also explains why Conan's clothes are colored the way they look on the cover of Volume 2.

Excalibur

Excalibur in Detective Conan

Anime

The Miracle of Excalibur

"Maybe we can all get some of its fame if we appear in it..."

There's a direct crossover between Detective Conan and Gosho Aoyama's old one-shot right in the twelfth and (so far) last Original Video Animation. It's basically the plot of Excalibur expanded by appearances from Conan Edogawa, Hiroshi Agasa, Ai Haibara, Kogoro Mouri, Wataru Takagi, Kazunobu Chiba and the Detective Boys, similar to how the OVAs 1 and 4 adapted and expanded chapters of Magic Kaito, too.

The Framed Great Detective

"We just wanted to see what our Mangaka is up to nowadays."

Minae, Kenta and Akira later appear in this original Anime episode in a brief cameo.

Lupin III

A popular and long-living Manga series by Monkey Punch with lots of adaptions of its own, featuring the grandson of the literary phantom thief of the same name. Crossed over with Gosho Aoyama's works in several ways.

Lupin III in Detective Conan

Movies

Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure

Fujiko Mine and Lupin III as disguises in Movie 11.

Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie

Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie

The special mentioned below was continued in the form of a movie, the aptly named Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie.

TV Specials

Lupin III vs. Detective Conan

Lupin III vs. Detective Conan

The first direct crossover between both franchises happened in the form of an TV Special.

Lupin III in Magic Kaito

Magic Kaito TV Specials

The Reminiscent Golden Eye

There are way too much phantom thieves around here.

On Saguru Hakuba's mobile phone, while reading about the first meeting between Chat Noir and Kaitou Kid, one of the news mentions "Un autre fantôme voleur Lupin III qui a paru tôt hier soir d'après avis le ma tin."_(sic) (roughly "Another phantom thief, Lupin III, also appeared early in the previous night according to a notice in the morning.").

Magic Kaito

Magic Kaito in 3rd Base 4th

The Bat of Miracles (3B4 Manga: 1)

Can you tell this guy's an asshole?

The first team Shigeo Nagashima and his friends from Kohnan High School play against right in the first chapter of the Manga is the baseball team of Ekoda High School - one of the main settings of Magic Kaito, which originally debuted in 100% Tantei Monogatari, that also appeared in Yaiba's finale and the Anime of Detective Conan.

Magic Kaito in Detective Conan

Manga

The Heisei Holmes (Manga: 1)

It's a murderous world after all.

The very first, long before Kaitou Kid himself stepped into the world of Detective Conan, is the inclusion of the amusement park Tropical Land as the setting for Shinichi Kudo's and Ran Mouri's date right from the get-go - just like it was in its role as the background of Kaito Kuroba's and Aoko Nakamori's date in Chapter 4 from Magic Kaito Volume 1. Contrary to Magic Kaito, Tropical Land became a recurring location in Detective Conan and a magnet for all things murderous in nature.

The Great Detective Turned Small (Manga: 2)

A literary work no criminal author worth their salt should miss from their private library.

When Ran Mouri is cornering the shrunken Shinichi Kudo about his name, one of the books behind him is Magic Kaito Volume 1, clearly identifiable by its name, the volume number and the diamond symbol with Kaito Kid's white tophat above it on the spine of the book.

From Third-Rate to Great Detective (Manga: 6)

Seems like he finally gave up chasing Kid.

Look closely at Professor Hiroshi Agasa's pile of scraps when he's searching for the bow-tie he made for Conan Edogawa - besides some other interesting stuff, there's one of the RZ-04 mini robots who chased Kaitou Kid once in Chapter 9 (Magic Kaito Volume 2, Chapter 3) of his own series, sleeping soundly.

The Burning Body (Manga: 96)

Look like they were made by some really unsuccessful Mangaka.

Conan Edogawa, irritated at still being small and having to visit the children's floor of Beika Library, finds two books, titled "Kaitō Boy" (= Magic Kaito) and "Samurai Shōnin", which is Yaiba. He comments that these books are "boring", so... nice jab at... yourself, Gosho?

Kaitou Kid and the Black Star (Manga: 156-159)

This is going to end well.

And then, finally, Gosho Aoyama's two main characters meet each other in person on the roof of the Haido City Hotel. Furthermore, the ship Kaitou Kid (crossdressing as Ran Mouri) and Conan Edogawa have their showdown on, the "Queen Selizabeth" (or "Sallybeth" in some translations), is not only a play on the real Queen Elizabeth ships, it's also a reference to Queen Selizabeth of Inglam from Chapter 21 of Magic Kaito ("Crystal Mother", Magic Kaito Volume 4, Chapter 1), whose name already was a play on Queen Elizabeth as a person herself.

