The production team for the Detective Conan franchise has announced that a 27th film based on the anime series will premiere in Japanese theaters in Spring 2024.
A short 30-second teaser trailer for the upcoming film has also been released. The trailer features narration from Phantom Thief Kid, Conan Edogawa, and Heiji Hattori.
The franchise’s most recent film, Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine, was released on April 14, 2023. It was the 26th film overall in the long-running anime franchise and was a box office success all throughout 2023.
The original manga series by Gosho Aoyama, released in English as Case Closed by Viz Media, was first serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday on January 5, 1994. A total of 103 tankoubon volumes have been released as of April 2023.
Besides a TV anime series, the manga has also inspired several anime films, OVAs, live-action dramas, audio CDs, and other spin-off media.
TMS Entertainment is the long time animation production company for the Detective Conan TV anime and describes the story as:
Shinichi Kudo is a high school detective. One day, suspicious men in black forcefully give him a strange poison and his body shrank to the time of when he was in the first grade! Hiding his identity, he made a new name for himself: Conan Edogawa. Conan now lives with his childhood friend Ran Mori and her detective father in hopes of hunting down the Black Organization while being involved in cases. He faces numerous difficult cases and goes against a notorious thief but keeps on solving mysteries to find the one and only truth!
Source: Detective Conan Official Twitter
