Why is Chiisaku Natta Meitantei considered the "real" first episode?


MyAnimeList has published a [database
entry](https://myanimelist.net/anime/34036/Detective_Conan__Episode_One_-
_Chiisaku_Natta_Meitantei) for _Detective Conan: Episode One - Chiisaku Natta
Meitantei_.

In this entry, the synopsis reads:

> The "real" episode 1 of Detective Conan written by the Mangaka Gosho Aoyama.

What makes this episode the "real" first episode? Was the story in the
original first episode not by the mangaka?




That is a [two-hour
remake](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-09-13/detective-conan-anime-
gets-new-2-hour-tv-special-recreating-1st-episode/.106408) of the original 1st
episode, in celebration of the anime celebrating 20 years in broadcast. The
special retells what happened on the day Shinichi’s was transformed into the
body of a child. The special includes new scenes that weren't in the original
manga or the first anime episode.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_g9zHvMXBQ>




That is a [two-hour
remake](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-09-13/detective-conan-anime-
gets-new-2-hour-tv-special-recreating-1st-episode/.106408) of the original 1st
episode, in celebration of the anime celebrating 20 years in broadcast. The
special retells what happened on the day Shinichi’s was transformed into the
body of a child. The special includes new scenes that weren't in the original
manga or the first anime episode.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_g9zHvMXBQ>

