Detective Conan’s 27th Feature Film Earns 3.3 Billion Yen; Overtakes JJK 0 To Achieve Second Highest Opening Weekend Collection

Following the record breaking premiere of Detective Conan‘s 27th feature film, the latest box office report revealed that the film has generated a revenue of 3,352,494,500 yen and attracted total of 2,274,333 viewers within the first three days of its release.

In doing so, the movie has achieved the second highest opening weekend collection for an anime movie, overtaking the opening week gross of JJK 0 movie (2.6 billion yen), One Piece Film: Red (2.254 billion yen), Haikyu Movie (2.23 billion yen), Suzume (1.88 billion yen), The First Slam Dunk (1.295 billion yen) and even Hayao Miyzaki’s The Boy & The Heron in the process.

It only falls short of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train‘s opening week collection, which stands at 4.6 billion yen.

Below is a breakdown of Detective Conan film’s box office collection:

• April 12 (Friday) – Audience: 638,119 people, Revenue: 962,785,780 yen
• April 13 (Saturday) – Audience: 839,126 people, Revenue: 1,239,818,980 yen
• April 14 (Sunday) – Audience: 797,088 people, Revenue: 1,149,889,740 yen

Detective Conan’s 27th feature film, titled Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Signpost, released on April 12, 2024.

Chika Nagaoka served as the director, with screenplay by Takahiro Okura.

The 26th feature film, Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine released on April 14, 2023, and set a new record to become the first film of the franchise to earn 10,304,483,700 Billion Yen at the box office.

Twenty-seven feature films based on the Case Closed series have been released. They are animated by TMS Entertainment and produced by Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, Nippon Television, ShoPro, and Toho. The first seven were directed by Kenji Kodama, films 8–14 were directed by Yasuichiro Yamamoto, films 15-21 were directed by Kobun Shizuno, film 22 was directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa, films 23 and 24 were directed by Chika Nagaoka, and film 25 was directed by Susumu Mitsunaka.

Detective Conan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It has been serialized in Shogakukan’s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shonen Sunday since January 1994, with its chapters collected in 102 tankōbon volumes as of September 2022.

Due to legal problems with the name Detective Conan, the English language releases from Funimation and Viz were renamed to Case Closed.

The anime version of Case Closed is produced by Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation and TMS Entertainment. Over 1000 episodes have aired in Japan since the anime’s premiere on January 8, 1996, making it the fifteenth longest anime series to date.

Source: Oricon