New Case Closed Special Will Invite Viewers to Identify the Culprit

Saturday’s livestream celebrating the Case Closed (Detective Conan) anime’s 30th anniversary announced a new original anime special for Japanese television. The Misohitojima Murder Case (Misohitojima no Satsujin) will invite viewers to deduce the culprit, a first for the franchise.

Director Yasuichirō Yamamoto developed the concept and drew rough illustrations of the island named in the title and the story’s setting. Frequent franchise contributor Takahiro Ōkura (Lupin the 3rd Part 6) wrote the script.

The livestream also announced the broadcast details for The Counterfeit Case of Ultra 30 (Detective Conan: 30-gō Satsujin Jiken). It is the franchise’s first new two-hour special in 10 years.

The special airs September 25 at 9:00 p.m. in Japan (8:00 a.m. EDT) on NTV and its affiliates’ “Kinyō Roadshow” block. The slot usually shows films.

Elaiza Ikeda, whose credits include the live-action Doronjo and Sadako, will join the voice cast as a guest.

The September 25 story follows Conan and his companions as counterfeit bills enter circulation, threatening the nation. They visit the National Printing Bureau in Nagano. Conan and Heiji then travel to Osaka, where the bills apparently originated.

The manga follows Conan Edogawa, an alias used by detective Shinichi Kudo after poison shrinks his body at the story’s beginning. Alongside detective Kogoro Mori and Mori’s daughter Ran, Conan helps police solve difficult mysteries.

Gōshō Aoyama began the manga in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shounen Sunday in 1994. It inspired a television anime that has aired since January 1996, along with an accompanying anime film series.

Viz Media publishes the manga as Case Closed, the title Funimation originally used for its localization. The English manga uses names from Funimation’s original dub where applicable and retains the Japanese names otherwise.