Crunchyroll has made quite the surprising announcement at the New York Comic Con that definitely fits in with their plans to really be the anime hub for streaming. While details are still to come, they’ve picked up the rights to the simulcast side of Case Closed, aka Detective Conan. The series has been running since 1996 with over 750 episodes to date. The manga itself from Gosho Aoyama is ongoing as well with over 85 volumes released in Japan while Viz Media is bringing them out here, having recently past the 50 mark. FUNimation brought over some of them and some of the movies years ago but were never able to really keep up on it as it’s a very difficult property in terms of wanting to own it since it is so long and ongoing. It’s a series that’s far more suited for one-off viewings and streaming marathons here and there.
Crunchyroll will be making the series available to audiences in the United States and Canada when they begin bringing it out.
Plot concept: Kudo Shinichi is a seventeen year-old high school detective whom people call the “Modern Sherlock Holmes.” However, one night after a date with his childhood sweetheart, Ran, Shinichi witnessed an illegal trade and, caught off his guard, was knocked unconscious and fed a drug that was supposed to kill him… but he woke up and found himself shrunken to a seven year-old. In order to track down the men who did this to him, Shinichi hid his identity and lived with Ran, whose father happened to be a hopeless detective, and with that came a series of murders and mysteries that he must solve.
Well, that’s interesting. They’re going to get new episodes, but what about the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of episodes of backlog?