What promted you guys to read/watch detective conan?

[Spectra]

On TV, the channel was RTL II.
the year was 2000 and im watching it since then
it is interesting and the Deutsch dub is better then the Engilsh, to me at least
the episode at that time was Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case

[Rea]

Ooooh, for me it was RTL2 too. ^^ And I agree, german dub is awesome. x)

I started watching, when I was about 10-11 ... And the rest is history.

[alicetama]

Was bored, went to shopping. Then I saw volume 30 of dc and bought it out of curiosity. It made me a total Kid fangirl at first.

Meme... you're a fangirl? And of Kid at the least? (Sorry if this seems rude... I just didn't expect that. xD)

Hmm, my tale started back in '09, me thinks. Actually, the one who got me into it was no other than a 'dead' member here.... Umandsf. I knew him from a PPGZ forum, and he changed his avvie and sig to Ai one day, and I asked, 'Hey, what anime is that?' And he said she was from Detective Conan. I forgot about it later that day, though, and it wasn't until probably around a month or two later, he started a topic for it on another anime site that I was on. I asked him if people who are very wary of blood should watch it, and he advised me that I shouldn't. Months later, Viz media set up it's Shonen Sunday site, and I saw the first chapter of Case Closed and I was like, 'What the heck?' And was automatically hooked. If I remember correctly, my first episode was the Santa-san case, or episode 129.

[kkslider5552000]

I don't think you could pick two different cases to start with if you tried.

[Robinde67]

I don't think you could pick two different cases to start with if you tried.

You're referring to previous writer? Think he meant it was either Santa-san case or episode 129, maybe don't remember which one.

My start was pretty random, it was summer 2009, I remember mom talking about some detective novel she'd read and talked to me about the trick that culprit had used.
Then, when everyone was out shopping, I went "Hey, wanna see more tricks" and went on Youtube and searched for "trick", which didn't give much else than animal tricks. then I searched "detective" and it came up on randomly on my screen as I accidentally dropped my mouse to go into episode 129 like 4:th part. Basically when Haibara says it's an accident and tell him "checkmate".

Watched him solve the trick used and thought to myself "What the... a kid  :o ? You kiddin' me?". Then I decided to watch another episode, since I thought the trick was quite interesting, I watched another episode, and loved the Conans reaction when Haibara said she was 84 years old  

That's about when I thought "maybe I should watch some other episodes first, this kid isn't real  " and watched some of the first episodes to get a hang on what was really going on and then watched the complete episode 129, then I was totally hooked.

[Eve]

Hmmm I started reading manga b/c my cousin kept forcing me to read them, Conan was among the first I've read and felt that manga is not as "simple minded" as I thought (Which is not true, DC is on a different level than other mangs I've read later on XD... but then I started reading for entertainment not solely for academic anymore )

[Torosiken]

It was one of mangas my mom bought to me when I was a kid ^_^ (she really suppported me when I was starting to read. She bought many, many mangas for me to practice reading XD)

And there was DC on the TV show :la:

[Procyon]

I was bored one day and typed "Detective Conan" into wikipedia. I started reading up on the characters and got interested.