Detective Conan: Sekigan no Flashback Movie Opens on April 18, 2025

2025’s Detective Conan anime movie is titled Detective Conan: Sekigan no Flashback, and it will begin screening in Japan on April 18 JST.

A visual illustrated by Detective Conan creator Gosho Aoyama was released with the announcement. The featured characters include Kogoro Mori and Kansuke Yamato. The tagline is “I’ve remembered…”

Another reveal or announcement is teased for December 5 JST.

Katsuya Shigehara (Brave Bang Bravern assistant director, Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine co-unit director) is handling directing duties for Detective Conan: Sekigan no Flashback at TMS Entertainment based on a screenplay by Takeharu Sakurai (Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine). Yugo Kanno (Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram) is the music composer.

Aoyama‘s Detective Conan (titled as Case Closed by Viz Media) manga began serialization in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday in 1994 and has 106 tankoubon volumes as of October 2024. The TV anime premiered in 1996, and the first anime film was released in 1997. 

Crunchyroll describes the anime series as:

The son of a world famous mystery writer, Shinichi Kudo, has achieved his own notoriety by assisting the local police as a student detective. He has always been able to solve the most difficult of criminal cases using his wits and power of reason.

Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram is the most successful film in the franchise and the 14th highest-grossing movie in Japan.

Source: @conan_movie