A new extended trailer has been revealed for the upcoming Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback anime film, as well as the launch of a new 30th anniversary project for the long-running TV anime adaptation.
The anime film will be screened theatrically in Japan on April 18, 2025, as well as on several Japanese IMAX and 4DX theaters.
The Detective Conan “30 YEAR PROJECT” was announced during the “Detective Conan Special Concert 2025,” in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the TV anime series. The project will be officially launched starting January 2026, coinciding with the anime’s first episode broadcast on January 8, 1996. The anniversary project’s main website was also launched this week, with more details to be announced there later on.
An official logo and promotional video of the 30th anniversary project were also released, with the latter compiling various scenes from the anime’s history.
Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback (also known in Japan as Detective Conan: Sekigan no Flashback) is the 28th overall anime feature film in the long-running Detective Conan franchise
Katsuya Shigehara (Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine co-unit director) is directing the film, with Takeharu Sakurai (Black Iron Submarine) as screenwriter and Yugo Kanno (Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram) as music composer. TMS Entertainment is handling the animation production.
Many of the Japanese voice cast members from the TV anime series are reprising their roles in the film.
Gosho Aoyama‘s Detective Conan manga was first serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday on January 5, 1994 and has released 106 tankobon volumes as of October 2024. A 107th volume is set for release on April 18, 2025. VIZ Media releases the manga in English under the title Case Closed.
The manga has inspired a long-running TV anime that first aired in 1996, with the first anime film being released in 1997.
Crunchyroll is streaming parts of the Detective Conan anime series outside of Japan, describing the main synopsis 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.
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