The latest film in the popular anime series Detective Conan, based on the manga by Gosho Aoyama, Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback of the One-Eyed, was released on April 18th, and it has been revealed that its box office revenue exceeded 1.05 billion yen on the first day of its release. The number of moviegoers exceeded 690,000. This is about 109% of the record set by the 27th film in the series, Detective Conan: One million dollar guidepost, which was released last year and recorded the highest box office revenue in the series' history of over 15.8 billion yen, making it a rocket start of the highest record ever. According to distributor Toho, "It's off to a record-breaking start that is expected to surpass the previous film," and a new record is within sight on the first day.
The 28th film, "One-Eyed Flashback," was released on April 18th at 522 theaters, the largest number of theaters in the series' history. This surpasses the previous film's 515 theaters. It has also been a hot topic that the world's fastest screening took place at 23 theaters in 10 prefectures nationwide from midnight on April 18th, the first day of release.
The announcement was made at a commemorative stage greeting held at TOHO Cinemas Hibiya (Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo) on April 19th. Appearing on stage for the greeting were Minami Takayama, who plays Conan Edogawa, Wakana Yamazaki, who plays Ran Mouri, Rikiya Koyama, who plays Kogoro Mouri, Yuji Takada, who plays assistant Yamato Kansuke, Ami Koshimizu, who plays Yui Uehara, Takayuki Yamada, who plays Takashi Otomo, and Mizuki Yamashita.
"One-Eyed Flashback" 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 Yamato 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 and Conan have arranged to meet a former colleague from the Metropolitan Police Department who is investigating the avalanche accident, and on their way to the meeting place, 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.
