The team behind the Detective Conan anime has unveiled exciting new developments for the upcoming episode set to air in Japan on January 10. The legendary rock band B’z will be performing the new opening theme song, titled “Heaven Knows.” Additionally, the staff has shared a key visual to celebrate the series’ 30th anniversary.
©Gosho Aoyama/Shogakukan • YTV • TMS 1996
B’z has a rich history with the Detective Conan franchise, having first contributed the opening theme “Girigiri Chop” in 1999. Since then, they have performed five more opening themes, including “SLEEPLESS” in 2022, and the ending theme “Pilgrim” in 2011. Their contributions extend to several anime films within the franchise, such as Case Closed: The Last Wizard of the Century, Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street, Detective Conan: The Private Eyes’ Requiem, Detective Conan: Quarter of Silence, and Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare.
It was previously announced that Mai Kuraki will be performing the new ending theme song, “TOWA: Eikyū ni Kaze ni Noru” (TOWA: Riding on the Winds for Eternity), which will also debut on January 10.
To commemorate the anime’s 30th anniversary, several special projects have been announced. These include a new two-hour special titled Detective Conan: 30-gō Satsujin Jiken (#30 Murder Case), with Takeharu Sakurai writing the script. This special will feature an original story.
The anime will also collaborate with Japan’s J-League for soccer, featuring actress Yūka Kageyama, and with the “Japan International Birdman Rally” contest, with Takahiro Ōkura penning the episode.
The one-hour special, Episode “ZERO” The Shinichi Kudo Aquarium Case, aired in Japan on January 3. Additionally, a concert will be held in Kanagawa on April 17 and 18, and in Hyogo on May 23 and 24.
TMS Entertainment began streaming a specially curated selection of episodes from the Detective Conan (Case Closed) anime on Crunchyroll and Netflix on July 3. These episodes are available in Japanese and with a new English dub, marking the first appearance of this dub on Crunchyroll. The first selection, titled “Conan vs. The Black Organization,” features episodes with the titular antagonists, including some that have never been available in the U.S. More episodes were added to the first collection on August 21 and again for a second collection on November 1.
“Rivals of the Great Detective,” the latest specially curated collection of episodes, began streaming on January 1 on Netflix and Crunchyroll in Japanese with English subtitles and with a new English dub.
The Detective Conan television anime premiered on January 8, 1996, and will celebrate its 30th anniversary on January 8, 2026. The series has aired more than 1,100 episodes.
Gōshō Aoyama launched the manga in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shounen Sunday magazine in 1994. The manga has spawned a television anime that has been running since January 1996, as well as an accompanying anime film series. Viz Media publishes the manga under the name Case Closed, Funimation’s original localized title. The English manga release uses the same English names from the original Funimation dub when applicable, and it uses the original Japanese names otherwise.
The manga series centers on Conan Edogawa, the alias of detective Shinichi Kudo, whose body shrunk after being poisoned at the beginning of the story. Together with detective Kogoro Mori and his daughter Ran, Conan helps the police solve difficult mysteries.
Detective Conan: Highway no Datenshi (Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway), the franchise’s 29th film, will open in Japan on April 10.
Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback, the 28th film in the franchise, opened at #1 at the Japanese box office in April 2025.
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