It has been revealed that the latest film version of the popular anime " Detective Conan, " based on the manga by Gosho Aoyama , " Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback of the One-Eyed," has made over 4.44 billion yen in box office revenue in the six days since its release on April 18th. The number of moviegoers has exceeded 3 million. According to distributor Toho, the film is "a mega-hit that means no time to sleep," and is aiming to break the record set by the 27th film version, "Detective Conan: One million dollar guidepost yen.
The 28th film, One-Eyed Flashback, was released on April 18th in 522 theaters, the largest number of theaters in the series' history. This surpasses the previous film's 515 theaters. It has also attracted attention for being the first in the world to be shown at 23 theaters in 10 prefectures nationwide, starting at midnight on April 18th, the day of its release. On the first day of its release, it grossed 1.05 billion yen, and attracted an audience of over 690,000 people.
"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.
