Right now, Godzilla rules over on Netflix! The big lizard is back in action in Godzilla Singular Point, following up on a series of anime films for the streaming service. But he’s been showing up in anime outside Netflix — and before Netflix! If you’re done …Read more »
Copyright violations are a serious offense in Japan, and that applies to those who are breaking these laws without intent to distribute. Despite everyone knowing this and an amazing promo campaign constantly conveying the rules, a fifty-year-old man was recently arrested in Osaka for filming …Read more »
Discotek, everyone’s favorite licensor of classic and otherwise awesome anime, released a slew of new title announcements today for that finest of formats, the blue ray diskette. At the top of the list is Lupin the Third: Part V, the most recent season of Lupin. …Read more »
Yutaka Abe and Jiro Maruden just finished up their manga adaptation of the Detective Conan: Fist of Blue Sapphire movie (twenty-third in the series!), and they’re on to the next project. It was just announced that they’ll adapt the fifteenth Conan movie, Detective Conan: Quarter …Read more »
Twenty-three previous movies were released in the Detective Conan franchise, but Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet’s opening weekend shows there’s still plenty of interest. The franchise’s twenty-fourth movie nabbed the number one spot at the Japanese box office, pushing Evangelion out of the way. All …Read more »
The new Detective Conan movie—Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet—has its sights set on a worldwide release. Those plans are reflected in the latest trailer for the 24th Conan feature, which is set to launch in 22 countries/regions around the world simultaneously with Japan on April …Read more »
The latest Detective Conan anime film, Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet, opened in Japan for a limited engagement of three weeks on February 11, and its success at the box office has extended that run deeper into March. There are also global screening plans for …Read more »
On December 1, new videos related to the upcoming new Detective Conan movie Meitantei Conan: Hiiro no Dangan (Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet) were released, along with the news that the movie will come to Japanese theaters on April 16 of next year. The first …Read more »
There’s something especially delightful about voice actors taking the time to do some cosplay of their own, especially when the talent in question is Sumire Uesaka (Karin Nanase in In/Spectre), who recently did just that for one of her favorite anime characters. That character happened …Read more »
Mobile games come and go, and the latest to do the latter is Case Closed Runner: Race to the Truth. Also known in Japan and elsewhere as Detective Conan Runner, the game launched in Japan in April of 2019, followed by North America a couple …Read more »
Along with many other postponements, April saw the announcement of a delay for the latest Detective Conan movie, Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet. At the time it was postponed from its April 17, 2020 date indefinitely due to COVID-19 concerns, but now it finally has …Read more »
Detective Conan films always kill it in the Japanese box office, but this year’s likely success story is going to have to wait. The latest anime film to be delayed as a result of COVID-19 (coronavirus) concerns is Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet, which is …Read more »
Gosho Aoyama’s Detective Conan series has had a long and successful history of anime film releases, and the latest is set to open in Japan on April 17, 2020. Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet marks the 24th theatrical outing for everyone’s favorite pint-sized sleuth, and the official website went up with …Read more »
There are a lot of copies of Gosho Aoyama’s Detective Conan manga floating around, and a 26-year-old man in Mie Prefecture recently made off with 80 in total. Aoi Hattori was arrested for suspected theft after he was caught on camera stealing various volumes of the series, …Read more »
A few days ago we posted about the 23rd Detective Conan anime film breaking opening day records for the franchise, but its success didn’t stop there. With the weekend behind us, we can now see the full scale of The Fist of Blue Sapphire‘s domination, which had it pulling in …Read more »
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