Shinichi Kudo is the seventeen-year old detective prodigy who spends most of his time helping the police solve the more difficult cases. During in one of his cases, he was ambushed from behind by members of the Black Organization and forced to take in an experimental drug which is said be remarkably untraceable. Instead of dying, he wakes up in his shrunken form of a seven-year old. Fearing for his life, he keeps his identity as a secret and goes by the pseudonym Conan Edogawa, names from two of his famous authors Conan Doyle and Edogawa Rampo.