Nobody knows what this is. That's the actual sin here, seven episodes of Gosho Aoyama before Detective Conan took over the world, and they vanished like they never happened. Each one is a different story, different tone, different rules, but they all have that same sharp romance-mystery pulse that made Conan work: real affection between people who actually talk to each other, mysteries that land because you care who solves them. A time machine romance where the girl gets to be the one who moves, a love story where the punchline is tenderness instead of irony. These aren't rough drafts of genius, they're proof that Aoyama knew how to break your heart before he knew how to break the industry.

Gosho Aoyama opens his creative vault with seven standalone stories that span romance, invention, and mystery. These narratives showcase the imaginative world that birthed Detective Conan, each one a self-contained adventure with its own flavor and heart. A teenage genius inventor builds a time machine to close the two-year age gap with his older girlfriend, but in the end she is the one who travels through time. Elsewhere, Yukiko Kudo searches for her missing husband with only a cryptic message to go on, and her baby son Shinichi, the future famous high school detective, already supplies useful clues. Other tales include a detective puzzling over a mystery caller, a grandfather made young again by a cherry tree, a teenager racing to halt a planet-destroying system after forgetting the code, and a tiny private eye protecting a client. The tone shifts between comedic and serious, between romance and suspense.