The newest film in the Detective Conan anime franchise, Detective Conan: One Eyed Flashback, premiered in Japan on April 18 and made an explosive debut. Toho announced during a stage greeting event held in Tokyo on April 19 that the film had already attracted 690,000 viewers and raked in ¥1.05 billion in box office revenue on its very first day.

Toho expressed confidence in the film’s performance, stating, “It’s off to a record-breaking start, and we expect it to surpass the previous film!”

The previous highest-grossing entry in the franchise was Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram, which was released in 2024 and earned a total of ¥15.8 billion. That film opened with 630,000 moviegoers and ¥960 million in ticket sales on its first day. The latest installment has already outperformed it by reaching 109% of its predecessor’s opening day numbers.

The Detective Conan franchise has been consistently breaking records in recent years. In 2023, Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine earned ¥13.88 billion, only to be surpassed the following year by The Million-dollar Pentagram. Now, all eyes are on The Phantom of the Black Eye to see if it can continue this upward trend and set a new all-time high for the long-running and beloved series.

About Detective Conan

Originally a manga series about high school detective Shinichi Kudo, who is transformed into a child by a mysterious poison, Detective Conan (also known as Case Closed) follows his adventures under the alias Conan Edogawa as he solves complex cases while tracking down the men in black who altered his life.
The manga has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday since 1994, with an anime adaptation debuting in 1996 and the first theatrical film released in 1997. The franchise remains a national favorite in Japan.

Story Synopsis

police officer from Nagano Prefecture, pursues a certain man through the snowy terrain. Just as he closes in, a shadow flickers in his peripheral vision, distracting him for a split second. Seizing the moment, the fugitive fires a rifle, grazing Yamato’s left eye. In the next instant, a massive avalanche roars down the mountainside, engulfing Yamato.

Ten months later, a distress call reports an attack on a researcher at Nobeyama National Astronomical Observatory. Miraculously surviving the avalanche, Yamato and Yui Uehara rush to the scene. As they conduct an inquiry, the observatory’s enormous parabolic antenna begins to move, and Yamato, now one-eyed, suddenly experiences an excruciating pain in his left eye socket.

That night, Kogoro Mouri receives a call from "Wani," a former police colleague from his days at the Metropolitan Police Department. Wani reveals that he is investigating the avalanche incident at Mihotake and that Kogoro’s name appears in the case file. Conan joins Kogoro in meeting Wani the following day, but as they make their way to the rendezvous point, a gunshot rings out in the distance.

An unfulfilled promise and the lingering echoes of a one-eyed detective’s past—against the backdrop of snowstorms and mountain treachery, the curtain rises on a fateful confrontation in the white darkness.

Source : ORICON NEWS