It has been announced that the latest movie version of the popular anime "Detective Conan", "Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback of the One-Eyed", will be released in 522 theaters, the largest number ever for a movie version of the series. On April 18th, it will be released in 384 regular screenings, 55 IMAX, 12 MX4D, 62 4DX, and 9 Dolby Cinema, for a total of 522 theaters, exceeding the 515 theaters of the previous film.
The IMAX limited poster visual, which depicts Kogoro Mori with one eye closed behind glass broken by a bullet hole, the Whiteout 4D screening poster visual, which features Conan, Kogoro, and Gansuke covered in a snowstorm, and the main character's afterimage visual, which features Kogoro's purple and checkered accents, were also released. The latest main theme of the movie is played, and the Whiteout PV, which features a cut of an intense action scene, was also released on YouTube.
"Afterimage of the One-Eyed" is set in the snowy mountains of Nagano Prefecture, and depicts the "sleeping memory" that connects two seemingly unrelated people, Kogoro, who is asleep, and Gansuke, a Nagano Prefectural Police officer. While Gansuke is chasing a "certain man" in the snowy mountains, a bullet grazes his left eye and he is caught in an avalanche. Ten months later, Gansuke miraculously survives and receives a report that a researcher at Nobeyama Observatory has been attacked by someone, and rushes to the scene, but as soon as the observatory's parabolic antenna starts moving, his one-eyed left eye suddenly begins to tingle. Kogoro Mouri and Conan are on their way to a meeting place with a former colleague from the Metropolitan Police Department who is investigating the avalanche accident, when a gunshot rings out.
"Detective Conan" is a manga that depicts Conan Edogawa solving difficult cases one after another, and began serialization in "Weekly Shonen Sunday" (Shogakukan) in 1994. A TV anime series has been broadcast since 1996. The total number of comics published is over 270 million.
The 27th movie in the series, "Detective Conan: One million dollar guidepost," released this year, broke the box office record of 15.8 billion yen, setting a new record for the highest box office revenue in the series' history. The 28th movie, "Afterimage of an Eye," will be released on April 18.
