It has been revealed that the box office revenue of the latest movie version of the popular anime " Detective Conan " based on the manga by Gosho Aoyama , " Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback of the One-Eyed," has exceeded 13.3 billion yen as of June 1st. The movie has been a huge hit, attracting over 9.21 million viewers. It was also announced that the first 12 minutes of the movie will be shown on Friday Road Show (Nippon TV, Friday 9pm) on June 6th.
The 28th film, "One-Eyed Flashback," was released on April 18th in 522 theaters, the largest number of theaters in the history of the series. This exceeded the previous film's 515 theaters. On the first day of release, the film made a strong start, grossing 1.05 billion yen and attracting over 690,000 viewers. In the 19 days since its release, the film has grossed approximately 10.4 billion yen and attracted approximately 7.26 million viewers, making it the third consecutive film to surpass 10 billion yen in box office revenue, following "Submarine of the Black Iron" released in 2023 and "One Million Dollar Star" released in 2024.
"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. The comics have sold over 270 million copies in total. The TV anime has been broadcast since 1996, and the first movie, "Detective Conan: The Time-Bombed Skyscraper," was released in 1997. The 27th movie, "Detective Conan: One million dollar guidepost," released in 2024, also became a hot topic as it recorded the highest box office revenue in the series' history of over 15.8 billion yen.
