TMS Entertainment today announced the English-language dub and subtitled digital release of Case Closed: The Scarlet Bullet, the 24th theatrical installment in the Detective Conan film series. The digital launch follows the film’s English Dub World Premiere and English Sub North America Premiere, which took place over the weekend at Anime NYC. Fans in Texas will also be able to catch an encore screening of the preceding film, The Fist of Blue Sapphire, at Anime Frontier next month.
The premiere at Anime NYC marks a promotional revitalization by TMS Entertainment for the popular franchise. Hundreds of fans welcomed Detective Conan back to the big screen on Saturday, November 18 and Sunday, November 19 to enjoy the film, which featured a gathering of the enigmatic Akai family and an array of physics-defying action scenes.
Case Closed: The Scarlet Bullet, which grossed $100 million globally, is available now for digital rental and purchase exclusively in the Apple TV, Prime Video and Google Play stores.
Synopsis: The prestigious international sporting event, World Sports Games (WSG), held every four years, is going to be hosted in Tokyo. The media are also focusing their attention on the Hyper Linear train that can reach 1,000 km/h and launch of its service on the opening day of the WSG.
However multiple incidents occur in which top executives of WSG’s sponsor companies are kidnapped but then are immediately released. No one seems to know who might be behind these incidents, but similar occurrences were observed during the WSG inauguration in U.S. 15 years ago.
When Conan learns of Alan McKenzie, former chief of FBI and now the head of WSG committee, is to get on the first run of the bullet train, he and Shuichi Akai make their move. Meanwhile, Akai’s sister Masumi Sera and his mother Mary are also in pursuit of the same case and have boarded the train. To make matters even more curious, Akai’s younger brother and professional Shogi player Shukichi Haneda too happens to be visiting Nagoya, where the train is scheduled to begin its run…!
In continuation of its promotions, TMS Entertainment will also hold a screening of Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire, the 23rd film in the Case Closed franchise, at this year’s Anime Frontier on December 9 from 6:45 p.m. The screening will mark Detective Conan’s first appearance at the Leftfield Media-run Fort Worth-based convention, and will feature a trivia contest and prize giveaway after the screening. The film premiered in Japan in 2019, earning $115 million at the global box office.
Synopsis: The world’s largest sapphire, “The Fist of Blue Sapphire” was alleged to have been lost at sea near Singapore along with a pirate vessel in the late 19th century.
When a local billionaire appears to the public with a plan to retrieve the sapphire, a murder occurs in Marina Bay Sands. At the scene, a bloodied notice card from Kid the Phantom Thief is found.
Meanwhile, Ran and Sonoko are visiting Singapore to see the karate tournament being held there. Conan, not having a passport, had to stay in Japan. However, with Kid needing Conan for a part of his plan, Conan is tricked and brought to Singapore against his will! Having no choice but to help Kid in order to get back home, Conan is stripped of his glasses, watch, and clothes and is forced to disguise himself. He meets Ran, who is unaware of the situation, and calls himself Arthur Hirai on the spur of the moment.
Kid gets information that the blue sapphire is stored in an underground safe of a mansion. He seems to have sneaked into the mansion easily, but a dangerous trap awaits him. There stands Kyogoku Makoto, the invincible Karate warrior with 400 wins and zero losses!
As if to forewarn something ominous… Singapore’s famed monument, the Merlion spews out scarlet red water! Is something terrible coming to Conan and Kid’s way?!
The Detective Conan / Cased Closed anime franchise is based on the manga created by Gosho Aoyama, first published in Weekly Shonen Sunday in 1994. The total sales of the comic series exceeds 230 million copies. It is one of the bestselling detective mystery comics in Japan, and is very popular internationally as well. The first anime series adaptation launched in 1996, with feature-length theatrical films released every years since 1997 to smash box office success in Japan.
The stories center in a high school detective named Shinichi Kudo, who is given a strange poison by a suspicious man in black one day which shrinks him to the size of a first-grader. Taking on the moniker Conan Edogawa, he moves in with his childhood friend Ran Mori and her detective father in hopes of hunting down the ‘Black Organization’, while taking on various difficult cases.
