While they could bring Detective Conan out on Blu-ray in Japan through a series of massive box sets, when you consider there’s over 750 episodes at this point, it’d break the bank for the fans and the distributor. But not having any out there is leaving some money on the table and it looks like the plan is to do some creative best of sets. Set for release on December 26th, 2014, there will be two Blu-ray releases priced at 4,104 yen each. The first one has episodes 1, 2, 52 and 128 while the second has episode 129, which was broadcast as a two hour special. The releases are being labeled as Detective Conan Treasured Selection File. Kurozukume no Soshiki to FBI. No extras have been solicited for the releases.
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. Crunchyroll began simulcasting the series last month.
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.
[Source: Detective Conan (TV)]
