2020 is on the horizon and that means a new Case Closed anime feature film is in the midst of production. With details revealed earlier this week, Case Closed: The Scarlet Bullet was set for an April 17th, 2020 theatrical debut but was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. TOHO has revealed that the film has now been pushed back to an April 2021 release with a firmer date to come much later. Check out the updated promos for it below to reflect the new release period.
The film has Tomoka Nagaoka directing it based on the screenplay by Takeharu Sakurai.
THe rock band Tokyo Jihen will be performing the theme song for it with “The Eternal Alibi.”
The series has been running since 1996 with over 900 episodes to date. The manga itself from Gosho Aoyama is ongoing as well with over 96 volumes released in Japan while Viz Media is bringing them out here, having recently passed the 70 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.
Property 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.
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