This case also serves as Aoko Nakamori's only direct appearance in this Manga so far and the debut of her father Ginzo Nakamori, who became a recurring character. It later on got a tie-in story in the form of Chapter 23 and 24 (Magic Kaito Volume 4, Chapter 3-4) of Magic Kaito, with Kid reminiscing about the "Clock Tower Heist" shortly before gliding to the aforementioned Haido City Hotel.

Magic Lovers Case (Manga: 192-196)

The helicopter is watching you.

Kaitou Kid returns in the guise of a chubby user of a message board for hobby magicians, calling himself Katsuki Doito and investigating the mysterious death of Fuden Harui. His father, Touichi Kuroba, is also mentioned for the first time, being Yoshinori Ara's and of course "Katsuki's" favorite magician.

Magic Kaito and Ranma ½

Ranma Ranma de TANMA TANMA de
sonna mon ne to o-tomodachi

Ranma ½ is a successful franchise by Gosho Aoyama's good friend and colleague Rumiko Takahashi. He once made a drawing for her, depicting Kaitou Kid together with female Ranma Saotome.

Magic Kaito in Yaiba

Manga

The Great Thief Goemon Appears (Yaiba Manga: 81)

But it was a nice try anyway.

During their encounter with Goemon Ishikawa, he asks of Yaiba Kurogane, Sayaka Mine and their friends to guess who he really is - introducing himself as "the greatest thief in the world". One of Sayaka's tries is that he's "Kaitou Kid" - which obviously is wrong.

Parallel Jeweler (Yaiba Manga: 91)

These small robots sure get around.

Yaiba Kurogane and Musashi Miyamoto visit a "shop that sells every kind of sphere" while looking for the legendary sphere - one of the objects sold (because of its big, spherical eyeball) being an RZ-04 mini robot who was chasing Kaitou Kid in Chapter 9 (Magic Kaito Volume 2, Chapter 3) of Magic Kaito.

Are You Coming? (Yaiba Manga: 255)

The shipping of Kaito and Aoko by Keiko and her friend literally is so hardcore it transcends the boundaries of parallel universes.

In the final chapter of Yaiba as a whole, Sayaka Mine - now a second year high schooler after a timeskip of three years - meets her two friends on the way to school, who are revealed to be Keiko Momoi and her black-haired, fox-eyed friend from Magic Kaito, confirming Sayaka's friend back from middle school to be a younger version of Keiko all along. They tell Sayaka about the fact that "Kuroba from class B" and "Nakamori from class F" are a couple now and that Keiko's friend has seen them together, heavily implying Sayaka's school to be an alternate version of Ekoda High School (with different uniforms for some reason).

Magic Kaito in Zero's Tea Time

Putting the Rank Aside (ZTT Manga: 11)

Konosuke Jii is always cautious not to meet any characters from Detective Conan in person.

Rei Furuya and Yuya Kazami go to the Blue Parrot Pool Bar of Konosuke Jii from Magic Kaito and meet bartender Yuzuki Fukui, who worked there before during the setting's crossover into Detective Conan.

It's a Game (ZTT Manga: 20)

How is this game even possible in-universe? This is Recursive Canon level stuff.

The mobile game played by Azusa Enomoto and Rei Furuya at the end of the chapter depicts a lot of faces from characters of Detective Conan in the style of Kaitou Kid's trademark signature - including his own.

A Conan Edogawa figure in the same style appears on the cake Rei is holding on the cover of Volume 2.

FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions

Are Gosho Aoyama's different works set in the same world?

No, according to Gosho Aoyama himself, they are officially "parallel worlds" (パラレルワールド) or "dream confrontations/sequences" (which seems to be his way to refer to non-canon events), even though they are inhabited by alternative versions of certain characters from respective other series and seemingly share some key events they have in common (Shinichi Kudo's shrinking, Kaitou Kid's origin, the rivalry between Takeshi Onimaru, Yaiba Kurogane and Soshi Okita, the final tournament between Shigeo Nagashima and Inao Kazuhisa, Momoko Aoyama being a classmate of Kaito Kuroba, etc.). According to him, there are also no ghosts or magic in Detective Conan's world and Akako Koizumi's existence in it is open to question as well.

See also

• Canon