The latest installment in this franchise of films was part of the 2020 line-up as Case Closed: The Scarlet Bullet, which was set for an April 17th, 2020 theatrical debut but was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We learned in June that it had been pushed back to an April 2021 release with a firmer date to come much later. That recently some clarity as the film has been set for an April 16th, 2021 debut for it where it’s getting released in 22 countries worldwide.
With that coming up in a month, the official site has now dropped a new trailer for it to get fans excited.
The 24th film of the series, it has Tomoka Nagaoka directing it based on the screenplay by Takeharu Sakurai.
The Japanese cast includes Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Minami Hamabe as Erii Ishioka, Shūichi Ikeda as Shuichi Akai, and Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri.
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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